Joel Maia has graduated in Mechanical Engineering in Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University – Brazil with emphasis in thermofluid dynamics in 2002. In 2015 he finished his Master Degree in Business Administration in a double degree program between the Business School of Vienna – Austria and Minnesota University – USA. For the past 22 years he has been working with combustion, especially in cement, lime and minerals industries, executing projects in more than 60 different countries. Joel has been working in different positions throughout those years and now he is the CEO of FCT Combustion in their European Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.