Xuezhong He is an associate professor at Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who has been working in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for more than 10 years in membrane science and engineering. Dr. He has solid knowledge of and high competence in membrane materials (both polymeric and carbon membranes in flat sheets and hollow fibers) for energy-related separation processes, especially natural gas sweetening, biogas upgrading, and hydrogen purification. Dr. He has published >40 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as J. Member. Sci., Chem. Eng. J., AIChE J., I&EC Res., and has >2000 citations and an H-index of 20 (Google Scholar), and has contributed eight chapters to books; Dr. He has also given a number of presentations at international conferences.
Izumi Kumakiri is from Yamaguchi University Japan, having previously worked at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, and at Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning (SINTEF), Norway, and is involved in various national, international, and industrial projects on the developments and the applications of membranes and nano-functionalized materials. Professor Kumakiri is currently conducting research projects related to the developments of microporous inorganic membranes including carbon, zeolite, and other types, and their applications in energy and environmental fields, and has published more than 50 articles in leading scientific journals.