Dr. Irene M.C. Lo

Prof. Irene M. C. Lo is currently a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Environmental Engineering and Management Program at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She has been joining HKUST since 1992. Prof. Lo is an elected Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She is the first Hong Kong scholar inducted into the EASA. She is an elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), and elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), She received her Ph.D. degree in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She is also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prof. Lo was the recipient of the 2004 ASCE James Croes Medal, the 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, the 2008 EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award, the 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. Prof. Lo has held 3 Patents, edited 7 technical books, and published over 270 SCI journal articles and conference papers with citation of 5650+ and H-index of 409. Her research areas include magnetic nano-particles and nano-photocatalysts for environmental applications; pollutant migration in soils; food waste and solid waste treatment and management; and remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater.

Topic of Keynote: Visible-Light-Driven Magnetic Nano-photocatalysts for the Degradation of Persistent Organic Pollutants

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Dr. Clas Persson

Clas Persson, male, physicists (http://folk.uio.no/clasp/). Graduated in materials science at Linköping University, Sweden in 1999. Postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado, USA, thereafter assistant professor 2004 at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2011, professor in Theoretical Material Physics at Department of Physics, University of Oslo in Norway and at the same time, since 2007, associate professor at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His research involves first-principles atomistic modeling of semiconductors for various clean energy technologies, and also code development for large program packages for analyzing material properties. He has over 200 publications as collaborative works together with more than 250 researchers at 90 research groups world-wide, and he has supervised twenty postdoctors and research students at his teams in Oslo and in Stockholm.

Topic of Keynote: Tailor-Making Chalcopyrite Alloys for 100-Nm Thin Solar Cells

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