BIO of Florian Kongoli

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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc., (www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries.
Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers.
Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries.
Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has worked with more than 60 well-known chemical and metallurgical companies and several well-known universities around the world.
Dr. Kongoli is has published 77 books and about 190 scientific articles in the last 10 years and has delivered in numerous countries about 200plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations.
Dr. Kongoli is an Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) and member of the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2017 he was Awarded “The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017” by CEO-Monthly magazine in UK and in 2019 was given the official title of Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro by a special Legislative Decree voted unanimously by the Rio de Janeiro City Council. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals. He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Minister and other government officials.
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BIO of Fernand Marquis

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<p>Dr. Marquis is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the San Diego State University in San Diego California, and has also been a Professor at the Wayne E. Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering and the Department of Systems Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. His most recent research focuses on Nanotechnology and Nanosystems, Nanostructured Hybrid Material Systems, Alternative and Renewable Energy Systems, Defense Energy Systems and Thermal Management Systems and Nano and Microstructural Design of Multifunctional Materials. He received advanced degrees from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (PhD and DIC), and from the University of Lisbon (PhD and Diploma of Engineering). He has been an active Chartered Engineer in the Council of Engineering Institutions in UK and a Registered Professional Metallurgical Engineer and a Registered Professional Chemical and Industrial Engineer in Portugal. He taught extensively at the Department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School and at the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Delaware and Academic Visitor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK. In addition he taught considerably at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, at the University of Minho and at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. <br /><br />He has several patents and patent applications, eleven disclosed inventions of available technologies for licensing and commercialization, over ninety refereed publications, edited eight books, and wrote several book chapters, over 35 special reports and five monographs. He supervised over 35 Master and PhD students, delivered over 30 invited and keynote lectures and gave over 80 contributed presentations. He has received many TMS awards and other awards such as FASM, Fellow Royal Microscopical Society, ,Who' Who in Engineering, Entrepeneurs of America, Faculty Award for Teaching with Technology (Governor of the State of South Dakota) He is an ABET Program Evaluator for Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Polymer Engineering. He has been and is a member of many global Professional Societies, Professional Organizations and Advisory Boards, Editorial Boards (such as Portugaliae Physica), Board of Trustees (such as Alpha Sigma Mu) and several Award Committees where he served and continues to serve extensively. He has been engaged in the organization of many International Conferences, Workshops and Symposia in many different global venues. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and a Member of the Rotary International, leaved and worked in several countries and speaks fluently five languages. <br /><br />More recently he has organized very successfully a very large number of International Conferences, Workshops and Symposia under the umbrella of many Societies and Organizations such as Engineering Conferences International and independently in many different global venues. Some typical examples are the JAPMED series (Japanese-Mediterranean Workshop on Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Magnetic, Superconducting and Nanomaterials): III (Athens, Greece-2003), IV (Cairo-2005) and V (Cyprus-2007); and the PRICM series. He donated extensively in time and energy during 31 years of Service to TMS and served and serves in many Divisions and. Committees such as: Materials Design and Manufacturing Division, Professional Registration Certification, Accreditation, Powder Materials, Mechanical Behavior, Composites and Program Representative. At the Service of TMS he has organized seven (7) International Symposia and was part of the US/ International Organizing Committee for PRICM-6 (Jeju Island, Korea) and PRICM-7(Cairns, Australia), the USA In-Country Technical Representative for PRICM-7 and the Congress Organizing Chair for PRICM-8 (Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 2013). Throughout his professional carrier Prof. Marquis has developed and sustained very strong research programs, and has been a Member of several professional collaborations within the USA and in other countries all over the world. <br /><br />He has been a reviewer for many International Journals such as: Journal of Materials Research, Journal of Material Science and Engineering, Materials Research Forum, Metallurgical Transactions, Journal of Materials, Royal Society of Chemistry, Advanced Materials Forum In addition he has served in many Review panels and has reviewed many research proposals for several Agencies.</p>

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BIO of Soteris Kalogirou

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Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the elected Chair of the Department. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glamorgan in 1995. In June 2011 he received from the University of Glamorgan the title of D.Sc. He is recently elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, letters and Arts.
For more than 30 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling. Additionally, since 1995 he is involved in a pioneering research dealing with the use of artificial intelligence methods, like artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, for the modelling and performance prediction of energy and solar energy systems.
He has a large number of publications as book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another fifteen journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.
He has been a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) since 1992 and is a member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).

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BIO of Bernard Raveau

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Bernard Raveau is Emeritus Professor at the University of Caen, where he received his PhD degree (1966). Founder of CRISMAT, the CNRS-ENSICAEN Laboratory for Crystallography and Materials in 1986 and of the CNRT Matériaux (National Research Centre of Technology for Materials) in 2000, he is a specialist of crystal chemistry of transition metal oxides. He is Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Member of Académie des Sciences,Member of the Indian Academy, Member of the Academia Europea and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He has authored 1400 journal publications mainly devoted to high Tc superconducting cuprates, CMR manganites, magnetic and thermoelectric cobaltates and transition metal phosphates. Additionally, he is co-author to 3 books: “Crystal Chemistry of High Tc Superconducting copper oxides” (1991); “Transition Metal Oxides” (1995); and “Cobalt oxides: from Crystal Chemistry to Physics” (2012). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including: European Prize Italgaz, Grande Médaille d’Or de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, Médaille d’Argent du CNRS, Grand Prix Pierre Sue de la Société Chimique de France, Bernd Matthias Prize, Distinguished Fellow of the Bangalore Nehru Centre, Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Commandeur des Palmes Académiques.

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BIO of Alain Tressaud

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Alain TRESSAUD is CNRS Emeritus Research Director at ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux University. He is Honorary President of the European Academy of Science (Brussels), after being the President in the 2017-18 period. He is member of several European Academies (EASA, Austria, Disting. Fellow SCF, France). He founded and chaired until 2008 the French Network on Fluorine Chemistry, sponsored by CNRS. He received many awards, including the Atomic Centre Agency (CEA) Award of French Academy of Sciences (2008), Fluorine Award of the American Chemical Society (2011) and International Henri Moissan Prize (2012).
His scientific interest covers various fields, e.g. synthesis, physical chemical characterizations, applications in materials sciences, solid state chemistry & fluorine chemistry. His works also deal with surface modification of materials and intercalation chemistry. His scientific production includes more than 360 papers in international journals, 20 chapters contributions in books and 12 internationalized patents. In addition, he edited 11 books, including the Editor-in-Chief responsibility of the book series “Advances in Fluorine Science” (2006), “Progress in Fluorine Science” (2015 →), Elsevier. In 2011 his book on “Le fluor: histoire, applications & paradoxes” appeared at CNRS-Editions, Paris and in 2018 the multi-authored book “Progress in Science, Progress in Society” at Springer-Nature.

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BIO of Hiroshi Kageyama

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Name and Institute：Hiroshi Kageyama Kyoto University
Hiroshi Kageyama received his B.S. (1993), M.S. (1995) and PhD (1998) from Kyoto University under the supervision of Professor Koji Kosuge. Afterwards he worked as a research associate with Professor Yutaka Ueda at the Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo for five years. In 2003, he became an associate professor at Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. In 2010, he was appointed to a full professor at Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. His research interests concern the discovery of new inorganic compounds, especially mixed-anion compounds, toward novel physical and chemical properties.

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BIO of Alejandro Varez

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CV Summary Alejandro Varez (1965)
Dr. Varez is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) in Spain. He was Head of Materials Science and Engineering Department of UC3M (Marzo 2011-Marzo 2017) and also Head of Álvaro Alonso Barba Institute (UC3M) (Nov. 2007-Marzo 2011). Furthermore, he was the Coordinator of Materials Science and Engineering Ph-D Program of UC3M, since its creation in June 2000 till July 2006. Currently he is the Director of Academic Research Unit Materials for the new Challenges of the Society (UC3M), also since its creation in June 2017.
Also, currently he is the co-Head of SYPMAT (SYntheis and Processing of MATerials) Research Group (https://sypmat.uc3m.es/?lang=en)
His main research lines are focused on the synthesis and processing of different materials such as critical high temperature superconductors, ionic conductors (of lithium, proton and oxygen) with applications in electrochemical devices such as lithium batteries, fuel cells and electrolyzers. He has been working, since 1995, ed in Powder Injection/extrusion Moulding of different materials: metals (stainless steels, bronzes, high speed steels) and ceramics (alumina, YSZ, Ni-YSZ, magnetic ferrites)). Recently we are involved in development of filaments highly loaded of particles for desktop 3-D printer. Also, he has experience (more related with the Industry) on soft magnetic ferrites (collaboration with PREMO and Hispanoferritas for long periods of time) and recently with ARCERLORMITTAL in Additive Manufacturing.
He taught extensively at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University Carlos III of Madrid, but also give some lectures at different European Universities (Metz (France), Gliwice (Poland),…)
He supervised over 20 Master and 10 PhD students, He has been a reviewer for many International Journals such as: Journal of Power Sources, Electrochimica Acta, Nature Communications, Solid State Ionics, J. Mater. Chem., Chem Mater. J. of Energy Chemistry…). In addition he has served in many Review panels and has reviewed many research proposals for several Agencies. He is also Member of the Editorial Board of Batteries Journal
His scientific production includes more than 135 papers in international journals and more than 160 communications to congresses, (3 keynotes). Also he has 3 filled patent (one of them international Patent (Europe and USA)). He has been Chairman in various congresses or symposiums, Organizer of a Session dedicated to Materials for Energy in 2015 AMPT Congress and he was the Main Organizer of the IX Spanish Electroceramic Meeting held at UC3M (2009).

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BIO of Rodrigo Martins

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Rodrigo Martins, Portuguese nationality, was born in Nova Lisboa, Angola.
He got in 1974 the Honours degree in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications and applied Electronics by U. Luanda, Angola/ PT. In 1977 he got the MSc degree in Semiconductor Materials, by the University of Dundee, Scotland. Thesis title: “Photoconductivity in P Doped and Undoped Amorphous Germanium.” Supervisor W. Spear, 1977 Euro physicist award. In 1982, the Ph.D. in Energy conversion and Semiconductors, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: “a-Si:H solar cells processing and characterization”. In 1988 he got the Habilitation in Semiconductor Materials and Microelectronics, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Lesson title: “Density of states in disordered semiconductors”. Full Professor at FCT-NOVA since 2002 in the area of Materials Engineering, speciality Materials for Energy, Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies.

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