6^th Asia Pacific Congress on Chemical and Biochemical Engineering September 17-18, 2018 Hong Kong

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of more than 10 reputed journals, and the committee member of more than 100 international conferences.

Bionanotech

R. Katsarava is a full Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering of the Agricultural University of Georgia. Prof. R.Katsarava is the founder of several new polycondensation methods of polymer synthesis that have been developing since 70s. Prof. R.Katsarava and his team pioneered the synthesis of several new families of highly biocompatible and biodegradable non-conventional polymers composed of naturally occurring α-amino acids and other nontoxic building blocks such as fatty dicarboxylic acids and diols (Pseudo-proteins). These polymers show the widest range of mechanical, physical-chemical and biochemical properties, have a high potential for numerous sophisticated biomedical applications as surgical materials and drug eluting/delivery systems. Some polymers created by the R. Katsarava’s team are being applied in the medico-pharmaceutical industry in the USA, the Netherlands, Canada, China and Georgia. Prof. R.Katsarava is the World recognized expert in the field of biomedical polymers, he is a member of several National and International professional organizations and editorial boards of journals. Prof. R.Katsarava has more than 400 publications including papers in leading International journals, possesses various Georgian, US, Japanese, Chinese and Australian patents, filed several PCT applications. Prof. R. Katsarava and co-workers received 64 grants of various types from National and International Science Foundations. In 2007 Prof. R.Katsarava was awarded the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Gold Medal as an Outstanding Inventor. In 2017 R. Katsarava was named as the best Georgian Scientist of the year by the Shota Rustaveli NSF of Georgia.

Nanotechnology, Materials Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry

•Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Department of Chemical Engineering (September 1987 ~ December 1992) Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, December 1992 Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Chemical Engineering (March 1981 ~ February 1985) B.S. in Chemical Engineering, February 1985

• Nanobiotechnology • Nanomedicine & Biosensor/Biochip • Protein Engineering

Prof. Dr. Jianhong XU received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. at Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He continued his research in Tsinghua University as a postdoctor after graduation. He finished the postdoctoral program in May 2009, and became a formal faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He had studied as a visiting scholar at Prof. David Weitz lab in Harvard University during 2012.7~2013.6. At present, his research areas are focusing on the microstructured chemical system, multiphase microfluidic technology and functional materials synthesis. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He got the “Excellent Young Scientists Fund” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2013. In 2016, he was awarded as Young Scholar of “Chang Jiang Scholars Program of China” of MOE.

Microstructured Chemical Systems; Multiphase Microfluidics; Functional Materials; Chemical Engineering Controllable preparation of monodispersed microparticles in microfluidic systems and its applications Fundamental study on effects of interfacial properties on liquid-liquid two phase flow performance in microchannels Size control and mass transfer performance of micro- dispersed systems A fundamental study on preparation of ultrafine particles with liquid-liquid micromixing A fundamental study on micromixing size control and its mass transfer characteristic

Dr. Jun XU is now an associate professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degree at Dept of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His research interests are in the field of polymer crystallization, biodegradable polymers, bio-inspired materials, polymers for energy storage and 3-D printing, etc. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2011 and Feng Xingde Polymer Prize for winning "The Best Paper Nomination from China" published in the journal of Polymer in 2011. He is in the editorial board (youth) of the journal “Chinese Chemical Letters”.

Polymer Crystallization, Structure-property relation in polymeric material, Biodegradable and biobased polymers, Polymer materials for energy storage

Dr. Sun Tao obtained his BSc in Microbiology from Shan Dong University, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. He then held post-doc research assistant, associate and senior research associate appointments at Institute of Transfusion Medicine (Beijing, China), Institute of Material Research and Engineering (IMRE, Singapore), Sheffield University and Glasgow University (UK), working on fibrin sealant, liver/skin/nerve tissue engineering, computational modelling of cultured cells & tissues and epidermal wound healing processes. Due to his multidisciplinary research experience, Dr. Sun was appointed as a Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2011-13) at Xi’an Jiao-tong Liverpool University (XJTLU), and then a Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering (2013-2015) at Bolton University (UK). In 2015, he joined Loughborough University as a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Biotechnology.

Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine (TERM): Investigation of cell-cell, cell-scaffold interactions during tissue formation; Scale-up & down issues in TERM; Bioreactor development for cell & tissue cultures; Reconstruction of 3D engineered human tissues for diagnostic and clinical purposes. Systems Biology: Development of multi-scale computational models using agent-based modelling and other simulation approaches for the mechanistic understanding of cultivated cells & tissues as well as scale-up & down issues in TERM. Synthetic Biology: Modification of viruses using genetic engineering technologies; Scale-up & down issues in the manufacturing of genetically modified viruses; Synthesis of functional nanomaterials using viral-based bio-templates. Bioprocess development: Bioreactor design & fabrication for up-stream processes using microbes or mammalian cells; Design & optimization of down-stream processes such as protein purification strategies at bench-, pilot- and industrial scales for clinical purposes.

Dr. Adango Miadonye is a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering and chair of the Department of Chemistry at CBU. He obtained his PhD from Loughborough University, England, and did his postdoctoral research at Lakehead University, Ontario. With over 80 publications, several book chapters and numerous conference papers, he is well published and is the Program Chairperson and a member of the Board of Trustees (Atlantic Canada) for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Adango has been with CBU for more than 15 years.

His research interest includes how temperature and pressure affect the viscosity of bitumen and crude oil, green chemistry, sustainable solvents and processing, petroleum and petroleum products characterization, polymeric materials characterization and processing close

Dr. Sam H. Y. Hsu obtained his PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Kirk S. SCHANZE at University of Florida with focusing on photophysical behaviors of functional metallopolymer materials for solar energy applications. After that, he received the two-year postdoctoral and research associate’s appointments respectively with Prof. Allen J. BARD and Prof. Edward T. YU in Center for Electrocemistry and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Austin. During thhe period of his postdoc and research associate, he completed many outstanding multidisciplinary projects. The area of his expertise stretches from multistep synthesis of organic-inorganic semiconductors to new related disciplines involving diverse areas of applications and material characterization, including solar fuels, organic and inorganic photovoltaic cells, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy imaging.

Dr. Sam H. Y. Hsu’s research interests involve the material design, synthesis, processing, imaging, spectroscopy and solar energy application, aiming to explore fundamental properties and interactions of hybrid perovskite semiconductors and functional metallopolymer materials for developing efficient solar energy conversion processes. He has keen interests in photoinduced charge transfer processes, interfacial electron transfer, electrochemical hydrogen generation, and photoredox reactions for photovoltaics and solar fuel production. The investigations between material phenomena rely heavily on concepts and techniques of material and physical engineering, consisting of photophysics, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy imaging, ultrafast transient absorption and time-resolved photoluminescence spectra

Dr. Hajime Hirao received his BEng and MEng degrees from Kyoto University and his PhD from The University of Tokyo. He underwent his postdoc training at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Emory University, and Kyoto University. Prior to that, he worked for three years on computer-assisted drug design at the Novartis institute in Japan. Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he worked as faculty at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Over the years, he has been interested in computational and theoretical aspects of chemistry, especially chemical reactions. One of the major goals of his research is to figure out how difficult chemical transformations can be achieved using simple catalytic platforms built from earth-abundant elements. Dr. Hirao’s research applies quantum chemistry, multiscale models, and many other computational chemistry techniques to a variety of complex molecular systems of practical importance such as transition-metal catalysts, metalloenzymes, drugs/drug targets, porous materials, and nanomaterials. Using computational approaches and often with experimental collaborators, his group seeks to derive key insights into chemical reaction mechanisms and bonding patterns of complex molecules, with the ultimate aim of designing new functional molecules and materials. He is also interested in developing new concepts and computational methods that may enhance our understanding of chemistry or improve the efficiency of computational analyses.

Computational chemistry, Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Catalysis, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Porous Materials

Dr. Yiu Fai Tsang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Environmental Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He received his BEng and PhD in Environmental Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Prior to joining EdUHK, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at PolyU. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of Energy & Environment (SAGE Publishing), Associate Editor of Water Environment Research (Water Environment Federation) and RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry), Subject Editor of Process Safety and Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and Editorial Board Member of Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier).

Water and Wastewater Treatment Microbial CO2 Fixation Pharmaceuticals & Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Sewage Treatment Plants Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes Odour Pollution Control