5^th World Congress on Catalysis and Chemical Engineering September 5-6, 2018 Tokyo, Japan

Orchidea Maria Lecian completed her International Relativistic Astrophysics in Physics and Astrophysics in Dec 2008, Sapienza University of Rome and postdoctoral studies from IHES- Institut des Hautes E'tudes Scientifiques, Mx Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics- Albert Einstein Institute, and Sapienza. She has been Researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Department of Theoretical Physics and Physics Education- KTFDF, and has been Prof. of Physics at Sapienza, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, DICEA- Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, member of Research consortia, published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and been serving within memberships and chair positions in Journals and Conferences.

General Relativity, Mathematical Physics, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity, Applied Mathematics.

He obtained his Ph.D. in School of Environment (2014) at Tsinghua University and recipient of several awards and fellowships including Top 10 Postgraduate Award of Tsinghua University, working under the supervision of Prof. Junhua Li. In the meantime, he also collaboratively worked in the laboratory of Prof. Hongxing Dai at the Beijing University of Technology. He was awarded (2015) a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He was recently awarded (2018) a University of Sydney Senior Research Fellow.

environmental remediation and energy conversion, aiming to enhance sustainability by generating and using new fundamental insights on the molecular and nanoscopic level to develop feasible leads for the design of new catalytic chemical routes and processes. His recent research project involves the rational design of porous perovskite oxide catalysts for the environmental pollutant prevention and energy conversion. Dr Arandiyan has published more than 80 peer-review papers in heterogonous catalysis area.

Dr. Maric has completed her PhD in 1996 from Kyoto University in Japan. She worked for industry in Japan and USA before becoming Program Manager at the National Research Council of Canada in 2005. She joint University of Connecticut in 2010 as a professor in sustainable energy. Her research focuses has been on the fuel cell, batteries, nanomaterials, and coatings. Currently, she is a Vice Presidents for Research at the University of Connecticut. She has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals

Electrocatalyst, Battery, Fuel Cell, Degardation, Coatings

K.S. Hui received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008. He hold faculty positions at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2008-13) and at Hanyang University, South Korea (2013-16). In 2016, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia, UK. He has extensive research experience in material science, catalysis, air/water pollution control, and energy storage. Thus far, his research has led to 1 US patent, 9 Korea application patents, 4 pending Korea application patents, 134 journal paper publications, 30 invited lectures, and >60 international conference presentations.

material science, catalysis, air/water pollution control, and energy storage

Hendrik Heinz completed his PhD in 2003 at ETH Zurich and carried out postdoctoral studies at the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and enabled accurate simulations of complex biomolecular-material interfaces at the nanoscale by developing Interface Molecular Dynamics. He authored more than 70 publications and received several honors and awards.

Computer simulation of inorganic-(bio)organic interfaces, biomineralization, development of force fields for the quantitative prediction of interfacial properties, hierarchical simulation of solar cells and conductive composite materials, structure-property relationships in nanocomposite

Dr. Raju Kumar Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He graduated with a Ph.D. in 2010 from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He is recipient of several fellowships and awards, such as DST Inspire Faculty Award 2013, IAAM Young Scientist Award 2014, IEI Young Engineer Award (2014-15) and IAAM Scientist Medal 2017. A member of several international journal editorial boards, Dr. Gupta has authored more than 40 research articles in SCI journals, 3 books, and 10 book chapters.

Surface chemistry, photocatalysis, green synthesis of nanomaterials, high dielectric constant materials, hybrid perovskite solar cells, electrospinning of functional polymers and nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications.