 Professor CHEN Yu | [Presentation Title] Oxygen Electrodes for Reversible Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells Prof. Chen is currently a full professor at School of Environment and Energy in South China University of Technology, China. He received his M.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in October 2014 in Mechanical Engineering from University of South Carolina, USA. His research interest focuses on fabrication and characterization of novel electrodes for protonic ceramic fuel cells, electrolysis cells and device for ceramic membranes. |
 Professor LIN Meng | [Presentation Title] Water and Carbon Capture from Seawater and their Efficient Conversion into Fuels Prof. Lin is an associate professor heading the Solar Energy Conversion and Utilization Laboratory (SECUL) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SECUL), Shenzhen. He received his PhD (2018) in mechanical engineering from EPFL, Switzerland. Between 2018 and 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Center of Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division of California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2019, he joined the department of mechanical and energy engineering at SUSTech with a research focus on the engineering of high-performance solar conversion materials, devices, and systems to fulfill industrial-scale needs for electricity, heat, fuels, or a combination thereof. |
 Professor SU Pei-Chen | [Presentation Title] Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrode Surface Modifications Prof. Su is an Associate Professor with tenure in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She serves as Cluster Director at the Energy Research Institute @ NTU and as Vice President of the Thin Films Society. Her research pioneers nanoscale thin-film materials and surface engineering for next-generation energy conversion devices, specifically on solid oxide cells to aligned with Singapore’s hydrogen strategy. She also works on innovation solutions using vat photopolymerization of 4D printing for novel medical device applications. Her work bridges fundamental materials processes with scalable technology translation, contributing to both sustainable energy and advanced manufacturing. |
 Professor TSO Chi Yan | [Presentation Title] Advancing Carbon Neutrality Through Smart Building Envelopes Ir Prof. Tso is Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Outreach) and Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment, CityUHK. His research integrates theory and experimentation to advance heat transfer, energy conversion, and engineered materials, with applications in building thermal management, space cooling, refrigeration, and energy-efficient technologies. He has published over 120 journal articles, including in Science, Nature Sustainability, Advanced Materials, etc. He also co-founded i2Cool Limited, a startup focused on passive radiative cooling, which has reached a market valuation of HK$1 billion and secured over HK$140 million in investments, aiming to address global energy and sustainability challenges. |
 Professor WU Wei | [Presentation Title] Versatile PV Technologies towards Sustainable Energy-water Nexus Prof. Wu’s research focuses on advanced heat pumps, thermal energy storage, advanced thermal management, and net-zero energy buildings. With 150+ SCI publications, 2 books, and 28 patents, he is among the Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists. He received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, IIR Willis H. Carrier Young Researcher Award, NIST Distinguished Associate Award, Global EBE Excellent Young Scholar Award, Sustainability Carbon Neutrality Award, National HVAC Distinguished Young Scholar Award, China Metamaterials Distinguished Young Scholar, CityUHK SEE Excellent Innovation Award, CityUHK SEE Excellent Innovation Award, Tsinghua Academic New Talent Award, and 9 international invention gold medals. He is a Co-Founder of Solar.E, Chinese Representative of IEA-SHC and IEA-HPT, Co-Chair of ICEE, Associate Director of CAR Youth Commit-tee, Associate Chair of ICSED Organizing Committee, Standing Executive Member of GBA Engineering Thermophysics Society, and Associate Editor of RSER. |
 Professor WU Zhen | [Presentation Title] Hydrogen Purification and Storage Integration Technology based on Metal Hydrides Prof. Wu, Professor, Director of Institute of Chemical Engineering & Machinery, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China, Vice Chairman of Chinese Energy Society, and Hong Kong Scholar Fellow. He received B.A. degree at Zhejiang University in 2009. And then he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests include hydrogen storage technology, hydrogen fuel cell technology, high-efficiency energy conversion technology, and so on. So far, he has published more than 100 scientific and conference papers in the research field of hydrogen energy system. Prof. Wu undertook the National Key R&D Program of China (3 projects), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (3 projects), and so on. In 2017, he was selected as Hong Kong scholar fellowship in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2023, he obtained the support of Youth Talent Program of Xi’an Jiaotong University. In 2025, he was awarded as the Second Prize (the first author) of China Invention and Entrepreneurship Award, the Personality Award of China Invention and Entrepreneurship Award, and the Youth Science and Technology Award of the China Energy Research Society Energy Innovation Award. |
 Professor ZHANG Xuejun | [Presentation Title] Study on Efficient Heating Method by Solar Coupled Air Source Heat Pump System with Phase Change Heat Storage Prof. Zhang is Director of the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics of Zhejiang University. His current research interests focus on energy recovery, utilization and control in HVAC systems, mainly including thermal-moisture decoupling theory, energy storage AC system, dehumidification AC system, air separation and purification technology, and cultural relic’s environment control technology etc. In recent years, he has obtained 50 authorized Chinese invention patents, and published over 100 SCI papers, and by the leading research achievement named “Research and application of the control technology of museum thermal-moisture environment”, he won the second prize of the Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Award. |
 Professor ZHOU Guangmin | [Presentation Title] Repairing and Upcycling of Electrode Materials from Spent Lithium-ion Batteries Prof. Zhou is a Tenured Associate Professor in Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, and then worked as a postdoc in UT Austin during 2014-2015. After that, he was a postdoc fellow at Stanford University from 2015 to 2019. His research mainly focuses on the development of advanced energy-storage materials and devices, and battery recycling. He has published 300+ articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and first/correspongding-authored 200 papers published in Nature, Nature Catalysis, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Nature Protocols, Nature Synthesis, Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials, National Science Review, etc. These publications have been cited more than 60,600 times with an H-index of 120. Dr. Zhou was honored “Highly Cited Researcher” in Materials Science field by Clarivate Analytics for consecutive 8 years (2018-2025). Dr. Zhou served as Associate Editor/Scientific Managing Editor of Energy Storage Materials (Impact Factor 20.2). |
 Professor ZHOU Jiawei | [Presentation Title] Managing Heat with Material Engineering at Microscopic Level Prof. Zhou received his BS in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2013, and his MS and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an HKU-100 Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include first-principles computation, thermal management, energy transport physics, and nanomaterials for clean energy and sustainability. He previously received Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Outstanding Thesis from MIT for his PhD research and is also the recipient of the Best Poster Award at the ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum from IMECE (2019). |
