Speakers
Speakers
Prof. Yulong Ding
University of Birmingham, UK
Professor Yulong Ding obtained his BEng (1985) and MSc (1988) from The University of Science & Technology Beijing (USTB), and PhD (1997) from The University of Birmingham (UoB). He taught undergraduate programmes on Transport Phenomena in Metallurgical Processes and performed industrial research on oxygen-enriched blast furnace pulverised coal injection for 6 years at USTB before his PhD study on smelting reduction for ferrochromium alloys production. He returned to UoB in 2013, as founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering. Prior to this, he was Professor of Chemical Engineering and head of University of Leeds Institute of Particle Science & Engineering. He has current research interests in energy materials, energy process engineering and industrial decarbonisation. He is the founder of UoB Centre for Energy Storage, and currently leads the UoB thermal energy conversion and storage group, and industrial decarbonisation taskforce. He has published 550+ technical papers with 450+ in peer-reviewed journals (GS H-Index ~92) and filed 100+ patents. He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview Power). His work on composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage has led to large scale commercial applications in heat decarbonisation with total installations exceeding ~600MW / ~2.5GWh (Jinhe Energy). He developed passively cooled container technology, which is in large scale commercial demonstration (CRRC). His work has been recognised by Humboldt Research Award (2023); IOR J&E Hall Gold Medal (2023); ESIE Award & Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Energy Storage (2022); IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021); the election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020), IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019); and Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (‘The Engineer’, 2011).
Prof. Soteris Kalogirou
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. 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 Honorary Editor 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.
Prof. Yong Tae Kang
Korea university, Korea
He received his BS and MS at Department of Mechanical Eng., Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and PhD at Department of Mechanical Eng, The Ohio State University in 1994. After spending two years at the OSU as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined JST as a special researcher and TUAT, Tokyo, Japan as a visiting professor in 1997. After spending three years at JST and TUAT, he joined the faculty at Kyung Hee University, Korea in 2000, and moved to Korea University in 2014. His research focuses on thermal energy systems including absorption heat pumps, heat exchanger design, refrigeration systems, nanofluids, CO2 capture using nanoabsorbents andsorption thermal battery. He published more than 200 international and domestic journals and more than 250 conference papers. He is now a member of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), KSME (Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers), IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration), JSHRAE (Japanese Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and SAREK (Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineers of Korea). In 2010, his lab. was designated as a National Research Lab. by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2012, he served as a vice president of graduate school, Kyung Hee University. In 2015, he received the Asian Academic Award jointly from SAREK/CAR/JSRAE. In 2017, He received the best research award from Korea University. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He was also elected as a fellow of National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2020. He served as a director of BK21 plus center for creative research engineers of convergence mechanical systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University. He is a former president of SAREK in 2022 and now fellow of SAREK and AUTSE. Now he is a director of Research Center for Plus Energy Building Innovative Technology (ERC) sponsored by Korea Government.
Prof. Zuankai Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG
Professor Wang Zuankai is Associate Vice President (Research & Innovation), Kuok Group Professor in Nature-Inspired Engineering and Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his B.S. degree from Jilin University, M.S. degree from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After one-year postdoc training at Columbia University, he joined the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in September 2009 and became a Chair Professor in July 2021. He was also the Associate Dean in the College of Engineering (2019-2022) at CityU. He serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Droplet (Wiley).
He is a Fellow of Hong KongAcademy of Engineering Sciences, Royal Society of Chemistry, and International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE). He is recognized as the Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (2022, 2023). His work has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and his innovations have won the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva Gold Medal with Congratulations of Jury and Gold Medal. He has received many awards including the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2023 (Engineering and Technology), Croucher Senior RGC Senior Research Fellowship, RGC Senior Research Fellowship, BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize, Green Tech Award, Xplorer Prize, 35th World Cultural Council Special Recognition Award, Outstanding Youth Award conferred by ISBE, Chinese Government Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Award, and Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award.
Prof. Lizhi Zhang
South China University of Technology, China
Professor Lizhi Zhang has worked with Functional materials and Heat and Mass Transfer, with Built Environmental technologies since 1992. His research interests include: membrane technologies; Development of novel functional materials for built environment; self-cleaning surfaces. He has been the principal investigators for numerous fundings like NSFC (Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects, distinguished young scholar project); National Key projects of Science & Technology; Key projects of provincial and municipal governments, etc. Li-Zhi Zhang has published more than 190 SCI papers in international journals. He has authored 5 books in advanced humidity control and heat and mass transfer. His book titled “Conjugate Heat and Mass Transfer in Heat Mass Exchanger Ducts” was published by Academic Press, Elsevier, in 2013. His current ISI H-index is 54. He has been consecutively nominated by Elsevier as the “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers ” for 10 years (2014-2023). He was awarded 15 Chinese patents, 3 PCTs and 3 US patents. 2 Patents have been industrialized. He is currently the editor for SCI international journal: Energy and Buildings (IF 5.1). He won the prestigious National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2014). He was the co-chairs of three International Symposiums on Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation. He has supervised 20 Ph.D graduates and 70 Master graduates.