Ibrahim DINCER
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT ONTARIO TECH
Ibrahim DINCER
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT ONTARIO TECH
Ibrahim Dincer is a full professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ontario Tech. University and an adjunct professor at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Yildiz Technical University. Renowned for his pioneering works in the area of sustainable energy technologies he has authored/co-authored numerous books and book chapters, and many refereed journal and conference papers. He has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He has delivered many keynote and invited lectures. He is an active member of various international scientific organizations and societies, and serves as editor-in-chief, associate editor, regional editor, and editorial board member on various prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards, including the Premier’s research excellence award in Ontario, Canada. During the past six years he has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of The Most Influential Scientific Minds in Engineering and one of the most highly cited researchers.
SEERAM RAMAKRISHNA
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
SEERAM RAMAKRISHNA
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, Everest Chair is a world-renowned poly-disciplinary academic at the National University of Singapore (https://cde.nus.edu.sg/mou-with-haulio-to-develop-smart-haulage-scheduler-copy/; https://www.linkedin.com/in/seeram-ramakrishna/; https://www.adscientificindex.com/productivity-rankings/?university=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). Thomson Reuters identified him among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Stanford Composite score (c-score) ranks him among the top 6 impactful researchers of the world in the categories of materials, biomedical engineering, and enabling & strategic technologies (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4). Clarivate Analytics recognized him among the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in the world in materials science and cross-fields categories. His publications to date received an H-index of 179 and 160,123 citations (https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=a49NVmkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate). Highest professional distinctions include an elected Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS); UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Indian National Academy of Engineering; ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology; and Singapore Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected Fellow of ASM International, ASME, AIMBE, USA; IMechE and IoM3, UK; ISTE, India; and International Union of Biomaterials Science & Engineering (FBSE). He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and the GMP training from Harvard University, USA. Among numerous recognitions he received are: IIT Hyderabad Distinguished Professor; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award; Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship; UK Cambridge Nehru Fellowship; SEE-India Mekapati Gowtham Reddy International Award; 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. He is regarded as the guru of electrospinning and nanofibers (http://nart2020.com/conferenceinfo/ and http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/grr-materialscience.pdf).
His academic leadership includes NUS’s Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry and Technology Relations 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 the Circular Economy Taskforce Chair at NUS (https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/unlocking-circular-economy-tickets-156525486945). He is a point of contact for the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment (MSE) Singapore on the circular economy competency and skillsets. He is also a member of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Advisory Committee of MSE. He is the Dy Chairman of Sustainability Cluster at the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), and also serves as an advisor to the IES Green Plan 2030. He is a member of Technical Committee on Circularity of Materials at the Singapore Council of Standards, an industry-led effort. He is a member of Enterprise Singapore’s and ISO Committee on Circular Economy. He is a member of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) committee of Singapore Institute of Directors (www.sid.org.sg). 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 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 Editorial board member of RSC Energy and Environmental Science and NPJ Urban Sustainability journal. He is also a board member of RSC book series on Soft Matter (https://books.rsc.org/collection/86/Soft-Matter-Series). He is member of IITMAA Thought Leaders Council. He is a judge committee member for the MIT Technology Review – TR35 Asia Pacific. 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 (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). He is a leading voice in Singapore’s sustainability development advocacy. 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”.
ABDUL-GHANI OLABI
DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
ABDUL-GHANI OLABI
DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
Prof Olabi is the Director of Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre at the University of Sharjah “UoS”. For the previous three years, he was the Head of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, before joining UOS, he was the director and founding member of the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland. Prof Olabi received his M.Eng and Ph.D. from Dublin City University, since 1984 he worked at different national and international institutes such as; National Research Centre-Italy “CNR”, Research Centre of FIAT-Italy “CRF”, Dublin City University “DCU”, Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies “IEET” at UWS, and Aston University.
Prof Olabi is an Academic Expert Reviewer, he acted as member and chairman for a number of accreditation panels.
Prof Olabi has supervised postgraduate research students (40 PhD) to successful completion. He has published large number of peer-reviewed papers concerning on Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems, particularly, hydrogen and Fuel Cell. In the last few years, Prof Olabi has patented 2 innovative projects regarding innovative generation of PEM Fuel Call.
Prof Olabi is the founder of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection SEEP, www.seepconference.com. He is the Subject Editor of the Elsevier Energy Journal, Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier), Editor of the Reference Module of Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier), Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy section of Energies and board member of a few other journals. Prof Olabi has coordinated different National, EU and International Projects. He has produced different reports to the Irish Gov. regarding: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells and Solar Energy.
BİROL KILKIS
PROFESSOR AT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
BİROL KILKIS
PROFESSOR AT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Dr. Kilkis received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University with high honors and received TUBITAK Encouragement Award in 1981. Dr. Kilkis has been working on heat transfer, unified heat transfer theory, high-performance buildings, quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat pumps, cogeneration, decarbonization, green hydrogen 5th generation, nearly-zero-exergy cities and buildings, district energy systems, and sustainable aviation. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE, a Life Member, recipient of ASHRAE Distinguished Service and ASHRAE Exceptional Service Awards after acting as the Section 6 Head and founder-chair of TC 7.4, Committee Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings. Dr. Kilkis was the first academician serving as a president of the Turkish Society of HVAC and Sanitary Engineers (TTMD), an affiliate society of ASHRAE, between 2017 and 2019. Currently, he is a distinguished lecturer at ASHRAE RAL. He is a professor at OSTIM Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye.
cengız s. ozkan
PROFESSOR - DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
cengız s. ozkan
PROFESSOR - DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Prof. Cengiz Ozkan is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 1997. Research in the Ozkan group involves the design and synthesis of nanoscale materials for energy storage, nanoelectronics and sensors applications; fundamental understanding and characterization of electrical and optical properties of nanoscale materials; and nanoscale structure–property relationships. Dr. Ozkan made pioneering contributions to manufacturing of sustainable high-performance materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors for electric vehicles, smart grids, and mobile electronics; 2D materials for low-power electronics, and sustainable materials for mitigating environmental pollution. Dr. Ozkan has been a member of several prestigious National Centers including the SRC MARCO Center for Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics at UCLA; and the SRC STARnet Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures at UMN. Dr. Ozkan has over 750 technical publications including journal papers, conference proceedings, conference abstracts, and book chapters; 13 Edited Books; 47 US and foreign patents; has given nearly 170 invited lectures and presentations worldwide; and he is serving as an Associate Editor for Energy Storage, Wiley. Dr. Ozkan is a Member of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, and he received a number of awards including the William Johnson International Founders Award, the John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award, and the TUBITAK Presidential Scientific Achievement Award. Dr. Ozkan co-organized and chaired over 40 scholarly conferences worldwide, and he had been elected a Meeting Chair for the Fall 2021 MRS Meeting in Boston, MA.
KIRIL HRISTOVSKI
THE CHAIR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESENTATION TITLE: REAL-TIME MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION USING MICROBIAL POTENTIOMETRIC SENORS
KIRIL HRISTOVSKI
THE CHAIR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Kiril Hristovski is a faculty member and the Chair of the Environmental and Resource Management Program in the Polytechnic School, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, a senior sustainability scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and a faculty member with the environmental engineering graduate program in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU. He is also a faculty advisor in the in Barrett Honors College, a faculty member with GlobalResolve, and the international collaboration liaison for the Center for Excellence in Emergency Management and Homeland Security in the College of Public Service and Community Solutions at ASU. In addition, he is affiliated with the Center on the Future of War and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU.
Among his research interests is nanomaterial synthesis and their environmental applications and implications; development, engineering and management of environmental systems for developing countries and countries with economies in transition; physical and chemical water and wastewater treatment; solid and hazardous wastes and materials; water quality and emerging contaminants; environmental and emergency management nexus; and environmental health and safety.
His awards include the Presidential Academic Award, presented by former U.S. President George Bush, Sr. (1991) and the Presidential Medal of Merit, presented by the president of the Republic of Macedonia (2016).
mıhrı ozkan
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT UCR
mıhrı ozkan
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT UCR
Mihri Ozkan is a professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCR. Mihri is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of Frontier National Academy of Engineering. She is the Climate Action Champion and Changemaker Professor of the University of California and selected as the Remarkable Women of UCR. Mihri completed her graduate studies at Stanford University and at UC-San Diego. She integrated her concerns about climate justice and environmental improvement into her research. Over twenty years, her research group developed innovative solutions for Li-ion battery technologies using sustainable and waste materials with green solutions and low power processing to achieve low carbon footprint in manufacturing.
Mihri’s creative nature resulted in 47 granted and 10 active patents. She published more than 340 scientific publications and her Google scholar citations is 11400, h-Index is 56 and i10-Index is 143. She advised and graduated nearly 80 graduate students. She is very passionate and actively participating on the Climate Justice related actions. Lately, she was the lead organizer for the Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Symposium at the Fall MRS Boston Meeting. She guest edited a special issue of the MRS Bulletin titled “Materials for Carbon Capture Technologies”. She led the CHEM Voices piece on direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide together with presidents of National Academies and DAC company leaders. She has given numerous worldwide keynote presentations about climate change, decarbonization, carbon capture, electrification of transportation and renewable energy storage technologies.
OLCAY UNVER
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE AT ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESENTATION TITLE: WATER MANAGEMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT FUTURE
OLCAY UNVER
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE AT ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Olcay Ünver is currently Professor of Practice at Environmental and Resource Management Pro-gram at Arizona State University, member of Water Policy Group and Industry Fellow at Australian Rivers Institute. He serves as a senior advisor to Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme.
In his public service career spanning over three decades, Dr. Ünver led FAO’s water programs and activities, United Nations World Water Assessment Programme and UNESCO’s Program Office on Global Water Assessment. He served as Vice-Chair of UN-Water from 2018 to 2020.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Ünver was a distinguished professor of water resources at Kent State University, Ohio and President of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey, where he transformed a large infrastructure project into a sustainable socioeconomic develop-ment program. Time Magazine listed him among the 19 “European Visionaries” in 1999 and New York Times featured him for his efforts towards sustainable, human-centered development in his country. He holds awards and recognitions that include World Water Council Medal of Service and International Water Resources Association’s (IWRA) Milennium Award.
Dr. Ünver served on boards and committees involving water and land resources, sustainable de-velopment, sustainable food and agriculture systems, water cooperation and policy. He was Secre-tary General and Vice President of IWRA, and Governor and Treasurer of World Water Council. He is a NATO Science Fellow, TÜBİTAK Honor Fellow and IWRA Fellow. He chairs the UNESCO-Water Future Task Force "Science-Policy Interlinkages: A pathway to accelerate the implementation of SDGs”; is Specialty Chief Editor for Water-Smart Food Production of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; and Board Member of Human Right 2 Water (HR2W) among his roles in the international academic and professional community.
SANDRO NIZETIC
PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE (FESB) AT UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT (CROATIA)
SANDRO NIZETIC
PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE (FESB) AT UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT (CROATIA)
Prof. Dr. Sandro Nižetić is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB) at University of Split (Croatia). His research is in the field of thermodynamics, energy, energy efficiency in buildings, smart technologies and renewable energy sources. He has twenty years of the teaching experience and from 2005 he is an ASHRAE member and also ASHRAE student branch advisor at University of Split. He has worked on various projects related to the implementation of energy efficiency measures in public buildings under the auspices of UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). He was also the head of the several national research’s projects. He also served as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Construction and Spatial Planning in the Croatian government, and also as Vice Dean of Research at FESB. Prof. Dr. Nižetić has organized and chaired several international conferences (IEES, ICH2P, SpliTech,ICRIC, GCGW-21,PRES-22 etc). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Sources Part A (Taylor&Francis) and Associate Editor in the Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier). He is editorial board member of different reputable journals such as: Energy and Buildings (Elsevier), Energy (Elsevir(, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer), International Journal of Sustainable Energy (Taylor&Francis), etc. Prof. Dr. Nižetić has published over 200 research and conference papers, as well as several techno-economic professional case studies and has visited several research and educational institutions worldwide as visiting researcher or as visiting lecturer. He has organized over twenty SI in various journals. For his research work he received several major awards including the Croatian State Prize for the research for 2016 and 2021, as well as also Rector prize for the research from the University of Split for 2018 and 2020. Based on the Stanford and Elsevier ranking list he was among 2% of the World's top cited scientist in 2019, 2020 and 2021 for single year and overall career.
