Shuiqing Li, Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084, China

Shuiqing Li is a professor in the department of Thermal Engineering at Tsinghua University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering Thermophysics from Zhejiang University. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds in 2004-2005, at the University of Iowa in 2006, at Princeton University in 2010-2011, and at Yale University in 2013 spring. Dr. Li is a recipient of the National Award for New Century Excellent Talents of China (2009) and the Tsinghua University Award for Young Talents on Fundamental Studies (2011). He shared a Chinese National Teaching Award on Combustion Theory. He served as a colloquium co-chair of solid fuel combustion in the 36th international symposium on combustion, and a secretary-of-general in the 8th international symposium on coal combustion. He has been awarded six fundamental grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and has authored more than 70 journal articles. 

M. Pinar Mengüç, Director, Center for Energy, Environment and Economy (CEEE), Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering Özyeğin University, Istanbul, 34794 Turkey

Professor Mengüç has completed his BS and M.S. degrees at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. He has received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, USA in 1985. He joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky the same year, and was promoted to the ranks of associate and full professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He was a visiting professor at the Universita degli Studi "Federico II," in Napoli, Italy in 1991, and at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University in Boston during 1998-1999. In 2006, he was recognized as an Honorary Professor at ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral'), Guayaquil, Ecuador. He served as the founding director of the Nano-Scale Engineering Certificate Program at the University of Kentucky, where in 2008, he was named as the Engineering Alumni Association Professor.  Mengüç has authored/coauthored more than 120 refereed journal articles and more than 170 conference papers, and two books. He has four assigned and three pending patents, and has guided more than 50 MS and Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Since early 2009, Mengüç is at Ozyegin University in Istanbul as the Founding Head of Mechanical Engineering Program and the Director of Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy. He has received the Knowledge Transfer Award and the Outstanding Researcher Award from Ozyegin University in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, and a Senior Member of Optical Society of America.

Benedicte Cuenot, Project Leader, CERFACS - CFD/Combustion, Toulouse, France

Dr B. Cuenot obtained her engineering and master degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1990. After one year as research engineer in the University of Boulder (CO, USA), she came back to France where she defended her PhD in 1995 and HdR in 2000, both in the field of numerical combustion. She is now the leader of the combustion research group at CERFACS, developping advanced and massively parallel softwares for the numerical simulation of turbulent combustion and heat transfer (including thermal radiation) in industrial systems. With these tools she addresses various topics such as pollutant emissions, ignition and extinction, combustion efficiency or thermal fatigue of combustion chambers. Dr. Cuenot teaches combustion and fluid mechanics in various universities and has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers. She has participated to many collaborative projects at the national and international level, and is much experienced in coordinating european projects, mostly financed by the European Commission where she also acts as an expert evaluator.

Christian Hasse, Chair, Numerical Thermo-Fluid Dynamics, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Chemical Process Engineering, University of Technology Freiberg, Germany

Christian Hasse is professor in the department of mechanical and chemical process engineering at the University of Technology Freiberg. He holds the chair of Numerical Thermo-Fluid Dynamics (www.ntfd.tu-freiberg.de) at which currently 18 PhD students and post-docs are working. He received his diploma in mechanical engineering in 1998 and his PhD in 2004 from RWTH Aachen University. After working for BMW in engine development of 5.5 years, he returned to academia in 2010. His research topics are focused on the modeling and simulation of reactive and non-reactive flows including Flamelet-modelling, turbulent mixing dynamics, multi-component sprays and evaporation, engine combustion, pollutant formation, population balance modelling and exhaust gas cleaning. Major fields of application are combustion and chemical process engineering. For these topics, a number of specialized software tools are available ranging from flexible 1D flame solvers to full 3D DNS codes. He has published more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He also is a reviewer for more than 20 scientific journals and several national and international funding agencies. 

Patricia Thornley, Professor, Director, SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub, Centre for Climate Change Research and School of MACE, University of Manchester, UK

Patricia Thornley has over 20 years experience working in industry and academia on renewable energy systems. She is director of the SUPERGEN Bioenergy hub with responsibility for coordinating a £12.8M portfolio of EPSRC funded research into bioenergy and strategically guiding its membership of over 30 academic and 20 industrial partners. Her research interests focus on sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems, evaluating the environmental, economic and social consequences of different implementation pathways and most of her work sits at the interface of the academic, policy and industrial communities. Patricia has given  advice on bioenergy policy to the Carbon Trust, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Department for Transport, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, MEP’s and NGO’s. She has undertaken many consultancies and projects for the Energy Technology Institutes, Department of Energy and Climate Change, TSB (S African sugar producers), Co-Operative Group, Drax Power, Government Office for Science, North East Process Industries Cluster, RES, British Council and Centre for Sustainable Energy.