Academic Frontier Seminar at the Main Venue - Facing the Future to Meet the Challenges

The event will invite Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, top international chemical scientists, scholars from world-class universities, and senior executives from global chemical multinationals to deliver keynote presentations on the topics of basic frontier research, paradigm change in innovation, green and sustainable development, education and development of talents, global open cooperation and innovation, and science incubation and intelligent development.

The Themes and Speakers of the Plenary Session

1. Theme of the Report: The Art of Building Small: From Molecular Switches to Motors

Prof. Bernard L.Feringa

Nobel Laureate, Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA, Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences KNAW, Member of the Academia Europeae, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Science, USA, University of Groningen, Netherlands

2. Theme of the Report: Transformation and development of the refining and chemical industry

Prof. Cao Xianghong

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, International Member US National Academy of Engineering, and Senior Member of Sinopec Science and Technology Committee

3. Theme of the Report: Mechanochemical approaches in materials synthesis, catalysis and polymer recycling, from fundamental studies to scale up

Prof. Ferdi Schüth

Academician of the German National Academy of Engineering, Academician of the German National Academy of Sciences, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Coal Research, Germany

4. Theme of the Report: Regenerative Closed-Loop Society

Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama

Chairman of Mitsubishi Research Institute

5. Theme of the Report: Engineering Science Boosting the Design of Pharmaceutical Formulations

Prof. Gabriele Sadowski

Leibniz Prize Laureate, Member of the German National Academy of Engineering, Vice President of the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

6. Theme of the Report: Engineering the Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities

Prof. Raffaella Ocone

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Foreign Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK

7. Theme of the Report: Green biomanufacturing

Prof. Tan Tianwei

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, President of Beijing University of Chemical Technology

8. Theme of the Report: Single Atom Catalysis

Prof. Zhang Tao

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9. Theme of the Report: Beyond Technology: Expanding Role of Chemical Engineers in Carbon-Neutral Transition

Prof. Masahiko Matsukata

Waseda University

10. Theme of the Report: Transforming Waste into Sustainable Materials and Products: Rethinking Circular Economies and Remanufacturing through SMaRT Innovation

Prof. Veena Sahajwalla

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, University of New South Wales