Biography
Professor Jennifer Wen established and currently leads WARWICK FIRE, a multidisciplinary research laboratory for both fundamental and applied research related to fire and explosions as well as accidental releases of hazardous materials. As Principal Investigator, Jennifer holds over £2M live grants to support a wide range of research activities, which include hydrogen safety as well as the fire and explosion safety of lithium ion batteries. Jennifer has published more than 240 papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. As Leading Guest Editor, she published three Special Issues on Hydrogen Safety for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy between 2012 and 2014.
Research Interest
She sits on the Science Board of the United Kingdom Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Research HUB; and is also the Steering Committee Member of various professional bodies, organizing/scientific committee member, session chairs of numerous international conferences.
Biography
Prof. Hua Kun Liu is a distinguished Professor, a leader of energy materials research program at Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia, and a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering. She received the UOW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence Senior Researcher in 2013, and won the most competitive ARC Australian Professorial Fellowships in 1994-1998, 1999-2003, 2003-2005 and 2006-2010. She has supervised 60 PhD to completion and 30 postdoctoral and visiting fellows, and published more than 500 refereed journal papers which attracted 23800 citations with H-index 75. Her PhD graduates are widely spread among prestigious institutions and companies around the world. She has established a national and international network with more than 20 research teams. She has closely worked with more than 10 industry partners, contributing to commericaillisation and industry development.
Research Interest
Her research has been focused on clean energy materials, the materials science and engineering, and electrochemistry and applications.
Biography
Huamin Zhang has completed his PhD in Kyushu University, Japan. Hi is the Head of Energy Storage Division in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and also Vice General Manager and Chief Engineer of Dalian Rongkepower Co., LTD, a vertically integrated manufacturer of vanadium energy storage system (ESS). His research interests mainly focus on flow battery, high specific energy lithium battery and fuel cell. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals and more than 260 invention patents. He is also expert in the international flow battery standardization and convener of the international flow battery standards. He has been also serving board member of many reputed social and academic organization.
Research Interest
Development of Fuel Cell Components and Stacks; Development of Energy storage Science and technology; Research in Secondary batteries, including Li / S Battery, Li /O2 Battery and Redox Flow Battery