27-28 April 2021
Online Event
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About GOCarbonFibre: Europe's only conference dedicated to carbon fibre
Smithers has been organising the world renowned Global Outlook for Carbon Fibre conference for over 20 years. As the only conference focused solely on carbon fibre, the event provides a unique global forum for carbon fibre producers, converters, composite industry executives, researchers, technologists and new entrants to receive a comprehensive update on the outlook for growth, supply, demand, use and recycling of carbon fibres.
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Dr Maurice N. Collins is a Senior lecturer at the School of Engineering, Principal Investigator at the Bernal Institute and Funded Investigator as the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) AMBER centre at the University of Limerick, in Ireland. Currently, he is the Lead Principal investigator (PI) and coordinator of the H2020 funded LIBRE consortium (lignin for carbon fiber), the largest consortium in biobased carbon fibre research in Europe as well as being Co-PI on multiple national funded projects. He has published widely in all the leading journals in his field, is the holder of multiple patents, multiple research awards and has won in excess of €13 million worth of competitive research funding. He has been invited speaker in Europe, Asia and the US. He acts as consultant for various multinational organisations and he is editor of the international journal of biological macromolecules published by Elsevier.
Dr. Christian Vogl is working at Fiberline Composites A/S as Product Manager in 2020. In this position, he is strengthening Fiberline’s technology lead in carbon and glass pultrusion for the wind turbine industry. 2018 he joined Envision Energy in Shanghai, China, where he led several projects about rotor blade technology. He worked for Nordex Energy GmbH from 2014 as Project Manager Rotorblade and was responsible for the development of Nordex’s latest rotor blades. All recent blade developments at Nordex were carbon blades. From 2012 he was Head of Process Engineering and Commissioning for Carbon Fiber and Process technology and Carbon Fiber Expert at Eisenmann Anlagenbau (now: One Joon). He was responsible for all the process engineering for carbon fiber plants, including the oxidation ovens, carbonisation furnaces and the waste gas treatment. From 2011 he was Technical Project Manager Rotor blade Development and in this position responsible for the development of rotor blades for multi-MW-class wind turbines (2.4 to 6.5 MW). One of the main topics was the first serial implementation of carbon fibers into rotor blades for wind turbines at Nordex. From January 2007 to December 2010 he worked for SGL Carbon as project manager in the field of carbon fiber production and development.
Roberto Cicalò joined Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. in 2015 as external consultant for the R&D department. He follows as Project Manager different projects in the “Development Composites Centre” in particular focused on composite applications related to Lamborghini’s “Corporate Social Responsibility” in collaboration with various Scientific Institutes, Universities and Industrial Partners.
Prior to joining Lamborghini, Roberto worked as responsible of electric-electronic department in other consultant companies where he gained wide experience in the development, validation and put into production of motorcycle vehicles for different wide world companies.
Doctor of Philosophy (Sep 2006 ~ Dec 2010)
School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Tech, GA, USA
MS (MAR 1997 ~ FEB 1999)
Fiber and Polymer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
BS (MAR 1993 ~ FEB 1997)
Fiber and Polymer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Research Interests:
Carbon Fiber, CFRP, recycling of CFRP, fast curing thermosetting, Vitrimer matrix composites,
Nanocomposites, Cellulose nano-fiber, Cellulose nano-crystals, Injection molding of plastics, compression molding of plastics, paintings, water bone paint, solvent bone paint, Additive manufacturing,
Research Experience:
Senior Research Engineer (FEB 2011~) : Plastics for automotive exterior parts, CFRP
Exterior, and PT Polymeric Materials Development team, Hyundai Motor Company
Research Manager (Jun 2001 ~ Oct 2006) : Plastics compounding, Plastic characterization
Flame retardant ABS development team, LG Chem.
Research Engineer (FEB 1999 ~ MAY 2001) : fiber spinning, fiber interlacing
PTT (poly-trimethylene terephthalate) fiber spinning, Saehan industry
Dr. Balazs Zsigmond is the General Director at DeveloComp. He previously led the Technical Fabrics Department at Metyx Hungary For almost a year he was the Technical and Quality manager of Sky Advanced Materials, Hungary, which company focuses for carbon fiber multiaxial fabric development and production. Between 2011 and 2016 he was the head of Product Development Engineering at HCC, Russia, where he focused for development of woven, knitted and braided fabrics as well as prepregs based mainly on carbon fiber. Before he led the Development group at Zoltek Hungary for 4 years, as well as be part of Zoltek Automotive team. He graduated as mechanical engineer and got his PhD at Budapest University and Technology, Hungary. After his studies he worked at NASA GRC, USA as an independent researcher.
2005 – 2011: RWTH Aachen University, Mechanical Engineering - Diploma Degree, Specialization in major study: Plastics Technology
2008 – 2012: RWTH Aachen University, Economics - Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2012 - 2019: Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University, Research Assistant, Composites and Polyurethanes – Doctor Degree/PhD in the field of composites processing
Since 2017: Mitsui Chemicals Europe GmbH, Duesseldorf (HQ Europe), Business Development Manager, Responsible for Thermoplastic Composites Business and Development in Europe
