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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 28, 2023
Extended Early Bird Ends: Aug 28, 2023

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Kazunari Domen
The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Prof. Jae Sung Lee
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea
Title: Large Scale Solar Hydrogen Production by Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Professor Jae Sung Lee received his BS degree from Seoul National University in 1975, MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1977, and PhD degree from Stanford University in 1984. After a brief tenure at Catalytica Inc. as a research fellow, he returned to his native Korea to become a professor of chemical engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He and his group moved to Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2013. He has been leading a research group of the “eco-friendly catalysis and energy laboratory”, whose research interests are focused on photocatalysis for energy applications, electrocatalysis for water splitting, and heterogeneous catalysis of CO2 utilization. He has special interest in solar fuel production via photoelectrochemical cells or photovoltaic-electrolyzer systems.

He served as the President of Korean Association of Photo Science (KAPS) and the Treasurer of Asian Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies (APACS). He is (or was) in the editorial boards of Journal of Catalysis, Applied Catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, ChemCatChem, Catalysts, Catalysis Letters, and Topics in Catalysis. He has served as a technical advisor for many Korean chemical companies including Sam Sung Petrochemicals, Sam Sung Advanced Institute of Technology, and LG Chemicals. He was the recipient of Green Energy Prize 2005 (Korean Society of Energy Engineering) and Yeosan Catalysis Research Prize 2010 (Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers). He has ⁓450 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited more than 30,000 times (H-index: 93), and ~100 granted patents.
Prof. Francisco Zaera
University of California, Riverside, USA
Title: New Nanostructures for Increased Selectivity and Stability in Catalysis
Prof. Francisco Zaera is presently the Hartland H. Schmidt Founder’s Chair and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, a Cooperative Faculty Member of the Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, a Participating Faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, the Director of the UCR Center for Catalysis, and the Assistant Director for XPS of the UCR Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Facility. He was also until recently Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Zaera has authored approximately 450 articles in scientific publications, which have been cited more than 25,000 times (according to Google Scholar; H index = 86), and has received several international awards, including the George A. Olah, Arthur W. Adamson, and Inaugural Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis Awards of the American Chemical Society, the North American Catalysis Society Paul H. Emmett Award, a Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists, and the 2021 UC Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer Award. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prof. Chi-Chang Hu
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Title: Designs of Bifunctional Catalysts for the Air Electrodes of Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries
Prof. Dr. Chi-Chang Hu received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. After two-year military service, he got an offer from National Chung Cheng University as an assistant professor (1997), associate professor (2000), and full professor (2003). He joined National Tsing Hua University in 2007 and is presently working as a Chair Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University. He has published more than 300 SCI publications with total number of citations more than 18,000 and h-index = 71 in 2022. He has been awarded several international and national prizes/awards (e.g., Thomson Scientific Citation Laureate Award, ISE Tajima Prize, SCEJ Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer, and Outstanding Scholar, National Science Council, Taiwan, etc.). He concurrently serves as an editorial board member in Journal of the Taiwanese Institute of Chemical Engineers (indexed by SCI) and an editorial advisory board member in the Journal of Power Sources. He served as Vice Chair in Division 4 of ISE and Committee member in the ECS Individual Membership Committee before. Now, he is the President of the Electrochemical Society of Taiwan and the Regional Representatives of Taiwan in ISE and ECS. His current research interests include design and tailoring of functional materials (including electroplated Cu nanotwined foil) for the applications of supercapacitors, rechargeable metal-air batteries, Li-based batteries, and electrochemical deionization of brackish water and sea water. He also employs the Design of Experiments to find and optimize the key factors in the electrochemical processes.
Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Title: Importance of Catalysis in Controlled Radical Polymerization
Kris Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and director of Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He prepares advanced materials for biomedical, environmental, and energy-related applications. In 1994 he discovered Cu-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, commercialized in 2004 in US, Japan and Europe. He has co-authored >1,200 publications, (>185,000 citations, h-index 206) and 68 US patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, and European, Australian, Polish, Hungarian, and Georgian Academies of Sciences. He received 2023 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, 2015 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and eleven honorary degrees.
Prof. Richard J. SAYKALLY
UC Berkeley, USA
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Born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and educated at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Madison, Saykally has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1979. He and his students have pioneered many important advances in spectroscopy, including velocity modulation spectroscopy of ions, terahertz laser vibration-rotation-tunneling spectroscopy of clusters, infrared photon counting spectroscopy, cavity ringdown spectroscopy, and X-ray spectroscopy of liquid microjets. These have permitted the first detailed study of important textbook molecules, including the hydronium (H3O+), hydroxide (OH-) and ammonium (NH4+) ions, as well as water clusters and small carbon clusters.

Recent work includes the spectroscopic determination of a universal water force field via the study of water clusters, the development of femtosecond nonlinear optical molecular imaging methods applied to single nanowire lasers and biological systems, femtosecond UV SHG/SFG studies of aqueous interfaces, and soft X-ray spectroscopy of liquids and liquid surfaces.

A co-author of over 400 publications that have been cited over 50,000 times (H index > 100), the recipient of over 80 honors and awards from 15 different countries, Saykally is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received the E.O. Lawrence Award in Chemistry from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Hinshelwood Lectureship from Oxford University, the Inaugural International Solvay Chair in Chemistry from the Solvay Institutes of Belgium, the Peter DeBye Award in Physical Chemistry from the ACS, the J.C. Bose Lectureship from IACS-Kolkata, and the Faraday Lectureship Prize from the UK Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a UC-Berkeley Distinguished Teacher, and has been active at the national level in science education. Over 150 students and postdocs have trained under his direction, many of whom hold prominent positions in academic, government, and industrial institutions.
Prof. Holger Braunschweig
University of Würzburg, Germany
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Prof. Itamar Willner
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials for Advanced Catalysis and Medical Applications
Professor Itamar Willner is a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests include bionanoscience, DNA nanotechnology, biomimetic systems, catalysis, biocatalysis, photocatalysis, stimuli-responsive materials and drug delivery systems, energy conversion by artificial photosynthetic systems and biofuel cells. He received many awards including the Max-Planck Research Award for International Cooperation, The Israel Chemical Society Award, The Israel Prize in Chemistry, The Rothschild Prize, the EMET Prize and the Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society. He coauthored over 890 research papers, and was listed by Thompson Reuters/Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher and among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014- 2020). He has over 80,000 citations (Web of Science), and has an h-index of 150 (Web of Science), 166 (Google Scholar). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and of the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina. He is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is or was a member of more than 30 Editorial Boards or Editorial Advisory Boards of Journals, including Angew. Chem.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Nano Lett.; ACS Nano.; Materials Today Chemistry; ChemPhysChem; Langmuir; Small; ChemBioChem; ChemElectroChem; and more.
Prof. Chunshan Song
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: New Design Approaches to CO2 Capture and Conversion to Chemicals and Fuels Towards Carbon Neutrality
Dr. Chunshan Song is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in the US since July 2020. His research focuses on the catalysis and chemistry of energy and fuels including adsorptive CO2 separation and CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuels; adsorptive, oxidative and catalytic processing of fuels; shape-selective catalysis; synthesis and application of nano-porous materials. He has published 500 refereed journal articles, 8 patents, 15 edited books and 33 book chapters (with 45,000 cites, H-index of 100 in Google Scholar, Sept 2023). He held a visiting or guest professorship at Imperial College London, University of Paris VI (now Sorbonne University), Tsinghua University, Dalian University of Technology, and as an honorary professor at Tianjin University. He has received many awards and honours, including Fellow of American Chemical Society (ACS), George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry, Henry H. Storch Award in Fuel Chemistry; Fulbright Scholar; ACS Energy & Fuels Division’s Distinguished Researcher Award; Herman Pines Award from Catalysis Club of Chicago; Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award; and Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chinese American Chemical Society.