Biography
James Doyle obtained his B.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 1981 and received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Colorado in 1989. After a three year post-doctoral appointment in materials science at the University of Illinois, he became an assistant professor at Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota in 1992, advancing to associate professor in 1999 and full professor in 2005. He has published widely in thin film materials science as well as plasma physics and chemistry, and has recently started research programs in electrical grid modelling with storage and the materials science of battery and supercapacitor electrodes. He is also involved in local community efforts to combat climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
Research Interest
Electric grid modelling with renewable energy and storage, materials science of photovoltaic materials, materials science of storage materials, plasma physics and chemistry.
Biography
Xiangrong Wang is currently the director and professor of the Centre for Urban Eco-Planning & Design, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University in Shanghai China, the director of National Centre for Virtual Simulation of Environmental Science at Fudan University,the President of Shanghai Ecological Society, the Deputy Chairman of Urban Ecological Commission of Ecological Society of China. In addition, he is the Chair of Environmental Science and Greening Division of Shanghai Municipal Construction Commission, and the editorial members of some academic journals, such as the editor-in-chief of Journal of World Forestry (Hans Press, USA), editors of Acta Ecological Sinica, Chinese Journal of Ecology, Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, etc, and reviewers of some International Journals such as Ecological Engineering, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Journal of Environmental Management.He also served as a regional vice-chair of East Asia, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication during 2004-2012 and a steering member of INTECOL Association. Prof. Wang got his Ph.D of Environmental Ecology in 1991 at East China Normal University and carried out his post-doctoral education of urban ecology and Planning at Tongji University in 1993. He was also a senior visiting scholar at the Univrsity of Liverpool, UK during 1994-1996 and a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Bard College, USA during 2004-2005.
Research Interest
Environmental ecology assessment and Ecological planning, Global change and Environmental policy & Sustainability, and Urban ecosystem research.
Biography
Tayfun Babadagli is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, at the University of Alberta, where he holds an NSERC-Industrial Research Chair in Unconventional Oil Recovery. Babadagli previously served on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, and Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Babadagli holds BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Southern California, all in petroleum engineering. He was an executive editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering (Formation Evaluation part) between 2010 and 2013 and an associate editor of ASME J. of Energy Resources Technology between 2011 and 2014. He is currently a member of the JPT Editorial Committee. Babadagli received SPE’s A Peer Apart Award in 2013, was elected an SPE Distinguished Member in 2013, and was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2013–2014. He is also the recipient of the 2017 SPE International Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.
Research Interest
His areas of interest include modeling fluid and heat flow in heterogeneous and fractured reservoirs, reservoir characterization through stochastic and fractal methods, optimization of oil/heavy-oil recovery by conventional/unconventional enhanced-oil-recovery methods, and CO2 sequestration.
