Dr Mark Jacobs leads the Science Division, within the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation. Mark oversees the provision of scientific and technical advice and services to government agencies on environmental, natural resource and climate matters. This advice underpins agency decision making and legislative responsibilities. The Division also works closely with the Queensland Chief Scientist to foster the science and research base in Queensland. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in government, leading and managing high performing teams, and developing and implementing science and innovation policies, strategies, and programs. Before joining government, Mark worked as a research scientist, both locally and internationally and has maintained strong active industry, university and international networks. Mark has a PhD in science from The University of Queensland and a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management.

Prof. Joohyun Park is the director of the Laboratory for the High Temperature Physicochemical Processing of Materials (HiTeP2), Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea. He was a senior research scientist in the Technical Research Laboratories, POSCO, for 7 years and now performing research focusing on i) inclusion science and engineering, ii) slag science and technology, iii) sustainable ferrous- and non-ferrous metallurgy for carbon neutral society, etc. He has been an Affiliated Professor in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and a Guest Professor in USTB. He was selected as a recipient of the Iron- and Steelmaking Technology Award (2005) and Best Patent Award (2006) by POSCO; the Best Young Scientist Award (2012) and Chungwoong Award (2021) by Korea Institute of Metals and Materials; the Marcus Grossmann Young Author Award (2014), TMS-EPD Science Award (2020), and Key Reader Award (2021) by TMS; the Sawamura Award (2017) by Iron & Steel Institute of Japan; the Minister Award (2021) by Korean Government (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, MOTIE). He has granted about 30 (International and Korean) patents and published 200 peer-reviewed articles with 460 conference presentations.