Plenary Speakers

Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She is the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) at QUT, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Air Quality and Health; the Centre Director for the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE) hosted at QUT; a Vice-Chancellor Fellow, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, United Kingdom; an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), at the Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; and a Co-Director in Australia for the Australia – China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM). She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter. She is an author of >1,070 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. Lidia has been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national/international professional bodies, is an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Biology, and is acting as an advisor to the WHO. She is the recipient of numerous scientific awards including being named in the 2021 TIME100 annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world.

Over 25 years of research experience related to aerosol physicochemical characterization, application of nuclear techniques to environmental studies and radioactivity including development of novel sampling and measurement techniques. He has established and is responsible for the Demokritos Regional Research Aerosol station, member of the Global Atmosphere Watch network (GAW-DEM), operating since 2007 and Helmos Mountain station since 2016. He has been actively involved in European initiatives for the development of standardized methods, through EUSAAR (European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research) and ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure) activities. He has also served as an Expert in missions for the Regional IAEA/AFRA projects, as well as the National Counterpart for Greece in Regional IAEA programs. He has been the PI and coordinated for Demokritos several EU FP and National programs. Among these, he has coordinated the ENTEC Infrastructure REGPOT FP7 programme for Capacity Building the NCSR Demokritos atmospheric science and technology Infrastructure, led the DG-ENV LIFE+ ACEPT-AIR, FROST DEFEND programmes and was PI for NCSR in the LIFE AIRUSE and LIFE-INDEX programmes. , He has more than 190 publications in peer reviewed journals regarding atmospheric aerosol science, measurement methodology and applications in radiation protection, air pollution and climate impact of atmospheric aerosol. President of the Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research (2015-2023), member of the Pan Eurasian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Neng-Huei (George) Lin holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the North Carolina State University and a B.S. from the National Taiwan University. He is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Chemistry, and Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at the National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. He was honored as the Distinguished Professor at NCU in 2013. Dr. Lin served as the Department Chairperson in 2002-2005, and the Dean for the Office of Student Affairs in 2006-2009 at the NCU. He was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) from Fall 2014 to Spring 2017. He was also honored as an Adjunct Professor at Ching Mai University (CMU), Thailand from Fall 2014 to 2016. He has been the Invited Visiting Professor of Kanazawa University in 2015-2019.

Dr. Lin is presently leading the Cloud and Aerosol Laboratory (CAL) at NCU, which consists of 5 professors and researchers, 15 staff and 18 graduate students. In 2019/2-2023/1, he was appointed as the Director of the Center for Environmental Monitoring and Training (CEMT), NCU, which is a joint center primarily funded by the US EPA and Taiwan Ministry of Environment.

Dr. Lin’s researches are focused on physical and chemical processes of atmospheric pollutants including acid deposition, cloud chemistry and physics, biomass-burning aerosol, atmospheric mercury, and greenhouse gases, with emphasis on biomass-burning aerosol-cloud-radiative interaction in East and Southeast Asia (i.e. Seven South East Asian Studies, 7-SEAS), and atmospheric background measurements at Mt. Lulin (2,862 m, LABS) in past 20 years. Dr. Lin is also the program coordinator of the Taiwan Acid Rain Network. He has been heavily involved in many international field campaigns, such as ACE-Asia, ABC/EAREX, BASE-ASIA, 7-SEAS and Korea-Japan-HK-Taiwan Asian Continental Outflow Study, Asian Pacific Mercury Monitoring Network (APMMN), etc. He is very active in international collaborations and was frequently invited as a speaker at AMS, AGU, AAC, and professional conferences, symposiums, and workshops. Dr. Lin has published more than 170 SCI papers.

Dr. Lin is the Editor-in-Chief of Aerosol and Air Quality Research and has served on the Editorial Board of Atmospheric Environment and Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment. He has been serving as a member of many technical and advisory committees on international, national, and ministry levels. He served as the Secretary in General, Vice President, and President of the Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research (TAAR) in 2000-2001, 2004-2008, and 2009-2011, respectively, and now is the Fellow and Honorary President of TAAR. Besides, he was elected as the Fellow of the Asian Aerosol Research Assembly (AARA) in 2019, and the Fellow of the Meteorological Society of ROC (Taiwan) in 2021.

Mohd Talib Latif is a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution at the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM); and a fellow of the Malaysian Academy of Science (FASc). He completed his BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Science at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and his PhD at the School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Currently, he is Chairman of the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His main research work included the composition of atmospheric aerosols, atmospheric gases such as surface ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). His research group has been working closely with government agencies in Malaysia such as the Malaysian Department of Environment (DOE) and the Malaysian Meteorological Department (Met Malaysia) in the area of atmospheric compositions and climate change. At the international level, he is actively involved with the research community within the Asian continent through International Global on Atmospheric Chemistry- Monsoon Asia (IGAC-MANGO) project. Since 2018 he has been appointed to one of the scientific steering committees forthe Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). He participated in the 3rd IPCC Expert Meeting on short lived climate forces (SLCFs) in 2022. Mohd Talib has received the Top Research Scientist Malaysian (TRSM) Award from the Academy of Science Malaysia for his research and publication in 2018.

Bjarne is the Executive Director of Clean Air Asia. Bjarne has a broad international experience, particularly in environmental issues and sustainable development, with a proven track record of achieving meaningful impact through strategic leadership, resource mobilization and team building at all levels. He has taken CAA through continuous growth both regionally as well as in China and India including broadening the work of Clean Air Asia to include the Air, Climate and Public Health nexus. Bjarne holds a MSc in Environmental Studies from Strathclyde University, Scotland.

Marconi Madai is the Vice President of Health, Safety, Security and Environment, a position he was appointed to in September 2011. He leads a multi-disciplinary team to drive excellence in health, safety and environment in Sarawak Energy as well as ensure business continuity management in line with the Group’s business objectives Marconi has extensive industry experience, having served in management positions in the chemical industry in Malaysia, where he developed standard operating procedures, oversaw compliance to standards, managed business risks and drove initiatives on human resources and CSR. Marconi graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City in the USA in 1997.