Professor Michaelides holds the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at TCU. Among other honors, he was awarded the Lee Johnson award for teaching excellence at Tulane; a Senior Fulbright Fellowship; the ASME Freeman Scholar award; the Outstanding Researcher award at Tulane; the ASME Fluids Engineering award; the ASME 90th Anniversary FED Medal; and the ASME Edwin F. Church Medal. Professor Michaelides has authored more than 170 journal papers; gave more than 280 presentations in national and international conferences; and has authored seven books. His latest books: Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability, (CRC Press 2018) and Exergy and the Conversion of Energy, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021).
Prof. Igor Kuzleis a Full professor and Head of the Smart Grids Laboratory at the Department of Energy and Power Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Zagreb. He is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering and a member of two scientific councils of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Prof. Kuzle is Vice President of the National Committee for Nomination of Academic Positions in Croatia for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He 8 journal editorial boards and he has chaired 6 international conferences. His scientific interests include problems of dynamics and control of electrical power systems, maintenance of electrical equipment, as well as smart grids and integration of renewable energy sources. He is a Member of the Government Expert Advisory Committee on the environmental impact assessment of renewable energy sources. He has been project manager for more than 100 technical projects and reports for utilities and companies. He is a member of the IEEE PES Governing Board. Prof. Kuzle has received numerous awards for his scientific work.
Prof. Qian Xu
Speech Title: Synergistic Enhancements of Performance for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Prof. Qian Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in July 2013, and worked as a
postdoctoral researcher at the same university until August 2014. In 2017, he worked
at University of Waterloo, Canada as a visiting scholar. Currently he is a Professor
at Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China. He has received more
than 10 research funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China
Postdoctoral Fundation and Jiangsu Provincial Fundation etc., and made
contributions in the areas of fuel cells, redox flow batteries, multi-scale multiphase
heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational
modelings. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers (4 of them are
ESI hot papers), 2 academic books and 4 chapters with more than 3450 citations (H-
Index=29), and applied 20 patents with 7 issued. He serves as the Editorial Board
Member of PROCESSES (MDPI), Progress in Energy & Fuels, as well as the
reviewer for more than 30 international academic journals. He received the “Six
Talent Peaks” award of Jiangsu Province in 2016, and Outstanding Researcher Prize
of Jiangsu Engineering Thermophysics Association in 2020.
Prof. Baoyu Gao
Speech Title: Influence of coagulation behavior and floc properties on membrane fouling：The role of different Al species
Prof. Baoyu Gao is distinguished professor of Environmental Engineering of Shandong University, and Distinguished Taishan Scholar of Shandong Province, China. He enjoys the Governmcnt Special Allowance of the State Council. From January of 2001 to 2012, he served as Dean of the School of environmental science and engineering, Shandong University, P.R.China. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1982 from East China Petroleum Institute, Shandong, China, M.E. in Environmental Engineering in 1987 from East China University of Chemical Technology, Shanghai, China, and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 1999 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Gao has conducted more than 60 funded research projects. His research and consulting experience include the preparation and properties of new kinds of coagulant/flocculant and adsorbents, coagulation/ flocculation and adsorption for water and wastewater, water and wastewater treatment technology, etc.. He is widely known for his research on the preparation, properties and behavior of new kind of coagulants/flocculants in water and wastewater treatment. Up till now, Dr.Gao has published 879 peer-reviewed papers in the high-impact national and international journals, and has received 29 awards from international, national, ministerial and provincial government and obtained 108 patents for the chemicals and technology for water and wastewater treatment. Among 879 peer-reviewed papers, 636 papers are SCI - indexed papers, the total SCI citation is 30118, and h-index is 80. He is currently a member of International Water Association (IWA), the Life member of International Bioprocessing Association; deputy director of the Industry Water Treatment Branch, Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, etc.. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of 15 national and international journals, including “Journal of Environmental Sciences”, “China Environmental Science” and “Environmental Science”, etc. He was honored as the Highly-cited Scholar of China (environmental science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2022.
Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.
For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and absorption cooling.
He has a large number of publications in books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.
He is a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
Jun Peng is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering. He received his PhD degree from National Engine Combustion Lab (current State Key Lab of Engines), Tianjin University, China in 1996, for a research on the investigation of high pressure fuel injection and spray characteristics. Then after 5 years working experiences as research fellow in Brunel University and 2 years as senior development engineer in Ford Motor Company, he held the position of Lecturer since 2004 and Senior Lecture since 2007 in the University of Sussex. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as Professor in Engineering in the University of Bedfordshire.
Jun Peng’s research interest lies in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and combustion with applications on flows and combustion in IC engines, gas turbines, fuel cells and other sustainable energy systems. His research has involved both numerical simulation and experimental investigation including various laser diagnostics. His recent research works have contributed to sustainable vehicle powertrain, non-carbon water transport technology, combination of solar PV and solar thermal for energy efficiency improvement, etc.
Jun Peng is a fellow of IMechE, chartered engineer recognised by IMechE and the member of Professional Review Committee of IMechE. He was an invited fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Associate Editor of Electronics Letters (SCI journal) which is managed by IET.
Dr. Xinzhe Zhu is an associate professor at the Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China. Before joining SYSU in 2021, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in The Hongkong Polytechnic University and National University of Singapore. Dr. Zhu obtained her PhD degree in 2018 from the School of Environment, Tsinghua University. Her research interests are the application of data-driven in wastewater treatment plant for carbon neutrality, the pollution and carbon reduction mechanism for wastewater treatment plant and intelligent management and system simulation of water environments. She has over 20 publications in these areas, including papers at Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production...
Dr. Wangbiao Guo, is a Yale University postdoctoral researcher who specializes in technique of flue gas CO2 fixation by microalgae. He has been working on a project to convert the microalgal biomass to alternative proteins involving of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. He has officially published 29 papers (Citations:379). He served as an independent reviewer for multiple international journals. He has honored rewards, such as Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang Province, "Doctoral Rising Star" at Zhejiang University, and "Striving for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Funding" from Zhejiang University. He started the postdoctoral research at Yale University since September 2021. In the following December, he founded Tyree Biotechnology Co., Ltd., where he was responsible for the company's technique research and development, as well as its industrial applications. He was shortlisted in the top 12 of LinkedIn Global New Generation Entrepreneurship Competition (in competition), with a selection rate of 12/800, and won the third prize of HICOOL 2022 Global Entrepreneurship Competition (Beijing, China).
Dr. Núria López is an Environmental Scientist (4-years degree, 2015) and MSc in Environmental Engineering (2016) from the University of Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in 2021 in engineering and applied sciences by the same university. Her PhD Thesis was focused on the use of photo-Fenton at circumneutral pH for enhanced wastewater treatment and its reuse in agriculture, with special attention to micropollutant removal and bacterial inactivation. During her PhD she performed 3 investigation stays for 3 months each one at University of Alberta (Canada), University of Porto (Portugal) and University Polytechnic of Madrid (Spain). Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (Barcelona, Spain) with a Margarita Salas contract. The investigation is focused on nature-based treatments to eliminate micropollutants from wastewater to apply the reused water in agriculture.
Dr. Lingfeng Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Power Machinery and Engineering from the Tianjin University in 2019. After graduation, he has acquired support from the Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering in the University of Science and Technology of China. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor in the University of Science and Technology of China, and is elected as the member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022). He has published over 45 peer-reviewed international journal publications in energy field. His research focuses on four different aspects of CO2-based thermodynamics cycles, including (1) design of advanced power/refrigeration cycle, (2) composition tuning in CO2-based binary mixtures, (3) key component development in waste heat recovery, (4) dynamic simulation and intelligent controls.
Yang Wang, received his Doctor of Engineering from Tianjin University. Now associate professor of Harbin Engineering University. Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program. He is currently member of the Chinese Energy Society. Mainly engaged in the research of basic combustion theory and application technology of low carbon and zero carbon fuel for engines. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 10 projects. Has published more than 30 papers and obtained more than 30 patents. Proposed efficient and clean engine combustion technology.
Dr. Weijia Huang is an associate professor at School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Dr. Huang focuses on the study of carbon neutrality including new energy resources; CO2 capture, utilization and storage; and exergy analysis. In these areas, he has published 20 publications including papers at Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc. In 2020, Dr. Huang won the Excellent Paper Award of the Engineering Thermodynamics and Energy Utilization Conference. Now, he is a youth member of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics and is selected into Shanghai Sailing Program.
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Professor Michaelides holds the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at TCU. Among other honors, he was awarded the Lee Johnson award for teaching excellence at Tulane; a Senior Fulbright Fellowship; the ASME Freeman Scholar award; the Outstanding Researcher award at Tulane; the ASME Fluids Engineering award; the ASME 90th Anniversary FED Medal; and the ASME Edwin F. Church Medal. Professor Michaelides has authored more than 170 journal papers; gave more than 280 presentations in national and international conferences; and has authored seven books. His latest books: Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability, (CRC Press 2018) and Exergy and the Conversion of Energy, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021).
Prof. Igor Kuzle is a Full professor and Head of the Smart Grids Laboratory at the Department of Energy and Power Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Zagreb. He is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering and a member of two scientific councils of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Prof. Kuzle is Vice President of the National Committee for Nomination of Academic Positions in Croatia for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He 8 journal editorial boards and he has chaired 6 international conferences. His scientific interests include problems of dynamics and control of electrical power systems, maintenance of electrical equipment, as well as smart grids and integration of renewable energy sources. He is a Member of the Government Expert Advisory Committee on the environmental impact assessment of renewable energy sources. He has been project manager for more than 100 technical projects and reports for utilities and companies. He is a member of the IEEE PES Governing Board. Prof. Kuzle has received numerous awards for his scientific work.
Speech Title: Synergistic Enhancements of Performance for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Prof. Qian Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in July 2013, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university until August 2014. In 2017, he worked at University of Waterloo, Canada as a visiting scholar. Currently he is a Professor at Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China. He has received more than 10 research funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Fundation and Jiangsu Provincial Fundation etc., and made contributions in the areas of fuel cells, redox flow batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modelings. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers (4 of them are ESI hot papers), 2 academic books and 4 chapters with more than 3450 citations (H- Index=29), and applied 20 patents with 7 issued. He serves as the Editorial Board Member of PROCESSES (MDPI), Progress in Energy & Fuels, as well as the reviewer for more than 30 international academic journals. He received the “Six Talent Peaks” award of Jiangsu Province in 2016, and Outstanding Researcher Prize of Jiangsu Engineering Thermophysics Association in 2020.
Speech Title: Influence of coagulation behavior and floc properties on membrane fouling：The role of different Al species
Prof. Baoyu Gao is distinguished professor of Environmental Engineering of Shandong University, and Distinguished Taishan Scholar of Shandong Province, China. He enjoys the Governmcnt Special Allowance of the State Council. From January of 2001 to 2012, he served as Dean of the School of environmental science and engineering, Shandong University, P.R.China. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1982 from East China Petroleum Institute, Shandong, China, M.E. in Environmental Engineering in 1987 from East China University of Chemical Technology, Shanghai, China, and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 1999 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Gao has conducted more than 60 funded research projects. His research and consulting experience include the preparation and properties of new kinds of coagulant/flocculant and adsorbents, coagulation/ flocculation and adsorption for water and wastewater, water and wastewater treatment technology, etc.. He is widely known for his research on the preparation, properties and behavior of new kind of coagulants/flocculants in water and wastewater treatment. Up till now, Dr.Gao has published 879 peer-reviewed papers in the high-impact national and international journals, and has received 29 awards from international, national, ministerial and provincial government and obtained 108 patents for the chemicals and technology for water and wastewater treatment. Among 879 peer-reviewed papers, 636 papers are SCI - indexed papers, the total SCI citation is 30118, and h-index is 80. He is currently a member of International Water Association (IWA), the Life member of International Bioprocessing Association; deputy director of the Industry Water Treatment Branch, Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, etc.. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of 15 national and international journals, including “Journal of Environmental Sciences”, “China Environmental Science” and “Environmental Science”, etc. He was honored as the Highly-cited Scholar of China (environmental science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2022.
Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.
For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and absorption cooling.
He has a large number of publications in books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.
He is a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
Jun Peng is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering. He received his PhD degree from National Engine Combustion Lab (current State Key Lab of Engines), Tianjin University, China in 1996, for a research on the investigation of high pressure fuel injection and spray characteristics. Then after 5 years working experiences as research fellow in Brunel University and 2 years as senior development engineer in Ford Motor Company, he held the position of Lecturer since 2004 and Senior Lecture since 2007 in the University of Sussex. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as Professor in Engineering in the University of Bedfordshire.
Jun Peng’s research interest lies in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and combustion with applications on flows and combustion in IC engines, gas turbines, fuel cells and other sustainable energy systems. His research has involved both numerical simulation and experimental investigation including various laser diagnostics. His recent research works have contributed to sustainable vehicle powertrain, non-carbon water transport technology, combination of solar PV and solar thermal for energy efficiency improvement, etc.
Jun Peng is a fellow of IMechE, chartered engineer recognised by IMechE and the member of Professional Review Committee of IMechE. He was an invited fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Associate Editor of Electronics Letters (SCI journal) which is managed by IET.
Dr. Xinzhe Zhu is an associate professor at the Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China. Before joining SYSU in 2021, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in The Hongkong Polytechnic University and National University of Singapore. Dr. Zhu obtained her PhD degree in 2018 from the School of Environment, Tsinghua University. Her research interests are the application of data-driven in wastewater treatment plant for carbon neutrality, the pollution and carbon reduction mechanism for wastewater treatment plant and intelligent management and system simulation of water environments. She has over 20 publications in these areas, including papers at Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production...
Dr. Wangbiao Guo, is a Yale University postdoctoral researcher who specializes in technique of flue gas CO2 fixation by microalgae. He has been working on a project to convert the microalgal biomass to alternative proteins involving of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. He has officially published 29 papers (Citations:379). He served as an independent reviewer for multiple international journals. He has honored rewards, such as Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang Province, "Doctoral Rising Star" at Zhejiang University, and "Striving for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Funding" from Zhejiang University. He started the postdoctoral research at Yale University since September 2021. In the following December, he founded Tyree Biotechnology Co., Ltd., where he was responsible for the company's technique research and development, as well as its industrial applications. He was shortlisted in the top 12 of LinkedIn Global New Generation Entrepreneurship Competition (in competition), with a selection rate of 12/800, and won the third prize of HICOOL 2022 Global Entrepreneurship Competition (Beijing, China).
Dr. Núria López is an Environmental Scientist (4-years degree, 2015) and MSc in Environmental Engineering (2016) from the University of Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in 2021 in engineering and applied sciences by the same university. Her PhD Thesis was focused on the use of photo-Fenton at circumneutral pH for enhanced wastewater treatment and its reuse in agriculture, with special attention to micropollutant removal and bacterial inactivation. During her PhD she performed 3 investigation stays for 3 months each one at University of Alberta (Canada), University of Porto (Portugal) and University Polytechnic of Madrid (Spain). Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (Barcelona, Spain) with a Margarita Salas contract. The investigation is focused on nature-based treatments to eliminate micropollutants from wastewater to apply the reused water in agriculture.
Dr. Lingfeng Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Power Machinery and Engineering from the Tianjin University in 2019. After graduation, he has acquired support from the Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering in the University of Science and Technology of China. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor in the University of Science and Technology of China, and is elected as the member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022). He has published over 45 peer-reviewed international journal publications in energy field. His research focuses on four different aspects of CO2-based thermodynamics cycles, including (1) design of advanced power/refrigeration cycle, (2) composition tuning in CO2-based binary mixtures, (3) key component development in waste heat recovery, (4) dynamic simulation and intelligent controls.
Yang Wang, received his Doctor of Engineering from Tianjin University. Now associate professor of Harbin Engineering University. Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program. He is currently member of the Chinese Energy Society. Mainly engaged in the research of basic combustion theory and application technology of low carbon and zero carbon fuel for engines. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 10 projects. Has published more than 30 papers and obtained more than 30 patents. Proposed efficient and clean engine combustion technology.
Dr. Weijia Huang is an associate professor at School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Dr. Huang focuses on the study of carbon neutrality including new energy resources; CO2 capture, utilization and storage; and exergy analysis. In these areas, he has published 20 publications including papers at Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc. In 2020, Dr. Huang won the Excellent Paper Award of the Engineering Thermodynamics and Energy Utilization Conference. Now, he is a youth member of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics and is selected into Shanghai Sailing Program.