Invited Speakers Plenary
Odile SONNEVILLE-AUBRUN, PhD
L’OREAL R&I, FRANCE – Advanced Research
Odile SONNEVILLE-AUBRUN is Head of Skincare, Make-up & Hair Physical-Chemistry Laboratories at L’Oréal.
She was graduated from ESPCI (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de la ville de Paris) in 1993. She obtained a Post-Master degree specialization in Soft Matter from Sorbonne University in 1994 and her PhD in Physical-Chemistry on biliquid foams from Sorbonne University in 1997. She has been working for L’Oréal Research for 25 years in the field of skincare, body hygiene, make-up & hair products innovation. Many of these innovations have been patented.
Since 2016, she has joined L’Oréal College of Experts and has contributed to internal trainings in Physical-Chemistry applied to cosmetics.
Her main research is focused on deep understanding of structure and properties of products from bulk to deposit on skin and hair and on formulation triggers exploration to deliver new products with high measured and perceived performance. This knowledge of applied Physical-chemistry makes it possible to identify and understand the major breakthrough innovations launched by L’Oréal.
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Hideki SAKAI, PhD
Professor Hideki Sakai graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and got master degree (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) in Applied Chemistry from the same university under the supervision of Prof. Akira Fujishima. After receiving his PhD degree, he took the position in Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science (TUS) as an assistant professor (Prof. Masahiko Abe’s group). He collaborated with Prof. Eric W. Kaler of University of Delaware (U.S.A.) as a visiting scientist from 1998 to 1999. Currently he is a professor and chair of Division for Colloid and Interface Science, TUS. His research interests include molecular assembly formation of amphiphilic molecules (vesicle, micelle, worm-like micelle), photo- and electro-responsive surfactants, and also preparation of nanostructured materials using interfacial chemical techniques. He is a vice dean of Division of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Chemical Society of Japan since 2019.
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Slavka TCHOLAKOVA, PhD
Professor Slavka Tholakova obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Sofia University in 2004 after a MSc in Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry.
From 2013, she is Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of Sofia University. She is head of the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski » from 2015. She is project leader of the research project “Natural bioactive substances for personal care products, cosmetics and dietary supplements”, Centre of Competence “Sustainable utilization of bio resources and waste of medicinal and aromatic plants for innovative bioactive products”, she is head of the Laboratory of “Formation and characterization of foams, emulsions and porous materials” in Centre of Excellence “National Centre for Mechatronics and Clean Technologies”. She is the authors of 121 scientific papers, incl. Nature (1), Nature Phys. (1), Nature Comm. (1), Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. (5), J. Colloid Interface Sci (7), Langmuir (37), Colloids Surfaces A (17) cited > 4000 times, h-index = 36 (Scopus), 10 patents – 6 international (WIPO, US, Europe), 1 German, 1 French, 1 Japanese, 1 Chinese, 105 lectures and posters presented at International conferences and symposia (18 plenary or keynote). She has 14 completed PhD theses and 6 others under preparation. From 2004, she is the PI of 56 projects funded by international companies, incl. Unilever, BASF, Saint Gobain, Wacker, Lubrizol, Productalysa. From 2019 to 2021, she was the Leader of the Bulgarian team, ERC project (CoolNanoDrop No 841827, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London), in 2017-2018, the Leader of the Bulgarian team, ERC project (ShipShape No 766656, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London).
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Andreas KLAMT, PhD
Prof. Andreas Klamt studied Physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and gained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Solid State Physics at the Max-Planck-Institute and the University of Stuttgart, in 1987. He joined Bayer AG in 1987, learned Computational Chemistry on the job, and was promoted to the Head of the Computational Chemistry Department in 1996. He left Bayer in 1999 to found COSMOlogic which is now part of Dassault Systèmes where he is Senior Scientific fellow. In 2005, he obtained his Habilitation in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Regensburg where he currently holds the position of honorary professor.
Prof. Klamt is a pioneer in the prediction and quantification of solvation effects. As his first major achievement he invented the Conductor-like Screening Model COSMO, which is widely used in quantum chemistry for the quantification of solvation effects. He is the creator of the COSMO-RS method which combines a quantum chemical treatment of solutes and solvents with a fast and effective statistical thermodynamics procedure for the molecular surface interactions. His method enables the calculation of thermophysical data for liquid systems without any prior experiments. In recent years he has considerably extended the field of application of his method by developing new tools (COSMOplex and COSMOquick) which allows to predict the properties of relevant systems in formulation science such as micelles, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, polymers and complex materials.
References:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OYrzlEkAAAAJ&hl=de
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-klamt-75534046/
https://research.com/u/andreas-klamt
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Werner KUNZ, PhD
Prof. Kunz is head of the chair of physical chemistry II at the University of Regensburg in Germany. His group is specialised in solution chemistry (complex liquids, their structures, and interfaces) and in green chemistry. The activities span from very fundamental research to applied and industrial chemistry with a special focus on product formulation. He is also owner of a company, the SKH GmbH, which develops new formulations for various small, medium sized, but also big international companies. Here the focus is on cosmetics, perfumes, cleaning agents and plant extraction.
At present, Prof. Kunz authored or co-authored 330 peer-reviewed publications, further to several patents, book chapters, book editions etc. Kunz’ h-index is 56 (Web of Science) and 67 (Google Scholar), his papers are currently cited more than 12.400 times (>17.000 according to Google Scholar). For his basic and applied research, he received several prizes, e.g., the Rhodia prize from the European Colloidal Society, the Gay-Lussac prize from the French government and the Steinkoff prize from the German Colloidal Society.
For more information, see :
Research Group Prof. Werner KUNZ – Universität Regensburg (uni-regensburg.de)