International Conference on Battery and Fuel Cell Technology December 08-09, 2016 Dubai, UAE

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.

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.

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.

Her research has been focused on clean energy materials, the materials science and engineering, and electrochemistry and applications.

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.

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

Adam Waldemar Skorek (December 24, 1956) is a Canadian University Professor and a Polish Engineer. He was born in Krzczonów, Lublin, Poland. He completed Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering Program at Białystok Technical University receiving both Master of Sciences and Engineer degree in 1980. His Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering was received at Warsaw University of Technology in 1983. Adam Skorek is a Full Professor and Former Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He was elected and nominated Director of the UQTR's Research Group on Industrial Electronics (1995-2001). He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Management at the Białystok Technical University. Elected by Professors, he was nominated by the Council of Ministers: Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres (2008-2011) as well Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Quebec (2011-2014).

His works include supercomputers applications to the electro-thermal applications and complex problems solutions in industrial environment. More specifically he worked on numerical algorithms with the use of parallel computing for the analysis of the thermal problems in electrical, electronics and nanoelectronics devices. He has made contributions to the numerical analysis of electro-thermal phenomena exploring and applying various techniques to the power electronics devices design and industrial process control. This contribution is reflected in the number of papers published and presented in journals and conferences.

Dr. Jinli Qiao is a Professor, Supervisor, and Scientific Core Competency Leader of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua Universtiy, China. She received her Ph.D in Electrochemistry from Yamaguchi University, Japan, then she joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as a research scientist working on both acidic/alkaline polymer electrolyte membranes and non-noble metal catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Starting from 2008 to present, she carried out in total 12 projects funded including by National Natural Science Foundation of China and International Academic Cooperation and Exchange Program of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, China. As the first author and corresponding author, she has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, 40 conferences and keynote/invited oral presentations, 4 co-authored/edited books/8 book chapters, and holds over 30 JP/China patents. She is now the vice-president and the board committee member of International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES), and served as the guest editor of international journals of Electrochim. Acta, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy and, Appl. Energy as well as a referee of more than twenty high-impacting international journals. She is also the active member of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), The American Chemical Society (ACS) and China Association of Hydrogen Energy (CAHE).

Prof. Qiao’s main research interests include PEM fuel cell catalysts/membranes, metal–air batteries, supercapacitors and CO2 electroreduction.

Professor Harry Hoster received a degree in physics from Bonn University in 1996, he was awarded a fellowship by the German "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" for full-time doctoral study on anode materials for methanol fuel cells. Having acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (venia legendi/habilitation) in physical chemistry in 2010, he assumed the position of Associate Professor at the Institute of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM (Munich). In 2011 he became Scientific Director of TUM CREATE in Singapore. TUM CREATE is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research programme on electric vehicle technology. Within TUM CREATE, he also became Principal Investigator of the research project "Electrochemistry and New Materials". In 2013, he was awarded a position as Visiting Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2015, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Harry Hoster explores the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and solids. His goal is rational design: improving electrode materials for fuel cells and batteries. His special interest: boiling it all down to single atoms and molecules, i.e., understanding the microscopic fundamentals behind the macroscopic performance of electrochemical cells.

Prof Michael Pecht is a world renowned expert in strategic planning, design, test, and risk assessment of information systems. Prof Pecht has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an SAE Fellow and an IMAPS Fellow. He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Access, and served as chief editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability for nine years, and chief editor for Microelectronics Reliability for sixteen years. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two US Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is the founder and Director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland, which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. The CALCE Center received the NSF Innovation Award in 2009 and the National Defense Industries Association Award. He is currently a Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering and a Professor in Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation at the University of Maryland. He has written more than twenty books on product reliability, development, use and supply chain management. He has also written a series of books of the electronics industry in China, Korea, Japan and India. He has written over 700 technical articles and has 8 patents. He consults for 22 international companies. In 2015 he was awarded the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Award for visionary leadership in the development of physics-of-failure-based and prognostics-based approaches to electronic packaging reliability. He was also awarded the Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship. In 2013, he was awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2011, he received the University of Maryland’s Innovation Award for his new concepts in risk management. In 2010, he received the IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for his innovations in the area of prognostics and systems health management. In 2008, he was awarded the highest reliability honor, the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

He has previously received the European Micro and Nano-Reliability Award for outstanding contributions to reliability research, 3M Research Award for electronics reliability analysis, and the IMAPS William D. Ashman Memorial Achievement Award for his contributions in reliability assessment methods for electronics products and systems.

Dr. Nematollahi is Chairman of CAE-net.com Inc. and Advanced Renewable Power LLC (ARP). He has been conducting research in thermal management system development for electric vehicle batteries and Grid Energy Storage (GES) systems in collaboration with EnerDel, Inc and ARP for the last six years. Dr. Nematollahi received his Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics/Civil in May 1983 from Purdue University School of Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has been Associate Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University School of Engineering, Indianapolis since 1997. After graduating from Purdue University, he was a principal engineer in the nuclear power industry for about two years with Impell and Surgent & Lundy Corporations in Chicago, IL. He founded Modern Computer Aided Engineering Inc. (MCAE) in 1984 to develop advanced finite element analysis system. As chairman and CEO of MCAE, he raised close to $6,800,000 from research grants, venture capitals, and software commercial sales. He has also developed the reality view visualization system for The immersive Global University (TiGU). Dr. Nematollahi was also the principal for global professional services at Silicon graphics from 1999 to 2002.

Dr. Nematollahi has been conducting research in the area of advanced composites armor technologies since 2005 and was awarded several research grants ($790,000) from Department of Defense (DoD). He is awarded 3 US patents for advanced armors. He was awarded the Outstanding Faculty at Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology, 2014.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society.

Professor Agarwal's current research interests are in flow control, rarefied gas dynamics and hypersonic flows, turbulence modeling, bio-fluid dynamics, energy from wind and biomass, carbon capture and sequestration, chemical looping combustion, and energy efficiency of buildings.

Dr. Shamim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. He specializes in the broad area of sustainability with special focus on clean energy technologies. He earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering and a master’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the Masdar Institute, Dr. Shamim was a tenured faculty member at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He also held visiting faculty appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National University of Singapore (NUS), American University of Sharjah, and NED University of Engineering & Technology. He has been actively involved in many professional organizations including ASME, SAE and Combustion Institute. He is currently serving as a Subject Editor of Applied Energy journal. He is a recipient of several awards including SAE International Ralph Teetor award for excellence in teaching (2004).

His main expertise is in the fields of energy systems, carbon capture, fuel cells, combustion, and emission control. His research and consulting work has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, and the automotive companies.

Biography MAMADOU LAMINE DOUMBIA received M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), Russia; M.Sc. in Industrial Electronics from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Canada; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. He is full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UQTR, Director of graduate study programs in Electrical engineering and is involved in many international collaboration projects. His research interests include renewable energy systems, distributed energy resources, power electronics, electric drives, energy storage and power quality. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member. Prof. Doumbia is member of IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Communications Society, and responsible of Educational activities of the IEEE Saint Maurice Section. He is a Professional Engineer and member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec.

photovoltaic and wind renewable energy (Renewable Energy Photovoltaics and Wind), decentralized production of electricity (Distributed Energy resources) power electronics (Power Electronics), Variable speed drives (Adjustable Speed ​​Dives), Wave quality (Power Quality)

T.S. (Tim) Zhao is currently the Chair Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at HKUST, the Director of the HKUST Energy Institute, and a Senior Fellow of the HKUST Institute for Advanced Study. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Thomson Reuters (2014 and 2015). Professor Zhao combines his expertise in research and technological innovation with a commitment to creating clean energy production and storage devices for a sustainable future. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of fuel cells, advanced batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modeling. In addition to four edited books, 10 book chapters and over 60 keynote lectures at international conferences, he has published more than 240 papers in various prestigious journals. These papers have collectively received more than 9,000 citations and earned Prof Zhao an h-index of 54 (Web of Science). In recognition of his research achievements, Prof Zhao has in recent years received many awards, including the 2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award (HKUST), two State Natural Science Awards, the Croucher Senior Fellowship award, the Overseas Distinguished Young Scholars Award (NSFC), and the Yangtze River Chair Professorship, among others.

In the international community, Prof Zhao serves as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Thermal Engineering, Executive Editor of Science Bulletin, and Editor of RSC’s Energy & Environmental Science. He has served as an editorial board member for Energy & Environmental Science, Journal of Power Sources, and other 10 prestigious international journals.

Prof. Mari Lundström is the head of research group Hydrometallurgy and Corrosion in School of Chemical Technologym Aalto Univertisy (Finland), which was ranked among the 100 best Chemical Engineering Universities in the World (NTU Ranking 2015). She is currently having a group of 20 researchers. Lundström worked in hydrometallurgical industry for 7 years and has recently (2015) returned to academy. Her research projects are related to metals circular economy in the fields of urban waste recycling (battery, solar energy, WEEE, zinc leach residue), cyanide free gold production, system integration in copper electrorefining, novel copper applications, ultra-conductive copper-carbon nanotube wire deposition, nuclear waste copper capsule corrosion and process and knowledge modelling. She has 8 invention notices and several patent applications during the last 2 years related to advanced hydrometallurgical applications and her research is carried out in close co-operation with industry.

Lundström's research group searches for metals in secondary raw materials and develops methods and processes designed to more effectively recover and recycle metals.

Qingsong Wang has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from University of Science and Technology (USTC), and postdoctoral studies from School of Engineering, Kingston University London. He is the vice director of Department of Safety Science and Engineering of USTC, the director of Industrial Fire Section at State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, USTC. He has published more than 100 papers in Applied Energy, Journal of Power Sources, Scientific Reports and etc. He is serving as an editor of International Journal of Thermal Energy and Applications, and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Fire Research.

Lithium ion battery fire dynamics; Lithium ion battery thermal management and fire suppression; Glazing behavior under thermal loading; Hazardous chemicals leakage and sub-consequence disaster.

Hakan Caliskan is the “youngest” Associate Professor Dr. of Mechanical Engineering in Turkey. He received all of his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees with “first class honor” in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pamukkale, Eskisehir Osmangazi, and Ege Universities in Turkey, respectively. Now, he is a Director of Usak University Energy, Environment and Sustainability Research and Application Centre and also an Academic (Assoc. Prof. Dr.) and Head of the Thermodynamics Division in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Usak University in Turkey. He also worked as an Academic (Visiting Researcher/2nd Degree Research Assistant) in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Canada. He has more than twenty five papers (based on thermodynamics/ energy/ exergy/ environment/ thermoeconomy/ sustainability/ etc.) in the international bases (SCI/SCIE/etc). He is an editorial board member in ten different international journals, and an active reviewer in more than twenty high quality, different SCI/SCIE indexed international journals. He is a referee in the “Latvian Science Council”, “National Science Centre of Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauk-NCN)”, “TUBITAK-The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey”, “Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science”, etc.

His research interest is concerned primarily with thermodynamic, energy, exergy, efficiency, thermoeconomic, sustainability and environmental analyses, energy and environmental policy, thermodynamics/energy systems, internal combustion engines, energy-efficient buildings, fuels, thermal energy storage systems, heat exchangers, heat pumps, renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.), hydrogen, heating and cooling systems, etc. His h index is “11” and i-10 index is “15”.

Prof. Vilas Pol is Associate Professor at Purdue University’s School of Chemical Engineering, USA. Before joining Purdue University, he was a materials scientist at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA. He has 15 years of research experience in the fields of energy storage, chemistry, engineering and electrochemistry. Prof. Pol’s scientific breakthroughs have been featured in various media outlets including New Scientist, Discovery, ACS, MRS and TV (NOVA, ABC7, Asia TV, and Univision) news. He has authored or co-authored 115 research publications (h index 34), authored 4 book chapters and an inventor on 15 US patents/applications. He is ACS Grand Prize winner, was honored with distinguished ‘Directors postdoctoral fellowship’, MRS science as art first prize, Intel prize, 2013 British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly award and is a ‘Gold Medalist’ in Sports. In 2015, his sustainable materials development technology own R and D 100 award (Oscars of Invention).

Professor Pol's extensive research background includes electrochemical engineering, nano-material & composite technology, colloid and interfacial science, surface chemistry, and environmental engineering. His current passion lies in electrochemical energy storage technologies, primarily the scalable design and effective optimization of electrode materials for lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and sodium-ion systems.

N. Rajalakshmi is currently a senior scientist and team leader at Centre for Fuel Cell Technology ARCI, IIT Madras Research Park. Completed her B.Sc Physics in Madras University , M.Sc Phyiscs at Annamalai University, Ph.D Physics at IIT Madras and M.B.A from Alagappa University. She did her Post Doctoral programme from TH Darmstadt, Germany, University of Switzerland. Around 120 articles published with 22 patents which are peer recognized from Journal of Physical Chemistry, ACS, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , Journal of New materials for Electrochemical systems , Journal of power sources, Carbon, Book “ Fundamentals of Electrochemical Deposition” by John Wiley publishers, J ECS series. She has given 45 invited talks in various National and International conferences.

Her research interestrs in the following areas such as PEM Fuel Cell, Fuel cell Electrode, Nanoelectrocatalysts, Low cost fuel cell components, Bipolar plates, Non Noble Metal Catalyst, Combined water and Thermal Management, Fuel cell control, Power converters, Fuel cell stacks, Flow field design development, Stack design development ,Stack Testing and Analysis , Fuel cell systems, Development of PEMFC system for stationary applications, Development of PEMFC system for Transport applications, Hydrogen storage, Batteries.

Ainara joined Imperial College as an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellow and recently has been appointed as a lecturer in the department. She is interested in the research of conducting ceramics primarily focused in their potential application in energy devices (solid oxide fuel cells, electrolysers and secondary batteries). Her work is centred upon the study of the relationship between the defect structure and transport, electrochemical and catalytic properties of ceramics in order to design materials with improved properties. Through this she has developed new materials with substantial increased in the performance than those of the current state-of-the-art. She has published over 45 research papers in this field and holds 1 patent on their applications.

Her current research activity is mainly focused in the study of the bulk and surface properties of three main types of materials: i) Selective ion-conductive membranes (Li, Na , H and oxygen conductors), ii) Mixed ionic-electronic conductors and iii) Bi-functional electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution and reduction reactions.