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Below is a list of the members of the committee, along with their
affiliation and a short CV. Where available, links to email and websites are
given.
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Steve I'Anson studied Physics at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1977. He was
awarded a Master's and a Doctorate at UMIST (1982 and 1985) for theses on
ventilation and moisture movement in masonry materials, respectively,
following research in the Department of Building.
He was appointed firstly as a
post-doctoral researcher and then as a lecturer (1987) in the Department of
Paper Science. In 1992 he joined Scapa Paper Machine Clothing (now Voith
Fabrics) following research and consultancy involvement with the company over
several years. He initiated a department of, eventually, 4 people using image
analysis techniques full-time to solve papermaking problems and as an aid to
development of press and dryer fabrics. He returned to UMIST in 1999 and, due
to recent changes, is now a lecturer in the School
of Materials, University of Manchester.
Research interests are based around practical
papermaking applications of scientific principles. In particular, the use of
image analysis to study the surface, structure and strength of paper and
board, de-watering during wet pressing and shrinkage during drying are
current research areas.
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Steve I'Anson (Chairman)
University of Manchester
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Anders Åström obtained an MSc
in Mechanical Engineering and a Licentiate of Technology in Paper Technology
at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
During his post-graduate studies he spent time as a guest scientist at IPC in
USA
and areas of interest were paper making processes and paper properties.
Following his degree he joined MoDo
Research & Development in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, where he worked on
development of new mechanical pulps as well as paper products. His current
position is Research and Development Manager at Aylesford Newsprint Ltd., where he maintains
involvement in process and product development and product quality control.
He is a member of PITA Southern District Committee.
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Anders Åström
Aylesford
Newsprint Ltd.
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Fellow of the Royal
Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Fellow of City and Guilds FCGI. Holder of
the Insignia Award of the City and Guilds of London.
Consultant specialising in forming, multi-ply structuring,
pressing and drying. Involved in various developments including: inverform, cylinder forming,
dry forming, medium consistency headboxes and press drying. Over 50 years in
the paper industry holding various positions including process and technology
director of St. Annes Board
Mill Co. Ltd., Bristol.
Past National chairman of PITA, Director of FRS, member of TAPPI and
CPPA. Silver and gold
medals of PITA and Gold Medal of the British Paper Industry. Past TAPPI
director and Past Chairman of TAPPI International Committee. Tappi Fellow.
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Brian
Attwood
St. Annes Paper and Paperboard
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Warren Batchelor is a Senior Lecturer in the Australian
Pulp and Paper Institute at Monash University
in Melbourne, Australia. He has a PhD in
Physics from Monash University on the mechanical
properties of ceramics. Following his PhD, he spent two years in Vancouver working as a Paprican Postdoctoral researcher
at the University
of British Columbia Pulp
and Paper Centre in the area of LC refining. He returned to Australia
in 1996 to take up his current position. His major research
interests are in the area of paper and fibre
mechanics, low consistency refining and offset printing. Further
details of his research are available at http://users.monash.edu.au/~batchelo/index.htm.
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Warren Batchelor
Monash University
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Wolfgang Bauer is head of
the Institute for Paper, Pulp and Fibre Technology
at the University
of Graz.
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Wolfgang Bauer
Technical University Graz
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Gary Baum holds a B.S. degree in Maths and Physics from Wisconsin State
University and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Physics from Oklahoma
State University.
He is former Vice-President of Research and Academic Affairs at IPST. His
expertise and interests include materials science, fibre and paper physics, paper properties related
to process variables, convertibility, end-use performance and research
productivity.
Gary has served as a member of the TAPPI Board of
Trustees and has been active on numerous TAPPI division or board committees,
serving as chairman on three. He is a past member of the Board of the TAPPI
Foundation and a past member of the Executive Committee on Industrial
Technology Assessments of the National Materials Advisory Board in the USA.
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Gary Baum
IPST
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Richard Bown holds an MA from Cambridge University
and a PhD from Bristol.
His research interests include aspects of China Clay and the use of
fillers in paper.
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Richard Bown
Imerys
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Daven Chamberlain works for Arjo Wiggins R&D. He is a member of the
British Association of Paper Historians and has interests in paper
conservation and the history of measurement and testing of paper properties.
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Daven
Chamberlain
Arjo Wiggins
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Since graduating in Paper Science from
UMIST in 1965 John Clewley has had a wide and varied career in the paper
industry, working in several different countries. After learning his
trade on the machine floor of fine paper mills as an Inveresk trainee he worked for many years for Bowaters and during his time as
Manager of Bowater Technical Services became heavily involved in the
development of recycling technology and in particular de-inking.
After a spell in USA John returned to the
UK
and eventually became part of the team, as Technical Manager, that developed
the Bridgewater Mill with its advanced de-inking plants. Some years
later as Technical Director of North British Newsprint he was largely
responsible for developing that project from a conceptual idea to a 'ready to
go' fully scoped project.
John then spent two years working for Jaakko Pöyry
being involved amongst other things in the development of several large
de-inking projects before taking up the position of Executive Director of
PITA, the Paper Industry Technical Association, from which he retired in
2007. John retains his interest in the field of recycling and continues
to offer consultancy services in this and other areas.
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John
Clewley
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Norayr Gurnagul
is a Senior Scientist in the Packaging Research division of FPInnovations – Paprican.
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Norayr
Gurnagul
FPInnovations - Paprican
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After gaining a BSc in Theoretical Physics at London, Peter Herdman joined Wiggins Teape in 1967 and worked in
Plastic Base and Photographic Mills. He then moved to the Research
Centre where he worked on Paper Physics and gained an M.Phil. from
Brunel University in 1974 for his work on
Paper Drying. He then worked in other process areas including Diagnostics,
Process Control, Simulation and the Application of AI techniques. Apart from
a short sabbatical as visiting scientist at Toronto University
he has continued to work for Arjo
Wiggins, and is currently Exploratory Research Manager.
He acted as Programme
Secretary for two Fundamental Research Symposia and then as Chairman for 11
years.
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Peter Herdman
Arjo
Wiggins
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Ari Kiviranta holds M.Sc., Lic.Tech., and D. Tech. degrees in Paper
Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology. After gaining M.Sc. in
1988 he joined Tampella
to work in Inkeroinen
paperboard mill in process development, and later he moved to the board
machine research centre to study forming and perform his D.Tech studies. He then moved to Metsä-Serla in 1993, and to Valmet in 1995. There he worked as development
manager for board machines in Charlotte, USA, and in Tampere, Finland.
In 1999 he joined Metsä-Serla
(now M-real) again to work as development manager for Paperboard Division.
He is now Vice President,
R & D in M-real. Ari is a member of The Finnish Paper Engineers'
Association, and TAPPI. His research interests have been in the field of
forming, board manufacturing, and paper structure.
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Ari Kiviranta
M-real
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Stephan
Kleemann is Professor at
the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany.
He graduated in Chemistry and received his PhD in Chemistry from University of Stuttgart. After 2 years post-doctoral
research at Harvard University (USA) with a NATO-fellowship, he joined
BK-Ladenburg a subsidiary of Hoechst AG as a researcher in the paper industry
laboratories. Within his 5 years with BK Ladenburg he was head of paper
application laboratories and head of complete R&D before being appointed
to a full professorship in Paper Science and Technology at Munich University
of Applied Sciences in 1987. He has been responsible for the M.Eng. programme in Paper
Technology since 2003.
Stephan
is chairman of the ZELLCHEMING Paper Additives Committee and member of the
ZELLCHEMING Papermaking Committee as well as being a member of the FRC.
His research interests are in the field of wet-end additives and
cellulose chemistry in which he has published several papers. He is head of
the Institut fuer Verfahrenstechnik Papier (IVP) and has organised the International Munich Paper Symposia
since 1981.
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Stephan Kleeman
Munich University of Applied Sciences
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Patrice Mangin holds the Industrial Quebecor
Research Chair in Printing and Graphic Communications at the University
of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. Prior to
this, he was CEO of CTP, the French
Pulp & Paper Research Centre, and President of Techpap, a CTP subsidiary. He is a member of the
Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) Research groups, and a Vice
President of ATIP (French Technical Association of Paper Industry).
Patrice holds a PhD from INPG, the
National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, and a pulp and paper
engineering degree from EFPG. Before joining CTP, Dr. Mangin spent 17 years
at Paprican (Pointe Claire, Canada) in various positions, held the Stora chair at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), and managed, as
Scientific Coordinator, the Swedish Print Research program (PFT).
He was president of TAGA, chairman of TAPPI and CPPA/TS
(now PAPTAC) Printing Committees, Council member of IARIGAI, and contributed
to the development of the TAPPI/CPPA International Printing and Graphic Arts
Conferences (IPGAC) in many capacities including that of conference chairman;
and year 2000 IPGAC Program Chairman. He was recently named on TAPPI (USA)
International and Research Management Committees. He is a member of PAPTAC (Canada), TAGA, IASPM (International
Association of Scientific Paper Makers), and a Fellow of the Institute of Printing,
U.K.
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Patrice Mangin
UQTR
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Derek Page obtained his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from
Cambridge University, England. After a brief spell in
industry, he joined the British Paper and Board Industry Research Association
(now PIRA) in 1955 where he headed up the Basic Physics Section. In 1964
joined Paprican, carrying out research in various aspects of paper physics.
He retired from Paprican in 1993 as Director of Research, Physical Sciences,
and since then he has held the part-time position of Distinguished Professor
of Physics at IPST. Derek has been the Scientific Editor of the Journal of
Pulp and Paper Science since its founding in 1983. His contributions to paper
science have been recognised
by a number of awards including the TAPPI R&D Division Award, the TAPPI
Paper and Board Manufacture Division Award, and the TAPPI Fellowship.
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Derek Page
IPST
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Joel completed his B.S.
in Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University,
Houghton, MI, USA. He did his M.S. and Ph.D. in Paper Science,
Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA followed by a
period as a guest researcher at STFI, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Joel Panek
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Bob Pelton is Professor
of Chemical Engineering at McMaster
University as well as
Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Technologies, Founding Director of the
McMaster Centre for Pulp and Paper Research and Scientific Director of
SENTINEL – The Canadian Network for the Development and Use of Bioactive
Paper. His research group is one of
the world’s leading academic groups investigating polymer applications in
paper technology.
Bob was awarded his B.Sc.
and M.Sc. by the University of Guelph before receiving his PhD from Bristol University, England in 1976.
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Bob Pelton
McMaster University
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Janet Preston works for the Paper Technology Group at Imerys Minerals’ Par Moor Centre in Cornwall, UK.
She has expertise in the surface characterization and surface chemistry of
mineral pigments and is an Adjunct Professor at Åbo Akademi.
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Janet Preston
Imerys Minerals
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John Roberts is Emeritus Professor in the School
of Materials at the University of Manchester. He graduated in Chemistry
and studied for his PhD in Chemistry at the University of London.
After a period of post-doctoral research, he joined PIRA as a researcher in
Environmental Science before being appointed to a lectureship in Paper
Science at UMIST in 1978. His research interests have been in the field of
paper and cellulose chemistry in which he has published over 60 papers and is
also the author/editor of two books. He founded the Journal Cellulose in 1993
and was its Editor in Chief until 2000. He was appointed to a full
professorship at UMIST in 1991.
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John Roberts
University of Manchester
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Jean-Claude Roux has been
Professor of papermaking engineering and automation at the Graduate in
papermaking at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), French
Engineering School of Paper and Printing (EFPG) since 1983. Since 1994 he has
been Head of research at the paper and Printing Laboratory. He graduated in
papermaking from EFPG in 1981 and in automation from INPG in 1982, receiving
his PhD from INPG in 1986.
His research interests
concern physical modelling
and simulation of paper manufacturing operations from pulp disintegration,
refining, forming and wet pressing and has recently been involved in studies
of runnability and of environmental problems. He is co-author of
international patents for a new dilution headbox and a photocatalytic reactor for gas effluent treatment.
Since 1993 he has acted as a consultant for papermachine manufacturers and
papermakers.
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Jean-Claude Roux
EFPG
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Bill Sampson is a Senior Lecturer in the School
of Materials at the University of Manchester. He received his bachelors
and doctoral degrees in Paper Science from UMIST where he began lecturing in
1992. His primary research interests are in the statistical geometry of fibre networks in two and three
dimensions, the characterisation
of stochastic textures and general problems of paper physics and paper
manufacture. He has spent periods of study leave at the University
of Toronto and at the Forest
Research Institute in Rotorua,
New Zealand.
For details of Bill's research activities visit his homepages.
Bill was Programme
Secretary for the 13th Fundamental Research Symposium and is fulfilling the
same role for the 14th symposium.
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Bill Sampson
University of Manchester
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Daniel received an MSc in Vehicle Engineering
(1994) and PhD in Fluid Mechanics (1999) at Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH), Stockholm.
He has been employed at STFI-Packforsk
since 1999, initially as Senior Research Associate. During 2002-2004 he was
Senior Research Manager and currently he is Major Projects Manager. In
addition, he is an Adjunct Lecturer (20%) at the Department of Mechanics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH, since 2002.
He is currently
responsible for the research in the forming area at STFI-Packforsk and KTH. He is the inventor of the Aq-vane technique that received the ATIP (French Papermakers Association) gold
innovation award 2004.
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Daniel Söderberg
STFI-Packforsk AB
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