Shanghai, China
(In alphabetic order)
Sergey Alekseenko, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Scientific Director of the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk), was born on May 30, 1950 in the city of Slavgorod, the Altai Region. In 1972 he graduated from the Physics Department of Novosibirsk State University. His areas of expertise are the transport phenomena in two-phase flow, wave phenomena, vortex flows and turbulent jets, experimental methods for two-phase flows, power engineering, renewable energy, energy saving, climate change. New fundamental results were obtained in the study of heat and mass transfer and nonlinear stability of thin liquid films and annular gas (vapor) liquid flows, vortex structures in swirling flows, coherent structures and turbulence in submerged bounded jet flows and flames. In the applied aspect, the main efforts are directed to the tasks associated with the creation of an environmentally friendly thermal power plant (modeling of combustion processes when burning gas, coal and liquid fuel), the development of a new type of burners and methods of thermal processing of solid domestic waste, the development of non-hydrogen fuel cells (on borohydrates and aluminum), the development of new geothermal energy technologies, including petrothermal energy. A significant contribution was made to the development of experimental methods and devices, in particular, the electrodiffusion method, various optical methods, including Particle Image Velocimetry and shadow method for measuring film thickness. He has 170 published papers in refereed journals, 54 patents, and 6 monographs including Wave Flow of Liquid Films and Theory of Concentrated Vortices.
Alekseenko S.V. is a Head of Chair of Physics of Nonequilibrium Processes at Novosibirsk State University, Chairman of the National Committee for Heat and Mass Transfer, member of the National Committee on Mechanics, member of Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal "Thermophysics and Aeromechanics", as well as a member of editorial boards of 16 international journals. In 2012, he has received the Award of the Russian Federation Government. He is also a laureate of the Global Energy Prize (2018).
Novel Technologies of Low-Emission Combustion of Water-Fuel Mixtures
Gang Chen is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the Department Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 2013 to 2018. He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. He was a faculty member at Duke University and UCLA, before joining MIT in 2001. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award, an ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, an ASME Frank Kreith Award in Energy, a Nukiyama Memorial Award by the Japan Heat Transfer Society, a World Technology Network Award in Energy, an Eringen medal from the Society of Engineering Science, and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising from MIT. He is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He serves on the board of the Asian American Scholar Forum (aasforum.org). He is an academician of Academy Sinica, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a member of US National Academy of Science.
Thermal and Photomolecular Evaporation
Min Soo KIM received the B.S. (1985), M.S. (1987), and Ph.D. (1991) degrees in mechanical engineering at Seoul National University. He is a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University since 1994. His major is thermal engineering including refrigeration and air conditioning. He spent three years from 1992 to 1994 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in U.S. as a guest researcher. He has more than 260 journal papers and more than 490 conference papers together with about 50 patents in the field of thermal engineering and refrigeration. He is a member of ASME, ASHRAE, IIR, KSME, and SAREK.
In 2010, he served as Policy Advisor to Minister of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and during 2011-2013, he was a member of Presidential Advisory Council on Education, Science & Technology. He was delegate of Korea to the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), and serves now as president of the General Conference of IIR.
He got the Outstanding Academic Award from the Society of Air-conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (SAREK) (2006), Outstanding Academic Award from Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) (2013). He was designated as 70 Excellent PhDs of College of Engineering at Seoul National University (2016). He received Minister Award from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (2016), Presidential Citation by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (2017), and the award certificate form the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (2022). Recently, he received Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award from the International Energy Agency (2023).
Dynamic Model Development and Model Predictive Control for Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Pump System
Professor Khellil Sefiane, PhD, HDR, FRSC and FInstP is a Professor and chair of Thermo-Physical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/), Scotland, United Kingdom. He is the Head of the research Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT) at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Sefiane is the Vice-Chair of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, https://www.uknhtc.org/. Professor Sefiane is the UK delegate on the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, https://www.ichmt.org/. He also represents the UK on the European Thermal Committee, EUROTHERM, http://www.eurothermcommittee.eu/. He is associate editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and has been associate editor for the International Journal of Multiphase Flows and the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
He held numerous honorary appointments in international institutions including an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada (2008-2014), Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan (2015) and WPI -World Premier International Professor at the International Centre for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER) at Kyushu in Japan (2015-2019), honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in China (2022-2025), Extraordinary Professor at Pretoria University, South Africa (2019) and visiting Professor at University Paris-Saclay, France (2020). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and holds an ExxonMobil fellowship and a Global Research Award, both awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London. Professor Sefiane has been research active for the last 28 years in various areas related to multiphase flows, heat transfer, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena and phase change. He has published more than a 250 journal papers in international journals and was co-editor of the textbook Drying of Complex Fluid Drops: Fundamentals and Applications, published by the Royal society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-790-9. He has been recipient of the prestigious Institute of Physics (IoP) award (2009), the Global Research Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London (2011) and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award in 2014. Professor Sefiane is member of numerous international scientific committees of experts in heat transfer and multiphase flows (ICHMT, EUROTHERM, deputy chair of the Nu-Re Prize and chair of the David B.R. Kenning award committee). Prof. Sefiane taught undergraduate and graduate students at universities in UK, France, Canada, Japan and China. He has been recipient of research grants from the UK research Council (EPSRC), the British Royal Society (RS), the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry.
Vapour Mediated Interactions of Volatile Droplets
Chao Sun is a professor at Tsinghua University in China, holding positions at the Center for Combustion Energy, the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and the College of Aerospace Engineering. Additionally, he serves as a part-time professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Between 2009 and 2015, he was a faculty member at the University of Twente, after which he assumed a full Professor role at Tsinghua University in 2015. His research interests encompass multiphase flows, turbulence, bubbles and droplets, as well as heat and mass transfer. He has authored over 170 publications in refereed scientific journals, including two review articles for Annual Reviews, 60 articles in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 20 articles in Physical Review Letters, and over 10 papers in PNAS and Nature/Science sister journals. Chao Sun was a plenary lecturer for the 10th International Conference on Multiphase Flow and a keynote speaker for the 15th European Turbulence Conference. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Xplorer prize, and serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow, an editor of the Journal of Turbulence, and an editorial member of Physical Review Fluids, Acta Mechanica Sinica, and several other journals. Additionally, he is a governing board member of the International Conference on Multiphase Flow and a committee member for the APS-DFD Frenkiel Award.
Explosive Boiling of Drops Near a Solid Surface and Inside a Turbulent Flow
Koji Takahashi received his Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992. He is currently a Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Kyushu University, WPI Principal Investigator at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, and Chair of Thermal Engineering Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME). He was awarded the Scientific Award of the Heat Transfer Society of Japan in 2008 and 2020, JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper in 2012, and Thermal Engineering Achievement Award of JSME in 2016. His major interests are micro/nanoscale heat transfer and thermal property of nanomaterials.
Nanoscopic Insights into Droplets, Bubbles, and Solid Surfaces
Qiming Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research covers electronic materials, especially polymers and composites, and their devices and applications. Zhang invented the relaxor ferroelectric polymers which possess record high dielectric permittivity and polymer thin film actuators with giant electroactuation and ultra-high electromechanical coupling factor. The relaxor polymers have been commercialized by Arkema. He founded a high-tech startup, Novasentis, Inc. (was acquired by KEMET in 2019), in commercializing the relaxor polymer thin film actuators and sensors, as well their haptic, wearable, microfluid devices. The company was listed by The Science Coalition in 2013 as one of 100 successful startups created from federally funded university research (Sparking Economic Growth 2.0, Oct. 2013). Since the late 2000s, his group has developed ferroelectric polymers and ceramics with large electrocaloric effect, creating unique opportunity for solid state cooling with high efficiency and zero green greenhouse gas emission. Exploiting the unique features of ECE, his group has invented several solid-state EC cooling devices which have the promise for compact and distributed high efficiency EC coolers. He is a Fellow of IEEE and APS.
Electrocaloric Cooling -- Present and Future Perspective
Tianshou Zhao is Director of Energy Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Chair Professor of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science & Technology (SUSTech). Befor joining SUSTech in 2021, he held the named professorship of Engineering and Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Prof. Zhao is an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Society Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Chinese Society of Chemistry, and a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate/Thomson Reuters, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of fuel cells, advanced batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modeling. Prof. Zhao received the State Natural Science Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, the Croucher Senior Fellowship award, and among others.
Flow Cells for Long-Duration Energy Storage
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