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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Nov 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 31, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Chuanyi Wang
SUST, China
Title: Defect-engineering towards Improved Photocatalysis
Dr. Chuanyi Wang, elected Fellow of European Academy of Sciences, is a distinguished professor and academic dean at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology (SUST), China. Before moving to SUST in 2017, he was a distinguished professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), serving as Director of Laboratory of Environmental Science & Technology of Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS (2010-2017). He obtained his Ph.D. degree with honor from Institute of Photographic Chemistry of CAS in 1998, worked in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow from 1999 to 2000, and then worked in USA (Tufts University and Missouri University-Kansas City) from 2000 to 2010. Currently, Dr. Wang also serves as an associate editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters (IF15.0) and editorial board member for number of international journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal (IF 13.4). Dr. Wang’s research interest covers catalysis and photo-/electro-catalysis at nanostructured materials with focus on applications in energy conversion and environmental remediation. By far, he has published over 400 papers in peer reviewed journals with more than 23000 times of citations with an H-index of 86 (from Google Scholar). In addition, he authored/edited 3 English monographs and authorized 65 Chinese and US invention patents. He is also a recipient of several prestigious awards/honors, such as Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate), and Advanced Materials Laureate, “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (ranked top 80 in Physical Chemistry) etc.
Prof. Xianfeng Fan
The University of Edinburgh, UK
Title: Will update soon.
Dr Xianfeng Fan is a professor in School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, the Head of Institute for Materials and Processes, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Fan has been working on energy storage, reaction engineering, particulate materials processing through interdisciplinary approaches, photocatalysis for environmental remediation, CO2 capture using solid adsorbents and solvents, multiphase flow in porous materials, pore wetting. He is the Editor-in Chief for Clean Energy Technology and Application, and for Journal of Modern Green Energy, and an Editor of Journal of Environmental Management and a member of Scientific Council of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre. Professor Fan received the British Foundrymen Award from the Institute of British Foundrymen in 2009, and 3 awards from Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, and China Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation. Professor Fan has received about £7.5 million research grants from British Research Councils, EU and industries, has collaborations with researcher/professors from 11 countries. He has been invited to give a number of plenary lectures, keynote lectures, invited talks at international conferences, proceedings, seminars, and to chair many sessions in international conferences.
Prof. Salete Balula
University of Porto, Portugal
Title: Effective catalytic processes to remove pollutants from fuels.
Salete Balula graduated in Technological Chemistry at Faculty of Science from Lisbon University in 1997 and completed the PhD degree in the area of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Aveiro in 2004. After completing the PhD studies, Salete started the postdoctoral work in Material Science and Inorganic chemistry, working in the Green Chemistry Centre of the Univ. of York, UK, and in CICECO Laboratory, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal. During this time, she developed an expertise in oxometallic Materials and Sustainable Catalysis. Her independent research career started in 2009, as Assistant Investigator and since 2015 as Principal Investigator in LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCUP, Univ. of Porto, Portugal. Salete created a new line of research, working in Sustainable Oxidative Heterogeneous Catalysis based on active Polyoxometalates and Porous support Materials (MOFs, Silicas, etc). She published a total of 132 papers in international peer review journals (75 as corresponding author, 85 papers as Q1), 3 book chapters as corresponding author, reviewer of more than 80 manuscripts, h-index = 38, 3989 total citations (average per item 30.45). During the last years, she was mainly dedicated to design strategic functional materials capable to catalyze reactions with high efficiency, cost-effectivity and under environmentally friendly conditions, for energy and environment. This work has been strongly stimulated by the straight collaboration with the industry, originating more than 50 publications in international scientific journals, 42 oral communications, various Master and PhD thesis finalized and several others in execution.
Prof. Valentina Siracusa
University of Catania, Italy
Title: Furan-based polymers: an alternative solution for sustainable food packaging materials
Siracusa Valentina received her degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Catania (Italy), at 23 years old. She completed her PhD and post-PhD study working on the synthesis and characterization of innovative polyesters, used in the engineering field. After a period as lectures for “Chemistry and Materials” for Engineering, from 2006 she is Associate Professor in Chemistry for Engineering Couses at University of Catania (Italy) and Invited Professor on “Life Cycle Assessment Study (LCA)” courses at University of Bologna (Italy). She collaborates to several research projects, both for academic than industrial interest, on topic such as recycle, ambient, food packaging, graphene for packaging application, nanoparticles, polymer drug delivery. Actually, she collaborates with national and international research groups on biopolymers used in the field of food packaging, for modified atmosphere packaging of fresh foods, with also Life Cycle Assessment study (with SimaPro software). She is author of more than 125 papers in high impact factor scientific journals, she is author of several book chapters for Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, she is author of articles for special Module of Elsevier Encyclopedia and she is Editorial Board Member and Lead Guest Editor of several International Journals. Her research interest includes: synthesis and full characterization of biodegradable and bio-based polymers; gas barrier behavior in standard as well as in moisture condition, at different temperature; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of polymers; thermal and photo degradation behavior of packaging materials analyzed during food shelf-life study.
Prof. Jiang Ma
Shenzhen University, China
Title: Ultrasonic vibration induced plasticity (UVIP) of metallic glasses
Distinguished professor of Shenzhen University, Vice-dean of the College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, director of the Advanced Materials Manufacturing Research Center (AMMRC) in Shenzhen University. He engaged in advanced manufacturing and forming technology, equipment development, and application research of metallic materials for a long time. Published over 70 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author, such as Science Advances, Nano Energy, Materials Horizons, Applied Catalyst B-Environmental, Acta Materials, and authorized over 20 invention patents. Served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Amorphous Alloy Materials Application Branch of the China Electrical Industry Association, editorial board member of the academic journal Materials Futures, and young editorial board member of Science China Materials and The Innovation.
Prof. Ming Chen Hammond
University of Utah, USA
Title: Will Update
Dr. Ming Chen Hammond is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Henry Eyring Center for Cell & Genome Science at the University of Utah. Her research group was one of the first to develop RNA-based fluorescent biosensors to study signaling and metabolism in living cells, and her research interests span the fields of chemical biology, synthetic biology, and microbiology. She received a B.S. with honors in chemistry at Caltech, Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry as an HHMI predoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, and was a BWF CASI postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She is a recipient of the BWF Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and a Kavli Fellow. Homepage: https://mchgrp.chem.utah.edu/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minghammond/ Home | The Hammond Lab https://mchgrp.chem.utah.edu
Prof. Michael Free
University of Utah, USA
Title: Innovations to Improve Rare Earth Elements Separations
Michael Free is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah in the USA. He has performed research and taught courses as a faculty member since 1996. His areas of expertise include corrosion, electrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and materials synthesis. He has been the principal investigator of more than 70 research projects funded by more than 20 companies, the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, and the National Science Foundation. He has authored or co-authored 270 publications, including an internationally recognized hydrometallurgy textbook. He received the 2024 Milton E. Wadsworth Award in recognition of his research contributions. He has been a paid consultant for 40 organizations. He has been the department chair for two departments. He has taught, mentored, and employed 95 researchers in his labs. He received a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering, an M.S. degree in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Florida in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering for two years before becoming a faculty member at the University of Utah.
Prof. Marc Lemaire
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Title: Green Chemistry: An Opportunity for Developing Countries
I began my career in the French pharmaceutical industry: at the Roussel-Uclaf laboratory in Romainville, then at the Delallande Research Center in Rueil-Malmaison. During this period, I attended evening classes at the CNAM Paris. I obtained my chemical engineering degree there, then my doctoral thesis in 1982 (supervised by Prof. J.P. Guetté: “New chlorination reagents”). I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Groningen (Netherlands): “Enantioselective cross-coupling using chiral macrocycles as ligands”, supervised by Prof. R. M. Kellogg. I was appointed assistant and then lecturer at the CNAM Paris, then professor at the Claude Bernard University in 1989 and I created a new laboratory there focused on several research areas:

1°Separation science and technology: Complexation by nanofiltration, molecular imprinting applied to the treatment of nuclear industry waste and deep desulfurization of diesel.

2°Catalysis: Use of heterogeneous catalysis in fine organic catalysis including asymmetric catalysis, reductive alkylation of alcohol, etc.

3°What is now called “Green Chemistry”: new catalysts, reagents and solvents with low ecological impacts for the reduction, oxidation and formation of CC bonds.

I held the positions of Director of the Master in Catalysis then that of Organic Chemistry, and finally that of Director of the CNRS Unit which brought together the organic chemists with our biochemist of the Lyon 1 campus and which led to the creation of the ICBMS.

I am co-author of over 405 publications and 102 original patents. I regularly give lectures in universities, scientific conferences and companies. I have received several scientific awards: Berthelot Medal, Langevin Prize, Lebel Prize, and Rhône-Alpes Innovation Prize. I have been a senior member of the French University Institute (IUF) since 2009 and a member of the Academia Europaea since 2019 and Akademia Malagasy since 2025.
Dr. Pasquale Francesco Zito
Italy
Title: Recovery of pure H2 and other valuable gases using membrane separation: A techno-economic analysis.
Pasquale Francesco Zito graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Calabria in 2010. After graduation, he obtained two second level university Masters in “Industrial Plants, Engineering and Technologies” and “Quality control Manager of the agri-food, biological and biotechnological supply chain” at the University of Genoa and University of Calabria, respectively. He obtained his PhD in Science and Engineering of the Environment, of Building and Energy (SIACE) at the University of Calabria in 2020. Since 2013, he started his research activity at the University of Calabria and the Institute on Membrane Technology as a fellowship within the EU project “DEMCAMER”. He was a research fellow at the Institute on Membrane Technology within the framework of the project M-era.Net “BioValue” and the project “POA – Hydrogen demo Valley: Multifunctional infrastructures for the experimentation and demonstration of hydrogen technologies”. Since November 2023, he has been a researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology. He is co-author of more than 20 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, various contributions in international congresses and he serves as a reviewer for several international scientific journals.

Main fields of research:

• Techno-economic analysis of membrane processes for gas purification
• Mass transport of gas mixtures through zeolite membranes
• Green Chemistry
Dr. Albert Poater Teixidor
Spain
Title: Reaction Optimization through Mechanistic Insight and Predictive Modelling
Dr. Albert Poater (b. 1979) earned his PhD in Chemistry in 2006 at the Universitat de Girona under the supervision of Profs. Miquel Duran and Miquel Solà. He pursued postdoctoral research in Chile with Prof. Alejandro Toro-Labbé, in Montpellier with Prof. Odile Eisenstein, and undertook a long postdoctoral stay at the University of Salerno with Prof. Luigi Cavallo. In 2010, he became an independent researcher through the Ramón y Cajal and JIN programs in Girona. He also held visiting researcher positions at KAUST in Saudi Arabia with Prof. Jean Marie Basset and with Prof. Remi Chauvin at LCC-CNRS in Toulouse. In 2019, he was appointed Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the University of Girona, where he currently serves as Head of the Chemistry Department. He has supervised 7 PhD students and is currently advising 10 more.
Dr. Poater has co-authored over 350 publications, accumulating more than 16,000 citations (h-index = 69), primarily in the field of density functional theory (DFT) applied to the mechanisms of inorganic and organometallic catalysis. His work in predictive catalysis focuses on computational tools for reactivity analysis. His research includes studies on olefin metathesis using Ru-based catalysts, gold-mediated organometallic transformations, and more recently, projects in green chemistry aimed at reducing or avoiding CO₂ emissions, such as water oxidation catalysis, alcohol-to-aldehyde conversion with H₂ generation, and optimization in polymer chemistry and MOF synthesis.
He serves as an editor and board member for several scientific journals, and in 2019 was awarded the ICREA Acadèmia. He is also active in scientific outreach, contributing to international popular science publications, producing YouTube videos, participating in science events for schools, and coordinating the Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling (2019–2020), in addition to his current role as Head of the Department since 2020.
Prof. Maria C. Iliuta
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Title: Intensified processes for renewable hydrogen production
Maria C. Iliuta is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada). She received her PhD in Chemical engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and performed postdoctoral fellowships in phase equilibria thermodynamics, separation technologies, and heterogeneous catalysis at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Université Laval. Her research interests are especially directed towards process intensification, catalysis, capture and catalytic conversion of CO2, waste valorization, alternative fuels/hydrogen production, and process modeling. She co-authored more than 150 refereed publications (107 Q1 papers as corresponding author), 5 books/book chapters, and one patent as principal inventor. She was awarded 24 Best Teacher and Star Professor awards, the Summa 2021 (Université Laval), a prestigious award that recognizes professional achievements, and was recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists based on Stanford and Elsevier Data.