Speakers

Anuji Abraham

Anuji Abraham

Bristol Myers Squibb

Dr. Anuji Abraham is an Associate Scientific Director and ssNMR Team leader in the Materials Science and Engineering Division in Product Development at Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, and worked as a postdoctoral/research fellow at EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland, Durham University, UK and the University of West Virginia, USA.

Juan Araneda

Juan Araneda

Nanalysis Corp.

Juan Araneda obtained his M.Sc. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) in Chemistry at the University of Calgary in Canada. Shortly after graduation, he joined Nanalysis, a manufacturer of low-field, high-resolution benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers, as an application chemist.

Bernhard Blümich

Bernhard Blümich

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Bernhard Blümich gained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1981. He spent a year as a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, before joining the University of Bayreuth, Germany, as a staff scientist working on macromolecular chemistry.

Federico Casanova

Federico Casanova

Magritek GmbH

Federico is a specialist in the development of hardware and methodologies for portable and desktop NMR systems. He got his PhD in physics in 2001 in Cordoba, Argentina and move to Germany with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to join the group of Prof. Blümich at the RWTH University in Aachen. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow he remained at the RWTH as project leader where he worked on several projects in basic and applied research areas related to mobile and benchtop NMR.

Anna Codina

Anna Codina

Brüker BioSpin

Anna has a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Protein NMR from the University of Barcelona, Spain. During this time she did several industrial placements at pharmaceutical industries (Pharmhispania, Spain, and Genentech, SF, USA) where she studied protein-antibody interactions. She then moved to Cambridge, UK, to do a post-doc in structural biology and protein NMR at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Luiz Alberto Colnago

Luiz Alberto Colnago

EMBRAPA, Brazil

Graduated in Pharmacy by Faculdade de Farmácia e Bioquímica do Espirito Santo (1976), Master in Chemistry by the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (1979) and PhD in Chemistry by the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (1983). Post doctorate in determination of structure, dynamics and function of virus proteins by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), at the University of Pennsylvania, 1983 to 1985 and 1991 to 1992, whose results led him to be a co-author of an article that was on the cover of Science magazine on May 31, 1991.

Daniel Consalter

Daniel Consalter

Fine Instrument Technology (FIT)

Dr. Daniel Consaltier is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Fine Instrument Technology (FIT), Brazilian research, development, and innovation company focused on the development of NMR equipment and solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Institute of Physics of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo (IFSC - USP) in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrumentation.

Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevêdo

Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevêdo

IFSC, USP, Brazil

Graduation in Physics from Universidade Federal de Goiás (1995), master's in Physics from Universidade de São Paulo (1998), and a doctorate in Physics from Universidade de São Paulo (2001). Has experience in Physics, focusing on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation in Condensed Matter; Mossbauer Effects; acting on the following subjects: exchange NMR, polymers, solid-state NMR.

Tiago Bueno de Moraes

Tiago Bueno de Moraes

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tiago B. de Moraes holds a bachelor's degree (2005-2008), a master's degree (2009-2011), and a Ph.D. (2011-2016) in Applied Physics from the Institute of Physics of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (USP). During his Ph.D., he carried out his BEPE-FAPESP internship at RWTH Aachen University in Germany (2014-2015). From 2017 to 2019 he was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Institute of São Carlos University (USP, Brazil), during which he also was a substitute Professor at Depart. of Physical Chemistry at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Depart.

Hercílio De Angeli Honorato

Hercílio De Angeli Honorato

Petrobras/CENPES, Brazil

Hercílio de Angeli Honorato holds a degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2010) and a master's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2012). Currently is a marketing and logistics analyst - Petróleo Brasileiro - Rio de Janeiro - Headquarters. Has experience in Chemistry, with emphasis on LOW FIELD NMR, working mainly on the following topics: plasma, low field 1H NMR, TD NMR, relaxometry and porous carbons.

Michael Maiwald

Michael Maiwald

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)

Michael Maiwald is a physico-chemist who in 1994 graduated from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, where he also received his doctorate (1997).

Maja Musse

Maja Musse

French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, (INRAE), France

Maja Musse received her Ph.D. degree in biophysics from University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, in 2000. She is currently a Senior Researcher and team leader at research unit OPAALE, NMR/MRI group (IRM_Food), French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment Research Institute (INRAE), France. Her research focuses on the development and application of MRI and TD-NMR methods for studying the structure, composition, and water dynamics of plants and food products at multiple length scales and under processing conditions.

Dante Pusiol

Dante Pusiol

Spinlock NMR

Dante Pusiol is a lawyer (2008, Jesuit Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina) with a Master in Intellectual Property Law (2012, Universidad Austral, Argentina) as well as an executive education degree (2015, ESADE Business School of Barcelona, Spain). He is the Chief Executive Officer at Spinlock S.R.L., a tech-based R&D company with high international projection, specialising in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technology equipment with a presence in more than 18 countries.

Pedro J. Sebastião

Pedro J. Sebastião

Instituto Superior Técnico / CeFEMA, Portugal

Pedro José Sebastião is an experimental physics professor with the Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. Following the work for his Ph.D. thesis, in 1993, on molecular dynamics in liquid crystals with peculiar polymorphisms by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry, he has investigated a large number of condensed matter systems using NMR.