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Prof. Martin Olazar

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain

Title: Hydrogen production via combined plastics/biomass pyrolysis and in line catalytic steam reforming

Degree and Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1978, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the same university in 1985, with excellence prize in both the Master’s and the PhD. First prize in the “XI Resurrección María de Azkue Research Competition” and “CAF/Elhuyar” (2011). Professor of Chemical Engineering at UPV/EHU since 1994.

The research activities focus on the development of thermal and catalytic processes of interest from an energy and environmental perspective, within the framework of a bio-refinery and waste refinery. He has participated in more than 100 competitive projects (60 as principal investigator). More than 490 papers published in journals indexed in the JCR list, with an h index of 95, and more than 27,000 citations (January 2026). Supervisor of 37 PhD students. Holder of four Spanish and nine international licensed patents.

Spanish Delegate at two workshops within the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (Chemical Engineering in the Applications of Catalysis, 1991-2003, and Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2003-2006); Member of the Research Committee at UPV/EHU (2006-2013). Secretary of the Committee for Experimental Sciences at the Basque Agency for Assessing Research Quality (UNIBASQ) (2012-2016). Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Prof. Thomas Wirth

Title: Advances in Hypervalent Halogen Chemistry

Thomas Wirth is professor of organic chemistry at Cardiff University. After studying chemistry in Bonn, he obtained his PhD and at the Technical University of Berlin. After a postdoctoral stay at Kyoto University, he started his independent research at the University of Basel in 1994, before taking up his current position at Cardiff University in 2000. He was invited as a visiting professor to several places. Thomas Wirth was awarded the Werner-Prize from the New Swiss Chemical Society (2000), the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society and the Bader Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016). In 2016 he was elected as a fellow of The Learned Society of Wales. His main interests of research concern stereoselective electrophilic reactions, oxidative transformations with hypervalent iodine reagents including mechanistic investigations and electrochemical synthesis performed in microreactors.

Prof. Karsten Haupt

Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France

Title: Molecular biomimicry - Principle and applications of molecularly imprinted polymers as chemical antibody mimics for biomedicine, biotechnology and chemical sensing

Karsten Haupt is a Biochemist from the University of Leipzig, Germany. After obtaining a PhD in Bioengineering from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France, he was a researcher at Lund University, Sweden and at INSERM, Paris, and an assistant professor at the University of Paris 12. Since 2003 he has been a full professor of Bioengineering at UTC, where he has been the Head of the CNRS Laboratory for Enzyme and Cell Engineering. Karsten Haupt is a Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France, and the co-founder of two companies. His present research interests include affinity technology, chemical sensors, synthetic antibodies (molecularly imprinted polymers), biomimetic polymers and nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
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Prof. Jeffrey Chi-Sheng Wu

Taiwan

Title: Salar H2 from Photocatalytic Water Splitting by SrTiO3-based Catalysts

Jeffrey Chi-Sheng Wu is a distinguished professor and former chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. He received his PhD. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Professor Jeffrey C.S. Wu has long-term research activity in solar energy conversion. His research interests include (a) photoreduction of CO2 to fuel, (b) photocatalytic water splitting for H2, and (c) photocatalytic oxidation of air pollutants. (d) Catalytic hydrogenation of CO2. He is a fellow of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers since 2022. Prof. Wu received many awards including, the FutureTech Award of the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan in 2024 and 2025; the Qin-Lang Chair Professor of NTU Engineering College in 2022, Outstanding Paper of Taiwan Catalysis Society in 2020, Yang Bing Yan Chair Professor of NTU Engineering College in 2018, Outstanding Engineering Professors Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers Taiwan in 2016; Outstanding Cross-Sector Collaboration Award of 2nd National Industrial Innovation in 2012; "Lai Tzai-Der award" of Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2009, "Chemical Technology Award" of Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2006, and "Silver medal of National Invention," Taiwan in 2004. He also serves as a member of the editorial boards in several SCI journals. He is the author and co-author of over 160 SCI journal papers. His h-index is 57 (Jan. 2026) with a total of citations > 11000.

Prof. Janusz Lipkowski

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland

Title: Bertholide compounds - modern category of versatile materials

Janusz Lipkowski graduated at Warsaw University, Faculty of Chemistry (1965), got PhD in 1972 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1978 he has been appointed the position of Head of Department (original name: ‘Physical Methods of Analysis’, by JL transformed to ‘Physicochemistry of Supramolecular Complexes’). In 1983 he was awarded the degree of DSc (habilitation) and in 1990 became titular professor. He has visited foreign scientific centers, a postdoctoral stay in Parma (Italy) and sabbatical in Tokyo (Japan). Among awards and honors are: the Honorary Professorship of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (and a doctor hc of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in Novosibirsk) and the foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Moldova. In Poland he was appointed a series of important positions: director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry (of PASci) from 1992 to 2003, vice-President of Polish Academy of Sciences (2003-2006). Recently retitred as the profess or of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaaw (the 2nd State University in Warsaw). Janusz Lipkowski is full member of Polish Academy of Sciences, member of Academia Europea, fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and member of societies. From 2007 to 2020 he served as the President of Warsaw Learned Society.

Janusz Lipkowski is author or co-author of over 400 scientific publications, mostly on clathrate inclusion compounds, supramolecular complexes and their practical uses.

Prof. Yang Tian

East China Normal University, China

Title: Spatiotemporal Resolved Imaging and Regulation of Living Brains

Yang Tian, Distinguished Professor of East China Normal University, is currently the Dean of School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering of East China Normal University. She was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund, "The distinguished lectureship award" by the Japan Chemical Society, the First Prize of the Chinese Society for Analytical Testing (first author), the First Prize of the Chinese Chemical Society for Women Analytical Chemists, and the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (first author). She has been invited to give 36 international and domestic congress, keynote or invited presentations in neurology and neuroscience. Currently, she is the Associate Editor of Chemical Communications and the Associate Editor of Journal of Advanced Chemistry. Prof. Tian Yang's team has been engaged in the field of chemical expression analysis of in vivo electrical signals for a long time, and has carried out in-depth and systematic work in the development of precise analysis and measurement strategies for biochemical molecules (such as enzymes and proteins), the establishment of long time stable and high spatial resolution imaging methods, and the development of new instruments for high-speed imaging analysis. She has published 146 papers as the corresponding author, including Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun. All papers have been cited 15000 times and selected as Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar in 2019; 8 Chinese invention patents have been granted; invited to write chapters for a series of neurochemical analysis tools in English series.

Prof. John Pickett

Cardiff University, UK

Title: New chemical discovery approaches and biocatalytic synthesis for sustainable control of pests in human health and food production.

John’s contributions to the field of Biological Chemistry have been acknowledged with the 1995 Rank Prize for Nutrition and Crop Husbandry, election to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, election to Membership of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina in 2001 and received the International Society of Chemical Ecology Medal in 2002. John was appointed to the UK civil honour of CBE for Services to Biological Chemistry in 2004. In 2008 he was jointly awarded the Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture. He presented the Royal Society’s premier lecture in the biological sciences, the Croonian Prize Lecture in 2008, and the Cornell University Lecture in 2009. He was awarded the International Congress of Entomology Certificate of Distinction at the XXIV International Congress of Entomology held in Korea, August 2012. He was elected International Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 for his role as "an international driving force in the science and application of chemical ecology and in fostering advances in integrated pest management and agricultural sustainability". He became President of the Royal Entomological Society in 2014 and in August 2017 gave the Sterling B Hendricks Memorial Prize Lecture at the 254th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington DC. In 2020, John was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Distinguished Laureate Fellow, International Engineering and Technology Institute in 2025.

Prof. Masami Okamoto

Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

Title: Natural rubber latex-based tissue engineering: The pioneering advances in material for sustainability

Professor Okamoto received a Ph.D. in 1994 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is recipient of the "Thomson Scientific Research Front Award" (current Clarivate Frontier Research Award) in 2004 for Biopolymer-based Nanocomposites. He has received "Advanced Materials Research & Innovation Award" in 2025 for notable and outstanding research contribution in the field of Advanced Materials Sci & Tech from International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden. He has been admitted as a Lifetime-Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), August 2025. He is an editor-in-chief of e-J Soft Materials and Vice-president of the Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan.

He is the visiting professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy from 2011-2014, and Wrocław University of Technology, Republic of Poland from 2018-2019.

His research covers aspects of nano-structured materials, tissue-based bio-composites, and cancer cell biology, publishing over 200 scientific publications with more than 29,800 citations, registered numerous patents and a number of books (h-index: 60 Google Scholar, 2025, D-index: 54 Research.com, ONE-index 800/1000 ONE Research Community).

Most recently, he was recognized by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholars™ for his outstanding professional performance, the high impact of his work, and the outstanding quality of his scholarly contributions. He ranks in the top 0.002% of all academics worldwide. In the field of nanocomposite, out of 215,380 Researchers, he is ranked 2nd in impact, 10th in quality, and 6th in Scholars Rank.

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