NMEE 2025 Committee

Conference Chair

Prof. Xin Chen, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Expert of Shanghai Talent Plan, Council Member of Shanghai Micrology Society, Project review expert of Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Education, Technology Award Review Expert of Shanghai and Guangdong Province.

Bio: Prof. Chen received his undergraduate degree in 1991 from the Department of Modern Applied Physics, Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the Department of Physics, University of Houston, USA. He worked in the State's Key Open Laboratory of Surface Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the NASA affiliated Center for Advanced Materials at the University of Houston, Peking University, and the University of ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Supercapacitor materials; Research and development of new nanomaterials with advanced microscopy techniques; New nanomaterials and devices

Prof. Guohua Xie, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE, Future Technologies), Xiamen University, China

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

Bio: He received a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from Jilin University, China, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Photophysics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, between 2011 and 2012; a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK, from 2013 to 2015; Associate Professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Science, ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Novel light-emitting materials and devices: organic light-emitting materials and devices, quantum dot light-emitting materials and devices, chalcogenide light-emitting materials and devices

Conference Co-Chairs

Prof. Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah

Prof. Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Malaysia

Dean, Stanford World Top 2% Scientists

Bio: Professor Dr. Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is currently an academic member of School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He received his B. Tech (Hons), MSc and PhD in 1995, 2000 and 2004, respectively. His research works mostly encompass the synthesis of novel functionalized nanoporous materials as ordered catalysts in environmental catalysis, oleochemical reactions, agricultural waste treatments, waste utilization and the production ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Catalysis; Reaction; Fuel Engineering; Nanoporous Materials; Wastewater Engineering.

Prof. Haofeng Chen, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Chair Professor of East China University of Science and Technology, Adjunct Professor of University of Clyde (UK), Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMchE) (UK), Senior Foreign Scholar of State Funding Committee of China, Chang-Jiang Scholar Chair Professor

Areas of Expertise: Chemical/nuclear/aerospace equipment safety; High temperature structural integrity theory and numerical methods; Power battery safety; Computational solid mechanics

Technical Program Committee Chair

Prof. Tianpeng Gao, School of Environment and Urban Construction, Lanzhou City University, China

Director of Gansu Mining Area Pollution Control and Ecological Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centre, Director of Key Laboratory of Plant Adversity Physiology and Ecological Restoration of Xi'an City, Vice President of Lanzhou Smart City Research Institute, Vice President of Gansu Provincial Institute of Urban Development, Executive Vice-President of Academy of Eco Xi'an.

Areas of Expertise: Damaged ecosystem evaluation and restoration.

Publicity Chair

Prof. Guoquan Qian, School of Environment and Urban Construction, Lanzhou City University, China

Dean of Gansu Provincial Institute of Urban Development, Secretary General of Gansu Science and Technology Think Tank Alliance, Dean of Lanzhou Smart City Research Institute.

Areas of Expertise: Humanistic geography

Technical Committee Member

Assoc. Prof. Xi Liu, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Chang-Jiang Distinguished Professor

Areas of Expertise: Development of in situ transmission electron microscopy techniques based on catalysis and electrochemistry, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and related catalytic reaction studies, construction of new structured nanomaterials and their applications

Prof. Karim RAGUI, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University, China

Bio: Dr. Karim RAGUI received his Double Ph.D. degree on Advanced Process Engineering from Paris-Saclay University, France, and University of Sciences and Technology, Algeria (2016). He was previously an Associate Professor in Paris-Saclay University and Sciences and Technology University (2016-2022), and Senior Researcher at Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, IET-CAS, China, (2022-2024). He served as Director of joint France-Algeria ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Supercritical fluid thermal system application for Carbon Neutrality (CCUS). Transport instabilities of Soot nanoparticles in porous media. Applied nanofluids/nano-materials for enhanced transfers. Clean energy based-low carbon emission.

Prof. Lei Huang, School of Mathematics and Science, Shanghai Normal University, China

Shanghai Distinguished Professor, Oriental Scholar

Areas of Expertise: Cross-cutting areas related to low-dimensional physics and flexible electronics: carbon nanomaterials, nano-ionic devices, and integration of sensing and memory devices.

Prof. Antonio Pizzi, University of Lorraine, France

Bio: A. Pizzi is a professor emeritus of industrial chemistry at the University of Lorraine, DChem ([olymers, Rome, Italy), Ph.D. (organic chemistry, South Africa), and DSc (wood chemistry, South Africa). Experience gained in industry and research organizations allowed Dr. Pizzi to successfully serve as professor of polymer chemistry (1989–1995) and head of the Department of Chemistry (1991–1993) at the Witwatersrand University,...more...

Areas of Expertise: Bioadhesives and bioresins chemistry, formulation, and application

Prof. Wei Chen, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China

National High-Level Talent;tenured professor (Full Professor) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Stanford World Top 2% Scientists

Bio:Wei Chen,Professor, doctoral supervisor, national high-level talent; He used to be a tenured professor (Full Professor) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (ranked 65th in the QS global rankings), the chief researcher of the Institute of Intelligent Wearable Systems and the Carbon Strategy Research Center, and was selected as one of the top 2% scientists in the world (lifetime scientific influence). He is mainly engaged ...more...

Areas of Expertise: New fiber materials, flexible intelligent devices, intelligent system integration

Prof. Blaž Likozar, National Institute of Chemistry, Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, Slovenia

Areas of Expertise: Chemical (process) engineering, reactor and unit operation design and construction, as well as multi-scale process modelling. Our topics foremost include carbon dioxide and natural gas conversion, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, biomass valorisation to bio-based compounds, and (bio)pharmaceutical processes.

Prof. Chan Kah Yoong, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Areas of Expertise: Smart materials and devices including smart glasses/windows, solar cells, transparent electronic materials and devices, microelectronics and nanotechnology, IoT smart farming technologies, solar energy harvesting applications, and recent renewable green technologies as well as CO2 reduction technologies.

Assoc. Prof. HO Derek, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, China

Bio:Prof. Derek Ho is currently an associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He serves as co-principal investigator at the Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-Cardiovascular Health Engineering, where he conducts translational research in multifunctional materials and devices for wearable medical electronics. Prof. Ho is also cross-appointed by the Department ...more...

Areas of Expertise: soft ionic-electronic materials and devices,focusing on two application areas: (i) sensors (mechanical, chemical, and biological) and (ii) electrochemical energy storage devices (e.g. flexible supercapacitors and batteries).

Assoc. Prof. Yifei Wang, School of Mechanical Engineering and automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

Stanford World Top 2% Scientists (2022-2024)

Areas of Expertise: Hydrogen & fuel cell; Metal-air battery; Aqueous ion battery; Microfluidics in electrochemical energy conversion; Flexible and wearable energy device; Battery additive manufacture; Photocatalytic hydrogen production & VOC degradation

Assoc. Prof. Yang Li, Shihezi University, China

Bio: Yang Li received his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Lanzhou University in 2011 under the tutorial of Professor Yingqian Liu. In 2017, he received his master’s degree in Nanophysics from Gachon University, South Korea, under the tutorship of Professor Eun-Cheol Lee. From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Sam Hsu at City University of Hong Kong and Prof. Zhubing He at Southern University of Science and Technology. ...more...

Areas of Expertise: The exploration of the physical mechanism of perovskite solar cells and the preparation of efficient large-area flexible perovskite solar cells.

Prof. Azeez Abdullah Barzinjy, Soran University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Stanford World Top 2% Scientists in the Materials Science Field in 2023 and 2024

Bio: Prof Dr Azeez Abdullah Barzinjy: was born in Erbil-Iraq. He received his BSc. (Physics) and his 1st M.Sc. (Superconducting transmission line) from the University of Salahaddin-Erbil in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He did another M.Sc. (Theoretical Physics) in 2009 at Old Dominion University in USA. He completed his PhD (Materials Science) at the Materials Science centre, University of Leicester/UK in 2014. He is currently ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles, metal electroplating from novel ionic liquids and investigating their properties, solar selective coating, surface plasmon resonance and nanotechnology

Prof. Müslüm Arıcı, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Turkey

Areas of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Energy, Fluid Mechanics, Energy storage technologies, Solar energy, Advanced Energy Technologies, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational fluid dynamics, Engineering and Technology

Prof. Hongen Wang, School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, China

Researcher, PhD/MSc Supervisor, Member of Yunnan Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology and Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy Materials of the Ministry of Education of China. Stanford World Top 2% Scientists(2023)

Areas of Expertise: Optoelectronic materials and devices; Energy storage materials and devices

Researcher Zhijie Chen, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Bio: Dr. Zhijie Chen is a research associate at the Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW. He received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia in 2022. His research mainly focuses on the development of green technology for achieving environmental and energy sustainability. ...more...

Areas of Expertise: The development of green technology for achieving environmental and energy sustainability

Asso. Prof. AZAM TAUFIK MOHD DIN, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Bio: Azam T. Mohd Din obtained a B.Eng. (Chemical Engineering) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2003 and an MSc in 2005. In 2014, he completed his PhD at the same institution under the supervision of Prof. Bassim H. Hameed on the synthesis and characterisation of ordered mesoporous materials for environmental remediation and product purification. His other research interests include gas adsorption and the removal of emerging contaminants (EC) for a sustainable environment.

Areas of Expertise: Adsorption, Activated Carbon, Wastewater Treatment, Ordered Mesoporous Materials, Pyrolysis, Co-Pyrolysis, Biomass, Biofuel, Reaction Engineering

Prof. Ping Xiang, School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, China

Areas of Expertise: Computational Continuum Mechanics and Mathematics with Mesh-free methods; Steel reinforced concrete; Earthquake & Structures; Structure Mechanics and Design; Finite element methods; Multiscale modeling; atomistic-continuum modeling; Optical fiber technology in Civil & Structural Engineering; Structural Health monitoring; Biomechanics; Nano mechanics; Solid Mechanics; Numerical methods in engineering

Prof. Tokeer Ahmad, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, India

Stanford World Top 2% Scientists for consecutive five years since 2020

Bio: Prof. Tokeer Ahmad is graduated from IIT Roorkee and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Presently, he is full Professor at Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi since 2019. Prof. Ahmad has supervised 16 PhD’s, 84 postgraduates, 10 projects, published 214 research papers, one patent and three books with research citation of 8935, h-index of 56 and i10-index ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Nanomaterials, Heterostructures; Nanocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, Photoelectrocatalysis, Water Splitting, H2 Energy and Gas Sensing

Assist. Prof. Wending Pan, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, China

Bio: Dr. Wending Pan obtained his B.S. degree (2017) in Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Ph.D. degree (2021) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), under the supervision of Prof. Dennis Y.C. Leung. He continued his research as a Postdoctoral Fellow and currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKU.

Areas of Expertise: Aqueous ion batteries working mechanism, Advanced solid-state electrolytes, Multi-ion (de-)intercalation behaviors

Assist. Prof. Biao Hu, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel Peacock Plan Level C

Areas of Expertise: Composite materials & structures, Structural retrofitting; Sustainable construction materials

Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz, Net Zero Industry Innovation Center, School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK

Bio: Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz, currently serving as a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the Net Zero Industry Innovation Center, School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK. He has more than 12 year tecahing and reserach experince Sweden, Malayisa, Qatar, Pakistan and UK. He has completd his post doc training Hamad Bin Khalifa Univerisity, ...more...

Areas of Expertise: Utilization of wastes for H2 and energy production; Thermal treatment systems (gasification, pyrolysis, and combustion); Energy system analysis and optimization; Sustainable chemical process design; Process simulation and modeling; Techno-economic evaluation and circular economy; Bioenergy CO2 capture, storage, and utilization (BECCS/U)