Kailan Tian，University of Cambridge/AMSS, CAS

Kailan Tian is currently an associate professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D. degree of Economics from University of Groningen and a second Ph.D. degree of Management from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His academic efforts for quantitative economics, input-output modelling, global value chains, and climate change economics, have resulted in 40+ publications in high-impact journals including Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, Regional Studies, Economic Systems Research, and Energy Economics, international conferences and committee invites. He received positive feedbacks from main leaders of Chinese central government and letters of commendation from Ministry of Commerce of China. His written evidence on net zero emissions and trade was accepted by the UK Parliament.

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Dr Xin Tian is a researcher at KWR Water Research Institute and the International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre. He earned his PhD in Water Management from TU Delft (2015) and has research interest in HydroInformatics, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence applications for water and environmental systems. His work experience extends across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, Singapore, and China.

Yan Zhao is an assistant Professor (Research) at the University of Hong Kong, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leuven (Belgium), recipient of the Belgian FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship. He graduated with a doctorate from the University of Leuven in 2021. Now he is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the environmental science journal Journal of Environmental Management, Young Editorial Board Member of the membrane field journal Advanced Membranes, and the guest editor of Desalination, Separation and Purification Technology, etc. He is the member of the European Membrane Society (EMS), Secretary-General of the First Secretariat of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Environmental and Ecological Engineering Alliance (2021-2025), reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC), Belgian Flanders Fund (FWO), and Dutch National Fund (NOW) of the Netherlands. His main research areas include electro-membrane science, ion resource recovery, membrane system engineering technology, new energy electro-membrane technology, water treatment, etc. He has published a number of academic papers in journals such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Membrane Science, etc. Personal h-index is 38.

Dr. Zhao Fangjia graduated from the Department of Chemistry at University College London, under the guidance of Professor Ivan P. Parkin, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry at University College London, focusing on the mechanism of new battery energy storage. He has explored the Grotthuss mechanism transition behavior of hydrated hydrogen ions in aqueous batteries. Currently, he is dedicated to the design and synthesis of cathode materials for new energy storage systems, and combines in-situ spectroscopic characterization techniques to develop efficient new battery systems. His research results have been published as the first author in journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Functional Materials, and Energy Storage Materials.

Xu Anghui is a doctoral student majoring in Drinking Water Sanitation Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the chemical analysis, migration and fate, risk assessment, and treatment strategies of environmental persistent pollutants. Currently, his main research areas include the analysis, characterization, and migration transformation mechanisms of micro-nanoplastics and stubborn pollutants derived from wildfires. He has published 23 academic papers in international authoritative journals such as Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research. Among them, 14 papers were published as the first author (including 3 ESI highly cited papers), with a total citation of 920 times and an h-index of 15. He has received national scholarships for overseas study, as well as honors such as the Outstanding Master's Thesis Award of Chongqing University, National Scholarship for Master's Students, and Outstanding Student Award of Chongqing University.

Pu Yang is a Research Fellow at the UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, affiliated with the Centre for Net Zero Market Design within the Institute for Sustainable Resources. Her research supports the sustainable energy transition from both economic and policy perspectives. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Nature Energy, One Earth, and Global Environmental Change, and has been widely cited in policy discussions and media outlets.

She has received several prestigious awards and scholarships from institutions including UCL, the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Great Britain–China Centre (GBCC), and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), reflecting the significance and quality of her research. Prior to joining UCL, she held research positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Exeter, where she focused on sustainable finance and climate-compatible growth in low- and middle-income countries.

Guo Fengxiang is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong. In 2024, he obtained his doctoral degree from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Germany. His main research focus is on urban thermal infrared remote sensing. The core research directions include the urban heat island effect, nighttime light remote sensing, and methane emission assessment, providing scientific support for urban sustainable development and the carbon neutrality goals. Currently, he is involved in the "Global Methane Hub" project, focusing on the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of methane emissions under the background of climate change.

Biography: Dr. Ir. Xiaoyu Tan is currently an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium, specializing in the development and application of next-generation high-performance membranes for gas separations. He holds a B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry from Dalian University of Technology, an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and a Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering from KU Leuven. He also brings industrial R&D experience from multinational companies such as SABIC and Aramco. His research has been published in leading journals including Science, Advanced Materials, and Angewandte Chemie, and he has received multiple honors such as the Best Paper Award and PhD Award from the European Membrane Society, as well as the CSC Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (Top Category). He currently serves as a Youth Editor for Chinese Chemical Letters and is dedicated to advancing sustainable separation technologies for energy and environmental applications.

Natalia Gutowska is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lab Manager at Bioref Research Group in Poznan University of Technology. She received her PhD at the Faculty of Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in 2017. Since that I had an opportunity to work not only in an academic environment but also in industry. She is interested in analytical chemistry as well as in UV-VIS spectroscopy and recovery of valuable compounds from fermentation broth. She is engaged in a several projects in which she is focused mainly on establishing analytical methods including but not limited to use of HPLC and GC.

Dr. Huajun Yu is a Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London (UCL). His research focuses on land-use and its impacts on biodiversity, spanning methodological modeling, systemic assessment, and optimization strategies.He has secured funding as Principal Investigator for multiple competitive projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Program (Category C) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. As a core member, he has contributed to major national initiatives such as China's National Key R&D Program and NSFC International Cooperation Projects. With over 20 publications in leading journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nexus (Cell Press), Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Journal of Environmental Management.

Dr. Mingliang Chen earned his PhD in Water Management from TU Delft in 2022. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Twente and TU Delft. In 2025, he was awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to carry out his research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Dr. Chen has over eight years of research and development experience in membrane filtration, thin-film coating, nanoparticle (catalyst) design, and electrochemical energy transition. His work bridges fundamental science and applied technologies in sustainable water and energy systems. To date, he has authored more than 16 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating over 1,200 citations, with an h-index of 10.