Proceedings of the 8th International Conference
on Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transfer (EHST 2024)
June 16, 2024 - June 18, 2024 | Chestnut Conference Centre - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The Plenary and keynote information for the 8th International Conference of Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transfer (EHST 2024) is as follows:
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Catherine Mulligan
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Zuhair
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Dr. Catherine Mulligan
Concordia University, Canada
Catherine N. Mulligan, PhD. is a Distinguished Research Professor at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the founder and Director of the Concordia Institute of Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems. Her research involves the treatment of soil, water, sediments and mining wastes. She has published more than 135 refereed journal papers and 8 books, and is preparing the book on the Water-Energy Nexus to be published in 2024 by CRC Press. She has supervised more than 75 graduate students to completion. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering and Royal Society of Canada.
Topic of Plenary:
Water-Energy Nexus: Energy Extraction from Water Towards Carbon Neutrality
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Zuhair
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Sulaiman Al-Zuhair is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at UAE University and currently holds the position of Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Before that, he held the positions of Head of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Director of Project Management Unit and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program. Prof. Al-Zuhair’s research resulted in publication of over 100 papers in Scopus and his current Scopus h-index is 34. He also has five patents under his name and published an authored book and three book chapters. As a Principal Investigator, Prof. Al-Zuhair was able to secure research funds of over AED 3 million dirhams, and over AED 20 million as a Co-Investigator. He is the recipient of the Dubai Award for Sustainable Transport (Best Academic Research) and the UAEU Research Excellence Award in 2019, and College of Engineering Excellence Research Award in 2016 and 2020. Prof. Al-Zuhair is on the Editorial Boards in a number of journals, and had held positions in the scientific and organizing committees of several international conferences
Topic of Keynote:
Performance of Immobilized Enzymes in Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)