Prof. Ir. Dr. Chong Wen Tong is currently a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia. He is also the Head of UM Centre for Energy Sciences. He joined UM after spending 10 years in various industries, including Dyson and Sony. He is a Chartered Engineer registered by the Engineering Council (UK) since 2014. Prof. Chong’s research interests are Renewable Energy & Green Technology, Wind Turbine Technology, Industrial Aerodynamics and Innovative Product Design. He has co-authored >180 research articles with the H-Index– 50 (WoS). He is the Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Green Energy and Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Energy Research. He was selected for the 2019 Top Research Scientists Malaysia by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, and 2020-2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. Prof. Chong has been awarded > MYR 10 million research grants and won > 25 invention and innovation awards in various international innovations & inventions fairs, including iENA (Germany), SIIF (Korea) & WIAC. He also won Second Place in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowships – Final Pitch Session 2016/17. In 2016; he won the First Prize of National-Intellectual-Property-Award 2016 and WIPO Medal for his invention, Cross-Axis-Wind-Turbine which his team is collaborating with PETRONAS to commercialize it. He is the Conference Chair of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology. In 2023, he was elected as Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASc). Prof. Chong was also appointed as the Chief Juror of the International Innovation Awards in Malaysia Technology Expo, MTE 2023 & 2024. 

Professor Dr. Penjit Srinophakun earned her degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1996. She is currently the director of the KU-biodiesel project and head of the Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory (BEL), Chemical Engineering Department, Kasetsart University. She was director of the Center of Excellence for Jatropha from 2010 to 2024. Dr. Srinophakun has also held leadership positions as president of the Thai Society for Biotechnology (TSB, 2010-2016, 2020-2022) and Vice President of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB, 2010-2022). Her research focuses on waste valorization, biofuels, biochemicals and biorefinery, techno-economic feasibility, and life cycle assessment, among other areas. 

Naoya Sakoda is an Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyushu University, and the Unit Leader of Hydrogen Energy System Safety Science and Risk Management Unit at Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation (F-REI), Japan. He received a Master’s degree in 2003 and a Ph.D. in 2006 in mechanical engineering from Keio University. His main research interests are thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures, especially high-pressure hydrogen up to 100 MPa and environmentally friendly new refrigerants such as hydrofluoroolefins. He is also interested in hydrogen energy systems, and his recent work includes the development of a hydrogen refueling protocol for heavy-duty vehicles, which are fuel cell buses and trucks. He is a member of ISO/TC197/WG24 Hydrogen Technologies, Task Force for the temperature stratification of hydrogen filled in on-board hydrogen storage containers. 

Masashi Kotobuki obtained Ph.D., in materials science from University of Yamanashi, Japan, in 2006. Then, he worked at Ulm University, Germany as a Humboldt Research Fellow. After that, he worked at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Hakodate National College of Technology in Japan as an assistant and associate professors, respectively, and then worked at the National University of Singapore. In 2021, he became a full professor in the Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan. He has researched solid electrolytes and allsolid-state batteries more than 15 years. Particularly, he succeeded in fabricating the all-solid-state battery with Li metal anode and garnettype solid electrolyte for the first time. His research is not restricted to garnet-type electrolytes, but NASICON-type and perovskite-type Li and Na ion conductive ceramics and their composites have also been studied. He has published more than 100 papers about ceramic electrolytes, composite electrolytes, and all-solid-state Li and Na batteries. His research interest is solid electrolytes for Li and post-Li batteries and all-solid-state Li and Na batteries.