Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design   

Course Overview

This will be a two-day LIVE online course on fundamentals of biosurfactants, bio-based surfactants and biopolymers. The course will give an overview of the landscape of these new emerging materials, their chemistry and classification, routes of production, understanding of their physico-chemical properties and routes to optimize the structure-property-performance linkages for effective formulation design. The challenges with these new materials will also be highlighted. This knowledge will be key to development of novel sustainable products.

This course can be combined with the ON-DEMAND course Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations for a discounted price (see below).

Who Should Attend

This course will be of interest and value to scientists, formulators, supervisors, and managers engaged in development, formulation, production, analytical characterization of personal care and consumer products especially home care and agro-products that require a good working knowledge of these emerging novel materials. The course will be also of interest to chemical suppliers who are starting to develop these bio-materials.     

Course Outline

Pricing:

• $299 - SCC Member
• $399 - Non-Member
• $179 – SCC Junior or Student Member

Note: companies registering 5+ SCC members for this course receive $25 off per registration. Companies registering 10+ SCC members for this course receive $50 off per registration. Discounted group registrations need to occur during the same online transaction. If you would like to submit a group registration of 5+ or 10+, or have any other questions about this event, please contact SCC Headquarters Staff.

If also applying for SCC membership, please allow up to five business days for application processing. Member pricing will not be in effect for CEP registrations until after the membership application is approved. 

 View our CEP Course Pricing and Refund Policy.

Combo Pricing (two courses):

Receive discounted pricing when you sign up for both Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Designs AND Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations.

• $540 - SCC Member
• $720 - Non-Member
• $320 – SCC Junior or Student Member
   

Instructor: Professor Samiul Amin, PhD

Format: Online

Dates: 

• Wednesday, August 2, 2023
  (11:00am - 2:30pm EDT)
• Thursday, August 3, 2023  
  (11:00am - 2:30pm EDT)
   

registration closed

In addition to the live instructions, course registrants will also receive a PDF copy of the course slides, as well as access to course replay recordings for 3 weeks following the live course dates.

Those completing the course will receive a course completion certificate from the SCC.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

[Note: those registering for the course combo after 07/17/2023 will have a reduced access window for viewing the on-demand course: Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations--through 08/20/2023]

Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations is an online ON-DEMAND course (previously recorded) that will be offered between July 17, 2023 and August 20, 2023, with a Live Q&A session scheduled for July 31, 2023. If signing up for both courses, the recommended path would be to first view the on-demand course (Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations) between July 17-31, 2023 (including the Live Q&A on July 31), and to then participate in the live course (Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design) on August 2 & 3, 2023 (plus subsequent replay window). 

This course path allows attendees to learn/review more fundamental aspects of colloidal science and cosmetic formulation, before moving on to the specialized sustainable formulation topics of Biosurfactants, Bio-Based Surfactants, and Bipolymers.

About the Instructor

Professor Samiul Amin, PhD

Professor Samiul Amin, PhD. is currently Professor of Practice, Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering and Director Engineering Corporate Alliance Program (ECAP) at the University of Miami. Prior to joining academia in March 2018, Prof. Amin has worked in industry for the past 20 years working across Engineering, R&D and Innovation Management in global multinationals such as ExxonMobil, Unilever, L’Oreal and Malvern Instruments in Asia, Europe and the US. Prof. Amin’s expertise is in colloids & complex fluids, rheology, tribology, advanced characterization and formulation design of personal care, homecare and biopharmaceutical products. Prof. Amin previosuly conducted research at Manhattan College focused on formulation design and performance optimization of cosmetic and homecare products based on novel sustainable materials such as biosurfactants and biopolymers. Prof. Amin has a significant number of scientific publications/patents/book chapters in the area of complex fluids, rheology and cosmetic and biopharmaceutical formulations. He has served on scientific committees of multiple national and international societies such as the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and has Chaired and Co-Chaired multiple International Conferences and Workshops. Prof.Amin is currently Editor for Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science-Formulations and Cosmetics and Associate Editor for Surfactants and Detergents.