Keynote speakers

Dr. Bertrand Baudouy is the head of the Cryogenics R&D group at the Accelerators, Cryogenics and Magnetism Division of CEA (French National Atomic Energy Center) Saclay, France. His research activities, primarily experimental, concern the low temperature heat and mass transfer related to the cooling methodology of superconducting magnets developed for the high energy physics programs at CEA. Currently, his work focuses on heat transfer and fluid dynamics of liquid helium from superfluid to the normal two-phase regime.

Ed Fontes is CTO at COMSOL with specific interest in the transport-reaction products. He has 14 years experience of modeling transport phenomena in industry and 6 years of supervising research projects in Academia. Ed Fontes received his PhD in Electrochemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) in 1995.

Eric Favre is currently the managing director of COMSOL France. After his PhD in fluid mechanics from the Polytechnical Institute in Grenoble, he worked as a R&D specialist in Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics for the steel industry. Since 2001 he has been promoting the use of advanced mathematical modeling and design solutions for the industry using COMSOL Multiphysics.

Filip Van den Abeele has a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and received his Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on finite element modeling of impact damage in composite materials. He is currently working as a simulation expert at ArcelorMittal R&D Industry Gent (OCAS). In the Steel Solutions and Design department, COMSOL is applied to a wide variety of industrially relevant topics. Applications include enamel solidification, magnetic pulse forming and vortex induced vibrations. Filip's main research interest is pipeline engineering, and he is actively promoting the use of multiphysics modeling for the oil and gas industry.

Göran Eriksson received his Ph.D. in the field of Plasma Physics and Theoretical Electrotechnics from Uppsala University. After working for more than 12 years at Saab AB, mainly with numerical simulations of electromagnetic phenomena such as lightning damage effects, he is now employed by ABB Corporate Research. His work is focused towards electromagnetic and multiphysics modeling of high voltage power products and system components.

Jan Przybyla graduated with an Honours degree in Applied Physics in1976 from Brunel University Uxbridge UK. Prior to joining e2v Technologies Ltd in 1996 Jan was employed by Radiation Dynamics Ltd developing electron linear accelerators systems for medical, industrial and scientific applications. Whilst at e2v he has been involved in the development of various new technologies including high voltage power systems and RF amplifier systems for use in science and industry. Jan is currently a Technical Specialist in the Electron Devices and Subsystems Division of e2v with special interests in 3D modelling and its application in system and process design that utilise RF and Microwave technology.

Mads J. Herring Jensen’s research activities concern the modeling of acoustic phenomena in and around hearing aid devices. In his work, he has implemented a thermoviscous acoustic model in COMSOL. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) for modeling free-surface flows in microfluidic devices using COMSOL.

Vincenzo Guida is R&D Process Design Principal Engineer at Procter & Gamble in Italy. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples. Over the last 13 years, he has been working on scaling-up manufacturing process for liquid and powder detergents. He is using COMSOL to model chemico-physical transformation of industrial processes, with specific emphasis on fluid dynamics and rheology of complex fluids.

Marc Kamlah is head of the Mechanics of Materials I department at the Institute for Materials Research II of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, he is also an apl. Prof. at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe. Marc received his degree in Engineering Mechanics from Technische Universität Darmstadt. After his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel, he joined Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. A major emphasis of his research activities lies on modeling thermo-electro-mechanical field coupling phenomena. A multiscale approach is employed amalgamating phase field modeling, micromechanics, and classical continuum theories. In particular, much work has been done in the field of ferroelectrics.

Svante Littmarck is the CEO of the COMSOL group. He co-founded COMSOL in 1986. He holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2004 he received an honorary doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology.