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Speech topic: "Computer - Aided Clothing Ergonomic Design for Thermal Comfort".

                                                              

Dr. Yi Li is a full professor in the  Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. With over 500 scientific publications and more than 50 patents, he is a Fellow of the Textile Institute, Life Fellows of International Biographical Association and the Royal Society of Art, Commerce and Manufacturing, and adjunct professors of a number of universities in China and a member of several professional bodies. He is the Chairman of Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society and the Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics”.
He has won more than 30 awards on research papers, patent inventions and technology transfer and serves as member of a number of research committees of AATCC and ASTM. His research interests cover nanotechnology, textile biotechnology, textile physics, heat and moisture transfer in textile materials, clothing physiology and psychology, smart textiles and apparel products, ergonomics, clothing function and comfort, objective measurement and specification of apparel products, new product development, clothing functional CAD technology, strategic management and sustainable competitiveness. He has been invited to give plenary and key lectures at more than 40 international conferences in the area of nanotechnology, clothing bioengineering, clothing comfort and functional design. Prof. Li is the chief scientist of a number of projects in nanotechnology, smart thermal functional materials, advanced clothing functional CAD technology, high performance sportswear and biomaterials and biofunctional materials and textile applications.
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Speech topic: "Harmonical distribution of segmental masses of the human body".

                                                            

Dr. Osman Muftic is professor emeritus at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
He started his long scientific career in 1952. at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1959. In the period from 1960. to 1963. he worked in a Design office for heating and air-conditioning systems. In 1963. he was elected as an assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - Department of Applied Mechanics. In 1968. he defended his first thesis and obtained the title Master of Science. In 1970. he was elected as a Docent at the same Department. In 1972. he defended his doctorial thesis. In 1976. he was elected as an assistant professor of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Zagreb, and in 1982. he was elected as a full professor at the same Faculty.
After the arrival of Democracy in Croatia in 1990. he was appointed as a Minister of Science and Technology in the Government of Croatia, for one and a half year. From 1993. till 1996. he was the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After that he came back to Croatia and continued working at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture where he still works in the field of mechanics, biomechanics and ergonomy.
In his 44 years of intense work at his Faculty he published independently or as a co-author more than 150 scientific papers, and about the same number of professional works.
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Speech topic: "Chemical aspects of toxicology of mercury and the role of structural chemistry".

                                                            

Dr. Gordana Pavlovic is associate professor at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She obtained B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department. The Ph.D. thesis is entitled "Stereochemistry of polydentate Schiff bases and their copper, cobalt, nickel and vanadium complexes". Her scientific interests are mainly directed in the area of chemical crystallography of small molecules both organic and metal complexes. She published 71 original scientific papers cited in CC journals as a co-author (such as Europian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganica Chimica, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Polyhedron, Structural Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure, Acta Crystallographica C i E, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry) participating as a researcher on several national scientific projects at the Faculty of Science, Univ. of Zagreb and "Rudjer Boskovic" Institute, Zagreb. She participates as a referee for several chemical CC scientific journals in the field of structural chemistry. In the period from 1990.-2000.she was working as assistant at the Faculty of Science, Univ. of Zagreb in the Laboratory of General and Inorganic Chemistry. From 2002. she has been employed as an assistant professor of General Chemistry at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb. In 2007. she obtained the title of associate professor. She was a general chemistry lecturer at Polytechnic of Karlovac for the period of 1998-2008. She established and teach some new courses at B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. level at the Faculty of Textile Technology such as "General Chemistry" course, "Ecology in textiles" course, "Selected topics of inorganic chemistry" and "Chemistry of materials and nanotechnology". She was a co-mentor of one Ph.D. at the Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department. She is the co-author of few professional review articles considering hydrogen bonds and structural aspects of nanotechnology and the co-author of the textbook "Chemistry 2" for high schools. She is a member of Croatian Chemical Society, Croatian Crystallographic Association and Association of Chemical Engineers and Technologists of Croatia. She continuously participates in internal and international symposia and meetings via poster or as a plenary lecturer (63 contributions, among them 42 international).

Speech topic summary: The extreme toxicity of mercury, in its many forms, makes an understanding of its chemistry of paramount importance. The high mercury toxicity is less connected with its elemental form, already with inorganic salts or organomercury compounds; the three groups vary in effects due to differences in their absorption and metabolism, among other factors. Characterization of mercury complexes enables better understanding of mercury binding in biological systems and investigation of suitable antidots. The fundamental chemical research on mercury(II) complexes from structural point of view by the means of single crystal X-ray diffraction method can be used for the possible correlation between biological activity and coordination geometry of mercury compounds in the toxicological and environment context of mercury chemistry.
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Speech topic: "PNEUMOTECH - A new tool for evaluating the thermal performance of clothing"

                                                               

Dr. Uwe Reischl is a Professor of Health Sciences at Boise State University. Dr. Resichl is a public health physician with specialization in international occupational health. He has a 25 years of University research, teaching, administration and public service experience. Dr. Resichl received his undergraduete and graduate training at the University of California at Berkeley where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Health Sciences from the School of Public Health. Dr. Resichl received his medical training at the University of ULM in Germany where he obtained both MD and PhD degrees in medicine.
In addition to his teaching and research work in the United States, Dr. Resischl has been engaged in public health service in over 14 countries and is currently conducting research in collaboration with academic institutions in Brazil, Peru, Croatia and China. Professor Reischl has served as scientific advisor to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Speech topic summary: The presentation will include a description of the development and use of a new instrument which enables researchers to empirically determine the heat transfer characteristics of complex clothing systems and allows for an evaluation of the thermal impact of materials and garment design on comfort and safety. The new technology consist of a low-cost pressurized and heated mannequin capable of sweating and moving its arms and legs. The presentation will illustrate typical testing protocols and will provide examples of convective, evaporative and radiative heat exchange properties measured for selected clothing systems.