Thomas Kivevele
Thomas Kivevele holds a doctorate and master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa majoring in thermal energy and bioenergy, respectively. Thomas also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He is a recipient of 2018 Fulbright fellowship to conduct research in biofuels at Baylor University, TX, United States.
Thomas Kivevele has been a leader of five projects funded by The World Academy of Sciences, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, International Atomic Energy Agency, Erasmus+ of the European Union and the PASET Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund.
Thomas is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha – Tanzania.
Jeremy Luterbacher
Jeremy Luterbacher received a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from EPFL in 2007. During his master, he spent one year as a visiting scientist at the MIT working on hydrothermal biomass gasification in Pr. Jeff Tester’s lab. Jeremy then moved to Cornell University to pursue doctoral studies in Pr. Larry Walker’s lab, working on biomass pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass. He was awarded the Austin Hooey Graduate Research Excellence Recognition by the Cornell Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
After receiving his PhD, Jeremy joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar. He worked there for two years on solvent-aided chemical biomass depolymerization and aqueous phase catalytic reforming under the supervision of Pr. Jim Dumesic. In 2014, Jeremy returned to EPFL as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and head of the Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing.