| Prof. Ali Reza KamaliNortheastern University, ChinaSpeech Title: Sustainable molten-salt technologies for Agreen production of advanced materials and waste-to-value Professor Ali Kamali is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He is the Director of the Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre (E2MC) at Northeastern University and directs the China–UK Joint Research Centre for Advanced Materials. An alumnus of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, he is currently a Supervisor for EnterpriseTECH STAR at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is the founding director of four materials-technology firms, focused on commercialising his inventions in clean technologies for the sustainable production of advanced materials and the recycling/upcycling of waste materials for demanding applications, including energy storage and environmental protection. With over £46 million in research funding, his work has resulted in more than 50 patents, some licensed to leading companies worldwide, and the publication of over 200 articles. He has delivered more than 60 invited and keynote lectures at national and international events and has received several distinguished awards, including the International Khwarizmi Award, the National Expert Award, the Armourers & Brasiers’ Award, the Rose Award of Shenyang, and the NSFC Excellent Young International Scientist Fellowship. He supervises graduate and postdoctoral researchers in China and the UK, serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and sits on national grant review boards, including the EPSRC Peer Review College. |
Prof. Guoran LiNankai University, ChinaSpeech Title: To Develop High-Performance Lithium Batteries Based on Electrolyte Innovation Guoran Li is a professor of Materials Chemistry at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, China. His main current research interest is the study of new energy materials and devices. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry in 2000 and 2005, respectively, both from Nankai University. He worked as an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology in 2008 and as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge from 2014 to 2015. Guoran Li has published 170 papers in the peer-reviewed journals including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Communications etc. with a total citation of over 15,700. Guoran Li has an H-index of 71. He has been granted 12 patents from China, EU and USA, and part of them has been used in industry. |
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| Prof. Pengfei XingNortheastern University, ChinaSpeech Title: Efficient Separation and Recovery of Silver and Silicon from Retired Crystalline Silicon PV Modules Professor Xing Pengfei: Expert in the field of silicon resource recycling research in China, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Metallurgy, Northeast University. Currently serves as Director of the New Energy Materials Research Institute at Northeast University, Council Member and Expert Committee Member of the Metallurgical Method Solar Polysilicon Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance and Technical Committee Member of the Jiangsu Province Silicon Materials Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. Primary research domains include: (1) Synthesis technologies and theoretical foundations of new energy materials; (2) Preparation technology and theory of solar polysilicon and high-purity silicon; (3) Preparation technology of silicon carbide, boron carbide, silicon nitride crystals, and their powders; (4) Comprehensive recovery and utilization of new energy waste; (5) Electrothermal metallurgy and high-temperature metallurgy theory and technology. Professor Xing has led and participated in over 20 projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology Key Support Projects, EU Projects, and Swedish Foundation Projects. The research achievements have been awarded the National Technology Invention Award Second Prize (6/16), China Nonferrous Metals Industry Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize (1/16), and Liaoning Province Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize (4/10), among others. Nearly 150 papers have been published in well-known international and domestic journals, and over 70 national invention patents have been applied for and authorized. |
Prof. Rashid Al-AbriUniversity of Nizwa, OmanSpeech Title: Sustainable Materials and Smart Energy Systems: An Integrated Approach to Future Industries Dr. Rashid Al-Abri received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman, in 2002, followed by an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, in 2004. Then he earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2012. Dr. Al-Abri previously served as the Director of the Sustainable Energy Center at SQU and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SQU until December 2023. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nizwa (UoN) and serves as the Dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at UoN. In addition, he serves the Executive Director of the Research Center for Energy, Materials, and Semiconductors. His research interests encompass power electronics applications, renewable energy, power quality, energy efficiency, power systems, smart grid technologies, and power system stability. |
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| Prof. Yasin OroojiZhejiang Normal University, ChinaSpeech Title: High entropy 2D Nanomaterials such as MBenes, MXenes Professor Yasin Orooji is a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher and a top 1% author in Environmental Science and Ecology, Chemistry, and Engineering. Coming from a family of scholars, he currently serves as a Distinguished Professor, doctoral mentor, and post-doctoral tutor at Zhejiang Normal University. Since 2021, he has been consistently listed among the Stanford–Elsevier Top 2% Scientists. Since 2017, Professor Orooji has published more than 200 SCI-indexed papers with a cumulative impact factor of approximately 2000 in leading journals such as Science, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, and Energy Storage Materials. Around 150 of these publications are as first author or corresponding author. He has an H-index of 68, with 16,396 citations across about 11,000 documents (including 10,573 journal articles, 193 books, 91 conference proceedings, 54 book series, 16 theses, and 5 patents). His work includes 39 ESI top papers, among which 10 are ESI hot papers. He holds 10 patents, one of which received the Best National Patent Award. Professor Orooji serves as an editor, guest editor, and editorial board member for over 10 SCI journals, including The Innovation, Chemical Engineering Journal, EcoMat and so on. He is also a reviewer for more than 150 SCI journals, such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, and JACS. |
Prof. Junli XuNortheastern University, ChinaSpeech Title: Mechanistic Regulation of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in NiFe-Layered Double Hydroxides Dr. Junli Xu is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the School of Science, Northeastern University, China. Her current research interests lie in electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage. To date, she has led two National Natural Science Foudation of China (NSFC) projects, two provincial and ministerial level fund projects, and multiple enterprise projects. To date, she has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in TOP journals, including Materials Today, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Journal of Energy Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Journal and obtained 7 authorized invention patents. |
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| Assoc. Prof. Geshere Abdisa GurmesaChinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaSpeech Title: TBD Geshere Abdisa Gurmesa, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry from the University of Copenhagen, dual Erasmus Mundus master’s degrees in Conservation & Land Management (Bangor University, UK) and Forest & Nature Management (University of Copenhagen), and a B.Ed. in Biology from Dilla University, Ethiopia. He works at the interface of global change ecology, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem ecology. His current research focuses on how nitrogen and carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems respond to environmental change, with emphasis on the impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition and their implications for ecosystem functioning and climate feedbacks. Dr. Gurmesa has published widely in high-impact journals, including Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, and Science of the Total Environment, and has led or collaborated on collaborative projects with scientists from Asia, Europe, and Africa. He has received multiple competitive grants and fellowships, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Liaoning Research Fund for Young Foreign Researchers, the Shenyang Youth Start-up Fund, the Foreign Youth Talent Program, and the CAS President’s International Fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for leading ecology and environmental science journals. |
Assoc. Prof. Qiang SunNortheastern University, ChinaSpeech Title: Rational Design of Hard-Carbon Microstructure toward High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries Qiang Sun currently serves as an Associate Professor and Ph.D. supervisor within the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Metallurgy at Northeastern University. She completed her Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in 2009, and subsequently earned her Ph.D. degree in Industrial Catalysis from the same institution in 2014. Her primary research endeavors focus on the design of electrodes for both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, the development and application of carbon materials, and the field of electrocatalysis. To date, she has authored and published more than 60 scholarly articles in leading international journals, including ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Carbon, and Journal of Energy Storage. These publications have garnered over 1,000 citations indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI). She currently holds 15 authorized invention patents. Furthermore, she has led or been a key participant in more than 10 significant research projects, which include grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and various enterprise cooperation initiatives. Additionally, she maintains an ongoing role as a reviewer for several prestigious academic journals specializing in energy storage, utilization, and conversion. |
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