University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Professor Rose Amal is a UNSW Scientia Professor and an ARC Laureate Fellow. Prof. Rose Amal is a chemical engineer and the leader of the Particles and Catalysis Research Group. Previously she was also the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (2010-2013). She is recognized as a pioneer and leading authority in the fields of fine particle technology, photocatalysis, and functional nanomaterials having made significant contributions to these related areas of research over the past 15 years. Her research contributions span from fundamental chemistry to applied chemical engineering fields; from material science and nano-research to a specialized photochemistry field. Her current research focuses on designing nanomaterials for solar and chemical energy conversion applications (including photocatalysis for water and air purification, water splitting, development of indoor self-cleaning materials, low-temperature catalytic reactions) and engineering systems for solar-induced processes, using the sun’s energy as a clean fuel source.
Over the last 10 years, she has successfully attracted over $25M to UNSW from the Australian Research Council and industry partners (including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, ARC Laureate Fellowship, 6 ARC Discovery grants, 9 ARC Linkage Project grants, 15 ARC LIEF grants, and 3 ARC Linkage International Awards). She has published > 450 publications which have cumulatively received over 11700 citations, resulting in an H-index of 61 (as of February 2017, SCOPUS).
Professor Rose Amal has received numerous prestigious awards including being listed in Australia's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers (2012-2015), the ExxonMobil Award (2012), the Judy Raper Women in Engineering Leadership Award (2012), the NSW Science and Engineering Award - Emerging Research (2011), the UNSW Scientia Professor (2009), the Freehills Award (2008), and the UNSW Vice Chancellors Award for Research Supervision Excellence (2003). She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a chair of IChemE (Australia).
Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
Shu-Lei Chou is a Professor and founding director at the Institute for Carbon Neutralization, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, China. He obtained his bachelor's (1999) and master’s degree (2004) from Nankai University, China. His Ph.D. degree was received from the University of Wollongong, Australia, where he worked for 11 years from postdoctoral position to full professor. He received the 2014 Scopus Young Researcher Awards - Winner for Engineering & Technology, Australia. He was also listed as Clarivate Analytics world highly cited researcher for four consecutive years from 2018 to 2021. His research has been focused on energy storage materials for battery applications, especially on novel materials, new binders, and new electrolytes for Na-ion batteries.
Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
Dr. Min Zhao is a Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Science at Wenzhou University. His research interest focus on aquatic ecology, biomathematics, wastewater treatment, environmental ecology and computational fluid dynamics. He has published more than 100 academic papers in international journals and has 18 national patents. His research has been supported by various organizations, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. As the chief scientist, he has led the team for many years to build a system of ecologically friendly decentralized wastewater treatment technologies, which have achieved a series of innovative results. The achievements have been listed in the Applicable Technology and Product List of Sponge City and the 13th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation of Housing Urban and Rural Construction issued by China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and promoted in China. He won the first prize of Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Province (2014). He also won the first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Awards of Zhejiang Province (2020), and the first prize of Innovation Award of China Industry-University-Research institute collaboration (2019).He was awarded as the National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contribution to the People's Republic of China, 2014. In addition, he was also a recipient of the National level talents for the National “Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Program “of China.
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Da-Wei Wang is currently a Professor and an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. His research interest spreads from sustainable energy materials to advanced system design. As a Chief Investigator, he has attracted numerous competitive external grants. He has contributed 2 book chapters, >100 journal publications, 8 patents and over 20 keynote/invited presentations. He has won some prestigious awards including the 2020 Young Scientist Award (under 40) by the International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation, the 2018-2021 Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics, the Finalist of 2018 AMP Tomorrow Maker, and the 2013 Scopus Young Researcher Award in Engineering and Technology by Elsevier & Australasia Research Management Society. He was a guest speaker at ABC on Future Battery.
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada
Dr. Jianbing Li is a professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). He has research interests in environmental engineering, petroleum waste management, wastewater treatment, oil spill response, environmental modeling and decision analysis, and environmental risk assessment. He has produced more than 240 publications in international journals and conferences, including over 180 refereed journal publications, with an h-index of 42 (Google Scholar). His research has been supported by various organizations, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). He obtained the 2013 Northern BC Business and Technology Award (Collaborative Research Award with Husky Energy), 2010, 2014, and 2019 UNBC Research Excellence Award, and the 2013 UNBC Achievement Award in Professional Practice and Mentorship. He has served as a member of the NSERC Research Tool and Instruments Selection Committee for Civil, Industrial, and Systems Engineering from 2016 to 2021, and the committee Chair in the 2021 competition. He served as a Program Area Co-Lead in “Decanting and Oily Waste Management” of Canada’s Multi-Partner Oil Spill Research Initiative (MPRI) (2018-2022). He has also been serving as a member of the Board of Examiners with Engineers & Geoscientists BC (EGBC) since 2017. He has served as the co-director of the UNBC/UBC environmental engineering program for 4 years (2013-2017) and served as the Acting Chair of the UNBC School of Engineering in 2021. He is the inaugural Chair of the Northern British Columbia Section of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineers (CSCE). He served as a guest editor for Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), International Journal of Environment and Pollution, and International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. He is currently serving in different roles (associate editor, guest associate editor, editorial board member) for various international journals, including Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier),Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters (Elsevier), Environmental Systems Research (Springer), and Water (MDPI).
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Hui Ying Yang is an associate professor in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. Hui Ying is an innovator, educator, pioneer, and leader of synthesis, characterization, and applications of low dimensional nanomaterials in energy and environmental fields. She studies ion transportation, function engineering and chemical doping in nanomaterials. Her research has endowed by cross-disciplinary strategies which could revolutionize the concept of both desalination and clean energy. Dr. Yang’s team has developed multiple approaches in producing high energy density and high-power density lithium-ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, lithium surfer batteries, supercapacitors and so on. Her team has also pioneered in developing new route for fast prototyping of batteries from 3D printer. Dr. Yang provides a comprehensive overview of the ground-breaking concept of selective ion removal process coupled with electrochemical reactions, which lead to a few major industrial collaborations. Her ideas for low energy desalinators are fundamentally built on sound concepts of electrochemistry and under her leadership, her research team has pioneered a revolutionary desalinator using nanomaterials from batteries.
Hui Ying works on developing highly efficient energy storage devices and low energy water desalination technologies to contribute to the global water and energy challenges, RIE 2025 and Singapore Green Plan 2030. Her work offers enormous inspirations in fundamental research of the experimental materials science, chemistry/electrochemistry, and desalination, which has attracted more than S$ 14M from national and international funding agencies. Hui Ying has published more than 300 manuscripts in top international journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano and Nano Letters, with more than 15000 citations and an H-index at 68 (as of April 2022).
Dr. Yang is a fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET) and fellow of the Royal Chemistry Society (RCS). She has been recognized by many international and national research awards, such as the prestigious IPS Nanotechnology Medal (Outstanding Nanotechnology Physics Research) (2018), Nanonica Prize (2014), Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2014) (i.e., she is the 2nd female faculty member in Asia to have received this award for the past over 20 years), MCCC-AAET Green Award (2013), Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (2013), L’Oreal Singapore for Women in Science national Fellowship (2010), Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship (2008) and many more. She and her research works have been highlighted by many international and local Medias with tremendous scientific and social impacts, such as Discovery Channel, Channel News Asia, Straits Times, Wall Street Journals, etc.
Xiaodong Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhongfang Chen University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, U.S.
Andreas Hirsch Germany University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Ho Won Jang Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Johannes C. Jansen University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Freddy Kleitz University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Jian Liu University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Candido F. Pirri Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Rehan Sadiq University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Shuhui Sun Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes, Canada
Xuping Sun University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Xin Tan Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
Jie Tang National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Caiyun Wang University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Haihui Wang Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Jiazhao Wang University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Jinshu Wang Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Shaobin Wang The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Yusuke Yamauchi The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Kun Zhou Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
Dr Tingting Liu joined School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, China in 2021 as a Managing Editor for Carbon Neutralization and faculty member of school. Prior to joining Wenzhou University, she had obtained a PhD in chemical engineering at Curtin University, Australia, and carried out research at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in nanotechnology at Dalian University of Technology, China.
Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
Yao Xiao is deputy dean at the Institute for Carbon Neutralization, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, China. His Ph.D. degree was received from Sichuan University in 2019. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) from 2016 to 2019. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2019 to 2021. He received the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents. At present, he served as a Managing Editor for Carbon Neutralization (Wiley) and a Young Editorial Board Member of the journal Exploration (Wiley). His research focuses on nanostructured electrode materials for battery applications, especially on new layered oxide cathodes for advanced sodium-ion batteries.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
José Oliveira obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Before joining Wiley in 2001, he worked at the University of Antwerp. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Small.
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Guangchen Xu obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (Hons) from the Beijing University of Technology. He spent a year at Michigan State University as a visiting scholar. Before joining the Wiley team in Beijing in 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at Beijing University of Technology.
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Jing Zhu completed her Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011, during this period, she studied and worked in Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as a joint Ph.D. student for 2 years. Jing joined Wiley in July 2011 as a journal Editor and is based in Wiley’s Shanghai office.
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Xiaoyu Zhang received his B.Sc. at Shandong University and then pursued his Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from East China Normal University in 2018. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, USA before joining Wiley. He was the assistant editor and took the position of Journal Publishing Manager in 2021. Xiaoyu is based in Shanghai office.
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