Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Mohammad Aslam, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India. Dr. Aslam received his first Master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, followed by another Master’s degree in Fuels and Combustion from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. Dr. Aslam earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate/Senior Research Fellow in the Chemical Conversion Division of Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (An Autonomous Institute of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India), Punjab. He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India-sponsored R&D projects in the field of Green Hydrocarbons. Dr. Aslam has published 20 research articles in international scientific journals and conferences, edited two books, and authored seven book chapters. He also serves as an Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Modern Energy and is a reviewer for international scientific journals. His current research focuses on green transportation fuels derived from second and third-generation biomass feedstocks under the biorefinery concept via thermochemical conversion and their application for the decarbonizing transportation sector.

Dr Sanjeev Mishra, is working as a Scientist-D, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, (An Autonomous Institution of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India), Kapurthala (Punjab) India. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Fellow (Postdoc) at the Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on the “Production of 3rd generation biofuels and high-value compounds from municipal, agricultural, and industrial waste via algal biorefinery approach”. He has done a Bachelor and Master of Technology in Industrial Biotechnology and has over two years of pre-PhD research experience working at national labs. During this, his research focused on lab-scale to large-scale microalgal cultivation and bioenergy production. He did his Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India). The thesis entitled “Microalgal wastewater treatment, enhanced biomass productivity, and biofuel conversion under a biorefinery approach”. In addition, he has also gained international exposure by participating in the Indo-German training program at TU Berlin, Germany, through a DAAD fellowship, and presented his research findings at the “Algal Research” conference, in the USA.

Jorge Aburto, Ph.D., has been a Researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) since 2000 and is currently Project Leader and Head of the Biomass Conversion Division and in charge of the Division of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. He holds a B.Sc. in Food Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA), and a Ph.D. from the National Polytechnique Institute of Toulouse (INPT), France. He was a visiting researcher with the Agro Biotechnology Institute (IFA-Tulln) at the Agricultural University of Vienna (BOKU), Austria. Dr. Aburto’s main research areas are bio-based chemicals and materials for applications in the petroleum industry, biomass deconstruction and conversion, production of lignocellulosic ethanol, road and aviation fuels, enzyme kinetics and applications to the oil industry, petroleum biorefining, precipitation inhibitors of asphaltenes, and petroleum pipelining through O/W emulsions. He is the author of international journal articles, book chapters, and patent applications and patents. Currently, he is a member of the Academic Technical Council of the Bioenergy Thematic Network sponsored by CONACYT, a technical leader in the IMP of the Mexican Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CEMIE BIO), and is a Level III National Researcher. Dr. Aburto was designated Mission Innovation Champion of Mexico by the Mission Innovation Initiative in 2019 for his contribution and vision to bioenergy science and technology in Mexico.