KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

	Dr. hab. Ing. Marcin BARBURSKI
	Institution: Lodz University of Technology, Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design, Institute of Architecture of Textile
	Research Interest: Modelling the structure and properties of fabrics under mechanical loading, technical textile, conveyor belts, steel fibres knitted fabrics as well as textile products made for composites and X-ray tomography used to analyse textile structure.
	Keynote Lecture: Formation of the textile structures for a specified purpose

Short biography:
Studied at the Faculty of Textile Engineering and Marketing, specialization Architecture of Textiles, graduated in 2001. In the same year he began PhD studies at the Technical University of Lodz, received PhD in 2007 and habilitation in 2016. Since 2005, he is employed at the Faculty of Materials Technologies and Textile Design in the Institute of Architecture of Textiles. In 2014 invited speaker on the Osaka University and in 2016 lecturer at the Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Textile Engineering. In order to improve his professional and scientific qualifications he completed academic internships at the Faculty of Technology and Design in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Faculty of Textile at the University of Budapest (Hungary), at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), at the Department of Materials Engineering in Composite Group and, at the Textile University of Ghent (Belgium). He has been a beneficiary of the international and national scientific grants offered by the Institute of Architecture of Textiles. Within 2011-2013 he has been working on his habilitation project “Modelling of the bending rigidity of technical woven structures for the pipe conveyor belts”. At the same time, till 2014, he has been working on his own research project called “Experimental study and modelling of steel fibre knitted fabrics for forming of automotive glass” for the competition “Mobility Plus” at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in co-operation with the company Bekintex (Belgium). Moreover, he is a certificated Coach of ‘International Coaching Community’, has a certificate of International Project Management Association – IPMA on level D and graduated from the training for Management Coaches MATRIK. He is a author and co-author of many papers in journals and presentations at national and international conferences.

	prof. Viatcheslav FREGER
	Institution: Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
	Research Interest: Membrane science and technology for water and energy applications, materials, polymer and surface science.
	Keynote Lecture: Opportunities in membrane technology for textile materials

Short biography:
Viatcheslav Freger received an M.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, and a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Before joining Technion he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bath, UK, and served as a faculty at the Ben-Gurion University. He also was a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley and Davis. Since 2010 he holds a faculty position at Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He has authored more than 80 book chapters and scientific papers and consulted and collaborated with water- and nano-related companies in Israel, USA and Germany.

	prof. Pierre OUAGNE
	Institution: National Engineering School of Tarbes, France. Head of the composite, bio-composite and textile research centre.
	Research Interest:
	Keynote Lecture: From fibre extraction to the woven fabric manufacturing for reinforcing composites

Short biography:
Pierre Ouagne (45) is professor at the ENIT since feb. 2016 and researcher at the LGP. He received a master degree in applied radiation physics in 1996 from the U. Of Birmingham (UK), and a PhD in Materials science and Engineering, about the fracture mechanic of nuclear graphite from the U. of Bath (UK) (2001) and (HDR) the accreditation to direct research from the U. of Orleans (France) in 2011. After two years spent working in an innovative SME (2001-2003), he joined as a research officer the U. of Le Havre (France) in 2003 where he stayed five years working on the impregnation of textile reinforcements for the composite materials. Pierre Ouagne became assistant professor in 2008 at the U. of Orleans where he mainly developed activities centred around the forming and the valorisation of plant based textile products for the composite industry as well as for the ecological engineering. He became associate professor in 2011 before moving in feb. 2016 to the ENI of Tarbes for a professor position. Its research thematic spectrum covers the design, the manufacturing, the characterization and the recycling of plant based technical textile products from which bio-composite materials are the main part. He is the leader of the (bio)composite and textile group of the LGP and the scientific coordinator of the composite transfer centre of the Tarbes Campus. He published 32 research papers in international peer-review journals and about 60 papers in international and national conferences proceedings. Within the last five years, Pierre Ouagne has lead two research projects funded by French local agencies and participated to three other ones funded by industrial contracts within the plant fibre and bio-composite community. Since 2016, Pierre Ouagne is the local coordinator of four projects (one H2020 project with the coordination of a WP) and the scientific leader of two regional projects. In 2015, Pierre Ouagne was received for six months as invited Professor at the Textile College of Engineering (ENSAIT) of Roubaix.

	PhDr. Milena BRAVERMANOVÁ
	Institution: Independent researcher
	Research Interest: Archaeological textiles, medieval luxurious textiles, textile history, medieval textile production
	Keynote Lecture: The structure of archeological textiles from the Early and High Middle Ages

Short biography:
Former long-time curator of the department of art collections of Prague Castle Administration, specializing in textiles (especially archaeological). Author of several exhibitions on medieval textiles, professional articles and two monographs, field lectures for students of archeology at universities and for the lay public. Coordinator of the establishment of restoration workshop focusing on textiles at Prague Castle. Now an independent researcher.

	PhDr. Helena BŘEZINOVÁ, Ph.D.
	Institution: Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Head of the restoration laboratories
	Research Interest: Archaeological textiles, textile history, medieval textile production
	Keynote Lecture: The structure of archeological textiles from the Early and High Middle Ages

Short biography:
Researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, head of the restoration laboratories. She specializes in the issue of textile production and its documents in the archaeological finds from the prehistoric, Early and High Middle Ages, performs technological analysis and evaluation of preserved textile fragments from archaeological research. She is the author of a number of professional studies on archaeological textiles, and she also participates in the university education of students of archeology.

	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Banu ÖZGEN KELEŞ
	Institution: Ege University, Emel Akın Vocational School, Co-ordinator of Textile Technology Programme
	Research Interest: Modelling the structure and properties of woven fabrics and yarns, analyses of textile structure
	Keynote Lecture: Geometrical modelling of woven textile structures

Short biography:
Associate Professor at Ege University since 2015. She studied at the Department of Textile Engineering, specialized in Textile Technology, graduated in 1999. She received a master degree in Textile Engineering in 2002 from Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey and a PhD degree from Manchester University, UK in 2009. Banu Özgen Keleş became assistant professor in 2009 at Ege University. She also worked as deputy manager in Emel Akın Vocational School for two years until 2012. She is a reviewer of important textile journals and an author and co-author of many papers in journals and book chapter.