CATALYSISMEET2023

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.

Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, Dean of Chemical Engineering College,andVice Chairman of the Academic Committee of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He is an internationally recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 800+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule,Matter,Chem, Sci. Adv., etc., with citations42100+ times and h-index of 99 (web of sci.), and his work has been featured on 66covers of highprofilejournals. Hehasbeen invited to give 140+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed140+ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has won 20+ prestigious awards and prizes including the 1st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded by the Education Ministry of China. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of CIESC Journal, and Battery Energy(Wiley), and on the advisory boards of otherhigh profilejournals, including Chemical Engineering Science, Science China Materials, andEnergyTechnology, etc. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2021, and an Elsevier Highly Cited ChineseResearchersfrom 2019to 2021in the field of chemical engineering, and Top 1% highly cited Chinese authors in the field of energy &sustainability in 2019 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChemand ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Haibo Ge received his PhD degree in Medicinal Chemistry from The University of Kansas in 2006, and then moved to The Scripps Research Institute for postdoctoral study. In 2009, he began his independent academic career at the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and relocated to Texas Tech University in 2020. Research by his group is mainly focused on the development of novel methods for carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond formation through transition metal catalyzed C–H functionalization.

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

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.

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

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 88 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.

Dr. Gorji received his Ph.D. in March 2014. In 2015, Dr. Gorji joined the I-form Research center in Dublin City University, Ireland on XPS analysis of metallic powders, surface characterization, and synchrotron depth analysis for 3D printing advanced manufacturing including bio-medical applications. He is also involved in powder recycling strategies. Dr. Gorji’s main background is in research and development of semiconductor devices: thin film solar cells, perovskite-based sensors, and nanostructures in photovoltaics. His expertise is with modeling the device physics and characterization of materials properties (XRD, XPS including Synchrotron radiations). Currently, he is engaged with XPS analysis of metallic powders for 3D printing applications. He has published over 60 articles, and chapter books and is an editor and reviewer for several IEEE and Elsevier journals. He has attracted plenty of research funding from research funding bodies and industry including from Intel company, SFT, EU HEA, etc. He has been working with international research groups in Italy, USA, Ireland, UK and Germany on semiconductors and advanced manufacturing.

I completed my bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from India in 2014 and Master of Science from Lehigh University, USA in 2016. Then I worked as a Research & Development Engineering in Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd, India. Finally, I completed my PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2022. My research involved developing and testing different electrocatalysts for one-step in-situ methane synthesis from steam/carbon dioxide co-electrolysis in solid oxide electrolytic cells. My project was in collaboration with the Energy Business Unit ofthe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. Currently, I am employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO Energy Business Unit, Australia. I am working on the development of different electrocatalysts for efficient steam electrolysis in solid oxide electrolytic cells with a final target of producing green hydrogen at $2 per kilogram. This is in line with Australia’s green hydrogen mission. I have experience in heterogeneous catalyst and electrocatalyst development, different catalyst synthesis techniques and catalyst characterisation techniques. My expertise is in the field of high temperature solid state electrochemistry.

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.

Dr. Wafa Ali is a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University, Qatar. She is a member of Researcher Development Program Council, Texas A&M University, Qatar. She was a PhD researcher in Chemical Engineering program at Swansea University in the UK and a Research Associate at Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Her doctoral research investigates the optimization of fertilizer driven forward osmosis system as a potential process for brackish water desalination. Her current research focuses on the development of forward osmosis membranes and evaluation the performance of the forward osmosis coupled solar powered membrane distillation system to treat brackish water and regenerate fertilizer draw solutions. She earned Master of Science degree from University College London, UK. She is the author and co-author of over 25 refereed journal, conference papers, book chapters and books. In addition, she is an Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Chemical Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Computational Intelligence Journal. She is an Early Career Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Water Process Engineering. She is a reviewer for some prestigious international journals such as Desalination Journal and Chemosphere Journal. she is working on the manufacturing of robust nanocomposite membranes for various environmental applications

Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio was Doctor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Technological Institute of Celaya, and Professor Researcher at Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Querétaro; her research area is the development of sustainable biofuels production processes. She has published 50 research articles, 20 book chapters, and three books. On the subject of aviation biofuels, she collaborated in the preparation of National Development Plan (2012-2018, 2019-2024). She leads the research group Sustainable Processes for the Production of Bioenergy, which is part of the Ibero-American Network of Biomass Technologies and Rural Bioenergy. Also, she collaborates with the Querétaro Energy Cluster, chairing the Innovation Committee.

Mr. Ihtisham Ul Haq has a Master of Science by Research in Chemical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia. He worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Contaminant Control, Institute of Contaminant Management for CO2 Research, and Advanced Process Safety at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia in the research areas of development of CO2 Capture. He worked on the Investigation of Ionic liquids for Gas Hydrate Mitigation for Flow Assurance Industry. He also worked as Graduate Assistant at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia as a tutor, exam invigilator, and lab instructor for Chemical Engineering Lab-I, Lab-III, Physical chemistry lab, Heat transfer and Process Control Lab. He has published more than 5 research papers with a cumulative impact factor of >20 in ISI/Scopus indexed prestigious journals. His work cited more than 17 times with H-Index of 2. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering fromSUIT Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan. He worked as a Process Internee at the French Funded Water Treatment Project, (WASA), Faisalabad, Pakistan in Reverse Osmosis Wastewater Treatment Plant for the Purification of Canal Wastewater containing Industrial Effluents for Drinking purposes. He also worked as Research Internee at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in the research area of development of highly concentrated nuclear grade hydrogen peroxide. He also worked as a Management Internee at the Technological Research Solutions, Islamabad, Pakistan in the areas of different Software useful in Process Engineering and in Citation i.e.,Aspen Plus, EndNote, Math Type, Origin, MATLAB and on different Management Positions to perform Administrative Responsibilities under Skilled Persons.

Josep Sardanyéss is a senior researcher at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona). He is leading the research on nonlinear dynamics and evolution at the Mathematical and Computational Biology Group. He graduated in Biology at the University of Barcelona and earned a MSc and PhD thesis on Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He applies the theory of Dynamical Systems to model and investigate nonlinear dynamics in biological systems, especially to understand both experimental and field biology. His main research interests include bifurcations, stability, and chaos in catalytic systems (hypercycles), in virology, and cancer.

Dr. Jianli (John) Hu is a Chair Professor and the Director of Shale Gas Center at West Virginia University. He leads an interdisciplinary team carrying out cutting edge research in natural gas conversion and renewable energy utilization. He has demonstrated strong leadership in partnering with U.S. national laboratories and industrial companies. His research interests span across the fields of reaction engineering, surface chemistry, plasma and microwave-enhanced catalytic reactions. Before joining WVU, Dr. Hu led innovation efforts at Koch Industries, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and BP Oil. He has been granted 38 U.S. patents and published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 200 conference papers.

Prof. Stéphanie D. Lambert (SL) is a professor and a FRS‐FNRS Research Director in the Department of Chemical Engineering (DCE) of the University of Liege (Belgium). She obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Sciences in 2003. After an engineer position in a Belgian chemical company (2004‐2005), and two postdoctoral stays at the DCE of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006, and at the Institute Charles Gerhardt in Montpellier in 2007, she joined DCE, in which she develops heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable chemistry. From October 2022, she is also Director of the Research Unit Chemical Engineering. SL has published over 115 publications, 12 book chapters, holds 1 patent and has an h‐index of 27. She also received 25 Invited lectures.

Eugene KOTOMIN (Jevgenijs Kotomins), Dr. habil. Phys., PhD, senior scientist in the Laboratory of Self-organizing Systems, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga. Full member of Latvian Academy of Sciences, Citation H-index: 52 (WoS), Total citations 10.000+, 520+ papers in refereed journals, 17 books and book chapters, 12 review articles. Main research interests include: Theoretical materials science based on first principles calculations. Quantum chemistry of defective solids, nanomaterials and surfaces/interfaces, catalysis and water splitting in nanomaterials.

Dr. Hanfeng Liang is an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces in Xiamen University. He received his PhD (2015) from Xiamen University, China. Before joining Xiamen University, he was a visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liang is interested in the rational synthesis of nanomaterials and functional coatings, especially through continuous flow synthesis and plasma-assistant synthesis, and their applications in electrocatalysis and aqueous energy storage. He has published over 80 papers with citations of more than 9000 and an h-index of 41. He was named in the World's Top 2% Scientists List for three consecutive years (2019-2021), and was honored with the Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) in 2022. Dr. Liang currently serves as an Assistant Subject Editor of International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Materials and is on the Wiley's Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Advisory Panel, as well as the (youth) editorial board of several journals (The Innovation, Chinese Chemical Letters, Exploration, Catalysis Communications, Tungsten, Nanomaterials, Materials).