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8 May 2026
Processes Webinar | Applied Biocatalysis: Pathways to Sustainability and Decarbonization, 14 May 2026


Our current way of life is characterized by high standards in medical care, a demand for convenient solutions in our daily lives, and substantial energy consumption to sustain telecommunications and advanced technologies. This webinar will focus on biocatalysis as a sustainable pathway to a more environmentally friendly future. In this webinar, you will learn about the different stages of biocatalysis from three experts, ranging from fundamental molecular approaches to real-world applications for soil and sustainability.

Date: 14 May 2026 at 3:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 a.m. EDT | 9:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 854 2150 6241

Register now for free!

Program:

Speaker/Presentation Time in CEST Time in EDT
MDPI Host
Processes and Webinar Introduction
3:00–3:05 p.m. 9:00–9:05 a.m.
Dr. Carminna Ottone
Chair Introduction
3:05–3:10 p.m. 9:05–9:10 a.m.
Dr. Kírian Bonet-Ragel
Synthesis of Bioplastics: From Crude HMF to 2,5-FDCA via Enzymatic Route
3:10–3:30 p.m. 9:10–9:30 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Bernal
Decarboxylases as Green Biocatalysts for the Generation of C6 Chemical Precursors From CO2
3:30–3:50 p.m. 9:30–9:50 a.m.
Dr. Francesca Demichelis
Biomass Conversion Into Bio-Material and Bio-Energy for a Decarbonized Production System
3:50–4:10 p.m. 9:50–10:10 a.m.
MDPI Host
Processes Journal Report
4:10–4:20 p.m. 10:10–10:20 a.m.
Q&A Session 4:20–4:30 p.m. 10:20–10:30 a.m.
Dr. Carminna Ottone
Closing of Webinar
4:30–4:35 p.m. 10:30–10:35 a.m.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

  • Dr. Carminna Ottone, School of Biochemical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile;
  • Dr. Kírian Bonet-Ragel, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain;
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Bernal, Chemistry Department. Universidad de La Serena, Chile;
  • Dr. Francesca Demichelis, Department of Applied Science and Technology (DiSAT), Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Relevant Special Issue:
Advanced Catalytic Approaches for Sustainable Biofuel Production
Guest Editor: Dr. Oyetola Ogunkunle
Submission deadline: 10 August 2026

6 May 2026
MDPI INSIGHTS: The CEO's Letter #34 - MDPI US Office, Coatings 2026, Media and Partnerships, Recapping Poland Summit & Serbia Salon

Welcome to the MDPI Insights: The CEO's Letter.

In these monthly letters, I will showcase two key aspects of our work at MDPI: our commitment to empowering researchers and our determination to facilitating open scientific exchange.


Opening Thoughts

MDPI Opens First US Office in Philadelphia

I am delighted to highlight an important milestone in MDPI’s continued global development: the recent opening of our first office in the United States, located in Philadelphia.

This marks a significant step in building our engagement with one of the world’s most important research communities. The new office will serve as a hub for supporting scholars across the US, creating closer connections and more localized support.

As highlighted in recent coverage by our press release in InPublishing, this expansion reflects MDPI’s broader commitment to growing our international presence while remaining focused on the needs of the research community.

A Key Market for Research and Collaboration

The United States continues to play a central role in global research. To date, MDPI has published more than 237,000 articles affiliated with US institutions, and we collaborate with nearly 12,000 Editorial Board Members across the country. These relationships are fundamental to our mission of supporting Open Access and advancing scientific communication.

The opening of this office is not just about geography; it is about proximity to the communities we serve. It allows us to better understand the evolving needs of researchers while continuing to build collaboration and trust within the academic ecosystem.

The Team Behind this Milestone

This milestone reflects the efforts of teams across MDPI. I extend a special thank-you to Bob Vrooman (Head of Business Development, MDPI), who is leading this expansion, as well as to our colleagues in Toronto and across our North American teams for their continued support.

Bob shared: “MDPI is already a trusted partner of the North American research community, due in no small part to our dedicated team in Canada. Launching our first US office in Philadelphia is a great first step towards expanding MDPI’s market share and recognition in the US. I’m thrilled to be a part of this new phase in MDPI’s journey.”

As we continue to grow, our focus remains on supporting researchers globally and advancing Open Access with integrity.

Impactful Research

Coatings 2026: Highlights from Our Latest MDPI Conference (20-22 April)

I am pleased to share the successful completion of MDPI conference Coatings 2026, which took place last week in Athens from 20 to 22 April 2026. This conference brought together a diverse international community of researchers, industry experts, and partners, highlighting MDPI’s role not only as a publisher but also as a platform for scientific exchange and collaboration.

Conference Highlights

Coatings 2026 in numbers:

  • The event attracted approximately 140 participants from 25 countries
  • 143 submissions and a strong scientific program of talks and posters
  • 2 keynote speakers and a wide range of invited contributions
  • 7 sponsors and 11 media partners supporting the event

Scientific Programme

The program centered on “Safe and Sustainable by Design,” reflecting the growing importance of sustainability, regulatory frameworks, and technological innovation in materials science. Topics ranged from advanced coating technologies and additive manufacturing to AI-driven simulations and strategies to phase out potentially harmful substances in industrial processes.

Importantly, the conference brought together both academic and industrial perspectives, creating a space for dialogue on how research can translate into real-world impact. This is important as industries navigate environmental challenges, evolving regulations, and the need for more sustainable and circular approaches to production.

Thank You!

I would like to thank the entire conference team for their work in organizing this successful event. As we continue to grow, conferences like this play an important role in building our connection with global research communities, supporting interdisciplinary collaboration, and positioning MDPI at the intersection of science, technology, and societal impact.

Members from Exelisis and MDPI EU Conference & Social Media team at the Coatings 2026 Conference in Athens, Greece.

Inside MDPI

Recent Media Coverage and Partnerships

Over the past two months, news from MDPI has enjoyed strong visibility across international publishing and academic media, reflecting our continued expansion and the increasing relevance of our work within the research community.

Below are some highlights covering partnerships, institutional agreements, and milestones that continue to shape our position in publishing – some of which are featured in leading industry platforms such as InPublishing, which is highly selective and reflects the growing recognition of MDPI’s growth within the publishing ecosystem.

Key Press Releases & Coverage (March–April 2026)

  • MDPI × Sikt (Norway): Partnership Renewal

    We renewed our national Open Access agreement with Sikt, a key consortium partnership, continuing to support researchers across Norway through this partnership. The renewal was covered by several international publishing trade outlets.

    Covered by: Research Information, STM Publishing News, ALPSP, Europe Says

  • MDPI × Jisc (UK): New Two-Year Open Access Agreement

    A new two-year agreement with Jisc significantly expands MDPI’s footprint across UK academic institutions. Coverage appeared across major publishing industry titles in the UK and internationally.

    Covered by: InPublishing, Research Information, STM Publishing News, ALPSP

  • MDPI Opens First US Office

    The opening of our first US office marks an important milestone in our North American expansion to build engagement with one of the world’s leading research communities.

    Coverage by: EurekAlert!, InPublishing, EdTech Innovation Hub, STM Publishing News, ALPSP

  • MDPI × SIGG: Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics

    We established a new partnership with the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG), adding to our growing portfolio of society collaborations.

    Coverage by: EurekAlert!, STM Publishing News, ALPSP

  • MDPI × Fast Track Health: New Journal Launch

    The launch of a new journal in partnership with Fast Track Health reflects our continued expansion into emerging areas of health innovation.

    Coverage by: EurekAlert!, Scienmag, STM Publishing News, ALPSP

  • MDPI 2025 Annual Report

    Our 2025 Annual Report was also widely covered across international media, highlighting a 12% increase in submissions and continued investment in research integrity, infrastructure, and partnerships.

    Coverage by: EurekAlert!, Research Information, STM Publishing News, ALPSP, Choice 360

Coverage also spanned multiple regions including Poland, Romania and South Korea, reflecting our ongoing efforts to communicate more effectively with regional research communities.

Looking Ahead

This coverage shows that MDPI is growing and building on its position through partnerships, visibility, and engagement across regions. As we continue to expand, our focus remains on supporting researchers globally, building on our institutional collaborations, and advancing Open Access with integrity.

Thank you to all teams involved in delivering these initiatives, and to our External Affairs team for ensuring our work is effectively communicated across the global publishing landscape!

Coming Together for Science

Recapping MDPI Poland Summit 2026 in Krakow (23 April)

On 23 April 2206, we hosted the first MDPI Poland Summit 2026 in Kraków, bringing together an engaged group of editors, researchers, and academic leaders from the country.

The Poland Summit welcomed some 45 participants, including Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board Members, many with strong academic track records and international recognition.

Our engagements were open and constructive, focusing on MDPI’s positioning and reputation in Poland, alongside community interest in supporting our development, with active participation across our sessions, including Q&A and panel discussions.

MDPI Poland Summit Programme

From research integrity and peer review quality to AI in publishing and the future of academic communication, the agenda featured important topics currently shaping our industry.

During the day, MDPI colleagues shared a series of presentations covering:

  • MDPI’s performance, growth, and impact in Poland: Stefan Tochev (CEO)
  • Engagement with Academic Community: Dr. Marta Colomer (Public Affairs Lead)
  • Research Integrity and Publication Ethics: Anna Pena (Research Integrity Manager)
  • MDPI Editorial Process and Peer-Review Quality Metrics: Dr. Liliane Auwerter (Conference Organizer)
  • AI in the Publishing Industry – Challenges, Innovation and MDPI’s vision: Dr. Enric Sayas (AI Product Owner)
  • Panel Session: The Future of Academic Publishing, moderated by Dr. Marta Colomer 

Poland as a Key Market for Open Access

The summit also highlighted the importance of Poland within the global research landscape.

In 2025:

  • 75% of publications in Poland were made in Open Access
  • 71% of those in Gold Open Access
  • and over 344,000 publications produced in the last five years

MDPI plays a significant role in the Polish publishing ecosystem:

  • #1 Open Access publisher in Poland
  • 17% share of Open Access publications in 2025
  • More than 12,500 publications from Polish institutions in 2025
  • More than 91,000 publications overall since 1996

Looking Ahead

Events like the Poland Summit are an important part of how we evolve as an organization. They allow us to share the latest developments of MDPI and listen directly to our researchers and editors to better understand the market and align our development with the needs of the local community.

As MDPI continues to grow, this type of engagement will remain essential in ensuring that we are not only scaling globally, but doing so in a way that is aligned, trusted, and collaborative.


With Igor Matic (Office Manager, Krakow, Poland, MDPI) at the MDPI Poland Summit in Krakow.

Closing Thoughts

Recapping MDPI Serbia Salon 2026 in Belgrade (22 April)

On 22 April 2026, we hosted the MDPI Serbia Salon 2026 in Belgrade. The Salon welcomed over 50 participants, including more than 40 invited scholars from leading Serbian institutions, alongside colleagues from MDPI. The event also marked two important milestones: 30 years of MDPI and 10 years of our presence in Serbia, making it a celebration and an opportunity for reflection.

A Platform for Exchange

The Salon was designed not just as a series of presentations, but as a place for dialogue. Throughout the day, discussions focused on important topics around publishing today: research integrity and editorial standards, journal indexing and visibility, the evolving role of artificial intelligence, and funding and support for Open Access publishing.

Program Overview

  • Opening the Salon MDPI Serbia 2026 – Serbia results and direction: Emir Ramadani (Operations Manager)
  • Update on MDPI’s performance and growth: Stefan Tochev (CEO)
  • Collaboration with MDPI – A personal perspective: Prof. Dr Srećko Stopić (Editorial Board Member)
  • Linking Scientific Quality and Visibility: The role of indexing in publishing
  • Research integrity and editorial ethics: Ana Stanković (Research Integrity Specialist)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing – Challenges, innovations and vision of MDPI: Dr Miloš Čučulović (Head of Technology Innovation)

It was encouraging to see the high level of engagement and discussion with the local academic community.

Publishing in Serbia

With 10 years of MDPI in Serbia (since 2016) and over 620 colleagues across 10 departments spread across offices in Belgrade and Novi Sad, MDPI continues to invest in the long-term development of the research community in Serbia and beyond.

Some high-level indicators illustrate both the strength of the local research ecosystem and MDPI’s role within it:

  • 12,910 total publications in Serbia in 2025, of which 8,708 (67%) were Open Access (of which, in turn, 75% were Gold OA)
  • A total of more than 55,000 publications (2021–2025), with 68% published Open Access
  • 2,122 MDPI publications from Serbian institutions in 2025
  • 25% of all Open Access publications in Serbia are published with MDPI
  • More than 11,000 MDPI publications from Serbian institutions since 1996
  • More than 75 Editorial Board Members from Serbia, including Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors.

These figures reflect the growth of OA publishing in Serbia and the strong collaboration between MDPI and Serbia's research community.

Top 5 Publishers in Serbia (MDPI #1 with steady growth)

Looking Ahead

Research integrity and artificial intelligence will remain central topics for the industry. At the same time, clear communication of editorial processes will be essential in building trust and transparency.

Workshops and direct engagement remain among the most effective ways to strengthen these connections. As Open Access funding models continue to evolve, new opportunities for collaboration are emerging across institutions, publishers, and the broader research community.

Thank You!

The excellent feedback from participants shows the value of creating spaces where ideas can be exchanged openly and constructively. Sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this event: our speakers, participants, and especially the MDPI Serbia team for their great organization and support.

Stefan Tochev
Chief Executive Officer
MDPI AG

4 May 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Processes

Processes (ISSN: 2227-9717) is pleased to add the following 183 researchers to the 2026 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the Processes community.

Name: Dr. Anteneh Bayeh
Website: https://www.aau.edu.et/
Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa 1000, Ethiopia
Interests: redox flow battery systems; fuel cells; supercapacitors; nanomaterials synthesis

Name: Dr. Fan Xu
Website: https://sias.uestc.edu.cn/info/1206/6008.htm
Affiliation: Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Shenzhen 518110, China
Interests: hybrid materials; thin-film fabrication processes; solar cells; light-emitting diodes; device physics; process simulation

Name: Dr. Amit Kumar Shringi
Website: https://www.nccu.edu/employee/ashringi
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Interests: advanced semiconductor processing; material synthesis; electrospinning processes; thin-film growth processes; catalysis; environmental sensing; green chemistry; process intensification

Name: Dr. Anupam Biswas
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YocG0gIAAAAJ&hl=en
Affiliation: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Interests: material chemistry; process development; green extraction; photovoltaics; solution-processable semiconductors; optical analysis; structure property correlation; high-throughput chemistry; sustainable chemical processes; instrumentation

Name: Dr. Abderraouf Arabi
Website: https://www.urv.cat/html/docencia-per-centre/general-I95394.php
Affiliation: Departament d’Enginyeria Mecànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans 26, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Interests: multiphase flow in pipes; fluid mechanics; experimental investigation; petroleum engineering; carbon capture and storage; chemical engineering; static mixers

Name: Dr. Di Liu
Website: https://shi.buaa.edu.cn/liudi1/en/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: aircraft hydraulic systems; system condition monitoring; reliability analysis; failure analysis; prognostics health management; condition-based maintenance; fluid dynamic seals; degradation modeling; process optimization; process automation and monitoring

Name: Dr. Adolph Anga Muleja
Website: https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Colleges/Science,-Engineering-&-Technology/Research/Institute-for-Nanotechnology-and-Water-Sustainability/Staff-Members/Dr-AA-Muleja
Affiliation: Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability (iNanoWS), University of South Africa (UNISA), Florida Science Campus, Johannesburg 1709, South Africa
Interests: water/wastewater treatment; process synthesis; process engineering; catalytic membrane reactor; chemical reaction engineering; advanced technologies

Name: Dr. Cancan Liu
Website: https://cese.cumt.edu.cn/info/1125/5459.htm
Affiliation: School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: deep mining; surrounding rock control; intelligent coal mining; in situ testing; rock mechanics and engineering; measurement while drilling; coal mining method

Name: Dr. Cristiano E. Rodrigues Reis
Website: https://profiles.howard.edu/cristiano-eduardo-rodrigues-reis
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
Interests: green chemistry; sustainable chemical and biochemical processes; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, hydrodynamic cavitation, ball milling, flow chemistry); process design, simulation, and optimization; reactor engineering; separation processes; bioprocess engineering; integrated biorefineries; biomass and residue valorization; biofuels, biodiesel, and sustainable aviation fuel; methane valorization; circular bioeconomy; techno-economic analysis (TEA); life cycle assessment (LCA); sustainability assessment; decarbonization and carbon-efficient process systems

Name: Dr. Lei Yan
Website: https://gc.zafu.edu.cn/info/1099/5153.htm
Affiliation: College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Interests: materials science; electrocatalytic energy; nanomaterial; electrocatalysis; electrochemistry; functional materials

Name: Dr. Cheng-Han Lee
Website: https://mp.ncku.edu.tw/en/cheng-han-lee/
Affiliation: Department of Resources Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701401, Taiwan
Interests: resource circulation; resource recovery; waste treatment; waste valorization; circular economy; carbon capture and utilization; hydrometallurgy; separation techniques; desalination brine

Name: Dr. Alessia Di Giuseppe
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2449-7261  
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lkDJHUoAAAAJ&hl=en&scioq=alessia+di+giuseppe
Affiliation: CIRIAF (Interuniversity Research Centre on Pollution and Environment Mauro Felli”), University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy
Interests: climate change adaptation and mitigation; sustainable food production; life cycle assessment; albedo monitoring; radiative forcing and CO₂ offsetting; high-reflectance and retro-reflective materials

Name: Prof. Dr. Alicia Esther Ares
Website: https://bicyt.conicet.gov.ar/fichas/p/alicia-esther-ares
Affiliation: 1. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales (FCEQyN), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Posadas N3300LQD, Argentina
2. Programa de Materiales y Fisicoquímica (ProMyF), Instituto de Materiales de Misiones (IMAM-CONICET), Posadas N3300LQD, Argentina
Interests: metallic materials; alloys; solidification; properties; corrosion; biomaterials; nanomaterials; corrosion inhibitors

Name: Dr. Dongheon Lee
Website: https://eng.famu.fsu.edu/cbe/people/lee
Affiliation: Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
Interests: process modeling; synthetic biology; systems biology; microbiology

Name: Dr. Dimitrios-Rafail Kalompatsios
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-2468
Affiliation: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Thessaly, Terma N. Temponera Street, 43100 Karditsa, Greece
Interests: food waste valorization; bioactive compounds; extraction efficiency; oil analysis; food chemistry; beverages; natural antioxidants

Name: Dr. Ayomikun Bello
Website: https://www.tvt.ovgu.de/tvt/en/Chair/Staff/Group+Leader/Dr_+Ayomikun+Bello-p-1148.html
Affiliation: Institute of Process Engineering, Otto von Guericke University, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Interests: porous media; multiphase flow; CO2 sequestration; oil recovery; surfactants; microfluidics

Name: Dr. Abhijeet Singh
Website: https://www.slu.se/en/profilepages/s/abhijeet-singh/
Affiliations: 1 Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden;
2 Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
3 Faculty of Agriculture, Allied Sciences and Technology, Ganpat University, Mehsana, India
Interests: advanced/next-generation biofuels, processes, production and technology; advanced process surveillance; anaerobic digestion; biogas; biogeochemistry; biomass processing technology; biomass; biorefineries; carbon capture, use and storage; climate smart biofuels; enhanced biofuel production technology and processes; genomic surveillance; life-cycle analyses; microbial biotechnology; microbial enhanced processes; microbial fuel cells; microbial remediation; next generation biofuels; wastewater; wastewater technology

Name: Dr. Bonginkosi Allen Thango
Website: https://www.uj.ac.za/members/dr-bonginkosi-thango/
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; Internet of Things (IoT); intelligent sensing systems; renewable energy systems; optimization modeling; smart infrastructure; water quality monitoring technologies; digital transformation engineering; sustainable engineering systems

Name: Dr. Chenliang Liu
Website: https://faculty.csu.edu.cn/liuchenliang/zh_CN/index.htm
Affiliation: Department of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Interests: artificial intelligence; industrial AI; intelligent agents; data-driven modeling; intelligent control; process systems engineering

Name: Dr. Alessandro Cosenza
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1361-2060
Affiliation: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: green chemistry; microalgae technology; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, ball milling, flow chemistry); wastewater bioremediation; bioremediation monitoring; nitrate removal; sustainable chemical processes; biomass conversion; sustainability; supercritical fluids; supercritical water gasification; supercritical water oxidation; syngas from waste; carbon capture; hydrogen production; membranes technology; salinity gradients; desalination; salinity reduction; reverse electrodialysis; wastewater treatment; wastes valorization; produced water; resource recovery; energy production; energy storage; flow batteries; chemical analysis; ionic chromatography; liquid chromatography; gas chromatography; photocatalysis; process modeling; process monitoring; process engineering; techno-economic assessment; circular economy; microalgal biodiversity

Name: Dr. Abdullah Anwar
Website: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/998797-abdullah-anwar
Affiliation: Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
Interests: materials and environmental processes; cementitious and composite materials; processing and dispersion of nanomaterials; durability and degradation mechanisms; low-carbon and sustainable materials; materials processing and characterization; performance-based materials engineering

Name: Dr. Pradeep Parajuli
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pparajuli308/
Affiliation: National Energy Technology Laboratory, Leidos Inc., Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Interests: combustion; energy; high-speed imaging; hydrogen; laser diagnostics; low NOx

Name: Dr. Sheraz Ahmed
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3951-3805
Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Research Center for Refining and Advanced Chemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Interests: green chemistry; carbon capture and conversion; energy conversion devices; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Yuanxing Xia
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pv5Ao30AAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Interests: electricity markets; energy trading processes; energy storage optimization; large language models

Name: Dr. Prashant Kumar
Website: https://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/ims/nextgen_magn_dev_collab/index.html
Affiliation: Next-Generation Magnet Development Collaboration Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
Interests: nanomaterials; ferrites; ferrofluids; metal-oxide; polymers; hybrid nano-composites; superconducting magnets; magnetic thin films; 2D materials

Name: Dr. Siwei Lou
Website: https://person.zju.edu.cn/0625349
Affiliation: College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China
Interests: AI-enabled industrial data analytics; signal processing; automation control; smart manufacturing; process monitoring; blast furnace ironmaking process

Name: Dr. Willyam Barros
Website: https://portal.ufgd.edu.br/pos-graduacao/mestrado-doutorado-quimica/corpo_docente
Affiliation: Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology (FACET), Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Rodovia Dourados-Itahum, km 12, Dourados 79804-970, MS, Brazil
Interests: electroanalysis; electroanalytical chemistry; electrochemical (bio)sensors; screen-printed electrodes; photocatalysis; degradation of contaminants; environmental electrochemistry; metal–organic frameworks; oxygen reduction reaction

Name: Dr. Wilgince Apollon
Website: https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=en&user=s4qTrd0AAAAJ
Affiliation: Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada (CICATA), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Altamira 89600, Mexico
Interests: bioelectrochemical systems; bioenergy; renewable energy; microbial fuel cells; resource recovery; waste to energy; sustainable process; sustainable agriculture; wastewater treatment; waste management; biocompost; biofertilizers

Name: Dr. Zhipeng Qie
Website: https://jxny.bjut.edu.cn/info/1168/3077.htm
Affiliation: College of New Energy, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: zeolites; catalytic oxidation; catalytic hydrogenation; VOCs mitigation; CO2 capture and utilization

Name: Dr. Samy Shaban
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7407-5812
Affiliations: 1 School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea; 2 Petrochemical Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Cairo 11727, Egypt
Interests: nanotechnology; chemical sensors; biosensors; wearable sensors; conductive elastomers; surfactant technology; corrosion; organic chemistry; catalysts; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Yuze Sun
Website: https://ai.bitzh.edu.cn/info/1861/4411.htm
Affiliation: Aerospace and Informatics Domain, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai 519088, China
Interests: clean combustion; zero/low-carbon combustion; ammonia/hydrogen combustion; gas turbines; aero-engines; fluid dynamics; acoustic; thermoacoustics

Name: Dr. Shuyuan Zhao
Website: http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/shuyuanzhao
Affiliation: School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Interests: theoretical modeling and simulation of thermal management systems of spacecrafts; synthesis and military application of thermal protection materials; inverse reconstruction of radiation properties for thermal protection materials; multidisciplinary analysis and optimization of aircraft thermo-structural systems; damage analysis and design of composite key components for space applications; sustainable resources; energy technology and management

Name: Dr. Wei Feng
Website: https://teacher.nwpu.edu.cn/2023010040.html
Affiliation: School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Interests: composite damage; composite repair; adhesive bonding; environmental durability; similarity theory; failure mechanisms; creep; finite element modeling; impact behavior; cohesive zone model; water entry problems

Name: Dr. Xiaosong Du
Website: https://sites.mst.edu/xiaosongdu/
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65401, USA
Interests: artificial intelligence; generative artificial intelligence; physics-enhanced artificial intelligence; agentic artificial intelligence; engineering design optimization; unmanned aerial vehicles; electric drones

Name: Dr. Yiwei Wang
Website: https://www.cup.edu.cn/chem/szjs/jsdw/hxgcx1/fjsfyjy1/607aad751420430db3edd7f11b052b86.htm
Affiliations: 1 College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China;
2 College of Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay, Karamay 834000, China
Interests: hydrate-based technologies; underground coal gasification; carbon dioxide capture and storage; phase equilibrium of high-pressure fluids; reduction in the viscosity of heavy oil (by hydrodynamic cavitation); process intensification; green chemistry; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. York Castillo Santiago
Website: https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=Gh1QQFUAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR
Affiliations: 1 Laboratory of Thermal Sciences (LATERMO), Mechanical Engineering Department (TEM/PGMEC), Fluminense Federal University, Niterói 24210-250, RJ, Brazil;
2 Engineering and Process Development Coordination, SENAI Innovation Institute for Biosynthetics and Fibers—FIRJAN, Rio de Janeiro 21941-857, RJ, Brazil
Interests: gasification; pyrolysis; biofuels; gas turbines; chemical processes modeling; techno-economic analysis (TEA)

Name: Dr. Youjun Deng
Website: https://www.swpu.edu.cn/dxy/szdw/szdw/js1/dyj.htm
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Interests: electricity demand-side management; smart grids; intelligent computation; planning and operation of integrated energy systems; electric vehicles’ integration into the grid

Name: Dr. Yuzhou Zhou
Website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/yzzhou/
Affiliation: Department of Automation, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Interests: system optimization; cyber-physical energy systems; process optimization; energy system optimization; energy system planning; chemical-energy system optimization; power system operation optimization; transportation electrification; low/zero-carbon clean systems

Name: Dr. Ansen Gao
Website: https://tjsl.sdu.edu.cn/info/1336/14203.htm
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
Interests: process risk assessment; reliability engineering; acoustic emission monitoring; rockburst/coalburst early warning; slope and pillar stability; dynamic failure and instability mechanisms

Name: Dr. Giulia Modica
Website: https://www.di3a.unict.it/assegnisti-di-ricerca/giulia.modica  
Affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: food processing; food production; food preservation; emerging food technologies; food quality; food waste; fruit processing

Name: Dr. Heng Wu
Website: https://cib.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/rck/202601/t20260123_8118248.html  
Affiliation: Agricultural Microbial Agents Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
Interests: wastewater treatment; anaerobic fermentation; microbial electrochemistry

Name: Dr. Francesco Taddeo
Website: www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.taddeo
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 80126, Italy
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; flow chemistry; sustainable chemical process; circular economy; kinetics; catalysis; chemical reaction engineering

Name: Dr. Lei Wang
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Interests: hydrate exploitation; mechanical properties; soils; constitutive models; CPT; hydrate-bearing sediments; stability; permeability; PFC 3D; fracture; CO2 sequestration

Name: Dr. François Nkinahamira
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4087-7291
Affiliation:
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests:
critical metals recovery; functional materials design; water treatment and remediation; biomass valorization; soil contamination and remediation; adsorption science and technology; catalytic conversion of pollutants; photocatalytic processes; advanced oxidation processes; CO2 capture

Name: Dr. Kaibo Huang
Website: https://sese.hainanu.edu.cn/info/1544/1704.htm
Affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Interests: soil washing; photo-transformation; surfactants; e-waste; polychlorinated biphenyls; bi-metals; emerging contaminants

Name: Dr. Jorge Manuel Chávez Aguilar
Website: https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=dKMXxfoAAAAJ&hl=es
Affiliation: Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica Eléctrica, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44430, Mexico
Interests: powder metallurgy; sintering; solid-state sintering; liquid-state sintering; ball milling; high-energy ball milling; melting; electric-arc melting; phase transformation analysis; corrosion analysis; biomedical alloys; structural alloys; high-entropy alloys; shape memory alloys; tribological performance; tribocorrosion response analysis; elastoplastic characterization

Name: Dr. Fan Wang
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6417-155X
Affiliation: School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
Interests: utilization of solid waste; cement-solidified polluted soil; environmental science and health; solid waste-based cementitious material; heavy metal solidification

Name: Dr. Jasmina Nikić
Website: https://www.dh.uns.ac.rs/jasmina-nikic-phd-research-associate/
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: advanced water treatment; adsorption processes; ion-exchange process; functional materials; nanomaterials; nanocomposites; arsenic and heavy metals removal; magnetic materials; scale-up; pilot validation; sustainable water treatment processes

Name: Dr. Dening Song
Website: https://faculty.hrbeu.edu.cn/songdening/zh_CN/index/79737/list/index.htm  Affiliation: College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Interests: manufacturing process scheduling and optimization

Name: Dr. Fidel Vallejo
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fvallejo-gallardo/     
Affiliation: Industrial Engineering, National University of Chimborazo, Riobamba 060108, Ecuador
Interests: hydrothermal carbonization; biomass valorization; waste-to-energy; air quality modeling; process optimization; CFD simulation; life cycle assessment (LCA); gasification; biofuel production; atmospheric pollution; circular economy; climate data analysis; machine learning in environmental prediction

Name: Dr. Guofeng Song
Website: https://www.tudelft.nl/staff/g.song.1/  
Affiliation: Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: renewable energy; geothermal production; advanced technologies for geothermal development; enhanced geothermal systems; hot dry rock; digital twin; geological modeling; simulation; data assimilation; multi-physics coupling; thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical coupling; uncertainty quantification; value of information

Name: Prof. Dr. Liang Huang
Website: https://faculty.cdut.edu.cn/huangliang/zh_CN/index/261972/list/index.htm
Affiliation:College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Interests: gas percolation theory in unconventional and complex reservoirs; carbon dioxide geological sequestration and utilization; confined fluid storage, phase behavior, and transport mechanisms; underground hydrogen/helium storage; kerogen pyrolysis mechanisms; shale gas; shale oil; coal; condensate gas

Name: Dr. Juye Shi
Website: https://scholar.cugb.edu.cn/scholar/scholarDetail/2700.shtml
Affiliation: Petroleum Geology, School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: petroleum geology; shale oil and gas geology; cyclostratigraphy; black shale sedimentology; organic matter enrichment

Name: Dr. Lu Wang
Website: https://faculty.cdut.edu.cn/WangLu_CDUT/zh_CN/index.htm
Affiliation: College of Energy (College of Modern Shale Gas Industry), Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Interests: sustainable chemical processes; process intensification; enabling technologies (flow chemistry)

Name: Dr. Fernanda F. Roman
Website: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/EE1B-DAA7-D0BD
Affiliation: Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
Interests: nanomaterials; carbon nanotubes; catalysis; waste valorization; plastic waste; municipal solid waste management; sustainable materials; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; sustainable processes; fuel purification; desulfurization; denitrogenation; chemical vapor deposition; waste-derived catalysts; sustainable fuels

Name: Dr. Giulia Culletta
Website: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/c/giulia.culletta  
Affiliation: Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; computational chemistry; drug repurposing; green chemistry

Name: Dr. Hang Li
Website:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=qCegZDYAAAAJ&viewop=list_works
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau, Macau, China
Interests: rock mechanics; fatigue mechanics; cyclic loading; thermo-mechanical damage; rock salt; salt cavern; underground hydrogen storage; compressed air energy storage; acoustic emission

Name: Dr. Ivana Jelić
Website: https://www.vin.bg.ac.rs/istrazivanja/istrazivaci/ivana-jelic
Affiliation: Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences—National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, 11351 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: sustainability; environmental protection; circular economy; resource recovery; waste valorization; liquid radioactive waste; industrial wastewater treatment; water remediation; green remediation; radionuclides; heavy metals; toxic metals; radionuclide removal; sorption processes; sorption isotherms; radionuclide sorption; waste materials; sustainable materials; geopolymers; cement-based materials; radionuclide immobilization; solidification/stabilization; immobilization matrices; physico-mechanical characterization

Name: Dr. Janitha Jeewantha
Website: https://staffprofile.unisq.edu.au/Profile/Janitha-Jeewantha
Affiliation: Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia
Interests: bio-based and biodegradable polymers; sustainable epoxy systems; shape memory polymers (SMPs); smart and adaptive materials; cure kinetics; thermo-chemo-mechanical behavior and characterization; confined composite curing; structural autonomy in composites; composite pressure vessels (Type IV/V COPVs); hydrogen storage materials; advanced and sustainable composite manufacturing (pultrusion, filament winding, AFP/ATL, infusion); smart tooling; multifunctional composites; fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) systems; GFRP rebars and civil composites; distributed optical fiber sensing (DOFS), structural health monitoring (SHM), and digital twin systems; predictive modeling and finite element analysis (FEA); interface mechanics, adhesion, and co-curing; environmental durability and aging; creep and fatigue of composites; fire behavior and thermal degradation; nanocomposites (graphene, carbon-based fillers, BNNT); industry translation and commercialization of advanced materials

Name: Dr. Haojie Li
Website: https://hgxy.shzu.edu.cn/2023/0610/c11794a189090/page.htm
Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (flow chemistry); sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Juan Zhai
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7806-0175
Affiliation: Department of Materials, Mechatronics & Manufacturing Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: molecular dynamics for membrane performance; process optimization; AI-enhanced techno-economic analysis

Name: Dr. Xuefeng Jiang
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4109-2688
Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Interests: power electronic drives and fault-tolerant control; motor motion control and embedded technology for UAVs/robots; design and optimization of high-reliability motors; fault diagnosis and health monitoring of electrical systems based on artificial intelligence algorithms

Name: Dr. Lázaro Adrián González Fernández
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-3707
Affiliation: Institute Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IJL, 88000 Epinal, France
Interests: green chemistry; adsorption processes; biosorption; advanced oxidation processes; sustainable chemical processes; advanced functional materials; water treatment

Name: Dr. Fushou Xie
Website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/xiefushou/home?p_p_state_rcv=1
Affiliation: School of Energy and Power Engineering‌, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Interests: cryogenic liquefaction; hydrogen liquefaction; purification technology; multiphase flow; thermal insulation technology; mass and heat transfer; energy storage; phase change; sustainable chemical processes; engineering thermophysical processes; cryogenic systems

Name: Dr. Xinpo Lin
Website: https://homepage.hit.edu.cn/linxinpo
Affiliation: Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai 264209, China
Interests: motor drive control; servo system control; grid-forming converter control; control theory; permanent magnet synchronous motor; variable-pole machine; microgrid optimization and control; virtual power plant optimization

Name: Dr. Zhenbao Pan
Website: http://faculty.hfut.edu.cn/panzhenbao/zh_CN/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Interests: motor design; motor optimization; motor control; artificial intelligence; PM machines

Name: Dr. Xinxing Wei
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4576-1666
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Safety, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
Interests: underground energy storage; energy storage; mining engineering; petroleum engineering; rock salt; two-phase flow; hydrogen storage; natural gas storage; rock mechanics

Name: Dr. Zongbiao Ye
Website: http://720insten.scu.edu.cn/Allteacher/124.html
Affiliation: Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Interests: liquid metal; interaction between plasma and materials; plasma cleaning; nuclear fusion; divertor; corrosion

Name: Dr. Wei Song
Website: https://tmjtxy.gdut.edu.cn/info/1138/4748.htm
Affiliation: School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: green advanced oxidation/reduction technologies; emerging contaminants; sustainable advanced treatment for wastewater/drinking water; heavy metal wastewater treatment; urban water systems evaluation; membrane water treatment

Name: Dr. Zhaodong Xi
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5146-2243
Affiliation: School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: coalbed methane; shale gas; coal-measure gas; coal accumulation; gas-bearing properties; reservoir; pore structure; hydrocarbon source rock; paleosedimentary environment; stratigraphic framework; CO2 sequestration; machine learning

Name: Dr. Waad Abuwatfa
Website: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/eng/profile.shtml?email=w.abuwatfa@uaeu.ac.ae
Affiliation: Engineering Requirements Unit, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Interests: drug delivery; targeted therapy; enabling technologies (ultrasound); microplastics removal; environmental sustainability

Name: Dr. Zhuang Liu
Website: https://homepage.hit.edu.cn/liuzhuang
Affiliation: Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Interests: intelligent control; neural networks; robotic systems; adaptive control

Name: Dr. Xuezhong Zhang
Website: https://www.swpu.edu.cn/cly/szdw/jsml2/xnyclyqj/js1/zxz.htm
Affiliation: School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Interests: enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, hydrodynamic cavitation, ball milling, flow chemistry); phase change energy storage

Name: Dr. Weixiang Ye
Website: https://me.bit.edu.cn/szdw/jsml/rnydlgcx/yljxyzyjzyjs/sssds8/df44bc7e657348ac8468ed82a29687d2.htm
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: flow instability in turbomachinery (pump, compressor, turbine); high-precision numerical simulation method; cavitation and multi-phase flows; efficient utilization of renewable energy; experimental fluid measurement technology

Name: Dr. Zihao Lei
Website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/leizihao
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Interests: fault detection and diagnosis; process monitoring; structural health monitoring; predictive maintenance; digital twins; large language models; explainable artificial intelligence; machine learning; embodied intelligence; fault-tolerant control; additive manufacturing

Name: Dr. Zhu Ma
Website: https://www.swpu.edu.cn/cly/szdw/jsml2/xny_gf/fjs/mz.htm
Affiliation: School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Interestssilicon/perovskite tandem solar cells; photovoltaic hydrogen production; machine learning applications

Name: Dr. Xiao Chen
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d3PDGQoAAAAJ&hl=en
Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08854, USA
Interests: sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructure; multi-scale and multi-physics modeling; probabilistic risk analysis; advanced civil material process

Name: Dr. Xu Wang
Website: https://jszy.hhu.edu.cn/wx1/
Affiliation: College of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Interests: renewable energy integration; smart grid demand management; electrification of manufacturing; additive manufacturing processes

Name: Dr. Weiliang Qiao
Website: https://mec.dlmu.edu.cn/info/1115/2501.htm
Affiliation: Marine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
Interests: maritime safety; resilience theory and application; risk assessment; safety engineering

Name: Dr. Xueqiang Shi
Website: https://hjaq.nuc.edu.cn/info/1179/10166.htm
Affiliation: School of Environment and Safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
Interests: process safety; energy security science; spontaneous combustion; smoldering and ignition of combustible materials; flame response in the acoustic field; numerical simulation of combustion process

Name: Prof. Dr. Zhenyong Zhang
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=10P_2dMAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Interests: artificial intelligence security; smart grid security; industrial control system security; metaverse security

Name: Dr. Yanfang Gao
Website: https://geology.nwu.edu.cn/home/teacher/16/18?username=20200146
Affiliation: Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
Interests: CCUS processes; simulation and modeling methods; process optimization; artificial neural networks; optimization algorithms; Industry 4.0; green chemistry; green extraction; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Alireza Zendehboudi
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5582-1568
Affiliation: Department of HVAC Engineering, Aibel AS, Hagaløkkveien 28, 1383 Asker, Norway
Interests: modeling and analysis of thermal systems; heat pumping, air conditioning and refrigeration technologies; refrigerants and working fluids

Name: Dr. Anil Meher
Website: https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/anil-k-meher/
Affiliation: Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Interests: mass spectrometry; analytical chemistry; volatile organic compounds; green extraction; analytical kit development; tree diseases; green chemistry

Name: Dr. Bohao Wu
Website: https://mec.dlmu.edu.cn/info/1115/4312.htm
Affiliation: College of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
Interests: multiphase flow; heat transfer; mass transfer; dissolution; carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); porous media; fuel cells; hydrogen energy; marine new energy; shipboard carbon capture; shipboard hydrogen systems; thermal management; thermal interface materials

Name: Dr. Chao Liu
Website: https://clyjhxxb.jxust.edu.cn/info/1169/4975.htm;
Affiliation: Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China
Interests: energy catalysis; electrochemistry; oxygen electrode reaction; water splitting; carbon capture and conversion processes

Name: Dr. Hui Li
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Interests: renewable energy; power systems planning; power systems operation; integrated energy systems; microgrid; artificial intelligence; stability analysis

Name: Dr. Mira Chitt
Website: https://gcet.edu.om/en/research-and-innovation/research/research-groups/mechanical-engineering/
Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha 24449, Qatar
Interests: sustainable chemical processes; fluid flow; process design simulation, and optimization; process intensification and efficiency improvement; scale-up and industrial process integration; hydrogen production processes (electrolysis, thermochemical, PEC/PEL); carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) processes; smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 processes

Name: Dr. Ntuthuko W. Hlongwa
Website: https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Colleges/Science,-Engineering-&-Technology/Research/Institute-for-Nanotechnology-and-Water-Sustainability/Staff-Members/Dr-NW-Hlongwa
Affiliation: Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability, University of South Africa, Roodepoort 1709, South Africa
Interests: materials science; energy storage; supercapacitors; metal-ion batteries; capacitive deionization; metal oxides and carbon-based materials

Name: Dr. Jean Claude Assaf
Website: https://forms.balamand.edu.lb/facultyprofile/members.aspx
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Balamand (UOB), Tripoli P.O. Box 100, Lebanon
Interests: green chemistry; process simulation and optimization; chemical and petrochemical processes; microbial engineering; biofilms; mycotoxins; fermentation processes; food chemistry; cosmetics microbiology; environmental monitoring; process design and prototyping; process intensification; process energy optimization

Name: Dr. Mohamad Fahrul Radzi Bin Hanifah
Website: https://www2.utar.edu.my/staffListDetailV2.jsp?searchId=25097
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, Kampar 31900, Perak, Malaysia
Interests: green chemistry; advanced materials; heterogenous electrocatalysis; electrochemistry; energy; fuel cells

Name: Dr. Long Xu
Website: https://pe.upc.edu.cn/2018/1128/c20542a397157/page.htm
Affiliation: School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: gas flooding; chemical flooding; heavy oil/shale oil/tight oil recovery

Name: Dr. Jelena Petrović
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4841-1899
Affiliation: Laboratory for Testing, Institute for Technology of Nuclear and other Mineral Raw Materials, Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: biomass conversion; biofuels; hydrothermal carbonization; pyrolysis; sustainable carbon materials; waste biomass utilization; green chemistry; biosorption mechanisms; sustainable chemical processes; pollutants remediation; soil improvement; carbon materials characterization

Name: Dr. Marija Simić
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1717-7796
Affiliation: Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: biomass conversion and thermochemical processes for sustainable carbon materials; waste valorization; adsorption and functional materials; environmental applications; green chemistry; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Prof. Dr. Liang Yang
Website: https://wdxy.yau.edu.cn/info/1457/8304.htm
Affiliation: School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yan’an University, Yan’an 716000, China
Interests: green chemistry; sustainable chemical processes; enabling technologies; micro–nano-mechanical systems; flexible intelligent materials; artificial muscles; robotics technology; intelligent manufacturing technology; intelligent diagnosis; machine learning

Name: Dr. Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4751-9304
Affiliation: Department of Chemical, Energy and Mechanical Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28933 Madrid, Spain
Interests: water treatment; waste valorization; adsorption; advanced oxidation processes; carbonaceous materials

Name: Dr. Neeraj Dhariwal
Website: https://www.cms.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/lab/zaika/member.htm
Affiliation: Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Interests: gas sensors; nanomaterials; waste treatment; energy; metal oxides; 2D materials; metal–organic frameworks (MOFs); supercapacitors; thermoelectrics; thin films

Name: Dr. Sachin Jaidka
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-2958
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Republic of Korea
Interests: high-energy-density capacitors; EMI shielding; nanotechnology; 2D materials; energy storage; photocatalysis; polymer nanocomposites; sustainable materials; green chemistry; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, hydrodynamic cavitation, ball milling, flow chemistry); sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Jahan Zeb Alvi
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5110-7794
Affiliation: School of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: ORC systems; thermal storage; heat transfer enhancement; energy efficiency in hot climates

Name: Dr. Jiuwu Hui
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-0424
Affiliation: Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: nuclear engineering; system control, modeling, monitoring, and optimization; fault diagnosis; heat transfer; control system design; intelligent control theory; system states estimation; AI-based techniques

Name: Dr. Mansheng Wang
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5736-9261
Affiliation: Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410205, China
Interests: microorganisms; enzymes; biotransformation; ginsenosides; soy isoflavone; non-thermal processing technology (pulsed electric field, ultra-high voltage, etc.)

Name: Dr. Mohd Faheem Khan
Website: https://people.ucd.ie/mohd.khan
Affiliation: UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: environmental microbiology; microbial biotechnology; soil microbiome and soil microbes; microbial biofilms and novel microorganisms; fungal biology; biodegradation and biocatalysis; xenobiotic biotransformation of environmental pollutants; cytochrome p450 and dehalogenases; laccases; extremophiles and extremozymes; protein and enzyme engineering; rational mutagenesis; enzyme immobilization and nanobiotechnology; industrial enzymes; computational and structural biology

Name: Dr. Jianbo Zhang
Website: https://pe.upc.edu.cn/2023/0309/c20544a397537/page.htm
Affiliation: School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China
Interests: offshore oil and gas engineering; deepwater flow assurance; natural gas hydrate development; multiphase flow; CO2 storage

Name: Dr. Kudzanayi Chiteka
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3697-5961
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical, Bioresources and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Africa, Roodepoort 1710, South Africa
Interests: solar energy; sustainability; energy policy

Name: Dr. Kang Zhou
Website: https://cms.sdust.edu.cn/info/1121/9782.htm
Affiliation: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
Interests: enhanced oil recovery by chemical flooding

Name: Dr. Karl Ezra Pilario
Website: https://kspilario.github.io/
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, 1101, Philippines
Interests: machine learning; artificial intelligence; materials informatics; process data analytics; process systems engineering; system identification; learning-based control; energy; environment

Name: Dr. Jian Tao
Website: https://mnc.gzu.edu.cn/2024/0801/c19513a227245/page.htm
Affiliation: Mining College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Interests: civil engineering; mechanical engineering; mining engineering; thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical modeling; rock mechanics; constitutive relations; deep high-temperature environments; multiscale analysis; multiphysics coupling in rock mechanics; tunnel support; deep soft rock; mining-induced loads; deep high-pressure environments; surrounding rock control in mining areas; surrounding rock control in tunnels; deep mining; rock damage; thermal fracturing; rock fractures; underground coal mining; underground space engineering

Name: Dr. Xuan Zhang
Website: https://me.bit.edu.cn/szdw/jsml/rnydlgcx/zlydwgcyjs/fgjzc10/8a4feae1bc944c2eb6d859ead210573c.htm
Affiliation: Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: icing and anti-/de-icing; frosting and anti-/de-frosting; condensation; evaporation; boiling; heat and mass transfer; phase change; fluid mechanics; multiphase flow; droplet; bubble; particle; wettability; surface and interface science

Name: Dr. Zhi Wang
Website: https://safe.cumt.edu.cn/info/1030/11313.htm
Affiliation: School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221100, China
Interests: battery safety; battery recycling; energy storage safety; process safety; thermal runaway; new energy explosions; hydrogen leakage and dispersion; fire; explosion; monitoring and early warning; fire suppression; absorption of toxic gases; thermal analysis

Name: Prof. Dr. Tian Li
Website: https://ecivil.cqu.edu.cn/info/1011/2239.htm
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, hydrodynamic cavitation, ball milling, flow chemistry); sustainable chemical processes; wind turbine aerodynamics; wind-induced vibration; computational fluid dynamics; AI in wind engineering

Name: Dr. Songbai Yao
Website: https://people.ucas.edu.cn/~yaos
Affiliation: NIMTE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
Interests: combustion; hydrogen fuel; sustainable energy; AI for science

Name: Dr. Syed Comail Abbas
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7853-5254
Affiliation: Advanced Structure and Composite Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Interests: green chemistry; electrocatalysis; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, ball milling); sustainable materials; energy conversion and storage; batteries; supercapacitors; sustainable packaging

Name: Dr. Qiang Fu
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9588-474X
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: rock mechanics and rock engineering; mining pressure and strata control; coordinated utilization of underground space; geothermal energy

Name: Dr. Nadia Cerone
Website: https://www.enea.it/it
Affiliation: ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources Department, Research Center of Trisaia, 75026 Rotondella, MT, Italy
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; biofuels and e-fuels production; biomass for fuels and chemicals; thermochemical processes; catalytic processes; hydrogen production; power-to-X; waste-to-chemical and waste-to-energy; enabling technologies; sustainable chemical processes; LCA

Name: Dr. Shengquan Zhou
Website: http://faculty.tju.edu.cn/228047/zh_CN/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: biomass; combustion; gasification; solid waste; life cycle assessment; ammonia; hydrogen; NOx emissions

Name: Dr. Qi Zhao
Website: http://sn.whut.edu.cn/szdw/jsml/202603/t20260323_1391560.shtml
Affiliation: School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China
Interests: green chemistry; prevention of process losses; engineering thermophysics; hazardous materials leakage; energy security utilization; dust and gas explosions

Name: Dr. Shuo Qiao
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-6080
Affiliation: College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Interests: manufacturing systems; manufacturing processes; manufacturing automation; mechatronics and robotics; precision manufacturing and control; micro-nano-manufacturing; green manufacturing; design in manufacturing; metallic and nonmetallic materials in manufacturing; metallurgical process

Name: Dr. Quanlin Shi
Website: https://faculty.cumt.edu.cn/SQL1/en/1#
Affiliation: School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, ball milling); sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Sai Liu
Website: https://www.beg.utexas.edu/people/sai-liu
Affiliation: Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA
Interests: geothermal energy; thermal energy storage; drilling and completion; polymer composites; rock mechanics

Name: Prof. Dr. Yiqi Cao
Website: https://zhaosheng.eol.cn/11646/tutors/index/daoshidetail?school_id=461&m_id=42464
Affiliation: School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Interests: marine oil spill; microbial biotechnology; biodegradation; plastic pollution; synthetic biology; emerging contaminants; sustainable microbial processes; biological wastewater treatment

Name: Dr. Song Yang
Website: https://auto.jlu.edu.cn/info/1153/8417.htm
Affiliation: Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Interests: low-carbon engine combustion; PEM fuel cells; thermal management of electric vehicles; green energy; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Matia Mukama
Website: https://foodtech.kyu.ac.ug/dr-matia-mukama/
Affiliation: Food Science and Technology, Kyambogo University, Kampala 256, Uganda
Interests: food engineering; postharvest technology; food packaging; sanitation and waste management; cooling technologies

Name: Dr. Shuaiwei Ding
Website: https://geology.nwu.edu.cn/home/teacher/16/18?username=20165001
Affiliation: Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
Interests: smart oilfields; numerical simulation; CO2 flooding and storage

Name: Dr. Yuanqiang Zhou
Website: https://see.tongji.edu.cn/info/1379/12341.htm
Affiliation: Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
Interests: process modeling; process monitoring; process control; predictive control; process system engineering; process optimization; machine learning; big data; large-scale complex systems; multi-agent systems; batch processes; manufacturing and assembly processes; power management systems

Name: Dr. Rui Zhang
Website: https://jszy.hhu.edu.cn/zr2/
Affiliation: College of Agricultural Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: environmental remediation and water treatment processes; enabling technologies (hydrodynamic cavitation, flow chemistry); AI-driven process modeling and optimization

Name: Dr. Vinod Kumar Nathan
Website: https://cftri.res.in/faculty_detail/2430
Affiliation: Department of Traditional Foods & Applied Nutrition, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru 570020, Karnataka, India
Interests: enzymatic processes; pre-treatments; nano-catalysts; microbial metabolites; process optimization using RSM and AI; precision fermentation; waste valorization; carbon sequestration

Name: Dr. Qingchao Li
Website: https://sese.hpu.edu.cn/info/1200/5170.htm
Affiliation: Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Interests: sustainable chemical processes; CO2 storage; gas hydrates; natural gas production; unconventional oil and gas development; fracturing; wellbore stability; sand production; natural hydrogen

Name: Dr. Marko Šolić
Website: https://www.dh.uns.ac.rs/marko-solic-phd-research-associate/
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: environmental sciences; chemistry and material sciences; water treatment processes; adsorption (water applications); nanomaterials; heavy metals; soil science and plant nutrition; biochar

Name: Dr. Minmin Yan
Website: https://teacher.njust.edu.cn/hgxy/ymm/list.htm
Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210094, China
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; green extraction technologies; enabling technologies; ultrasound; microwaves; hydrodynamic cavitation; ball milling; flow chemistry; sustainable chemical process design

Name: Prof. Dr. Nilay Baylan
Website: https://avesis.iuc.edu.tr/nilay.baylan
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, İstanbul 34320, Türkiye
Interests: separation; adsorption; membranes; water treatment; nanomaterials; green synthesis; green solvents; experimental design

Name: Dr. Orlando Palone
Website: https://www.dima.uniroma1.it/dima/node/7079
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: biomass gasification; CO2 capture, utilization and storage; CO2 management; chemical looping processes; hard-to-abate sectors; power plants

Name: Dr. Mohammed Gmal-Osman
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6315-0380
Affiliation: Doctoral School of Energy Engineering, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: renewable energy and green technologies process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, hydrodynamic cavitation); sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Shaoqi Zhou
Website: http://faculty.cumt.edu.cn/zhoushaoqi/zh_CN/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221000, China
Interests: CO2 utilization; process intensification; multiphase mass transfer; micro/nano-bubble technologies; interfacial engineering; solid waste valorization; minerals process; reactive transport in porous media; sustainable chemical processes; flotation

Name: Dr. Huang Ping-Hsiu
Website: https://website.ncyu.edu.tw/fst_eng/Contents?nodeId=63420
Affiliation: Department of Food Science, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City 600355, Taiwan
Interests: sustainable food processing; food chemistry; green chemistry; green extraction; modified starch; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves); functional food

Name: Dr. Qi Yang
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6748-7195
Affiliation: Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: particle technology; chemical hydro-transport; multiphase flows; slurry pipelines; CFD modeling; chemical processes simulations; measurement techniques; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Pratheep Panneerselvam
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-5486
Affiliation: Department of Convergent Biotechnology and Advanced Materials Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea
Interests: electrocatalysis (HER/OER/CO₂ reduction); energy conversion and storage; battery materials and polymer electrolytes; nanostructured functional materials; photocatalysis; perovskite solar cells

Name: Dr. Vivek Garg
Website: https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/faculty-of-engineering-and-science/vivek-garg
Affiliation: The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
Interests: bulk solids handling; powder flowability; particle technology; powder characterization; particle adhesion and cohesion; surface energy of particles; mechanical surface energy testing; powder rheology; segregation and blending of powders; granular material behavior; pharmaceutical powder processing; food powder handling; additive manufacturing powders; biomass and solid waste handling; storage systems (hoppers, silos); sustainable material handling technologies; process optimization efficiency; energy and environmental applications; industrial problem-solving in solids handling

Name: Dr. Sakrit Hait
Website: https://case.edu/engineering/about/faculty-and-staff-directory/sakrit-hait
Affiliation: Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Interests: polymers; nanomaterials; advanced composites; polymer recycling; sustainable materials and methods

Name: Dr. Pan Zhou
Website: https://acem.scu.edu.cn/info/1033/12833.htm
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Interests: offshore geotechnical engineering; energy geotechnics; deep foundation engineering; soft soil treatment and pile reinforcement; jacked piles/driven piles (axial static and cyclic bearing behavior); structured clays (structure degradation, anisotropy, time-dependent effects); jacket pile foundations in deep-sea soft soils (dynamic response, capacity evolution, failure prediction); energy piles (thermo-mechanical coupled long-term performance)

Name: Prof. Dr. Sheng Du
Website: https://grzy.cug.edu.cn/dusheng/en/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: process control; intelligent control; intelligent optimization; computational intelligence; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Otman El Mountassir
Affiliation: High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Geosciences Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
Interests: green chemistry; groundwater hydrology; hydrogeology; water resources management; contaminant transport in groundwater; groundwater modeling; surface–groundwater interaction; hydrological modeling; watershed management; climate change impacts on water resources; aquifer characterization; water quality assessment; environmental geochemistry; sustainable water management; GIS and remote sensing in hydrology; flood risk assessment; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Lun Ma
Website: http://sem.whut.edu.cn/rsrc/szdw/202405/t20240513_586359.shtml
Affiliation: School of Safety Science and Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interestslow-carbon clean energy and environmental safety; thermal treatment and resource utilization of organic solid waste; combustion simulation

Name: Dr. Jiajia Chen
Website: https://dz.sdut.edu.cn/2022/0518/c10529a459560/page.htm
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Interests: key technologies of user-side energy storage application; main user-side energy storage operation and control technology and operation modes; electricity markets; demand-side management; transmission and distribution; pricing mechanisms; user response behavior analysis; smart distribution network operation and control; planning islands; resilience and flexibility improvement; uncertainty risk assessment; operation and control of agricultural microgrids; modeling and optimization of agricultural microgrids; modeling and energy efficiency improvement of integrated energy systems

Name: Dr. Marija Koprivica
Website: http://itnms.ac.rs/istrazivac.asp?id=127  
Affiliation: Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials, 86 Franchet d’Esperey St., 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: biomass conversion; biomass characterization; biochar and hydrochar production; environmental protection; waste management; biosorption; analytical chemistry

Name: Dr. Junyu Chen
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZG58HUoAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
Interests: electrified transportation systems; renewable energy-dominated power systems; energy management and control of energy storage systems; power electronics systems

Name: Dr. Qi Jing
Website: https://www.cup.edu.cn/safety/zjxz/aqgcx/js_b7b361b4fcc04067b8cc4a9a31102d8c/2e298eaf140948ef98ac1dcee04ce9ca.htm
Affiliation: College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
Interests: natural gas leakage, dispersion, and explosion mechanisms; accident chain evolution and dynamic risk assessment; hydrogen-blended natural gas safety; fuel explosion characteristics; multiphase reactive systems

Name: Dr. Hu Song
Website: https://me.ustb.edu.cn/shiziduiwu/jiaoshixinxi/2022-03-24/585.html
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: hydrogen energy systems; zero-carbon energy systems; green chemistry; sustainable chemical processes

Name: Dr. Weifeng Liu
Website: https://huangong.dlmu.edu.cn/info/1101/1040.htm
Affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
Interests: environmental processes; microbial biotechnology; energy systems; catalytic materials; sustainable chemical processes; electrochemical technology; resource recovery from wastewaters

Name: Prof. Dr. Yang Tang
Website: https://www.swpu.edu.cn/jdy/info/2315/27610.htm
Affiliation: School of mechanical and electrical engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Interests: equipment and facility integrity management; deepwater oil and gas testing; oil and gas pipeline robotics; development of natural gas hydrates (flammable ice); carbon dioxide hydrate sequestration; dual-gradient drilling; underground coal gasification; gas storage facilities

Name: Dr. Hamed Hashemi
Website:https://www.wits.ac.za/people/academic-a-z-listing/h/hamedhashemiwitsacza/
Affiliation: Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa
Interests: thermodynamics; gas hydrates; fluid phase equilibria; CO2 capture; properties of fluid phases; waste-to-hydrogen conversion; hydrogen storage

Name: Dr. Bo Pang
Website
: https://faculty.swjtu.edu.cn/pangbo/en/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611756, China
Interests: optimization control of power/energy systems; dynamic processes of renewable power generation systems; dynamic control of generators and motors; stability of power system dynamic processes

Name: Dr. Ena Cegledi
Website: https://www.pbf.unizg.hr/ena.cegledi
Affiliation: Department of Food Engineering, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
Interests: green chemistry; process intensification; green extraction; enabling technologies (ultrasound, microwaves, accelerated solvent extraction); sustainable chemical processes; spray drying; polyphenols; pigments; phytosterols; supercritical CO2; bioactive molecules

Name: Dr. Chengwei Wu
Website: https://homepage.hit.edu.cn/wuchengwei
Affiliation: Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150000, China
Interests: automation control; reinforcement learning; intelligent control; cyber-physical systems

Name: Dr. Dong Zhang
Website: http://ags.ac.cn/new/rencdw/rencdw_kyry/kyry_fyjy/202405/t20240528_8648.html
Affiliation: Institute of Grain Quality and Nutrition, Academy of National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, Beijing 100037, China
Interests: rice; vegetable oil; oil and fat; protein; lipid; volatile compound; lipidomics; roasting

Name: Dr. Hamidreza Mahdavi
Website:
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/hamidreza-mahdavi
Affiliation: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
Interests: membrane science and advanced separations; porous liquids and hybrid materials; circular economy and resource recovery; water security and treatment technologies; gas separation and treatment; simulation and analysis of separation systems

Name: Dr. Gang Li
Website: https://www.swpu.edu.cn/jdy/info/2305/31440.htm
Affiliation: School of Mechatronic Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Interests: system dynamics; computational fluid dynamics; structural fatigue; optimization design; intelligent fault diagnosis; machine vision; data mining

Name: Dr. Liu Bai
Website: http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/liubai
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Interests: predictability; sustainable energy; AI+energy; AI+materials

Name: Dr. António Benjamim Mapossa
Website: https://live-ucalgary.ucalgary.ca/labs/polymer-nanotechnology/members/phds-masters-and-pdfs/benjamim-mapossa
Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: materials science and technologies; polymer nanocomposites; polymer blends; polymer processing; nanomagnetic materials; nanomaterials; extrusion, injection molding; water and wastewater treatment; biodiesel; materials characterization; photocatalysis; plastic circular economy; green chemistry

Name: Dr. Hafida Wahia
Website: https://spswxy.ujs.edu.cn/info/1251/69756.htm
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=nkZEaU0AAAAJ&hl=en
Affiliation: School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: food safety; food microbiology; food science; ultrasound; UV light; non-thermal technologies; odor and flavor fingerprinting; bioactive compounds; hurdle technologies; combined treatments; spore germination; inactivation mechanisms; predictive modeling; stress/repair mechanisms; oxidative stress; microbial inactivation kinetics; experimental design; multivariate data analysis

Name: Dr. Dejun Yang
Website: https://cesi.cumt.edu.cn/info/1133/11482.htm
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: green chemistry; soil pollution control; green mining processes

Name: Dr. Chenyu Wu
Website: https://jszy.hhu.edu.cn/wcy1/
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Interests: distributed optimization theory; differential games; optimal control; electricity market design; multi-energy systems; frequency regulation

Name: Dr. Chao Chen
Website: http://cl.tyut.edu.cn/info/1093/1996.htm
Affiliation: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
Interests: steelmaking; CFD; water models; mixing; ladle; tundish; continuous casting; inclusions; solidification; secondary refining; computational fluid dynamics; steel; melting; particles; inclusion; fluid; numerical model; modeling

Name: Dr. Chenghao Sun
Website: https://eae.njnu.edu.cn/info/1051/2604.htm
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: aviation and marine electrical machine systems; fault diagnosis of electrical machines; SOX estimation of lithium-ion batteries

Name: Dr. Biswarup Mondal
Website: https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/person/135924/1331868
Affiliation: Process Synthesis and Process Dynamics Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Interests: sustainable process engineering; process intensification; process modeling and simulation; multi-objective optimization; techno-economic analysis; life cycle assessment; carbon capture and utilization; power-to-methanol; industrial decarbonization strategy; carbon-neutral process design; energy systems modeling and management; algal biorefinery; biofuels; desalination; pyrolysis; circular economy; artificial intelligence and machine learning for process system engineering; separation technology; distillation; solar thermal energy

Name: Dr. Everton Morais
Website: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5717083582725620
Affiliation: Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Lavras, University Campus, P.O. Box 3037, Lavras 37203-202, MG, Brazil
Interests: fertilizer synthesis; soil chemistry; sustainable chemical processes; soil fertility; plant nutrition; plant physiology; abiotic stress; biofortification; selenium; iodine

Name: Dr. Guangxian Wang
Website: https://spxy.nxu.edu.cn/info/1101/3140.htm
Affiliation: School of Food Science and Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Interests: food quality and safety analysis; rapid detection of food contaminants; biosensors and intelligent sensing platforms; functional nucleic acid aptamer screening and applications; nanointerface materials; field-effect transistor biosensors; dual-mode biosensors; medicinal and edible homologous component identification and analysis; food flavor evaluation; smart detection equipment development

Name: Dr. Darina Dupláková
Website: https://scholar.google.sk/citations?user=_Jz_PcQAAAAJ&hl=sk
Affiliation: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with a seat in Prešov, Technical University of KoŠice, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
Interests: rationalization of production processes; industrial, occupational, and environmental ergonomics in manufacturing, cognitive ergonomics; human–robot interaction; ergonomic rationalization

Name: Prof. Dr. Changfang Zhao
Website: http://faculty.hfut.edu.cn/ChangfangZhao/en/index.htm
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Interestsfiber-reinforced composite materials; polymer composites; mechanical metamaterials; auxetic structures; thin-walled structures; mechanics of materials; constitutive models of materials; impact behavior of structures or materials; energy absorption; crushing behavior; crack propagation; finite element simulation

Name: Dr. Dongxu Ouyang
Website: https://cces.njtech.edu.cn/info/1024/4314.htm
Affiliation: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
Interests: lithium-ion battery; process safety; electrolyte; thermal runaway warning; thermal management

Name: Dr. Harnimarta Deol
Website: https://anslyn.cm.utexas.edu/AnslynWebsite/GroupProfiles/harnimarta.html
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Interests: peptide chemistry; polymer chemistry; chemosensing; photocatalysis; supramolecular chemistry

Name: Dr. Palash Kumar Bhowmik
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3571-7805
Affiliation: 1 Department of Reactor System and Heat Transport, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID-83415, USA; 2 Adjunct Faculty, Nuclear Engineering, University of Idaho, 1776 Science Center Dr, Suite 306, Idaho Falls, ID 83402, USA; 3 Adjunct Faculty, Nuclear Engineering, Idaho State University, 1776 Science Center Dr, Suite 306, Idaho Falls, ID 83402, USA
Interests: industrial process; hydrodynamics; modeling and simulation; experiments; flow dynamics

Name: Dr. Kun Yu
Website: https://cese.cumt.edu.cn/en/info/1053/1122.htm
Affiliation: Department of New Energy Science & Technology, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: shale gas; geothermal energy; coalbed methane

Name: Dr. Mohd Lokman Ibrahim
Website: https://sites.google.com/uitm.edu.my/lokman-researchgroup/home
Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Environment, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor, Malaysia
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; ammonia cracking for hydrogen production (NH₃ → H₂); hydrogen production and purification technologies; catalyst design and synthesis; photocatalysis; renewable energy

Name: Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Selles
Website: https://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/miselcan
Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Tecnología de los Materiales, Universitat Politècnica de València, 03801 Alcoy, Spain
Interests: advanced processing and characterization of sustainable polymeric materials; tribology and surface engineering; artificial intelligence applied to materials and manufacturing science; computational modeling of mechanical behavior in manufacturing processes

Name: Dr. Kang Li
Website: https://www.cup.edu.cn/cupai/szdw/jsml/7e060c8894dd4bd98abe253fa30dfd31.htm
Affiliation: College of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
Interests: fault diagnosis; process control; artificial intelligence; machine learning

Name: Dr. Ng Ching Yin
Website: https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/assistant-professor-dr-ng-ching-yin
Affiliation: Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UCSI University, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia
Interests: membrane separation; food processing; extraction of value-added products from waste; wastewater treatment; aquaculture

Name: Dr. Wenhao He
Website: https://www.cup.edu.cn/science/szdw/wlx1/698d07da030f40ac89e1f752788db647.htm
Affiliation: Department of Physics, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China
Interests: molecular dynamics simulation; microscopic mechanisms of carbon capture and storage; efficient rock-breaking methods

Name: Dr. Srinivasulu Cherukupalli
Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/srinivasulu.cherukupalli
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: organic synthesis; drug discovery; molecular docking; medicinal chemistry

Name: Dr. Xingyuan Liang
Website: https://faculty.cup.edu.cn/liangxingyuancup/
Affiliation: Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
Interests: gas lift; multiphase flow in wellbores; plunger lift; imbibition

Name: Dr. Zhenzhi Wang
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1897-1310
Affiliation: School of Resources and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
Interests: coalbed methane geology; carbon dioxide geological storage; gas injected for enhanced coalbed methane recovery

Name: Dr. Antonios Stamopoulos
Website: https://www.ing.univaq.it/personale/scheda_personale.php?codice=652
Affiliation: Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: mechanical processes; composite materials; non-destructive evaluation; mechanical characterization; adhesive bonding; surface treatment and coatings; aging and degradation; finite element modeling

Name: Prof. Dr. Jiantao Shi
Website: https://eecs.njtech.edu.cn/info/1129/5113.htm
Affiliation: College of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
Interests: fault diagnosis; fault-tolerant control; operation and maintenance decision making; distributed cooperative control; unmanned systems and intelligent robots

Name: Dr. Guangrong Chen
Website: http://faculty.bjtu.edu.cn/9303/
Affiliation: Robotics Research Center, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: robot technology; artificial intelligence; large models; embodied intelligence; reinforcement learning; bionic mechanisms; intelligent control; cross-medium drones

29 April 2026
Processes Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced


Dear colleagues, 

As the Editor-in-Chief of Processes (ISSN: 2227-9717), I am pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 Young Investigator Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Haoshui Yu, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Dr. Yu was selected in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in the field of chemical and energy process systems engineering, especially his pioneering work on green transition methodologies for sustainable energy systems, waste heat recovery, carbon capture, and advanced energy storage technologies. As the awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000 and an electronic certificate.

The award was evaluated based on the applicants’ track record of producing groundbreaking research and their significant contribution to the advancement of their research field. Given the high quality of the applications, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a wide and fascinating range of research topics.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on this accomplishment.

Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto
Editor-in-Chief of Processes
On behalf of the Processes 2025 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

24 April 2026
Processes Webinar | Is Microkinetic Modeling the New Standard in Reaction Engineering? 6 May 2026


A welcome message from the webinar Chair:

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this Processes webinar entitled “Is Microkinetic Modeling the New Standard in Reaction Engineering?”.

For decades, catalytic kinetics has often been described using empirical or semi-empirical rate expressions. Although these approaches remain useful for reactor design and process optimization, they provide limited insight into the molecular-level events that ultimately control activity, selectivity, and stability. Microkinetic modeling represents a profound shift: instead of assuming the rate-determining steps or the most abundant surface intermediates, it builds kinetics from elementary surface reactions, enforcing stoichiometric and thermodynamic consistency.

At its core, microkinetic modeling aims to bridge scales—from electronic structure and adsorption energetics to reactor performance. By integrating reaction networks, surface coverages, scaling relations, and increasingly data-driven or machine learning-based tools, MKM allows us to move from describing kinetics to predicting catalytic behavior. In this sense, it is not merely a modeling tool but a framework for rational catalyst design.

However, with this development comes challenges. The construction of reaction networks requires a careful balance between completeness and tractability. The choice of energetics, approximations such as mean-field treatments, uncertainty quantification, and transferability across catalysts and conditions remain active research questions. As highlighted in the recent literature, issues of stiffness, computational cost, and even the need for surrogate models continue to shape the field’s evolution. At the same time, scaling relations and sensitivity analyses reveal both the opportunities and intrinsic limitations imposed by thermodynamics and kinetics.

So, we may ask the following: Is microkinetic modeling simply a more detailed description of known kinetics? Or is it becoming an essential, predictive tool for the next generation of catalytic processes?

Today’s speakers bring complementary perspectives—from the fundamental kinetic modeling of catalytic reactions to state- and site-specific microkinetic frameworks, to applications in CO₂ and nitrogen reduction. Together, they illustrate both the maturity of the methodology and the open questions that still drive research in this area.

I hope this webinar will stimulate discussion on the true potential of microkinetic modeling: its power, its limitations, and its role in shaping the future of reaction engineering.

Date: 6 May 2026 at 02:00 p.m. CEST | 8:00 a.m. EDT | 8:00 p.m. CST Asia
Landing Page: https://sciforum.net/event/Processes-22?subscribe

Register now for free!

Program:

Speaker Presentation Title Time in CEST Time in EDT Time in CST Asia
MDPI Speaker - Elena-Catalina Marin Processes and Webinar introduction 2:00–2:05 p.m. 8:00–8:05 a.m. 8:00–8:05 p.m.
Prof. Sébastien Leveneur Chair Introduction 2:05–2:10 p.m. 8:05–8:10 a.m. 8:05–8:10 p.m.
Prof. Dionisios G. Vlachos State and Site-Specific Microkinetic Models 2:10–2:40 p.m. 8:10–8:40 a.m. 8:10–8:40 p.m.
Prof. Dmitry Yu. Murzin Kinetic Modelling of Catalytic Reactions Over Zeolites: New Twists and Turns 2:40–3:10 p.m. 8:40–9:10 a.m. 8:40–9:10 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar Micro-kinetics of Catalytic CO2 and Nitrogen Reduction Reactions Towards E-chemicals 3:10–3:50 p.m. 9:10–9:50 a.m. 9:10–9:50 p.m.
Q&A Session 3:50–4:05 p.m. 9:50–10:05 a.m. 9:50–10:05 p.m.
MDPI Speaker - Elena-Catalina Marin Processes Journal Report 4:05–4:10 p.m. 10:05–10:10 a.m. 10:05–10:10 p.m.
Prof. Sébastien Leveneur Closing of Webinar 4:10–4:15 p.m. 10:10–10:15 a.m. 10:10–10:15 p.m.

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Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Sébastien Leveneur, Lyon 1 University, Villeurbanne, France;
  • Professor Dmitry Yu. Murzin, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland;
  • Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
  • Professor Dionisios G. Vlachos, University of Delaware, Newark, USA.

Relevant Special Issue:
Preparation, Characterization and Application of Heterogeneous Catalysts
Guest Editor: Wladimir Reschetilowski
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026

24 April 2026
Prof. Dr. William Gerwick Appointed Chair of the 2026 Tu Youyou Award Committee

We are honored to announce that Prof. Dr. William Gerwick will serve as the Chair of the 2026 Tu Youyou Award Committee.

A world-renowned authority in marine natural products chemistry and pharmacology, Professor Gerwick is a Distinguished Professor at both the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His pioneering work at the intersection of ocean sciences and drug discovery makes him a fitting leader for an award centered on transformative medicinal breakthroughs.

Under Professor Gerwick’s stewardship, the 2026 Tu Youyou Award Committee will focus on recognizing innovative and impactful research in natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry, particularly work with the potential to drive meaningful advances in both scientific understanding and human health.

To provide further insight into his perspectives, we include below an interview with Professor Gerwick, in which he reflects on his scientific journey, his views on the field, and his vision for the Tu Youyou Award.

A Conversation with the Chair


1. Could you please introduce yourself and your research journey?

My research focuses on the natural products of marine algae and cyanobacteria, their application in medicine, their biosynthesis using genomic approaches, and innovative methods in the structure elucidation of natural products.

I received my BS degree from the University of California at Davis, my PhD from the University of California at San Diego, and conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Connecticut. After a couple of years in a junior faculty position at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, I spent 21 years as Professor of Pharmacy at Oregon State University. In 2005, I returned to my PhD institution at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, where I am currently a Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Throughout my career, I have been dedicated to advancing the field through both leadership and mentorship. I have served as president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, chaired and co-chaired several major research conferences, and served as an associate editor for the Journal of Natural Products. I am a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the American Society of Pharmacognosy. I have trained over 100 doctoral and postdoctoral students, and my research group has published nearly 500 papers and more than 25 patents on topics in the natural product sciences and medicinal chemistry.

2. What motivated you to accept the role of Chair of the 2026 Tu Youyou Award Committee?

Of course, I am a huge supporter of all awards that are given in recognition of excellent scientific research, and especially so in the natural products sciences and medicinal chemistry. However, this award is truly special in that it recognizes scientific excellence as well as impact, and is given in the name of an individual, Tu Youyou, who clearly had many challenges along the path to reach the pinnacle of her success. Not only was she the first Chinese person to win a Nobel prize in this area, but she was also the first Chinese woman to receive a Nobel prize, and this was achieved without graduate education in China or elsewhere. It’s a true testament to what can be achieved by hard work, determination, and vision. To read the history of her extraordinary approach to discovering novel antimalarial compounds from Traditional Chinese Medicine is truly inspirational. It is, therefore, the inspiration provided by the extraordinary life and career of Tu Youyou that motivated me to accept the Chair of the Award Committee for 2026.

3. How do you view the role of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry in today’s scientific landscape, and what major advances over the past decade have shaped this field?

A quite remarkable integration of fields is currently transforming natural products science and medicinal chemistry. In natural products, we are seeing integration of different omics methods, from metabolites to proteins to nucleic acids. Sophisticated biological and pharmacological approaches are driving the discovery of exquisitely potent and selective natural products. Advances are being made to integrate molecular-level recognition of natural products with chemical ecological studies, and sophisticated methods of structure determination using Artificial Intelligence or pioneering new tools such as microED are being applied with increasing frequency. High-level synthetic methodologies, such as protecting group-free synthetic routes, are enhancing medicinal chemistry, accelerating the identification of lead molecules with attractive pharmaceutical properties at an increasing pace.

4. How do you consider the balance between fundamental discovery (e.g., new molecules or mechanisms) and practical impact (e.g., therapeutic applications)?

Many individuals are excellent scientists and mentors, and have essential roles in developing our culture that values science and the scientific method. It should also be pointed out that not all scientific discoveries are going to have a broad societal impact, but they are nevertheless critical to the overall body and structure of science. But it is a truly remarkable individual who makes a key scientific discovery, recognizes its potential value to society in general, and then has the skills and determination to bring it forward as a useful product. That was the type of person the Tu Youyou is, and that is the type of person who is honored by the prize in her name.

5. What do you see as the key challenges or opportunities currently facing the field?

We are on the crux of an amazing revolution in many of the sciences, including natural products and medicinal chemistry; the purposeful application of Artificial Intelligence to solving many of the difficulties involved in the search for new pharmaceuticals from Nature. AI is transforming how we select organisms for study, what pharmaceutical targets to go after, rapidly resolving the chemical structures of new compounds, identifying efficient routes to their chemical synthesis, understanding their molecular mechanisms of action, and finally, designing their clinical application. The role of people in these pursuits is changing. Increasingly, the human role will be providing overall vision: what can we do? What should we do? And it is important to remember that AI is providing hypotheses, not truth. Scientists with expert domain knowledge will be critical for discerning the correctness of hypotheses put forth by AI. Altogether, advances in technology, expanding knowledge, and the appropriate use of AI methods are preparing society to be able to address emerging diseases, such as pandemics, as well as conditions that are not effectively treated by currently existing therapeutics.

6. How do you expect the Tu Youyou Award to contribute to the advancement of natural product chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and human health over the coming years?

The Tu Youyou Award is potentially transformative for the broad fields of natural products science and medicinal chemistry as it brings a significantly increased level of visibility to these topics and their contributions to human health. It will be crucial to have excellent communication to news agencies, social media and other communication outlets so that the general public is informed and educated on the high impact of these natural product/medicinal chemistry contributions. This will bring increased funding, attract promising students, and generally enrich the interface of these fields with the health sector.

7. What message would you like to convey to the research community and the public during this open nomination phase?

This prize gives broad societal visibility to the role that natural products have had in shaping a majority of our current medicines, as well as understanding the life forms with whom we share the planet. Further, it recognizes a woman scientist working under sub-optimal conditions who could persevere and make discoveries of global impact. The prize and what it represents, therefore, inspires current and future generations to engage in the study of Nature and its relationship to Human Health, to overcome adversity, and to aspire to making one’s life impactful.

About the Tu Youyou Award

Established in 2016, the Tu Youyou Award seeks to honor those who excel in the fields of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry. This award offers a total prize of CHF 100,000, which will be equally divided among the winners if there is more than one, with each recipient receiving an award medal and a certificate.

The 2026 Tu Youyou Award is open for nominations until 31 October 2026. We encourage all eligible candidates to participate in this prestigious recognition, as this award not only honors individual achievement but also encourages further scientific exchange, exploration and discovery in critical areas of medicine.

If you are interested in participating, please visit the Tu Youyou Award website for more information on the nomination requirements.

17 April 2026
Processes Outstanding Reviewer Award—Winners Announced


We are pleased to announce the winners of the Processes 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Editorial Board and editorial team of Processes (ISSN: 2227-9717) would also like to sincerely acknowledge the time and dedication of all reviewers who have contributed to the evaluation of submitted manuscripts. It is through their invaluable efforts that the journal maintains its high quality and efficient review process. 

Winners:

  • György Szabados, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary;
  • George D. Verros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
  • Nick Sweygers, KU Leuven, Belgium;
  • Ling Qin, University of Wyoming, USA;
  • Qiangqiang Ren, Nanjing Normal University, China. 

Prize:

  • CHF 500;
  • An electronic certificate. 

We warmly congratulate the award recipients and wish them continued success in their research careers.

Processes Editorial Office

16 April 2026
Processes Webinar | Synthesis and Application of Nanomaterials II, 20 April 2026


Over the past few decades, many fields of science and technology have been revolutionized by the introduction of nanomaterials and new approaches to the creation of nanostructures. These new materials can have entirely unique or improved electronic, chemical, magnetic, catalytic, mechanical, or biological properties, different from bulk forms of the material. Nanomaterials range from nanoparticles of various shapes and compositions to nanostructured films, coatings, and nanoporous bulk materials. Chemical, physical, or biological methods can be used to produce nanomaterials, ranging from precise top–down methods such as nanolithography to bottom–up methods, including self–assembly, and thermal, chemical, and electrochemical processes can all result in the formation of nanomaterials. Additionally, the family of nanomaterials comprises a wide range of materials based on various forms of carbon, silicon, metals or alloys, and polymers. These materials are contributing to revolutionary advances in the fields of medicine, energy, chemical and biological sensing, agriculture, catalysis, and many others. In this webinar, three speakers will cover a selection of topics in nanomaterials research and applications.

Date: 20 April 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT | 4:00 p.m. CEST
Webinar ID: 874 7816 7062

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Speaker/Presentation Time in EDT Time in CEST
MDPI Host
Processes and Webinar introduction
10:00–10:05 a.m. 4:00–4:05 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Keith J. Stine
Chair Introduction
10:05–10:10 a.m. 4:05–4:10 p.m.
Dr. Mattia Bartoli
Carbon Dots Conundrum: A Chemical Perspective
10:10–10:30 a.m. 4:10–4:30 p.m.
Dr. Karen Esquivel Escalante
Nanomaterials in Modern Agriculture: Enhancing Productivity While Addressing Environmental and Health Risks
10:30–10:50 a.m. 4:30–4:50 p.m.
Dr. Gregorio Guadalupe Carbajal Arízaga
Layered double hydroxides as MRI contrast agent and platform for therapy
10:50–11:10 a.m. 4:50–5:10 p.m.
MDPI Host
Processes Journal report
11:10–11:20 a.m. 5:10–5:20 p.m.
Q&A Session 11:20–11:35 a.m. 5:20–5:35 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Keith J. Stine
Closing of Webinar
11:35–11:40 a.m. 5:35–5:40 p.m.

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Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Keith J. Stine, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri – Saint Louis, USA;
  • Dr. Mattia Bartoli, Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Polytechnic University of Turin and Italian Institute of Technology, Italy;
  • Dr. Karen Esquivel Escalante, Graduate and Research Division, Engineering Faculty, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico;
  • Dr. Gregorio Guadalupe Carbajal–Arizaga, Chemistry Department, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Related Special Issue:

Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Keith J. Stine

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16 April 2026
MDPI’s Newly Launched Journals in the First Quarter of 2026


Our portfolio of journals available for publishing up-to-date research in immediate open access format has been further expanded. In the first quarter of 2026, nine new journals released their inaugural issues and three transferred journals released their first issue as part of MDPI, covering the subjects of clinical medicine, chemistry, computer science & mathematics, engineering, environment & ecology, and social sciences & psychology.

We extend our gratitude to the Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board Members who will shape the future course of these brand-new journals. Each journal is dedicated to upholding strong editorial standards through a thorough peer review process, ensuring impactful open access scholarship.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

New Journals

Founding Editor(s)-in-Chief

Journal Topics (Selected)

Prof. Dr. Matt Oehlschlaeger,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Editorial | view inaugural issue

AI-based chemical data analysis, prediction, and discovery; AI-enabled chemical reaction prediction, synthesis planning, and retrosynthesis; AI in bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology; digital twins and simulation of chemical processes; AI-powered chemical education and pedagogy |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Guang Jia,
Peking University, China
Editorial | view inaugural issue

occupational hazards and exposure science; occupational health effects and susceptibility; occupational risk assessment and management; occupational health intervention, promotion, and policy |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Miani,
Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), Italy
University of Milan, Italy
Prof. Dr. Jing Shang,
Peking University, China
Editorial | view inaugural issue

environmental exposures and health; the built environment and public health; One Health approach; environmental justice and health equity; environmental policies and interventions |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Miriam H. A. Bopp,
Marburg University, Germany
Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Germany
Prof. Dr. Christopher Nimsky,
Marburg University, Germany
Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Germany
Editorial | view inaugural issue

neuroimaging technology and tool; multimodal neuroimaging integration and analysis;
dynamic modeling of brain networks; neuroimaging big data and cloud computing; translational and preclinical neuroimaging |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Raul A. Urrutia,
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Editorial | view inaugural issue

personalized translational and clinical oncology research that contribute to a deeper understanding of cancer diagnoses, prognoses, prevention, and treatment specifically for individual patients |
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Prof. Dr. Pierre Boulanger,
University of Alberta, Canada
Editorial | view inaugural issue

AI in disease detection, diagnosis, prediction, and treatment; medical informatics; AI in genomics and precision medicine; AI in drug discovery and development;
AI in healthcare; intelligent devices and instruments |
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Prof. Dr. Zhaokui Wang,
Tsinghua University, China
Editorial | view inaugural issue

astrodynamics; spacecraft technology; satellite technology; space transportation; space vehicle design, propulsion, and avionics; space energy, power and propulsion |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Richard J Hauer,
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, USA
Editorial | view inaugural issue

park design, planning, and evaluation; park and art; park, industrialization, urbanization, and civilization; park and education; park and smart society; park role in SDGs;

park services for humans |
view journal scope | submit an article

Prof. Dr. Stacey L. Connaughton,
Purdue University, USA
Editorial | view inaugural issue

conflict resolution; peacebuilding; peacemaking; mediation, reconciliation, and transitional justice; sustaining peace |
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Transferred Journals

Editor(s)-in-Chief

Journal Topics (Selected)

Prof. Dr. Gianluigi Vendemiale,
University of Foggia, Italy
Editorial | view first issue

physiology and pathology of aging; biogerontology; epidemiology; clinical geriatrics; pharmacology; geriatric nursing |
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Prof. Dr. Michele Maffia,
University of Salento, Italy
Prof. Dr. Prisco Piscitelli,
Italian Society of Environmental Medicine, Italy
Editorial | view first issue

cellular and developmental biology; physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology; diagnostic tools, therapies and public health |
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Dr. Warren S. Joseph,
American Podiatric Medical Association, USA
Editorial | view first issue

foot and ankle medicine; podiatric medicine |
view journal scope | submit an article

We would like to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. If you would like to create a new journal, you are welcome to send an application here or contact the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com).

13 April 2026
Processes Webinar | Active/Bioactive Ingredient-Based Nanomedicines: From Design to In Vitro Evaluation in Advanced 2D/3D Disease Models, 15 April 2026


It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this webinar, “Active/Bioactive Ingredient-Based Nanomedicines: From Design to In Vitro Evaluation in Advanced 2D/3D Disease Models”.

We have three distinguished speakers—Dr. Goshal, Dr. Formiga and Dr. Romero—who will share recent advances. Their presentations will cover novel drug delivery systems developed through advanced nanofabrication techniques, the biophysical assessment of monoclonal antibody-conjugated nanoparticles for lung delivery, and the use of lipids from halophilic archaea as unique biomaterials for the design of innovative nanomedicines. Together, these contributions highlight the diversity and scientific depth of the field, ranging from nanomaterial design and fabrication to advanced strategies for targeted delivery and characterization, as well as from fundamental design principles to translational in vitro methodologies.

Dr. Morilla and I would like to thank MDPI for hosting this webinar, and Dr. Belinda Tang, Dr. Scarlett Tang, Dr. Udrea Elena, and all participants for joining us. We hope this session fosters meaningful scientific exchange, inspires new collaborations, and contributes to the continued advancement of active and bioactive nanomedicines.

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind participants that submissions to the Special Issue associated with this webinar are welcome. The deadline for manuscript submission is June 30, 2026, although some flexibility is possible.

Date: 15 April 2026
Time: 1:00–3:00 p.m. EDT | 7:00–9:00 p.m. CEST
Webinar ID: 863 7370 6084
Webinar Secretariat:journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Program:

Speaker/Presentation

Time in EDT

Time in CEST

Dr. Leticia Higa (Chair)
Chair Introduction

1:00–1:10 p.m.

7:00–7:10 p.m.

Dr. Kajal Ghosal
Novel Drug Delivery Systems through Different Nanofabrication Techniques

1:10–1:30 p.m.

7:10–7:30 p.m.

Q&A Session

1:30–1:40 p.m.

7:30–7:40 p.m.

Dr. Fabio Formiga
Biophysical Assessment of Monoclonal Antibody-Conjugated Nanoparticles for Lung Delivery

1:40–2:00 p.m.

7:40–8:00 p.m.

Q&A Session

2:00–2:10 p.m.

8:00–8:10 p.m.

Dr. Eder Lilia Romero
Lipids from Halophilic Archaea: Unique Biomaterials to Design Unique Nanomedicines

2:10–2:30 p.m.

8:10–8:30 p.m.

Q&A Session

2:30-2:40 p.m.

8:30-8:40 p.m.

Mr. Marko Todorovic
Processes Journal Report

2:40-2:55 p.m.

8:40-8:55 p.m.

Dr. Leticia Higa (Chair)
Closing of Webinar

2:55-3:00 p.m.

8:55-9:00 p.m.

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Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

  • Dr. Leticia Higa, Nanomedicine Research and Development Centre (NARD), Science and Technology Department, National University of Quilmes, Argentina;
  • Dr. Kajal Ghosal, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India;
  • Dr. Fabio Formiga, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil;
  • Dr. Eder Lilia Romero, Nanomedicine Research and Development Centre (NARD), Science and Technology Department, National University of Quilmes, Argentina.

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