Plenary Speakers
EEST2018 is pleased to have eight distinguished plenary speakers and many confirmed keynote speakers .
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Dr. Linda Nazar University of Waterloo, Canada Dr. Linda Nazar is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Waterloo, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Solid State Materials since 2004. Linda has been recognized as a world leader in inorganic nano-material research, particularly for electrochemical energy technologies such as Lithium batteries, fuel cells and solar cells for the past 15 years. She has developed a new way for solid state structures to assemble themselves so that they can be designed to serve a particular purpose. She has published over 160 papers, review articles and patents in the field which were cited over 12,000 times. Linda has been ranked as the World Highly Cited Researchers in the period between 2004 and 2014, and also listed as one of the “3000 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters in 2014. |
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Dr. Can Li
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dr. Can Li received his PhD in physical chemistry from a joint program between Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is currently the director of the State Key Laboratory at DASC, CAS, president of The Asia-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was formerly the chairman of the Catalysis Society of China and President of International Association of Catalysis Societies. His main research focuses on catalytic materials and catalytic reactions, using spectroscopic characterization to determine the relationship between catalyst structure and performance. His research on the fundamentals of catalysis are applied to practical applications in energy, fine chemicals, and environmental science. Can Li has published over 600 papers and has given plenary and keynote lectures at 70 international conferences. He has received numerous awards for his contributions, including the International Catalysis Award, National Natural Science Prize, Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize (Hong Kong), and National Petrochemical Prize. |
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Dr. Deborah Myers
Argonne National Laboratory, USA Deborah Myers is the leader of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Materials group at Argonne National Laboratory’s Chemical Sciences and Engineering division. She is a co-lead of the Electrocatalysis Consortium (ElectroCat) and Electrocatalysts and Supports Thrust Coordinator for the Fuel Cell Consortium for Performance and Durability (FC-PAD). Her research focuses on the development and characterization of materials to improve fuel cell and hydrogen production systems. Her current projects include non-Platinum electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells, ethanol electro-oxidation catalysts, cathode electrocatalyst degradation mechanisms, and PEM fuel cell stacks and membrane-electrode assemblies. Deborah has published numerous research papers and received awards including the DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award for solid oxide fuel cell and water-gas shift catalysis development (2004) and the DOE National Laboratory Fuel Cell R&D Award for Autothermal Fuel Processing Technology for Automotive Fuel Cells (2000). |
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Dr. Yi Cui
Stanford University, USA Yi Cui is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University and did postdoctoral fellowship and University of California, Berkeley. His research interests focus on nanocrystal and nanowire synthesis and self-assembly, electron transfer and transport in nanomaterials and at the nanointerface, nanoscale electronic and photonic devices, batteries, solar cells, microbial fuel cells, water filters and chemical and biological sensors. He has served on the editorial board of many journals, including Nano Letters, Nano Energy, Advanced Carbon Materials, Nature Scientific Reports, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Energy Storage Materials, etc. Yi Cui has over 700 published works and has received many prestigious awards, including the Blavatnik National Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering (2017), IUPAC Distinguished Award for Novel Materials and Their Synthesis (2013), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Investigator Award (2008), etc. |
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Dr. Arumugam Manthiram
University of Texas, USA Manthiram, Arumugam is currently the director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving his PhD in chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and University of Texas. He became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas in 1991 and was promoted to professor in 2000. His research focuses on developing low-cost, efficient materials for rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, and supercapacitors, as well as novel chemical synthesis and processing approaches for nanomaterials, and a fundamental understanding of their structure-property-performance relationships. Arumugam Manthiram has over 600 publications and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Materials research Society, and Electrochemical Society, as well as many other awards and distinctions. |
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Dr. Jaephil Cho
Ulsan National Institute of Science &Technology (UNIST) Jaephil Cho is a professor of Energy and Chemical Engineering and Dean of Research Affairs at UNIST. He is also the director of the Green Energy Materials Development Center at UNIST and of the Samsung SDI-UNIST Future Batteries Research Center. His research is focused on high-energy-density cathode and anode materials for use in fuel cells, nanostructured electroactive materials for lithium-ion batteries, as well as metal-air batteries and redox flow batteries for energy storage. He was recognized as one of the most influential researchers in his field when he appeared in the 2016 List of Most Cited Researchers in MSE by Elsevier Scopus Data. He has received many honours, including Dong-A Inchon Award (Natural Science, Inchon Memorial Foundation, 2013), Knowledge Creation Award in Material Science (MSIP, 2013), Best ITRC Center Award (Minister of Science, ICT & FP, 2014), and ICT Innovation Prize (Prime Minster Award, MSIP, 2015). |