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

Speech Title: Semiconductor Polyhedra for Photocatalytic Organic Transformations

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

Speech Title: Integrative Catalytic Pairs – the Smallest Catalytic Units to Drive Complex Chemical Reactions

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

Speech Title: From Waste Plastic to Valuable MOF Materials

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

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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

Speech Title: Mechanistic Studies of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Activation over Metal and Metal Phosphide Catalysts by Operando XAFS and IR

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

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Topic: Biocatalysis

Yi Tang

Professor

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Research Interests:

  1. Genome Mining and Natural Product Biosynthesis
  2. Enzyme Discovery and Biocatalysis
  3. Metabolic Engineering

Speech Title: Discovery and Engineering of Small Molecule Biosynthetic Pathways

Website: Yi Tang Lab@UCLA

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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

Speech Title: Machine Learning for Catalysis: From Extracting Knowledge to Aiding Design

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

Speech Title: Modeling Single-Atom Catalysts

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

Speech Title: Designs of Bifunctional Catalysts for the Air Electrodes of Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries

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

Speech Title: Understanding the Electrolyte Effect in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

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)

Speech Title: Single Metal Site Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells

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

Speech Title: Photo(electro)catalysis as a Technological Solution for Sustainable Environment

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

Speech Title: Development of Photocatalyst Materials for Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

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

Speech Title: Separate Storage of Electrons and Protons Using Base Promoters to Facilitate Ammonia Synthesis

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

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