He focused on Catalysis kinetics, electro-catalysis, new materials and associated processes, heat and mass transfer, electrochemical cell design and architecture related to hydrogen and fuel cell (electrochemical, photoelectrochemical and reforming), electrolyser and fuel cell systems, alternative electrochemical fuels. He has worked for Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences until now from 1995. Now he is an academic committee member of China Association for Hydrogen Energy for China Renewable Energy Society and China Electrotechnical Society, and a senior Member for the Chinese Chemical Society.He has published more than 140 papers and was authorized to over 30 patents relevant to hydrogen energy.

Prof. Blaž Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the programme “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 / 50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >400 articles, was cited >10000 times, having a h-index of 61. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards. .