GC&E 2024 Highlights
- 910 attendees with 706 in-person
- 386 presentations (296 oral and 90 poster)
- 57 countries represented
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Anna Marie Wagner
Senior Vice President, Head of AI, & Head of Corporate Development
Ginkgo Bioworks
Anna Marie Wagner is the Head of AI and SVP, Corporate Development at Ginkgo Bioworks. In her roles, she oversees Ginkgo’s strategy, partnerships, and commercial execution in AI, as well as its capital markets and M&A functions. Anna Marie led Ginkgo’s partnership with Google Cloud in 2023 and its public offering in 2021, raising over $1.6 billion for the company in what was the largest public debut in biotech.
Ginkgo is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo’s biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect, and respond to a wide variety of biological threats. The company operates has partnerships with companies including Bayer, Biogen, Pfizer, Sumitomo, Novo Nordisk, Syngenta, Merck, and Corteva as well as with governments around the world.
Prior to joining Ginkgo Bioworks, Anna Marie was a technology investor at Bain Capital Private Equity. She holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.
Alexei Lapkin
Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering
University of Cambridge
Prof Alexei Lapkin is a Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering at University of Cambridge. He studied chemistry at Novosibirsk State University (Russia), then obtained his PhD in chemical engineering at University of Bath (UK) under the supervision of Prof. W. J. Thomas and then was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University of Bath in 2000. In 2009 he was appointed as Professor of Engineering at University of Warwick and since 2013 he has been in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge. His work is mainly on methods of process intensification for chemical manufacturing, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, and methods of environmental assessment of new chemical processes, including life cycle assessment.
Prof Lapkin is a PI for the C4T programme and SM3 programme, additionally running several projects under the Pharma Innovation Programme Singapore (PIPS), an industry-led platform which aims to strategically bring together public sector research capabilities and domain expertise to enhance productivity and operational efficiency within the pharmaceutical sector through leveraging novel manufacturing technologies and data analytics. He is also a PI for the AMPLE project which aims to work together with industrial partners in the pharmaceutical, energy, and functional coatings sector to rapidly scale new material technologies for high quality and low cost. He was a PI on the now-complete eCO₂EP project.
Frederico Bella
Full Professor of Chemistry and VP of the Italian Chemical Society
Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy)
Federico Bella is Full Professor of Chemistry at Politecnico di Torino in Italy and Vice-President of the Italian Chemical Society. His main scientific activity covers post-lithium batteries and electrochemical ammonia production, through sustainable chemistry-oriented and multivariate approaches. He has published more than 120 papers and counts a h-index of 72. He has received awards from the most important worldwide scientific associations, such as the International Society of Electrochemistry (2023 Tajima Prize), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021 Horizon Prize), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2019 Piontelli International Award), etc. He is coordinating an ERC Starting Grant project (SuN2rise), with an overall fund of 1.5 M-eur to develop fertilizer production under mild conditions, and has recently launched the first Italian research laboratory on potassium-based batteries.
Marta C. Hatzell
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Marta Hatzell is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Hatzell’s research group explores how to electrify catalytic and separation-based processes to enable sustainable systems. Hatzell completed her BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University and an M.Eng in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University. Hatzell received the Outstanding Award for early career research at Georgia Tech in 2023. In addition, Hatzell received the Moore Inventor Fellowship (2021), ONR Young Investigator Award (2020), Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Chemistry (2020), and the NSF Early CAREER award (2019). Hatzell currently serves as a Senior Editor of the Journal ACS Energy Letters.
Hui Zhou
Associate Professor in the Dept. of Energy and Power Engineering
Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
Professor Hui Zhou of Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) is being honored for his visionary approach to sustainable energy and green chemistry (7-9). His interdisciplinary expertise encompasses biomass resources, waste management, hydrogen energy, CCUS, heterogeneous catalysis, and 2D materials. He pioneered advancements in carbon dioxide hydrogenation technology and developed an innovative biomass hydrothermal conversion process. He also established the concept of combustible solid waste primitives, and proposed a characterization system for these primitives. Currently, this theoretical framework has been applied in over 300 publications and industrially implemented in solid waste pyrolysis and incineration facilities. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University.