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Biography
Professor Cyrille Costentin received his undergraduate education at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan and pursued his graduate studies at the University Paris Diderot (Paris 7), where he received his Ph.D. in 2000. He joined the faculty at the University of Paris Diderot as associate professor in 2001. He was promoted professor in 2007. His area of expertise includes mechanisms and reactivity in electron transfer chemistry with particular recent emphasis on electrochemical and theoretical approaches to proton-coupled electron transfer processes and catalytic processes for small molecule activation. He is an expert in molecular electrochemistry and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from 2016 to 2019 working with Prof. D. G. Nocera. In September 2019 he joined the Département de Chimie Moléculaire at the Université Grenoble-Alpes.

(i) Molecular Catalysis of Electrochemical Reactions.
(ii) Principles and Applications to Small Molecules Activation.

Prof. Cyrille Costentin
Université Grenoble Alpes
E-mail: cyrille.costentin@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Biography
Steve Tse received his PhD in theoretical chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Hans C. Andersen at Stanford University in 2011. During his PhD work, he focused on developing new theories and simulation tools, using statistical mechanics, for studying microscopic molecular motion in stochastic models of liquids with highly cooperative dynamics. After PhD, as a Croucher Fellow at the University of Chicago, he began his postdoctoral work with Prof. Gregory Voth and Prof. Thomas Witten to study the charge transport in both aqueous solutions as well as fuel cell membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. In particular, he developed new reactive multiscale models to understand proton/hydroxide transport. In 2015 Oct, he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as Assistant Professor. Since the start of Tse research group at CUHK Chemistry Department, his team has been studying different interfacial systems including air-water and fluid-fluid/solid interfaces. A major theme of the research has been to understand the thermodynamics and the dynamics of these systems and the relationships between the two. Recently, he has started a collaboration to understand the chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of asymmetric organic reactions. He has been recently promoted as Associate Professor.

Co-ion Effects in Fuel Cell Membranes

Prof. Ying-Lung Steve Tse
Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
E-mail: stevetse@cuhk.edu.hk

Biography

Dr. Haibin Su is currently an associate professor in Department of Chemistry at HKUST since 2018. He received Ph.D. degree from Stony Brook University, while performing his thesis projects at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Then he had a 3-year stint as a postdoc at Caltech prior to starting his independent career in Singapore from 2005 to 2018. His research interest includes development and application of theoretical and computational materials science: i.e., quantum-mechanical and classical simulations and modeling of the electronic, structural, energetical, and dynamical properties of functional materials at nanometer scales.

Developing Better Electrochemical Catalysts

Prof. Haibin Su
Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
E-mail: haibinsu@ust.hk

Biography
Cédric Tard is currently a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Fance). He obtained BSc from the University Paris Saclay (France) and PhD from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).

Electrocatalytic Films: from Nanodiffusion to Functional Electrocatalysts

Prof. Cédric Tard
Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
E-mail: cedric.tard@polytechnique.edu

Biography
Dr. Dong-Keun Ki received PhD from POSTECH, Korea in 2010, and is currently appointed as an Assistant Professor in The University of Hong Kong (HKU) since 2018. Before joining the HKU, he has worked as a Senior Research Associate in the University of Geneva in Switzerland with Prof. Alberto Morpurgo. He focuses on understanding quantum transport properties of various types of low-dimensional nanostructures, including graphene and 2D materials. He has published several high-impact papers in Nat. Phys., Nat. Comm., PRL, and Science.

Experimental Studies on Electron Scattering in Graphene

Prof. Dong-Keun Ki
Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
E-mail: dkki@hku.hk

Biography
Dr. Herlin-Boime received her Ph.D. at University Paris sud in 1990 on investigating the growth mechanism of silicon carbide in a chemical vapor deposition reactor by using in situ Raman spectroscopy. In the same year, she joined the Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA) as a research scientist. During the past years she developed the laser pyrolysis method to improve its versatility towards i) various chemical composition including out of equilibrium phases, ii) push the limits of methods towards the synthesis of smaller nanoparticles (less than 10 nm diameter), iii) develop a two stages reactor for the one step synthesis of core@shell nanoparticles. Her interest mainly concerns the nanoparticles with applications in the field of energy and environmental sciences.

Gas Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles of Interest in Electrochemical Devices

Prof. Nathalie Herlin Boime
Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay
Email: nathalie.herlin@cea.fr

Biography
Professor Sylvain Franger is currently a professor at Paris-Saclay University (France). Pr Franger obtained BSc and PhD from Sorbonne University (France). He is expert in batteries for the European Commission and different governmental agencies. He is a guest editor for the journals “Batteries” from MDPI and “Battery electrochemistry” from Frontiers. He wrote 70 papers and filled 9 patents, related to electrochemical systems for sustainable energy.

Impedance Spectroscopy for the Study of Electrochemical Power Sources

Prof. Sylvain Franger
ICMMO/ERIEE (UMR CNRS 8182), Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
E-mail: sylvain.franger@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Biography

Professor Zhengxiao Guo is currently a professor at Department of Chemistry, HKU. He was a professor of Chemistry at University College London (2007-2018), a professor (2000-2007), reader (2019-2000) and lecturer (1995-1999) at Queen Mary, University of London, a postdoctorial fellow at University of Oxford (1990-1995) and University of Strathclyde (1988-1990), respectively. He obtained PhD (1988) and BEng (1983) from the University of Manchester and Northeastern University (China), respectively. He is an elected Member of Academea Europaea (MEA) and received the Beilby Medal and Prize from the Society for Chemical Industry, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Minerals, Metals and Materials, amongst various other recognitions.

Low-Dimension Nanomaterials for Renewable Resourcification

Prof. Zhengxiao Guo
The University of Hong Kong
E-mail: zxguo@hku.hk

Biography
Dr. Sam H. Y. Hsu obtained his PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Kirk S. SCHANZE at University of Florida with focusing on photophysical behaviors of functional metallopolymer materials for solar energy and optoelectronic applications. After that, he received the two-year postdoctoral and research associate’s appointments respectively with Prof. Allen J. BARD and Prof. Edward T. YU in Center for Electrochemistry as well as Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Austin. During the period of his postdoc and research associate, he completed many outstanding multidisciplinary projects. The area of his expertise stretches from material design to new related disciplines involving material characterization and diverse applications, such as solar fuels, organic and inorganic photovoltaic cells, wastewater treatment and food waste management.

Photophysics and Photoelectrochemistry of Hybrid Materials for Emerging Energy Materials

Prof. Sam Hsien-Yi Hsu
City University of Hong Kong
E-mail: sam.hyhsu@cityu.edu.hk

Biography
Jianfang Wang obtained his BS degree in inorganic chemistry and software design in 1993 from the University of Science and Technology of China, his MS degree in inorganic chemistry in 1996 from Peking University, and his PhD degree in physical chemistry in 2002 from Harvard University. He did postdoctoral study in the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2002 to 2005. He then joined the Department of Physics of The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in 2005, becoming an associate professor in 2011 and a full professor in 2015 there. His current research interests include colloidal metal nanocrystals, nanoplasmonics, nanophotonics, photocatalysis, and dielectric nanostructures. He has published ~260 papers with a total number of citations ~29740 and an h-index 81 (Web of Science). He served as the Assistant Dean (Education) of Faculty of Science of CUHK from August 2015 to July 2021. He has been the Chairperson of the Department of Physics of CUHK since August 2021.

Plasmon-Driven Nitrogen Fixation

Prof. Jianfang Wang
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR
E-mail: jfwang@phy.cuhk.edu.hk

Biography
Dr. Zhu Xunjin is currently a Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. Zhu obtained his PhD degree in 2006 at the Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, and worked as post-doctoral fellow from 2006 to 2010 at the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Institute of Technology, next, started his academic career as Research Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor from 2010 to 2019 at the Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University. His current research interests focus on the design and synthesis of porphyrin materials for various green technologies, ranging from organic solar cells, artificial photosynthesis, to electrocatalysis.

Porphyrin Small Molecules for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

Prof. Xunjin Zhu
Department of Chemistry and Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University
E-mail: xjzhu@hkbu.edu.hk

$Biography Dr. Samuel Tardif received his Ph.D. in Nanophysics from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble in 2011, followed by work as a postdoctoral fellow successively at the SPring-8 and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) synchrotrons. Since then, he is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Grenoble (CEA), working also on the French beamline “InterFace” (BM32) at the ESRF. His expertise is in the development of synchrotron radiation experiments based on X-ray diffraction to study crystalline phases and mechanical strain, including in operando conditions. Currently, Dr. Tardif is affiliated with Université Grenoble Alpes as well as leads a Nanostructures and Synchrotron Radiation group in the large-scale facility at CEA/DRF/IRIG/DEPHY/MEM/NRS for operando study of electrochemical devices.$

Small and Wide Angle Scattering for Nanostructured Group-IV Materials in LiB

Prof. Samuel Tardif & Prof. Sandrine Lyonnard
CEA-Université Grenoble Alpes
E-mail: Samuel.TARDIF@cea.fr