Organizing Committee

Congress chair/president

Jan Stoulil, UCT Prague, Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, Associate Professor, Prague, Czech Republic

Vice chairs / Congress Officers

V.S. Raja, ICC President; Patrick Keil, EFC Vice President

Organizing Committee

• Pascall Collet, EFC Chief Operating Officer, France
• Branislav Hadzima, University of Zilina, professor, Zilina, Slovakia
• Maroš Halama, UVP Technicom, Technical University of Košice (TUKE) & CVTI SR, Košice/Bratislava, Slovakia
• Šárka Houdková, Výzkumný a zkušební ústav Plzeň s.r.o./ Research and Testing Institute Plzen Ltd., Plzeň, Czech Republic
• Andrea Kalendová, University of Pardubice, professor, Pardubice, Czech Republic
• Milan Kouřil, UCT Prague, Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, Associate Professor, Prague, Czech Republic
• Zdeněk Mühlhauser, ORLEN Unipetrol RPA s.r.o., Czech Republic
• Tomáš Pilvousek, ŠKODA AUTO a.s., Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
• Tomáš Prošek, Head of the research group Metal construction materials, Technopark Kralupy of the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
• Kristýna Sternadelová, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, assistant professor, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Jan Stoulil, UCT Prague, Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, Associate Professor, Prague, Czech Republic
• Pavel Taraba, MERO ČR, a.s., Czech Republic
• Lukáš Vondrovic, The Czech Radioactive Waste Repository authority/ SÚRAO, Prague, Czech Republic
• Martin Vosecký, Nalco Water-Ecolab, Czech Republic
• Petra Závodná, GUARANT International, Prague, Czech Republic
• Matilda Zemanová, Slovak University of Technology, associate professor, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Jaromír Wasserbauer, Brno University of Technology, associate professor, Brno, Czech Republic

VAS Young Committee members

Christopher Seet, Nephrologist
Yara Fares, Vascular Medicine Wouter Moest, Nephrologist
Raquel Barba Teba, Nephrologist
Gianmarco Falcone, Radiologist
Wouter Moest, Nephrologist

Nursing program

Gelisa Allers, Vascular Access Nurse
Ruben Iglesias, Vascular Access Nurse

Simulation training program coordinators

Robert Shahverdyan, Vascular Surgeon
Carlo Lomonte, Nephrologist
Clemente Sousa, Vascular Access Nurse

Additional program committee and/or local organizing members

Mario D'Oria, Vascular Surgeon

International Scientific Committee

• Patrick KEIL, Surventis GmbH, Muenster, Germany Co-Chair (EFC Vice-President)
• V.S. Raja, Mumbai, India Co-Chair (ICC President)
• Stefan RITTER, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen, Switzerland Co-Chair (EFC STAC Chair)
• Roman BENDER, gfkorr e.V., Frankfurt, Germany (EFC Scientific Secretary)
• Johanna FRENCK, Western University, London, Canada & Kathleen PURNELL, University of Leeds, UK Young (EFC Chairs)
• Zeinab ABDEL HAMID ABDEL AZIZ, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, Cairo, Egypt (ICC)
• Rajan AMBAT, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark (EFC)
• Emma ANGELINI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (ICC)
• Ralph BÄSSLER, BAM, Berlin, Germany (EFC)
• Daniel BLACKWOOD, National University of Singapore, Singapore (ICC)
• Christine BLANC, Université de Toulouse CNRS, Toulouse, France (EFC)
• Fabio BOLZONI, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (EFC)
• Somrerk CHANDRA-AMBORAN, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand (ICC)
• Jérôme CROUZILLAC, BAC Corrosion Control, Voisins-le-Bretonneux, France (EFC)
• Iris DE GRAEVE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (EFC)
• Kostas DEMADIS, University of Crete, Crystal Engineering, Growth & Design Laboratory, Crete, Greece (EFC)
• Gino EBELL, BAM, Berlin, Germany (EFC)
• Johann Wilhelm ERNING, BAM, Berlin, Germany (EFC)
• Zhongheng FU, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (ICC)
• Mathias GALETZ, Dechema, Frankfurt, Germany (EFC)
• Yaiza GONZALEZ GARCIA, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (EFC)
• Sabrina GRASSINI, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy (EFC)
• Marc JEANNIN, La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France (EFC)
• Jon KVAREKVÅL, Institute for Energy Technology, Oslo, Norway (EFC)
• Rob LINDSAY, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (EFC)
• Lingwei MA, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (ICC)
• Marie-Georges OLIVIER, Université de Mons, CRIM, Mons, Belgium (EFC)
• Noémie OTT, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST), Switzerland (EFC)
• Zehbour PANOSSIAN, Instituto de Pesquisa Tecnológica, São Paulo, Brazil (ICC)
• Smrutiranjan PARIDA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (ICC)
• Philippe REFAIT, La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France (EFC)
• Manel RODRIGUEZ RIPOLL, AC2T research GmbH, Vienna, Austria (EFC)
• Philipp SCHEMPP, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany (EFC)
• Patrik SCHMUTZ, EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland (EFC)
• Elizabeth SZALA, Aluminium Duffel, Brussels, Belgium (EFC)
• Marc WILMS, Shell, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (EFC)
• Bowei ZHANG, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (ICC)
• Mikhail ZHELUDKEVICH, HZG, Geesthacht, Germany (EFC)

VAS Young Committee members

Christopher Seet, Nephrologist
Yara Fares, Vascular Medicine Wouter Moest, Nephrologist
Raquel Barba Teba, Nephrologist
Gianmarco Falcone, Radiologist
Wouter Moest, Nephrologist

Nursing program

Gelisa Allers, Vascular Access Nurse
Ruben Iglesias, Vascular Access Nurse

Simulation training program coordinators

Robert Shahverdyan, Vascular Surgeon
Carlo Lomonte, Nephrologist
Clemente Sousa, Vascular Access Nurse

Additional program committee and/or local organizing members

Mario D'Oria, Vascular Surgeon