Xuehua Zhang

University of Alberta

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.

Yanan Liu

Donghua University

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005, worked in Donghua University since 2005, postdoctoral fellow in Plasma Application in LGPPTS at ENSCP-UMPC (Paris, France) from 2009 to 2011, full Professor of Environmental Engineering in Donghua since 2014, Vice Dean of College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University since 2018. About 100 papers have been published. 21 patents have been authored and 3 projects are being undertaken as chief investigator.

Wen Zhang

Newark College of Engineering

Wen Zhang is an associate professor of Newark College of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Wen is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) registered in the States of New Jersey and Delaware. He is an American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE). His Ph.D. research focused on the environmental fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles, biological interactions, as well as nanomaterial characterization at biological interfaces. After joining NJIT, Dr. Zhang has been carrying out research related to material interfaces and catalysis, including (1) Material characterization at nanoscale using hybrid atomic force microscope (AFM); (2) Environmental behavior and interfacial processes for nanomaterials; (3) Novel catalytic processes for harnessing renewable energy and pollutant degradation; (4) Reactive magnetophoretic separation systems; (5) Reactive membrane filtration for emerging contaminant removal; (6) Colloidal properties and environmental/agricultural applications of reactive nanobubbles. More details are available at Zhang’s website: www.wenresearch.com.  

Xianren Zhang

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Dr. Xianren Zhang is a professor from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites. His current research interests include thermodynamics at small scale, phase transitions and nucleation under confinement, membranes and vesicles, and behaviors of micro- and nano-bubbles.

Gang Pan

York St John University, UK

Prof. Pan is an environmental, ecological, nanomaterial, chemical, and sustainability scientist. He works on eutrophication and algal blooms control, aquatic ecological restoration engineering, nanobubble technology, water and wastewater treatment, nutrients and persistent pollutants cycling, and microalgal technology to clean up pollutants and utilize them for green energy (electricity and biofuel) and fertilizers and soil improvers.

Masayoshi Takahashi

Tohoku University, Japan

Dr. Masayoshi TAKAHASH
Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Japan
Professor Takahashi started research on tiny bubbles around 2000 at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. He is interested in the fundamental properties of fine bubbles in aqueous solutions and their technical applications. His scientific approach was based on physiology, and he was also interested in the breathing protection of divers. He found the phenomena of free-radical generation from collapsing microbubbles in the absence of a dynamic stimulus, which is one of the most unique properties of fine bubbles.
Professor Takahashi is a member of American Chemical Society(ACS), and International Water Association (IWA). 

Fang Yang

Southeast University

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.

Koichi Takaki 

Iwate University

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. 

Research Focus
1) Design of compact pulsed power generator and its applications in agriculture and food industry;
2) Pulsed power discharge and its applications for gas and water remediation; 
3) Pulsed glow discharge plasma and its applications for surface modification of materials.