Plenary Speakers

 

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna

National Univ. of Singapore,

Singapore,

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seeram-ramakrishna/

Bloghttps://blog.nus.edu.sg/seeram/

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, Everest Chair is a world-renowned scholar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seeram-ramakrishna/; https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=83442941566286721) at the National University of Singapore NUS is ranked among the top five best global universities for engineering in the world (https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/engineering).  Clarivate Analytics recognized him among the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in the world in materials science and cross-fields categories. Highest professional distinctions include an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; and ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology.   He is also an elected Fellow of American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS); ASM International; American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME); American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE); Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE and Institution of Materials, Minerals & Mining, IoM3, UK; ISTE, India; and International Union of Biomaterials Science & Engineering (FBSE). He is senior member of IEEE.   He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and the GMP training from Harvard University, USA. Among numerous recognitions he received are: IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award; Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship; UK Cambridge Nehru Fellowship; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth. Springer Nature-China New Development Award, Honorary Everest Chair of MBUST, Nepal (https://mbustb.org/member_cat/honorary-chair/); CUT Honorary Engineering Doctorate, South Africa; APA Distinguished Researcher Award, International Federation of Engineering Education Societies President award- Global Visionary; Global Engineering Dean's Council Ambassador; ASEAN Outstanding Engineer Award; Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award.  Thomson Reuters identified him among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.  He has an H-index of 174  and i10 index above 1271 with more than 147,426 citations for his publications to date (https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=a49NVmkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate). He is among the top 425 highly cited researchers in the world (https://www.webometrics.info/en/hlargerthan100).  He is regarded as the guru of electrospinning and nanofibers (http://nart2020.com/conferenceinfo/ and http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/grr-materialscience.pdf).  He pioneered nanotechnology in Asia.

His academic leadership includes NUS’s Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry Liaison Office; Director of NUS International Relations Office; Founding Director of NUS Bioengineering; Founding Co-Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Institute. As a founding Chairman he championed the establishment ~ $100 million Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, SERIS. He served as a board member of several national organizations, policy institutes, and tertiary education institutions.  He received Long Service Medal- Pingat Bakti Setia during Singapore National Day Awards 2021.  He founded the Global Engineering Deans Council (http://gedcouncil.org/ambassadors) while serving as the Vice-President of International Federation of Engineering Educator Societies (IFEES). He authored the book The Changing Face of Innovation.  He is a founding member of Plastics Recycling Association of Singapore, PRAS (https://www.sgc.org.sg/events/event-details/sgc-sustainability-committee-and-pras), and Chairman of Plastics Recycling Center of Excellence (PRCOE).   He is the Circular Economy Taskforce Chair at NUS (https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/unlocking-circular-economy-tickets-156525486945). He is a member of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE), Singapore.  He Co-Chairs the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Advocacy Group at the Singapore Institute of Directors (www.sid.org.sg). He is a member of Enterprise Singapore’s and ISO Committee on Circular Economy.  He Chairs the Climate Change TC at the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES); and a member of standards committee of Singapore Manufacturing Federation (http://www.smfederation.org.sg). He is a member of Technical Committee on Circularity of Materials at the Singapore Council of Standards, an industry-led effort.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer NATURE Journal Materials Circular Economy (https://www.springer.com/journal/42824); Associate Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Journal Circular Economy (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/circular-economy/editorial-board); and Editor of Encyclopedia of Green Materials. He is member of IITMAA Thought Leaders Council. He is an evaluation panel member for the $3 million Alliance Prize in Circular Solutions for Flexibles, sponsored by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (https://www.circularsolutions.theallianceprize.org/evaluation); and Kuwait Prize in the field of emerging interdisciplinary sciences He is an eminent resource person for universities, companies, governments, individuals, and international organizations. He is a speaker of Asian Leadership Conference (https://alc.chosun.com/2022/speaker/speaker.html?lang=en&year=2022&pn=10#). He co-authored a book ‘Sustainability for Beginners”. He is a member of World Bank Advisory Group for the India Tertiary Education NEP Dialogue Analytical and Advisory work (https://support.qs.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4402509434386-QS-Rankings-Advisory-Board). He contributed to the UNESCO report entitled ‘Knowledge-driven Actions: Transforming Higher Education for Global Sustainability’ (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380519; https://www.uib.no/en/sdgbergen/141236/members-unesco-expert-group). His book on Circular Economy (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-8510-4) received 2021 Springer Nature: China New Development Award (https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/china-new-development-award-winners-announced/19657120). European Commission Director-General for Environment, Excellency Daniel Calleja Crespo said “Professor Seeram Ramakrishna should be praised for his personal engagement leading the reflections on how to develop a more sustainable future for all”.

 

 

 

 

    

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 Professor II-Doo Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Korea,

Professor Il-Doo Kim is Chair Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of the Advanced Nanomaterials and Energy Laboratory at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the Director of Advanced Nanosensor Research (ANR) Center and Membrane Innovation Center for KAIST Institute. Prof. Il-Doo Kim's research group is focused on the novel synthesis of various inorganic nanomaterials optimized for application in ultra-sensitive chemical sensors (environmental hazardous gas detection and exhaled breath gas analysis for disease diagnosis), high-performance energy storage devices, and new energy harvesting system based on transpiration driven electrokinetic power generation. Our research works aim at developing new synthetic methods that rely on a modified electrospinning method to produce unique nano-building blocks such as highly porous nanofibers and open tubular structures. In addition, our team rationally designs multi-dimensional catalyst-functionalized nanofibers, i.e., oxide, nitride, and sulfide materials, as cost-effective and highly efficient nano-catalysts. Up to date, Prof. Kim has published over 327 articles, 5 book chapters, and holds 238 international patents. Moreover, a number of patents related to nanofiber synthesis and applications have been successfully licensed to 11 companies. Prof. Kim has been awarded the KAIST Grand Research 2022, the Minister Award (Ministry of Science and ICT 2021), KAIST Grand Prize in International Cooperation (2021), The Scientist of The Year from Korean Journalists (2019), Korea 10 Nanotechnology Award (2019), Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), Academician (2019), Distinguished Proud Award, The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers (2019), Grand Prize at the 9th KINC Fusion Research Award (2019), the Certificate of commendation by Ministry of Science and ICT (2019), won the Grand Prize of 2018 National R&D Excellence 100 Selection (2018), the Songkok Science Award (2018), the KAIST Technology Innovation Grand Prize 2017 (2017). Prof. Kim currently serves as an Associate Editor of the ACS Nano. He is a member of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (Fellow, KAST).

 

Professor Andreas Greiner

University of Bayreuth,

Germany.

Andreas Greiner received his Ph D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Marburg in 1988 and joined did his postdoc in 1989 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He was appointed associate professor for organic chemistry and macromolecular chemistry at the University of Mainz in 1999. In 2000 he became full professor for polymer chemistry and technology at the University of Marburg and joined in 2012 University of Bayreuth as a distinguished professor for macromolecular chemistry. Since 2013 he is heading the business unit Future Solution of New Materials Bayreuth GmbH for technology transfer. Present research topics are functional biobased polycarbonates, microplastic, biodegradable polymers, electrospinning of polymer nanofibers, polymer-functionalized nanoparticles, poly(p-xylylene)s by CVD, polymers for coatings, filtration, textiles, medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, and as electrodes for microbial fuel cells. Greiner has authored more than 350 scientific publications and was ranked no. 36 in Thomson Reuters´s top 100 materials science citation ranking list out of 500.000 materials scientists for the decade 2000-2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Rajan Jose

Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology,

Universiti Malaysia Pahang 

URL: http://fist.ump.edu.my

Professor Rajan Jose is a senior Professor in the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Main Editor of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & TechnologyHe has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received a Ph.D. degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of a diverse range of materials including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, materials for molecular electronics, biomaterials, glasses, and glass-ceramics. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 260 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) indexed journals which are cited nearly 14000 times with an h-index of 63 according to the Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 23 Doctoral, and 10 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him at 2161/285311 Materials Scientists in the list of Lifetime achievers (2021) in the world – representing the top 0.76%. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research is on the structure-property relationship in materials for the desired device functionality.

 

 

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