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Yansong Shen

Dr. Yansong Shen is an Associate Professor in School of Chemical Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Director of ProMO Lab. He obtained his BEng and MEng degrees in Northeastern University (China) and PhD degree in UNSW. His research interests include process modelling and simulation and its applications in resource and energy sectors. He published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier multidisciplinary journals, secures 7 ARC and 5 ACARP/ARENA grants to date, in total over AUD 5M, established industry engagements in Australia and overseas, and won several honours/...Read more

Qingang Xiong

Dr. Qingang Xiong is currently a senior scientist at General Motors Corporation, USA, developing CFD capability for modeling vehicle fuel system. Dr. Xiong received his Ph.D. degree of Chemical Engineering in 2011 from Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, majoring in HPC-aided CFD simulation of gas-solid flows. After graduation, Dr. Xiong worked at Iowa State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Corning Incorporated, conducting multiscale CFD simulation of multiphase flows. Dr. Xiong has published more than 50 scientific articles and edited several...Read more

Haigang Wang

Haigang Wang is a professor and scientist in the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he also received his PhD in the same field. He was working with the University of Manchester as research associate during 2005 and 2010.

Haigang Wang’s research interests include flow dynamics simulation and measurement of multi-phase flows, mathematical modeling and process control for fluidized bed drying processes, process tomography and 3D image reconstruction software developing, and monitoring and control for granulation, drying and coating...Read more

Qinfu Hou

Dr. Qinfu Hou is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Fellow and Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Monash University Australia. He was awarded a PhD in 2012 at UNSW Australia, ME and BE in 2003 and 2000 respectively at Northeastern University of China. Dr Hou has published 70+ articles and secured more than $2M AUD research funds. Dr Hou has also received various awards in the past, reflecting the recognition at different stages, and been invited to give plenary/keynote talks at different international...Read more

Niels Deen

Niels Deen is a Full Professor and Chair of the Power & Flow group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also Executive Editor of Elsevier publication Chemical Engineering Science. Prof. Deen’s expertise largely lies in the areas of process technology, multiphase reactors, computational fluid dynamics and experimental fluid dynamics. His research is concerned with the development of computational and experimental techniques for the study of multiphase reactors. This includes multiphase flow modeling of intensified contacting in...Read more

Wei Wang

Wei Wang is a Professor at the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds chemical engineering degrees from Sichuan University, China (B.S. 1994) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D. 2002). He is currently the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, China.

His research interest lies in the field of multiscale modeling and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for multiphase flows. Based on his fundamental work, he developed a commercial software EMMS. His method enables prediction of the choking instability...Read more

Qingjie Guo

Professor Guo, full professor, is a director of State key laboratory of coal high-efficiency utilization and green chemical engineering, Ningxia University. He received the engineering bachelor degree (1989) for Chemical Engineering in East University of Science and Technology. In 1999, he was awarded Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1999 to 2001, he spent two years in Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University as a postdoctral fellow. In July, 2001, he was granted a research fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, who...Read more

Navid Mostoufi

Navid Mostoufi is currently a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tehran.  He holds a B.Eng. and M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Iran’s University of Tehran, plus a Ph.D. in Fluidization from Canada’s Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.   He has taught advanced mathematics and fluid mechanics courses for over 18 years.    His research interests include process modeling, simulation and optimization, and fluidization.  Professor Mostoufi has more than 270 publications in major international journals and conferences.  He...Read more

Charley Wu

Prof. Chuan-Yu (Charley) Wu is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, the University of Surrey, UK.  He is currently an executive editor for Powder Technology, a leading peer reviewed journal on particle systems. He co-authored a monograph on “Particle Technology and Engineering” published by Elsevier in 2016 and edited two books entitled “Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Media” and “Particulate Materials: Synthesis, Characterisation, Processing and Modelling” published by RSC publishing. He also...Read more

Christoph Pfeifer

Christoph is a Full Professor for Process Engineering of Renewable Resources at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (BOKU). He is also the Principal Investigator for Advanced Biorefineri  es, Chemistry&Materials (ABC&M) and Bioprocess Engineering doctoral schools there. He graduated as chemical engineer at Vienna University of Technology under supervision of Professor Hermann Hofbauer. He was responsible for several national as well as European projects with the main aim to improve fuel flexibility and efficiency of the dual fluidized bed steam...Read more

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