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Prof. Siew Hwa Chan, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore |
Professor Chan leads hydrogen and
fuel cell research in NTU. He is currently the Co-Director of Energy
Research Institute @ NTU and the Senior Vice President of
China-Singapore International Joint Research Institute in Guangzhou
Knowledge City, China.
Prof Chan obtained his PhD from Imperial College London and is a
Professor in the School of MAE and President’s Chair in Energy. He
is a Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore and a Fellow of
ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. He has served as a
non-executive director of Maz Energy since 2014 and spun out Xin
Xiang (Guangzhou) Hydrogen Technologies in 2018. He also serves as a
Technology and Technical Advisor to Sydrogen Energy, a local fuel
cell company.
His research has gained him several recognitions, which include
George-Stephenson Medal from UK IMechE in 2000, Outstanding
Scientific Achievement Award from International Association of
Hydrogen Energy, USA in 2007, “World’s Most Influential Scientific
Minds” award from Thomson Reuters in 2014, Nanyang Award (Research
Excellence) in 2014, Nanyang Award (Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
in 2017, “Star of Innovation Talent” in 2018 from Guangzhou
Government. He is the recipient of two National Day Awards in 2017
and 2018. He is the editorial board member of Fuel Cells, Journal of
Power Technologies, Energy Conversion and Management and
International Journal of Energy Research.
Prof Chan has been teaching Thermodynamics course since 1991 and
awarded “Teacher-of-the-Year” in 2000. Prof Chan has published 279
refereed journal papers with a total citation count of ~15,000 and
h-index of 62. Prof. Chan is an ardent hydrogen economy advocate for
over 20 years and he was the organizer / conference chair of the 1st
World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC) held in Singapore in
2005.
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Prof. Gianfranco Chicco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Gianfranco Chicco holds a Ph.D.
in Electrotechnics Engineering and is a Full Professor of Electrical
Energy Systems at Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), Italy. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa
from the Universities Politehnica of Bucharest and Technical
University “Gheorghe Asachi” of Iasi (Romania) in 2017 and 2018,
respectively.
He is the Scientific Responsible of the research group on Power and
Energy Systems at POLITO, and the Responsible of the Torino unit of
the Italian Consortium ENSIEL.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks,
a Subject Editor of Energy, and an Editor of IEEE Open Access
Journal of Power and Energy, IET Renewable Power Generation, and
Energies (MDPI).
He was the Conference Chair of WESC 2006, IEEE ISGT Europe 2017, and
UPEC 2020. Within POLITO, he participated in the European projects
FP7 DIGENAS, FP7 SiNGULAR, H2020 FLEXMETER, H2020 PLANET, H2020
STORE&GO, and Erasmus+ EU-MONG. Within ENSIEL, he was the Scientific
Coordinator for the European project H2020 MIGRATE, and participated
in the European projects FP7 eHighway2050 and H2020 OSMOSE.
His research activities include Power System Analysis, Distribution
System Analysis and Optimization, Electrical Load Management, Energy
Efficiency and Environmental Impact of Multi-Energy Systems, Data
Analytics, Artificial Intelligence Applications to Power and Energy
Systems, Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Generation, and
Power Quality.
His International scientific production includes one book, five book
chapters, over 100 journal publications, and over 150 publications
in conference proceedings.
