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Professor Wei-Hsin Chen is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He was the visiting professor of Princeton University, University of New South Wales, University of Edinburg, University of British Columbia, and University of Lorraine. He was also invited as an Invited Professor of the University of Lorraine in 2019-2022. His research topics include bioenergy (combustion, torrefaction, pyrolysis, gasification, liquefaction, bioethanol, etc.), hydrogen production and purification, clean energy (clean coal technology, wind power, thermoelectric generation, carbon capture and utilization, etc.), energy system analysis (optimization, evolutionary computation, machine learning, etc.), and atmospheric science (aerosol absorption and PM2.5). 

He is the editor, associate editor, and editorial board member of several prestigious international journals and the guest editor of over 15 international journals. He has published 950 papers, 11 books and chapters concerning energy science and air pollution. He is a 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Highly Cited Researcher of Web of Science (7 consecutive years). 

He received 2015 and 2018 Outstanding Research Awards (National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan), 2015 and 2020 Highly Cited Paper Awards (Applied Energy, Elsevier), the 2017 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers), 2019 Highly Cited Review Article Award (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier), 2020 Top Download Paper Award (International Journal of Energy Research, Wiley), 2021 TECO Award, 2022 Top Cited Article (International Journal of Energy Research, Wiley), 2022 Highly Cited Review Paper Award (Applied Energy, Elsevier), 2022 Future Technology Award (Taiwan), etc. He is also the first fellow of the Taiwan Association for Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell (THEFC).

Dr. An Ding is a Professor and PhD advisor at the School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA). He was a research fellow under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships program, collaborating with Prof. Eberhard Morgenroth at Eawag. Prof. Ding currently serves as the Vice President of the European Chinese Association for Eco-Environment (ECAEE). He is also a member of the International Water Association – Young Water Professional China (IWA-YWP) and a life member of the International Bioprocessing Association (IBA). 

His research focuses on sustainable wastewater treatment technologies, including membrane-based technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse (MBR), membrane fouling and fouling control, virus and pathogen removal, low-energy sludge and feces treatment (sludge conditioning and dewatering optimization), and resource recovery from sludge through Life Cycle Assessment. He has published over 90 papers, with an H-index of 39. Prof. Ding leads more than 15 research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs Fund, the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province – Outstanding Youngster Fund, and the Harbin Natural Science Foundation – Youth Reserve Talent Fund, among others.

Zhongfang Lei received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Tongji University, China. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Dr. Lei’s research covers the development and design of efficient processes for water/wastewater and organic solid waste treatment, especially nutrients and resources recovery via bacterial and algal-bacterial granular sludge technique, in addition to reclamation, reuse and recycling of waste biomass, serving the society for sustainable development and carbon neutrality. 

Up to the present, as PI and Co-I, Dr. Lei completed more than 20 projects from national/joint international scientific research funds, and she authored/co-authored about 280 peer-reviewed journal papers relating to waste conversion and wastewater treatment.

Dr. Chitsan Lin is a professor of the Department of Marine Environmental Engineering at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST). He was the Dean of the College of Ocean Engineering in 2009-2012. Dr. Lin obtained his Master of Environmental Engineeing from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1988. He then joined USEPA Region II to serve as a member of Technical Assistance Team for two years. Finally Dr. Lin obtained his Ph.D. of Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1995. 

During the past 27 years, Dr. Chitsan Lin has published more than 200 SCI papers. He was an editorial board member of the Environmental Engineering Science and served as guest editors for various journals. He also has a strong linkage with international societies particularly in the Southeast Asian Countries.  Dr. Lin not only devotes himself in the academic research, he also serves as a volunteered environmental educator to assist in the community out reach programs. Recently, Dr. Lin has dedicated in the climate changes public and industrial awareness education. He is a certified ISO 14064-1:2018 Lead Verifier. With the internationally recognized certification, he is leading a group of on-scene verifiers to investigate the Greenhouse Gases Inventory for industrial organizations in Taiwan to produce their annual GHG Report along with strategic suggestions for GHGs reduction. 

Dr. Chitsan Lin, Professor, P.E.

Department of Marine Environmental Engineering,

National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Tel/Fax: +886-7-3651472

Email: ctlin@nkust.edu.tw

Professor Zhenguo Huang is leading the Hydrogen Energy Program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was awarded a Discovery Early Career Research Award and Future Fellowships by the Australian Research Council. He is a Research Advisor appointed by the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the Chair of the International Hydrogen Carriers Alliance, and a graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

His research is centered on boron chemistry for energy conversion and storage, including hydrogen storage materials, electrolytes, and boron-containing nanomaterials. 

A/Prof Dawei Su has a solid background in material science. His unique background allows him to integrate materials science and physics with chemistry and nanotechnology. This synergy combines his expertise in experimental work (synthesis, characterisation, quantitative analysis) and atomic-scale and electronic-scale theoretical investigations (quantum chemistry, density functional theory and Ab Initio molecular dynamics). 

He is leading the research program centred on unveiling the material’s correlation with its electrochemical or photochemical properties from the electronic levels via the combination of in-situ and operando spectroscopies and theoretical investigations (DFT and AIMD). He has driven fundamental advances in designing chemically and structurally tuneable materials and uncovering the impact of materials’ properties on electrochemical performance.

He is passionate about investigating the intrinsic properties of the materials correlated with their subtle micro-structure changes via the development of spatial- and time-resolved light interaction technology. For example, he developed an X-Ray diffraction (XRD) calculation model to structure-resolvedly refine in-situ XRD, an effective approach to resolve the subtle structure evolution of materials.

He has published more than 150 SCI papers. His publications are highly evaluated and extensively cited by other research groups. These innovative, original research works have been cited over 14,000 times, with an H-index of 62.

Prof. Yi-Ming Sun is a Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Joint Professor of the Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, and Dean of College of Engineering, Yuan Ze University (YZU), and he also serves as the President of the Taiwan Membrane Society currently. He received his PhD from University of Cincinnati in 1987 and BS from National Taiwan University in 1981, both in Chemical Engineering. 

His research interests include Bio-based Polymers, Membrane Preparation and Separation Processes, Polymeric Biomaterials, Controlled Drug Release, and Transport Properties in Polymeric Materials. 

In recognition of his academic contribution, he has been honored with the Y. Z. Hsu Yuan Ze Chair Professor from Far Eastern Y.Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation, YABEC Award from Asian Federation of Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering Award from Prof. Jhao-Jen Lee Biomedical Engineering Development Foundation. He has also been selected in the 2021 world's top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University. 

Shicheng Zhang is a full professor at the department of environmental science and engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and the director of Shanghai Technical Service Platform for Pollution Control and Resource Utilization of Organic Wastes. He currently serves as a core group member of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU SWMP). His research group is focusing on biomass waste and organic waste utilization by chemical, biological and biochemical methods, especially hydrothermal conversion of organic waste to high value-added products. 

Prof. Zhang has published 6 book chapters, more than 200 journal papers with SCI citations over 9700 times (H-index 54). He has received several awards for his scholarly achievements, such as the Second Prize of Natural Science Award for Scientific Research in Colleges and

Universities of the Ministry of Education, and so on. He serves as an associate Editor of Environmental Engineering Research, editorial board members of Processes, Biomass, Environmental Sanitation Engineering (in Chinese), and Energy Environmental Protection (in Chinese), Gest Editor of Green Chemistry and Bioresources Technology. He has been recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientist (2020, 2021 and 2022).

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4BOwEfUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/H-2399-2011

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shicheng-Zhang-5