Ben Bin Xu (FRSC, FIMMM, FRSA, FSCI) is a Professor of Materials and Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering at Northumbria University, UK. Ben obtained his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering (2011) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, then moved to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (US, 2011-2013) to work as postdoc. Since joining Northumbria in 2013, Ben has established a multidisciplinary research group with diverse interests in energy materials and technology, sustainable engineering, materials chemistry, responsive materials/surface, soft matter, mechanics and micro-engineering. Ben chairs the Materials Characterisation & Properties Group in the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals (IoM³) and the Composites Division in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE, US). He holds the title of visiting professorship in 10+ universities globally, including UCLA (US), University of Alberta (CA), The University of Sydney (AU), etc. He has published 180+ peer reviewed journal articles, 8 books (incl. chapters), 6 patents, given 100+ invited talks and won multiple awards (2016 Young investigator award from the International Polymer Networks Group, etc.). BX is a council member for RSC Materials Chemistry Division, advisory council member for IoM3, etc.

Dr Jun Hu is a professor at School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST. Her research interests are to combine experimental and computational chemistry to investigate the adsorptive and catalytical properties of complex matters, and to explore applications in Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU). Early in 2008, Jun Hu received her first funding of Adsorptive CO₂ Capture from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). From then on, she was involved in many different research projects, mainly focusing on CCU, such as the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (‘863’), and the National Basic Research Program of China (‘973’), EU FP7. She has published more than 130 journal papers, such as Energ. Environ. Sci., Nat. Comm., Angew. Chem., Adv. Fun. Mater., AIChE J. Chem. Eng. J.. Currently, she is particularly interested in CO2 capture and in-situ conversion (iCCC) from high-temperature manufactories and have received financial supports from the Original Exploration Program of NSFC and SINOPEC, and will develop a low energy consumption iCCC demonstration in 2024. 

Dr Hui Jin is a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering of the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He received Bachelor of Science (2005) from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He received PhD (2011) from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in National Natural Science Foundation of China (2018). His research fields focus on a poly-generation technology for hydrogen production, power generation and heat supply based on coal gasification in supercritical water and relative multiphase thermal physical and chemical theory. 

He has published more than 200 paper with more than 6300 citations, 15 papers were indexed as ESI paper, and 3 papers were indexed as hot papers. He also has public or authorized 36 patents. He was invited to be the keynote speaker of the international conference 19 times. He was awarded by science and technology award in Shaanxi province (ranking 3rd, 2014), the top 10 scientific and technological progress of Chinese universities (ranking 3rd, 2017), " Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Student (2012), and Outstanding Young Scholar Award (2022)" issued by the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophsics, leader of Youth Innovative Research Team of Shaanxi Province (2022), and Particuology Young Scholar Award (2022) issue by Chinese Society of Particuology.

Dr. Gaohong He is a full professor in Dalian University of Technology, China. She was a winner of Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars of China in 2011 and appointed as a professor of Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2012. Her expertise includes membrane preparation for gas separation and ion transfer processes (such as fuel cell and redox flow battery), membrane processes, and materials for energy storage. Her research has been obtained the continuous support of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, and petrochemical enterprises. She authored 400+ publications in peer reviewed journals. She won twice the National Science and Technology Progress Award (second prize) of China's State Council in 2010 and 2018, as well as Gold medal with the congratulations of the jury in 45th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in 2017. She was a research associate in Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (1997-1998), an adjunct professor in Chinese Academy of Science (1995-2001), a Croucher Foundation Fellow in Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2001-2002), a senior visiting professor in University of Technology of Compiègne, France (2005) and University of California, Riverside, USA (2006-2007), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2011) and The University of Texas at Austin, USA (2018).

-          Professor Lam holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, and is currently a Professor and Director of International Centre of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.

-          He serves as Editor of Carbon Capture Science & Technology, Environmental Pollution and Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Associate Editor for Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Environmental Advances, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Frontiers in Energy Research, and Energy & Environment.

-          He leads a research group working mainly on Chemical & Environmental Engineering, focusing on Waste and Biomass Utilization, Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Green Technology, and Pollution Mitigation. He is active in research on the application of thermochemical processes such as pyrolysis and microwave heating in transforming waste and biomass into green energy and products applicable to industry for carbon capture (e.g. CO₂ absorption), carbon emission reduction (e.g. gasification/ pyrolysis of hydrocarbon feedstock, CO₂ utilization and conversion), and environmental protection.

-          He has secured 30 research grants, file patent and commercialize inventions from his research team, and publishing over 440 articles in journals, some of which are published in journals such as Lancet, Nature, Science, and Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 

Shujuan Wang, professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University. She got her Ph.D in Tsinghua University in 2000. Her main research work includes CO₂ capture, utilization and storage, renewable energy, clean coal technology, and ecological restoration. She was the CDM CCS working group member of UNFCCC, Director of Beijing Engineering Research Center for Ecological Restoration and Carbon Fixation of Saline-Alkali and Desert Land, member of Carbon Neutrality Council of Beijing. The related research projects undertaken by her are from the National Science and Technology Support Program, National Natural Science Foundation, and also EU FP6, FP7, H2020. She has published more than 100 papers. Her main research achievements were awarded the first prize of Science & Technology Award for Environmental Protection, and also second prize of Huaxia Construction Science & Technology Award. She was also awarded National Green Medal in 1998.

Shengping Wang earned her B.S. (1994) and M.S. (2000) degrees from Hebei University of Technology and her Ph.D. degree (2003) from Tianjin University, all in Chemical Engineering. She joined the faculty of Tianjin University in 2003, where she is currently a full Outstanding Professor in Chemical Engineering. She was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley with the cooperation of Professor Enrique Iglesia in 2012-2013. Her research interests in surface science and catalysis include capture and utilization of CO₂, and the utilization of synthesis gas, with particular emphasis on design and structure-performance relationship of catalytic and adsorbent materials. She has published more than 150 papers in prestigious journals such as Energy Environ. Sci., ACS Catal., Appl. Catal. B, J. Catal., J. Mater. Chem., Nanoscale, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, AIChE J., Chem. Eng. J.. She has also obtained 42 patents in China and 7 patents in U.S, Europe, Japan and India. 

Dr. Asim Laeeq Khan is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at COMSATS University Islamabad (Lahore Campus), Pakistan. With over 90 publications in the field of membrane-based carbon capture, Dr. Khan has made significant contributions to the advancement of carbon capture technologies. His research focuses on developing advanced membrane separation processes to address global challenges in climate change and environmental pollution. Dr. Khan leads the Membrane Systems Research Group at COMSATS University and is an Executive Council Member of the Pakistan Membrane Society. He is an Editorial Board Member of Carbon Capture Science & Technology, Separation & Purification Technology and Chemical Engineering Research & Design. Dr. Khan has successfully secured research grants and has been recognized internationally for his expertise, serving as a consultant, expert-panel member, and jury member for various prestigious organizations and awards. He is committed to fostering academic excellence, promoting community engagement, and mentoring the next generation of researchers in carbon capture technologies.

Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar is Professor of Chemistry at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, where his research lies at the interface of nanomaterials and catalysis, with a focus on solar energy harvesting and the conversion of CO₂ into fuels and chemicals. He is the inventor of dendritic fibrous nanosilica (DFNS) and plasmonic Black Gold. His work spans materials chemistry, plasmonics, defect engineering, and strong metal–support interactions, providing design principles for next-generation catalysts to address critical energy and environmental challenges. He has published nearly 150 peer-reviewed articles and holds 17 national and international patents and patent applications. He has over 20000 citations with an h-index of 70. His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious honors, including the ORISE Research Fellowship (US EPA), the Asian Rising Star Lectureship from Nobel Laureate Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, the IUPAC CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Green Chemistry, the MRSI and CRSI Medals, and the Falling Walls Award, Germany (Winner in Physical Sciences, 2023). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). In 2024, he received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, one of the India’s highest science honor, conferred by the President of India.

Dr. Anthony (current citations, 27880, H index 79) was a Professor in Energy Process Systems at Cranfield University, and previously a senior research scientist with CanmetENERGY in Canada, where he headed the Gasification and Fluidized Bed Combustion Group. His interests include thermal energy processes that can offer pure CO2 streams for sequestration, and gasification technology, both in its high-pressure and atmospheric forms, and coal and waste combustion in FBC. Dr. Anthony is the author of 310+ journal papers on various aspects of combustion and gasification, along with a similar number of conference papers, 19 book chapters, and he is the co-editor of the first book on Pressurized Fluidized Beds and a book with Dr Paul Fennel on Ca and Chemical Looping. Dr. Anthony’s current R&D pursuits are strongly focused on calcium and chemical looping cycles, oxy-fired CFBC technology and pressurized, entrained-flow gasification and lime-based chemistry. He is an adjunct Professor with the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Ottawa, and a guest Professor with Southeast University in Nanjing, China.  He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Energy and a Chartered Engineer. 

Dr. Liyuan Deng is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her main research interests relate to membranes for carbon capture and clean energies. She has 20 years of experience in membrane research, including membrane material development, membrane absorption, membrane process design, and related modeling and simulations, from lab testing to pilot studies and demonstrations. She has led several national research projects on developing optimal membranes and membrane processes, including CO₂ capture from various flue gas streams, biogas upgrading, natural gas sweetening, and hydrogen purification. She has also been the principal investigator in several EU projects on new CO₂ capture technologies. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of membrane and CO₂ separation. She is a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Professor Mengxiang Fang is the Director of Qingshanhu Energy Research Center at Zhejiang University. He has developed a low energy consumption CO2 capture process by using a modified hollow fiber membrane contactor. Professor Fang also developed a new type aqueous alkanolamine blends biphasic solvents and water lean amine solvents for CO2 chemical absorption to decrease the regeneration energy consumption by more than 40% compared with traditional 30% MEA solvents, supported by Chinese National Science Foundation projects (NSF), National key basic research project (973), National high technology research project (863) from 2010-2020. He is currently the Associate Editor of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.

Professor Jun Huang received his PhD from University of Stuttgart in 2008. After his postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich, he joined the University of Sydney as a permanent faculty in 2010, moving up the ranks to Professor at Sydney. Jun is the Domain Leader of Materials in Nanoscale at Sydney Nano, Sydney Nano CO2Zero Grand Challenge Champion, and the Academic Leader of University of Sydney – Zhejiang University Joint Lab on Sustainable Environment. His research is to develop emerging sustainable technologies for CO2 capture and conversion, bio-refining, waste-to-chemicals, H2 and renewable fuel production, and green process using in situ characterization techniques, coupled with new catalyst design and innovative reaction engineering. Jun has published over 190 journal publications in high-rank Journals. He has been awarded over AU$ 10m research grants and many prestigious awards including 2021 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, 2020 Australia’s Most Innovative Engineer, ARC Future Fellowship, and the 2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Outstanding Research. Jun is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Sustainability, Editorial Group Member of National Science Review, and the Editorial Board member of other high-rank journals.

Zhongyi Jiang is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University. He received his PhD degree from Tianjin University (China) in 1994. He was a visiting scholar of University of Minnesota with Prof. Edward Cussler in 1997 and California Institute of Technology with Prof. David Tirrell in 2009. He is the winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in China, the Cheung Kong Chair Professor and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His group is interested in biomimetic and bioinspired membranes and membrane processes, biocatalysis, photocatalysis. He has co-authored over 600 publications. He is selected on the list of highly cited scholars (chemical engineering) in China and the list of highly cited scholars (chemical engineering) in the world.

Dr Zongli Xie, is a Principal Research Scientist and a Research Group Leader of Materials for Energy, Environment and Health at CSIRO Manufacturing, Australia. She is also the current Vice President of Membrane Society of Australasia (MSA). Dr Xie has extensive research experience in collaboration wtih industries on advanced membrane materials/technolgies and catalysis for energy and environment. Dr Xie has author/co-authored over 130 journal publications (>6900 citations and h-index of 44), 5 patents, 4 invited book chapters, and over 30 confidential commercial technical reports. The highlight of her achievement includes the commercially scale up of the production of ceramic material for solid oxide fuel cell ($12M capital investment), commercial trial of the catalytic deodorisation technology and N₂O abatment catalysts for industrial emission control, and development of dual layer nanocomposite membranes for hypersaline wastewater treatment. Her acehivement has led to many awards including the most recent MSA collaboration award (2021) and CSIRO Julius Award (2019). She also serves as an Adjunct Professor in Victoria University, a board member of Monash Centre for Membrane Innovation, Associate editor of Separation Science and Technology, and the editorial board member of Membranes, Advanced Membranes and Results in Engineering. 

Prof. Weihong Xing, Vice president of Nanjing Tech University, China, and Director of National Engineering Research Center for Special Separation Membranes.

Prof. Xing’s research focuses on membrane design, membrane reactor, membrane process and their large-scale industrial applications. She was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund Project (2011) and Foundation for Innovative Research Groups (2019) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has been honored with the second prizes of the National Sci-Tech Advance Award twice (2011, 2019) and more than 20 provincial and ministerial awards. She has published 3 books and more than 300 papers, and been granted over 100 patents. She is an Executive Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Membranes, a Fellow of The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and the Vice Chairperson of the Membrane Industry Association of China.

Prof Yang’ research is focused on Biomass pyrolysis/gasification for H₂ enriched gas fuel, liquid fuel and carbon contained materials and chemicals. So far she has published over 200 SCI papers, 10 book chapters and SCI citation is over 18000 with 10 papers cited in ESI. Now she owns Newton Advanced Fellowships (2018)，the Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier, 2014-2020) and Top 2% of Scientists on Stanford List. She gained the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars program in 2016 and Distinguished Young Scholars program in 2021 (China). She is an associated editor of Fuel Processing Technology, and board member of Energy Conversion and Management, Fuel, Journal of the Energy Institute, and Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, she is also Board Directors member of Combustion Institute and Chinese Renewable Energy Society. 

Dr. Wanqin Jin is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University, the Director of the State Key laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering. He is the Chief-scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) and Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and he is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University of Technology in 1999. He was a research associate at Institute of Materials Research &Engineering of Singapore (2001), an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2001-2003), visiting professors at Arizona State University (2007) and Hiroshima University (2011, JSPS invitation fellowship). His currently research focuses on the development of membrane materials and processes. He has published over 300 refereed journal publications including Nature, Nat. Mater., Nat. Rev. Mater., Nat. Comm., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., AIChE J., J. Membr. Sci. with 25,000+ citations; written 3 monographs, contributed 6 book chapters and hold 64 authorized patents. He was co-chair of the 10th International Congress on Membrane and membrane Processes (ICOM2014), and he is now an editor of Journal of Membrane Science and a council member of Aseanian Membrane Society (AMS). His research has been awarded the Underwood Medal (2019) by the IChemE (UK) and the “Humboldt Research Award” (2021) by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his leading research in the area of separation.

Jian-Rong “Jeff” Li obtained his Ph.D. in 2005 from Nankai University. Until 2007, he was an assistant professor at the same University. From 2008 to 2009, he has been a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University; from 2010 he has been an assistant research scientist at the same university. Since 2012, he has been a full professor at Beijing University of Technology. His research interest focuses on new porous materials for energy and environmental science. He has been selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher from 2017 and 2022, and filed more than 40 patents. He has been an author/co-author of ten book chapters and more than 340 papers (> 40000 citations) published in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Nature Chem., Nature Energy, Chem, Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., EES, Adv. Mater., Engineering, AIChE J., Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., and Acc. Chem. Res.. 

Ryan Lively is the Thomas C. DeLoach Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research seeks to revolutionize fluid separation processes critical to the global energy and carbon infrastructure. He has a specific focus on membrane- and adsorbent-based science and technology aimed at addressing some of the world’s most difficult chemical separations. His group’s research activities range from fundamental material science and discovery to translational engineering applications focusing on making and testing separation devices. He has received a variety of awards for his research efforts including the 2020 Allan P. Colburn Award from AIChE, and the 2022 Curtis W. McGraw Award from ASEE. He is currently an Editor for the Journal of Membrane Science, the President of the North American Membrane Society, and an ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division Fellow. He is the Director of the Center for Understanding & Controlling Accelerated and Gradual Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME), an Energy Frontier Research Center of the US Department of Energy. He has over 150 publications in the field of separations including articles in Science, Nature, and Nature Materials.