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).

Dr. Lai [PhD, BEng(Hons) | PEng, PTech, CEng (UK), MIEM, MIMechE (UK)] is currently an associate professor in Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre, University of Malaya. Lai’s main research interests are in the areas of chemically modified metal oxide photocatalysts, functionalized nanomaterials/ nanocomposite and carbon graphene materials, especially apply in environmental pollution management and solar energy technology.

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published ~300 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >12,000 citations, one book, six edited books, two book chapters, >60 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >70 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.

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Jianhui Liu received the Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in China. He then did the Ph.D. study at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) under Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), followed by a short Post-doctoral Fellow appointment. He is now a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) and Forsyth Institute in the USA. His research interests lie in materials chemistry, nanotechnology, self-assembly, bio-inspired materials and polymer science.

Professor Zhaosen Liu received Ph.D degree in solid state physics from TU-Dresden, Germany, in 1999. Before 2007, he proposed a few quantum approaches to investigate the roles played by the crystal-field levels and RKKY interactions, and to estimate magnetic transition temperatures of rare-earth materials. In 2008, he built a two-sublattice model to describe antiferromagnetic rare-earth systems, which solved a serious difficulty faced by many experimental physicists. Since 2010, he has been working on developing quantum computational methods to study low dimensional magnetic materials. The application of quantum theory facilitate the computing codes to tunnel through energy barriers and quickly converge to the equilibrium states of the magnetic systems. The Quantum Monte Carlo, one of his computational methods, was further optimized in 2018, so that the calculated results obtained in the final computing iteration were able to generate periodic spin configurations, for instance, of two-dimensional antiferromagnetic skyrmionic crystals, which had not been produced in simulations before. He found in simulations that both ferroeletric/antiferroelectric skyrmionic crystals were induced by ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic skyrmionic crystals respectively in 2D multiferroic materials, especially, the topological charges of ferroeletric crystals were quantized to be certain distinct values. Recently, he proposed a new computational method that incorporates quantum theory with micromagnetics, so that it is able to simulate the microscopic structures of magnetic and multiferroic materials at nonzero temperatures, which overcomes a hard theoretical difficulty existing in the field for many years.

Professor Eugene S. Mananga research interests span a range of topics in condensed matter physics, materials science, computational chemistry, and nuclear medicine. Specifically, his research more recently focused on controlling the spin dynamics in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and using computational methods based on density functional theory (DFT) to characterize materials systems in fuel cells, batteries, and energy storage. Eugene notes that the combination of advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy and DFT allows untwining the complicated structure of various materials such as catalyst ZSM-5 zeolite, which is used in the conversion of biomass into other products.

Prof. Carmine Boniello at the Department of Chemistry and Biology "A. Zambelli" of the University of Salerno. Degree in economics and business. Certificate of participation in the first cycle of training and professional orientation courses Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Law held at the University of Salerno as part of the "Itaca" Schola Project. Certificate of participation with relative passing of the final exam of the Second and Third Summer Schools on Method and Social Research held at the Borgo di Terravecchia in Giffoni Valle Piana by Professor Alberto Marrani of the University of Florence and Professor Di Franco Giovanni of the University of Salerno. Passing the qualifying examination for the profession of Chartered Accountant at the University of Salerno in the 2007 session. Research doctorate in marketing and communication. Registration in the Order of Auditors starting. Currently Adjunct Professor, for the teaching of "Management and Service in the biological and health sector", at the Department of Chemistry and Biology "A. Zambelli" of the University of Salerno. Editor in Chief, member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals. Author of numerous publications in international journals. Winner of several research awards. He has experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of marketing and mathematics applied to economics, medicine and biology.

Rocío Redón was born in Mexico City in 1969. In 1993 she obtained her B. Sc. in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and her Ph. D. in the same University, in 2002. During her Ph. D. studies, she had the opportunity of working in different Chemistry Groups; in 1997 and 1998 in England with Prof. J. R. Dilworth; in 1998 in Spain, with Prof. Ana Albeniz at Valladolid University, and in USA at Hawaii University with Prof. Craig Jensen from 1998 to 2001. Finally, she obtained a Post-doctoral position in the “Laboratorio de Materiales y Nanotecnología, ICAT” in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she actually works on the synthesis and characterization of metal nanomaterials studying their potential catalytic and drug delivery properties. She also works in the obtaining of nanomaterials to study their interaction and modification of properties in materials for Additive Manufacturing.

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. El Hadji Seydou Mbaye was born in 1978 in Kaolack a region of Senegal. During 2008-2013, he persued his PhD in Biology and Human Pathologies with the collaboration of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) /WHO, Lyon (France); 2006-2007 : Master of Life and Health, Specialty Biology of Microorganisms, Virology in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2005-2006 : Master of Life and Health, option of Immuno-physiopathology in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2004-2005 : B.Sc of Biochemistry in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2002-2004 : General Degree in Sciences and Technologies in University of METZ (France). He was certified Grade 10/10, by the Federation International of Gynecology Obstetrics (FIGO), the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE, www.acoe.be), and the Institute Catalan of Oncology (ICO) for cervical cancer prevention, in support of Continuing Medical Education for physicians. These credits are also recognized as Physician’s Recognition Award (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) by the American Medical Association. He was awarded as Prestigious Editor, as Best Reviewer 2019, as International Outstanding Scientist Awards 2020, as International Best Researcher Awards 2021, as International Excellence Service Award 2022, as International Best Innovation Award 2022, as Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing. He was certified, by the United Nations for Basic Notion of Security on the Ground-Protection, Health and behavior, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)/World Health Organization, Lyon (France) for Safety Certificate, by Save the Children for Personal Safety and Security. He has published 1 Book with a style of Philosophical Story

Prof. Alexander Bagaturyants is full professor at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" (Moscow). Alexander Bagaturyants was graduated from D.I. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia in 1962, obtained his PhD degree, Dr. Sci. degree, and the academic title of professor in 1968, 1987, and 1992, respectively, all in physical chemistry. His main research interests are in the field of atomistic multiscale simulations of organic functional materials. Alexander Bagaturyants is a co-author of more than 200 research articles and the book “Multiscale Modeling in Nanophotonics: Materials and Simulations

Prof. Ganesh Datt Sharma is working as Senior Professor (HAG) of Physics and Dean (Research and development) at The LNM Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Jaipur (Raj.), India since Nov 2015. Prof. Sharma obtained his Ph.D. degree from India Institute of Technology in 1985 and after than he had joined as Assistant Professor at JNV University, Jodhpur (Raj), India in Nov 1985. After than he had appointed as Professor of Physics and Electronics in 2004, in same university. In 1990 he was awarded a prestigious BOYCAST Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 1990 to work as Visiting Scientist at Department of Electrical and Computer Science, The state University of New Jersey for two years. His area of Research is Organic solar cells, nanocrystalline organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells and fuel cells, organic electronics and nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage and published more than 350 research papers in international journals with Google citations of 10200 and h-index 51, Research Gate: 49.95. He has research collaboration with different International and National universities and research organizations. He has completed many research projects funded by DRDO, ISRO, DST, CSIR and DOIT, Government of India. At present he is running four International projects, i.e., INDO-Russia Project, INDO-France project, BRICS project and INDO-Taiwan project on organic photovoltaic devices He has delivered many invited/plenary lectures in many International conferences in India and abroad. Subject expert in project advisory committee, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India. He is Subject expert in European commission for project evaluation, Russian Science and Technology foundation, Moscow

Ashis Bhattacharjee is Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He obtained his M.Sc. (Physics) degree from University of North Bengal, India. He carried out his doctoral research work at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. In 1993, he went to National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Tsukuba, Japan to work as Science & Technology Agency (STA) Fellow followed by Center of Excellence (CoE) Researcher with Dr. S. Iijima where he became interested in the field of Molecular Magnetism. In 1995, coming back to India he joined St. Joseph’s College (University Section), Darjeeling as Lecturer in Physics. In 1998, he visited Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin as Guest Scientist. At the end of 1998 he left for Japan as JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow for two years for carrying out research on Heat Capacity Calorimetry of Molecular Magnetic Materials at Osaka University with Prof. M. Sorai. From 2003 to 2009 he regularly visited Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany to carry out collaborative research work with Prof. P. Guetlich on Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Molecular Magnetic Materials. In 2004 he moved to Visva-Bharati University. In 2019 he received the JSPS-Bridge Fellowship to visit Japan. He was Visiting Professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata in 2013 and at Osaka University in 2015. He is Life Member of academic societies. At the beginning of this year he has been selected as West Bengal Science & technology Agency Fellow. During these years he has been contributing to the field of Molecular Magnetic Materials and Thermally- and Green Synthesized Nanomaterials. He has more than 130 publications in scientific journals and few book chapters.