PROGRAMME

Advances in room acoustics prediction technology MR. JEONG, Cheol ho Technical University of Denmark [Short bio and main R&D fields] Associate professor at Technical University of Denmark since 2007. Architectural acoustics and human perception evaluations, Computational methods and Scientific machine learning in acoustics. Virtual reality and multi modal perception Mechanical division chair, 2019 EKC, Vienna, Austria Session chair of indoor environmental quality, 2022 EKC, Marseille, France [Recent publications] 60+ ISI journal publications, 120+ conference proceedings

3D audio in built environments MR. LEE, Hyunkook Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering and the Director of the Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL) and Centre for Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield [Short bio and main R&D fields] Professor Lee has developed research in the area of 3D audio psychoacoustic engineering as well as undergraduate modules such as Acoustics and Psychoacoustics and Spatial Recording Techniques. In 2014 he has established the Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL), a research group studying the mechanism of human auditory perception and developing new audio algorithms for practical applications. The APL’s research has significantly advanced the fundamental understanding about the perception of height in 3D audio recording and reproduction, and led to the development of new microphone array, panning and upmixing techniques. He regularly works with the industry as a consultant. Companies that he has worked with include Samsung Electronics, Volvo Car, L-ISA and MagicBeans. Hyunkook is also an experienced sound engineer specialising in surround and 3D acoustic recording. [Recent publications] 2CAP: A Novel Curve Crash Avoidance Protocol to handle Curve Crashes in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network, Bashir, R. R., Saeed, Y., Ali, A., Algarni, A. D., Muthanna, A., Hijjawi, M. & Alsboui, T., 3 Jan 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Access. 21 p., 10379681. Addressing cancer anorexia-cachexia in older patients: Potential therapeutic strategies and molecular pathways, Ispoglou, T., McCullough, D., Windle, A., Nair, S., Cox, N., White, H., Burke, D., Kantas, A. & Prokopidis, K., 1 Feb 2024, In: Clinical Nutrition. 43, 2, p. 552-566 15 p. Adult Children's Migration and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Nepali Adults, Ghimire, S., Singh, D., McLaughlin, S. J., Nath, D., McCarren, H. & Subedi, J., 12 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 13 p. A Framework for Risk-Aware Routing of Connected Autonomous Vehicles via Artificial Intelligence, Cardellini, M., Dodaro, C., Maratea, M. & Vallati, M., 13 Feb 2024, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems : ITSC 2023. IEEE, p. 5008-5013 6 p. 10422165

Echoes inConcrete: A Cinematic Tale of 'Robin Hood Gardens' and Urban Transformations. MR. BEYER, Thomas BEYER & DORSCHNER FILM PRODUKTION Thomas Beyer is a director and commissioning editor renowned for his documentary films. Notable works include "Robin Hood Gardens" (2022), awarded the Architecture Film Award at Milano Design Film Festival, and "ArteRe: Konservatoren in Auschwitz" (2020), honored with the German Prize for Monument Protection. As an commissioning editor, he contributed to "A House Made of Splinters" (2022), nominated for an Oscar, and " Pastor Lothar Stops" (2022), awarded at DOK Leipzig. Beyer is a documentary film commissioning editor at MDR/German TV since 2020, and he co-founded Beyer & Dorschner Filmproduktion GbR. Born on March 24, 1983, in Leipzig, he holds film scholarships and engages in various film-related committees. Recent publications Thomas Beyer, directed various documentaries, here is a short selction: 1. "Robin Hood Gardens" (2022) - Co-directed and produced with Adrian Dorschner. Awarded the Architecture Film Award at Milano Design Film Festival. 2. "ArteRe: Konservatoren in Auschwitz" (2020) - Directed a 35-minute documentary, honored with the German Prize for Monument Protection. 3. "Bowlingtreff" (2015) - Directed and produced a documentary about a postmodern bowling center in Leipzig. Official selection at DOK Leipzig 2015 and featured in international film festivals.

Quantum biology and biophotonics DR. KIM, Youngchan University of Surrey Youngchan is a Lecturer in the School of Biosciences at the University of Surrey. He joined the University in 2020 where he leads an interdisciplinary research group mainly interested in quantum biology and biophotonics. His group applies genetic engineering and optical spectroscopy approaches to investigate biomolecular systems that exploit quantum phenomena under physiological conditions. His group is also interested in developing and applying optical sensing and imaging techniques to biomedical research. He has also been involved in teaching and mentoring both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level in biochemistry, biophotonics, and quantum biology. Youngchan has served the KSEAUK as Vice-President for Research.

TBD DR. KIM, Young-lo Lancaster University I received my PhD in Astronomy from Yonsei University, South Korea in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Young-Wook Lee. During my PhD, I visited the University of Southampton, UK as a visiting student under the supervision of Prof. Mark Sullivan. I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Mickael Rigault at the Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, one of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique institutions in France. Now, I am working as a senior research associate with Prof. Isobel Hook at Lancaster University, UK. Currently, I am a member of two international collaborations: the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) collaborations. By developing new modules with Python for SEDMachine spectroscopic data in the ZTF collaboration, I have obtained ‘builder status’, which proves my practical computing skills. ‘Builder status’ is given to those members who have made significant contributions to building the collaboration, both its community and its simulation and analysis pipeline and infrastructure software.

Quantum States of Matter in Low Dimensions PROF. CHUNG, Mingee University of Birmingham Dr Chung was born and educated in South Korea. After obtaining PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from KAIST (supervisor, Prof. Soonchil Lee), he moved to France for postdoctoral research at Orsay (with Profs. F. Bert and P. Mendels, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, University of Paris-Saclay) as a Blaise Pascal Scholarship holder from French Government and at Grenoble (with Dr M. Horvatic, LNCMI; National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields). Then he moved to Lausanne, Switzerland to work with Prof. H. M. Ronnow, EPFL as an EPFL Fellow, Marie-Sklodowska Curie COFUND, European Commission. He joined the University of Birmingham in Dec. 2017 as a permanent academic under the University’s flagship programme, Birmingham Fellowship. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Advisory Council for the Korea-Europe Quantum Science and Technology Cooperation Center and the Superconductivity Group Committee of the Institute of Physics, UK.

Development of sodium-ion battery cells: a sustainable journey from materials to cell prototypes DR. HASA, Ivana University of Warwick, WMG Ivana Hasa is Assistant Professor of Electrochemical Materials in WMG at the University of Warwick. She is a chemist by background with extensive experience on electrochemical energy storage systems. Her research activities are directed toward the understanding of the processes governing the chemistry of the next generation sustainable battery technologies. Design of technically relevant materials and the understanding of their structure-property correlation and electrochemical behavior are the core of her research interest. Her work is inherently interdisciplinary, tackling challenges at the interface of chemistry, materials science, and electrochemistry. At the Energy Innovation Centre in WMG, she is also working toward the development and scale up of new battery chemistries from concept to full proven cell prototypes.

Life estimation and in-field usage monitoring for the blade bearing of wind turbine MR. SONG, Wooyong Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, UK Mr. Wooyong Song has 24 years’ career in rotating machinery engineering over different organizations such as R&D centre of Schaeffler Group, Engineering consulting department of Romax Technology and technical centre of Drivetrain System Internationals. He joined ORE Catapult in 2017 and is responsible for the engineering service and R&D program related to the gear and bearing of offshore wind and tidal turbines. In ORE Catapult, his current research focus is on the improvement of test methodology/ strategy of large wind turbine bearings and the development of innovative mechanical subsystem/ component solutions.

Multi-scale modeling of urban air pollution DR. KIM, Youngseob Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France Dr. Youngseob Kim is a research engineer of Environmental science and technology. His research is focused on air quality modeling. He has participated in the development of air quality models to cover a large range of phenomena: regional-scale pollution and local-scale pollution, gas-phase pollutants and particulate matters, dispersion and chemical transformation .................................... o Kim, Y., Lugon, L., Maison, A., Sarica, T., Roustan, Y., Valari, M., Zhang, Y., André, M., and Sartelet, K.: MUNICH v2.0: a street-network model coupled with SSH-aerosol (v1.2) for multi-pollutant modelling, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 7371–7396, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7371-2022, 2022. o Y. Kim, K. Sartelet, F. Couvidat: Modeling the effect of non-ideality, dynamic mass transfer and viscosity on SOA formation in a 3-D air quality model. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19 :1241-1261, 2019. o Y. Kim, Y. Wu, C. Seigneur, Y. Roustan: Multi-scale modeling of urban air pollution : development and application of a Street-in-Grid model (v1.0) by coupling MUNICH (v1.0) and Polair3D (v1.8.1). Geosci. Model Dev., 11 :611-629, 2018.

DR. FISEHA, Tesfaye Metso Oy, Finland Dr. Fiseha Tesfaye is a High-T Process Metallurgist at Metso Oy and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. In 2018, Dr. Tesfaye was also appointed as a visiting scientist at Seoul National University, Korea. Dr. Tesfaye is the Vice Chair of the TMS Energy Committee, a Subject Editor for JOM (Springer), and a Guest Editor for several other journals. In his research areas, Dr. Tesfaye has edited several scientific research books and published over 100 papers.

Recovery and valorization of metals contained in the fine fraction of Waste-to-energy bottom ash in France PROF. BLANC, Denise DEEP laboratory INSA Lyon, France Denise Blanc is an expert in environmental modeling (solid/liquid phases) and works at INSA Lyon since 2011. Her research focusses on environmental assessment in the context of waste recovery.

Effect analysis on waste recycling by introducing a new policy, DR. YOO, Heung-min National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), Korea ■ Environnental Assessment of Waste Recycling ■ Microplastic analysis of wastewaster treatment sludge ■ Research on the material flow of future waste resources (solar panels, waste batteries, etc.) ■ Research on the hazard analysis of waste batteries and the improvement of recycling

Anthropogenic fly ash particles: Environmental indicators of industrial combustion PROF. ROSE, Neil University College London, UK Neil Rose is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Pollution and Palaeolimnology at the Department of Geography, University College London. He started at UCL in 1987 after 2 years working for the British Antarctic Survey as a limnologist on their Signy Island base. Since completing his PhD in 1991, his research has used natural archives, especially lake sediments, to assess the spatial and temporal distributions of pollutants including fly-ash particles, trace metals, persistent organic compounds and microplastics. He has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific publications and more than 25 book chapters. Between 2008 and 2013, he led the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) Water Centre encouraging public participation in aquatic science. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG)............................................................................... Roberts, L.R., Kersting, D.K., Zinke, J. and Rose, N.L. (2024). First recorded presence of fly-ash particles in coral skeletons. Science of the Total Environment 921: 170665 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170665 Thomas, E.R., Tetzner, D.R., Roberts, S.L., Turner, S.D. and Rose, N.L. (2023). First evidence of industrial fly-ash in an Antarctic ice core. Scientific Reports: 13: 6529 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33849-x Curtis, C.J., Rose, N.L., Khanzada, T., Yang, H. and Humphries, M. (2023). Anthropocene environmental change in an overlooked South African lake: Mountain Lake, Matatiele, Eastern Cape. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 78:1-2, 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2023.2177361

Uncertainty in Medical Image Classification DR. NOVOTNY, Johannes VRVis, Vienna, Austria Dr. Johannes Novotny is a senior research engineer at VRVis (Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH) since 2020, as part of the Biomedical Image Informatics group. His research interests focus on the improvement of medical image visualization by using novel rendering techniques, AI processing and immersive display devices (AR/VR). He earned his PhD in computer science at Brown University in 2020, and has previously worked as a research scholar at UC Davis’ VIDi group.

New Technological Developments for Surgical Simulation PROF. HARDERS, Matthias University of Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Dr. Matthias Harders is a full professor at University of Innsbruck since 2014, and head of the Interactive Graphics and Simulation (IGS) group. He is a leading scientist in the areas of computer haptics, virtual/augmented reality, and physically-based simulation. Based on his previous research, he has co-founded the successful spinoff company VirtaMed (www.virtamed.com). Prof. Harders has strongly contributed to the growth and development of the new haptics research field and community, for instance by founding the successful EuroHaptics conference series in 2000, as a founder and first elected Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics 2008–2010, or as a co-founder of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics in 2008.

Targeting senescence for therapeutic benefit PROF. GIL, Jesús Imperial College London and MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Jesus Gil is a professor of cell biology at the Imperial College London, UK. He leads a research group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, which investigates the molecular mechanisms responsible for senescence and its regulation. Their objective is to develop innovative strategies to target senescence in age-related diseases, particularly cancer.

Senescence in cancer – clinical opportunities and challenges PROF. SCHMITT, Clemens Medical Department of Hematology and Oncology Kepler Universitätsklinikum, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Biologically grown living materials for biotechnological applications DR. OH, Jeongjoo Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences - Current: TU Delft, Postdoctorate researcher - Post-doctorate researcher at Korea University (Sep 2021 – Feb 2022) - PhD : Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University - Bachelor: Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering (Mar 2012 – Feb 2015)

Novel glaucoma shunt: The predictable and controllable Astream PROF. HAN, Jong chul Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Sungkyunkwan University (College of Medicine) 1999-2005 Physician in Public Health Care Center (Bongwha, as a military duty) 2005-2007 Internship, Samsung Medical Center 2008-2009 Residency, Samsung Medical Center 2009-2012 Clinical Fellow, Samsung Medical Center, 2013-2016 Doctor’s degree, Sungkyunkwan University (School of Medicine), 2016-2019 Assistant Professor, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, 2019-2023 Associate Professor, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, 2023- now Associate Professor, Department of Medical Device Management and Research, SAIHST, 2020-now

Magnetic Particle Imaging: An Early Detection System for Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases DR. HONG, Hyobong ETRI, Creative & Basic Technology Research Division 218, Gajeong-ro, Yuseoung-gu, Daegeon, Rep. of Korea Dr. Hong is currently a principal researcher and the overall project manager for the next-generation medical imaging project (ETRI, Korea). He served as a principal researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT, Korea) and part leader of the analysis department of Samsung Electronics' LCD division. He also served as a technical leader on organic analysis at ISO/IEC TC 111 and as an advisory member of the National Science and Technology Committee (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and Ministry of Environment, Korea). He was in charge of overseas affairs at Daewoong Pharmaceuticall,Korea and was in charge of CTO and technical advisory at three startup companies. His academic interests include mass analysis of organic substances and the development of analytical and imaging equipment using iron oxide nanoparticles. He is also studying the origin of signals that occur when magnetic particles with unique properties, such as iron oxide particles, are exposed to various types of magnetic fields.

EU Beating Cancer Plan Flagship Initiatives at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission DR. STEPIEN, Magdalena Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy Magdalena Stepien holds an MSc in Nutrition (Agricultural University of Krakow, Poland) and a PhD in Nutritional Physiology (AgroParisTech, Paris, France). She is currently a project leader of the EC Knowledge Centre on Cancer and the EU Cancer Inequalities Registry at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, both Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan flagship initiatives. She coordinates activitites which support policy making in the area of cancer prevention and care. She joined the JRC over 4 years ago. Before she spent over 6 years working as a cancer epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon France.

TBA DR. RYU, Choong-min Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Deciphering context-specific cancer fitness levels: unraveling the key driver genes in tumor progression DR. PARK, Solip Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, Spain 2006-2012 PhD POSTECH Systems biology department 2012-2019 Postdoctoral fellowship CRG, Barcelona 2019 Junior Group Leader CNIO, Madrid

Status of Korea’s fusion research activities and strategies to accelerate fusion energy commercialization DR. OH, Yeongkook Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE)

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