Imperial College London

Title: Challenges and opportunities in advanced CO₂ energy conversion and storage technologies

Bio: Christos Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies, Head of the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory, and Leader the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory, which is the largest experimental space of its kind at Imperial College London. He is also, amongst other, Editor-in-Chief of journal Applied Thermal Engineering and founding Editor-in-Chief of new journal AI Thermal Fluids.

He specialises in applied thermodynamics, fluid flow and heat/mass transfer processes in highperformance devices, technologies and systems for energy recovery, conversion or storage. He has authored >400 journal and >350 conference articles on these topics (~20,000 citations, h-index = 75).

He has won multiple awards, including IMechE’s ‘Donald J. Groen’ outstanding paper prize in 2016, IChemE’s ‘Global Award for Best Research Project' in 2018, IChemE’s ‘Clean Energy Medal’ in 2025, and received Imperial College President’s Awards for Research Excellence in 2018 and Teaching Excellence in 2017. He has an interest in technology transfer, innovation and commercialisation, most recently as a founding Director of solar technology company Solar Flow.

Tohoku University, Japan

Title: Fundamentals of Supercritical and Hydrothermal Fluids for Energy and Chemical Applications

Bio: Professor Richard L. Smith Jr. is in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies (GSES)/GP-RSS, Tohoku University, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ). His research focuses on developing green chemical processes with supercritical and hydrothermal methods. He has published more than 300 scientific papers. He is Author of Introduction to Supercritical Fluids published by Elsevier in 2013, Co-editor of the book series Biofuels and Biorefineries (Prof. Zhen Fang, Editor-in-Chief) published by Springer Nature, and Senior Editor for the Journal of Supercritical Fluids.