Prof. T. S. Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology of NTUST, Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE department of NUS in 2011-2021. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received the Underwood Medal from IChemE UK for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from IDA in 2016. He was ranked as No. 6th in Chemical Engineering by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford U. in 2022 and 2023. His H-index = H-index = 131 (Scopus) or 153 (Google Scholar) (My 26, 2024).

Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Academy Professor at Emeritus Academy Institute, Founding Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers, Materials Research Institute, and was Professor of EE and MatSE, Distinguished Honors Faculty of Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University. He was Associate Director (Global Technology Awareness, the US Navy Ambassador to Japan) at The US Office of Naval Research – Global Tokyo Office from 2010 till 2014. He was also the Founder and Senior Vice President & CTO of Micromechatronics Inc., State College, PA from 2004 till 2010. After being awarded his Ph. D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, he became Research Associate/Assistant Professor (1976) in Physical Electronics Department at this university. Then, he joined Sophia University, Japan as Associate Professor in Physics Department in 1985. He was then recruited from The Penn State University in 1991. He was also involved with Space Shuttle Utilizing Committee in NASDA, Japan during 1986-88, and Vice President of NF Electronic Instruments, USA, during 1992-94. He was the Founding Chair of Smart Actuators/Sensors Committee, Japan Technology Transfer Association sponsored by Ministry of Economics, Trading and Industries, Japan from 1987 to 2014, and is a long-term Chair of International Conference on New Actuators, Messe Bremen, Germany since 1997. He is currently Editor in Chief of J. Actuators, MDPI and J. Insight-Material Science, PiscoMed Publishing LLT. Uchino served as Administrative Committee Member (Elected) of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (1998-2000) and as Secretary of American Ceramic Society, Electronics Division (2002-2003). His research interest is in solid state physics, especially in ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics, including basic research on theory, materials, device designing and fabrication processes, as well as application development of solid state actuators/sensors for precision positioners, micro-robotics, ultrasonic motors, smart structures, piezoelectric transformers and energy harvesting. K. Uchino is known as the discoverer/inventor of the following famous topics: (1) lead magnesium niobate (PMN)-based electrostricive materials, (2) cofired multilayer piezoelectric actuators (MLA), (3) superior piezoelectricity in relaxor-lead titanate-based piezoelectric single crystals (PZN-PT), (4) photostrictive phenomenon, (5) shape memory ceramics, (6) magnetoelectric composite sensors, (7) transient response control scheme of piezoelectric actuators (Pulse-Drive technique), (8) micro ultrasonic motors, (9) multilayer disk piezoelectric transformers, and (10) piezoelectric loss characterization methodology. He has authored 582 papers, 83 books and 33 patents in the ceramic actuator area. 66 papers/books among his publications have been cited more than 100 times, leading to his average h-index 82. Total citation number 36,000 and annual average citation number 1,500 are very high in College of Engineering.

Zafar Said is currently working as an Associate Professor with the Department of Sustainable Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah. He also serves as the coordinator of the Functional Nanomaterials Synthesis Lab. Dr. Zafar completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Hons.) from University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the iSmart group in the Department of Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute, U.A.E. He also worked on confidential industrial collaborative projects with Masdar Institute. He works in the fields of renewable energy, energy and exergy analysis, solar energy (solar collectors, energy efficiency, efficiency improvement), heat transfer (heat transfer, cooling, and heating), and nanofluids (thermophysical properties, optical properties, application of nanofluids). His research achievements include 100 research papers, 2 books/book chapters, 18 conference papers, about 2945 citations and an H-index of 31. He secured more than 2 million AED in research grants. He has been honored with several prestigious awards, including Sharjah Islamic Bank Award for Distinguished Researchers (2017-2018) and Faculty Annual Incentive Research Award for 2018-2019. Dr. Zafar is also serving as the Editorial Board Member for several ISI Journals. He is a reviewer in more than 20 Journals, with a total of 280 reviews.

Oscar K.S. Hui, a reader in energy storage and conversion at the School of Engineering, UEA, has made significant contributions in his field. He completed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), a prestigious institution ranked #58 in THE world ranking 2023. Prior to the current position, he was a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of East Anglia, UK (2016-2019), Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (2013-2016), and Lecturer in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2008-2013). His career-long citation impact places him in the world's top 2% (or above) scientists in Materials, Energy, Nanoscience & Technology, as determined by Stanford University and Scopus data for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw In 2023, he was recognized as one of the Best Scientists in Materials Science, ranking #195 (link) in the United Kingdom and #4458 (link) in the world according to Research.com.

Paul KIEKENS (°1955) was a Full Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He was Head of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University from 1988 till the end of 2016. In January 2017 he became Head of the Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering (MaTCh) with nearly 300 people one of the largest academic departments in the world. He is a graduate (Master in Chemistry) from Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) and holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry (1982) and one in Materials (Textile) Technology (1987). He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University (2002-2004). He was the executive coordinator of AUTEX (Association of Universities for Textiles) from 1994 till 2020 and the former president of ENMat (European Network of Materials Research Centres). Since 2021 he is Professor Emeritus of Ghent University. Over the years, Prof. Kiekens has been involved in a large number of national and particularly European projects about education and research. He has written about 350 international papers and several books. This has resulted in an h-index of 25 (year 2020).

Prof. Dr. SABU THOMAS is currently , the Director, School of Chemical Sciences and Hon. Director,and also the Hon. Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarshini Hills P. O. Kottayam, Kerala, India. He did his Ph.D from Indian institute of Technology (IIT),Kharagpur. Prof.Thomas has a h Index of 149 and has published 1500 international papers with 150000 total citations. He has 15 patents and 150 books to his credit. In 2008, Prof Thomas was cited in the list of most productive researchers in India.(5th Position).In 2018 he received the faculty Research award by Careers 360 for the most cited researcher in India in Material Science. He is a visiting professor in several foreign Universities including France, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia,Poland etc.In 2017 Prof.Thomas was awarded the Full bright fellowship Our research group consists of PhD students, Post-doctoral associates, Visiting students and Project students. Almost 80 Ph D students have graduated from the group and are located in various parts of the world. Prof. Sabu Thomas has many research collaborations all around the world.

Charles Ghany, Associate Professor of Physics at Mississippi College (Tenured) Charles Ghany has a PhD degree in Applied Physics from Mississippi State University (MSU, 2016 Graduate). He is also a holder of two Master of Science degrees in Physics from Umea University (Sweden) and Mississippi State University (USA) respectively. His undergraduate degree was also in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Buea (Cameroon). He has done a lot of research with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and chemiluminescence based combustion diagnostics. He has worked as an instructor of records, teaching General Physics II and Physics III (Physics courses for undergraduate students) at MSU. He lectured at MSU for some time all the way through summer 1, 2016. After this, he moved in the fall of 2016 to Mississippi College (MC), where he began his career initially, as a visiting Professor of Physics. He is currently an Associate Professor of Physics and tenured at MC.

Prof. Joon Myong Song received Ph.D. in 1997 at Kyushu University in Japan. After Ph.D., he worked as research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in United States. From 2005, he is professor in College of Pharmacy at Seoul National University in South Korea. His research area is 3D bioprinting-based tissue for evaluation of drug efficacy and toxicity, and transparent tumor imaging. He has published 140 papers in peer reviewed journals, 12 book chapters, and 35 international and domestic patents. He is an associate editor of Nano Convergence. He was president of Korean Biochip Society in 2024. He is director of anticancer immune cell research center at Seoul National University from 2023 to 2030.

Xianguang Yang received his Bachelor’s degree in Optics from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2012, and completed his Doctorate in Optical Engineering with the theoretical and experimental combination of nanowire and nanoparticle photonics at the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies affiliated with SYSU in 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Baojun Li (Changjiang Scholar). He received National Postgraduate Scholarship in 2016. He became an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Nanophotonics at the Jinan University in 2016 and became an Assistant to the Dean since 2018, then promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. He has mentored 13 MS students and post-docs. His main research interests include photonics, plasmonics, nano-optics, detectors, opto electronics and opt thermal mechanisms, especially for fiber optical waveguide, which were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Yang has published 4 Book chapters, and 30 peer-reviewed journal publications, such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Optical Materials, Nanophotonics, Nanoscale, ACS Photonics, and etc. He has been an Editorial Board Member of Optics in 2018 and to be a member for RSC Advances Reviewer Panel since 2020. In 2023, he has been appointed as guest editor of Nanomaterials (IF 5.3), managing the Nanostructured Materials for Photonic and Plasmonic Applications. In 2024, he has been elected as Nanoscale Emerging investigator. He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), Optical Society of America (OSA), Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE).

Prof. T. S. Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology of NTUST, Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE department of NUS in 2011-2021. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received the Underwood Medal from IChemE UK for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from IDA in 2016. He was ranked as No. 6th in Chemical Engineering by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford U. in 2022 and 2023. His H-index = H-index = 131 (Scopus) or 153 (Google Scholar) (My 26, 2024).

Joseph Michael Daniels is a world leading sustainable technologist, innovator and entrepreneur. Having built the first net zero connected buildings across 4 continents and raising over £40Million before his 30th birthday, Joseph has pushed the boundaries of what is possible. This comes from his experiences as a young man being made homeless for the first time at 15. Joseph has also been accoladed by the UN in there 75th anniversary book, has won Best Documentary Film for his life story with Barclays at the London film awards aswell as major features across mainstream media including Forbes 30under30, CNBC and Bloomberg to name a few. In 2022 Joseph Michael Daniels retired from his original founding role to create a next generation smart nations eco system builder, Elixr, aligning its planet 2030 vision via the domain Planet.Earth to help support social impact and sustainability entrepreneurs to change the world. Initial investments cover digital twins for planning, live data, digital auditing and assessment technology, digital twin skills, voting and EVOTL technologies. In addition to his founding roles, Joseph is Co founder and Vice President of the Live Data Trust and U.K. Business Council for Sustainable Development, special advisor to Sintali, the World Bank’s Green Building Accreditation underwriter, and special advisor to DESNZ (previously BEIS) construct zero for the British Government. Joseph is now working closely with the Department of Business and Trade for Rare Earth Technologies.

Dr. Ebad Bagherpour is a Lecturer at BCAST, Brunel University. His robust academic and industry trajectory includes roles such as a CircularMetal Research Associate, Level-UP Research Fellow, and RACEForm Research Fellow at BCAST. He has also served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Doshisha University in Japan, a Lecturer at Shiraz University, and R&D Manager at Shiraz Kahroba Industrial Co. With over 15 years of experience in metallurgy and materials science, Dr. Bagherpour specializes in mechanical characterization of materials, microstructure-properties relationships, cyclic response of metals, forming technologies, severe plastic deformation, dislocation theory, and deformation mechanisms. He actively contributes to the editorial boards of several journals, reviews manuscripts across numerous Elsevier, Springer, and MDPI journals, and holds editorial roles at "Cambridge Scholar Publication," "Modern Materials Science and Technology," and "Engineering and Solid Mechanics." Additionally, he serves on the Elsevier Advisory Panel and is a guest editor and Topical Advisory Panel Member for the MDPI Journal Crystals."

Zafar Said is currently working as an Associate Professor with the Department of Sustainable Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah. He also serves as the coordinator of the Functional Nanomaterials Synthesis Lab. Dr. Zafar completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Hons.) from University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the iSmart group in the Department of Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute, U.A.E. He also worked on confidential industrial collaborative projects with Masdar Institute. He works in the fields of renewable energy, energy and exergy analysis, solar energy (solar collectors, energy efficiency, efficiency improvement), heat transfer (heat transfer, cooling, and heating), and nanofluids (thermophysical properties, optical properties, application of nanofluids). His research achievements include 100 research papers, 2 books/book chapters, 18 conference papers, about 2945 citations and an H-index of 31. He secured more than 2 million AED in research grants. He has been honored with several prestigious awards, including Sharjah Islamic Bank Award for Distinguished Researchers (2017-2018) and Faculty Annual Incentive Research Award for 2018-2019. Dr. Zafar is also serving as the Editorial Board Member for several ISI Journals. He is a reviewer in more than 20 Journals, with a total of 280 reviews.

Mr. Walker is a Nuclear Physicist and was the project lead and manager for constructing the new Rolls-Royce Nuclear Chemical Plant; he was the UK Subject Matter Expert for the UK Nuclear Material Recovery Capabilities and was the technical project manager for constructing the UK reactor core manufacturing facilities. Mr. Walker was also seconded to Rolls Royce where he modeled configurations of RR’s Zero-Power reactor to inform confidence limits for the UK’s successor submarine’s mechanical design and worked for the Rolls-Royce Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics Engineering team investigating reactor channel thermal performance to inform new reactor designs and support the safety case for reactors in current class submarines. Mr. Walker’s professional engineering experience includes nuclear reactors, mines, submarines, chemical plants, factories, mine processing facilities, infrastructure, automotive machinery, and testing rigs. Mr. Walker has extensive experience in engineering and project management, particularly within nuclear engineering, mining engineering, mechanical engineering, construction, manufacturing, engineering design, infrastructure, and safety management. He has executive experience in several public companies, as well as acquiring and re-developing the only fluorspar mine in the United States. Mr. Walker holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering, as well as qualifications in Project Management and Accountancy. He is a Chartered Engineer with the IMechE, a Chartered Physicist with the IoP, a Project Manager Professional with the APM, and a Professional Engineer with the Engineers and Geoscientists BC.

Mr. Yu is a serial entrepreneur and has over 16 years of capital markets experience on wall street. He is a private investor in a multitude of companies and has advised a magnitude of private and public company executives with corporate advisory services such as capital funding, mergers & acquisitions, structured financing, IPO listings, and other business development services geared at taking these companies to the next level. He is a self taught and private self investor, his relentless passion for international business has helped him develop key, strategic and valuable relationships throughout the world. Mr. Yu leads the corporate structuring, capital financings, executive level recruitment, governmental relationships and international brand growth of NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. Previously, Mr. Yu worked as an Analyst part of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in New York City. In 2021, Mr. Yu was honored as one of The Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in business. He is an active Philanthropist and the founder of a Non-Profit Organization that helps nurture New York City kids through sports and education.

Maria Josè Lo Faro graduated in Physics of Condensed Matter cum laude at the University of Catania in 2013. She consolidated her experience in the field of nanostructures for integrated silicon photonics during her Ph.D. at the University of Catania. She was a visiting researcher at the Kastler-Brossel Lab (ENS-Paris), where she investigated light propagation in random media by wavefront shaping in S. Gigan’s group. In 2017, she was a Postdoc at the Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes (IPCF- CNR) in Messina working in the field of optical nanostructured biosensors, and in 2018 she moved to the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM-CNR) in Catania, where she investigated the use of Si nanostructures for lasing. Since November 2018, she has been a research fellow at the Physics Dept. at UNICT, where she is currently working as a tenure track researcher (RTD B) on synthesizing and characterizing functional luminescent materials.

Dr. Claudia Bertei received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), following a BSc in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna and an MSc in Polymer Science and Nanotechnology from QMUL. During her Ph.D., Dr. Bertei focused on ion-responsive polymer brushes for smart coating applications and non-aqueous carbomer nanogels for consumer healthcare products. She has collaborated with prominent companies like GSK and leading international institutions such as Politecnico di Milano and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Currently, she is a Materials Scientist at Biophilica, a London-based start-up in the sustainability sector, where she leads research on bio-based leather alternatives and eco-friendly coatings.

Danish Manzoor is currently a Research Assistant at the Biodiscovery Institute at the University of Nottingham, where he focuses on the genetic engineering of anaerobic bacteria to produce valuable commodities. He holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Nottingham Trent University. With a strong background in biotechnological research, Danish is dedicated to advancing the field through innovative approaches in microbial engineering.