Scientific Board
Biography
Dr. Hongwei Wu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire. He is a Chartered Engineering (CEng), Member of IMechE and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dr Wu obtained his PhD in 2004 at the Beihang University where he conducted research on thermofluids. He has an academic/research profile previously developed at Northumbria University, University of the West of Scotland, Birmingham University and Brunel University London in the UK and at the University of British Columbia & University of Alberta in Canada. His research has focused on rotating turbomachinery, energy system and energy recovery, two phase and multiphase flow, thermodynamic analysis, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, advanced cooling technology, computational fluid dynamics (CFD). He has been involved in many research projects such as Royal Society (RG130646), Royal Academy of Engineering (DVF1718\8\26), Innovate UK (104050) as PI and CoI as well as previously as a main investigator on EPSRC (EP/G059799/1), European Commission (FP7-KBBE-2011-5), etc. He has published over 120 papers with more than 85 in peer-reviewed journals. He serves as an Editor/Editorial Board Member of several International Journals. He also serves as general Chair and session Chairs/co-Chairs, TPC members at a number of International Conferences. He is currently an EPSRC Peer Review Full College Member and a regular reviewer of EPSRC proposals. He is also a reviewer for Royal Society, British Council Newton Fund/Science Research Programme grant.
Biography
Dr. Omid Akbarzadeh Pivehzhani is working with Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre since 2016. His main research area is heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering. He has spent 10 years in academic-industrial projects as a research officer and post-doctoral. Dr. Omid has worked for 5 years in the oil and gas industry as a chemical engineer. He developed advanced smart catalysts, especially for the oil and gas industries. Dr. Omid has contributed to two PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd industrial catalyst projects and worked on an international Airbus R&D project in NANOCAT. Currently, he is the PI of the graphene catalyst project at Hokkaido University in Japan, a project member of the FRGS grant in UTP, and assigned to the NANOCAT center project. Dr. Omid was the Chairman, keynote speaker, and organizing committee of many international conferences. He is currently the supervisor of three Ph.D. students from different countries. He has published many ISI papers; book chapters and has two approved and granted patents. Also, he has hands-on experience and passed several pieces of training on handling different types of equipment that are being widely used for material synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation. He is in close collaboration with other departments, government agencies, and universities around the world. He is visiting researcher at Jiangsu University China and Hokkaido University Japan. He is a member of the society of petroleum engineers (SPE) and a Senior Member of the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. Omid awarded a full fellowship from UTP during my Ph.D. and was involved in lab demonstrator and teaching in the different courses of chemical engineering. He awarded Silver Medal in 27th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX 2016), Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia, and Silver Medal of Post Graduate Research Project in the 35th Science & Engineering Design Exhibition (SEDEX 35).
Biography
Prof. Xin Jin obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from University of Kansas under the supervision of Prof. Raghunath V. Chaudhari. He joined China University of Petroleum and received early promotion to associate professor. His research areas include Nano-catalysis, biomass conversion and multiphase reaction engineering. Prof. Jin is the recipient of ACS Catalysis Early Career Award, Kokes Award and Young Scientist Award from North American Catalysis Society and Frank Bowdish Award for Excellent Research.
Biography
Prof. Abdeltif Amrane is full Professor at the University of Rennes. Since approximately 13 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewaters and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has managed 9 PhD theses as thesis director and 3 are in progress; he has also co-managed 6 PhD theses and 2 co-management theses are in progress. He has been involved in several projects as a manager or a participant, as well in international collaborations. He has published about 330 international papers including 17 papers in press. He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications.
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Prof. Lingai Luo received her Ph.D. degree (1991) from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. She is Research Director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and works at Laboratory of Thermal and Energy science at Nantes (LTEN). Pr. Luo is the author of 2 books and over 120 journal articles. She was the head of LOCIE Laboratoiry of CNRS and University of Savoie, the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering and the head of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is serving as subject editor of Energy Journal and as associated editor of three others journals
Biography
Dr. Vakhtang Barbakadze has his expertise in isolation and structure elucidation of biologically active plant polysaccharides and polyethers. In 1978 and 1999 he has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci., respectively. He is the Head of Department of Plant Biopolymers at the Tbilisi State Medical University Institute of Pharmacochemistry. In 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. In 2004 he was Georgian State Prize Winner in Science and Technology.
Biography
Dr. Eugene Salgansky is a leading researcher of the Combustion and Explosion Department of the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his Dr. in 2013 at the IPCP RAS where he conducted research on filtration combustion. His research has focused on filtration combustion and pyrolysis (incl. using catalysts), thermodynamics, multiphase flow, energy recovery and heat transfer. He has published over 100 papers with more than 60 in peer-reviewed journals. He serves as members of the organizing committee at a number of International Conferences.
Biography
Prof. Manoj B. Gawande received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India and then undertook several research stints in Germany, South Korea, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA and UK. He also worked as a Visiting Professor at CBC-SPMS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. Presently, he is Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai Marathwada Campus, Jalna, India. His research interests focus on SACs, advanced nanomaterials, sustainable technologies, and cutting-edge catalysis and energy applications. Currently, he is supervising several doctoral students and postdoctoral co-workers. He has published over 116 international scientific papers.