Zongping Shao is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and also a professor at Nanjing Tech University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China. After that, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Institut de Researches Sur La Catalyse, CNRS, France, then as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, USA, from 2000 to 2005. His current research interests include fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, metal air batteries, solar cells, and oxygen-permeable membranes. He has been recognized as a highly-cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2017.

Jiayi Tang is a R&D engineer with passion in developing innovative technologies for producing and utilizing hydrogen energy. Now pursuing her Ph.D. at Curtin University, her research has been paid onto cost-effective electrolyzer technologies towards large-scale green hydrogen production from seawater. With the mission for finding tailored solutions to develop hydrogen energy around the world, she is closely working with engineers from industry to take every practical application into account. Global manufactures are taking interest in this patent pending technology and pilot-plant scale amplification is being attempted.

Fatma Abdelghafar is currently a Ph.D. student at Curtin University, Australia. She has been working as an assistant researcher at the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Egypt for 11 years. Her research interests are focused on the development of functional materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications. She obtained her master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry from Beni-Suef University, Egypt.