Speakers

Speech Title : Marine Sediment Fingerprints: Revealing Sources and Ecological Risks of Potentially Toxic Elements

Dr. Ong Meng Chuan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia. He holds a doctoral degree in Marine Pollution, specialising in metal pollution, from the University of South Brittany, France. His academic and research expertise lies primarily in marine pollution, environmental assessment, ecotoxicology, and the application of aquatic organisms as indicators of environmental quality. Dr. Ong’s research focuses on the assessment of potentially toxic elements and other pollutants in marine and aquatic environments, with particular emphasis on their occurrence, distribution, bioaccumulation, and potential impacts on ecosystems and human health. His work encompasses a wide range of environmental matrices, including sediments and marine organisms such as fish, crustaceans, bivalves, molluscs, seaweeds, and seagrasses. Through these studies, he investigates the potential of aquatic organisms as bioindicators for evaluating environmental contamination and ecosystem health. His research also contributes to the assessment of potential human health risks associated with the consumption of contaminated seafood. Through his research, academic leadership, and knowledge transfer activities, Dr. Ong is committed to advancing scientific understanding of marine pollution while contributing to environmental protection, sustainable marine resource management, and the safeguarding of human health.

Speech Title : Main Challenges and Efficient Solutions for Large Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Prof. Decheng Wan is Director of Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory (CMHL) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chair Professor of Chang Jiang Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Eastern Scholar, Shanghai Excellent Academic Leader, the adjunct full professor of University of Strathclyde of UK, Zhejiang University, Dalian University of Technology, Ningbo University, respectively. He is the President of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), the chair of ISOPE International Hydrodynamic Committee, chair of Executive Committee of International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics (IWSH), chair of Executive Committee of China National Conference on Marine CFD, member of Advisor Committee of International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), member of Steering Committee of International CFD Workshop in Ship Hydrodynamics, associate editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrodynamics, and member of editorial board of Ocean Engineering and Applied Ocean Research, etc. Prof. Wan has been selected as TOP 2% scientists from all over the world by Stanford University. He is also awarded the most cited researchers by Elsevier, and TOP 0.05% global scholars by ScholarGPS. He received CH Kim Award, ISOPE Award, Prof. Peiyuan Zhou’s First Award of Hydrodynamics, Best paper of Moan-Faltinsen Award, etc. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 60 patents and software copyrights. His remarkable works of development of numerical solvers for the complex flows in ship and ocean engineering have been recognized by the world-wide researchers in the field of marine hydrodynamics.

Speech Title : The Quest For Sustainability: Reflections from the front lines of academic-based consultancy

Professor Andrew Price is a marine biologist, environmental scientist and writer. Over the past fifty years, he has worked as an international consultant, alongside teaching and research at British universities. A recipient of the 'British Consultant of the Year Award’ and Fellow of the Linnean Society, he was special adviser to the marine programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Clients have also included governments, corporations including Saudi Aramco oil company, UN agencies and other international organisations.

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Bin Wu was born in Zhejiang (China). He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of organic chemistry in 2007 at the Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China). Subsequently, he was relocated to the Pharmaceutical College, Zhejiang University where he pursued research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry as a Post-doc research fellow, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. In 2011, he moved his lab to the Ocean College, Zhejiang University where he was promoted as a full Professor. He is now engaged in a range of projects related to the discovery of new natural products from the sea. Projects vary from stress-driven discovery of bioactive natural products from extreme marine environment - hydrothermal vent, evaluation of microbial diversity of unique marine habitats to the development of new ways of culture and molecular methods to access cryptic natural product biosynthetic pathways, development of new approaches to purify and characterize polysaccharides, characterization of toxin to the research of metabonomics. Dr. Wu has authored more than 100 publications. His lab enjoys productive collaborations with both local and foreign industry partners as well as a number of academic and government research groups. He has been in the Editorial Board of many international journals, including The Natural Products Journal (Editor-in-Chief), Fitoterapia (Associate Editor), Current Organic Chemistry (Opinion Paper Editor), Frontiers in Marine Science - Marine Biotechnology (Associate Editor), and Marine Drugs, Chemistry and Biodiversity, MarineMedicine (Editorial Board member).

Speech Title : From Marine Pollution to Ocean Exposomics: An Anthropogenic Oceanography Approach to Ocean and Human Health

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Fuad Miskon is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Marine Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). His research lies at the intersection of Anthropogenic Oceanography, Aquatic Exposomics and Marine Conservation, with particular interest in understanding how human activities alter marine environments and create interconnected risks to ecosystems and human health. His research investigates multiple classes of marine contaminants, particularly microplastics, heavy metals and rare earth elements, across water, sediment and marine organisms. His work integrates environmental monitoring, contaminant distribution and bioaccumulation, spatial assessment and human-health risk evaluation to understand pollutant pathways across the ocean–human interface. His studies have covered coral reefs, bivalves, fishes, estuaries and coastal environments throughout Peninsular Malaysia. He is currently involved in the IAEA INT7021 Global Monitoring of Marine Plastic Pollution under the NUTEC Plastics Initiative and marine education and research collaborations associated with OceanX. He is also recognised as a Subject Specialist in Aquatic Pollution by Malaysia's Department of Environment. His current research direction advances marine exposomics as an integrated approach to understanding cumulative anthropogenic exposures and their implications for ocean and human health.