PLENARY & INVITED SPEAKERS

Ana Borras

Tenured Scientist, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) , Materials Science Institute of Seville (ICMS)

Tentative talk: Advances in Plasma-Enabled Nanomaterial Synthesis from Energy Harvesting to Smart Surfaces

Daniele Dini FREng

D.Phil., CEng, FIMechE, FInstP, FSTLE, FHEA

Vice-Dean (Research) Faculty of Engineering

Professor in Tribology (Head)

Shell/RAEng Chair in Complex Engineering Interfaces, Imperial College London

Tentative talk: Harvesting Energy with Triboelectrification: from Atoms to Devices

Federico Rosei 

Chair of Industrial Chemistry

Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Trieste, Italy

Tentative talk: The Energy Challenge from a Materials Perspective

Herbert E. Huppert FRS

Member of European Academy of Sciences

Professor, University of Cambridge, UK

Tentative talk: Nanoscale salt extrusion dynamics during directional freezing of brine

Jinshan Pan

Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Tentative talk: Corrosion and catalysis: stability and activity

Renyun Zhang

Senior Lecturer, Mid Sweden University

Tentative talk: Material innovation for triboelectric nanogenerators

Sang-Woo Kim

Professor, Yonsei University

YONSEI World-Class Fellow

Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK)

Tentative talk: Triboelectric Medicine: Self-Sustained Energy Solutions for Healthcare Technologies

Sanjay Mathur 

Chair Professor and Director, Institute of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

University of Cologne, Germany

Tentative talk: Catalysts of Change: Advanced Nanomaterials Steering Health and Energy Transition

Xudong Wang 

Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Tentative talk: Biocompatible Piezoelectric Materials and Composites for Biomedical Applications

Yijun Shi 

Professor, Division of Machine Elements at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Founder and CTO of Sustainalube AB, Sweden

Tentative talk: From Tribology to Smart Machines Enabled by Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Zuankai Wang 

Associate Vice President (Research and Innovation), Kuok Group Professor in Nature-Inspired Engineering

Chair Professor, and Director of Research Center for Nature-Inspired Science and Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Tentative talk: Nature-Inspired Interfacial Engineering for Water-Energy Nexus