Plenary Speakers

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  Jin-Nam Park

  Korea

  Korean Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP), Vice president of the Korean Hydrogen & New Energy Society

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  Eiji Ohira

  Japan

  New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization(NEDO)

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  Ning Yan

  Singapore

  National University of Singapore

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  Hansong Cheng

  China

  Hynertech Co. Ltd, China University of Geosciences

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Jin-Nam Park

Korean Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP), Vice president of the Korean Hydrogen & New Energy Society Korea

Professional Career: Jin-Nam Park

2001~2010: Principal Researcher, LG Chem

2010~present: Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Energy Engineering in Kyungil University

2021~present: Clean Hydrogen PD in KETEP
* KETEP: Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning

Biography: Jin-Nam Park

Jin-Nam Park is Clean Hydrogen PD(Program Director) in KETEP(Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning) and also Professor in Kyungil University. Recently, he served as a Chair of “Hydrogen production division” in preparation of “Korean Hydrogen Economy Roadmap” and “Basic Plan for Implementing the Hydrogen Economy”. He worked in the Refinery division in Hanwha Energy and worked as a post-doc in the University of Waterloo in Canada. Lastly, he worked as a Principal Researcher in LG Chem till 2010. His main research fields are Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell. He graduated from Dept. of Chemical Technology in Seoul National University and also got B. Sc. and Ph. D. in the same University.

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Eiji Ohira

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization(NEDO) Japan

professional career

1992.4 Joined the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

1997.9 Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (-1998.7)

2001.1 Technical Official, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (-2003.4)

2008.9 Representative, NEDO Asian Representative Office in Bangkok (-2011.6)

2011.7 Director, Energy Storage Technology Division (-2012.4)

2013.4 Director, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology Group, New Energy Technology Department

2018.7 Director General, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology Office

2021.4 Strategy Architect for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen

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Eiji Ohira is the Strategy Architect of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology Office In this capacity, he has been responsible the overall strategy, execution and coordination of NEDO’s research, development and demonstration project on fuel cell and hydrogen since 2013. He has also coordinated fuel cell and hydrogen activities with international stakeholders, through International Energy Agency’s Technology Collaboration Program (IEA Hydrogen TCP, Advanced Fuel Cell TCP), and International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE). He joined the NEDO in 1992, just after graduation from the Tokyo University of Science. He served as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997-1998. Before taking up the current position in April 2013, he served in several positions, including Representative at NEDO Asian Representative Office, Director of the Energy Storage Technology Division.

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Ning Yan

National University of Singapore Singapore

Professional career summary

Ning Yan received B.S. and PhD degree in chemistry from Peking University. Afterwards, he joined EPFL in Switzerland as a Marie-Curie fellow, before joining National University of Singapore in 2012.

Bio

Ning Yan is Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Director of Centre for Hydrogen Innovations at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Ning Yan works actively in advanced catalysis, renewable energy, and sustainable chemistry, for which he was duly recognized by recent awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society and National University of Singapore, among others. He is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher 2020 (Chemistry) as well as 2022, 2023 (Cross fields) by Clarivate, and he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Molecular Catalysis and President for Singapore Catalysis Society.

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Hansong Cheng

Hynertech Co. Ltd, China University of Geosciences China

Brief Bio of Professor Hansong Cheng

Professor Hansong Cheng received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Princeton University in 1991 and subsequently joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a senior scientist. In 2004, he participated in organizing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, which included 5 national labs, 9 universities and Air Products and served as a member of its Steering Committee. In recognizing the outstanding contribution to the DOE hydrogen program, his team received 2010 DOE Hydrogen Program Special Recognition Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2009, he became a distinguished professor of chemistry at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), where he founded the Sustainable Energy Laboratory and has been serving as its director. In 2014, Prof. Cheng founded Hynertech Co., Ltd. to commercialize the hydrogen technologies based on the concept of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) and has served as the Executive Chairman and the CTO of the company. Hynertech has been widely recognized as one of the world’s leading companies in LOHC technologies for safe and industrial scale hydrogen storage and delivery. In 2017, Prof. Cheng was elected to become the inaugural President of Hydrogen Industry Technology Innovation and Application Alliance of China. He is a recipient of several major national and provincial awards. He served on the faculty of National University of Singapore and several major universities in China and as a technology advisor for several major companies. He is an author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications and an inventor of over 200 patents and patent applications and has delivered over 200 invited lectures in professional conferences, academic institutions and government and industrial labs around the world.

Professional career summary

Ph.D. Princeton University; Senior scientist, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence; Professor of Chemistry, China University of Geosciences; Founder and Chairman, Hynertech Co., Ltd.