Keynote lecture

Dr. Jabor Rabeah "Coupled operando EPR as a powerful tool for mechanistic investigations of catalytic reactions" Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock Jabor Rabeah received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany in 2007. Currently, he is a group leader of magnetic resonance and X-ray methods at Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT Rostock). His immediate research interests focus on developing combined operando and in situ spectroscopic techniques for tracking catalytic processes under realistic catalytic reactions (normally under elevated pressures and temperatures), all of which are underpinned through structure-activity relationships in gas-solid, gas-liquid, liquid-solid and ...

Dr. Yoshimi Okada "Development for Hydrogen Storage and Transportation technology by Using Novel Dehydrogenation Catalyst in MCH-LOHC System" Chiyoda Corporation Yoshimi Okada received his early education at Yokohama National University obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1984 and master's degree in 1986. He entered Chiyoda Corporation which is engineering company in 1986. He worked at R&D Center as a researcher for 27 years majored in Catalyst development. His doctorate is in 2005 from Yokohama National University. He has worked for the development of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) system for massive hydrogen storage and transportation technology from 2002. He succeeded novel ...

"Fully exposed palladium cluster catalysts enable hydrogen production from nitrogen heterocycles" Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

"Concerto catalysis of transition metals and zeolite microporous sieves" cMACS, KULeuven, Belgium Dirk De Vos has been a Full Professor in Catalysis at KULeuven since 2006. He is fascinated by the applications of zeolites and molecular sieves in general (including MOFs) to adsorption and catalytic reactions of organic molecules. Particular fields of interest are C-H activation of arenes, oxidative transformations (possibly with electro-assistance), and depolymerization of step-growth polymers, including polyamides and polyurethanes. He is an Associate Editor at RSC’s Catalysis Science and Technology.

Prof. Sibudjing Kawi  "Innovating Sustainable Catalyst Systems for Low-Carbon Energy Solutions" Dept Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore Prof. Kawi received his Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees from Univ. Texas, Univ. Illinois, and Univ. Delaware, respectively.  After 2 year of postdoc at the Univ. California, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore in 1994. For more than a decade, his research focuses on catalysts and membranes for hydrogen production/separation and CO2 capture & utilization. He is a highly-cited researcher (2021, Clarivate).  He has published > 350 journal papers (citations > 19,800, h index ...

Prof. Michael Stockenhuber "Controlling redox and acid catalyst function to control rates and product selectivity" Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr.Techn. Michael Stockenhuber Professor of Chemical Engineering University of Newcastle Michael Stockenhuber did his PhD at the Institute of Physical Chemistry TU Vienna which he was awarded with distinction in 1994 (Dr.Techn.)  He joined Nottingham Trent University in 1995 as postdoctoral researcher and was later appointed lecturer and promoted to Reader in 2007. In 2008 he moved to University of Newcastle and is now full Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prof Stockenhuber has been hon. secretary of the British Zeolite Association and was secretary ...

Prof. Kwan-Young Lee "Design Strategy for Developing New Catalysts using Nanotechnology and DFT Calculation" Korea University Prof. Kwan-Young Lee is Executive Vice President for Research, also for Graduate School, and a professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Korea University. He was trained in Chemical Engineering at Seoul National University (B.S. and M.S), Korea, and carried out a PhD in Synthetic Chemistry with Prof. Makoto Misono (The University of Tokyo, Japan, 1986-1990), where he performed “Solid-state NMR and IR Spectroscopic Studies of the Pseudoliquid Phase of Heteropoly Acid Catalyst.” After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. W. Keith Hall at University ...

Prof. Can Li  "Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuel Production: Fundamental and Application" Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Can Li received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a cooperation program with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1989, and he joined the same institute and was promoted to full professor in 1993. He did postdoctoral research at Northwestern University USA and was visiting professor at Lehigh University, the University of Liverpool, and The Queensland University, and he was awarded the JSPS Professor at Waseda University, ...

Prof. Ya-Huei Cathy Chin "Thermochemical Properties of Reactive Hydrogen and its Catalytic Consequences in Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis Catalysis" Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto cathy.chin@utoronto.ca http://www.labs.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/catalysis/ Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Advanced Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Toronto. She joined the University in 2011, after receiving her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before then, she was a research engineer (2000-2002) and then senior research scientist (2002-2005) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the ten ...

Prof. Piyasan Praserthdam "Effect of Hydrogen Spillover on Acidic Properties of Silica-supported Tungsten oxide Catalysts: In situ DRIFTS study" Department of Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University Education Ing. in Chemical Engineering, I.N.S.A. Toulouse, France, 1979 M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York, U.S.A., 1976 B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Research Groups Center of Excellence on Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering Research Interest Metal catalyst Environmental catalysts Catalyst for polymerization reaction Nano-crystal synthesis Professional Activities Member of The Thai Institute of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. Member of The Chemical Engineering Section, the Engineering Institute of Thailand. ...