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Dr K Selvaraju
SIMA
Dr K Selvaraju
SIMA
Dr K Selvaraju, who is a Doctorate in Textiles, began his humble career with S.Kumars, Mumbai and Madura Coats in Tamilnadu, rose to the position of Secretary General of Coimbatore based The Southern India Mills’ Association. He has more than 41 years of industry experience in total and 36 years of experience in SIMA. He advised more than 1000 mills for improving HR systems and productivity and conducted over 1500 HRD programmes. He represents many Committees of State and Central Governments relating to textiles. He is also a member on Board of Studies of various educational institutions for advising curriculum on textiles.
He is also the Secretary General of SIMA’s sister organization viz., SIMA Cotton Development & Research Association and Secretary for SIMA Textile Processing Centre Limited.
Dr Selvaraju has travelled several countries on his textile mission.
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Bryan Haynes
Kimberly Clark , USA
Bryan Haynes
Kimberly Clark , USA
Bryan Haynes, Ph.D., Senior Technical Director for Global Nonwovens, Kimberly-Clark Corporation – Chair, INDA
Dr. Haynes received his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. During his graduate studies Dr. Haynes specialized in the aerodynamics and polymer processing of the meltblowing process which was funded by Exxon Chemical Company. He taught full time in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering prior to joining Kimberly-Clark Corporation as a Research Scientist in 1992. While working at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Dr. Haynes has held various positions in research and engineering including an assignment at the Lexington Mill in North Carolina serving as the Technical Team Manager. Dr. Haynes has published several papers and has obtained 44 U.S. Patents and 16 Trade Secrets during his Kimberly-Clark career.
He currently holds the position of Senior Technical Director for Global Nonwovens. Prior to his current role he served as the Director of Research and Engineering in Global Nonwovens where his team was responsible for the front-end innovation portfolio and prototyping capabilities including the pilot facilities supporting Kimberly-Clark’s various businesses. Dr. Haynes has received several awards including the Kimberly-Clark Technical Excellence Award, the 2012 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the Society of Women Engineers, and most recently he received the 2017 INDA Lifetime Technical Achievement Award. He is also an Adjunct Professor at The University of Tennessee in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering. He serves on several Industrial Advisory Boards including Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia; and the Nonwovens Institute at N.C. State University. He also serves on the Board of Directors as Secretary for Georgia FIRST which is a non-profit organization that supports STEM programs in Georgia.
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna
National University, Singapore
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna
National University, Singapore
Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, Everest Chair is a senior professor and world-renowned researcher at the National University of Singapore (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seeram-ramakrishna/; https://blog.nus.edu.sg/seeram/). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer NATURE Journal Materials Circular Economy (https://www.springer.com/journal/42824), Associate Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Journal Circular Economy (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/circular-economy/editorial-board), and Director of Center for Nanotechnology and Sustainability. He is recognized among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, and Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in materials science as well as cross-fields categories. He has an H-index of 174 and i10-index of 1,242 with ~144,961 citations for his publications to date. He is a co-author of an award-winning book An Introduction to Circular Economy, and UNESCO Report Knowledge-driven Actions: Transforming Higher Education for Global Sustainability (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380519). He is a member of EPR Advisory Committee of Singapore Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE). He Co-Chairs the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Advocacy Group at the Singapore Institute of Directors (www.sid.org.sg). He is a member of ISO technical committee on Circular Economy. He is the Chairman of Climate Change TC at the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), and Plastics Recycling Center of Excellence at PRAS (www.pras.org.sg). He advises the IES Green Plan 2030. He is an evaluation panel member for the $3 million Alliance Prize in Circular Solutions for Flexibles, sponsored by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (https://www.circularsolutions.theallianceprize.org/evaluation). European Commission Director-General for Environment, Excellency Daniel Calleja Crespo said “Professor Seeram Ramakrishna should be praised for his personal engagement leading the reflections on how to develop a more sustainable future for all”. He is a speaker of Asian Leadership Conference (https://alc.chosun.com/2022/speaker/speaker.html?lang=en&year=2022&pn=10#). He is an eminent resource person for universities, companies, governments, individuals, and international organizations. He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK; and the GMP training from Harvard University, USA.
Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar
Texas Tech University, USA
Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar
Texas Tech University, USA
Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar is a tenured full professor of advanced materials and Texas Tech University. His research has resulted in commercial products such as FiberTect decontamination wipe and cotton-based oil absorbent wipes. He is credited with creating Technical Textiles revolution in India, which played a vital in India becoming self-reliant in developing PPE products during this COVID-19. He has received the highest award for research and academic efforts by the world’s largest textile related professional association, Textile Association India with its Honorary Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the oldest charted association in the field, The Textile Institute, United Kingdom. He has been awarded the Fellowship of Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry, USA.
USA-based Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Association has given him the highest technical award in the field of nonwovens, “Mark Hollingworth Prize,” and the Division Leadership Award for his nonwovens work. He has had over 20 years of collaboration with many Indian institutes such as UICT-Mumbai, KCT, Coimbatore, etc. Since early 2000, he has been working on the promotion of technical textiles sector in India. He served as the tutor for USA-INDA’s first ever nonwovens workshop in India in January 2007.
Most recently he has been appointed as an Honorary Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Agile Manufacturing and Management at Chennai-based Grand Alliance of Management Excellence. Currently he is actively involved in research related to face masks and promoting its usefulness in protecting global citizens, via research and outreach.
He publishes an international newsletter called “TexSnips,” which is distributed globally informing researchers, industry, and academics on new developments in the field of fiber to soft materials.
Dr K Selvaraju
SIMA
Dr K Selvaraju
SIMA
Dr K Selvaraju, who is a Doctorate in Textiles, began his humble career with S.Kumars, Mumbai and Madura Coats in Tamilnadu, rose to the position of Secretary General of Coimbatore based The Southern India Mills’ Association. He has more than 41 years of industry experience in total and 36 years of experience in SIMA. He advised more than 1000 mills for improving HR systems and productivity and conducted over 1500 HRD programmes. He represents many Committees of State and Central Governments relating to textiles. He is also a member on Board of Studies of various educational institutions for advising curriculum on textiles.
He is also the Secretary General of SIMA’s sister organization viz., SIMA Cotton Development & Research Association and Secretary for SIMA Textile Processing Centre Limited.
Dr Selvaraju has travelled several countries on his textile mission.
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