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ABCP Webinar: Academic journal publishing: a great change in business models and a gradual shift in evaluation
2022-06-23 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Academic journal publishing: a great change in business models and a gradual shift in evaluation
学术期刊出版的那些事儿：商业模式的巨变和评价方式的渐变
Speaker
Dr Shuai Yan (颜帅博士), independent consultant; China Consultant, STM Association (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) (2021-present); Vice President, China Editology Society for Scientific Periodicals (2015-2021); President, Society of China University Journals (2004-2019); Vice President, China Periodicals Association (2012-2018)
Language
The talk will be delivered in Chinese.
Abstract
For most of the more than 350 years from the founding of Philosophical Transactions by the Royal Society in 1665, reader payment and institutional subscription have been the basic business models of academic journal publishing. Entering the new century, the open access movement has quietly emerged and developed rapidly. Twenty years later, it has been in full swing. The open access business model, typified by the author paying the article processing charge (APC), is steadily replacing the traditional subscription model. At the same time, transparent and open review methods and tools are introduced into the review process of submissions, and the core functions of academic journals to advance trusted research and maintain scientific research integrity continue to be played. The disadvantages of using impact factors only to evaluate journal publishing performance and judging articles (research results) by journals’ achievements have been recognized by more and more people, and the emerging evaluation indexes have attracted more and more attention.
从1665年皇家学会创办《哲学汇刊》到现在350多年的绝大部分时间里，读者付费、机构订阅一直是学术期刊出版的基本商业模式。进入新世纪，开放获取运动悄然兴起、迅速发展，20年过去已成燎原之势。以收取作者论文处理费（article processing charge）为典型代表的开放获取商业模式正逐步取代传统订阅模式。与此同时，透明、开放的评审方式、工具被引入对投稿论文的评审流程，学术期刊促进可信的研究、维护科研诚信的核心功能继续得以发挥；以期刊影响因子论英雄、以刊评文（研究成果）的弊端被越来越多的人认识，新兴的指标体系日益受到瞩目。
Bio of Speaker

Dr Shuai Yan (颜帅博士) is currently an independent consultant since 2020. Since November 2021, Shuai started to work with the STM Association (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) as its China Consultant. From 2017 to 2020 Shuai worked with Springer Nature Greater China as director of academic relationships (including government relations). From 2011 to 2017 he was at the Tsinghua University Press (TUP) as an associate chief editor and TUP’s director of Journal Publishing, and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). He worked at the Journal Publishing Department of the Beijing Forestry University from 1985 to 2011, starting as an assistant editor and up to the director of the Department. He had served as the President of the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) from 2004 to 2019, the Vice President of the China Periodicals Association (CPA) from 2012 to 2018, and the Vice President of the China Editology Society for Scientific Periodicals (CESSP) from 2015 to 2021.
颜帅，国际科学、技术与医学出版商协会中国顾问。1985年毕业于北京林业大学，获学士学位。2003年9月在北京林业大学获管理学博士学位。曾任北京林业大学期刊编辑部主任，清华大学出版社副总编兼期刊中心主任、《清华大学学报（自然科学版）》主编，Springer Nature大中华区学术关系总监。曾兼任中国高校科技期刊研究会理事长，中国期刊协会副会长，中国科技期刊编辑学会副理事长，教育部科技委管理学部委员，中国科协学术与学会工作专门委员会委员。曾在国际组织兼任过：ORCID指导委员会委员、ISO《期刊编排格式》修订组成员、国际学术与专业出版商协会（ALPSP）理事（Council Member）等。
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ABCP-CDA Joint Webinar: Concepts for Health Care of the Future
2022-06-17 09:00 - 23:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
This webinar is jointly organised by the China Data Analysis and Research Hub (CDA) and the Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP).
Title:
Concepts for Health Care of the Future – The Convergence of Biomedicine, AI and Machine Learning
Dedicated Webpage:
https://abcp.org.uk/webinar-concepts-for-health-care-of-the-future/
Time:
9am BST (London) / 10am CEST (Brussels) / 4pm CST (Beijing) – 11am BST (London) / 12pm CEST (Brussels) / 6pm CST (Beijing)
Venue:
Online event upon registration via zoom (see the end of the page)
Main Research Questions/Topics:

Which are the real benefits of the convergence of biomedicine, AI and machine learning for patients and societies?
What is the status-quo of technical capacities of AI and machine learning at the time being?
Which fields of successful application unfold in personalized medicine, drug development and healthcare in Europe and China?

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ABCP-TBIS-IDHIMIA Joint Lecture: Textile Electronic Bioengineering: Towards Digital Health
2022-04-29 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Textile Electronic Bioengineering: Towards Digital Health
Speaker
Professor Henry Yi Li (李翼教授), Professor and Chair of Textile Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, UK & Chairman, Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society (TBIS)
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
Under the pressure of COVID19 pandemic and a global trend of ageing population, health systems in many countries are subject to substantial budget pressure to meet the healthcare needs. Reduction of hospital bed days by achieving earlier discharge becomes inevitable to cut down the NHS expenditure. However, without appropriate healthcare, patients are at the risk from isolation, depression, strokes and fractures caused by falls in the home, as well as the post-operative complications, which will result in increasing hospital readmission rates. It has been identified that 80% of face-to-face interactions with the NHS are unnecessary if appropriate technologies could be developed to mitigate these problems.
To address the healthcare grand challenge, there is an urgent need to develop advanced technologies for creating innovative remote home based personalized digital healthcare technologies. This could be achieved by developing advanced techniques to engineer advanced materials (e.g. graphene) into and/or onto textile fibres, which will be interfaced with human body and internet mobile devices and cloud computational modelling and simulation of physiological and biomechanical behaviours of human body, as well as its interactions with clothing and external environment. Thus, smooth real time healthcare monitoring, diagnosis, advice and risk/emergency warnings to patients and their medical doctors could be provided in an invasive and seamless fashion.
To achieve the goals, a scientific theoretical framework needs to be developed to address the key scientific and technical challenges involved, including: (1) Establish scientific understanding and engineering principle to fabricate advanced nano-scale functional materials such as graphene into flexible and strong smart fibres with sensing, energy harvesting, energy storage and/or actualization functions; (2) Develop advanced manufacturing techniques to produce advanced wearable smart textile materials (fabrics) using the smart fibres; (3) Develop science of design and engineering principles of system integration of smart fabrics with micro-electronics to produce smart devices; (4) Derive technical solutions to integrate smart devices with wireless data communication technologies to transfer data to cloud servers; (5) Develop cloud-based database, data analysis techniques, as well as computational modelling and simulation of human biological behaviour, material functional performance and their interactions with external environments to establish digital biological health avatar with AI based diagnosis capability for individuals; (6) Develop technical solutions to provide real-time medical professional diagnosis and feedback to individuals and/or healthcare workers. Careful consideration of the ethics, risks and regulation of such technology is vital from its inception, as the success of this work will challenge both individual patients’ healthcare and wellbeing and the organization of timely medical intervention to save lives and reduce healthcare expenses. In this lecture, the scientific foundation of textile electronic bioengineering and the development international standards are reviewed.
This lecture is jointly organised by the ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors, 全英华人教授协会), TBIS (Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society) and IDIHMIA (International Digital Health and Intelligent Materials Innovation Alliance).
Keywords: textile electronic bioengineering, advanced materials, smart wearables, engineering design, cloud computational modelling and simulation, digital health, international standard development
Bio of Speaker
Professor Yi Li (李翼教授) is a Life Fellow of Royal Society of Art and International Biographical Association and Fellow of the Textile Institute, and adjunct professors of several universities in China and member of several professional bodies. He is the Chairman of Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics. By securing over £10 million research funding and obtaining support from various government funding bodies and industry, he established the Textile Bioengineering Framework to conduct systematic research in textile thermal bioengineering, biomechanical engineering, sensory bioengineering and biomedical engineering, with significant research outputs in biomaterials, nano scale drug delivery systems, nano fibre based scaffolds and textile devices for tissue engineering and stents, graphene and 2D material fibres and fabrics, smart e-textile materials and components, intelligent wearables, textile material functional testing and characterization, digital apparel and clothing functional design, cloud computational technology for fashion bid data business models, textile ecological and carbon footprint and industry sustainability and strategic technology roadmap development, which has become an international platform of design and engineering textiles to promote industry-university cooperation and accelerate technology transfer. On-going projects include EU H2020 “Welding e-textile for interactive clothing” and “Fashion Bid Data Business Models”.
He has supervised over 60 PhD students and more than 140 research personnel. He has over 500 scientific publications, including 422 SCI/CPCI papers and peer reviewed conference papers with 14,448 citations and h-index of 63 and i10-index 251 as being recognized as an international leading expert in smart functional textiles. He is selected on the list of “Highly Cited Researcher” in 2013 by THOMSON REUTERS. He owns more than 80 patents, including 46 patents granted in China, USA and Australia and 27 IP properties transferred to industry. With over 120 invited keynote/plenary lectures in conferences, he has more than 56 awards on outstanding research papers, patent inventions and technology transfer. Some of the inventions from his team have been successfully commercialized, developed as testing standard, and sold globally.
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ABCP Webinar: Digital Economy and Global Coopetition
2022-04-15 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Digital Economy and Global Coopetition
Speaker
Professor Ke Rong (戎珂教授), Deputy Director, Institute of Economics, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, China
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
This speech will explore the new trends emerged in the digital economy in the global landscape, including the coopetition in the digital infrastructure, sustainability of consumer internet, commercialisation of industrial internet and the building of a data-oriented factor market. By learning from these four aspects, this speech will also provide some implications for practitioners as well as suggest some research agenda.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Ke Rong (戎珂教授) is currently the Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics, School of Social Science at the Tsinghua University in China. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, after obtaining a bachelor’s degree at the Tsinghua University. Before joining Tsinghua, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter and the Bournemouth University in the UK and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School in the US.
His current research interests focus on Business/Innovation Ecosystems, Digital Economy, and Data Ecosystems. He has published over 60 refereed articles for journals including the Journal of International Business Studies (UTD24), Production and Operations Management (UTD24), Management Organization Review and Journal of International Management. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China and the British Academy, along with leading firms such as Huawei, Bytedance, Haier, Tencent and China Mobile. These projects explore the business ecosystem and the platform strategy in several emerging industries in the global landscape such as digital economy, integrated chips, data market, 3D printing, electric vehicles, mobile internet and sharing economy. He has received several awards for his academic work, including becoming a Distinguished Young Scholar under the elite ‘Changjiang Scholars Programme’ of China’s Minister of Education. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Digital Economy and on the editorial board of leading journals like Long Range Planning and Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, and is a member of the Expert Network of World Economic Forum.
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International Forum on COVID-19 and Beyond
2022-03-15 08:00 - 10:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
An International Forum COVID-19 and Beyond
Introduction
This event will see a number of high-profile researchers working on COVID-related research topics in the UK, China and the USA, who will give keynote talks and have a panel discussion. It will be held virtually online and all are welcome to join.
中文简介
3月15日伦敦时间上午8:00到10:30（北京时间下午16:00到18:30），全英华人教授协会与全英华人生命科学学会将联合举办COVID-19 and Beyond在线学术研讨会。我们荣幸地邀请到了牛津大学教授、牛津/阿斯利康新冠疫苗设计者莎拉·吉尔伯特女爵（Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert），伦敦帝国理工大学教授、英国政府新型与新兴呼吸道病毒威胁咨询专家小组（NERVTAG）成员彼得·欧潘萧（Professor Peter Openshaw），美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生学院副院长、流行病学教授张作风，香港大学公共卫生学院流行病和生物统计学教授胡子祺做主题报告。牛津大学陈铮鸣教授、董涛教授及伦敦圣巴多罗买医院邓京医生将参与专家小组讨论。学术研讨会由英国皇家工程院院士、欧洲科学院院士、香港浸会大学副校长、伦敦帝国理工学院教授郭毅可，欧洲科学院院士、伦敦帝国理工学院教授马大青共同主持。
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Programme
Click here (PDF, 3.2MB) for the full programme and bios of all speakers, panellists and the two chairs.
8:00-9:00am Keynote Session (Chair: Professor Yike Guo (郭毅可教授) FREng MAE, Vice President (Research & Development), Hong Kong Baptist University, China & Imperial College London, UK)
Keynote 1: Challenges and opportunity of COVID-19 pandemic on non-communicable disease epidemiology
Speaker: Professor Zuo-Feng Zhang (张作风教授), Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Keynote 2: Developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine
Speaker: Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert (莎拉·吉尔伯特教授) DBE, SAÏD Professorship of Vaccinology, University of Oxford, UK
Keynote 3: Communicating science to the public and to policymakers
Speaker: Professor Peter Openshaw (彼得·欧潘萧教授) CBE, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Keynote 4: Nowcasting epidemics of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor Tsz Kei Joseph Wu (胡子祺教授), Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hong Kong University, China
9:00-10:30am Panel Discussion (Chair: Professor Daqing Ma (马大青教授) MAE, Professor of Anaesthesia, Imperial College London, UK)
Panellists (in alphabetical order by surname):

Professor Zhengming Chen (陈铮鸣教授), University of Oxford, UK
Dr Jing Deng (邓京医生), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
Professor Tao Dong (董涛教授), University of Oxford, UK
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert (莎拉·吉尔伯特教授) DBE, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Peter Openshaw (彼得·欧潘萧教授) CBE, Imperial College London, UK
Professor Tsz Kei Joseph Wu (胡子祺教授), Hong Kong University, China

Organising Committee

Professor Yi-Ke Guo (郭毅可教授) FREng MAE, Vice-President (Research & Development), Hong Kong Baptist University, China & Professor of Computing Science, Imperial College London, UK (Co-Chair)
Professor Daqing Ma (马大青教授) MAE, Professor of Anaesthesia, Imperial College London, UK (Co-Chair)
Professor Tao Dong (董涛教授), University of Oxford, UK
Dr Huiliang Li (李会良博士), Associate Professor, University College London, UK
Ping Huang, Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, UK

ABCP Webinar: Safe and Secure International Research Collaboration
2022-02-03 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Safe and Secure International Research Collaboration
Speakers
Susie Kitchens and David Mossley, Global Research & Innovation, BEIS (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy)
Abstract
In the first part of the presentation, Susie will set out the Government’s plans and commitments to international research and innovation as part of its ambitions for the UK to be a science and technology superpower. Dr David Mossley will then explain how they will help researchers and academic institutions in order to deliver the Government’s commitment to safe and secure collaborative research through the establishment of the Research Collaboration Advice Team (RCAT). The RCAT will provide advice to research institutions to help them identify any threats and risks in their international research portfolios, develop mitigations, and take steps to keep all their researchers and their work free from hostile interference, theft or misuse.
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ABCP Webinar: Towards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial Intelligence
2022-01-14 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Towards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial Intelligence
Speaker
Professor Yaochu Jin (金耀初教授) MAE FIEEE, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, with the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany & Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
This talk discusses the main limitations of the deep learning approach to artificial intelligence and proposes to overcome its limitations by means of an evolutionary developmental approach. I will first provide a brief introduction to the evolution and development of biological brain and nervous systems. Then preliminary results on computational modelling of neural and morphological evolution and development are presented. These results reveal that energy minimization is one main principle behind the organization of nervous systems and there is a close coupling between brain and body in evolution and development. Finally, computational models of activity-dependent neural plasticity embedded in the reservoir computing are briefly shown and their influences on the learning performance of echo state networks and spiking neural networks are given. This talk is concluded with an outline of possible future research.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Yaochu Jin is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, with the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany. He is also a Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He was a “Finland Distinguished Professor” of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor” of the Northeastern University, China, and “Distinguished Visiting Scholar” of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His main research interests include data-driven evolutionary optimization, multi-objective optimization, evolutionary learning, secure and privacy-preserving machine learning, and evolutionary developmental systems.
Professor Jin is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE).

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ABCP Webinar: Decoding autism - insights from Chinese ASD cohorts
2021-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Decoding autism – insights from Chinese ASD cohorts
Speaker
Professor Zilong Qiu (仇子龙研究员), Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (Institute of Neuroscience), Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder causing impairments in social communication and stereotypical behaviors, often with developmental delay or intellectual disabilities (DD/ID). Accruing evidence indicates that ASD is highly heritable and genome-wide studies on ASD cohorts have defined numerous genetic contributors. Notably, since most of these studies have been performed with individuals of European and Hispanic ancestries, thus there is a paucity of genetic analyses of ASD in the East Asian population. Here, we performed whole-exome sequencing on 772 Chinese ASD trios, combining with a previous 369 ASD trios, to identify de novo variants in 1141 ASD trios. We found that ASD without DD/ID carried less disruptive de novo variants than ASD with DD/ID. Surprisingly, we found that expression of genes with de novo variants in ASD without DD/ID were enriched in a subtype of human neural progenitor cells. Importantly, some ASD risk genes identified in this study are not present in the current ASD gene database, suggesting that there may be unique genetic contributors to ASD with the East Asian ancestry. We validated one such novel ASD candidate gene – SLC35G1 by showing that mice harboring heterozygous deletion of Slc35g1 exhibited defects in social interaction behaviors. Together, this work nominates novel ASD candidate genes and suggests that genome-wide genetic studies in ASD cohorts of different ancestries are essential to reveal the comprehensive genetic architecture of ASD.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Zilong Qiu got his bachelor degree in 1998 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, and received his PhD degree from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. From 2003 to 2009, he did his postdoctoral fellow in Dr Anirvan Ghosh’s lab at the University of California, San Diego, US. He joined the Institute of Neuroscience in July 2009 as Principal Investigator and the Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Neural Plasticity. His major research interests are molecular basis of neural plasticity.
仇子龙研究员从事自闭症、瑞特综合征等神经发育疾病的生物学研究，研究成果阐述了神经发育疾病的遗传、分子与神经环路机制，并建立了自闭症的非人灵长类动物模型。自闭症的非人灵长类动物模型工作入选科技部2016年“中国科学十大进展”，中国科协2016年“中国生命科学十大进展”。
仇子龙研究员课题组长期受中科院、科技部、国家基金委等项目资助。仇子龙研究员于2016年获中科院上海分院杰出青年科技创新人才奖，2016年获国家基金委“杰出青年”科学基金，2017年获药明康德生命化学研究奖，2017年任中科院特聘研究员，2018年晋升中科院神经所高级研究员，2018年入选科技部“中青年科技创新领军人才”，2019年入选中组部“万人计划“与上海市优秀学术带头人。
仇子龙研究员还长期致力于自闭症与生命科学的科普工作，与知识分子、果壳网公众号等科普新媒体长期合作，撰写了大量自闭症与生命科学方面的科普文章，多次参加中科院SELF、墨子沙龙、一席、造就、上海科普大讲坛等科普活动，荣获2018年上海市科普教育创新二等奖与上海市科技系统优秀志愿者称号，2020年获得全国科普工作先进工作者称号。
Selected Publications:

Yang, K., Shi, Y., Du, X., Wang, J., Zhang, Y., Shan, S., Yuan, Y., Wang, R., Zhou, C., Liu, Y., Cai, Z., Wang, Y., Fan, L., Xu, H., Yu, J., Cheng, J., Li, F., Qiu, Z. (2021) SENP1 in the retrosplenial agranular cortex regulates core autistic-like symptoms in mice. Cell Reports 37,109939
Wu, S., Li, X., Qin, D., Zhang, L., Cheng, T., Chen, Z., Nie, B., Ren, X., Wu, J., Wang, W., Hu, Y., Gu, Y., Lv, L., Yin, Y., Hu,X., Qiu, Z. (2020) Induction of core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders by in vivo CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing in the brain of adolescent rhesus monkeys. Science Bulletin. 66:937-946
Li, S., Yuan, B., Cao, J., Chen, J., Chen, J., Qiu, J., Zhao, X., Wang, X., Qiu, Z., Cheng, T. (2020) Docking sites inside Cas9 for adenine base editing diversification and RNA off-target elimination. Nature Communications11(1):5827
Cheng, T., Li, S., Yuan, B., Wang, X., Zhou, W., Qiu, Z. (2019) Expanding C–T base editing toolkit with diversified cytidine deaminases. Nature Communications10: 3612
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ABCP Webinar: Photocatalysts for clean fuels and chemicals production: Materials and Fundamental
2021-09-24 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Photocatalysts for clean fuels and chemicals production: Materials and Fundamental
Speaker
Professor Junwang (John) Tang (唐军旺教授) MAE FRSC, Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, UK
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
Nowadays both fuels and the majority of chemicals production are derived from fossil fuels, together with the unavoidable generation of substantial GHG. Thus clean chemical processes for both fuel production and chemical synthesis are highly sought after.
Photocatalysis, a process to drive the chemical reactions by renewable solar energy or artificial light generated from renewable electricity, provides such a zero/neutral carbon process in which all the reactions of interest can be operated under very mild conditions (eg. at room temperature and atmospheric pressure) [1], thus is also a low-cost and safe technology [2].
Photocatalysis in particular favors the activation of stable molecules as their activation is used to require substantial energy input and is kinetically very sluggish, including water splitting to H2 fuel, CO2 conversion, N2 reduction to ammonia, and natural gas/shale gas activation to high-value chemicals by photocatalysis (the concept of artificial photosynthesis).
Although photocatalysis provides a strong potential for activation of such small and extremely stable molecules (H2O, N2, CO2, CH4 etc) under mild conditions, to achieve this potential is a huge challenge. Stimulated by our research outcomes on the charge dynamics in inorganic semiconductor photocatalysis, which reveal that the low conversion efficiency in the artificial photosynthesis is due to both fast charge recombination and large bandgap of an inorganic semiconductor [3], we developed novel material strategies for activation of these molecules, e.g. H2O, CO2, CH4 and N2.
In water splitting to H2 fuel, we found out that by improving the degree of polymerisation of a polymer e.g. C3N4 the charge recombination was substantially mitigated [4]. Based on this fundamental understanding, the complete water splitting to H2 fuel in polymer photocatalyst-based suspension system under visible light has been demonstrated for the first time [5]. Furthermore, a junction, which is composed of the carbon nitride photocatalyst and carbon quantum dots (mCD) synthesised by a novel microwave method, was used to directly reduce CO2 by H2O into methanol driven by visible photocatalysis [6]. The mCD possesses unique hole-accepting nature, prolonging the electron lifetime (t50) of carbon nitrides by four folds compared to the electron-accepting carbon dots fabricated by conventional methods (sCD), favoring a six-electron product. Thus this new photocatalyst stably produces methanol with nearly 100% selectivity for CO2 conversion at room temperature.
CH4 activation is widely regarded as the “holy grail” in the catalytically chemical process, the highly dispersed atomic level iron species were synthesised on TiO2 photocatalyst by us, which shows an excellent activity for CH4 conversion, resulting into ~97% selectivity towards alcohols operated under ambient conditions by a one-step chemical process [7]. On the other hand, a C-TiOx photocatalyst with a Ti3+/Ti4+ ratio of 72.1% represents a rather high reaction rate of N2 reduction to NH3 (109.3 umol g-1 h-1) with a record apparent quantum efficiency of 1.1% at 400 nm, promising a process for H2 synthesis from water and in-situ storage into ammonia [8].
References
[1] Wang, Y., Vogel, A., Sachs, M., Sprick, R.S., Wilbraham,L., Moniz, S.J.A., Godin, R., Zwijnenburg, M.A., Durrant, J.R., Cooper, A.I., Tang, J., Nature Energy, 2019, 4, 746-760.
[2] Wang, Y., Suzuki, H., Xie, J., Tomita, O., Martin, D. J., Higashi, M., Kong, D., Abe, R., Tang J., Chemical Reviews, 2018, 118(100), 5201-5241.
[3] Tang, J., Durrant, J. R., & Klug, D. R. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130(42), 13885-13891.
[4] Martin, D.J., Qiu, K., Shevlin, S. A, Handoko, A.D., Chen, X., Guo, Z,. Tang, J. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2014, 53 (35), 9240-9245.
[5] Martin, D.J., Reardon, P. J. T., Moniz, S. J. A., Tang, J., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 12568-12571. Highlighted in Chemical & Engineer News on Sep. 10, 2014.
[6] Wang, Y., Liu, X., Han, X., Godin, R., Chen, J., Zhou, W., Jiang, C., Thompson, J.F., Bayazit, M., Shevlin, S., Durrant, J.R., Guo, Z., Tang, J., Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 2531.
[7] Xie, J., Jin, R., Li, A., Bi, Y., Ruan, Q., Deng, Y., Zhang, Y., Yao, S., Sankar, G., Ma, D., Tang, J., Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1, 889-896.
[8] Han,Q., Wu, C., Jiao H., Xu, R., Wang, Y., Xie, J., Guo, Q., Tang, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2008180.
Bio of Speaker
Prof. Junwang Tang is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He received his BSc in Chemistry from the Northeastern University (1995), MSc in Materials from the Institute of Metal Research (1998), and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (2001), China, respectively. Then he undertook his JSPS fellowship in the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (2005) and a senior researcher in Chemistry at Imperial College London (2009). Prof. Tang joined the current department in 2009 as a Lecturer and was later promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011), Reader (2014), and Full Professor (2017). His research interests encompass photocatalytic small molecule activation (eg. CH4, N2, H2O, C6H6 and CO2) and microwave catalysis (e.g. plastic recycling), together with the investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopies. In parallel, he also explores the design of the chemical reactors for the above-mentioned processes, resulting in >180 papers published in Nature Catalysis, Nature Energy, Nature Reviews Materials, Chemical Reviews, Chem. Soc. Rev. Materials Today, Nature Commu., JACS, Angew Chemie with >17,000 citations. Prof. Tang has also received many awards, the latest of which are the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2021 and Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow 2021, besides the Runner-up of IChemE Research Project 2020, IChemE Business Start-Up Award 2019 and the 2018 IPS Scientist Award. He also sits on the Editorial Board of four international journals, e.g. the Editor of Applied Catalysis B and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering, Associate Editor of Chin. J. Catal. and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering besides sitting on the Advisory Board of 7 other journals.
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2021 2nd ABCP Annual Conference
2021-07-02 - 2021-07-03 | virtual
The 2nd ABCP Annual Conference was originally planned in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Association decided to postpone it to 2021. The 2021 ABCP Annual Conference will be held as an online event on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2021. More details about the conference can be found at the following web page:
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ABCP Webinar: Cross-border Academic Collaboration: Legal Risk and Avoidance
2021-04-02 16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Cross-border Academic Collaboration: Legal Risk and Avoidance
Speaker
Professor Sophia Tang (汤诤教授), Chair in Law and Commerce, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University
Abstract
International academic collaboration brings numerous benefits to academic and research institutes, students, academic staff, countries, and the whole international community. It promotes diversity and mutual understanding, improves quality, promotes innovation, develops capacity and competitiveness, and increases international recognition and prestige. However, it is also associated with legal risks, such as taxation, intellectual property, data protection, corruption, state secrets, national security, etc., which institutes and individual academics should be aware before participating in international collaboration and partnership. This webinar helps the participants to increase the awareness of the extent of risk, to balance the risk against opportunity, and to make a rational decision.
Bio of Speaker
Prof Sophia Tang is a professor in law and commerce at the Newcastle University; barrister and mediator. She is specialised in international commercial dispute resolution, consumer protection, intellectual property, technology law and international law.

ABCP Webinar: The potential role of Antigen specific T cell responses in SARS-Cov-2 infection and COVID-19 disease progression
2021-01-29 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
The potential role of Antigen specific T cell responses in SARS-Cov-2 infection and COVID-19 disease progression (抗原特异性T细胞反应在新冠病毒感染及疾病进展中的潜在作用)
Speaker
Professor Tao Dong (董涛教授), Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford; Founding Director (Oxford) of CAMS-Oxford joint International Centre for Translational Immunology; Founding Director (Oxford) of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI)
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
I will give a brief introduction on:
i) The role of the adaptive immune system
ii) Virus specific T cells and how virus antigens (epitopes) are processed and presented in infected cells
iii) Key determinants of antiviral efficacy in T cells
I will then discuss what we currently know about SARS-Cov-2 specific T-cell immunity and the research my laboratory is undertaking in order to evaluate SARS-Cov-2 specific T cell responses in greater depth, and the questions that might be relevant to the future development of therapies and vaccination:
i) Establishing tools and reagents to study SARS-Cov-2 specific T-cell responses
ii) Establishing a platform to evaluate the potential immune escape of viral variants and newly occurred circulating virus strains
iii) Understanding the role of SARS-Cov-2 specific T cell in natural infection
iv) Investigating how T-cell memory responses are established following natural infection or vaccination, and the potential implication in subsequential infection and disease outcome.
Bio of Speaker

Tao Dong has held the post of Professor of Immunology in the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Oxford University since 2014 and is a Senior Fellow at University College Oxford. She served as a member of the UK Medical Research Council Infection and Immunity board between 2016-2020. She is founding director of CAMS Oxford joint international Centre for Translational Immunology since 2013, and founding director (Oxford) of CAMS Oxford Institute based in Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University since 2019.
Tao originally gained a BSc degree in Physiology from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1987. She moved to Oxford University in 1993 where she received a DPhil degree in Immunology in 1998 for work carried out under the supervision of Professors Sarah Rowland-Jones and Sir Andrew McMichael on qualitative changes in HIV-specific cytotoxic T cells associated with HIV disease progression. During her postdoctoral training, where she continued to study immune responses to HIV, she expanded her research interests to include work on influenza virus infection, which led her to start her own independent research group. In 2010 she became the Head of the human anti-viral and anti-cancer cytotoxic T cell laboratory and a Program Leader in the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Oxford University. Since 2013, her research has expanded to cancer, with a central goal being to identify determinants of the ability of human tumour-specific cytotoxic T cells to control human tumour development and metastasis. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tao’s team has been working with colleagues in Oxford, UK and in China, testing samples taken from SARS-Cov-2 positive patients, and trying to understand why some people with a COVID-19 infection are able to fight it off successfully, while others get really ill. Tao’s team believes understanding the immune response to COVID-19 is going to be key to defeating it.
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ABCP Webinar: 跨越死亡谷 (Over the Valley of Death)
2020-12-30 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
跨越死亡谷 (Over the Valley of Death)
Speaker
Dr Lewis Liu (刘震宇博士), IP Group大中华区董事总经理
Language
The talk will be delivered in Chinese.
Abstract
这边的服务器浅吟低唱累牍连篇
那边的挖掘机引吭高歌热火朝天
阶梯教室里深入浅出博古论今气象万千
交易大厅中跌宕起伏纵横捭阖羽化成仙
天才与疯子，前瞻与炒作，如何一线之间？
纯粹的科学和逐利的资本，是否不共戴天？
岁末年初
肉桂美酒圣诞树
开启壁炉，登陆Zoom
一同跨越死亡谷
照亮科技成果产业化之路
Bio of Speaker
刘震宇 博士 现任英国伦敦证券交易所上市公司IP Group集团大中华区董事总经理；全英清华校友会前秘书长、副会长，现任顾问。
刘震宇博士是英国和欧洲一线高科技投资机构中的极少数华人投资人之一。他负责广义清洁技术（能源环保、新能源汽车、新材料、半导体、物联网等）领域的全投资周期和投后管理，在多家英国本土受资企业担任董事。加入 IP Group之前，刘博士作为联合创始人、CEO创建了CamGaN公司，从事硅基氮化镓（GaN-on-Si）的技术转移和产业化；公司被英国最大半导体公司之一以极富竞争力的价格收购，被英国政府和英国工程与物质科学研究委员会（EPSRC）列为英国近年来技术产业化的经典案例。他拥有剑桥大学材料科学博士学位和清华大学学士学位。
IP Group是全球领先的专注于科研成果转化投资的独立商业机构；拥有三十余所英美澳顶级高校和科研院所资源和网络（包括剑桥大学、牛津大学、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、悉尼大学等），丰富的科研成果转化、运营和退出的经验，完全市场化的运作机制和资本、人才、财务、法务等全方位的服务能力。IP Group创立于2001年，是富时250指数成分股。
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ABCP Webinar: Development of Academic Leadership – A Personal Perspective
2020-11-27 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Development of Academic Leadership – A Personal Perspective
Speaker
Professor Max Lu (逯高清教授) AO DL FREng FMCAS FAA FTSE FTWAS, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
In this talk, I will share some personal perspectives on academic leadership, through my experience and learning on my journey as a scholar, academic leader and university leader. My career started in China and then took me to Australia for further studies, and has spanned more than 30 years and several countries such as China, Australia, Singapore, USA and UK.
Apart from hard work, there are soft skills and attributes that are important to academic leadership. Just being excellent in teaching and research is not enough to be recognised as an academic leader. Excellence augmented by personal attributes such as humility, empathy and good communication skills is critical a successful leader. Being resourceful and proactive could also enhance one’s competitiveness and leadership. In this webinar I look forward to sharing and exchanging views with colleagues across the Chinese British Professors community.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Lu is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey. He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and serves as Board Director for UKRI and National Physical Laboratory. He chairs the UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics. He is also Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey and a patron of the charities Transform and The Surrey Youth Focus.
Professor Lu lectured at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 1994. He then held various academic and leadership positions at University of Queensland, including Provost and Senior Vice-President, before taking up his current role in 2016.
At Queensland, Professor Lu founded the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and served as its director for eight years. He was awarded the Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship twice in 2003 and 2008.
A pre-eminent chemical engineer and nanotechnologist, Professor Lu is a highly cited academic in Chemistry and Materials Science. He has published over 500 journal papers, with 65,500 citations and an h-index of 126. He is co-inventor of 25 granted international patents and has been honoured with numerous awards, including Le Fevre Medal, Exxon Mobil Award, Chemeca Medal, PV Danckwerts Lecture, the Medal of the Order of Australia, and China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
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ABCP Webinar: Oxford Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2
2020-10-14 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Oxford Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2
Speaker
Professor Zhanfeng Cui (崔占峰), Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR), University of Oxford, UK
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our lives significantly in multiple dimensions. Community screening and repeated testing play an important role in easing travel restrictions and promoting economic recovery. Currently the common RT-PCR viral tests require a dedicated laboratory, infrastructure of collecting and transporting samples, skilled operators and special machines. Moe important the turn around time from sampling to result is long and also it is not cheap. What we need is a cheap and rapid POCT (point of care test) similar to the antibody test but it tests whether the individual gets the virus and is infectious. In this talk I will share our experience in developing the Oxsed RaViD Direct, a rapid test for SARS-COV-2, that can be deployed almost anywhere without needs for infrastructure and equipment. The idea was conceived in Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) and most of the R&D was done in Oxford, due to lockdowns. The technology is based on RT-LAMP (reverse transcription-loop mediated isothermal amplification), and the direct detection of SARS-COV-2 from sampling (swab, saliva and mouth wash) to result can be completed within 30-40 min. The mouth wash protocol is far better received, particularly suitable to children. With a collective effort of an interdisciplinary team, we were able to deliver a commercial product within 6 months from the kick-off of the project.
Bio of Speaker
Zhanfeng Cui is the Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering since the chair was created in 2000. He is the Founding Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR), an R&D centre wholly owned by the University of Oxford located in Suzhou Industrial Park. He was educated in China and moved to the UK after his PhD from Dalian University of Technology. He was postdoc in Strathclyde University (88-91) and Lecturer in Edinburgh University (91-94), before joining the Department of Engineering Science as a faculty member in 1994. He was elected to a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013. His research focuses on enabling technologies for regenerative medicine and bioprocessing. In the COVID-19 pandemic, he led a team of researchers and developed the Oxford Rapid Test, Oxsed RaViD Direct, which is commercialised by a social venture spin-out, Oxsed Limited. Their work was recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering President’s Special Award.
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ABCP Webinar: Universities UK International (UUKi) and its work
2020-09-24 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
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Universities UK International (UUKi) and its work
Speaker
Vivienne Stern, Director, Universities UK International (UUKi)
Language
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Abstract
The speaker will give an overview of the work of Universities UK International, and set out the current context for international activity in UK universities, including the impact of Covid 19; Brexit and recent policy and political developments.
Bio of Speaker
Vivienne Stern is the Director of Universities UK International (UUKi) which represents UK universities around the world and works to enable them to flourish internationally.
Vivienne has over 20 years’ experience of working in higher education policy and politics at national and international level. Prior to her role in UUKi, Vivienne was Head of Political Affairs at Universities UK, and led the sector’s response to several major pieces of legislation relating to universities. Before that she worked for the Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee, and as policy specialist working on topics including quality, student experience, innovation and university-business links.
She is a member of several Boards and advisory committees, including the Education Sector Advisory group of the Department for Education /Department for International Trade; the Board of UKRI’s Fund for International Collaboration; the British Council’s Education Advisory Group.
She is a graduate in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.​
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ABCP Webinar: Working with Industries on Renewable Energy and Electrification
2020-09-04 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Working with Industries on Renewable Energy and Electrification
Speaker
Prof Zi-Qiang Zhu (诸自强教授) FREng FIEEE FIET, Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
Electrical machines and drives are a key technology for numerous market sectors, including industrial drives, domestic appliances, renewable energy, automation, robots, electrified transportation such as electric vehicles, fast trains, more electric aircrafts, and electric ships, etc. This presentation will focus on industrial co-operation on renewable energy and electrification to illustrate the development of novel research concepts and their impact on successful commercial applications.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Z.Q. Zhu is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He received B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Zhejiang University in 1982 and 1984 respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from The University of Sheffield in 1991. He was a Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer at Zhejiang University for four years before joining The University of Sheffield in 1988 where he became a professor in 2000 and has been a Royal Academy of Engineering/Siemens Research Chair since 2014. Since 2008, he has been Head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group, which also hosts 8 research centres including the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Advanced Electrical Machines and the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub.
Professor Zhu is Academic Director of the Sheffield Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Research Centre for off-shore wind power generation (2009-), Director of three Midea Electrical Machines and Control Systems Research Centres for domestic appliances and automation (2010-), and Director of the CRRC Electric Drives Technology Centre for fast train propulsion (2014-). Currently, he is leading the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership on “A New Partnership on Off-shore Wind Power”. His research interests include design, modeling, and control of permanent magnet machines and control systems for a wide range of applications, including electric vehicles, wind power generators and domestic appliances. His research activities are extensively sponsored by the UK government and the global industries, the outcomes being exploited successfully for commercialisation by Siemens, Midea, Toyota, Nissan, Valeo, Rolls-Royce, and CRRC etc.
He is the author/co-author of >200 patents and >1200 refereed papers including >450 IEEE Transactions and IET Proceedings papers, which are cited extensively with a Sci citation of >19000/h-index=73 and a Google citation of >33000/h-index=90. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Nicola Tesla Award and the 2019 IEEE Industry Application Society Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2019 Foundation Prince Albert II de Monaco Award, and the 2018 Guandong Province Science and Technology International Co-operation Award. He received 34 Best Paper Awards, including 6 IEEE/IET society/journal awards. He has supervised 80 graduated PhD students and 35 post-doctor Research Associates.
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ABCP Webinar: The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis
2020-08-28 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
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The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis: the management and business implications of COVID‑19 from an Asian perspective
Speaker
Prof Yipeng Liu (刘毅鹏教授), Professor in Management and Organisation Studies, Founding Director of the Research Centre for China Management and Global Business (CMGB), Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK
Language
The talk will be delivered in English.
Abstract
In this talk, the speaker will introduce his recent research work on the challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis. Below is the abstract of the paper:
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. As the evolution and implications of the COVID-19 crisis are still unfolding, we posit that exploring the experiences and strategic responses of Asian countries may shed light on ways to combat COVID-19 for the rest of the world. In this paper, we first articulate the importance of resilience, strategic agility, and entrepreneurship in the context of the fight against COVID-19. Then, with the focus on China, South Korea, and Singapore, we discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on economies and businesses, governmental support for businesses and societies, and implications for global supply chain disruptions. We hope that the global health system will recover quickly, and that the world economy will be revitalized with the contributions and collaboration of science (including social science), industry, and governments.
Reference

Liu, Y., Lee, J. M., & Lee, C. 2020. The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis: the management and business implications of COVID-19 from an Asian perspective. Asian Business & Management, 19(3): 277-297

Bio of Speaker
Professor Yipeng Liu is a full Professor in Management and Organisation Studies and Founding Director of the Research Centre for China Management and Global Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research interests centre on mergers and acquisitions, innovation, entrepreneurship and global talent mobility, and emerging markets. He has broad professional experience in management consulting, venture capital, business development and engineering in Asia, Europe, and North America. He has published over 70 academic papers, including leading journals such as Human Resource Management, British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business. His paper on knowledge transfer in cross-border acquisitions won the International Business Review 2017 Best Paper Award. His recent book is Research Handbook of International Talent Management (Edward Elgar, 2019).
https://www.henley.ac.uk/research/research-centres/china-management-global-business
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ABCP Webinar: A health sciences university navigating a pandemic (Prof Jenny Higham)
2020-08-06 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
A health sciences university navigating a pandemic
Speaker
Prof Jenny Higham, Principal, St George’s, University of London; Member of ABCP’s International Advisory Board
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Abstract
Everyone has experienced Covid impacts, but university with specialist infectious disease research and a co-location on a large acute hospital site has additional opportunities and also challenges. These will be explored and the opportunity to ask questions and compare experiences will be given.
Bio of Speaker
Prof Jenny Higham joined St George’s as Principal in November 2015 and is responsible for directing all activities and developments at the university. Professor Higham led the creation of the new St George’s Strategic Plan 2017-2022, which identifies the values and strengths that make St George’s a distinctive community and sets out how we will sustain our excellence and impact in education and research.
She was the first female Chair of the Medical Schools Council, the representative body for UK medical schools. She has been actively involved in academic policy and delivery for a number of years, both in the UK and internationally and is on the University sector boards of UUK [Universities UK] and UCEA [Universities and Colleges Employers Association]. Alongside her role as Principal, Professor Higham continues clinical practice as a consultant gynaecologist.
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ABCP Webinar: Kinematics That Entails Metamorphic and Reconfigurable Mechanisms
2020-07-31 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Kinematics That Entails Metamorphic and Reconfigurable Mechanisms
理论运动学奠定了变胞机构与可重构机构与可重构机器人基础
Speaker
Prof Jian S. Dai (戴建生教授) FIEEE FASME FRSA FIMechE CEng, Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics, Advanced Kinematics and Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, Department of Engineering, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King’s College London
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The talk will be delivered in English, but slides will be bilingual (English and Chinese).
Abstract
This talk presents the study of advanced kinematics and fundamental theories and their relations to Lie groups and Lie algebra through finite screws and is to be followed by the kinematics entailed reconfigurable mechanisms and robots. The intrinsic theory in the kinematics study provides a foundation of development of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots in their various forms, leading to a two-decade innovation in metamorphic mechanisms, reconfigurable robots and evolutionary parallel robots. With change of order of a kinematics system, the mechanism changes its mobility and presents its different topologies.
The talk gives a philosophical view over the entwinement between robotics and arts, presents decades of development in origami robots, arts robots, metamorphic robots, rehabilitation robots and reconfigurable robots. This entwinement is elevated by mathematical tools, particularly the advanced kinematics with screw theory and its relations to Lie groups and Lie algebra through finite screws. With change of the order of a screw system, a robot mechanism changes its mobility and presents its different topologies for variable tasks.
Extensive applications of the reconfigurable mechanisms and robots are to be presented in the aspects of assembly, packaging, food industry, domestic robots, walking robots, origami robots, rehabilitation robots and medical robots, leading to Robots of Future in the decades ahead.
本讲座将介绍高级运动学和基本理论及其贯通有限旋量与李群和李代数关系的前沿研究，以此开辟了变胞机构子领域与可重构机构与可重构机器人大领域。高教运动学研究中的内在理论为各种形式的可重构机构和可重构机器人开发奠定了基础，从而引出了二十年创新的变胞机构，可重构机器人及其进化的并联机器人。随着运动系统顺序的改变，该机构改变了其运动性并呈现出不同的拓扑。
该演讲从哲学角度进一步探讨了机器人科学与艺术之间的缱绻，并介绍了折纸机器人，艺术机器人，变胞机器人，康复机器人和可重构机器人数十年来发展。这种缠绵可以通过数学工具来提升，尤其是采用旋量理论的高级运动学，以及通过有限旋量与李群和李代数的关系。随着旋量系统顺序的改变，机器人机构改变了其活动度与自由度，并针对不同任务产生出不同拓扑，以适应不同环境与不同需求。
可重构机构和可重构机器人的广泛应用在组装，包装，食品工业，家用机器人，步行机器人，折纸机器人，康复机器人和医疗机器人等方面得到展示，从而在未来几十年中实现“未来机器人”。
Bio of Speaker
Prof Jian S. Dai (戴建生教授) FIEEE FASME FRSA FIMechE CEng, is Chair of Mechanisms and Robotics and a pioneer in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, in origami robots, in ankle rehabilitation robots and in metamorphic robots. He established the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms in robotics, a concept that could bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots, and efficient but non-flexible machines, and their applications to health, home and manufacture.
Professor Dai received a BEng in 1982 and an MSc in 1984 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and received a PhD in Advanced Kinematics and Robotics from the University of Salford in the UK in 1993.
Professor Dai is the recipient of 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award and the recipient of 2020 ASME Machine Design Award. In the first lifelong achievements award, he is the 27th recipient since 1974. In the second lifelong achievements award, he is the 58th recipient since 1958. The citation of 2020 ASME Machine Design Award is for pioneering contributions in establishing the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the subfield of metamorphic mechanisms; and for making a lasting impact through research, application, teaching and service that have made it possible to bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots and efficient but nonflexible machines.
Professor Dai received many other awards including 2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award by King’s College London, 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award and 2012 Mechanisms Innovation Award, together with three best journal Paper Awards and six conference best paper awards with the 2018 Crossley Award, 2019 AT Yang Award in Theoretical Kinematics. Professor Dai was elevated by IEEE in 2017 as IEEE Fellow with citation as ‘for contributions to reconfigurable and metamorphic mechanisms in robotics’.
Professor Dai has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers, 8 authored books, 3 edited books, and 30 book chapters, with Google h-index of 55, and i10 index of 220, and citation number over 12000 including a book on Geometrical Foundations and Screw Algebra in Mechanisms and Robotics, a book on Evolutionary Design of Parallel Mechanisms, a book on Screw Algebra and Lie Groups, Lie Algebra and a book on Screw Algebra and Kinematics Approach for Mechanisms and Robotics. He serves as a Subject Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory, Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science.
Professor Dai is Founder of the prestigious conference series IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (IEEE ReMAR) and organizer of a series of conferences, workshops and symposia with major scientific relevance (e.g., ASME M&R, IEEE ICRA).
Professor Dai has graduated over 40 PhD students who are now faculty members of world-leading universities (e.g., University College London, Queen Mary University London, Purdue University, Wollongong University, Curtin University, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)), and affiliated with prestigious cooperative companies (e.g., Cambridge Consultants, Goldman Sachs) and becoming successful entrepreneurs (e.g., Movendo Technology, AITREAT Pte Ltd, Novus Altair, DH Robotics, and DR Robotics).
戴建生教授是2015年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）“机构学与机器人学终身成就奖” 获得者，2020年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）“机械设计终身成就奖” 获得者。2020年获奖词为：为建立可重构机构领域和变胞机构子领域做出了开拓性与奠基性贡献；并通过研究、应用、教学和服务对机械设计产生了持久性影响，弥合了通用但昂贵的机器人与高效但不灵活的机器之间的鸿沟。为国际理论运动学与可重构机构学权威专家，在国际机构学与机器人学中享有盛誉。现为英国伦敦大学国王学院机构学与机器人学讲席教授。
戴建生教授长期从事理论运动学、机构学与机器人学的基础理论与应用研究，在国内外发表学术论文600余篇，其中国际期刊论文400余篇，出版专著10余部，被引用 12000余次，h-指数55，i10-指数220。戴建生教授是美国电气电子工程师学会（IEEE）Fellow，美国机械工程师学会（ASME）Fellow，英国机械工程师学会（IMechE）Fellow，英国皇家文艺学会（RSA）Fellow。被授予 IEEE Fellow 时的贡献词为：贡献于世界机器人的可重构机构与变胞机构。 任 IFToMM（世界机构与机器联合会）英国区主席，曾任 ASME 英国与爱尔兰区主席，在多个国际学术期刊与学术组织任职。除了2015年与2020年的终身成就奖外，获得了多项国内外学术奖励与荣誉，多项国际期刊最佳论文奖，包括 Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 2009年、2011年最佳期刊论文奖，伦敦国王学院 2010年度最佳博士生指导教师全校奖（3000名教职1名），2012年 ASME杰出服务奖，中国机构学学会2012年“学术创新奖”和“国际学术交流奖”，2018年 Crossley Award，与2019年 AT Yang 理论运动学奖。已培养博士40余名，其中10余位在中国、英国、美国、意大利、澳洲、墨西哥等一流大学任教，10余位在世界各地含中国、意大利、英国、新加坡与墨西哥创办机器人高科技公司。
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ABCP Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare and societal costs in China
2020-07-17 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
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The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare and societal costs in China
新冠疫情对中国卫生系统和社会经济的冲击
Speaker
Dr Huajie (Lily) Jin (金桦杰博士), Senior Health Economist, King’s College London, UK
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http://abcp.org.uk/files/virtual_seminars/20200717-Huajie_Jin.pdf
Abstract
COVID-19 swept through China in 2020, with over 83,000 confirmed cases reported by the end of June 2020. In order to estimate the economic burden of COVID-19, we conducted a cost-of-illness study to estimate the healthcare and societal cost of COVID-19 in 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China. The main cost components included identification, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, compulsory quarantine and productivity losses for all affected residents in China during the study period. Input data were obtained from government reports, clinical guidelines, and other published literature. The total estimated healthcare and societal cost associated with the outbreak is 4.26 billion RMB (0.62 billion USD) and 2,647 billion RMB (383 billion USD), respectively. The main components of routine healthcare costs are inpatient care (41.0%) and medicines (30.9%). The main component of societal costs is productivity losses (99.8%). Hubei province incurred the highest healthcare cost (83.2%) whilst Guangdong province incurred the highest societal cost (14.6%).
Our study highlights a large economic burden of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in China. Evidence indicates that the control measures to prevent the spread of disease incurred substantial productivity costs amounting to over 2% of China’s annual GDP. The results of this study provide evidence to justify significant investment in prevention and control measures for future outbreaks.
Related papers from speaker

Huajie Jin et al., “Estimating the cost-of-illness associated with the COVID-19 outbreak in China from January to March 2020,” medRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2020.05.15.20102863, May 2020
Jidi Zhao et al., “Disease Burden Attributable to the First Wave of COVID-19 in China, and the Effect of Timing on the Cost-Effectiveness of Movement Restriction Policies,” preprint with The Lancet, doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3605199

Bio of Speaker
Dr Huajie Jin (Lily) has been a Senior Health Economist at King’s College London since 2013. Her role at King’s involves designing and conducting economic evaluations for or a range of policymakers and research organisations, including the NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council (MRC), as well as voluntary sector and commercial organisations. Before joining King’s, Lily used to work on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines for three years. Between Year 2011-2013, Lily was an honorary Research Fellow of Cardiff University, and an Honorary Research Associate of Swansea University.
Lily’s research focuses on health economic modelling, trial-based economic evaluations and systematic reviews. She has conducted economic evaluations for a range of healthcare interventions, including screening tests, diagnostic tests, drugs, radiotherapies, and service-level interventions, such as trainings for GPs, and liaison modes between primary care and secondary care services. Her work has been published in journals such as The Lancet Psychiatry, BMJ, PharmacoEconomics, PLOS One and JAMA Network Open. She was the principal health economist of three NICE clinical guidelines and three NICE Medtech innovation briefings (MIBs).
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ABCP Webinar: Existential Crisis and Challenges of Energy Transition
2020-07-03 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Is there an existential crisis which requires complete decarbonization in the next 30 years and if so, what are the challenges of the required energy transition?
Speaker
Prof Gautam Kalghatgi FREng FIMechE FSAE FCI FISEES, Visiting Professor, Oxford University (Engineering Science); formerly worked at Shell Research in the UK and Saudi Aramco in Dhahran
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Abstract
There is widespread belief that unless “something is done”, the world will go through an “existential crisis” because of climate change. As a result, several initiatives calling for drastic and rapid cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are gaining traction. However, empirical evidence shows that, over the past many decades, all measures of human development have improved significantly; food production has increased consistently; the earth is greening; deaths attributed to extreme weather have decreased by 95%; there is no statistical evidence that droughts, floods and forest fires have increased or that the rate of sea level rise is abnormal. In any case humanity has coped with past climate change (rise in temperature) caused substantially by human activities. Nevertheless, there is widespread belief that the precautionary principle requires that in order to avoid future catastrophe, the world requires to decarbonise completely and quickly. However, currently fossil fuels supply around 85% of global primary energy. Replacing this with carbon-free energy, even after assuming a 40% reduction in demand because of improved efficiency, will require the world to build over 3100 nuclear power stations of 3 GW each or over 7.8 million 3 MW wind turbines. Simultaneously, existing energy infrastructure has to be dismantled e.g. gas boilers have to be replaced by electric heating, aviation and steel and cement industries have to be largely shut down …Such change is unlikely to happen, particularly as poorer countries try to grow their economies and continue to use fossil fuels. Hence it is better to shift policy towards adaptation i.e. make societies more resilient to the effects of climate change e.g. better flood defences.
Currently, wind and solar supply 1.33% of global primary energy consumption of 581 exajoules. All alternatives to fossil fuels start from a very low base and have significant barriers to unlimited growth. The talk will then focus on transport, particularly, battery electric vehicles to illustrate this point. Even by 2040, 85-90% of transport energy will come from petroleum- based fuels powering internal combustion engines (ICE) because of the large scale of the problem. It is imperative that ICE engines are improved to maintain the sustainability of transport and there is great scope for such improvement. Banning the sale of ICE vehicles by 2035, as the U.K. government proposes, will stop R&D in this area and close the cheapest and easiest path to cleaner and better transport which requires all available technologies to be used sensibly.
Bio of Speaker
Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research in the UK followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco in Dhahran before retiring in June 2018. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Oxford University (Engineering Science) and has held similar academic appointments in the past at Imperial College, London; KTH Stockholm; TU Eindhoven and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE, IMechE and the Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is on the International Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute, on the editorial boards of several journals and has served on many international advisory boards, e.g., for CCRC in KAUST. He has published around 130 papers and a book, “Fuel/Engine Interactions”, on combustion, fuels and engine research and on transport energy. This work is cited widely with an H index of 51 on Google Scholar and 44 on Scopus. He has a BTech from IIT Bombay (1972) and a PhD from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering. His PhD project was on supersonic aerodynamics, more particularly, on shock interactions. He did post-doctoral research on turbulent combustion at Southampton University (1975-1979) before joining Shell.
The speaker can be reached via email Kalghatgig@gmail.com.
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ABCP Webinar: Energy Storage for a Net (Nearly Net) Zero Carbon Energy Future
2020-06-19 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | virtual
Title
Energy Storage for a Net (Nearly Net) Zero Carbon Energy Future
热能存储与净（近）零碳能源系统构建
Speaker
Professor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙) CEng FIChemE FRSC, Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage, University of Birmingham, UK
Languages
The talk will be delivered in English but the slides will be bilingual in English and Chinese.
Abstract
The global impacts of the changing climate have become increasingly visible in recent years. To address such a colossal challenge, the UK took the lead in the world to adopt a highly ambitious target in 2019 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. This target, together with legislated carbon budgets, implies that more radical emissions cuts across the economy would be needed. Although the greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 45% in the UK since 1990, the reduction so far has been largely achieved within the power sector by the transition away from coal and towards gas and renewable generation. Significantly more difficult challenges remain ahead of us.
This talk will start with an overview of the world final energy consumption, together with recent renewable penetration and energy efficiency data. These data will be analysed to show the true challenges from a decarbonisation perspective. Attention is then paid to the most popular emerging energy technologies, including electrification of transport, hydrogen economy, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen ironmaking. These energy processes as currently configured will be shown to be highly energy inefficient, leading to a new thermal challenge. Advanced planning for a radically new energy infrastructure would be needed if we do not want our next generations to face similar energy challenges as we do today and indeed over the past few decades, such as retrofitting measures for our homes. An attempt is then made to establish a multi-vector-based energy network with a potential to resolve the challenge.
The transition to a net (nearly net) zero carbon energy future is likely to catalyse the creation of many new businesses. Inevitably, this will place many conventional energy businesses to a vulnerable position or even out of business if they are not prepared for or resist to the changes. This will be briefly discussed if time allows.
Bio of Speaker
Professor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙) CEng FIChemE FRSC is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His current research covers both fundamental (multiphase transport phenomena across length scales) and applied (new energy conversion and storage technologies) aspects.
He invented liquid air energy storage and cryogenic engine technologies and led the initial stage of their developments and validation, which are respectively commercialised by Highview Power and Dearman Engine, two UK engineering companies. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of ~1.2GWh so far.
He is a receiver of three IChemE Global Awards – Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement Awards in 2019; Distinguished Energy Storage Individual Award (Beijing International Energy Storage and Expo, 2018); Cryogenic Energy Storage Research Chair Award (Royal Academy of Engineering, 2014); Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize, Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage System, 2014); Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (Liquid Air Energy Storage, ‘The Engineer’ Magazine, 2011).
He has published over 450 technical papers with ~250 in peer-reviewed journals (H Index of ~ 63), filed over 70+ patents, and co-founded Dispersia Ltd and Jinhe Energy Co Ltd, and more recently Kelvin Thermotech Ltd. He has served as a consultant to AnSteel Group, P&G, Shell Global Solutions, GSK, Pfizer and CREG over the last 20 years. He currently serves on IChemE Publication Medal Assessment Panel, European Technology and Innovation Platform Working Group on Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIPSNET), and editorial boards of Journal of Energy Storage (Wiley), Journal of Thermal Science (Springer), Particuology (Elsevier), and Energies & Applied Science (MDPI).
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Bring Scientists Together to Tackle the Covid-19 and Beyond
2020-02-14 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, Greater London, SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom
The Association will organise a workshop at The Royal Society to discuss how to tackle the Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This is an invitation only event. The agenda of the workshop can be download from here.

ABCP London Office Warm-Up Party
2019-08-05 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Westar House, 139-151 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5QE, Westar House, 139-151 Marylebone Road, London, Greater London, NW1 5QE, United Kingdom
The ABCP’s London Office will be officially opened at Westar House, 139-151 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5QE. Members and friends of the ABCP are welcome to join us for a Warm-Up Party. The event is organised to celebrate the opening of our London Office, and provide a social event for members and friends of ABCP to meet and catch up with each other. Please register to attend by scanning the following QR-code or visiting the registration page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abcp-london-office-warm-up-party-tickets-64564699755 directly.

ABCP Annual Conference 2019
2019-07-10 - 2019-07-12 | School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Daphne Jackson Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom
ABCP 2019, the First ABCP Annual Conference will be held from 10-12 July 2019 at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Daphne Jackson Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7AL.
More details about the conference can be found here: http://abcp.org.uk/2019-abcp-annual-conference
If you would like to attend the conference, please register using the Eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abcp-annual-conference-tickets-53135567914

Opening Ceremony of ABCP
2018-06-24 15:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris) | School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Daphne Jackson Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom
The ABCP will be officially launched at an opening ceremony, to take place on Sunday 24th June 2018, at Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow Hotel. To register for attending the event, please use the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abcp-opening-ceremoney-tickets-46099475773
For this event, we welcome organisations especially companies to provide sponsorships. Contact us at contact@abcp.org.uk if you are interested.
Tentative schedule of the event

2-3pm: pre-meeting of the Management Committee
3-4:30pm: meeting of all full members (full professors) of ABCP
4:30-5pm: reception (arrival of guests)
5-6pm: opening ceremony
6-7pm: networking, photo taking session, a news conference and an industry liaison session
7-9pm: dinner (all participants and their partners are welcome)

Dress Code: Formal
Parking information: The hotel has around 600 parking spaces, open to anyone who attend events held at the hotel (not just their guests). You can just arrive and pay. No need to book a parking space in advance.
