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University of Guelph, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Aicheng Chen is a Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Electrochemical Technology Centre at the University of Guelph, and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electrochemistry and Nanoscience. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). Dr. Chen’s research interests encompass Electrochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry, Green Chemistry, and Nanoscience. He has published over 310 peer-reviewed journal articles and nine book chapters. Professor Chen has held several leadership roles, including Chair of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Canadian Section (2009–2010), Canada Regional Representative for the ISE (2010– 2012), Chair of the 15th ISE Topical Meeting (2014), and Chair of the International Symposium on Electrochemistry and Surface Science, a satellite meeting of the 75th ISE Annual Meeting (2024). He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award (2003), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship (2006), the Fred Beamish Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) (2009), the Lash Miller Award of the ECS Canada Section (2009), the Keith Laidler Award of the CSC (2012), the Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award from the Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada (2013), the W.A.E. McBryde Medal of the CSC (2016), the R.C. Jacobsen Award of the ECS Canada Section (2020), and the Ricardo Aroca Award of the CSC (2023).
University of Kansas, USA
Plenary Speaker
Trung Van Nguyen is a professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. He holds a BS from North Carolina State University and MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Associate Director of the Center for Electrochemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, Senior Product & Process Development Engineer at Duracell, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab. He has also served as the first Program Director (2007-2009) of the Energy for Sustainability Program (CBET Division/ENG Directorate) at the US National Science Foundation. He has contributed to more than 130 publications and 7 patents, given over 150 invited and 130 conference presentations, and received awards for both research and teaching. He has been a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers since 2012 and 2015, and was recognized among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in 2022. He was also a founder of two fuel cell start-up companies. His current research is in high-energy-density storage technology for redox flow batteries, high-surface area electrode materials, transport and interfacial phenomena in fuel cells and batteries, and mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems
University Of Sherbrooke, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Sébastien Poncet (Eng., Ph.D., HDR) is full professor in the mechanical engineering department at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. He holds the NSERC chair on industrial energy efficiency since 2014 with the support of Hydro-Québec, Natural Resources Canada and Copeland Canada Inc. After a PhD in complex systems from Aix-Marseille Université (France) in 2005, he was appointed assistant professor in the same university working on (1) the instability, turbulence and heat transfer in rotating machineries and (2) the transport of bronchial mucus by clearance devices. In 2014, he defended his habilitation to supervise research (HDR) at the same university before being appointed associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke to work on renewable energy, energy storage, refrigeration and heat pump systems, complex heat transfer materials, etc. He is the coauthor of about 500 publications whose 180 in international journals. He is member of the editorial board of several journals: Trans. CSME, J. Mech. Eng. Sci. or Progress in Comput. Fluid Dyn. Among others. He is the chair of the CSME Thermal Engineering Science technical committee.
Central Queensland University, Australia
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Md Jahirul Islam (Jahirul M. I.) is a clean energy researcher at Central Queensland University, Australia, recognised among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (Elsevier & Stanford). He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has over 15 years of experience in renewable fuels, hydrogen, waste-to-energy, and sustainable technologies. Dr. Islam has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, with 6,500+ citations and an h-index of 32 and has secured over AUD $1.9 million in competitive research funding. His research has been recognised with several national and international awards, including the Advance Queensland Industry Fellowship Award, the Best Oral Presentation Award at NEFES 2025 (Japan), and finalist recognition in the Waste Recycling Industry Association Queensland (WRIQ) 2025 Industry Award. Widely invited as a keynote and invited speaker at international conferences across Europe, Asia, and Australia, Dr. Islam also serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for leading journals, contributing to global research excellence.
Colorado School of Mines, USA
Keynote Speaker
SVITLANA PYLYPENKO is a Professor in the Chemistry Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She is also involved in the interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at Mines. Svitlana received her B.S. and M.S. in chemistry and chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Ukraine and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of New Mexico. Svitlana’s group at Mines investigates surfaces and interfaces of applied materials with an emphasis on building relationships between surface composition and structure, material properties, and their performance with the eventual goal of designing next-generation materials based on earth-abundant elements, which provide high efficiency at a fraction of the cost. Research in her group focuses on multi-technique, multiscale analysis, and in-situ and operando studies bridging surface analysis, surface science, and catalysis. In 2023, Prof. Pylypenko was named a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) “for outstanding contributions to surface and interface analysis of energy materials and impactful commitment to education and outreach.” Svitlana served as the AVS 2021-2022 Board Director, a Board Member for the AVS Applied Surface Science Division and the ECS Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division, and acted as a member and the chair of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of AVS. She currently serves as the secretary of the ECS Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division, a member of the ECS Educational Committee, and the chair of the AVS Educational Materials and Outreach Committee, where she is involved in the AVS Science Educators’ Workshop. In addition, she is the founding faculty adviser of the Colorado School of Mines AVS Student Chapter.