Invited Speakers

 

 

Prof. Doan PHAM MINH, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines d'Albi, France

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Biography: Doan PHAM MINH received his PhD degree in chemistry at the University Lyon 1, France in 2006. After post-doc experiences at French Institute of Petroleum and IRCELYON (France), in 2009, he has joint IMT Mines Albi as assistant professor, affected at the RAPSODEE research center. Since 2011, he is associate professor at IMT Mines Albi where he has led (2016-2021) a research team composed of 5 permanent staffs and around 15 PhD students and post-doc. Currently, he is Full Professor and Deputy Director of the RAPSODEE research center (around 100 persons). In parallel with teaching activities, his research is focussed on the development of performing functional materials applied in the energy field. He mostly works on new catalysts and catalytic process engineering for the valorisation of biomass, bio-wastes and industrial coproducts into energy carriers, e.g. syngas, hydrogen, methane, alternative fuels etc., as well as on refractory ceramics applied in high-temperature sensible thermal energy storage. He is principal investigator (PI) and co-PI of more than 40 research projects, and is supervisor and co-supervisor of 26 PhD students, 13 post-docs and research engineers and 27 internships. He is currently editorial board member of Waste and Biomass Valorization (Springer), and co-organizer of the Summer School in catalysis which is held every two years since 2019.

 

 

Prof. Jiutian Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Biography: Dr. ZHANG Jiutian is professor and executive director of Green Development Institute at Beijing Normal University. Before this position, he had 12 years experience in climate, energy and sustainable development (SD) area as Director in The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21 (ACCA21), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST). He is now the director of committee of carbon neutrality, Chinese Society for Sustainable Development, and secretary of committee of CCUS, Chinese Society for Environmental Science. He was Chinese delegate to UNFCCC Climate Talks and the sessions of UN sustainable development events e.g. Rio+20 from 2008 to 2016.
His current research focuses on strategy and pathway of carbon peak and neutrality, with special interests in region, enterprise and value chains. Prof. Zhang is now expert member of “national carbon peak and carbon neutralization standardization general group”. Prof. Zhang led various strategic policy researches and was involved in coordinated several governmental strategy drafting, including Technology Roadmap for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage of China (2011), National S&T Plan for Climate Change of the 12th FYP (2011), The Specific S&T development Plan for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in China (2012) and China’s 3rd and 4th National Assessment Report on Climate Change (2015,2020), National Climate Adaptation Strategy2035 (2021), Instruments for NDC implementation.