Graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology (BS, MS and PhD), Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College of UK (recipient of first class Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship). Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Gust Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) at Switzerland (Under the scheme of Federal Science Foundation of Switzerland). He is the Changjiang Scholar Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology and the Deputy Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Urban Water Resources, China. His interest has been in the area of Water and Wastewater Treatment. He has been working in the processes of oxidation, reduction, coagulation, dissolved air flotation, carbon related adsorbents and adsorption processes, nanoparticles and membranes, disinfection and by-products control. He is also interested in iron and manganese and arsenic removal from water, he has been devoted to heavy metal removal from water. He is the recipient of "Sustainable Water Award" of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), He is the recipient of Honor Award for Scientific Excellence by the American Chemical Society in 2017, in the ACS conference in honor of Professor Jun Ma. He also received two National Inventory Awards from the Chinese Government. He is the recipient of China Young Scientist Award (one of the ten recipients in 2006), and the recipient of Achievement Award of Chiangjiang Scholars (Engineering Science Award, the single recipient in 2007 in China). He holds 6 US patents and 120 Chinese Invention patents and over 300 peer reviewed international journal papers. He is the recipient of Super Reviewer Award and Excellence in Review Award of the journal of Environmental Science and Technology. He is Associate Editor of ACS ES&T-Engineering, and the IWA official journal of Water Research, and the journal of Applied Water Science, and the journal of Advanced Oxidation Technology. He is also the Advisory Board Editorial Member of "Environmental Science and Technology Letter" and RSC Journal of "Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology".

Personal page: http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/majun

Prof. dr. Keping Yan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, respectively.  From 1986 to 2006, he was with BIT, Padova University, Oita University, ENEL, and TU/e. In 2006, he joined the Zhejiang University, China, as a Full Professor.

Since 1986, his R&D activities have been in environmental engineering and science, applied plasmas and electrostatic precipitation. As a coauthor, he published more than 100 papers in journals or chapters.

He received several national and international awards including the blue sky award from Chinese ESP committee, the marine technique achievement award from Chinese marine committee, the Frederick G. Cottrell Award from the ISESP, and the 2019 ISEHD J.S. Chang lecture award.

Since 2004, he has been a board member and the president (2008-2011) of the International Society of Electrostatic Precipitation (ISESP).

Personal page: http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/isesp/

Tel: +81-090-4763-3599 

e-mail: yoshikawa.kiyoshi.58u@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Xuehua Zhang got her PhD in biomedical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  From 2005 she was an Endeavor Postdoctoral Fellow in Australia National University, and then Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Future Fellowship in University of Melbourne.  Then she was appointed as an Associate Professor in RMIT University (Melbourne). Since 2017 to now, she has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and a professor at Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta in Canada.  The present research interests of Dr Zhang range from microscopic bubbles and drops, evaporation and wetting to phase separation from multiphase systems.  She conducts both fundamental and applied research and combines experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods. Dr Zhang is an Associate Editor for Soft Matter, an RSC journal.

Fang Yang is a professor/doctoral supervisor at Southeast University. She graduated from the School of Bioscience and Medical Engineering of Southeast University with a Ph.D. in 2009. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 2012 and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis in 2014. She was a high-level talent of the "Six Talent Peaks" in Jiangsu Province and the winner of the national outstanding doctoral dissertation. As the project leader, she is mainly engaged in the preparation of microbubble contrast agent, contrast-enhanced ultrasound and multifunctional research. She has undertaken national-level projects such as the National Natural Science, the Ministry of Education Youbo Fund; as an academic backbone, she has participated in the research of scientific research projects such as the National 863 High-tech Research and Development Program and the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973 Program). She has published more than 60 SCI papers in academic journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, Theranostics, and Small. She has edited 1 English book and 3 Chinese academic monographs.

Takaki, Professor of Iwate University and Agri-Innovation Center, Morioka, Japan. He graduated at Kumamoto University in 1988, and joined Oita National College of Technology from 1989, Iwate University from 1996. During 2000-2001, he was a visiting researcher of McMaster University, Canada. His research interest is pulsed power technologies including agricultural applications such as promotion of mushroom. He appeared in more than thirty TV programs such as Asa-Ichi, NHK. He is authors of 29 books and 235 academic papers published on many journals.