Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Moungi Bawendi is an American–Tunisian–French chemist. He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011

University of Hull, UK

Xudong Zhao is a globally recognised energy researcher whose focus is around sustainable building services, renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Over his 30 year career he has led or participated in 58 research projects worth £18.5m, 40 engineering consultancy projects worth £5m and claimed 11 patents.

University New South Wales, Australia

Saarland University, Germany

Nagoya University, Japan

Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Jason Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, College of Chemcial Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 980+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with citations 76780+ times and h-index of 137 (google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 180+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 200+ Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2024 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2024 in the field of chemical engineering science, Stanford University World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 and 1960-2024 Career-long Impact Scientists. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley), Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier), Carbon Innovation (Wiley), Carbon & Hydrogen (Wiley) and Biochar X (Springer).

University of Notre Dame, USA

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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Auburn University, USA

Dr. Maria L. Auad is a full professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, former Director of the Center for Polymer and Advanced Composites, and current Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Development of the College of Engineering at Auburn University. She has published over 100 technical papers in refereed journals. Her extramural support has come from a diverse set of sponsors such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of the Army, USDA (US Department of Agriculture), NASA and 3M among others. For all of her research activities, Dr. Auad was the recipient of the Charles Gavin Distinguished Professorship in 2020 and the College of Engineering Senior Faculty Award in 2018. Her research interests include polymer material science, polymer nanocomposites, flow behavior of polymers, control of microstructures & nanostructure in materials, and polymers for structural & biomedical applications.

The University of Edinburgh, UK

Yamagata University, Japan

University of Regina, Canada

Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey

Professor Songül Fiat Varol is working in Manisa Celal Bayar University in Electric and Energy department. Her main research interests have been materials science especially technology of semiconductor materials and devices including solar cells, light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs). She has published more than 40 scientific papers in this field in the internationally recognized journals. She has supervised many Ph.D/M.Sc. studies. She has coordinated many national/ international projects and joined more than 70 international scientific conferences and meetings as invited speaker/speaker/organising committee member. In 2010, she conducted various researches on Chalcopyrite Solar Cells with Professor Michael Kompitsas (Director of Research Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute -National Hellenic Research Foundation)and his team in Laser-based Techniques and Applications - LATA in Greece through “Tubitak 2214 International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students”. She has published in high-ranking SCI-expanded journals on the production and characterization of many organic/inorganic-based thin-film materials that are the most trending in science like ZnO, TiO2, CuInGaSe(Te), Nitrides (GaN, AlN) etc. She still continues her research on Organic/Inorganic LED and PV device production and improvement of their properties.

The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr. Masud Rana, a lead researcher with the Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship program, has extensive experience in academia and industry. He specializes in energy storage, particularly redox flow batteries, including Zinc Bromine, Zinc Iron, and Iron flow batteries. Dr. Rana completed his Ph.D. in 2020 at The University of Queensland, focusing on rechargeable batteries like Lithium-sulfur and Sodium-ion batteries, supported by a prestigious Australian government scholarship. During his Ph.D., he developed high-performance battery materials, won a 3MT competition, and published in top journals like Energy Storage Materials and ACS Central Science. Dr. Rana also worked as a Research Scientist at Redflow International Pty Ltd, a Brisbane-based company producing Zinc Bromine flow batteries. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from IIUM, earning a best student award, and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from RUET. His expertise spans materials design, battery testing, and electrochemical analysis.

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Dr. Leunam Fernández-Izquierdo received a B.S. in Chemistry (2012) at the University of Havana, where he worked on the development of nanomaterials and coordination compounds as materials for the construction of solar cells. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2020) where he worked on the development of water splitting systems using carbon nanotubes and semiconductors. After earning a PhD degree, he joined the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, where he works on developing materials to be used as radiation sensors.