HIT Media (Text: Zhang Youyuan, Wang Bo, Zhou Chenglong, Cui Jiaqi; Photos: Conference Team)
More than 300 experts and scholars from China and around the world attended the sixth International Symposium on Multiscale Simulations of Thermophysics-2026 (MSTP-2026) and the inaugural launch event of Space Energy and Environment (SEE), which was recently held in Harbin.
The event was organized by the Youth Working Committee of the Heat Transfer and Mass Transfer Branch of the Chinese Engineering Thermophysics Society, and hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).
Professor Xu Ruina, head of the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University, spoke on behalf of the youth working committee, while Chen Bingmeng, a publisher for Elsevier's medical physics journals, spoke on behalf of the publishing house.
Academician Xuan Yimin of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Professor Chen Haisheng, director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Professor Zhang Tieming, vice-chair of the seventh council of the China Periodicals Association and chair of the Society of China University Journal, joined the conference online and delivered remarks. Other experts sent video messages congratulating the journal SEE on its launch.
The MSTP-2026 and SEE inaugural launch event takes place. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
HIT Vice-President Shuai Yong noted that HIT will use its scientific facilities and platforms for university-industry collaboration, promote openness and resource sharing, and deepen collaborative modeling and data sharing to develop a world-class, high-quality and high-impact international journal in the field of space energy and environment, with high standards from the outset.
Shuai Yong delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Zhao Yaqin, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Education, delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Han Jinhua, inspector of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology, delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Tsinghua University Professor Seeram Ramakrishna delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Professor Xu Ruina delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Chen Bingmeng delivers a speech. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
The conference featured four keynote presentations and multiple parallel sessions on space energy and the environment. Professor Wang Zuankai of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Professor Zhumabay Bakenov of Nazarbayev University, Professor Chen Yunfei of Southeast University, and Professor Feng Guang of Huazhong University of Science and Technology delivered keynote presentations.
Experts deliver keynote presentations. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
Experts attending the conference jointly launched the journal and presented letters of appointment to editorial board members, who held their first plenary meeting.
The inaugural launch event of Space Energy and Environment. [Photo/hit.edu.cn]
SEE is a high-quality and open-access English-language academic journal serving a global readership, jointly developed by HIT and Elsevier.
The journal has three editors-in-chief: HIT Professor Shuai Yong, Academician Yu Dengyun of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and Professor Yang Hongxing of Southwest Jiaotong University. Professor Gao Jianmin, dean of HIT's School of Energy Science and Engineering, serves as executive editor-in-chief. The first editorial board brings together 58 outstanding experts and scholars from China and around the world in related fields, including 17 academicians and fellows.
The journal is dedicated to building an open and innovative academic exchange platform with international influence and a leading role in the field, bringing together expertise from around the world to advance research and technological innovation in space energy and extreme environments. The journal was selected for the High-Starting-Point New Journal initiative under China's Excellent Action Plan for STM Journals.
Edited by: Shang Yankai
Reviewed by: Song Ling, Li Shoubin, Yang Wenyu