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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Jan 15, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Aug 30, 2024

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Hiroshi Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan
Title: High-Entropy Oxide and Alloy Nanoparticles Synthesized by Continuous Supercritical Hydro/Solvothermal Flow Process
Hiroshi Kitagawa was born in 1961 and finished his PhD at Kyoto University in 1991 and, after working as Assistant Professor at Institute for Molecular Science and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, he was appointed as an Associate Professor at University of Tsukuba in 2000. He became Professor at Kyushu University in 2003 and moved back to Kyoto University in 2009. He was engaged at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as Director of “Science and Creation of Innovative Catalysts” and is now engaged at JST as Director of “Exploring Innovative Materials in Unknown Search Space”, and as Program Officer of Materials Science Panel, Fusion Oriented Research for Disruptive Science and Technology. He is also Vice Provost of Kyoto University for planning and strategy coordination. He has published more than 550 original research papers dealing with solid-state chemistry, coordination chemistry, nanoscience, low-dimensional electron systems, and molecule-based conductors.
Prof. Chi-Hwa Wang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Conversion of waste to energy and resource: A chemical engineering perspective
Dr. Chi-Hwa Wang is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD degree (in Chemical Engineering) from Princeton University. His current research interests include particle technology, drug delivery, biomass gasification, and waste to energy and resource. He serves in the editorial board/international advisory board of the following Elsevier journals: Applied Energy, Journal of Controlled Release, Powder Technology, Advanced Powder Technology (also Executive Editor 2009-2013) and Chemical Engineering Science (Executive Editor 2013-2022). Chi-Hwa is the recipient of a few awards such as AIChE Shining Star Award 2016, WSSET (World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies) Award 2017, Bologna, Italy, 2017, AIChE Shell Thomas Baron Award, Pittsburgh, USA, 2018, AIChE Fellow 2019, WSSET Fellow 2020, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2023.
Prof. John Irvine
UK
Title: Developing emergent nanoparticles as stable active catalysts
John Irvine CBE, FRSE, FRSC has made unique and world-leading contributions to the science of energy materials, especially fuel cell and energy conversion technologies. This research has ranged from detailed fundamental to strategic and applied science and has had major impact across academia, industry and government. Irvine’s science is highly interdisciplinary extending from chemistry and materials through physics, bioenergy, geoscience, engineering, economics and policy.

The quality and impact of Irvine’s research has been recognised by a number of national and international awards, including the honour of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) in the Kings Birthday Honours List 2024, the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal in 2021, the Lord Kelvin Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018, the Schönbeim gold medal from the European Fuel Cell Forum in 2016, the RSC Sustainable Energy Award in 2015, and earlier RSC recognition by being awarded the Bacon and Beilby awards.

Highlights of Irvine’s activities include discovery of the Emergent nanomaterials phenomenon, establishing the field of oxide fuel electrodes, delivering high performance direct carbon fuel cells and demonstration of significant hydride ion conductivity. Other important achievements relate to photocatalysis, lithium ion batteries, non-stoichiometric oxides, Structure/ Property/Function, catalysis and electro-catalysis and bioenergy.
Prof. Teresa J Bandosz
USA
Title: THE SULFUR STORY: AN INFLUENCER OR ACTIVE PARTICIPANT TOCARBON SURFACE ACTIVITY?
Dr. Bandosz is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the City University of New York, City College of New York. Her work during last 30 years has resulted in 7 US patents and over 449 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Her recent research interests include synthesis of graphene/ MOF, graphene/hydroxide composites for separation and energy harvesting applications, visible light photoactivity of carbonaceous materials, energy storage, oxygen reduction catalysts and CO2 sequestration and reduction. Since 2014 she is a coeditor of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and serves on the Editorial Boards of Carbon, C, Adsorption Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering Journal, Applied Catalysis B, and Applied Surface Science. She serves the Advisory Board of American Carbon Society, and was on the Board of Directors of International Adsorption Society. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Fellow of the American Carbon Society, Fellow of the International Adsorption Society, Dresden Fellow, Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and American Carbon Society Graffin Lecturer in Carbon Science and Technology.
Prof. Mark Biggs
Heriot-Watt University, UK
Title: Multiscale modelling of microenzymes on electrodes – Design for Green Applications
Mark Biggs is Professor of Interfacial Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. He has taught and undertaken research in mechanical, chemical and materials engineering since the mid-1990s and has held several senior leadership roles in UK and Australian higher education since 2010, including most recently as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt. Prof. Biggs’ research has been supported by more than 20 major competitive grants, and he has published more than 150 papers, including in JACS and Nature Materials, that have attracted more than 4,000 citations to date. Prof. Biggs has given c100 invited lectures, including around 20 Plenary and Keynote Lectures at various conferences around the world. His collaborative networks span the globe, with many of his papers reflecting these collaborations. Prof. Biggs co-founded the Australian Carbon Society and the Carbon Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). He has held full and guest editorships of multiple international journals and chaired and organised numerous conferences.
Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University, USA
Title: Catalytic Shells
Monica Olvera de la Cruz obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge University, UK, in 1985. She joined Northwestern University in 1986, where she is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy, and Director of the Center for Computation and Theory of Soft Materials. She has developed theoretical models to determine the thermodynamics, statistics, and dynamics of soft materials. She is a member of the USA National Academy of Sciences, Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences, PNAS editorial board, and multiplr advisory committees including the Polymer Research Max Planck Institute, CIC biomaGUNE and ESPCI.
Prof. Curtis Frank
Title: Structure and Dynamics of Soft Matter in Constrained Geometry
Curt Frank was trained in chemical engineering (BChemEng, University of Minnesota, 1967; MS, University of Illinois, 1969; PhD, University of Illinois, 1972) and then worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM 1972-1976, where he was first exposed to polymer science and engineering. In July 1976, Curt and his new wife Sara moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Curt had been appointed as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Curt was promoted to Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1985 and received the W.M. Keck, Sr. endowed Chair in Engineering in 1994. In that same year, he co-founded the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA), an NSF-sponsored Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, which he directed until it was closed in 2010. CPIMA initially included participants from Stanford, IBM Almaden Research Center and UC Davis; it was later expanded to include UC Berkeley. Curt was Chair of the Chemical Engineering department 2001-2006 and was Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the School of Engineering 2009-2014. His research interests have included studies of polymer phase separation,structure of interpenetrating network hydrogels, foam processing of biodegradable polymers and ion transport in fuel cell membranes. A major area of research has been on the structure and dynamics of polymers and low molecular weight amphiphiles in ultrathin films. In addition, he and Sara, an art teacher and calligrapher, have taught a restricted-enrollment undergraduate course on the science of art materials since 2007. This class has both lectures on the underlying chemistry and physics and a hands-on studio portion. Curt is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Dan Tsang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Title: Carbon-Supported Catalysts for Food Waste Biorefinery
Ir Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in China. Dan was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US and IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience, published more than 600 articles in the top 10% journals, and was selected as Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists and Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers in the academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment & Ecology. Dan’s team aspires to develop green technologies for long-term decarbonization and promote resource circularity and sustainable development. Dan also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (HKWMA), and Chairman of Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.