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ICNME 2024 Speakers


 

Prof. Takashige Omatsu
Chiba University, Japan

Fellow of JSAP, OSA, SPIE

Bio: Takashige Omatsu (B.S. (1983), Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Tokyo) is a professor of nano-science division of a faculty of engineering in Chiba University.His research intersts cover a variety of areas, such as nonlinear optics, solid-state and fiber lasers, singular optics, and super-resolution spectroscopy. Recent work has focused on chiral control of nano-structures by angular momentum of light. Such chiral nano-structures will potentially provide a new scientific aspect to metamaterials, plasmonics, and silicon photonics, and they might also enable us to develop nanoscale imaging systems with chiral selectivity. He has already published >100 refereed journal articles, and he has performed >20 invited presentations of major international conferences, including CLEO, CLEO Pacific-Rim, CLEO Europe, LEOS, and ICALEO meetings. He has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Optics Express during 2006-2012. He is also on the editorial board of Applied Physics Express. He is currently working as a steering committee member of the conference on the laser and optoelectronics pacific-rim (CLEO Pacific-rim). Professor Omatsu is a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America. He is also Visiting Professor, Xinjiang Normal University, China.

Prof. Kazuo Umemura
Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Bio: Dr. Kazuo Umemura is a full professor of Tokyo University of Science. His specialty is biophysics, especially, nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology. One of his recent interests is nanoscopic research of hybrids of biomolecules and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Unique structures and physical/chemical properties of the hybrids are promising in biological applications such as nanobiosensors and drug delivery.
Dr. Umemura received his B.S. degree in Physics from Nagoya University. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were given from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After working at several institutes/universities as a researcher in Japan and in China, he became a professor of Tokyo University of Science. Kagurazaka campus of Tokyo University of Science is located at the center of Tokyo, so five subway/railway lines reach in front of the campus.

Assoc. Prof. Bernice Mae Yu Jeco-Espaldon
University of San Agustin, Philippines

Bio: Dr. Bernice Mae Yu Jeco-Espaldon is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of San Agustin, College of Technology. She is a recipient of the Balik (Returning) Scientist Program grant awarded by the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) from August 2024. She is hosted by the Center for Advanced New Materials, Engineering, and Emerging Technologies (CANMEET) at the University of San Agustin.
Dr. Yu Jeco-Espaldon received her B.S. Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Santo Tomas in 2011, and her M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from The University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Her research interests include the fabrication, processing, and characterization of inorganic solar cell devices, as well as the search for new organic nanomaterials suitable for biophotovoltaics and other optoelectronic devices application.


 

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Prof. Kwang Leong Choy
Duke Kunshan University, China

Bio: Kwang Leong Choy [D.Phil. (Oxon), DSc] is the Professor of Materials Science at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Prior to this, she was a Professor of Materials Discovery and the founding Director of the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London (UCL). She also held a Chair in Materials, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham (2002-2014), where she was the Research Director of the University Innovation Centre and University’s Knowledge Exchange Board. Professor Choy earned her D.Phil. in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Hetherington Prize and Oxford Metallurgical Society Award. Additionally, she has received accolades such as the Grunfeld Medal Prize and Kroll Medal & Prize. She has been awarded the Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals (FIMMM) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). She has authored over 300 publications, including 4 books and 20 patents, given over 150 keynote papers/invited lectures and conference session Chairman. She also helped to establish two university spin-out companies. Her expertise has been recognized through Guest Professorships at the University of Uppsala (2001/03), Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE, 2010/2012), and a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientist (2011/2013).
She is leading a multidisciplinary research team and collaborating closely with material engineers, chemists, physicists, bioengineers, nanobiotechnologists, and engineers to create new opportunities in materials creation, discovery and utilization. Her team focuses on developing high-performance, eco-friendly, and cost-effective processes for the production of new nanostructured materials, nanocomposites, thin films, and coatings. These materials find applications in various fields, including solar cells, clean energy generation, energy storage, electrical systems, optoelectronics, environmental sustainability, healthcare, and biomedicine. Professor Choy has successfully obtained and managed numerous multimillion-pound national and European flagship research programs, fostering extensive collaboration between academia and industry. In addition, she has established state-of-the-art nanomaterials, innovative thin/thick film processing, and characterization facilities, representing a significant investment in cutting-edge infrastructure.


 

Assoc. Prof. Cong-Ying Wen
China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Bio: Assoc. Prof. Cong-Ying Wen received her PhD (2014) in analytical chemistry from Wuhan University. She is now working at China University of Petroleum (East China). Her research interests are focused on the construction and bioapplications of nanomaterials, such as quantum dots, magnetic nanoparticles, noble nanoparticles, and so on. She was rated as high-level talent of Huangdao in 2016 and received Science and Technology Award (the first prize) of Qingdao Society for Analysis and Testing in 2022. She has presided several science research programs, such as national natural science foundation of China, funds of Shandong province, fundamental research funds for the central universities, etc. She has published many papers on peer-reviewed journals of ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Analytical Chemistry, Small, Journal of Hazardous Materials and so on.

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Prof. Qiang Zhang 张强教授
Tsinghua University, China 清华大学

Google Scholar Citations: 56011, h-index: 126

Bio: Prof. Qiang Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University, P. R. China, in 2004, where he continued doing research on carbon nanomaterials and obtained his PhD in chemical engineering in 2009. He subsequently held Research Associate/Postdoc Research Fellow positions in the Case Western Reserve University, USA, and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany. Now he is a professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China. He held the Newton Advanced Fellowship from Royal Society, UK and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is awarded as Zhaowu Tian award from International Society of Electrochemistry, Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth, and First Prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education. He is selected as highly cited researchers at 2017-2020 by Clarivate Analytics. His current research interests are advanced energy chemistry and energy materials, including dendrite-free lithium metal anode, lithium sulfur batteries, and energy electrocatalysis, especially the structure design and full demonstration of advanced energy materials in working devices. His h-index is 116 now.

简介: 张强,清华大学长聘教授、博士生导师。曾获得国家自然科学基金杰出青年基金、教育部青年科学奖、中国青年科技奖、北京青年五四奖章、英国皇家学会Newton Advanced Fellowship、清华大学刘冰奖、国际电化学会议Tian Zhaowu奖。2017-2020年连续四年被评为“全球高被引科学家”。长期从事能源化学与能源材料的研究。近年来,致力于将国家重大需求与基础研究相结合,面向能源存储和利用的重大需求,重点研究锂硫电池的原理和关键能源材料。提出了锂硫电池中的锂键化学、离子溶剂复合结构概念,并根据高能电池需求,研制出复合金属锂负极、碳硫复合正极等多种高性能能源材料,构筑了锂硫软包电池器件。这在储能相关领域得到应用,取得了显著的成效。曾获得教育部自然科学一等奖、中国化工学会基础研究成果奖一等奖等学术奖励。

Prof. Ying-Hao Eddie Chu 朱英豪教授
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 台湾交通大学

Google Scholar Citations: 26404, h-index: 76

Bio: Professor Ying-Hao Chu received his PhD in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in 2004. Then, he joined University of California, Berkeley as a postdoc. In 2008, he acquired an assistant professorship in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at National Chiao Tung University. He was promoted to an associate professor in 2015, and then he was promoted to a professor in 2018. From 2019, he was appointed as a distinguished professor. Since 2013, he has an adjunct position in institute of physics, Academia Sinica. In 2014 he started an adjunct position in the Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University. From 2016 to 2018, he had the adjunct position in the Material and Chemical Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute and the International College of Semiconductor Technology at National Chiao Tung university. From 2019, he has an appointment with ACS Applied Electronic Materials to be an associate editor. His research is highly focused on complex functional oxides and strongly correlated electron systems. He has extensive experience in the use of advanced characterization techniques to understand and manipulate functional oxide heterostructures, nanostructures, and interfaces. His current goal is try to create a pathway to use high quality oxide heteroepitaxy for soft transparent technology. Now, he is a pioneer with the most publication along this research direction. He has published more than 280 papers (Web of Science: >15000 citations, h-index=58; Google Scholar: >26000 citations, h-index=76) in academic journals, including Science series (2), Nature series (~25), PNAS (2), ACS Nano & Nano Letters (>25), Advanced (Energy or Functional) Materials (>20), Nano Energy (>5), Physical Review series (>25), Applied Physics Letters (~40).

Prof. Guanglei Cui 崔光磊教授
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
中科院青岛能源所

Bio: Professor Guanglei Cui obtained his Ph.D. degree at Institute of Chemistry, CAS, in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, he had worked at Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research and Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State research as a postdoctoral scientist on Ener. Chem. Project. Then he joined in the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, CAS as full professor from 2009. He is the leading scientist of the National Key R&D Program (high energy density solid state lithium batteries technology) and the state council special allowance expert, He is a recipient of the Hundred Talents Program of CAS in 2009, the Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province in 2015, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2016, Young and middle-aged leading scientists, engineers and innovators in 2018, Ten Thousand Talent Program in 2019. He is the director of the Academic degrees Committee and the vice-director of the Academic Committee of the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, the executive director of the Qingdao Industrial Energy Storage Research Institute, and the director of Qingdao Key Lab of Solar Energy Utilization and Energy Storage Technology. He is the member of the International Polymer Electrolytes Committee, Chinese Society of Electrochemistry, Chinese Society of Organic Solids and Chinese Society of Solid State Ionics. His research interests are low-cost and highly efficient energy-storage and conversion devices. He has published 300 papers on peer-reviewed journals of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Adv. Mater.、Adv. Energy Mater.、Energy Environ. Sci.、Coordin. Chem. Rev.、Prog. Polym. Sci., most of which have been indexed by SCI. All the papers have been other-cited by more than 10000 times.

简介: 崔光磊,2005年于中国科学院化学所获得有机化学博士学位,2005年9月至2009年2月先后在德国马普协会高分子所和固态所从事博士后研究。2009年2月起于中科院青岛生物能源与过程所工作。
国家重点研发计划新能源汽车专项高比能固态锂电池技术项目首席科学家,中科院深海智能技术先导专项能源项目负责人,国家“万人计划”,科技部中青年科技创新领军人才,国家杰出青年科学基金获得者,国务院特殊津贴专家,山东省泰山学者特聘专家。获得山东省自然科学一等奖(第一完成人)、青岛市自然科学一等奖(第一完成人)等奖项。
主要从事低成本高效能源储存与转换器件的研究,作为负责人和主要参与者承担国家自然科学杰出青年基金、国家973计划、863计划,国家自然科学基金面上项目,省部级及中科院先导专项、企业横向项目等多项科研项目。先后在能源材料、化学、器件等方面的国际权威杂志Nat. Commun.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Adv. Mater.、Environ. Energy Science、Adv. Energy Mater.、Adv. Funct. Mater.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Adv. Sci.等发表文章300篇,他引10000多次,申请国家专利190余项,授权80余项,申请PCT专利6项,出版《动力锂电池中的聚合物材料》一部。

ICNME 2020 Keynote Speakers


 

Prof. Yanwei Ma 马衍伟教授
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 中国科学院

Bio: Prof. Ma Yanwei is currently the director of the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory and a full professor in Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was selected into "Hundred-Talents Program" and he received “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young People”. He is also the national candidate of the "100 Million Talent Project" in the new century, the recipient of the special allowance of the State Council, the winner of the 7th "Overseas Chinese Returnees Contribution Award" and the 100 leading talents in Beijing. He received Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 1996. Then he ever worked at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan, and The French National Center for Scientific Research in France from 1998-2004. He has been engaged in the research on superconducting and nano-energy storage materials, and devices for years, and has achieved systematic innovation in the preparation of new superconducting materials, graphene quantitative synthesis and high-performance supercapacitor development and other directions. Some related research results have been selected in major scientific and technological achievements exhibition in "National Eleventh Five-Year Plan" by the Ministry of Science and Technology. His systematic research on high-performance iron-based superconducting materials has led the development of related field, and his development of the first 100-meter scale iron-based superconducting long line in the world is a milestone in the practical progress of iron-based superconducting materials. So far, he has published more than 260 papers (SCI) cited by SCI over 6500 times, and has more than 40 national invention patents.

Prof. Ying-Hao Eddie Chu 朱英豪教授
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 国立交通大学

Bio: Professor Ying-Hao Chu received his PhD in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in 2004. Then, he joined University of California, Berkeley as a postdoc. In 2008, he acquired an assistant professorship in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at National Chiao Tung University. He was promoted to an associate professor in 2015, and then he was promoted to a professor in 2018. From 2019, he was appointed as a distinguished professor. Since 2013, he has an adjunct position in institute of physics, Academia Sinica. In 2014 he started an adjunct position in the Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University. From 2016 to 2018, he had the adjunct position in the Material and Chemical Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute and the International College of Semiconductor Technology at National Chiao Tung university. From 2019, he has an appointment with ACS Applied Electronic Materials to be an associate editor. His research is highly focused on complex functional oxides and strongly correlated electron systems. He has extensive experience in the use of advanced characterization techniques to understand and manipulate functional oxide heterostructures, nanostructures, and interfaces. His current goal is try to create a pathway to use high quality oxide heteroepitaxy for soft transparent technology. Now, he is a pioneer with the most publication along this research direction. He has published more than 280 papers (Web of Science: >15000 citations, h-index=58; Google Scholar: >19000 citations, h-index=68) in academic journals, including Science series (2), Nature series (~25), PNAS (2), ACS Nano & Nano Letters (>25), Advanced (Energy or Functional) Materials (>20), Nano Energy (>5), Physical Review series (>25), Applied Physics Letters (~40).