Keynote Speakers

Topic: Advanced catalyst synthesis

Hsuan-Yi Huang

Professor

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

  1. Inorganic Chemistry
  2. Materials Chemistry

Website: http://nanomatlab407.wixsite.com/nthunanolab

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Bin Liu

Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Research Interests:

  1. Photo(electro)catalysis
  2. In-situ/operando characterization

Website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/mse/people/mse-faculty/liu-bin

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Chia-Wen (Kevin) Wu

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests:

  1. Mesoporous Materials
  2. Metal-Organic Frameworks
  3. Drug Delivery Systems
  4. Biomass Conversion

Website: https://fnmkevinwu.wordpress.com/

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Yanli Zhao

Professor

School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests:

  1. The development of integrated systems for diagnostics and therapeutics
  2. Porous materials for gas/energy storage and catalysis

Website: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/zhaoyanli/home.html

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Topic: Advanced characterization for mechanistic understanding

Tetsuya Shishido

Professor

Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Research Interests:

  1. Heterogeneous Catalysis. (supported metal/metal oxide catalysts, solid acid-base catalysts)
  2. Hydrogen production and storage
  3. Chemical Looping CO2
  4. Biomass conversion

Website: https://shishidolab.cpark.tmu.ac.jp/shishidolab/ja/index.html

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Topic: Biocatalysis

Topic: Computational catalysis

Bryan Richard Goldsmith

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

Research Interests:

  1. Thermo-, electro-, and plasma-assisted catalysis for air and water pollution reduction and sustainable chemical conversion
  2. Machine learning to accelerate catalyst and materials design
  3. Redox flow battery chemistry for renewable energy storage

Website: https://cheresearch.engin.umich.edu/goldsmith/

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Gianfranco Pacchioni

Professor

Department of Material Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Research Interests:

  1. Electronic structure of inorganic materials, oxides, surfaces, interfaces
  2. Ab initio modelling of catalytic materials
  3. Methods in quantum chemistry

Website: https://qclab.mater.unimib.it/

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Topic: Electrocatalysis

Chi-Chang Hu

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Research Interests:

  1. Electrocatalysts for metal-air batteries
  2. In situ Raman
  3. Electrochemical analysis
  4. Electroplating
  5. Electrochemical Deionization

Website: https://www.cchulecam.com/

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Yun Jeong Hwang

Associate Professor; Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Research Interests:

  1. Electrochemical CO2 conversion, water splitting, biomass upgrading, Li-mediated nitrogen reduction reaction
  2. Electrocatalyst, Single atom catalyst, nanoparticle, nanocluster
  3. Operando electrochemical spectroscopy
  4. CO2 electrolyzer, GDE electrolyzer, Caputre and Conversion of CO2
  5. Artificial Photosynthesis, Solar-to-Chemical Production, Solar Water Splitting

Website: http://www.hwangchemgroup.com

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Gang Wu

Professor

Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Research Interests:

  1. Electrochemical engineering and technologies for energy and environmental sustainability
  2. Sustainable materials and catalysts for hydrogen and carbon-neutral technologies, such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells, electrolyzers, CO2 reduction, electrosynthesis, and carbon-free nitrogen electrochemistry.
  3. Earth-abundant materials-based electrocatalysis and heterogeneous catalysis for clean energy: ammonia decomposition for hydrogen storage and generation; dry reforming of methane (DRM) to convert greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) into value-added syngas (CO and H2)

Website: https://engineering.washu.edu/faculty/Gang-Wu.html

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Topic: Photocatalysis/Photoelectrochemical catalysis

Wonyong Choi

Distinguished Professor & Director

Institute for Environmental & Climate Technology, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), Naju, Korea

Research Interests:

  1. Semiconductor photocatalysis for environmental and energy applications
  2. Solar fuel production, artificial photosynthesis
  3. Development of visible light active photocatalysts
  4. Photochemical purification of water and air
  5. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs)
  6. Environmental (photo)chemistry
  7. Ice (photo)chemistry
  8. Redox processes of environmental significance

Website: https://epa.kentech.ac.kr/

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Akihiko Kudo

Professor

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division I, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Research Interests:

  1. Development of new photocatalysts for water splitting
  2. Development of new photoelectrodes for water splitting
  3. Development of new photocatalysts for CO2 fixation
  4. Development of new photoelectrodes for CO2 fixation
  5. Development of new photocatalytic reactions

Website: https://www.rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp/kudolab/en/index.html

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Topic: Thermal catalysis

Minkee Choi

Professor

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

Research Interests:

  1. Heterogeneous Catalyst, Metal-Polymer Interaction, Zeolite, Carbon Materials, CO2 Capture
  2. Hybrid Nanomaterials, Hydrogen Storage, Molecular Transport, Water Treatment, Energy Storage

Website: https://egcl.kaist.ac.kr/

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