Speaker I: Prof. Guangming Li, Tongji University, China

Prof. Guangming Li, professor and doctoral student supervisor at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University. Engaged in water pollution control and recycling, wastes management and recovery technologies such as urban solid waste, electronic waste, kitchen and organic waste, waste tires and plastics, and hazardous wastes, as well as urban ecological environment and low-carbon sustainable development technology and innovation planning research. He presided over and participated in more than ten major science and technology research projects under the National "Tenth Five Year Plan" 863, the Ministry of Science and Technology Support Plan, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and local governments. Since 2004, he has been involved in the formulation of medium and long-term scientific and technological development plans in Shanghai, serving as the leader of the Ecological Shanghai Special Group, participating in the formulation of Shanghai's "11th Five Year Plan", "12th Five Year Plan", "13th Five Year Plan", and "14th Five Year Plan" scientific and technological development plans, and serving as the leader of the Ecological Shanghai or People's Livelihood Special Group; Participate in the special planning, implementation management, promotion, and application of the World Expo Science and Technology Action Plan. He has conducted exchanges and cooperation with the German University of Technology Berlin, the University of East Anglia in the UK, Japan Construction Engineering Corporation, the Italian Federation for Waste Plastic Recycling, and Thailand Green Rubber. Served as the Deputy Director of the Department of Chemistry (1996-1999), Executive Deputy Director of the Training Center of Higher Technical College (2000-2001), and Deputy Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (2003-2010), responsible for teaching, research, training, and graduate management work. Currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of Tongji University (2010-2017), responsible for industry and university research cooperation and the service and management of scientific and technological achievements. Published over 200 research papers in mainstream academic journals both domestically and internationally in this field of expertise; Editor in chief/co-editor of 10 academic monographs and textbooks; Apply for more than 20 authorized patents.

Speaker II: Prof. Mohammadreza Aghaei, University of Freiburg, Germany;
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 

Mohammadreza Aghaei received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2016. He joined Fraunhofer ISE as visiting scholar in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Fraunhofer ISE and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)-PVcomB, Germany, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He has been joined the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering at the University of Freiburg, as a Senior Lecturer since 2017. Later, he also fulfilled another two years postdoc in the Design of Sustainable Energy Systems Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands. He was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in 2020. He was involved in many national and international projects as a PI, WP and task leader. Additionally, he is an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Energy, Solar Energy and Smart Grid Sections. He is also an IEEE senior member. 

Currently, he is a professor at Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg, and also a senior scientist at the Smart Buildings and Infrastructure group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. He is also the coordinator of an EU Horizon 2020 project “COLLECTiEF” - Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility.  

He authored numerous publications in internationally refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His main research interests include Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Transition, Energy Flexibility, Autonomous Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). 

Speaker III: Associ. Prof. Dr. Yushi Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Yushi Liu is Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. World's Top 2% Scientists 2024. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Materials Science in 2012 and PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 2017 from Harbin Institute of Technology. He was engaged in postdoctoral research at Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore from 2020 to 2021. Dr. Liu was committed to building energy conservation and low carbonization during the curing and operation in cold regions. He has published more than 60 SCI papers in high-level journals such as Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Applied Energy, Composites Part A, Composites Part B and Renewable Energy, etc., including more than 40 JCR Q1 papers and 6 highly cited papers of ESI. Dr. Liu served as guest editors in chief/guest editors of SCI journals Separations and Energies, etc., and session chairs/TPC members at ICAE2021 and NEFES 2020-2022.

Speaker IV: Prof. Moghtada Mobedi, Shizuoka University, Japan

Moghtada Mobedi is professor of heat transfer in Mechanical Engineering Department, Shizuoka University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Middle East Technical University and worked in Mechanical Engineering Department of Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey between 2003 and 2015. He has taught many bachelor, master, and Ph.D. courses such as heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, conduction and convection heat transfer and numerical methods in Turkey, Japan, and also in European countries. His research interests include heat transfer enhancement, solid-liquid phase change, heat and mass transfer in porous media, adsorption heat pump, and computational fluid dynamics. He published more than 180 papers in international and national journals as well as in proceedings of international conferences.He has leaded many projects funded by "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science", "Suzuki Foundation", "State Planning Department of Turkey", "Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey" to study on discovering innovative methods for heat transfer enhancement for single convection heat transfer, adsorbent beds as well as for solid-liquid phase change thermal storage. He has supervised many Ph.D. and master students both in Turkey and Japan.