PLENARY SPEAKERS

PROF. NEAL CHUNG TAI-SHUNG
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NTUST), TAIWAN

Prof. Neal Tai-Shung Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE dept of National University of Singapore in 2011-2021. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water, clear energy and pharmaceutic separation. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012. He received the Underwood Medal from IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK) for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was ranked as No. 6th in Chemical Engineering worldwide by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford University in both 2022 and 2023.

PROFESSOR DR. TAKESHI MATSUURA
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, CANADA

Professor Matsuura was born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1936. he received his b.sc. (1961) and m.sc. (1963) degrees from the department of applied chemistry at the faculty of engineering, university of tokyo. he went to germany to pursue his doctoral studies at the Institute of Chemical Technology of the Technical University of Berlin and received doktor-ingenieur in 1965.

After working at the Department of Synthetic Chemistry of University of Tokyo as a staff assistant and at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of California as a postdoctoral research associate, he joined the national research council of canada in 1969. He came to the University of Ottawa in 1992 as a professor and the Chairholder Of British (Consumers) Gas/ Nserc Industrial Research Chair. Currently, he is professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Director of the Industrial Membrane Research Institute (IMRI).

PROF. SANG YONG NAM
GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA

PROF. MOHAMED KHAYET
UNIVERSITY COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID, SPAIN