Plenary Speakers
Prof. Weihong Lu
Harbin Institute of Technology
China
Prof. Weihong Lu
Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina
Biography
Prof. Lu Weihong is a tenured professor and PhD supervisor at HIT. As a leading expert in multiple interdisciplinary fields, Prof. Lu has long been committed to research on foodomics and nutritional health, extreme environmental nutrition, functional ingredients of medicinal and edible homologous foods, and natural active ingredient separation technology. She has established a comprehensive research system for biological life support and nutrition under extreme conditions such as space, and has made remarkable achievements in space radiation protection, aerospace food development, and intelligent separation of natural active ingredients – including building Asia's largest anthocyanin separation and purification production line. Her laboratory has undertaken numerous national-level projects, published over 50 high-impact academic papers in recent five years, and obtained more than 30 authorized patents, making significant contributions to the integration of academic research and industrial application.
Speech Title
Acanthopanax Senticosus Modulates Gut-Brain Axis to Improve Cognitive Impairment in Irradiated Mice
Liu Xiaohong
National Space Science Center, CAS
China
Liu Xiaohong
National Space Science Center, CASChina
Biography
She is a hardware design engineer and serves as an associate researcher at the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, China. She is currently also a PhD candidate at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Her research mainly focuses on payload development and design. She is now serving as the deputy chief designer in the Chang 'e-8 Soft X-ray Telescope project in China, responsible for the instrument's research and development as well as testing and verification. In addition, she served as the deputy chief designer in the SMILE satellite ultraviolet imager (UVI) project, fully responsible for the development and testing verification of the electronic system.
Speech Title
Development of Lunar-based Soft X-ray Telescope on Chang’e-8 Mission
Jinghua Mao
NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Jinghua Mao
NSSC, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
Biography
Jinghua Mao obtained her PhD degree in space environment exploration from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, in 2017. Currently, she serves as an associate researcher at the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Her research mainly focuses on the alignment，pre-launch calibration and on-orbit data preprocessing of optical instruments. At present, she is the Instrument Scientist of the Ozone Monitoring Suite-nadir (OMS-N) on the Chinese FengYun-3F meteorological satellite. In this role, she is responsible for the alignment, pre-launch calibration, and on-orbit data preprocessing. Additionally, she has been involved in the AAS project of Gao-Fen 5B. She also participated in the development of the UVI of the SMILE satellite, a China-Europe cooperation project, where she was in charge of researching the pre-launch calibration method.
Speech Title
Pre-launch Calibration Results of the OMS-N Payload On-board the FY-3F Satellite
Yongmei Wang
NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Yongmei Wang
NSSC, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
Biography
Yongmei Wang is a Professor of the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She graduated from Chengdu University of Information Technology in atmosphere physics department in China, and got her MS and PhD degrees in space physics from the National Space Science Center, CAS, respectively. Her research interesting focuses on the optical remote sensing for atmosphere and space weather. Since 2001, she has worked in the field of development of optical instruments for atmospheric environment monitoring, ionosphere and magnetosphere by airglow and aurora monitoring. She has been responsible for the Total Ozone Unit (TOU) onboard the FengYun-3B/C meteorological satellite of China, Absorbing Aerosol Sensor (AAS) on Gao-Fen 5B and The Ozone Monitoring Suite - Nadir (OMS-N) on the FenYun-3F mission. She currently is the Chief engineer of the UltraViolet Imager on SMILE Mission.
Speech Title
The Introduction to the UltraViolet Imager on SMILE Mission
Sethanne Howard
US Naval Observatory/Retired
USA
Sethanne Howard
US Naval Observatory/RetiredUSA
Biography
Senior manager retired from government with experience managing large contracts and budgets as well as leading technical teams. Scientific background in extragalactic astronomy, planetary astronomy, high energy astrophysics with heavy emphasis on numerical modeling, massive data management, and data center development. Program Manager for several NASA satellites. Well versed in the development and integration of information systems providing user friendly data retrieval and interface. Quite skilled in developing training and indoctrination services. Now active in international organizations that make students comfortable with science including “Ask a physicist”, “Skype with a scientist”, and “Letters to a pre-scientist” plus science fair judging and talks to school classes. Works to create awareness of historical contributions of women in science including live presentations and a YouTube video on “4000 Years of Women in Science.” Active in the Washington (DC) Academy of Sciences, served as Vice President for Membership and served for almost 20 years as editor-in-chief of the venerable Journal of Washington Academy of Sciences. Still active scientifically with last science publication in 2022.
Speech Title
Why do spiral galaxies spiral?
Nikolaos K. Spyrou
Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki
Greece
(Retired)
Nikolaos K. Spyrou
Aristoteleion University of ThessalonikiGreece
(Retired)
Biography
Nikolaos K. Spyrou is Professor of Astronomy at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, retired since 2011. He has taught extensively at both the under graduate and post graduated levels, conducted research work and lectured in many universities and research centers in Greece and abroad, and, also, served in many national and international administrational-scientific posts. His books and research articles belong to General Relativity Theory, Fluids, Gravitational Astrophysics, Environnemental Physis (and, secondarily, Space Physics, History of Astronomy, and Science Education), and, recently, Relativistic Cosmology combined with Thermodynamics for the polytropic Universe and its radical consequences and predictions as a viable alternative to the ΛCDM model.
Speech Title
Brunello Tirozzi
University of Rome
Italy
Brunello Tirozzi
University of RomeItaly
Biography
Brunello Tirozzi is a professor in the Department of Physics, University of Rome. His research interests are Elementary Particle Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Dynamical Systems, Disordered Systems Renormalization Group, Neural Networks, Neurobiology, Asymptotic methods, fluid dynamics, typhoons, tsunami, Plasma Physics. He has published over 200 research papers and participated in various International Conferences.
Speech Title
Analysis of MHD instabilities by asymptotic methods
