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Prof. Wu is an Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong. His research is focused on building energy and sustainability technologies (BEST) towards carbon neutrality, including advanced heat pumps, novel working fluids, thermal energy storage, advanced thermal management, renewable energy utilization, and net-zero energy buildings. He has published more than 140 SCI papers, obtained/filed 25 CN/US patents, and published two English books. Prof. Wu is among the Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists Worldwide. He received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, the IIR Willis H. Carrier Young Researcher Award, the NIST Distinguished Associate Award, the Global Excellent Young Scholar Award of Energy and Built Environment, the National HVAC Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the National Metamaterials Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the CityUHK SEE Excellent Innovation Award, the CityUHK SEE Excellent Young Researcher Award, and the Academic New Talent of Tsinghua University. He won nine Gold Medals at various International Invention Exhibitions. He serves as an expert of IEA-SHC and IEA-HPT. He is a Co-Founder of Solar.E Tech Limited. He is a Co-Chair of ICEE, an Associate Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and an Editorial Board Member of several SCI journals.

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Francisco Javier Cano is a researcher specializing in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for environmental and energy applications. His work focuses on carbon-based materials and hybrid nanostructures, particularly in adsorption and photocatalysis.

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Ming Hu, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Architecture and Concurrent Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work. Trained as an architect and building scientist, Dr. Hu leads an interdisciplinary research group that advances sustainable, health-conscious, and low-carbon solutions for the built environment. Her work integrates life cycle assessment, AI-enabled diagnostics, and public health modeling, with particular focus on decarbonizing building stock and improving housing equity. Dr. Hu has authored four books and over 130 peer-reviewed publications. She has served as Principal Investigator or Co-PI on projects supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and international research agencies, with cumulative funding exceeding $20 million. As a 2022–2023 Jefferson Science Fellow, she served as a senior science advisor at the U.S. Department of State, contributing to international environmental policy on circular economy and urban sustainability.

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PhD in the branch of Sciences who, after teaching in Compulsory Secondary Education, and combining it with university teaching in the Master of Teacher Training in the module of Physics and Chemistry, she joined full time to the area of Didactics of Experimental Sciences, where she currently serves as Associate Professor. Her main lines of research are focused on the determination of different levels of scientific literacy in different demographic groups, the curricular inclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals at different educational levels, the training of science teachers, as well as teaching innovation methodologies for the acquisition of scientific competences.