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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Mar 30, 2024
Extended Early Bird Ends: Dec 25, 2023

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Enge Wang
Peking University, China
Title: Full Quantum Effects of Water Cluster on Surface
Enge Wang is the Professor of Physics, Peking University. He is also the Chairman of Advisor Board of Institute of Physics and the Honorary Director of Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Director of the Institute of Physics, the President of Peking University, and the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1999 to 2017. He was selected as the Vice President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in 2017, the International Councilor of American Physical Society (APS) in 2018, and the Chairman of Global Cooperation Alliance of Science Centers (GCASC) in 2019. He researches condensed matter physics; the approach is a combination of theoretical and experimental study of full quantum effects in light-element materials.
Prof. Jin Zhong Zhang
University of California, USA
Title: Size truly matters: Novel properties of nanostructured metal halide perovskites
Jin Zhong Zhang received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of Washington, Seattle in 1989. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of California Berkeley from 1989 to 1992. In 1992, he joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, where he is currently distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Zhang’s recent research interests focus on design, synthesis, characterization, and exploration of applications of advanced materials including semiconductor, metal, and metal oxide nanomaterials, particularly in the areas of solar energy conversion, solid state lighting, sensing, and biomedical detection/therapy. He has authored 415 publications and four books. Zhang is currently executive editor for JPCL and associate editor for ACS Physical Chemistry Au published by ACS. He is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, RSC, and ACS. He is the recipient of the 2014 Richard A. Glenn Award of the ACS Energy and Fuel Division.
Prof. Rainer Waser
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Title: Neuromorphic Computing – Ingredients for a Future AI Hardware
Rainer Waser received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at the University of Darmstadt in 1984, and worked at the Philips Research Laboratory, Aachen. He is Professor at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the RWTH Aachen University since 1992 and director at the Peter Grünberg Institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, since 1997. His research interests target the fundamental understanding of phenomena in electronic oxides which are promising for potential memory, logic, and sensor functions. In 2014, Rainer Waser received the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for his work on redox-based resistive switching which is the most prestigious award in the German science system.
Prof. Zhigang Chen
Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Title: Photonic materials: from bio-soft-matter to graphene-like structures
Zhigang Chen is currently a specially-appointed Chair Professor at Nankai University, China. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, beam shaping and biophotonics. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as an editor for several journals including Light Science & Applications, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Science Bulletin, and Advances in Physics X, and as a chair for many conferences including 2016/2018 Program/General Co-Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science.
Prof. Se-Kwon Kim
Hanyang University, South Korea
Title: Investigation, Developments, and Application of Bioactive Substances Derived from Marine Organisms
Se-Kwon Kim, Ph.D., is presently working as a Professor at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. He was worked as distinguished Professor at Department of Marine Bio Convergence Science and Technology and Director of Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea.

He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Pukyong National University and conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. Later, he became a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and University of British Colombia in Canada.

Dr. Kim served as president of the ‘Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan’ in 1986-1990, and the ‘Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology’ in 2006-2007. To the credit for his research, he won the best paper award from the American Oil Chemists’ Society in 2002. Dr. Kim was also the chairman for ‘7th Asia-pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium’, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He was the chief-editor in the ‘Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Science’ during 2008-2009. In addition, he is the board member of International Society of Marine Biotechnology Associations (IMBA) and International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Food (ISNFF).

His major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances from marine resources. His immense experience of marine bio-processing and mass-production technologies for marine bio-industry is the key asset of holding majorly funded Marine Bio projects in Korea. Furthermore, he expended his research fields up to the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for their applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals. To this date, he has authored around 850 research papers, 70 books, and 120 patents.
Prof. Yoke Khin Yap
Michigan Technological University, USA
Title: Electronic and Biomedical Application of Boron Nitride van der Waals Heterostructures
Yoke Khin Yap is a professor of physics, and director of the applied physics graduate program at Michigan Technological University (MTU). Dr. Yap earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from Osaka University as sponsored as a Monbusho scholar. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) before his faculty appointment at MTU in January 2002. Dr. Yap was honored with the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. He was the first elected chair of the user group of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2008. In 2010, Professor Yap served as the Materials Research Society task force member to prepare input to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for a revised Strategic Plan for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). Dr. Yap received the MTU Bhakta Rath Research Award In 2011. He was appointed as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of Vice President for Research in 2014-2016. In June 2015, Dr. Yap was honored as an Osaka University Global Alumni Fellow. Dr. Yap received the MTU Research Award in 2018 and the title of Michigan Tech University Professor in 2020. His research group at MTU is a leader on boron nitride nanostructures and has published articles in Nature Electronics, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nature Communications, among others.
Prof. Dimitris Argyropoulos
North Carolina State University, USA
Title: Limitations in Creating Lignin-Derived Carbon Fibers
Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State University. He has also served as a Finland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry with the department of Chemstry of the University of Helsinki, Finland and Distinguished visiting Professor with the centre for Advanced Materials and the Department of Chemistry King Abdulaziz University, Jedah, Saudi Arabia.

Professor Argyropoulos’s research team is internationally recognized for his leading contributions to Green Chemistry using cellulose and lignin wood-based polymers. His work focuses at promoting our understanding of the structure and reactivity of such polymers and the development of novel NMR and material science techniques for the structural elucidation and upgrading of these biopolymers. The efforts of his research group have been disseminated in excess of 250 scientific papers, numerous scientific conferences invited presentations and patents. Professor Argyropoulos is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Academy of Wood science and the Chemical Institute of Canada.
Prof. OUYANG Jianyong
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Materials
Prof. Ouyang received his PhD, master and bachelor degrees from Institute for Molecular Science in Japan, Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Science, and Tsinghua university in Beijing, respectively. His research interests include flexible/wearable electronics and energy materials and devices. He invented the first polymer/nanoparticle memristor (2004), the first hybrid ionic/electronic thermoelectric converter (2020), the first adhesive intrinsically conducting polymers (2020), demonstrated the first application of flexible strain sensors for food processing monitoring (2021), discovered photon-enhanced Seebeck effect (2021) and the first ductilization of polymers (2022), and continually reported world-record conductivities and thermoelectric properties of solution-processable conducting polymers and world-record thermoelectric properties of ionic conductors. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals. The total citation is more than 26,300, and his H-index is 80 according to Google Scholar.
Prof. George Floudas
University of Ioannina, Greece
Title: When crystals flow: Soft matter under confinement
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Prof. Kirk S. Schanze
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
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