CATALYSISMEET2022

Hiroaki Sasai graduated from Keio University in 1980 and received his doctor degree in 1985 from Keio University. After working as a researcher at Sagami Chemical Research Center for three years, he joined Prof. Shibasaki’s group at Hokkaido University as an assistant professor. In 1992, he moved to the University of Tokyo (lecturer and then associate professor), and in 1997 he was appointed as a full professor of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (Sanken), Osaka University. He is a recipient of 1995 Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists and the Fluka Prize "Reagent of the Year 1996". He received The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work and Ichimura Science Award in 2006, the Molecular Chirality Award in 2011, and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award in 2016.In 2018 he received Prizes for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

Anne M Gaffney is the Chief Science Officer of Idaho National Laboratory and Distinguished National Lab Fellow (2014 – present). She has thirty-four years of experience working in industry inventing and commercializing new technologies for major chemical manufacturing companies including Koch Industries, Lummus Technology, Dow, Dupont and ARCO Chemical Company. She has authored 155 publications and 256 patents. Dr. Gaffney is also a distinguished Joint Appointment Fellow at the University of South Carolina (2018 – present) where she is the Technical Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis. Some of her recent awards include: the 2019 American Chemical Society, Energy & Fuels, Distinguished Researcher Award in Petroleum Chemistry; the 2015 Eugene J. Houdry Award of the North American Catalysis Society; the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Women in Science Inductee, 2014; and the American Chemical Society, Industrial Chemistry Award, 2013. Dr. Gaffney received her BA in chemistry and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from University of Delaware.

Professor Jean Marie Basset, was completed Ph.D., Université de Lyon, 1969 and B.S., Chemical Engineering, École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon who has authored more than 450 scientific papers and reports, works to identify the possible relationships between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. For that purpose, he developed "surface organometallic chemistry", a new field of chemistry and H-index 87. Key Research Areas are Chemical Science.

Dong-Pyo Kim is a Yonsan chaired professor of the POSTECH Chemical Engineering department, and also a director of the National Creative Research Center for Intelligent Micro process of Pharmaceutical Synthesis. His microfluidic research has been rooted at materials chemistry of silicon-based resin since careered after Ph.D. in chemistry at Temple University in 1991, post-doctor in MSE at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has devoted to a microreaction field, covering the reactor design, fabrication as well as continuous-flow syntheses in organics, polymers and nanomaterials under 18 years support of national research grants. Currently, he is pursuing to develop an automated & autonomous synthetic workstation, including scale-up microreactor for production of API and drug delivery systems. Throughout a long endeavor, he published a representative work at Science (2016) as a breakthrough approach for ultrafast organic reaction by handling highly unstable intermediates in the submillisecond range. He has published >300 peer-reviewed papers and 43 patents. He received Academic Excellence Award (2017, Korean Chemical Society), Severo Ochoa Visiting Fellowship (2017, Spain) POSTECHIAN of the Year (2016, POSTECH), The Scientist of the Month (2016, NRF) and Best 100 Scientific Achievement (2014 & 2007, NRF), and appointed as a Yonsan chaired professor by POSTECH at 2017

Patricia obtained her MSc from Leiden University (The Netherlands), studying the selective reduction of nitrosobenzene over mixed manganese oxides. She obtained her PhD from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) studying TS-1 zeolite synthesis and catalytic applications. Following a post-doc at Shell research centre (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), she learned all about TEM during a long post-doc period at the NCHREM (Delft, The Netherlands). Subsequently she was appointed assistant professor at the Chemical Engineering department (catalysis engineering group) at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). She moved to the University Of Cape Town, South Africa in 2015 as SARChI Chair Nanomaterials for Catalysis. She has always enjoyed travelling and has held many short-term visiting scientist positions throughout her career. Her research focusses on heterogeneous catalysis, especially catalyst characterisation. She is an expert in high resolution transmission electron microscopy and is one of the pioneers in gas-phase in situ TEM.

Prof. Shaobin Wang obtained the degrees of BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Peking University and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland. He has been a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University and is now a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, the University of Adelaide. His research interests focus on nanomaterial synthesis and application for adsorption and catalysis, fuel and energy conversion and environmental remediation. He has published more than 500 refereed journal papers with citations over 51000and H-index= 127 (Google Scholar). He was awarded 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Awards in Australia and is listed as a highly cited researcher in Engineering and Chemistry in 2016-2020. He is a co-editor of Journal of Colloid and Interface and associate editor of Chemical Engineering Journal Advances as well as an editorial board member of several international journals.

Lifeng Liu received his Bachelor degree in Applied Physics from Beijing Jiaotong University (2001), and both his Master (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in 2007, first working as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist, under the supervision of the late Prof. Ulrich Goesele. He started his independent research career in 2008 and became a Group Leader in 2009. In 2011, he moved to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and set up a research group there, where his research now focuses on the development of new materials for use in electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices including (photo)electrochemical water splitting, rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors.

Thomas J J Müller studied chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) from 1984 to 1989, obtained his diploma in 1989 and completed his Ph. D. in 1992. After a post-doctoral stay with Prof. B. M. Trost at Stanford University in 1993/1994, he returned to Germany. From 1994-1999 he developed his independent research at Technical University Darmstadt and LMU as a Liebig and DFG scholar. After his habilitation in 2000 and a short time as a lecturer at LMU he was an associate professor of organic chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 2002 to 2006. Since 2006, he is a full professor and director of insitute at Heinrich-Heine- Universität Düsseldorf. Since 2019, he is the spokesman of the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2482. His research interests encompass synthetic heterocyclic chemistry, functional chromophores and their physical organic chemistry, and the design of novel multi-component and domino reactions. He is an author of more than 300 journal articles and book chapters. His current h-index is 49 (Web of Science) or 52 (Google Scholar).

The research work on photocatalysis by Professor Ohtani started in 1981 in Kyoto University. Since then, he has been studying material science for 40 years and published more than 300 original papers (h-index: 72). After gaining his Ph. D. degree from Kyoto University in 1985, he became an assistant professor in the university. In 1996, he was promoted to an associate professor in Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University and was then awarded a full professor position in Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University in 1998. He was awarded several times from the societies related to chemistry, photochemistry, electrochemistry and catalysis.

Samy El-Shall was Mary Eugenia Kapp Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Commonwealth Professor, Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. El-Shallreceived his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He did postdoctoral research in nucleation and clusters at UCLA. His research interests include nanostructured materials, graphene and nanocatalysis for energy and environmental applications, gas phase clusters and nucleation. He has published over 290 refereed papers and review chapters(Google Scholar h-index = 57, citations > 13,000), and he holds ten US patents on the synthesis of nanomaterials, nanoparticle catalysts, graphene, and graphene-supported catalysts. Dr. El-Shall received the Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), Virginia's highest faculty honor in 1999; the Distinguished Research Award from the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society in 2009; the VCU Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2011, and the VCU Award of Excellence in 2016. He was selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow and worked as a Senior Science Advisor at the U.S. Department of State in 2012-2013. Dr. El-Shall received the Virginia Outstanding Scientist in 2018 awarded by the Governor of Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of both the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Prof. Mancuso received the PhD in “Methodologies for the Development of Molecules of Pharmacological Interest” at the University of Calabria (2006). She won a “young investigator research project” for the “Synthesis of heterocyclic derivatives of pharmacological interest by metal-catalyzedheterocyclization-carbonylation reactions” (2007). After a post-doc stage at Iowa State University (USA) with Prof. Richard Larock (2008) working in novel iodocyclization reactions, she came back to University of Calabria working on organic synthesis. She joined the group of Prof. Daniel Solé (University of Barcelona-Spain) working on novel syntheses of heterocycles (2012). In 2018 she received her second PhD degree in “Environmental, Construction and Energy Sciences and Engineering” at the University of Calabria. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy). Prof. Mancuso received a “Research Award” in September 2017 from the Italian National Consortium in the field "Innovation in Organic Synthesis". Prof. Mancuso current scientific production include 122 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 8 patents and more than 170 communications in national or international conferences. She is an international referee in the field of Multidisciplinary and Organic Chemistry, an editorial board member of reputed international journals and Country Editor of an international journal. Her current research interests include organometallic catalysis for the synthesis of high value molecules of pharmacological interest, use of nonconventional solvents in advanced organic synthesis and synthesis of novel materials for advanced applications and for cultural heritage.

Dr. Akira Nishimura is an associate professor in Division of Mechanical Engineering at Mie University, Japan. He received the B.S. Eng., the M.S. Eng. and Dr. Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 1995, 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked at Center for Integrated Research in Science and Engineering, Nagoya University as research associate from 2000 to 2002. He moved to Mie University in 2002 as an assistant professor and promoted to associate professor from 2014. He has published 80 journal papers which are reviewed. His current researches are CO2 reduction by photocatalyst, H2 production from biogas, smart city utilizing renewable energy actively, clarification on heat and mass transfer mechanism of polymer electrolyte fuel cell.

Ermelinda Falletta is a researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Milan. Her research activity deals with: i) development of innovative environmentally friendly approaches for the preparation of intrinsically conducting polymers and their composites and their application in the field of environmental remediation and piezoresistors, ii) development of heterogeneous catalysts for the selective oxidation of organic compounds and photodegradation of emerging pollutants, iii) development and optimization of new analytical methods (in particular UHPLC-MS/MS, GC/MS and SPME/GC/MS) for the identification and determination of target and non-target species in the environment and biological sectors. She was coordinator of the Laboratory of Analysis of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Milan from 2009 to 2020. She is referee of several international journals with IF and editorial board Member of numerous journals. Dr Falletta was supervisor/co-supervisor of more than 35 experimental thesis of degree courses: Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Scienze e Sicurezza Chimico-Tossicologiche dell'Ambiente, Biotechnology. She is teacher of the courses of Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory of General Chemistry for the Bachelor Degree Course in Scienze e Sicurezza Chimico-Tossicologiche dell'Ambiente at the University of Milan.

Stefan Vajda is the head of the recently established Department of Nanocatalysis of the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Science located in Prague. He is also the ERA Chair holder at the Institute. Stefan pioneered the studies of atomically precise size- and composition selected subnanometer size cluster-based catalyst under realistic reaction conditions of temperature and pressure in industrially relevant processes. Stefan received his Diploma (MSc) degree in Physical Chemistry and his PhD in Chemistry from Charles University in Prague, and habilitated from Experimental Physics at the FreieUniversität Berlin. His awards include a Fulbright Fellowship spent at the University of Chicago. Before returning to Prague in 2019, Stefan was active at the FreieUniversität Berlin and Argonne National Laboratory US. During his career, Stefan published over 110 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has 6 issued US patents and presented over 80 invited talks at international conferences.

Dr. Aušra Valiūnienė is an associated professor at Vilnius University, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania. She is an expert in electrochemistry, electrode surfaces, thin films, electrodeposition and characterization of metal coatings, electrochemical nanostructuring. Her research is directly related to the formation and investigation of phospholipid bilayers on metallurgical and semiconductor surfaces to develop biological and bioelectrochemical sensors for toxin detection.She is experienced in formation and investigation of optical and electrochemical sensors and biosensors as well.She leads research in the development of innovative electroporation models using a scanning electrochemical microscope and the application of fast Fourier transform electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. She has hands-on expertise in electrochemical techniques such as voltammetry, fast Fourier transform electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (FFT-EIS), scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). She is the supervisor of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Research group at Vilnius University, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry. The main focus of her research group is to apply unique possibilities of FFT-EIS for a wide range of experiments that are difficult to realize because of their fast kinetics and possible changes during the measurement.

J.C. Conesa obtained in the University of Barcelona a Master's Degree in Chemistry in 1973, and in Physics in 1974. After a PhD sustained in 1977 at Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP) on EPR spectroscopy of heterogeneous redox catalysts (the first one on this subject in Spain) and a postdoctoral stay at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (of CNRS) in Villeurbanne (Lyon, France), he entered the permanent research staff of ICP in 1979, becoming there finally Research Professor in 2004. He has been ICP Vicedirector from 2010 to 2014, and Director from 2014 to 2018; he is, at the date of this meeting, Ad Honorem Professor in ICP. He was first in Spain to use synchrotron radiation techniques to study heterogeneous catalysis (from 1987 until now, and more recently in operando mode), and has worked to date in more than half a dozen European synchrotrons.He was also first in CSIC to use quantum calculations, since almost 30 years, to understand heterogeneous catalysis. More than 20 years ago he was first in ICP to promote using microemulsions to make complex oxide nanoparticles, and more recentlyhe pioneered the use of solvothermal methods to make sulphide nanoparticles. He is in addition expert in XPS and FTIR (including operandomode) and in UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopies; and of course in EPR, which he still uses. He worked first on metal-support interactions (focusing on electron transfers); then on CeO2-supoorted metals and oxides (where interfacial electron transfer plays also a key role), firstly for car depollution and later for high temperature solid oxide fuel cells.Since over 10 yearshe focuses onusing CeO2-based combinations for H2 production technologies and abatement of greenhouse gases. In parallel he has kept for several decades interest in photocatalysis and photoactive solids. In particular he was first to evidence experimentally, with photocatalytic methods (doi: 10.1039/c4ta00513a),the validity of the intermediate band scheme allowing to couple two low energy photons to achieve a higher excitation energy. He belongs since 2014 to the Steering Committee of AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European EERA devoted to advanced materials for sustainable energy, and also to more than one dozen scientific societies, both international and in Spain. His more than 200 articles and book chapters have received to date more than 9500 citations, leading to a Hirsch index h=56.

Anna Maria Ferrari is associated professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Torino. She works on DFT simulations of materials, surface and interfaces, adsorption and catalysis. Some recent publications: Monomeric (VO2+) and dimeric mixed valence (V2O33+) vanadium species at the surface of shape controlled TiO2 anatasenano crystals Journal of Catalysis 2022 10.1016/j.jcat.2021.12.029 Effect of Internal Donors on Raman and IR Spectroscopic Fingerprints of MgCl2/TiCl4 Nanoclusters Determined by Machine Learning and DFT Materials10.3390/ma15030909 The NV−⋯N+ charged pair in diamond: a quantum-mechanical investigation Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2021 10.1039/D1CP02363B

Andreja Gajović was working at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička , Croatia. She was Head of the Laboratory, Senior Scientist. Scientific Adviser (Senior scientist), Head of the laboratory Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI). Study of nanostructured metal oxides mainly for photovoltaics and photocatalytic application. Study of biomaterials with the accent on calcium phosphates for bone implants application. Characterization by using Raman spectroscopy and electron microscopy techniques. Application on different national and international project calls, leadership of national and international projects. Organization of the experimental work in laboratory mainly directed to study of different metal oxides nano structures. Mentorship of the PhD students and postdoc. Organization of the international conferences and meetings. Participation in international organizations and societies, as European electron microscopy society, Multinational congress of Microscopy Board. Participation in managements boards of COST actions etc. Leading of Croatian Microscopy society. Activities within boards: member of Scientific Field Committee for Physics, Agency for Science and Higher Education, Republic of Croatia (2 mandates from 2017-2021, 2021-now), Scientific Council of RBI (2 mandates from 2016-2019, 2019-now), member of Evaluation panel for Croatian Science Foundation for Physics (2016-2020) Business or sector Physics, Solid State Physics, Material science.

Lei Shi received his PhD degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (2014). Afterwards, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2016), Lecturer (2016-2017) and Associate Professor (since 2018) at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. From 2019 to 2021,He is working at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash Universityas a visiting scholar funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC). He received the Richard A. Glenn Award of ACS Division of Energy & Fuels in 2012. He is now a youth editorial board member of J. Coal Sci. Eng. (China) and Acta Petrolei Sinica (Petroleum Processing Section). He is also a guest editor of two international journals, Materials and Processes,which belong to the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). His research interests include the radical reaction in coal/biomassthermal conversion, carbon deposition on the catalyst and its inhibition technology in hydrogenation of heavy oil.

Dr. P. Concepcion isresearcher at the CSIC. Her actual research is in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, specifically directed to the synthesis, characterization and catalytic properties of metal oxide, metal nanoparticles and clusters, and hybrid materials. The goal of her work is to determine structural- activity correlations of solid catalysts with applications in several reactions, like selective hydrogenation and oxidation, C-C, C-N coupling, partial oxidation and ammoxidation of alkanes, methanol steam reforming and CO2 hydrogenation to fuels and chemicals.Part of her research in the last years has been focused in understanding the catalytic properties of size controlled metal nanoparticles and the electronic and chemical properties of subnanometer metal clusters in order to develop new materials with tailored active sites. She has a strong background in “in situ” and operando spectroscopy, specifically in infrared, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopy. She is author or co-author of more than 190 publications published in high impact scientific journals, co-inventor of 6patents, and author of 2 book chapter. She has participated in several National and European projects, projects for synchrotron studies and in contracts with the Industry.

Shujuan Zhang is a full professor in Nanjing University (since 2011). After received her PhD in 2005from University of Science and Technology of China, she worked as a research associate/postdocfellow in the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Clemson University. She is an editor of Separation and Purification Technology, an editorial member of Journal of Hazardous Materials, and a review editor of Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry. Her current research interests include photochemistry, photocatalysis, photosynthesis, advanced oxidation processes, adsorption and coagulation with focus on the chemistry of water pollution control and environmental functional materials.

Nader Ghaffari Khaligh received his Ph.D. in Organic chemistry from the University of Guilan, Iran, in 2013. Since 2015 he works as a researcher in the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Center, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His publications, including papers, reviews, and mini-reviews, are focused on heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, sustainable chemistry and energy, synthesis of heterocycles, and multi-task reagents. ‎ He has been elected as World's Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation ‎Impact and World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2019 and 2020. He is editor of Malaysian Catalysis-An international Journal and an editorial board member of three international journals.

Dr. Jingjing Duan achieved her Ph.D from School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materialsat University of Adelaide in 2016.From 2016 to 2019, sheworkedas a Research Fellow in University of New South Wales, University of Texas at Austin, University of Adelaide, respectively. Then she joined School of Energy and Power Engineering,Nanjing University of Science and Technology as a full professor until present. Prof. Duan hasdevoted todevelopingfunctional materials for clean energy technologies, including fuel cells, H2O/N2/CO2 electrolysis. She is interestedininvestigating reaction mechanisms by in situexperimental techniques combing with multiscale simulation. She has received several awards, includingChina National Young Talents (2021), JMCA Emerging Investigators (2021), Top 2% Scientists Globally (2020), Postgraduate Alumni Medal of University of Adelaide (2017), Women’s Research Excellence (2018) etc. She is also the Associate Editor of Exploration (Wiley), Young editor member of Materials Today Energy,and invited reviewer of Joule, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Materials and Chemistry A, et al.

Vincenzo Palma, (Industrial Chemist) Full professor of Industrial Chemistry and Nanostructured catalysts for Energy and Environment at the University of Salerno – Italy. Since the Degree Thesis, his research has been carried out in the field of catalytic processes applied to the energy production and pollution control.More recently, some of his activities considered the application of microwaves to heterogeneous catalysis for the assisted regeneration of catalytic filters for the abatement of carbon particulate and also for the intensification of endothermic system. During the years, the study also addressed the membrane assisted catalytic conversion processes of hydrocarbons for the production of hydrogen, with particular attention to the autothermal reforming processes of light hydrocarbons and to the low temperature steam reforming of ethanol. Pollution Control: Catalyzed wall flow monolith for the microwave assisted DPF regeneration Low temperature hydrolysis catalysts for the COS abatement. Process intensification: Microwave susceptible structured catalysts for the distributed hydrogen production Catalytic oxidative decomposition reaction of H2S for the simultaneous production of Sulphur and H2 High thermal conductivity catalysts for the CO-WGS process intensification Distributed hydrogen production:Distributed Hydrogen Production by a Thermally Integrated ATR based Fuel Processor Stable Bimetallic catalysts for membrane integrated Ethanol reformer

Giuseppina Iervolino was born in 1987 and graduates at “University of Salerno” with honors in Environmental Engineering in 2013, with the thesis entitled "Removal of arsenic from drinking water by a photocatalytic oxidation and adsorption process". In 2017, at University of Salerno, she obtained the PhD title in “Industrial Engineering” (Chemical Engineering curriculum) with the thesis entitled "Advanced Oxidation Processes for Food Industry Wastewater Valorization and Treatment ". From 2017 at July 2019 she was Research Fellow at University of Salerno and actually she is “Assistant Professor” at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno. In 2018 she won the award for best PhD thesis on advanced oxidation processes conferred by the “International PhD School on the Advanced Oxidation Processes”. Her research activity is focused on environmental issues concerning the water treatments (both wastewater, both for drinking purposes) and the valorization, with H2 production, of organic substances present in the industrial wastewater, with particular reference to the application of advanced oxidation processes, studying innovative catalysts and photocatalysts, the reactor configurations and light source. In addition, she is working on two innovative research line: the application of "Non Thermal Plasma" technology for the removal of not easily biodegradable contaminants (dyes and emerging contaminants) from wastewater, and the electrification of industrial processes for hydrogen production. The results achieved in the context of scientific activity carried out by Dr. Giuseppina Iervolino were published in international scientific journals. Dr. Giuseppina Iervolino participated, presenting communications, at various conferenc. Giuseppina Iervolino is the author, at the month of December 2021, of 44 publications with indexing SciVerse Scopus®, with ISBN / ISSN and DOI number with 992 citations and h-index of 18

Dr. Walid Dachraoui is currently a scientist at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in Dübendorf, Switzerland. He received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Antwerp (2012) at the Electron Microscopy for Materials Science group (EMAT). Thereafter, he carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Aix-Marseille at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center of Marseille (CINaM). He was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris Diderot at the Laboratory of Materials and Quantum Phenomena (MPQ). He then joined the Tarascon's group at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (LRCS and RS2E). Then he moved to join electron microscopy team at Philips University in Marburg as scientist. Dr. Dachraoui's research interests cover various topics in electron microscopy and materials science, such as atomic resolution and low-voltage electron microscopy, as well as in-situ electron microscopy. His activity is focused on imaging the growth and degradation of nanomaterials for different applications at the atomic level and imaging battery materials (cathode, anode, and electrolyte) and their interfaces at atomic resolution and in real time during charge/discharge. He has published articles in numerous fields ranging from atomic structure of perovskite-based materials, to in-situ liquid TEM, nanomaterials, insitu electrochemical TEM, battery materials, and materials for solar cells.

Raed Abu Reziq completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University in catalysis and sol-gel chemistry. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 2004, he moved to Ottawa University, Canada, to do his postdoctoral research in the field of nanocatalysis. In 2006, he joined the company Sol-Gel Technologies as Senior Researcher and spent two years in developing micro and nano-encapsulation systems based on sol-gel process as drug delivery systems. In 2008, He was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Casali Center for Applied Chemistry and Institute of Chemistry and on 2015 he was promoted to Associate Professor. His research focuses on nanocatalysis, magnetic materials, green chemistry and developing micro and nanoencapsulation methods.

Kai Ren obtained his PHD from Southeast University and now works in Nanjing Forestry University. He is engaged in scientific research such as the design of advanced functional two-dimensional materials as photocatalyst for water splitting, and has published more than 30 high level papers.

Norito Takenaka received a B.A./M.A. degree from Boston University in 1996, where he worked in the laboratory of Professor James S. Panek. After receving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2002 under the guidance of Professor Viresh H. Rawal, he spent two and half years as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Hisashi Yamamoto at the same institution. He began his independent career at the University of Miami in 2005 and then moved to Florida Institute of Technology in 2014. His research program is focused on asymmetric organocatalysis and organic synthesis.

Marta Gmurek received her MSc degree in Environmental Engineering in at Lodz University of Technology (TUL) and also a PhD and DSc degrees in Environmental Engineering in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Since 2020, she has been Associate Professor at TUL (Department of Molecular Engineering). In the period after obtaining her doctoral degree she completed several internships abroad in Germany as part of the prestigious DAAD scholarships (2014, 2017) and an internship in Portugal as part of the "Mobility Plus" project (2018-2019). Prof. Gmurek has been repeatedly awarded. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Academy of Young Scientists of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since January 2021, she is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowat the KarlsruherInstitutfürTechnologie. After PhD her scientific research is concentrated closely on chemical engineering with elements of environmental engineering. Her scientific and research interests are focused on the effective elimination of Contaminants of Emerging Concern from the aqueous environment (wastewater and natural water) light-based treatment technologies, especially advanced oxidation, and water reuse. Lastly, she is focused on developing new technologies of wastewater treatment in terms of the elimination of micropollutants, antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and antibiotic-resistant genes.

Professor Stanislaw Dzwigaj received his PhD degree in 1982 in Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Krakow (Poland). After two years of postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface Université P. et M. Curie (Paris) he obtained in 1990 a position of contracted researcher in the same Laboratory devoted to surface reactivity in relation to catalysis phenomena. Then, in 2008 he obtained permanent position in CNRS as a researcher. On February 19, 2014 for outstanding scientific achievements he received the title of professor. His published work includes more than 170 papers published in reputable international journals.

Mats Göthelid is professor at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in Stockholm. He recieved his PhD 1995, and did his post-doc at CRMC2-CNRS in Marseille, France 1995-96. Since 1996 he is at KTH leading a group in surface and interface science. The research work is within experimental surface physics and chemical physics on subjects concerning atomic structure, electronic properties and surface reactions on semiconductors, metals and oxides related to semiconductor thin film growth, organic thin films for solar cell and sensor applications, surface chemistry related to corrosion and catalysis.

After my degree in Chemistry I joined the Bioengineering and Sustainable Processes Group in University of Vigoto carry out a Master and a PhD in Chemical Engineering. During this period, I did a stayin one of the European reference centres in thermodynamic studies such asthe Molecular Thermodynamics group of the Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology(Portugal), allowing me to expand my knowledge in the field of Ionic Liquids from fundamentalstudies to their applications and effects on the environment. Afterwards, I got a postdoctoralposition under the Xunta de Galicia research program from June 2016 to July 2019. During thiscontract I was allowed to carry out a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the Henry H. Hoyt Laboratoryin the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Princeton University, USA. This postdoctoral stay allowed me to acquire knowledge in the field of biofuels beingactively engaged in a joint project betweenPrinceton University (USA) and the TECHNION Institute (Israel) aiming at obtaining biofuelsby combining the encapsulation of celluloseand yeast metabolic engineering. Further, I am collaborating with other international researchgroups such as that led by Dr. Ulloa from the Department of Biotechnology from TechnologicalInstitute of Sonora (ITSON), Mexico, or that led by Prof.Stolte from the University of Dresde(Germany). Additionally, I am team member of an international project organized by theFlorida International University and financed by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) incollaboration with several international research groups My main current research line is focused on development biocatalytic processes for producing biocombustiblesin presence of neoteric solventsas well as the search of biocompatible platforms forextracting pollutants and value-added chemicalsin order to proposebiocompatible and sustainable industrial processes based on the principles of circular economy. In summary, my scientific activity includes 32 scientificarticles, 24 communications in international and national conferences, 1 patent, and 2 stays atinternational research centers, organization of R&D events, co-direction of final degreeprojects, master's degree project and PhD thesis at the University of Vigo. Moreover, I am amember of the editorial board in two journals in the Chemical Engineering field and I have beeninvited as a reviewer by more than 35 scientific journals and collaborated as Guest Editor of Catalysts (MDPI)of Special Issue"Catalysts in Neoteric Solvents"

Ana Inês Paninho graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2010 and obtained her European PhD in Sustainable Chemistry in 2018 at NOVA School of Science and Technology in Portugal. During PhD, she worked in the field of green chemistry developing important aspects in the CO2 utilization as an alternative, unlimited source of carbon for the manufacture of valuable products, namely cyclic carbonates. This work was in collaboration with three different universities: NOVA School of Science and Technology – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Valladolid – Spain and RWTH Aachen University, Aachen – Germany. In 2018, she started a post-doc position at LAQV-REQUIMTE/ NOVA School of Science and Technology in the same field of research. She acquired a solid knowledge in several CO2-based processes (e.g extraction, particle formation, catalysis), thermodynamic of complex high pressure CO2-mixtures and process integration/intensification moving the process from batch to continuous mode. She also developed large experience in the preparation of porous materials to be used as catalyst supports. In these areas she has been team member of 8 funding projects and recently co-principal investigator and a co- author of 13 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Furthermore, Ana Inês Paninho, was the co-supervisor of 3 graduate student Master Thesis (2nd cycle) and 4 students degree final projects (1st cycle). In addition, in 2013, she was one of the inventors of one Portuguese Patent Application (PT 107200) of a process to prepare aerogels.

He is an author of macrokinetic theory of coherent-synchronous reactions interaction. He has both defined a concept of chemical interference and proposed an equation of determinant considering the condition of coherence as well as phase shifts for the reactions synchronized in time and space. This theory has been definitely proved by experiment. In the basic of enzymes of monooxygenase, peroxidase and catalase reactions was established new biomimetic catalyst and of this direction for the research result in biotechnology new biomimetic sensors has been elaborated. Research of recent years is concerned to biomimetic catalysis, development of high-performance hydroxylation and epoxidation catalytic biomimics resistant to the action of oxidant and high temperatures, the property of hydrogen peroxide to induce various reactions. In the row of fundamental scientific achievements, the important place belongs to new dependent elementary reactions with appropriate kinetic parameters proposed by him. Namely, this circumstance has allowed him and his team to study new free-radical-induced reactions-oxidative fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, conjugated dehydrogenation of alkanes and alkenes, epoxidation, hydroxylation and oxidation of methane to methanol, formaldehyde hydrogen-containing gas. A certain contribution has been made to the study of chemical energy accumulation principles in the conjugated chemical and biochemical systems. In the meantime, the scientific principles of creation of biomimetic sensors - new analytic systems are successfully elaborated under his guidance. Obtaining of nitrogen 1-oxide on the fixation mechanism of molecular nitrogen with hydrogen peroxide by the result of the quantum-chemical studies and existence of stable HOO–N=N–OOH intermediate was theoretically substantiated.

Stepan Kment received his PhD in solid state physics and photoelectrochemistry in 2010 from Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. He then spent one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. Since 2011 he has been working at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials of Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic as a Senior Researcher and from 2017 as the Photoelectrochemistry group leader. Since 2020 he has been also working as a senior researcher at Nanotechnology Centre, VŠB–Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. His research is focused on development of new materials and nanostructures for renewable energy applications such as PEC water splitting, CO2 reduction, and PEC solar cells. He has published more than 100 research papers.

Alessandra Palella received her education at the University of Messina, obtaining M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry. She completed her PhD in “Materials for Health, Environment and Energy” at University of Rome. She is currently Researcher at the National Council of Research (CNR-ITAE)and her expertise area regards mainly the design and development of catalytic materials and processes for energy and environmental applications. She has published 30 papers in reputed journals.She delivered more than 30 talks in International Scientific Conferences. She is Guest Editor of Catalysts (MDPI) and Editorial Board Member in Global Journal ofChemical Sciences.

Pablo S Fernández was born in Argentina. He received his B.Sc (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in the Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA) at University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina under the supervision of Profa. Maria E. Martins. During 2012-2014 he was postdoctoral fellow in the same institution.In 2014 he joined the Electrochemistry Group at the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos, USP, where worked as a Posdoc with Prof. GermanoTremiliosi-Filho until August of the same year when he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Institute of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Between 2010 and 2013 he visited the group of Prof. Giuseppe Câmara (UFMS-MS) where he worked intensively with FTIR in situ. From 07/2015 to 03/2016 he joined the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Group, at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) working under supervision of Prof. M.T.M. Koper. He is currently Assistant Professor at UNICAMP, head of the Campinas Electrochemistry Group (CampEG) and Co-Principal Investigator in the Center for Innovation on New Energies (CINE). Since 2020 is the Brazilian representative of the SIBAE (Ibero-American Society of Electrochemistry) and Director of the Physical Chemistry Division of SBQ (Brazilian Chemical Society). His research focuses on fundamental aspects of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis.

María Giménez is team leader at the CiQUS(USC) and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham working on energy-related applications, electrocatalysis and energy storage. After receiving her PhD at the University of Valencia, she moved to the University of Nottingham where she became Assistant Professor in Materials Chemistry in 2015. In 2018 she joined the CiQUS with a Ramon and Cajal contract, launching her project ERC StG. During her career, Maria has been granted different fellowships and awards: Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship, Royal Society Research Fellowship, ERC StG-NANOCOMP and ERC PoC-ZABCAT. In 2012 she received an Emerging Investigator Award by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, in 2017 she became Emerging Talent SRUK/CERU Award finalist and in 2018 she was selected by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for theYoung Investigator Workshop 2018 (YIW2018).

Geun Ho Han received Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Kwan-Young Lee at Korea University. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Korea University (2016). His research interests are in developing catalysts for the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide with nanoparticle synthesis and metal-oxide materials, renewable energy (lignin), and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC).

Victor Sánchez-Vázquez, professor at Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa. He studied Chemical Engineering and PhD in Biotechnology. His research focuses on the combination of biological and electrochemical techniques for remediation of contaminated soils, this is visualizing two topics: i) the alterations in interfacial interaction in the particles of soil (as a porous medium) by an electric field that improve the bioavailavility of nutrients and contaminants, enhancing a subsequent bioremediation process. ii) a low intensity electric field as an abiotic stress factor that direct the microbial metabolism, enhancing the degradation of pollutants or a metabolite production. Currently, Victor works on environmental projects focused on Sustainable Development and Circular Economy, generating links among the academic, industrial and government sectors.

Haris Nalakath Abubackar is a senior postdoctoral researcher (Xunta de Galicia, Modalidade B) in the chemistry department of the University of A Coruña, Spain. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Fundamentals from the University of A Coruña, in 2015. His research focuseson C1 gas bioconversion and biohydrogen production and has published 20 peer-reviewed papers, seven book chapters and one patent (Spain). He has carried out research stays in Turkey, Germany and Portugal.He has participated in several national and regional research projects in Spain and Turkey.