Plenary Speakers
Prof. Loh Xian Jun
Prof. Loh Xian Jun is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research. He also serves as an adjunct Professor at both the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is also the president and a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry. He has earned prestigious fellowships at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge; the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC); and the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3). He was also honoured with the Highly Cited Researcher Award by Clarivate Analytics. Prof. Loh has authored more than 300 journal papers, 38 patents and know-hows, more than 30 book chapters, and 7 books, as well as successfully commercialised eight different products. He is currently on several editorial boards of international journals and is a globally recognised expert in biodegradable thermogels for various applications.
Prof. Adam Lee
Prof. Adam is a professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Griffith University, and previously held Chair appointments at Cardiff, Warwick, Monash, Aston and RMIT Universities. His research addresses the rational design of nanoengineered materials for energy and environmental applications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Associate Fellow of the IChemE, Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Chemistry, and recipient of the 2011 McBain Medal, 2012 Beilby Medal and Prize, and 2023 RACI Welcome Award. Adam has co-authored > 300 publications (h-index 86, 26527 citations) and is a co-investigator and Flagship Project co-lead on the ARC Centre of Excellence 鈥楪reen Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide鈥 GetCO2.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Emeritus Dato鈥檚 Ir. Dr. Wan Ramli Wan Daud
Prof. Emeritus Dato鈥 Ir. Dr. Wan Ramli Wan Daud is a Professor Emeritus in Green Hydrogen Energy at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He previously served as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Malaya (2022-2024) and held the UKM-Petronas Professorship in Sustainable Hydrogen Energy at UKM (2019- 2021). He was also the Founding Director of the Fuel Cell Institute, UKM and has been a long-time professor and researcher in chemical engineering and fuel cell technologies.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences and Fellow of The Institution of Chemical Engineers. He also serves as the Founding President of the Malaysian Association of Hydrogen Energy (MAHE) and the President of the Malaysian Academy of Islamic Science (ASASI).
He received the prestigious Merdeka Award in 2016 for his contributions to hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology, and the Malay Language Academic Figure Award in 2020. He is recognised globally as one of the top 1% most cited researchers in engineering from 2015 to 2022.
He is a strong advocate of the Hydrogen Economy in Malaysia and led the development of two national hydrogen roadmaps (2006 and 2023). His research focuses on green hydrogen production, fuel cells, sustainable drying technologies, and the philosophy of Malay and Islamic technology. He holds 30 patents and has published over 1,000 academic works, including 414 international journal articles. His work has been cited over 22,000 times.
Prof. Dr. Yogendra Kumar Mishra
Prof. Dr. Yogendra Kumar Mishra is a Professor MSO and Leader of the Smart Materials group at Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), S酶nderborg, Denmark. Prior to SDU, he was leading an independent research group on 3D Nanomaterials at Functional Nanomaterials Chair, Kiel University, where he introduced the new flame-based technology for tetrapod nanostructuring, including their 3D highly porous networks as flexible ceramics. These networks can be used as sacrificial templates to create hybrid and new 3D architectured materials. At SDU, NanoSYD, the Smart Materials group鈥檚 main focus is to develop a new class of 鈥楩unctional Materials for Advanced and Sustainable Technologies鈥.
He is an Editorial Board Member and referee for many prestigious magazines. He has received many notable awards, like, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2008), Young Investigator Award (under 40) from BHJ Fonden-Denmark and has won several successful grants. Prof. Mishra is very well known worldwide for his research activities on 'Functional Tetrapod-based Nanology'.
Prof. Ts. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj
Prof. Ts. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj is currently a Professor and Deputy Executive Director of the University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM and a member of the working group committee on Photovoltaic Standards of the Department of Standards Malaysia. With the experience in solar energy fields more than 15 years, he has monitored more than 75 onsite inverter tests under the FiT, LSS and NEM scheme in Malaysia and published more than 70 high-impact journals, 50 conference papers and 4 book chapters. He is one of the recipients of the NAM research training fellowship for young scientists and Royal Academy Engineering UK鈥檚 Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In 2019, he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship, followed by the Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020.
Prof. Dr. S. K. Tyagi
Prof. Dr. S. K. Tyagi, presently working as a Professor at the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since April 2017. Earlier, he was working as Director/Scientist-E at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy, Kapurthala. He has also worked as Assistant Professor at SMVDU, Katra (J&K).
Dr. Tyagi has more than 27 years of research experience and expertise in the area of renewable energy, both solar thermal and biomass energy and other energy-related fields. He has made a significant contribution in R&D activities and has more than 250 publications of repute and > 10000 citations. He has also completed several R&D projects (as PI/Co-PI) worth 150 Million INR funded by MNRE, CSIR, DRDO, CPCB, British Council, Indian Industry, etc. He is a member of several reputed societies such as, Indian Science Congress, Indian Physics Association, Solar Energy Society of India, Indian Society for Heating, Refrigeration, Airconditioning Engineers (ISHRAE). Prof. Tyagi has also been recognised as among the top 2% of global scientists from India in the field of Energy, a study published by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
Dr. DJ Donn Matienzo
Dr. DJ Donn Matienzo obtained his Bachelor鈥檚 in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines 鈥 Diliman. Then, through the Erasmus Mundus Master Course 鈥 Chemical Innovation and Regulation program, he earned a joint master鈥檚 degree diploma from the Universit脿 di Bologna (Italy) and Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). He then obtained his PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the University of Chemistry and Technology 鈥 Prague (Czech Republic) in 2021 through the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. Alongside his educational background, he has several research and industrial experiences in various fields such as oil and gas, environmental compliance, water electrolyzer and chlor-alkali systems. He joined a short program for startup founders in Antler Amsterdam, where he underwent several masterclasses, seminars, workshops, and design sprints about tech startups. He recently completed his first long-term engagement as a DOST Balik (Returning) Scientist with the University of the Philippines and the Technological Institute of the Philippines (T.I.P.) as host institutions. He continues to serve as Business Development Head at T.I.P. TechnoCoRe and recently began a second Balik Scientist term in late 2024. He is a co-founding team member and currently the Chief Commercial Officer of Nascent Technologies, Corp., a battery startup in the Philippines, and previously served as an R&D Advisor at the German ClimateTech startup NeoCarbon. His work focuses on accelerating clean energy innovations and commercialising university-based R&D through partnerships, startup building, and technology transfer.
Professor Adarsh Kumar Pandey
Prof. Pandey is currently working as Professor at Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), School of Engineering and Technology, 红杏视频 University, Malaysia. He is leading the PhD in Sustainability Science and Technology program at 红杏视频 University. Prior to this he worked at University of Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia. He did his PhD in Energy from SMVD University, India. He has published more than 134 research papers as per Scopus data base as well filed 5 patents on different solar energy technologies. Besides, he is author of books and book chapters. Prof. Pandey has recieved more than 4000 citations and h-index 30 till date as per google scholar data based (For more details on publications and citations please browse his ). He is listed in top 2% Scientist in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier BV. Till now he has secured and managed more than 2 million Ringgits of research grants as PI/CO-PI. Prof. Pandey delivered more than 30 keynote/invited lectures in International conferences/Workshops and Seminars. His current area of research involves but not limited to Sustainable Energy Technologies, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Enhanced Phase change materials (NePCMs), Solar PV and PVT, Dye sensitized solar cells etc.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Ashmore Mawire
Prof. Ashmore Mawire holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the North-West University in South Africa, which he obtained in 2010. He is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Electronics at the North-West University. He is the Director and the principal researcher in the solar thermal group of the Material Science, Innovation and Modelling (MaSIM) research focus area. His research interests include electronic instrumentation, renewable energy systems, heat transfer, solar food processing and solar thermal energy storage technology. He has published many high-impact factor ISI journal articles and presented papers at several peer-reviewed international conferences. His research is mainly focused on domestic solar thermal energy storage applications. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Energy Storage. He is also an Editor of Scientific African, which promotes research endeavours from researchers in Africa. He has received several national and international research grants geared towards Sustainable Energy Technologies.
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ho Joon Kim
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoe Joon Kim received a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University in 2009 and both an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015, all in Mechanical Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis focused on developing heated MEMS cantilevers for nanometrology and nanomanufacturing. He spent two years at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral scholar, working on the development of GHz-piezoelectric MEMS resonators in the Gian Piazza group within the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Dr. Kim is currently with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics at DGIST. He is the leading PI of the Nano Materials and Devices Lab, which focuses on developing smart sensors and energy systems for environmental monitoring and robotics applications. His group is working on synthesizing multifunctional materials, such as piezoelectric, magnetoelectric, and perovskite materials, as well as carbon-based nanomaterials, with a specific focus on integrating novel functional materials into CMOS devices for scalable manufacturing. His research has led to more than 120 journal publications, including highly reputable journals such as Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, and Advanced Functional Materials, as well as 20 patents. Prof. Kim is also serving as the Vice President of International Affairs at DGIST.
Prof. Dr. Wenye Lin
Prof. Dr. Wenye Lin is currently a professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained his MSc in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from CAS in 2013 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, in 2018. He joined the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), UOW, as an Associate Research Fellow and has been working extensively on building energy efficiency, renewable energy utilisation in the built environment, and optimisation of buildings heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. From 2021 to 2023, he was granted the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and carried out his research on salt hydrate phase change material slurries in Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany, while serving as an Honorary Fellow in SBRC, UOW at the same time. Due to his scientific contributions in the sector of renewable energy, sustainable buildings, and HVAC, he and his team have won a number of international and national awards, including the Overall 2nd Place in Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018, 鈥淚nnovation Award鈥 granted by the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies in 2020/2021, 鈥淓xcellence in HVAC&R Research Award鈥 granted by the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, air conditioning and heating (AIRAH) in 2019 and 2024 etc.. He has published more than 50 journal papers, with a Google Scholar citation of 1748 and an H-index of 22.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xiaobin Gu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xiaobin Gu received his PhD degree from Peking University. Currently, he is a principal investigator at the Guangzhou Institutes of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as affiliated with the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes. His research interests include mineral-based functional materials and phase change materials for thermal energy storage, renewable energy, biochar, and interfacial solar vapor generation for water treatment. His expertise falls in various disciplines, such as mineralogy, thermochemistry, materials chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, which establishes his research profile at h-index 19 and 877 citations.
Mr. Adrian Lim Hock Heng
Mr. Adrian is the Chief Operating Officer (Projects) of KJTS Group Bhd. He brings along with him more than 20 years of engineering work experience, 19 years of which are under the KJ Group of Companies. He has led and successfully completed a variety of greenfield and brownfield projects including that of district cooling plants in Malaysia and abroad. He is currently heading the company鈥檚 initiative into becoming Malaysia鈥檚 leader in the Integrated Energy Management sector.
Adrian received his Bachelors of Engineering (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is a member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK. He is also a certified Professional Technologist with the Malaysian Board of Technologists.
Dr. Kosheela Devi Poo Palam
Dr. Kosheela is a senior researcher at the Synthesis and Product Development Unit of the Advanced Oleochemical Technology Division (AOTD), at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) in Malaysia, possesses a strong academic foundation with a Ph.D. in Environmental & Life Science from Trent University, Canada (2020), and both a M.Sc. (2005) and B.Sc. (2003) in Bioresource, Paper and Coating Technology from University Science Malaysia. Her professional accomplishments include receiving over 21 awards both locally and internationally, alongside the publication of 31 refereed journal articles and 5 patents. Her research is centered on the innovative design and development of sustainable and cost-effective vegetable oil-based monomers and polymers for practical, real-world applications, with specific interests in sustainable bio-based monomers and polyols, waterborne polyurethane dispersions and coatings, and bio-based materials for thermal energy storage.