Invited Speakers

Yu-Chun Chuang

Group leader of Material Science Group, Adjunct Associate Professor

Material Science Group, Scientific Research Division, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center; Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. X-ray crystallography and Crystal Engineering
2. Charge density analysis from accurate X-ray single crystal diffraction data
3. Spin crossover materials
4. Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction data (SDPD)
5. Pair Distribution Function (PDF)

Speech Title: Structure Determination Opportunities at TPS 19A: High- Resolution Powder X-ray Diffraction Beamline

Website: Yu-Chun Chuang-Google Scholar

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Po-Wen Chung

Associate Research Fellow, Adjoint Associate Professor

Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica; Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Heterogeneous Catalysis
2. Rational Design of Catalyst
3. Surface Characterization (In-Situ Technology)
4. Biomass Conversion
5. Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
6. X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Speech Title: Characterization of Atomically Dispersed Hydrotalcite Oxide Supported Copper Catalysts

Website: https://cpwlab.project.sinica.edu.tw/

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Minju Chung

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Research Interests:

1. Electrified Chemical Synthesis
2. Heterogeneous Catalysis
3. Reaction Engineering
4. Sustainability

Speech Title: The Intersection of Thermo- and Electro- catalysis: Common Concepts for Mechanistic Investigations

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mchunglab/home

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Hirokazu Kobayashi

Associate Professor

Komaba Institute for Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests:

1. The catalysis for efficiently using natural resources and plastic waste

Speech Title: Designing Carbon-based Catalysts for Cellulose Hydrolysis

Website: https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kobalabo/index-e.html

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Yan-Gu Lin

Scientist, Adjunct Associate Professor

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Energy Materials
2. Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation
3. Heterogeneous Catalysis
4. Electrochemical Capacitor
5. Fuel Cells

Speech Title: Surface and Interfacial Dynamics in Electrochemical Energy Materials

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ue0eHPkAAAAJ&hl=en

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Ying-Chih Pu

Professor

Department of Materials Science, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Semiconductor nanoheterostructures
2. Charge carrier dynamics
3. Photoelectrochemical cells
4. Artificial photosynthesis
5. Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Speech Title: Charge Carrier Dynamics of Semiconductor Nanoheterostructures by Time-resolved Spectroscopies for Photocatalytic Applications

Website: https://nrelnutn.wixsite.com/labwebsite

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Heng-Liang Wu

Associate Research Fellow, Associate Professor

Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University; Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Next-generation batteries
2. Electrocatalytic and photocatalytic reaction
3. Electrochemistry
4. Structure and reactivity of materials
5. Development of in situ/operando methodology including in situ surface-enhanced IR, Raman and X-ray based spectroscopy. (Home-built in situ optical spectroscopy systems (including FTIR, Raman)

Speech Title: Vibrational Spectroscopy at Electrified Interfaces: Electrochemical Catalytic Reaction

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/hlwugroup/home

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Tzu-Ho Wu

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Nanosynthesis technology to prepare cutting-edge electrochemical energy storage materials
2. In situ Raman spectroscopic analysis of transition metal oxides
3. Development of rechargeable zinc-ion battery

Speech Title: Probing Electrochemical Behaviors of Ni(OH)2 and MnO2 Electrodes via In Situ Raman Microscopy

Website: https://tzuhowu.wixsite.com/eelab

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Wen-Yueh Yu

Associate professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. CO₂ conversion
2. Upgrading of biomass-based derivates and renewable resources
3. Low-Temperature Catalytic Removal of NOx and NH3

Speech Title: Surface Chemistry of SrTiO₃ Catalysts Prepared from Topochemical Conversion of Bi₄Ti₃O1₂ Nanoplatelets

Website: https://ntucatalysis.wixsite.com/yu-group

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Kwon-Young Choi

Associate Professor

Advanced College of Bio-Convergence, Ajou University, Korea

Research Interests:

1. Metabolic Engineering
2. Whole-cell Biocatalysis

Speech Title: Development of a Biotechnological Process for the Production of Bio-Indigo and Indigo Derivative Pigments via a Monooxygenase-Halogenase Cascade Enzyme Reaction

Website: PROFESSOR | main

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Claire Roa Pu Shen

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University

Research Interests:

1. Design of Synthetic Pathway for Biobased Chemical
2. Assembly of Novel Pathway in Unique Hosts
3. Directed Evolution of Production System

Speech Title: Synthetic amino acid elongation via transaminase engineering

Website: ‪Claire R. Shen - ‪Google Scholar

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Chi-Te Liu

Professor

Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University

Research Interests:

1. Applied Microbiology & Agricultural Biotechnology
2. Symbiosis & Microbe-Plant interactions

Speech Title: Synergistic enhancement of microbial PBAT degradation through environmental optimization

Website: Environmental Microbiology | NTUIOB-Lab412

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Shen-Long Tsai

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Research Interests:

1. Bioinspired engineering for the regulation of protein or enzyme synthesis
2. Synthetic biology for creating smart microbes that can seek and destroy environmental pollutants
3. Protein modules toward the recovery of precious metal ions from wastewater streams

Speech Title: Thermostable PET Hydrolases as Biocatalysts for Sustainable Polyester Recycling: A Comparative Kinetic and Thermodynamic Analysis

Website: Shen-Long Tsai - Google 學術搜尋

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Ming-Yang Ho

Associate Professor

Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University

Research Interests:

1. Explore the Mysteries of Cyanobacteria
2. Mechanism of Photosynthesis
3. Application of FaRLiP

Speech Title: Ancestral Thylakoid-Free Cyanobacterium Anthocerotibacter panamensis Provides Minimal Blueprints for Photosynthesis

Website: Ho Lab @ NTU Life Science

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Kuan-Jen Lu

Assistant Research Fellow

Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica

Research Interests:

1. Photosynthetic carbon fixation
2. new-to-nature pathways or re-designing native mechanisms to increase carbon fixation and metabolite syntheses in cyanobacteria and crop plants

Speech Title: Green Synthetic Biology for Increasing Photoproduction

Website: 呂冠箴- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center

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Vishal Agarwal

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests:

1. Heterogeneous Catalysis
2. Rare-Event Simulation

Speech Title: Computation Design of Novel Molten Catalysts for CO₂ -Free Production of H₂ from Methane Pyrolysis

Website: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~vagarwal/

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Szu-Chia Chien

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Porous materials
2. 2D materials
3. Thermoelectric materials
4. Corrosion resistant alloys

Speech Title: Proving the Determination of Surface Area for Porous Materials: A Weighted Average BET Approach

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chienresearchgroup/home

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Atsushi Ishikawa

Associate Professor

Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Institute of Science Tokyo (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan

Research Interests:

1. Heterogeneous Catalysis
2. Quantum chemistry
3. Chemical kinetics

Speech Title: Heterogeneous Catalyst Design by Computational Chemistry and Generative Artificial Intelligence

Website: https://ishikawa-group.github.io/en/index.html‬‬‬‬‬

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Kun-Han Lin

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Multiscale simulations
2. Molecular and material design
3. Charge transport phenomena
4. Organic semiconductors
5. Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis

Speech Title: Computationally Guided Design of Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts Leveraging High-Entropy Alloy Platforms

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lm2d

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Seiji Mori

Professor

Faculty of Basic Natural Science, Ibaraki University, Japan

Research Interests:

1. Mechanisms of organic and organometallics reactions
2. Homogeneous Catalysis
3. Noncovalent interactions

Speech Title: Theoretical Insight into the Importance of Noncovalent Interactions in Catalysis

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/smorigroup/home-en

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Hong-Kang Tian

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Computational catalysts
2. Interface science
3. First-principles calculations
4. Numerical simulations

Speech Title: Decoding Surface Reactivity Trends in Bimetallic Catalysts for Alkaline HOR via DFT and Machine Learning-Assisted Structure Sampling

Website: https://www.tian-group-ncku.com/

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Tzu-Hsiung Yang

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Quantum chemistry modeling
2. Machine learning (deep learning)
3. Artificial intelligence
4. Transition metal complex
5. Molecular catalysis

Speech Title: Probing Cyclization Mechanisms by Computation: From Gold-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclization to Photocatalytic Cyclization Reactions

Website: https://www.tyanglab.com/en

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Tsu-Chin Chou

Assistant Professor

Institute of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

1. Research Interests:
2. Electrochemical CO₂ conversion
3. Vibrational Spectroscopy
4. Analytical instrumentations

Speech Title: Tuning Product Selectivity in CO2 Electroreduction via Alloy-Induced Modulation of CO Binding Geometry

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chou-research-group/home

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Sheng-Heng Chung

Associate Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

Research Interests:

1. Energy Storage and Conversion
2. Electrochemistry
3. Energy Materials

Speech Title: Metal/Sulfur Energy-storage Materials for High Energy Density

Website: ‪Sheng-Heng Chung‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Yanwei Lum

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

National University of Singapore, Singapore

1. Research Interests:
2. Electrochemical CO₂ conversion
3. Electroorganic chemistry
4. Hydrogen production and storage

Speech Title: Nanocurvature-induced Field Effects Enable Control over the Activity of Single-Atom Electrocatalysts

Website: https://lumyanwei.wixsite.com/lumresearch

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Ken Sakaushi

Associate Professor, Team Leader

Research Center for Energy and Environmental Materials

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

1. Research Interests:
2. Data Science for Electrochemistry
3. Model Materials for Electrochemical Property Design
4. Electrode Process Science

Speech Title: Accelerating by Data-Science and Unveiling by Theory: Aiming to Understand Microscopic Electrode Process at Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sakaushiken/home

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Naoto Todoroki

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Environmental Studies

Tohoku University, Japan

1. Research Interests:
2. Electrocatalysis on Well-Defined Solid Surfaces
3. Electrode and Catalyst Materials for Electrochemical Energy Devices (Fuel Cells, Water Electrolysis etc.).
4. Surface Modification of Metal and Alloys for Functional Materials

Speech Title: Surface Orientation-Dependent Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Transition Metal-Doped Noble Metal Oxide Electrodes

Website: https://researchmap.jp/7000010019?lang=en

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Che-Ning Yeh

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

1. Research Interests:
2. Reaction Mechanism in Electrochemical Devices
3. Materials Design for Electrochemical Devices
4. Synthesis and Assembly of Carbon-Based Nano/Composite Materials

Speech Title: Advanced Non-Precious Metal Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries via MOF–Graphene and LDH–Carbon Integration

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yehlab

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Kazutaka Akiyoshi

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

Research Interests:

1. Compound Nanoparticles
2. Metal Nanoparticles
3. Quantum Dots
4. Ionic Liquid
5. Plasmonics
6. Photoelectrochemistry

Speech Title: Synthesis and Tunable Optical Properties of Zn-Doped NaBiS2 Quantum Dots for Improving Their Photoelectrochemical Properties

Website: Kazutaka Akiyoshi-Google Scholar

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Yan Guo

Ph.D

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Research Interests:

1. Photocatalysis
2. Hydrogen Production
3. Advanced Oxidation Processes
4. Water Splitting

Speech Title: Reticular Dual Sites with Enhanced Electron Injection for CO₂-to-C₂H₄ Photoreduction over 75% Selectivity

Website: GUO Yan-Google Scholar

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Ken-ichi Katsumata

Professor

Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Research Interests:

1. Development of porous glass with the absorption-desorption ability of useful components in water
2. Preparation of artificial photosynthetic materials with the adsorption of CO₂ and the photo-reduction property
3. Development of synthetic process of metal oxide single crystal nanosheets with two dimensional structure
4. Development of novel functions generated by photo-self-reduction of iron oxyhydroxide, and elucidation of the mechanism

Speech Title: Photocatalytic reduction of CO₂ by Zn₂Cr layered double hydroxides

Website: https://www.tus.ac.jp/ssi/en/

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Teramura Kentaro

Professor

Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

Research Interests:

1. Development of Next-generation Clean Energies and Reaction Processes for Green Sustainable Chemistry Using Solar Energy and Photocatalysts

Speech Title: Artificial Photosynthesis by Heterogeneous Photocatalysts -Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ by H₂O as an Electron Donor

Website: http://www.moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~moleng_04/en/

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Kijung Yong

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Research Interests:

1. Surface Wettability Control
2. Solar Energy Conversion
3. Artificial Photosynthesis
4. Next Generation Semiconductor Device Processing
5. Metal Oxide

Speech Title: Green Ammonia Synthesis by Electrochemical and Photochemical Process

Website: https://schema.postech.ac.kr/

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Reiner Sebastian Sprick

Senior Lecturer

Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Research Interests:

1. Materials chemistry
2. Conjugated microporous polymers
3. Conjugated polymers photocatalysis

Speech Title: Processable Conjugated Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water and Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Website: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/spricksebastiandr/

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Yuichiro Himeda

Global Zero Emission Research Center (GZR), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Research Interests:

1. Activation of small molecules.
2. Development of organometallic catalysts based on new concepts
3. CO₂ utilization for energy storage.

Speech Title: Heterogeneous Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol by Dinuclear Iridium Complex under Gas-Solid Phase

Website: https://www.gzr.aist.go.jp/en/teams/carbon-based-energy-carrier-research-team/

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Koji Kuramoto

Group leader

Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Research Interests:

1. Creation of technology for highly efficient conversion of CO₂, water, and renewable energy into chemical substances
2. Development of materials, safety tests, and operation methods based on analysis of electronic states, to realize safe, reliable, and high-performance power storage technology

Speech Title: AIST's Ambition in Achieving Carbon Neutrality with Integrated CO₂ Capture-Utilization Technologies: Introduction and Update on DFM-CCU Approach

Website: Koji Kuramoto-Google Scholar

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Shawn D.Lin

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Metal Catalysts and Their Applications
2. Catalyst Analysis

Speech Title: Mid-temperature CO₂ and H₂O Deoxygenation using Hydrogen-treated CeO₂-based Mixed Oxides

Website: https://david212108.wixsite.com/e2-301lab

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Yu-Chuan Lin

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

1. Heterogeneous catalysis and reaction engineering
2. CO₂ and CH4 utilization
3. Biomass valorization

Speech Title: Designing Methanation-Resistant Nickel Catalysts for Reverse Water-Gas Shift

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fuelscatalysis/home

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Tawan Sooknoi

Professor

Department of Chemistry, School of Science, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

Research Interests:

1. Petrochemicals
2. Reaction pathway
3. Zeolite

Speech Title: Reversibly Interconvertible Cu+-H/Cu species: Unlocking Selective Hydrogenation for Sustainable Chemical Production

Website: http://www.tawan.in.th/

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Atthapon Srifa

Associate professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand

Research Interests:

1. Heterogenous Catalysis
2. Catalytic reaction engineering
3. The development of nanostructured catalysts for ammonia decomposition reaction, biomass conversion to biofuels, in particular, deoxygenation of oil palm feedstock into green diesel and bio-jet fuel, and furfural hydrogenation

Speech Title: Catalytic Transformation of Biomass Derivatives into Fuels and Chemicals over Bimetallic Ni–Re Catalysts

Website: Atthapon Srifa-Google Scholar

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Young-Woong Suh

Professor, Associate Dean of Planning and Strategy

Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea

Research Interests:

1. A new class of LOHC material
2. Conversion of CO₂ to Dimethyl Ether (DME)
3. Ethylene oligomerization
4. Methanol synthesis

Speech Title: High-Purity Hydrogen from Aqueous-Phase Reforming of Methanol over Na-Doped Zirconia-Supported Pt Catalysts

Website: http://gncpl.campushomepage.com/frontpage.asp?catalogid=gncpl&language=ko

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Masazumi Tamura

Professor

School of Engineering Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Osaka Metropolitan University

Research Interests:

1. Carbon dioxide
2. Biomass
3. Plastic
4. Heterogeneous catalyst

Speech Title: Heterogeneous Fe Catalysts for N-Alkylation of Amines with Alcohols

Website: https://www.omu.ac.jp/eng/tamura-lab/‬‬‬‬

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Alex Yip

Professor, Associate Head of Department

Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Research Interests:

1. Heterogeneous Catalysis.
2. Zeolite Synthesis and Catalysis
3. CO₂ Utilization
4. Biomass conversion
5. Gas Separations

Speech Title: Histidine Stabilization for Supported Metal Nanoparticles: A Simple Trick for a Big Problem in Thermal Catalysis

Website: Alex Yip-Google Scholar

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