invited speaker

 

 

 

 

 

Assoc.Prof.Zhuang Xu
University of Nottingham Ningbo China

 

Zhuang Xu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2006. From 2001 to 2005, he was with the Energy System Group, University of New South Wales. In 2006, he was an associate professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He is currently an associate professor with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China. He is a member of the Power and Energy Society, in 2017. His research interests include power electronics and high-performance electrical drives. He was a recipient of three best paper awards from the Annual Conference on the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, in 2004, the IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, in 2010, and the IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia, in 2011, respectively.

 

Assoc. Prof. Zied Hajej,
Université de Lorraine, France

 

Hajej Zied is an Associate professor (HDR) at the University of Lorraine, Metz platform since September 2012. It operates research and responsible for the DMIS (Decision Making of Iffy Systems) team in the laboratory LGIPM Metz, responsible of licence 3 for industrial engineering (UFR-MIM,Metz) and responsible of master for industrial engineering system (ISC-GSI) delocalized in Wroclaw-Poland. After obtaining his doctorate at the University of Paul Verlaine - Metz in 2010, he was employed at the University of Metz as research engineer until August 2012. His main areas of research on the optimization of maintenance policies coupled to production and the development of methods and support the design and control tools in the production systems of goods and services. He is the author of numerous articles in international community of industrial engineering. Her teaching areas include Reliability/Maintenance, modeling and organization of manufacturing and logistics systems, the practice of simulation, automation, and quality system production.

 

 

Assoc.Prof. Chalida U-tapao

King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

 

Dr. Chalida U-tapao is an Associate Professor at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang with 25 years helping bachelor, master, and doctoral students with civil engineering problems. Specializing in environmental engineering management, She uses that experience to reduce biosolid from wastewater treatment processes and use their byproduct producing renewable energy.
By focusing on civil and environmental engineering, She has been able to put the doctor of philosophy degree she earned at the University of Maryland at College Park to good use. Over the years, She strengthes at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang have garnered some recognition for Executive Vice President for Corporate Communication.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. DUYGU UYSAL,
Gazi University, Turkey

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duygu Uysal was born in 1988 in Ankara. After completing her primary, secondary and high school education at TED Ankara College, she received her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees from Gazi University in 2009, 2011 and 2016, respectively. She completed her post-doctoral studies at the University of Rostock, Germany in 2018. Currently, she works as a member of at Gazi University, Department of Chemical Engineering. She has been working as the assistant director at Gazi University Clean Energy Research and Application Center since 2020. Since April 2022, she has been a board member of the Turkish Society of Thermal Sciences and Technology. She has researches and publications on Carbon Dioxide Emission Prevention, Transport phenomena, Fluidized Beds, Gasification, Clean and Renewable Energy, Alternative Hydrogen Sources. She also has Turkish published books titled "Applied Exergy Analysis for Processes" and "Fluidized Beds", co-authored with Prof. Dr. Bekir Zühtü Uysal.

 

Prof. Jorge Loredo,

University of Oviedo, Spain

 

Jorge Loredo received his Degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1976. Master in Enviromental Engineering by Minister of Industry of Spain in 1977-1978. He obtained his PhD in Mining Engineering from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1981. Master in Mining Geology by Paris School of Mines (France) in 1981-1982. He has been Senior Lecturer of Mining and Environmental Engineering at the Oviedo School of Mines of the University of Oviedo (Spain) from 1985 to 2008 and Professor since 2008. Curently he is Honorary Emeritus Professor of the University of Oviedo. He has served as Head of the Department of Mining Engineering of Oviedo University (Spain) between 2004 and 2012. Visiting Researcher in the Department of Geology and Geophysics of the University of California at Berkeley in 1987/88. Visiting Professor in the Academy of Mines and Metallurgy of Cracow in 1992, the University of Sofía (Bulgaria) in 1993, La Rioja University (Argentina) in 1997 and 1999, San Juan University (Argentina) in 1997 and 1999, and the University of Piura (Peru) in 1998 and 1999. His current research interests are mining exploration, mine water pollution and control, mine water as renewable energy resource. Prof. Loredo has more than 30 years of practical and research experience in mining and environmental exploration, and in his capacity as a Professor and a consultant engineer he has served as a principal investigator and coordinator of a great number of national and international research projects on a wide range of subjects related to the mining industry. He has been author and/or editor of 13 books and author or co-author of more than 100 book chapters and more than 200 research papers appeared in international indexed reference journals and international refereed conference proceedings. Chairman of International Conferences. Member of the Executive Committee Council of the International Mine Water Association (IMWA) for the period 2017-2021 and 2021-2025.

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Zhen WU,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 

Dr. Zhen Wu, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China, Vice Chairman of Chinese Energy Society, Hong Kong Scholar Fellow and Vebleo Fellow. He is currently the Associate Editor of e-Prime: Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy and Frontiers in Thermal Engineering, the Academic Editor of Automotive Innovation, the editorial board member of Rare Metals, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, and Results in Engineering, and the Topic Editor of Energies. He is also the member of review panel of European Research Council (ERC) project. Besides, he is the reviewer of the leading international journals of 'Chemical Engineering Journal', 'Journal of Energy Storage', 'Applied Energy', 'Nanoscale', 'International Journal of Hydrogen Energy', 'Energy Conversion and Management', 'Energy', and other journals. Dr. Wu undertook some international and national projects about the hydrogen and fuel cell energy system as the project leader. For example, the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Education Association for International Exchange, the Natural Science Foundation Project of Shaanxi Province, and so on. His research interests include hydrogen storage technology, hydrogen fuel cell technology, high-efficiency energy conversion technology, and so on. So far, he has published more than 100 scientific and conference papers in the research field of hydrogen energy system. In 2015 and 2018, his papers published in Applied Energy were awarded as the 'Best Paper Award of Excellence' jointly by Elsevier Publishing Co. Ltd. and the prestigious international journal of Applied Energy for twice.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Wojciech Czekała,
Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland

 

A graduate of the Poznań University of Life Sciences in Environmental protection (2011) and of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in Geology (Management of Mineral and Water Resources; 2013). A specialist in biological processing of waste materials, management of digestate and environmental protection. A scientist that gained experience through domestic and international internships, participation in scientific projects and research contracted by industrial partners. A holder of a LIDER programme grant for a project entitled IN OIL: An innovative method for bioconversion of by-products from food processing industry. Vice-Dean for Science - Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, since 2020.