Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jan Baeyens, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Jan Baeyens studied Nuclear Engineering (Brussels) and Chemical
Engineering (Leuven). He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of
Bradford-U.K. After 13 years of employment in engineering divisions
of various Belgian companies, he became a part-time professor at the
University of Leuven (B) and worked as a process and project
consultant in Europe and overseas. In 2003. He started the Faculty
of Bio-engineering at the University of Antwerp. In 2005, he moved
to the University of Birmingham (U.K.) and the University of Warwick
(U.K.), where he lectured on process design, sustainable
development, renewable energy and powder technology, while also
co-ordinating research in these fields. He has contributed to over
200 publications in international journals, is author/editor of 12
books, and is a regular speaker at international congresses. His
h-factor is 55, and citations exceed 15000. Since 2010, he is
Visiting Professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology,
where he is actively involved in Life Science and Technology
research. Since 1989, he is managing director of European Powder and
Process Technology (EPPT). Within EPPT, he continues to co-ordinate
design and consultancies for Belgian and overseas companies, mostly
in the field of powder technology and renewable energy. EPPT is a
partner in European research projects (FP7, and H2020).
Prof. Miwako Hosoda, Seisa University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Miwako Hosoda,
Vice-President of Seisa University, has been doing her sociological
research in the field of healthcare and environmental sciences. She
is interested in the balance of human activities and advocates the
protection of natural environments. Dr. Hosoda is also working to
achieve a sustainable healthcare policy, and promotes the public's
participation in the medical domain, both globally and locally. She
graduated from the Department of Sociology at the University of
Tokyo in 1992, and received an MA and PhD in Sociology from the
University of Tokyo. After spending time as a research fellow in the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she studied at Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard School of
Public Health. Dr. Hosoda is now serving as a board member for the
International Sociological Association, Research Committee of
Sociology on Health.
Prof. Wallace C.H. Choy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wallace Choy received Ph.D Degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Surrey, UK in 1999. After vigorous working experiences in National Research Council of Canada and Fujitsu at San Jose, on investigating optoelectronic devices, he is now a professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. His current research interests are concerned with organic/inorganic optoelectronic devices, plasmonic structures, and nano-material devices and physics. Prof. Choy has been recognized as the Top 1% of most-cited scientists in Thomson Reuter's Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. He has been named as prolific researcher on organic solar cells in the index (WFC in physical sciences) in Nature Index 2014 Hong Kong published by Nature. He has published over 180 internationally peer-reviewed journal papers, contributed to seven book chapters, US and China patents and edited one book published in Springer. He has served as Member of Engineering panels of Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Editorial Board Member for Nature Publishing Group on Scientific Reports, Wiley on Solar RRL and Institute of Physics on J Physics D, senior editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, topical editor of OSA Journal of the Optical Society of America B, and guest editor of OSA Journal of Photonic Research, and Journal of Optical Quantum Electronics. He is a fellow of OSA