Dr. Indrajit Shown is the Professor of the department of chemistry at Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS),India since 2021. He received his M. Sc and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Chemistry from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India) (2008). Before joining the HITS, he served as a Research Associate at Institute of Atomic Molecular Sciences (Academia Sinica) and Centre for Condensed Matter Sciences (National Taiwan University), Taiwan. His research interests consist of developing various nanomaterials for advanced green energy applications such as photocatalysis (CO2 conversion), electrocatalysis (Hydrogen generation) and energy storage (Li-ion battery and super capacitor). He has published several highly cited papers in international high impact factor journals (Nature Communications, Nano Energy, Adv. Energy Materials, Adv. Functional Materials, Nanoletter, J. Material Chemistry A, Carbon, Small etc.
Category: 2021 Delegate
Mr Alois Resch
Alois Resch has been working for the Energy Research Group ASIC at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria for more than 9 years. He completed his Bachelor and Master studies within the topic of renewable energy technologies and is currently working on his dissertation in the field of concentrating solar systems.
Professor Shu-Yi Huang
Shu-Yi Huang currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Center for General Education at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, where she teaches Sociology of Gender and Gender, Technology and Globalization to undergraduates.
Mr Johnson Tseng
Mr. Johnson Tseng is the Project Manager in Taipei Tech. My main research is concerning the medical cloud service. In the future life, there will be more old people. So our team focus on how to solve the monitoring system. I hope this event, comprising with different countries and different field, will provide a critical thinking to me.
Professor Huang-Jen Chiu
Huang-Jen Chiu is currently a Distinguished Professor, Dean of Research and Development Office at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research interests include high efficiency/ high power density bidirectional DC/DC converters, PFC topologies, PV inverters, and DSP control in renewable energy applications. His work brought him several distinctive awards including the Young Researcher Award in 2004 from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009 and 2017, the Excellent Research Award in 2009 and 2011 from the NTUST, the Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award in 2010, the Excellent Industry-academia collaboration Award in 2015, and 2017, Google Little Box Academic Awards and the 2018 IEEE Empower a Billion Lives (EBL) Pacific Asia Regional Award. His student teams won the grand prize of the IEEE International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) in 2013 and 2015, respectively.
Professor Cathy Weng
Cathy Weng is currently a professor of the Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Her research interests include social media & information sharing, interactive storybooks and learning, digital reading & storytelling, technology integrated learning, interdisciplinary collaborative project-based learning, and digital cultural exchange. She also holds several different projects for university social responsibility at NTUST.
Dr Jhy-Chern Liu
Professor Jhy-Chern (JC) Liu is the Vice president and professor of Taiwan Tech, Taiwan. Prior to this he was Dean of College of Engineering and Chairman of Department of Chemical Engineering. Prof Liu received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Delaware, USA.
Prof Liu’s research interests consist of recycling of rare earth elements (REEs) from e-waste, and treatment and reuse of industrial wastewater. He has published over 100 papers in international journals. He also serves as the Director of SDGs and Institutional Research Center of Taiwan Tech.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kira Kastell
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kira Kastell, born in Rotenburg an der Fulda, studied electrical engineering at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main and at the Distant Learning University in Hagen and earned her PhD on the topic of “Secure, fast, location-based handovers in hybrid networks” at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before that, she also graduated in business administration and economics from the Distance Learning University in Hagen.
As part of her professional career, she was first involved in setting up the GSM-R digital radio network for Deutsche Bahn at Arcor AG & Co. After completing her doctorate, she moved into university teaching, from 2007 to 2009 as a professor of mobile communications in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Precision Engineering at the Technische Fachhochschule Berlin and then as a professor of transmission technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main (now Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences). During this time, she was intermittently head of the degree program and, from 2013 to 2019, vice-president for studies and teaching at the University of Applied Sciences. In this role, she dedicated herself to, among other things, the reorganization of her area of responsibility and the successful acquisition of public funding for teaching. She also initiated the development of strategy papers for the areas of teaching, e-learning, internationalization and diversity, among others. On 1 May 2021, she assumed the office of President at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences.
She was also chair of the VDI Network Women in Engineering for six years (2015-2020) and a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Hessian Broadcasting Corporation from 2017 to 2020. Since 2019, she has been Chair of the Departmental Council for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and, since January 2021, she has been a board member at ASIIN, the accreditation agency for degree programs in engineering, computer science, natural sciences and mathematics.
Since January 2023 she has taken the role as the CEO of the HAfM – the university alliance for medium-sized companies. In October 2023, Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger appointed her to the founding committee of the German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI), where she was elected deputy chairwoman.
Miss Katy Waring
Katy Waring is currently studying the Msc International Marine Science at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. She has worked in the international education sector for over 10 years and across 5 countries. Most recently in Thailand, where pre-covid, she had an environmental education start-up focusing on Marine Literacy.