James Spivey is Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University, USA. He is past Director of the Center for Atomic-level Catalyst Design, and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research focuses on heterogeneous C1 catalysis, clean fuels, syngas conversion, methane reactions, and acid catalysts.
Prof. Dr Yi-Fan Han received his PhD from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) with honors in 1997. He is interested in heterogenous catalysts, especially revealing the origin of dynamic active sites using Operando spectroscopies. He has published more than 100 papers in top professional journals J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., ACS Catal., J. Catal., AIChE J., with 15 national invention patents.
Dr Dushyant Shekhawat leads the Reaction Engineering team at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown, USA. Dr Shekhawat's research interests include: fuel processing for fuel cell applications, reaction engineering, surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, energy, and microwave-assisted catalytic reactions. Currently, his team at NETL is leading efforts in developing microwave-assisted technologies and approaches to produce value-added fuels and chemicals from natural gas, higher hydrocarbon fuels, and coal. He was among the key contributors to a pyrochlore-based reforming catalyst, which was licensed to a spin-off company, Pyrochem Catalyst Company. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in West Virginia and also serves in the NCEES's PE Chemical Engineering Examination Development committee. Dr Shekhawat received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Michigan State University in East Lansing.
