BIO of Florian Kongoli

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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc.,(www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute
incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries.
Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers.
Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries.
Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has managed, involved, or actively participated in about 200 projects, 40 types of reactors, 10 industries, in 45 countries and in 6 continents. Dr. Kongoli has published 113 books and more than 200 scientific articles. He has delivered in numerous countries around the world about 220 plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations and in many Professional Award Councils such as the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals.
He is an elected Honorary Member of the Lorraine Academy of Sciences and Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded in 2017 the title "The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017" by CEO-Monthly UK magazine. He was awarded Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his contribution toward sustainable development through FLOGEN Sustainability Framework by Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic)/Faculty of Applied Informatics. He is honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro and Laureate of Gold Medal of the City of Nancy, France. In 2022 he was honored by the Congressman elect of Rio de Janeiro State, Alan Lopes, who will propose to the State Congress to adopt FLOGEN Sustainability Framework developed by Dr. Florian Kongoli in the state law for evaluating any proposed public or private project in the state. Also, in 2022 he was invited to give the Opening Sustainability Plenary Lecture at the United Nation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 February 2022 about FLOGEN Sustainability Framework at the International Year of Glass 2022.
He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Ministers and other government officials.
A more detailed biography can be found at: http://www.flogen.com/elt/pdf/Kongoli_Short-CV.pdf

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BIO of Katerina Aifantis

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Katerina E. Aifantis began her research with US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and obtained her Master's from the University of Cambridge and her PhD from the University of Groningen at the age of 21, becoming the youngest PhD holder in the history of The Netherlands. In 2008, she became the youngest recipient (at 24) of the European Research Council Grant to set up her on lab at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for studying nanomaterials and their applications in energy and biology. In 2013 she joined the University of Arizona as an associate professor and in 2017 she moved to the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Florida. Through funding from the Basic Energy Sciences Office of the Department of Energy she tries to understand the effect of interfaces in materials behavior. In addition to basic science questions, she uses her theoretical and experimental insight into the materials mechanical behavior to predict the most promising materials systems that can be used in various applications, ranging from next generation electrodes for Li-ion batteries, to bone regeneration scaffolds and bioacompatible electrodes for deep brain stimulation.

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BIO of Claudio Capiglia

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Claudio Capiglia, PhD (Dr Eng.), specialises in lithium-ion batteries, with twenty-five years of research and executive management experience in the battery industry in Japan. He focuses on the research & development, manufacturing, applications and commercialisation of lithium-ion battery systems and advanced materials.
He received a Doctor of Chemistry (Physical Chemistry) from Pavia University in Italy and a Doctor of Engineering from Mie University in Japan.
Since April 2021, he has been the Senior Vice President – Head of Battery Manufacturing at Reliance Industries in Mumbai (India).
Before joining Reliance, Director of Battery Technologies at Talga Group (Australia), he led battery materials research & development, production, and commercialisation and established Europe’s first anode manufacturing plant. Senior Technical Advisor at Electra Vehicles (USA), Head of Battery Program at Recruit R&D (Japan), he was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of one of the first Lithium-ion cell manufacturers in Europe. In addition, he has proposed and developed Silicon Oxide-Graphitic based anode materials in Japan. Introduced the concept, produced the first solid-state battery prototype for Toyota Motor Corporation, and the gel polymer electrolytes used for the first worldwide mass production of lithium-ion polymer batteries.
He has been awarded the position of Honorary Professor at Deakin University. Visiting Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology at an earlier time. Professor & Battery Group Leader at the Italian Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin. In the Executive Program of Cooperation in Science and Technology between the Government of Italy and Japan, he was awarded project coordinator for Japan under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

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BIO of Rachid Yazami

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Professor Rachid Yazami is the recipient of the 2014 Draper Prize of the National academy of Engineering, considered as the Nobel Prize of Engineering. He served the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor in Energy at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He also was appointed the Program Director in the Energy Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the TUM‐Create Centre of Electromobility in Singapore. Prior to Singapore, Professor Rachid Yazami was a Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) for over 35 years and served as a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, where he conducted research on electrode materials such as graphite nanotubes, nano‐silicon and nano‐germanium anodes. In 1980, Professor Rachid Yazami discovered the reversible intercalation of lithium into graphite in an electrochemical cell using a polymer electrolyte. This discovery led to the lithium‐graphite anode now used in commercial lithium-ion batteries, an over US$80B value market.

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BIO of Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi

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Dr. Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi is Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry Khalifa University. He received his PhD from Jeonbuk National University, South Korea 2008, and completed post-doctoral work at Toyama University, Toyama, Japan under the Venture Business Laboratory (VBL) program in 2010. He served as Assistant and Associate Professor in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia from 2010-2019. He also remains visiting faculty in EPFL Switzerland, Tokyo University and Nagoya University, Japan. He is trained as nanotechnologist and published more than 120 articles in peer reviewed SCI journals, presented over 65 papers in international conferences proceedings various invited talks and keynote speaker worldwide. He contributed 7 book chapters and edited book on “Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures for Renewable Energy Applications” and hold 5 patents (USPTO) as inventor and co-inventor on new materials and green hydrogen production technology. His research focus is on new functional nanomaterials development, investigate structure-property relationship for energy conversion devices and systems such as green hydrogen production, carbon dioxide conversion into clean fuels, energy storage (electrodes and electrolytes) and biomedical applications. He received governmental and industrial grants worth $4 million, as principal and co-investigator. He is subject editor/editorial board member in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (sabbatical), Materials Research Bulletin and Scientific Reports.

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BIO of ZHUMABAY BAKENOV

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Dr. Zhumabay Bakenov is a Full Professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering of Nazarbayev University, Director of Center for Energy and Advanced Materials Science of National Laboratory Astana, Vice-Dean for Research of School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, a Member of National Science Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He received his Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and his PhD in Chemistry from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Prof. Bakenov leads a large international Research Group at Nazarbayev University with several faculty, about 20 postdoctoral fellows, and more than 80 members in total. Prof. Bakenov accomplished a large number of Governmental, industrial and commercial research projects and programs. His research interests include advanced materials for energy conversion and storage, next generation rechargeable batteries, electrochemical sensors, modelling and analysis of electrochemical and thermal processes in secondary batteries including research on interfacial phenomena, surface coating, interlayers, and various functional additives to enhance materials performance. Prof. Bakenov has an excellent international collaboration with leading researchers of best international research centers. Prof. Bakenov is a Chair of International Conference “International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems (INESS) since 2013. In last 10 years Prof. Bakenov published about 200 research papers and book chapters with around 4500 citations.

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BIO of Alain Tressaud

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Alain TRESSAUD is CNRS Emeritus Research Director at ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux University. He is Honorary President of the European Academy of Science (Brussels), after being the President in the 2017-18 period. He is member of several European Academies (EASA, Austria, Disting. Fellow SCF, France). He founded and chaired until 2008 the French Network on Fluorine Chemistry, sponsored by CNRS. He received many awards, including the Atomic Centre Agency (CEA) Award of French Academy of Sciences (2008), Fluorine Award of the American Chemical Society (2011) and International Henri Moissan Prize (2012).
His scientific interest covers various fields, e.g. synthesis, physical chemical characterizations, applications in materials sciences, solid state chemistry & fluorine chemistry. His works also deal with surface modification of materials and intercalation chemistry. His scientific production includes more than 360 papers in international journals, 20 chapters contributions in books and 12 internationalized patents. In addition, he edited 11 books, including the Editor-in-Chief responsibility of the book series “Advances in Fluorine Science” (2006), “Progress in Fluorine Science” (2015 →), Elsevier. In 2011 his book on “Le fluor: histoire, applications & paradoxes” appeared at CNRS-Editions, Paris and in 2018 the multi-authored book “Progress in Science, Progress in Society” at Springer-Nature.

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