PROGRAM

David Cahill

Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Materials Science

Current Understanding and Unsolved Problems in the Thermal Conductivity of Materials

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David Cahill is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty of the U. Illinois after earning his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Cornell University and working as a postdoctoral research associate at the IBM Watson Research Center. He served as department head from 2010 to 2018. His research program advances physical insights on thermal transport at the nanoscale; extremes of low and high thermal conductivity in polymers; thermal metrology for microelectronics; and the thermal science of electrochemical cells and battery materials. Cahill received the 2018 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award of the Materials Research Society, the 2015 Touloukian Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Klemens Award from the International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter. He is a fellow of the MRS, the American Physical Society, the AAAS, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Date: December 8th, 14:30PM-15:30PM
Room: Plenary Session 01 (G303+G304)

Kyoko Nozaki

Professor, The University of Tokyo

Polymer Synthesis and Degradation toward Efficient Use of Less Utilized Carbon Resources

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Kyoko Nozaki is a Professor of Chemistry and Biotechnology at The University of Tokyo. She received her B.S. and Doctor Degree in Industrial Chemistry from Kyoto University in 1991. After serving as Assistant and Associate Professor at Kyoto University, she moved to The Universit of Tokyo where she has been at the current position since 2003.
Her achievements were recognized as the International Awards L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Sciences in 2021, IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 2021, Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese Cabinet Office in 2022. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Date: December 9th, 13:00PM-14:00PM
Room: Plenary Session 01 (G303+G304)

Tao Zhang

Professor of Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Tao received his PhD in 1989 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After one year postdoc in University of Birmingham, he joined DICP again where he was promoted to a full professor in 1995. He was the director of DICP (2007-2016) and the vice president of CAS (2016-2023). His interests are mainly focused on Catalysis. Particularlly, In 2011, he coined the new concept “Single-Atom Catalysis”, which is now one of the hot frontiers in chemistry. He has won many awards, such as Future Science Prize（2024），Tang Aoqing Award（2024），Advance of Catalysis Award of APACS（2023）, ChinaNano Award （2018）, National Invention Prize（2005，2006, and 2008）. He has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers and 110 patents (H-index 125 and more than 60000 citations). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Catalysis and Co-Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry – A European Journal. He was elected as academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, fellow of TWAS in 2018, and international fellow of Canadian Engineering Academy in 2020.

Date: December 10th, 13:00PM-14:00PM
Room: Plenary Session 01 (G303+G304)

Taro Hitosugi

Professor of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo

Complex Oxide Interfaces: From solid-state batteries to autonomous experiments

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Taro Hitosugi is a Professor of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1999 and began his career at Sony Corporation. In 2003, he transitioned to academia, holding positions as an Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo and Associate Professor at Tohoku University before becoming a full professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2015. He returned to The University of Tokyo in 2022.
As an expert in solid-state chemistry, thin film, and surface and interface science, Professor Hitosugi's research focuses on materials for electronics and energy applications. His work includes the development of autonomous material synthesis using machine learning and robotics to accelerate materials science research. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading academic journals. Professor Hitosugi contributes his expertise to the Cabinet Office's "Materials Strategy" and the Science Council of Japan.

Date: December 11h, 9:00AM-10:00AM
Room: Plenary Session 01 (G303+G304)

Feliciano Giustino

Professor of Physics, W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Quantum design of materials for energy-efficient information and communication technology: abstraction, automation, and machine learning

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Feliciano Giustino is Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin, and holds the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and held a post-doctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the University of Texas, he spent a decade at the University of Oxford as Professor of Materials Science, and one year at Cornell University as the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor of Engineering. He is recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, a Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. He is the author of a textbook on density-functional theory by Oxford University Press, serves on the Executive Editorial Board of JPhys Materials, and is an Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Electronics. He specializes in electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, open-source software development, and materials design at the atomic scale.

Date: December 12th, 9:00AM-10:00AM
Room: Plenary Session 01 (G303+G304)