HEET 2023

Speech Title: Optimal configurations of Hydrogen technologies in Renewable Energy Community

Dr. Benedetto Nastasi ,Architectural & Building Engineer, is an Assistant Professor in Smart Energy Systems for the Built Environment at the Department of Planning, Design & Technology of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Dr. Benedetto Nastasi’s research interests are in innovative energy systems from building to urban scale, transition pathways to zero carbon built environment, pioneering hydrogen applications, and open data and energy analytics.
Dr. Benedetto Nastasi received his PhD Summa cum Laude in 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He has been ranked by the Stanford University study in the Top 2% Researchers worldwide in both “Building & Construction” and “Energy” fields in 2019, 2020 and 2021. His Scopus metrics are H-Index 34 and more than 2200 Citations.

Prof. Blaž Likozar

1. Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
2. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Speech Title: Engineering Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs): Modelling Transport, Kinetics and Thermodynamics

Prof. Blaž Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the programme “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 />50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >310 articles, was cited >7000 times, having a h-index of 43. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards.

   Prof. Mohamed A Ghanem

   Professor of Physical Chemistry, FIAAM
Chemistry Department, Science College, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Speech Title: Foam- Surfactant Template Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Boosting the Electrochemical Energy Reactions

Professor Mohamed A. Ghanem obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2002 from the University of Southampton (UK) in the field of synthesis, characterizations, and applications of nanostructured materials. He works as postdoctoral researcher at Southampton and Bath University (2003-2008). He joins King Saud University in 2012 as associate prof. of physical chemistry and promoted to full professor in 2017. His research interests focus on nanomaterials, fabrication, characterization, and applications for energy production and storage. He acts as editor for the Journal of Saudi chemical society and awarded the IAAM Medal in 2018 for notable and outstanding research in the field of New Age Energy Materials & Technology. He published about 115 papers, five patents and his i10-index is 77 with 4000 citations. I have been included in the list of top 2% Scientists of AD scientific index 2021-22 (energy) and awarded IAAM Fellow title.

Prof. John William Sheffield

Professor of Engineering Technology Purdue University，U.S.A.

Speech Title: Green Hydrogen Energy Technologies for the Global Race-to-Zero

Dr. Sheffield, joined Purdue University in January 2015. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. He has a broad base of experience in energy technologies. He has served as one of the founding associate directors at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (UNIDO-ICHET) during their first two years of operation in 2005-2006. He also served as the Associate Director of the National University Transportation Center at Missouri S&T. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. In August 2014, he completed a two-year assignment as a principal consultant at DNV GL - Energy supporting the evaluation, measurement and verification of energy efficiency programs and the response to the U.S. DOE Uniform Methods Project Protocol review of compressed air systems. In August 2015, he completed a 7-week National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program as an industrial mentor for a potential startup company based on the manufacturing of bio-inspired bipolar plates for PEM fuel cells. On 1 March 2019, he became the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He has also served as a part-time Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China working in the summers with the School of Energy and Power Engineering on hydrogen energy technologies from 2019 to 2022 and teaching in the annual International Summer School offered by the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering. He was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the "H2 JRP - Hydrogen Joint Research Platform" for the three-year period 2022-2024. In April 2022, he was selected for the 2022 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award from Purdue University. In 2023, he was appointed as a 2023 Energy Scholar at the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at Oklahoma University.

Prof. Grigoriev, Sergey Alexandrovich

National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute"
Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". Russia

Speech Title: Polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis: current status and development potentials

Grigoriev, Sergey Alexandrovich, has more than 20 years of experience from research, teaching and industry in the field of hydrogen electrochemical systems (water electrolyzers, fuel cells, etc) and more than 10 years of experience in administration.
Published more than 300 papers, and has more than 25 patents.
Developed 4 book chapters (monographs) and 4 educational books (textbooks).