ICNST 2026 Speakers

 


Kun Qian
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof. Kun Qian, BS/MS at Fudan University, PhD at University of Queensland, Research Fellow at Stanford University. He is now a Distinguished Professor at School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Medicine (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SJTU), Vice Dean of National Center of Translational Medicine (Shanghai). His research interests and efforts are focused on the development and commercialization of ultra-sensitive and high-throughput bio-analytical methods and mass spectrometry techniques towards large-scale clinical use through design, synthesis, and engineering of materials and devices. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles in top international research journals, including Cell, Cell Metabolism, Nature Sustainability et al. Prof. Dr. Qian has attracted grants from top research programs (e. g. from NSFC and MOST) and received several prestigious domestic/international awards for research excellence. He held several key patents and had strong connections with domestic and international industry partners.

 

 


Meyer Thierry
EPFL, Switzerland

MER Dr. Meyer earned his MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1985 and his PhD in 1989. He subsequently worked in the chemical industry at Ciba-Geigy, Novartis, and Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc., holding roles including development chemist, head of development, and production manager. Since 1999, he has been a research group director in risk management at EPFL and led the university’s occupational health and safety service from 2005 to 2022. He has published over 200 SCI(E) journal articles, authored 13 books, and serves as an expert for national and international courts in safety and risk matters.

 

 


Jiang Li
China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Professor Jiang Li received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 from the University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Professor Yao Fu. In the same year, he joined the College of New Energy and Materials at China University of Petroleum (Beijing). From 2017 to 2018, he conducted a one-year academic visit at the University of Delaware, USA, where he worked with Professor Dionisios G. Vlachos. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 19 papers in high-impact international journals, including Nature Communications, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, ACS Catalysis, and Green Chemistry. His work has been cited more than 1915 times with an H-index of 18. He currently leads one project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and participates as a key member in two projects under the National Key Research and Development Program (Youth Scientist Project). His recent research interests focus on the high-value utilization of biomass and waste plastics, with particular emphasis on biomass refining, plastic degradation, CO2 reduction, and photocatalysis. His work involves rational catalyst design, exploration of novel reaction pathways, and in-depth reaction mechanism studies.

 

 


Yu-Hsiang Hsu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Prof. Yu-Hsiang Hsu is an associate professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the director of the Microphysiological System & Smart Wearables Lab. His areas of interest include microphysiological systems for drug screenings and smart wearables for health monitoring. The microphysiological systems focus on developing microfluidic systems that can replicate physiological environments to develop human tissues for drug testing, including cardiac microtissues, microvasculature, arterioles, and microtumors. The smart wearables focus on developing ultra-compliant piezoelectric textiles that can monitor physiological information of the swallowing process, muscle contractions, tendon deformation, and blood pressure.

 

 


Junlei Qi
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Prof. Junlei Qi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Jilin University. He was an Academic Visitor at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). His research interests focus on the joining of new and dissimilar materials (ceramics, composites, graphene, metals), interface design and carbon nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion (OER, HER). He has published over 166 peer-reviewed articles as first/corresponding author in top international research journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., and Carbon. Prof. Qi has attracted grants from major research programs (e.g., NSFC, equipment pre-research funds) and received several prestigious domestic awards for research excellence, including the National Young Talent, Heilongjiang Excellent Youth Science Fund, and First Prize of Energy Science and Engineering. He holds over 30 key patents and has strong connections with domestic and international industry partners, with his technologies applied in key components for aerospace engines, air-to-air missiles, and satellite graphene thermal management systems.

 

 


Yaotian Yan
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Assoc. Prof. Yaotian Yan joined the school of materials science and engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2024. He completed P.H.D with Prof. Junlei Qi in State Key Laboratory of Precision Welding ＆ Joining of Materials and Structures at Harbin Institute of Technology. In 2026, he works on microjoining of non-precious catalytic electrodes under the supervision of Prof. Alex Yan Qingyu in Nanyang Technological University. He has 24 first-author papers in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Energy Materials, with over 2,900 citations (Scopus) and an H-index of 28 (Scopus). He has served as a youth editor for Advanced Powder Materials, Nano Micro Letters, Materials Reports: Energy, Journal of Materials Heat Treatment, and other domestic and international journals, as well as a guest editor for Coatings, Frontiers in Chemistry, and Transactions of the China Welding Institution.