speakers

 

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohammadreza Aahaei
University of Freiburg, Germany

Mohammadreza Aghaei received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2016. He joined Fraunhofer ISE as visiting scholar in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Fraunhofer ISE and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He has been joined to the Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg, as a Lecturer in 2017. Later, he also fulfilled another two years postdoc in at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands. He was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in 2020. He was involved in several national and EU-funded research projects dealing with energy systems, energy flexibility, solar photovoltaics, and autonomous technology. Currently, he is the coordinator/leader of several EU projects at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. He is also a full professor in the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is also an IEEE senior member, and he is a world's top 0.5% scientist. He also authored over 200 publications in internationally refereed journals, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Prof. Vladimir Chigrinov
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Speech Title: Azo Dye Photoaligned Nanolayers: New Nanotechnology for Liquid Crystal Devices

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov has been a Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999 and is an internationally recognized expert in liquid crystal technology and flat panel displays. In 1994, he was recognized as an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, and he became a SID Fellow in 2008. Since 1974, he has made significant contributions to the field of liquid crystals, authoring 6 books, 31 review papers and book chapters, approximately 335 journal papers, more than 757 conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications, including 50 US patents. He received the Excellent Research Award from the HKUST School of Engineering in 2012, and in 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal and The Best Award at the Invention & Innovation Awards held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2018, he received the prestigious Slottow-Owaki Prize from the Society for Information Display (SID). He has also been a Member of the EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017.

From 2018 to 2020, Professor Chigrinov served as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering at Foshan University, Foshan, China. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as Vice President and Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and since 2021, he has been a Distinguished Fellow of the institute. He has also been an IETI Fellow since 2019. Since 2023, Professor Chigrinov has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Liquid Crystal Section of the journal Crystals.

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