Electrochemistry Speakers

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Professor Phil Bartlett

University of Southhampton

UK

Philip N. Bartlett received a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1978. He was awarded a British Petroleum Scholarship to study for a Ph.D. in Photoelectrochemistry under the supervision of Professor W. John Albery FRS at Imperial College and received his PhD in 1981. Following his PhD Professor Bartlett was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Royal Society for the Exhibition of 1851 to work on modified electrodes at Imperial College. In 1984 he was appointed to a lectureship in Physical Chemistry at the University of Warwick and in 1991 as Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bath. Since 1993 he has been at the University of Southampton where he is Professor of Electrochemistry. His research interests include bioelectrochemistry, templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials and chemical sensors and has published over 300 papers on these topics.

Professor Bartlett is a Fellow of the International Society for Electrochemistry and of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He has received a number of awards including the Electrodeposition award of the Electrochemical Society in 2005, the Carl Wagner medal from the Electrochemical Society in 2007, the Electrochimica Acta gold medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2008 and the Giulio-Milazzo Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society in 2015. From January 2017 he is President of the International Society for Electrochemistry.

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Professor George Chen

University of Nottingham

UK

George Z. Chen (CChem, FRSC, FRSA, FIMMM) is full professor of electrochemical technologies in the University of Nottingham, and is currently Head of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies in the University’s China Campus, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Prof. Chen received his Teaching Diploma (Jiujiang Teacher Training College) in 1981, MSc (Fujian Normal University) in 1985, and PhD (University of London) and DIC (Diploma of Imperial College) in 1992. After working as a lecturer in Jiangxi University (1985-1988), and postdoc research in the Universities of Oxford (1992) and Leeds (1994), he moved to the University of Cambridge (1996), taking up positions of Senior Research Associate (1998), and Assistant Director of Research (2001). In Cambridge, he was awarded the Schlumberger Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship (2000) and elected to Official Fellow (2003) of Darwin College. He joined the University of Nottingham as Reader in 2003, and was promoted to Professor in 2009. He has also taken invited or visiting positions in other institutions, including Specially Invited Professor in Wuhan University (2000-2010), University of Mediterranee (2007), and Wuhan University of Science and Technology (2015-), Senior Academic Visitor of Fudan University (2014-2016), and Visiting Fellow of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (2010-2012) and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (2016-) – Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Chen is recipient of numerous awards, including the Cheung Kong Scholarship (2000, MoE, China), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2002, NSFC), the TMS Reactive Metals Technology Award (2001, 2004), the Royal Society Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (2007), the E.ON International Research Award (2008), the Inman Medal (2014), and 1000 Talent Plan Expert (Innovation) of Zhejiang Province (2015). He has undertaken various research projects funded by e.g. the EPSRC, Royal Society, NSFC and MoST (China), MoSTI (Malaysia), E.ON and Ningbo Municipal Government, with the outputs being either documented in about 600 journal, conference and patent publications, or developed by the industry (e.g. The FFC Cambridge Process by Metalysis, and Supercapattery by E.ON). He is currently leading research in both Nottingham and Ningbo under the theme of Electrochemical Technologies and Liquid Salts Innovation for Materials, Energy and Environment. Specially, Prof. Chen has been active in the areas of molten salt, ionic liquid, supercapacitor and supercapattery. His h-index is 59 as reported by Google Scholar and 49 by Web of Science (ORCiD/0000-0002-5589-5767) on 05-03- 2017.

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Professor Alison Downard

University of Canterbury

New Zealand

Alison Downard is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and has an Honorary Doctorate from the Université de Rennes, France. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and holds the Stokes Medal, awarded by the Electrochemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Alison gained her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Southampton with Professor Derek Pletcher and at UNC-Chapel Hill with Professor T. J. Meyer before taking up her position at the University of Canterbury. She has broad ranging expertise in electrochemistry; her current major focus is on electrochemistry for surface modification. Alison has held various leadership roles, including Associate Dean of Science, and Head of Department of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, Deputy Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and Chair of the Analytical Electrochemistry Division of the International Society of Electrochemistry. She currently leads the Materials Cluster at the University of Canterbury.

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Professor Justin Gooding

University of New South Wales

Australia

Scientia Professor Justin Gooding is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and is currently an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and the co-director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Sensors. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) from Melbourne University before spending two years working for ICI Research on explosives. He then returned to University obtaining a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and received post-doctoral training at the Institute of Biotechnology in Cambridge University. He returned to Australia in 1997 as a Vice-Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He was promoted to full professor in 2006. He was one of the recipients of a 2004 NSW Young Tall Poppy award, a 2005 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the 2007 RACI Lloyd Smythe Medal for Analytical Chemistry, the 2009 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, the RACI 2011 H.G. Smith Medal for contributions to chemistry, the 2012 RACI R.H. Stokes Medal for electrochemical research, the 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lecturer, the 2013 NSW Science and Engineering Award for Emerging Research and the 2016 Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry Electrochemistry Division. He leads a research team of 50 researchers interested in surface modification and nanotechnology for biosensors, biomaterials, electron transfer and medical applications.

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A/Professor Conor Hogan

La Trobe University

Australia

Dr. Conor Hogan has a strong international reputation for his work in the areas of electrochemistry and sensor technology with a particular focus on electrochemiluminescence detection. His research focuses on the interaction of molecules with electricity and light and is driven by applications in the field of chemical and bio-sensors. He completed his PhD in Chemistry at Dublin City University in Ireland in 2000 and following several years of postdoctoral research in Ireland (under Prof. Robert Forster) and Australia (under Prof. Alan Bond) was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at La Trobe in 2003. In 2009 he was made a senior lecturer in analytical chemistry at La Trobe and has been an Associate professor since 2016. He is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute where he was recently elected a Fellow (FRACI) in recognition of his contribution to the chemical sciences. He is active in particular within the electrochemical and analytical divisions of the RACI. He was chair of the Electrochemical Division of the RACI from 2011 to 2013 and he is currently Australian regional representative for the international society of electrochemistry (ISE). He is also a member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the American Chemical society (ACS) and was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He is the author of more than 60 peer reviewed papers which have attracted over 1500 citations. His H-Index is 23.

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Dr Christine Kranz

Univesity of Ulm

Germany

Dr. Christine Kranz received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (1992) and Technical University of Munich (1996), Munich, Germany, respectively. After spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry (Austria), she accepted a position at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. In July 2008, she has accepted a permanent position at the University of Ulm, Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (IABC), Ulm, Germany, where she is heading the surface sciences group and coordinates the biosensing research activities. In addition, she is the Scientific Coordinator of the Focused Ion Beam Center UUlm. In February 2014 she obtained the Venia Docendi (Assoc. Prof. for Analytical Chemistry). Her main research focus is in the field of scanning probe microscopy in particular scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), multifunctional scanning probes (e.g. combination AFM- SECM, IR- SECM, IR-AFM), miniaturized amperometric biosensor technology and (FIB)-based micro-fabrication. She has authored several patents more than 120 publications in internationally reviewed journals, and more than 100 lectures presented at international and national conferences. Since January 2012, Dr. Kranz is member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology.

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Professor Douglas Macfarlane

Monash University

Australia

Professor Doug MacFarlane is a Professor of Chemistry and Australian Laureate Fellow at Monash University’s School of Chemistry. He graduated BSc(Hons) First Class in Chemistry, as well with a BA in History, from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand before traveling to the US to undertake PhD studies with Professor Austen Angell at Purdue University. He went on to Fellowships at the University of Rennes, France and Victoria University of Wellington. He was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at Monash University in 1983 and moved through the ranks, to Senior Lecturer in 1988, Reader in 1991 and Professor in 1995. He was Head of Chemistry at Monash 2003-2006.

Professor MacFarlane has established and built up the Monash Ionic Liquids Group over the last 15 years, such that it is now recognized as one of the leading groups in the world in this burgeoning field. He has published more than 600 papers and 30 patents, including papers in top ranked journals such as Science, Nature, and Nature Materials. These papers have been cited more than 32,000 times and have an h-index of 85. The Ionic liquids field is a cross-disciplinary area of Materials Chemistry. It concerns a large family of recently discovered organic salts that are liquid at room temperature and therefore can be used as solvents in a broad range of fields including materials synthesis, electrochemistry, energy chemistry, green chemistry and biotechnology. Professor MacFarlane’s group has contributed cutting edge work to all of these areas (recent papers on electrochemical materials in Nature Materials, on medicinal applications in Pharmaceutical Research, on battery electrolytes in Energy and Environmental Science, on bio-fuels processing in Green Chemistry and on protein stabilization in Biomacromolecules). He is also leader of the Energy Program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), where his encompasses the development of novel materials, including ionic liquids, for electrochemical devices such as the next generations of energy storage devices (recent papers in Science and Advanced Materials).

Professor MacFarlane has been the recipient of the Rutherford Memorial Research Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the RACI’s Rennie Medal, the RACI’s Hartung Youth Lecturership, and a Guest Professorship at Technical University Delft. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama, an International Fellow of the Queens University Belfast, and a Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won Excellence in Teaching awards from Monash University and Purdue University.

Professor MacFarlane was elected to the Academy of Science in 2007 and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2009. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Chemical Communications, Green Chemistry, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, ChemSusChem and Cryobiology. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CAP-XX Ltd.

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Dr Sebastian Thomas

Monash University

Australia

Dr. Sebastian Thomas is a research fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University with leading expertise in magnesium and zinc electrochemistry. He received the prestigious CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake his PhD at the Monash University, graduating in May 2014. During his PhD, Dr. Thomas devised and executed several original electrochemical methodologies and linked them to the ‘physical’ nature of the electrodes. The papers published as a part of his PhD thesis alone have been extensively cited (with >100 citations), and one of his papers titled, “Corrosion of zinc as a function of pH” published in the journal Corrosion received the prestigious NACE award for “Best paper” in that journal for the period 2012-2013. To date, his research has resulted in 30 peer reviewed publications, and over 350 citations, as well as lasting industry impact. This includes invited papers in Current Opinion in Solid State Materials Science and an invited team paper in Progress in Materials Science (IF: 31.083, under review). Dr. Thomas’s current research is focussed on the electrochemical aspects of corrosion problems, as faced by different industrial organisations world-wide including PPG, GE Global Research (India), GE Oil and Gas (Norway), BlueScope Steel, Woodside Energy Limited (WEL) and the Office of the Naval Research (USA). He currently leads research projects across a wide portfolio of projects under the stream “Materials Durability” in the Woodside Innovation Centre at the Monash University. Dr. Thomas is also a visiting scientist under the Advanced Manufacturing Flagship, CSIRO. He is a member of both the Electrochemical Society and International Society of Electrochemistry and also a referee for all the top electrochemical journals including Electrochemistry Communications, Electrochimica Acta and Journal of the Electrochemical Society.

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A/Professor Geoffrey Will

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

QUT has had a long history of corrosion research specifically related to industry problems. QUT has 6 research staff in the area of electrochemistry looking at a wide range of applications but with focus on battery technology and corrosion research. This work is supported by numerous advanced electrochemical systems and a new scanning electrochemical system providing the ability to measure electrochemical and corrosion events on the micron scale.

The corrosion work is supported through government and private industry funding and is targeted at the understanding and prevention corrosion related issues. Our group studies basic corrosion mechanisms using theoretical models to understand and predict corrosion behaviour. In house software, Symadec, has been developed to teach students from postgraduate to undergraduate about the electrochemistry of corrosion systems for a better understanding of the observed electrochemistry. This system can generate Pourbaix and Evans diagrams and fit the theoretically derived results to real data.

Assoc. Prof. Will has spent 20 years designing solutions for industry in the area of corrosion prediction and monitoring and have a number of unique options for monitor coating breakdown and predicting time to maintenance. These solutions have been employed for under insulation in the oil and gas, atmospheric, pile wraps, military infrastructure, bridges and civil infrastructure and other areas where inspection can be difficult if not prohibited. More recently our group has investigated the corrosion in solar thermal power plants in particular molten salt corrosion operating at temperature greater than 500C.

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Professor Huijun Zhao

Griffith University

Australia

Huijun Zhao obtained his BSc in chemistry (1982), MSc in electrochemistry (1987) from the North-eastern University, China, supervised by Professor Songsong Zhang, and PhD in Chemistry (1994) from the University of Wollongong, Australia, supervised by Professor Gordon Wallace. He worked as Research Fellow and Vice-Chancellor Fellow in the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute of the University of Wollongong (1993-1996) and the University of Western Sydney (1996-1997), respectively. He took a Lecturer position in School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Griffith University, in 1997 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer (2001), A/Professor (2003) and Professor (2005). He was the Chair of Griffith Commercialization Laboratory during 2005-2007 and CTO of Aqua Diagnostic during 2003-2007. He currently is a Professor of Griffith School of Environment and the Foundation Director of the Centre for Clean Environment and Energy of the Griffith University. He also holds a 1000-talent Fellowship position and is the Director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials in the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has expertise in energy and environmental materials, water source control and management system, field-based sensing technologies and aquatic environmental quality assessment. One of his pursuits over the past 10 years is to explore new domains of electrochemistry applications to meet the research needs of developing high performance catalysts and important catalysis processes.