CONFERENCE - Key Persons


Dr Lan Song

CV: Dr Lan Song is a lecturer at Southern University of Science and Technology. She is formerly a publisher at Elsevier, the Netherlands. With a background in Econanotoxicology, she worked as the Managing Editor for several environmental Science and Health journals. Currently, she is the publisher for twelve international scientific journals in environmental science and technology. Her main responsibility is to closely monitor the journal performance, identify potential editorial candidates, and proactively communicate with researchers to address the needs as authors, reviewers and readers.

Dr Timothy Gordon Walmsley

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory ( SPIL )

Prof Chun-Han Ko

Job Titles:
  • Professor from School of Forestry

Prof Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

Job Titles:
  • SPIL Conference President and Head of SPIL, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Prof Pen-Chi Chiang

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Prof Robin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Centre for Process Integration, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, the University of Manchester, United Kingdom
CV: Professor Robin Smith is Director of the Centre for Process Integration in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science of the University of Manchester. He co-founded Process Integration Limited and Process Asset Integration Management Limited (ProAim), both spin-out companies from the University. He has extensive industrial experience with Rohm & Haas in process investigation, production and process design, and with ICI in process modelling and process integration. He has acted extensively as a consultant to industry in process integration projects. He has published widely in the field of process integration and is the author of "Chemical Process Design and Integration", published by Wiley. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a Chartered Engineer. In 1992 he was awarded the Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers for his work on waste minimisation. In 2018 he was awarded the Sargent Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in recognition of over 35 years leadership and pioneering research leading to the conceptual development of advanced process integration principles and methodologies.

Prof Valentin Plesu

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Centre for Technology Transfer

Prof Zhi-Guo Qu

Job Titles:
  • Department of Thermo - Fluid Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China