Plenary Lectures

Cardiff University, UK

• 2015 -present: Professor of Computational and Catalytic Chemistry, School of Chemistry

University College London, UK

• 2014 -present: Professorial Research Fellow, Chemistry Department
• 2007 – 2014: Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• 2002 – 2007: Head of Chemistry Department (joint appointment with The Royal Institution)
• 1976 – 1985: University Lecturer in Chemistry

The Royal Institution, London, UK

• 1998 – 2007: Director, Davy Faraday Research Laboratory
• 1989 – 2007: Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy

University of Keele, UK

• 1985 – 1989: Professor of Physical Chemistry, Joint Appointment between University of Keele and Daresbury Laboratory

University of Oxford, UK

• 1975 – 1976: IBM Research Fellow: St John's College, Oxford
• 1973 – 1975: ICI Research Fellow: Theoretical Chemistry Department, Oxford

• Fellow of the International Science Council, 2022
• Honorary Doctorate, University of Bath, UK, 2022
• Knight Bachelor, 2020
• Member of the Leopoldina: The German National Science Academy, 2020
• Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Lectureship Prize, 2020
• CNR Rao Award Lectureship of the Chemical Research Society of India, 2020
• Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, 2017
• Honorary Fellow of the Cuban Chemical Society, 2016
• Honorary Professor: University of Limpopo, South Africa, 2014
• Gerhardt Ertl Lecturer, Berlin, 2014

Current work is centred on the investigation of complex materials using a combination of computer modelling, quantum mechanical, synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering techniques.  Present projects have a strong emphasis on nano-science, catalysis and energy materials.

CURRICULUM VITAE_ Professor Sir Richard Catlow, D.Sc, FRSC, F.Inst P, MAE, FISC, FLSW, FRS

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/people/richard-catlow

City University of Hong Kong, China

• Chair Professor of Dept. of Materials and Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, and Dept. of Systems Engineering

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

• 2016-Now: TSMC Chair Professor
• 2019-2022: Yushan Scholar (sponsored by Ministry of Education, Taiwan)

NTU, Singapore

• 2002-2002: Tan Kah Kee Visiting Professorship, School of Materials Engineering

UCLA, USA

• 1998-2004: Chair, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
• 1993-2016: Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical Engineering

Cornell University, USA

• 1988-1993: Adjunct Professor

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

• 1985-1987: 3rd Level Manager of Materials Science Department
• 1978-1985: 2nd Level Manager of Thin Film Science Department
• 1972-1978: 1st Level manager of Kinetics and Diffusion Group

• IEEE Division of Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Award in 2017
• Materials Research Society - Fellow 2014
• TMS John Bardeen Award in 2011
• TMS-EMPM Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award in 2006
• Member of Academia Sinica, ROC, 2002
• Humboldt Research Award for Senior US scientists, 1996
• Acta/Scripta Metallurgical Lecturer, 1990 - 1992
• Churchill College - Overseas Fellow, 1990
• The Metallurgical Society - Fellow, 1988
• Materials Research Society - President, 1981

Thin Film Materials Science, Kinetics in Nanoscale Materials, and Reliability Science in Microelectronic Devices

https://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~kntu/

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• Now: Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering
• 1995-2016: Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Nanostructure Characterization

Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems (BINN), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

• Now: Director and Chief Scientist

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

• 1993-1995: Research Fellow

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• 1989-1993: Research Fellow

Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England

• 1988-1989: Research Fellow

• Global Energy Prize 2023
• Research.com: Ranked #1 in materials science in 2023 worldwide; ranked #1 in materials science globally and ranked #9 across all fields worldwide in 2022.
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest honor bestowed upon an inventor who achieves commercial impact through research, in 2022.
• Celsius Lecture Laureate, Sweden in 2020
• Albert Einstein World Award for Science in 2019
• Diels-Planck lecture award in 2019
• ENI Award in 2018
• Global Nanoenergy Prize, the NANOSMAT Society, UK in 2017
• Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation award, Georgia Tech in 2016
• Router Citation Laureate in Physics in 2015
• World Technology Award (Materials) in 2014
• James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials in 2014

Nanogenerators and Self-powered Sensors; Coined Piezotronics and Piezo-phototronics for the Third Generation Semiconductors

http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu/

https://www.mse.gatech.edu/people/zhong-lin-wang

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

• 2021-Now: Distinguished Research Chair Professor and Dean of College of Semiconductor Research

TSMC, Taiwan

• 2011-2015: Vice President/Distinguished Fellow
• 2000-2011: Senior Director

Linnovation, Inc., USA

• 1992-2000: President

IBM, USA

• 1970-1992: Research staff member/ Research staff manager/ Department manager / Executive staff

• SPIE Mozi Prize (墨子奬) The SPIE Mozi Award recognizes outstanding discoveries, inventions, or scientific and technical achievements in the field of optics. (2023)
• Taiwan Photonics Society Life Achievement Award (2023)
• Outstanding EE Professional (金選傑出EE人) (2023)
• The 15th Pan Wen Yuan Award. (2021)
• Future Science Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science. (2018)
• Elected as Members of Academia Sinica in 2014.
• Recipient of the IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal in 2013.
• Honored as an Industrial Technology Research Institute Laureate in 2013.
• Recognized with the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 2009.
• Inducted as a Life Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2008, for exceptional technical innovations and leadership in semiconductor manufacturing lithography.
• Received the SPIE Inaugural Frits Zernike Award in 2004.
• SPIE Fellow since 2003.
• IEEE Fellow since 2003.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Photolithography, Electromagnetic Wave and Photonics

University of North Texas, USA

• 2020-Now: University Presidential Professor

University of North Texas, USA

• 2018-Now: Regents Professor

Ohio State University, USA

• 2012-Now: Adjunct Professor

School of Materials Engineering, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore

• 2018-Now: Visiting Professor

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

• 2023-Now: Visiting Professor

• ASM International – Fellow 2023
• National Talent Search Scholarship, India (1987)

Titanium alloys, High entropy alloys, Ni base superalloys, Soft magnetic materials, Additive Manufacturing, Functionally graded materials

https://materials.engineering.unt.edu/people/raj-banerjee

The University of Tokyo

• 2019-present: University Professor
• 2004-2019: Professor, Department of Chemical System Engineering School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Shinshu University

• 2019-present: Special Contract Professor of Research Initiative for Supra-Materials（RISM）
• 2017-present: Special Contract Professor, Cross appointment, Center for Energy & Environmental Science

Tokyo Institute of Technology

• 1996-2004: Professor, Chemical Resources Laboratory
• 1990-1996: Associate Professor, Chemical Resources Laboratory
• 1982-1990: Associate Researchers, Chemical Resources Laboratory

IBM Almaden Research Center

• 1985-1986: Visiting Scientist

• Award the EIC Horizon Prize for 'Fuel from the Sun: Artificial Photosynthesis in 2022
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry since 2022
• Japan Ssociety of Coordination Chemistry Contribution Award in 2022
• The Honorary Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society in 2020
• Advance of Catalysis Award of APACS in 2019
• Lee Hsun Lecture Award in 2019
• The Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award in 2018
• The Japan Petroleum Institute Award in 2018
• Lewis Lecturer; University of Cambridge, 2014
• The Chemical Society of Japan Awards in 2011

Physical chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysts, surface chemistry

Kyoto University, Kyoto

• 2004.11-Now: Professor

Osaka University, Suita

• 2022.07-Now: Guest Professor

Kyoto University, Kyoto

• 1989.04-2004.10: Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

• 1988.04-1989.3: Postdoctoral Fellow

• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2021

• Honda Frontier Award in 2019

• JIM Tanigawa-Harris Award in 2012

• Council Member, Science Council of Japan since 2017

• President of JIM in 2019

Crystal Plasticity in Structural Materials, Small Scale Plasticity in Brittle Intermetallics and Ceramics, Atomic-Scale Defect Characterization by Advanced Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy

http://imc.mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp/