Plenary Speakers
Shizhang Qiao
The University of Adelaide
Australia
Dr Qiao joined the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide (UoA) in March 2012 as a professor (the inaugural Chair of Nanotechnology). He is the founding Director of Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis (CMEC). His research expertise is in nonmaterials for new energy technologies (electro catalysis, photo catalysis, batteries, and fuel cell). He has co-authored more than 435 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Chemistry, Nature Materials, Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Angew Chem Int Ed, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Advanced Materials (over 58,200 citations, h-index: 125, Web of Sci). He has filed four patents on novel nonmaterial and attracted more than 13 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian Research Council (ARC). In recognition of his achievements in research, he was honored with inaugural UoA Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (2019), an Australian Star of Research (Lifetime Achievers Leaderboard, by "The Australian" 2019), prestigious ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013), Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society) and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He has also been awarded an ARC ARF Fellowship, an ARC APD Fellowship and an inaugural UQ Mid-Career Research Fellowship. Dr Qiao is currently an Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). Dr Qiao is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in two categories of Chemistry and Materials Science. ResearcherID: A-6057-2010 ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4568-8422 Group page: https://chemeng.adelaide.edu.au/qiao/
Christo Boyadjiev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Bulgaria
Education and degrees: 1. Education (1954 – 1960) - Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (Sofia, Bulgaria); 2. PhD (1968) – USSR, Moscow Institute of Chemical Mechanical Engineering; 3. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1978), Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (Sofia, Bulgaria). Specializations: 1963, USSR, Moscow, Supervisor-Prof. V.G. Levich, 4 months; 1968, USSR, Novosibirsk, Supervisor-Prof. M.G. Slinko, 4 month. Awards: Bulgarian Order of Cyril and Methodius (first class); Russian Federation Order of Mihailo Lomonosow (National Committee for Public Prizes). International activity: Editor-in-Chief of the “Transactions of Academenergo” (Scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Science); Chairman of the Scientific Council of the International Scientific Centre for Power and Chemical Engineering Problems (http://www.int-sci-center.bas.bg). Scientific publications: Monographies 9 (www.iche.bas.bg/Books_BG.htm). Scientific papers – 220: http://www.iche.bas.bg/WWW_IChE_EN/LABORATORY _IChE/Process_Systems_Engineering_Laboratory/ STAFF_Laboratory/CV_Christo_Boyadjiev/List%20of%20publications.pdf PUBLICATIONS SCINTIFIC PAPERS – 225: 86% published in international journals (135 published in impact factor journals), 64 - independent publications, 15 translated in the International Chemical Engineering (English translations of the best in the chemical engineering). MONOGRAPHIES – 9: www.iche.bas.bg/Books_BG.htm BOOK REALISATIONS (until 2018): 1. Chr. Boyadjiev, “Theoretical Chemical Engineering. Modeling and simulation”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, 594 pp. - 13700 chapter downloads. 2. Chr. Boyadjiev, M. Doichinova, B. Boyadjiev, P. Popova-Krumova, “Modeling of Column Apparatus Processes”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2016, 313 pp. - 4032 chapter downloads. 3. Chr. Boyadjiev, M. Doichinova, B. Boyadjiev, P. Popova-Krumova, “Modeling of Column Apparatus Processes” (Second edition), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2018, 456 pp. - 1557 chapter downloads. CITATIONS (until 2019): Book – 219; Papers – 429.
Keynote Speakers
Lifeng Liu
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Portugal
Lifeng Liu (Researcher ID: A-2522-2012, Orcid ID: 0000-0003-2732-7399) received his Bachelor degree in Applied Physics from Beijing Jiaotong University (2001), and both his Master (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in 2007, first working as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist, under the supervision of the late Prof. Ulrich Goesele. He started his independent research career in 2008 and became a Group Leader in 2009. In 2011, he moved to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and set up a research group there, where his research now focuses on the development of new materials for use in electrochemical energy conversion and storage devLifeng Liu (Researcher ID: A-2522-2012, Orcid ID: 0000-0003-2732-7399) received his Bachelor degree in Applied Physics from Beijing Jiaotong University (2001), and both his Master (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in 2007, first working as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist, under the supervision of the late Prof. Ulrich Goesele. He started his independent research career in 2008 and became a Group Leader in 2009. In 2011, he moved to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and set up a research group there, where his research now focuses on the development of new materials for use in electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices including (photo)electrochemical water splitting, rechargeable batteries and supercapacitorsices including (photo)electrochemical water splitting, rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors