Program
Plenary Speakers
EEST2014 is pleased to have five distinguished plenary speakers.
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Dr. Hubert A. Gasteiger
Technische Universität München, Germany
Dr. Hubert A. Gasteiger is a Professor and Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at the Chemistry Department of the Technische Universität München, and the Fellow of Electrochemical Society. Dr. Gasteiger received his Ph.D. in the Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1993, mentored by famous Dr. Elton Cairns, Dr. Phil Ross, and Dr. Nenad Marković in the field of surface electrochemistry. After one year as postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1994–1995),...
he moved to Ulm University (1996–1998), working as research assistant with Jürgen Behm, establishing a research group in heterogeneous gas-phase catalysis and electrocatalysis. In the fall of 1998, he joined the General Motors (GM)/Opel Fuel Cell Activities program (Honeoye Falls, NY) as Technical Manager, where he led a research group on the development and characterization of catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs). In September 2007 he joined Acta S.p.A. (Italy) as Director of Catalyst Technology at Acta S.p.A. (Italy), developing alkaline membrane fuel cells and electrolyzers. In 2009, he accepted a one-year Visiting Professorship at MIT, working on lithium-air batteries and fuel cell electrocatalysis with Yang Shao-Horn. April 2010, he was appointed Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at the Chemistry Department of the Technische Universität München (www.tec.ch.tum.de), focusing on materials, electrode, and diagnostics development for fuel cells and batteries. He has published over 100 high-impacting papers in international peer-reviewed journals including Science (h-index 52, 14000 citations), 14 book chapters, and 31 patent applications/patents. He also served as Editor-In-Chief for Wiley’s Handbook of Fuel Cells – Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications (four and two volumes published in 2003 and 2009, respectively) and currently chairs the Electrochemical Society’s Fuel Cell Subcommittee. In 2004, he received the Klaus-Jürgen Vetter Award from the International Society of Electrochemistry and was promoted to GM Technical Fellow. In 2012 he received both the Eminent Visitor Award from the Catalysis Society of South Africa and the Grove Medal for fuel cell research. |
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Dr. Claude LAMY
Institut Européen des Membranes, Frence
Dr. Claude LAMY has been involved in several Committees of French Research Agencies (CNRS, ADEME, Fuel Cell Network, ANR, etc.), the Director of a "Groupe de Recherches" of CNRS, GDR n°2985, "Piles A Combustible Tout Electrolyte (PACTE)", which coordinated the activity of 40 CNRS Laboratories working on the components of PEMFC and SOFC (polymer electrolytes, ceramic oxides, electrocatalysts, etc.). In 2012 he moved to “Institut Européen des Membranes” in Montpellier (France) and he represents the Director Board of CNRS Institute of Chemistry in AFHyPAC, the French Association of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. Dr. Lamy was a full Professor at the University of Poitiers, Department of Chemistry, from 1986 to 2010, where he was teaching Physical Chemistry (Atomistic and Molecular Structures, Electrochemistry, Chemical Kinetics, Spectroscopy, Electrocatalysis). He is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris 1962), Master of Sciences in 1963 and Ph.D in 1969 from the University of Paris.
After being a research scientist in the CNRS of Meudon-Bellevue (Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Interfaciale) from 1969 to 1976, he moved to Poitiers in 1976 where he developed a research group specialised in “ELECTROCATALYSIS”. His research activity was focussed on the investigation of the catalytic properties of different electrode materials (platinum and platinum based metals, transition metal macrocycles, alloys, adatoms, etc.) towards several electrochemical reactions involving organic compounds (alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, etc.). The nature and the structure of the electrode materials are optimised in order to increase both their catalytic activity (i.e. to increase the current density at a given potential) and the reaction selectivity (i.e. to increase the chemical yield). From a more applied point of view, two aspects were developed. The first one concerned “Fuel Cells”, mainly the direct oxidation of liquid fuels (methanol, ethanol, ethylene-glycol, DME, etc.) and the second one “Organic Electrosynthesis” in Aqueous Medium. In summary this research activity have led to the publication of more than 225 original papers (among them about 200 in International Journals), 65 papers in proceedings, 15 chapters in books, 95 invited lectures and more than 350 oral presentations. |
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Dr. Yongfang Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Yongfang Li is a Professor in Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士). Dr. Li obtained his M.Sc in Chemistry from Eastern China University of Science and Technology in 1982, his Ph.D in physical chemistry from Fudan University (China) in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, Dr. Li did his postdoctoral research in Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1993, Dr. Li was promoted to be a full Professor. As a Visiting Scientist,...
during 1997 to 1998, Dr. Li did his research in the Institute of Molecule Science (Japan), and during 1997 to 1998, he did his research in University of California (Santa Barbara, USA), respectively. Dr. Li’s major research areas include electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, and molecular design of photovoltaic materials for polymer solar cells. Dr. Li published more than 400 papers in high-impacting international academic journals included 120 papers with Impact Factors of larger than 5. He also co-authored with his Ph.D Supervisor Prof. Haoqing Wu (One of the pioneering and high-respected electrochemists in China) for book 'Electrochemical Kinetics', and written collaboratively with two of his students for book < Materials and Devices for Polymer Solar Cells >. His papers have been quoted more than 13000 times with an H-index of 61. Dr. Li has given more than 70 keynote/invited speeches in international conferences and seminars. Dr. Li has many high-ranking awards including The Distinguished Leading Young Scientist in China awarded by Ministry of Chinese National Human Resources in 1998; National Second Ranking Award in Natural Science awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 1995, The First Ranking Award of Advanced Science and Technology of Beijing in 2005; and the Second Ranking Award of Advanced Science and Technology of Beijing in 2013. |
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Dr. Hui-Ming Cheng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Hui-Ming Cheng is a Professor and Director at the Advanced Carbon Materials Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士). He graduated from Hunan University in 1984, and received his Master and Ph. D degree in 1987 and 1992 from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He worked at Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute, AIST, and Nagasaki University in Japan from 1990 to 1993, and MIT, USA from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Cheng is mainly working on carbon nanotubes, graphene, energy storage materials, photocatalytic semiconducting materials, and high-performance bulk carbon materials. He edited the first book on carbon nanotubes in Chinese, published over 400 peer-reviewed papers on Nature, Nature Mater., Nature Commun., PNAS, Adv. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chemie, Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Nano, J. Mater. Chem., Carbon, etc, with >21,000 citations. He has received several international and national awards, including National Natural Science Award (2nd class) in 2006, the Charles E. Pettinos Award (American Carbon Society, USA) in 2010, and the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2010. He is the Editor of Carbon since 2000 and the Editor-in-Chief of New Carbon Materials since 1998. Prof. Cheng was the Co-Chairman of the World Conference on Carbon in 2002 (Beijing) and 2011 (Shanghai), and he has given more than 70 plenary/keynote/invited talks in international conferences and symposia. Dr. Cheng was a recipient of TCT Fellowship at Nanyang Technological Univ. in 2002, is honorary professor of the University of Queensland, Australia, and guest professor of a few Chinese universities. |
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Dr. Piotr Zelenay
Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
Dr. Piotr Zelenay received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. (“habilitation”) degrees in chemistry from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Texas A&M University, and a visiting professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Alicante, and Colorado State University. Dr. Zelenay was appointed a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw in 1983 and remained at the University until 1997 when he accepted permanent research position with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
He has been associated with Materials Physics and Applications Division (formerly Materials Science and Technology Division) at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past 16 years. He is currently a Project Leader and Team Leader at LANL focusing primarily on fundamental and applied aspects of polymer electrolyte fuel cell science and technology, electrocatalysis and electrode kinetics. Dr. Zelenay has published over 100 research articles in renowned scientific journals with over 7000 citations, including Nature, Science, and Chemical Reviews, and has co-authored over 300 presentations, of which ca. 100 have been invited, keynote, and plenary lectures. He has 17 patents and patent applications in the area of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Since becoming Project Leader for LANL Fuel Cell Program in 2000, Dr. Zelenay led numerous research projects, including numerous large ones for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and received more than 20 awards and other honors. In 2010, he was awarded the DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Fuel Cell Technologies for research on non-precious metal electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction and, in 2013, the Electrochemical Society Energy Technology award. He is an Affiliate Professor of University of Warsaw, Poland, an active member of the Electrochemical Society and International Society of Electrochemistry, a member of the Editorial Board of Electrocatalysis, and the steering committee board member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). |