 Professor CHEN Rong | [Presentation Title] Metal Sulfides for CO₂ Photocatalytic Reduction Prof. Chen is a full professor at Chongqing University of China. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from School of Energy and Power Engineering at Chongqing University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He got his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007. He continued his postdoctoral research at the same department. In 2010, he joined School of Energy and Power Engineering at Chongqing University, where he was promoted to full professor in 2014. His research interests include solar energy utilization by photochemistry, optofluidics, microscale transport and interfacial phenomena. |
 Professor QIAO Shizhang | [Presentation Title] Functional Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion Prof. Qiao is a Chair Professor at Adelaide University, Australia. His research expertise lies in nanostructured materials for electrocatalysis, batteries, and other new energy technologies. He has co-authored 600 papers in refereed journals with 159,000 citation times, resulting in an h-index of 205 (Google Scholar). |
 Professor SHEN Shaohua | [Presentation Title] Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting: From Z-Scheme Heterojunction to Outdoor Demonstration Prof. Shen obtained his Bachelor degree in Applied Chemistry in 2004 and PhD degree in Thermal Engineering in 2010 from Xi'an Jiaotong University. During 2008-2009 and 2011-2012, he worked as a guest researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and the receipt of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research interests include synthesis of nanomaterials and development of devices for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion. He has published more than 130 papers in Nature Energy, Advanced Materials, Joule, etc., that have received more than 23000 citations. |
 Professor TAN Peng | [Presentation Title] Multi-Species Transport in Batteries Prof. Tan is the Executive Director of the Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering. He has been selected for the National Young Talents Program and received an Excellent Final Evaluation in the Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research primarily focuses on multi-species transport coupled with energy conversion and interface evolution in rechargeable batteries. He has published over 200 papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as PNAS and Nature Communications with an H-index of 53. He has applied for 30 invention patents, with 14 already authorized. Additionally, he serves as the editorial board member of Energy Reviews and Future Batteries. |
 Professor WANG Ruzhu | [Presentation Title] Sorption Materials Innovation and Application: Energy-water-air Nexus Approach Prof. Wang was born in Dec.1964. He received his PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 1990 and was promoted as a full professor in 1994. He has served as the director-Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics for 33 years at SJTU. Prof. Wang has published 12 Books and over 600 co-authored international journal papers and more than 150 patents, his ISI H-index is 95 with a citation over 40,000. He is a well-known leading scientist in heat pumps, solar heating and cooling, green building energy systems, and energy-water-air nexus. His achievements have won Chinese National Research Awards in 2010, 2014 and 2023 respectively. Prof. Wang has received various prestigious international academic awards including the Nukiyama Memorial Award, the IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Medal and etc.. He became the laureate of the Global Energy Prize in 2023. Prof. Wang is Editor-in-chief of Energy, Associate editor of International Journal of Refrigeration. He serves also as the vice president of Chinese Association of Refrigeration. |
 Professor YU Yan | [Presentation Title] Interface Regulation Strategies of Na Metal Anodes Prof. Yu is a distinguished professor of material science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her Ph.D. at USTC in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida International University. After that she received a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Her current research interests mainly include the design of novel nanomaterials for clean energy, especially for batteries and the fundamental science of energy-storage systems. Until now, Prof. Yan Yu has published over 400 academic papers in journals such as Science, Nature Energy and Advanced Materials. These published papers have been cited up to about 40000 times by other researchers with the H index of 123. And she has been selected as the Most Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier in material science for 8 consecutive years. She also received several awards and honors, such as Wiley “Outstanding Young Researcher Award”, Materials Today “Rising Star Award”, Nano Research “Young Innovators Award in Nano energy”, Wiley “Small Young Innovators”, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, etc. |
 Professor ZHU Jia | [Presentation Title] Interfacial Solar Evaporation: Fundamental and Applications Prof. Zhu is Dean of the School of Sustainable Energy and Resources at Nanjing University, Deputy Director of the Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Doctoral Supervisor, Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars with continued funding, Member of the Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education, Fellow of Materials Research Society, Optica, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has long been engaged in research on photothermal manipulation based on micro-nano structures. Recognized as a Clarivate Global Highly Cited Researcher, he has published over 180 papers in high-impact international journals such as Science, Nature, Nature series journals, National Science Review, Joule, and Advanced Materials, with citations exceeding 30,000. He also serves as the Executive Editor of Nanophotonics, and as an editorial board member for Advanced Photonics and Nano Research. Recent awards include the Green Tech Award, Xplorer Prize, Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award in Technological Sciences, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35. |
