WFCC 2025 Invited Speakers
Note: all speakers are listed in order of surname.
Speaker details can be accessed by clicking on the presentation topic
Plenary Speakers
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Presentation Title: Interfacial Engineering in Solid Oxide Cells
Kui Jiao
Tianjin University, China
School of Mechanical Engineering
Anthony Kucernak
Imperial College of London, England
Department of Chemistry - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Shenzhen University, China
Presentation Title: PEROVSKITE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR SOLID OXIDE FUEL
CELLS/SOLID OXIDE ELECTROLYSIS CELLS
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Presentation Title: Recent Advances in Electrospun Nanofiber Mat Electrodes for
Fuel Cells
Zhigang Shao
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Curtin University, Australia
Presentation Title: A semi-vapor electrolysis technology for efficient hydrogen
generation from untreated water
Yunan Wang
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, China
Takeo YAMAGUCHI
Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
University of Southampton, UK
Presentation Title: Microbial electrochemical systems for simutaneous hydrogen
production and wastewater treatment
Keynote Speakers
Takuto Araki
Yokohama National University, Japan
South China University of Technology, China
Presentation Title: Oxygen Electrodes for Reversible Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical cells
University of Bayreuth
Presentation Title: Cobalt-Free Air Electrodes for Protonic Ceramic Cells
School of Chemical, University of Birmingham, UK
Presentation Title: Hydrogen crossover for differential pressure PEM water electrolysers
Soochow University, China
Presentation Title: Transport Properties of Proton Conducting Perovskite Zirconates and
Cerates
Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Presentation Title: Connected Nanoparticle Catalysts and Support-Free Catalyst Layers for
PEFCs
Tongji University, China
Presentation Title: Design of three-phase interface for low-platinum fuel cell and innovative
development
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Presentation Title: Integrated Hydrogen Production and Storage through Thermal -Electrical
Coupling
University of California San Diego
Presentation Title: Physics-Guided Structural Prediction for Sub-Nanometer Clusters and
Multi-Element Nanoparticles for Sustainable Materials Design
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Presentation Title: SOFC-From Material Research to Industrial Manufacture
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Presentation Title: Modeling Development on MEA Degradation and AI-based Lifetime
Prediction of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
Presentation Title: Low-Cost, High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Sustainable Hydrogen
Production: From Non-Precious Materials to Single-Atom Catalysts
Peichen Su
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Presentation Title: Surface Modification of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes for Performance
and Stability
Xiamen University, China
Presentation Title: Degradation Mechanism of Anode Catalyst Layers of PEM Water
Electrolyzers
Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC
Presentation Title: 3D CATALYTIC NANOARRAYS VERTICALLY INTERLOCKED ON aION
EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FOR mea USING IN WATER ELECTROLYSIS
UC Irvine, United States
Presentation Title: Modeling Reversible Fuel Cells of High Round-Trip Efficiency
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Presentation Title: Single Metal Site Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Presentation Title: Application of AI-based methods in design and diagnosis of proton
exchange membrane fuel cell
University of Science and Technology of China
Presentation Title: Temperature induced relaxation for determining oxygen transport kinetics
of nonstoichiometric oxides
Tianjin University, China
Presentation Title: Design of advanced low precious metal electrodes for AEM water
electrolysis
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Presentation Title: Advancing Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis with Trans-scale Chemistry
Invited Speakers
