Conference Flyer

speakers of AEMDS 2024

 



Prof. Jiyun Zhao
City University of HongKong, China

Dr. Jiyun Zhao is a professor in Department of mechanical engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD degree from MIT and master degree from Tsinghua University. He was a senior engineer working at AREVA North America Headquarters for more than five years. He was also appointed as an assistant professor in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for four years. He has more than 20 years research experiences in thermal and fluids engineering in energy systems. He had published more than 120 papers in the leading journals. He received best paper awards from Applied Energy, Progress in Nuclear Energy etc. He is listed as World's top 2% scientists by Stanford university. He is serving as an advisory editor for Annals of Nuclear Energy, and associate editor for Case Studies in Thermal Engineering and Heat Transfer Engineering.

 




Prof. Chong Wen Tong
University of Malaya, Malaysia

Prof. Ir. Dr. Chong Wen Tong is currently a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. He is also the Head of UM Centre for Energy Sciences. He joined UM after spending 10 years in various industries, including Dyson and Sony. He is a Chartered Engineer registered by the Engineering Council (UK) since 2014. Prof. Chong's research interests are Renewable Energy&Green Technology, Wind Turbine Technology, Industrial Aerodynamics and Innovative Product Design. He has co-authored >180 research articles with the H-Index – 48 (WoS). He is the Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Green Energy&International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology. He was selected for the 2019 Top Research Scientists Malaysia by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, and 2020, 2021, 2022&2023 World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. Prof. Chong has won more than 25 invention and innovation awards in various international innovations&inventions fairs, including iENA (Germany), SIIF (Korea)&WIAC. He also won Second Place in the Royal Academy of Engineering's Leaders in Innovation Fellowships – Final Pitch Session 2016/17. In 2016; he won the First Prize of National-Intellectual-Property-Award 2016 and WIPO Medal for his invention, Cross-Axis-Wind-Turbine which his team is collaborating with PETRONAS to commercialize it. He is the Conference Chair of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology. In 2023, he was elected as Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASc). Prof. Chong was also appointed as the Chief Juror of the International Innovation Awards in Malaysia Technology Expo, MTE 2023&2024.

 




Prof. Mohammadreza Aghaei
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

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)-PVcomB, Germany, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He has been joined to the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering at the University of Freiburg, as a Senior Lecturer and Professor since 2017. Later, he also fulfilled another two years postdoc in the Design of Sustainable Energy Systems Group 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 also the chair of the working group 2: reliability and durability of PV in EU COST Action PEARL PV.
Currently, he is working as a senior scientist at the Smart Buildings and Infrastructure group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. He is also the coordinator of an EU Horizon 2020 project“COLLECTiEF”- Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility. He is also an IEEE senior member. He authored numerous publications in internationally refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His main research interests include Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Transition, Energy Flexibility, Autonomous Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

 




Prof. Guohua Xie
Xiamen University, China

Dr. Guohua Xie obtained his Ph.D. degree from Jilin University (China) in 2011, working on OLED microdisplays. From August 2011, Dr. Xie carried out his postdoctoral research at TU Dresden (Germany), sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, investigating the stability of OLEDs. Dr. Xie worked for an OLED-based interdisciplinary project to treat skin cancer with OLEDs at the University of St Andrews (UK) since 2013. In 2015, he joined the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (China). Since 2023, Dr. Xie served as a full professor in the Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technologies) of Xiamen University, working on the interdisciplinary research of the emerging optoelectronic materials and devices. Dr. Xie has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications with an H-index of 52 and contributed to 1 book as the editor-in-chief. In 2020, Dr. Xie has been admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, he also serves as a member of Youth Editorial Board respectively for “Chinese Journal of Luminescence”, “SmartMat”, “InfoMat”, “InfoScience”, and “The Innovation”. Meanwhile, Dr. Xie is an Academic Editor of the journal “The Innovation Materials”.





Prof. Daniel MacDonald
Australian National University, Australia

Since completing his PhD at Australian National University (ANU) in 2001, Professor Macdonald has worked as a Research Scientist at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), and at the ANU where he has held three Australian Research Council funded fellowships (Postdoctoral fellowship 2003-06, QEII fellowship 2007-11 and Future fellowship 2012-15). Professor Daniel Macdonald has over 20 years of experience in silicon solar cell research, spanning materials, device design and fabrication and advanced characterization. He leads a team of 25 postdoctoral fellows and research students, has published over 400 papers in the field. He has held three ARC Fellowships and is a leading expert in silicon solar cells and their commercialisation. He is also the Convenor of the Bachelor of Engineering (Research and Development) Program in the ANU's School of Engineering.





Prof. Pengchao Kang
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Pengchao Kang received his Ph.D degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He has worked in North Carolina State University for one year as Visiting Scholar. Now, he serves as a full Professor in the department of materials science, the school of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include nanomaterials, aluminium matrix composites, sustainable energy. He has published over 80 papers in these fields.





Prof. Jichun Ye
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Prof. Ye received his bachelor degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, and Ph.D degree from University of California, Davis in 2005, both in the field of materials science. After graduation, he joined Spansion Inc. (a spinoff of AMD in the business of NOR flash memory) and later on moved to solar cells companies in Silicon Valley. In August 2012, he joined Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), CAS, to continue his researches in silicon-based solar cells, perovskite tandem solar cells, and wide-bandgap semiconductor devices. He is now the deputy director of New Energy Technology Institute, a subsidiary institute to NIMTE. He, as a group leader, has built a research team with 15 full-time staffs and 90 graduate students. He has published more than 260 papers in the top journals (including Nature Energy, Joule, EES, AM, and Nature Comm.) with 6300 citations (Google) and H index of 42, and 3 book chapters. He has also applied/awarded 260/110 patents. His group has undertaken more than 100 research projects and fulfilled 2 technology transfers. His group developed tube-PECVD based TOPCon technology and promoted the industrial application as the mainstream technology in the Si-based solar industry.
He is now also the deputy director of the academic committee of Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Solar Energy Utilization and Energy Saving Technology, the deputy director of Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center of Energy Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, and the deputy director of the academic committee of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering. He also serves as a reviewer for more than 60 international journals. He has been awarded the National Research Leader in Technology Innovation, the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, APVIA Award - Technological Achievement etc.




Prof. Alberto-Jesús Perea-Moreno
University of Cordoba (Spain), Spain

Dr. Alberto-Jesús Perea-Moreno is a Full Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, Radiology, and Physical Medicine at the University of Cordoba (Spain). He obtained his M.S. as an Agricultural Engineer in 2007 and completed his Ph.D. in Geomatics at the University of Cordoba in 2012. He has obtained 2 six-year research periods and one six-year transfer period. Dr. Perea Moreno's research primarily focuses on the optimization of sustainable energy resources. With over 1,400 citations according to Scopus database, he has achieved an H-index of 20. His publications span prestigious journals in the ENERGY & FUELS and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES category of the JCR, Energies, Renewable Energy, Fuel, Frontiers In Energy Research or Journal of Cleaner Production. Among his most cited works, notable titles include 'Biomass as Renewable Energy: Worldwide Research Trends,' 'Fuel Properties of Avocado Stone,' and 'Towards Forest Sustainability in Mediterranean Countries Using Biomass as Fuel for Heating. Dr. Perea Moreno's inclusion in the Top 2% Scientists in the World ranking, established by Stanford University in 2022, underscores his impact on global research in the field of energies. He has been involved in 4 European projects, 2 international cooperation projects (AECID), 4 national projects, and has led a national project, as well as participated in 3 regional projects, many of which are related to the use of biomass for energy purposes and the exploration of new energy sources. His ongoing work significantly contributes to the understanding and application of sustainable technologies that shape the future of energy.




Assoc. Prof. Deli Li
Fujian Normal University, China

Deli Li (Bachelor's degree in physics in 2007 and the Ph.D. degree in 2015 from Fudan university, Shanghai China) is an associate professor of device physics at Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou China. He published 20 papers in research journals, and translate three books, Saturn and how to observe it, Peter Grego; Comets and how to observe them, Richard Schmude; Springer, and Why does E=mc2, Brian cox and JeffForshaw, Da Capo. He has 900 citations and h-index 12. His main topics of interest are device physics in perovskite solar cells, artificial synapse and neuristors. He has developed the application of measurement techniques and physical modeling of MIM energy devices that relate the device operation with the elementary steps that take place at the nanoscale dimension: charge transfer, carrier transport, chemical reaction, etc., especially in the field of general device models.

 




Assoc. Prof. Paolo Emilio Santangelo
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Paolo E. Santangelo currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy; from 2018 to 2022 he was an Assistant Professor at the same institution. He earned a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (2005, cum laude, “Ing. Luigi De Januario” award for the best Master’s thesis in energy engineering) and a doctorate (2009) at UNIMORE, then he held post-doctoral positions both in Italy (UNIMORE) and in the USA (Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland), where he also enjoyed visiting positions while pursuing a doctoral degree. He participated in the project “Mass Manufacture of MEAs Using High Speed Deposition Processes (MAMA-MEA)”, awarded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU) under the Horizon 2020 program (2018 – 2021, Best Innovation Award at the European Hydrogen Week 2020). His research interests fall under the umbrella of thermal fluid sciences and include sprays, flow/flame interaction, surface cooling, heat transfer in manufacturing processes, fuel cells and hydrogen production.

 



Assoc. Prof. Xue Jiang
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Xue Jiang is an associate professor in Department of Energy and Power Engineering, at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. She received her PhD degree and bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and received her master's degree from the University of Bath, UK. She was a visiting scholar at Princeton University. Her research interests include the ignition and flame propagation characteristics of alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, advanced combustion strategy of IC engines, etc.

 




Assoc. Prof. Xiaoyan Li
Hebei University of Science & Technology, China

Assoc. Prof. Li completed her doctorate at Donghua University and went to Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2015 for academic exchange to explore performance enhancement mechanisms based on fabric-based wearable energy storage materials. Then she joined the College of Textile and Garment in Hebei University of Science & Technology as an imported Class A talent. She was selected in the sixth edition of the "Annual Impact" list of the world's top 2% of scientists in 2023 published by Stanford University. She has published more than 20 SCI papers as a first author/corresponding author, including 6 papers in top journals in the first region. And she is in charge of National Youth Natural Science Foundation, Hebei Provincial Natural Science Foundation and Hebei Higher Education Scientific Research Program. In addition, she has led several projects at the departmental level and 2 directive projects at the provincial and ministerial level.