Sanjay Mathur is the Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. He is also the Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy Sources at the Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian, China and a World Class University Professor at the Chonbuk University in Korea. He is a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Global Innovation Research at TUAT. He also holds Visiting Professorships at the Central South University, China and National Institute of Science Education and Research, India.
His research interests focus on application of nanomaterials and advanced ceramics for energy technologies. He holds ten patents and has authored/ co-authored over 500 original research publications and has edited several books. He is a Titular Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) and a member of the ISO Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies. He serves as the Editor for Journal of Electroceramics, and as the Principal Editor of J. Mater. Research. He is also an Associate Editor for NanoEnergy, International Journal of Applied Ceramics Technology, International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanomaterials. He is also on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Nanotechnology, Materials, Journal of Ceramic Science and Technology.
He was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the Vilnius University in 2016. He is an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics and Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He also acts as the “International Ambassador” of the University of Cologne. He is the recipient of the Global Star and Bridge-Building awards of the American Ceramic Society, Lee Hsun award of the Chinese Academy of Science and Surface Innovator Award of the SSPC and AkzoNobel. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Federation of German Materials Science (DGM) and also serves on the Board of the German Chemical Industries Network CHEMCOLOGNE. He is on the Review Advisory Panel of the CSIR, South Africa and serves as International Advisor to Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Incheon, Korea and Vice-President of the Thin Film Society, Singapore. He is on the ACerS Board of Directors. He has been elevated to the ASM class of fellows of 2017. He is the Chair of the Kavli Awards Subcommitee of the Materials Research Society. Since 2018, he also chairs the Academic Affairs Committee of the Materials Research Society. He was appointed (2019) on the board of Ceramics and Glass Industry Foundation of ACerS.
Rodney S. Ruoff, UNIST Distinguished Professor (The Department of Chemistry, The School of Materials Science, and The School of Energy Science and Chemical Engineering), is director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), an Institute for Basic Science Center (IBS Center) located at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) campus. Prior to joining UNIST he was the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin from September, 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1988, and he was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988-89 at the Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen, Germany. He was at Northwestern University from January 2000 to August 2007, where he was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and director of NU’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute. He has authored or co-authored about 500 peer-reviewed publications related to chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanics, and biomedical science, and is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the recipient of the 2014 Turnbull Prize from the MRS, the 2016 SGL Skakel Award from the American Carbon Society, and the 2018 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials from the American Physical Society, and was named a 2018 Citation Laureate (Clarivate Analytics). For further background on some of his research see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_S._Ruoff. If of interest, his Google Citation H-index is 148, I-10 Index 455, 31 publications have been cited more than 1000 times, and 8 more than 5000 times. He has been one of the ‘highly cited researchers’ in each of the fields of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, since such statistics have been reported by Thomson Reuters (and more recently by Clarivate Analytics).
Turgut M. Gür is an Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where his distinguished career spans four decades. He is recently elected by his peers for the position of Vice President of The Electrochemical Society. Prof. Gür has also been inducted as Fellow of The Electrochemical Society. He is a recognized leader in high temperature electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies, materials and processes. He also holds a Visiting Professor appointment from the Chinese University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (CUMTB) in China.
He was issued 11 US patents and has nearly 160 publications, largely related to energy conversion processes and materials including fuel cells, electrocatalysis, electrosynthesis, coal and hydrocarbon conversion, hydrogen production, and sensors and membranes.
For two decades, he has provided technical leadership for three major multidisciplinary team-based and theme-based research centers at Stanford University focused on advanced materials and energy conversion and storage. He was one of the founding members and until recently, the Executive Director of Stanford’s DOE-EFRC Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC). Previously, he served as the Technical Director for the NSF-MRSEC Center for Materials Research (CMR), and later as the founding Technical Director for Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM). He received the Marshall O’Neill award from the University in 1997 based on his long lasting contributions to Stanford’s research enterprise.
He was formerly the co-founder, Director and CTO for Clean Coal Energy and subsequently, Direct Carbon Technologies that developed a proprietary carbon fuel cell technology for efficient conversion of coal, biomass and other solid fuels to electricity with carbon capture. Before that he was the CTO for H2onsite, where he led technology development for chemically assisted spontaneous production of hydrogen via steam electrolysis aimed at the fuel cell vehicles market. He also served as the Director and Scientific Advisor for Electro-Oxidation Technologies, and helped develop industrial wastewater treatment technologies based on electrochemical remediation by selective reduction.
He has served in top leadership positions on the boards of professional societies as well as industrial and non-profit organizations. He is the past-Chair (2015-2017) of the High Temperature Materials division and still serves as a member of several advisory committees of The Electrochemical Society. He was a member of the Board of Directors of The Electrochemical Society between 2015 and 2017. Previously, he served for 10 years on the Board of the International Society for Solid State Ionics, which is another leading global organization for scientists and researchers working in the general area of electrochemical energy conversion and storage. He was an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2002-2014), and the editor for Solid State Ionics Letters (1998- 2002).
He has organized and chaired numerous international conferences and symposia and has edited many conference transaction volumes and proceedings. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board for ECS Transactions, as the Senior Vice Chair of the High Temperature Materials (HTM, now renamed H-TEMP) division of The Electrochemical Society, an Advisory Board member of Interface magazine, and a member of the Symposia Planning Advisory Board of The Electrochemical Society.
He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and three graduate degrees including a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He has made nearly 150 presentations in national and international conferences, and has given 75 invited lectures and colloquia.
