Dr. Chao Liu has been heading FEEP lab, WuXi STA since 2022, which is an integrated group driving flow, biocatalysis, electro and photochemistry applications, from process research to nonGMP/ GMP production for projects at different stages, aiming to improving the greenness, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of API manufacturing via synergizing the deep understanding of organic chemistry and continuous flow equipment. He finished a dual-PhD-program from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University (Prof. Yuliang Li and Liangbin Gan), Beijing, China and obtained Ph.D. of organic chemistry from PKU in 2012. Afterwards he worked as postdoc in the University of Tokyo with Prof. Eiichi Nakamura, transferred to Towa Pharmaceutical, and then HighChem Ltd in Japan. Particularly he studied flow chemistry as cooperating researcher in Flow Chemistry Team, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, with Prof. Shun-ya Onozawa, Yoshihiro Kon and Shu Kobayashi.

Christian H. Hornung is a Group Leader and Principal Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, which he joined in 2010. He received a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany in 2004 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK in 2008, where he worked in the groups of Prof. Malcolm R. Mackley and Prof. Steven V. Ley. Christian has more than 20 years of experience working in flow chemistry for chemical manufacture of APIs, fine chemicals and related industries, on the interface between chemistry and engineering. Christian is the director of FloWorks, CSIRO’s Centre for Industrial Flow Chemistry, which is a $10M technology transfer facility aimed at translating new continuous flow processes into production. Christian’s research interest includes microreactor engineering, additive manufacturing, organic synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, machine learning and polymer chemistry and he is currently leading a large multi-institutional effort to build a renewable hydrogen ecosystem using chemical hydrogen storage in Australia. Most recently Christian has been awarded an International Hydrogen Research Fellowship from the Australian Government, which allowed him to conduct several months of research at the collaborating Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.

Prof. Dr. Christophe Len received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Université de Picardie Jules Verne followed by a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hull (UK). In 1997, he became assistant Professor at UPJV and was promoted to full Professor in 2004 at the Université de Poitiers (France). In 2010, he moved as full Professor to the Université de Technologie de Compiègne – UTC (France). Since 2017, he has developed his research at Chimie ParisTech (France). He has published ~ 250 original publications and review articles, 11 book chapters, and 12 patents (H 49, 7497 citations, Scopus). Among recent awards and recognition to his scientific career, he was promoted Honorary Professor of the University of Hull, England (2012–2018), Honorary Professor at the University of Delhi, India (2022), Honorary Professor at the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2022-2025) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2015). In 2017, he was honored with the 2017 Glycerine Innovation Award sponsored by the American Cleaning Institute and the National Biodiesel Board. His current research explores organic chemistry and continuous flow.

Di Sha, MD, PhD is the Chief Scientist at Ou Shisheng (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. As such, she is responsible for all aspects of the biology applications, including equipment R&D, testing, and sales/customer support.

Fang Zhao obtained her PhD degree from Tsinghua University (China) in 2016, after which she worked as a postdoc for two years in Prof. Noël’s group at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands). Since 2018, she works at the School of Chemical Engineering in East China University of Science and Technology (China), during which she did research in Prof. Jensen’s group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the US) from September 2018 to August 2019. The research interest of Fang Zhao focuses on continuous flow synthesis of fine chemicals and automated flow systems.

Prof. Guangsheng Luo is a Cheung Kong distinguished professor and Head of State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. degrees in 1993 and 1988, respectively, both from Tsinghua University. His research interests include microstructured chemical systems, separation science and technology, and functional materials. He has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds more than 100 Chinese patents. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and he is the recipient of several awards, including the second prize of China State Technological Invention Award. His is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Beijing Normal University (B.S., 2006)
Boston University (PhD, 2012)
MIT (Postdoc, 2012-2015)
Assistant Professor, NUS (2015-2021)
Associate Professor, NUS (2021-now).
[Field of research] Photocatalysis, Flow Chemistry, Automated Synthesis

Prof. Kai Wang obtained his Ph. D degree in 2010 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. During 2015 to 2016, he worked as a visiting scholar in Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now working as an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University. His research interest is flow chemistry and electrochemical synthesis.

- Graduated from Philipps-University Marburg 2007
- PhD with Prof. Steve V. Ley (Cambridge) in 2010
- Humboldt postdoc with Prof. Larry E. Overman (UC Irvine) 2011-2013
- postdoc with Prof. Ian R. Baxendale (Durham) 2013-2017
- since 2017 Assistant Professor for Continuous Flow Chemistry at University College Dublin

Dr. Nopphon Weeranoppanant is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Burapha University and an Adjunct Professor at School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC). He obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University and his MS and PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

Dr. Nopphon received numerous awards and fellowships including Charles F. Bonilla Medal (Columbia University, 2011), David H. Koch Fellowship (MIT, 2011), Postdoctoral fellowship at Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing (MIT, 2016), Delegate of Thailand to the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2017), and Emerging Investigator from Reaction Chemistry & Engineering journal (2019) and Journal of Flow Chemistry (2020). He was recently named among 2023 class of influential researchers by ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research journal.

Prof Paul Watts started his career as a lecturer at the University of Hull in 2002, being promoted to full professor in 2011. At the University of Hull he led the micro reactor and flow technology group. In February 2013, he moved to Nelson Mandela University to hold the Distinguished Professorship and Research Chair in Microfluidic Bio/Chemical Processing. He has published of over 120 highly cited papers. He strongly believes that scientists should conduct research that impacts society; the biggest project underway involves the local production of key drugs as the morbidity and mortality from major diseases are much more devastating in Africa than in other regions of the world. The vision is that new technology will be used within South Africa to manufacture generic drugs; this could create jobs and a new manufacturing industry within the country.

Shengyang Tao is a professor at Dalian University of Technology and currently serves as the dean of the School of Chemistry. He studied at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, from 2000 to 2008, and successively obtained his Bachelor's and Doctorate degrees. He joined the Dalian University of Technology in 2008 and has long been engaged in research in microfluidics, continuous flow reactions, and intelligent chemistry. He has published over 100 academic papers in journals such as Nature Communications, AIChE J, and Advanced Science and has developed a series of novel microfluidic chips and continuous-flow chemical reactors. Currently, his research interests focus on microfluidic chips, continuous flow photochemistry, artificial intelligence-enhanced reaction screening and optimization.

Shinichiro Fuse has been a professor of chemistry at Nagoya University since 2019. He earned his B.S. degree in 2000 and his Ph.D. in 2005 from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Takashi Takahashi. He was a researcher at ChemGenesis Incorporated between 2005 and 2006, and a postdoctoral fellow from 2006 to 2008 at Harvard University in the group of Prof. Daniel E. Kahne. In 2008, he joined the faculty at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He then moved to the Chemical Resources Laboratory at the same university as an associate professor in 2015. His research is aimed toward the development of efficient synthetic processes based on a deep understanding of organic chemistry using flow synthesis, automated synthesis, theoretical calculations, and machine-learning technologies.

Shusaku Asano received his PhD from Kyoto University (Japan). His research interest covers chemical reaction engineering, automation, and process intensification with flow systems.

Prof. Volker Hessel studied chemistry at Mainz University/D. 1994: Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz/Germany (Director R&D); 2005: Professor Eindhoven University of Technology/NL; 2018: Deputy Dean (Research), Professor University of Adelaide, Australia; 2019: part-time professor University of Warwick/UK.

He is author of 678 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 90; >37,000 citations). He received the AIChE Excellence in Process Development Research Award, IUPAC ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry. He is program lead in the ARC Centre of Excellence Plants for Space (P4S), and is Research Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources. He received several EU’s research excellence grants (ERC Advanced/Proof of Concept/Synergy, FET OPEN). He is a member on the College of Experts for the National Research Foundation (NRF) within the Prime Minister’s Office”.

Wei Wang is a full professor at School of Chemical Engineering in Sichuan University, China. He received his B.S. degree in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in 2012 from Sichuan University. His research currently focuses on microfluidics, interfacial science, and functional materials. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds more than 50 Chinese patents.

Prof. Zhao received his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Quan Yuan and Guangwen Chen. He was appointed Assistant Professor at DICP from 2008 to 2011. Then, he continued to 2016 as an Associate Professor at DICP. At the same year, he joined into Yantai University. Then, he was promoted to Professor in 2018. His research focuses on microchemical engineering, process intensification, flow chemistry and membrane separation.