Gianfranco Pacchioni received his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1984. He worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and at the Technical University of Munich. He is Full Professor at the University of Milano Bicocca where he has been Vice Rector for Research (2013-2019) and Director of the Department of Materials Science (2003-2009). He has published more than 500 papers (h index 85; WoS) and given nearly 500 invited talks on the electronic structure of materials for energy, catalysis and photocatalysis. He received several awards and is Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2014), the Academia Europaea (2012), and the European Academy of Sciences (2009).

Atsushi Fujimori is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, a Visiting Professor at Waseda University, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan. He received his B.S., M.S., and D.Sc. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. He was a research scientist at National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Tsukuba, Japan, between 1978-1988, and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, between 1984-1985. He has been studying the electronic structure of correlated electron systems, including high-temperature superconductors, transition-metal oxides, and magnetic semiconductors by photoemission and absorption spectroscopies.

Mukunda P Das is Honorary Professor in Theoretical Physics of the Australian National University. He is Fellow of American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK) and Australian Institute of Physics. His research interest spans the fundamental aspects of condensed matter, which include Superconductivity, Vortex Matter, Bose-Einstein Condensation, Strongly Correlated Electrons, Meso- and Nanoscopic Systems, Density Functional Theory and Theory of Disordered States. He is also interested in the professional ethics, an important subject of philosophy. He has been member of Editorial Boards of several international journals, J. Physics: Condensed Matter (IOP)(2002-2012), ANS: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, GSTF Journal of Physics and Applications, Condensed Matter- Open Acess Journal, Inter. J Condensed Matter, Advanced Materials and Superconductivity Research, Nova Sc., New York and others.

Lorenzo Pavesi is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento (Italy). During the last years, he concentrated on Silicon-based photonics where he looks for the convergence between photonics and electronics. He is interested in active photonic devices that can be integrated into silicon by using optical nonlinearities and modified material properties. His interests encompass also optical sensors or biosensors and solar cells. A recent development is toward integrated quantum photonics and neuromorphic photonics. He is an ERC grantee. He is an author or co-author of more than 500 papers, author of several reviews, editor of more than 15 books, author of 2 books and holds 9 patents. He is chief specialty editor of the section Optics and Photonics of Frontiers in Physics and founding editor of the series Photonic Materials and Applications, a joint initiative of SPIE and Elsevier. Moreover, he sits on the editorial board of the ETRI Journal and of the journals Sensors and Applied Sciences: Optics and Lasers. He is in the advisory board of Glass-to-Power and of Sybilla, two Italian start-ups. In 2001 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere by the Italian President for scientific merit. In 2010 and 2011 he was elected distinguished speaker of the IEEE- Photonics society. He is a fellow of the IEEE, of SPIE, and of the SIF. He holds an H-number of 59 according to Scopus and Web of Science, and of 72 according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Sauro Succi holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He has held a research staff position at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing, Rome. Till 2018 he served as a Director of Research at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the Italian National Research Council in Rome and he is also a Research Associate of the Physics Department of Harvard University and a regular Visiting Professor at the Institute of Applied Computational Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University. Since 2018 he is a Senior Research Executive and Principal Investigator at the Center for Life Nanosciences of the Italian Institute of Technology at La Sapienza, Rome. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics in computational physics, soft matter, and the interface between physics and biology. He is the author of the highly cited monograph ”The lattice Boltzmann equation for fluid dynamics and beyond”, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001) and ”The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Complex States of Flowing Matter” (OUP, 2018). Dr. Succi is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998), a member of the European Physical Society, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea (2015). He has received the Humboldt Prize in physics (2002), the Killam Award of the University of Calgary (2005), and the Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2011). In 2017, he has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant on the computational design of mesoscale porous materials. He is also the recipient of the 2017 APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics for seminal contributions to the development and application of the Lattice Boltzmann Method and the 2019 Bernie J. Alder CECAM prize for exceptional contributions to the microscopic simulation of matter.

Professor Chigrinov graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Electronics Institute, the Diploma of Engineer - Mathematician (MPhil) in 1973. In 1978, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics (Liquid Crystals) in the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1988, he becomes a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Science and obtained a degree as a Professor in 1998. Since 1973, he was a Senior, Leading Researcher, and then Chief of Department in Organic Intermediates & Dyes Institute (NIOPIK). Since 1996 he was working as a Leading Scientist in the Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, and join HKUST in 1999, as an Associate Professor. He was a co-author of the first LC materials and devices based on Electrically Controlled Birefringence, Twisted Nematic, and Supertwisted Nematic and Ferroelectric LC materials, working at understanding the fundamental aspects of LC physics and technology, including electrooptical effects in liquid crystals and optimization of LC device configurations. Some new LC Electrooptical Modes, such as Orientational Instability in Cholesteric LC, Deformed Helix Effect in Ferroelectric LC, and Total Internal Reflection, Surface Gliding Effect, and Surface Induced Orientational Transition in Nematic LC were first described by him and confirmed in experiment. The classification of the Domain Structures in LC was made based on his theoretical predictions and simulation results. Efficient Modeling Universal System of LC Electrooptics software was developed with his direct participation and supervision. He was a co-author of pioneering work in LC Photoaligning Technology, which has about 500 citations in scientific and technical journals. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, a Senior Member of the Society of Information Display (SID) since 2004, and become a fellow of SID since Jan 2008. Since 1997 he is a Vice-President of the Russian Chapter of SID. He is a member of the Editorial Board of "Liquid Crystals Today" since 1996 and Associate Editor of Journal of SID since 2005. He is an author of 2 books, 15 reviews and book chapters, 133 journal papers, 286 conference presentations, and 50 patents and patent applications in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. 7 Ph.D. students defended their degrees under his supervision. He is a Member of the International Advisory Committee for Advanced Display Technology Conferences in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus since 1999, the European SID Program Committee since 2004, International Advisory Board of International Liquid Crystal Conference since 2006.

Prof Giovanna Fragneto is Head of the Large Scale Structures and Soft Matter Science and Support groups at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble. As of 2016, she holds a Chair at the University of Grenoble Alpes. She investigates model biological membranes characterized with reflectivity techniques using neutron beams or synchrotron radiation, as well as interactions of lipid bilayers with cholesterol, peptides, proteins, enzymes, cationic lipoplexes, etc. She was awarded the 2006 BTM Willis Prize of The Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry for her research work on biomembranes. She is a member of the editorial board of EPJE and of various advisory board committees. She has organized several international workshops, been invited to deliver >100 talks at conferences and meetings, and co-supervised numerous students and postdoctoral fellows. She has been the author of >160 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters, and editor of two special issues. She is also actively involved in promoting a better gender balance in science.

Dr. Kun Zhou is an associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his B.Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2001, respectively, China and his Ph.D. from NTU in 2006. His research interests include additive manufacturing, mechanics of materials, and modelling and design for sustainable materials. He is Programme Director of Marine and Offshore in Singapore Centre for 3D Printing. He has published over 360 papers in refereed journals and over 20 book chapters. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Smart Manufacturing, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, and an associate editor or editorial board member of eight international journals including Virtual and Physical Prototyping and International Journal of Fatigue.

Prof. Setsuhisa Tanabe obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from Kyoto University, Japan, and has been a full professor since 2008. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals, 25 book chapters, and 40 reviews on luminescent materials for upconversion lasers, optical amplifiers, LED phosphors, and persistent phosphors. He was the chair of TC20, a Technical Committee on Glasses for Optoelectronics and is a Steering Committee both in International Commission on Glass (ICG). He has been serving as Editor of Journal of Luminescence. He is a Fellow of SPIE and a recipient of many academic awards from The American Ceramic Society, ICG, The Ceramic Society of Japan, The Rare-Earth Society of Japan, and so on.

Dr. Wei Lu is Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Director of research center: Advanced Battery Coalition for Drivetrains. He uses multi-scale and multi-physics approaches to analyze battery degradation. He has over 160 publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 100 presentations and invited talks in international conferences, universities and national labs including Harvard, MIT and Stanford. He also has plenty of publications in conference proceedings, encyclopedias and book chapters. Prof. Lu was the recipient of many awards including the CAREER award by the US National Science Foundation; the Robert J. McGrattan Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Robert M. Caddell Memorial Research Achievement Award; Faculty Recognition Award; Department Achievement Award; Novelis/CoE Distinguished Professor Award; CoE Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award; CoE George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence Award; and the Gustus L Larson Memorial Award by American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was invited to the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference multiple times.

Guoliang Huang is a James C. Dowell Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Huang works in the broad area of Solid Mechanics and Architected Materials in particular the new frontiers of structural dynamics, topological mechanics, wave propagation, and dynamical behaviors of composite materials, both man-made and formed naturally. His recent research has been focusing on addressing challenges in the development of passive and active metamaterials for wave propagation and noise control, mechanical topological insulator, vibration, and sound mitigation, flow/structure interaction, aerodynamics, structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, bio-sensing, and among others. Dr. Huang is a renowned scholar in the emerging field of elastic and acoustic metamaterials and metacomposites. His work has pioneered a new class of active metamaterials with sensing, actuation, and information processing and response and space-time modulated metamaterials for mechanical nonreciprocity. Dr. Huang has published more than 130 first-class international journal papers in those fields(include Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, et al.), one book, three chapters in a book, and around 100 international conference publications. His research projects are funded by NSF, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, NASA, ARPA-E, and major industries. He gave many plenary/keynote talks in many international and national conferences and served as organizing committee members. He is a fellow of an international association of advanced materials (IAAMs) and he serves as Associate Editor of Wave Motion.

(Jefferson) Zhe Liu is an Associate Professor of Computational Materials Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Melbourne. He got PhD degree from Materials Science and Engineering Department at Northwestern University in the US. After that, he spent two years as a postdoc research fellow in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the US. Liu group's research focus is integrated computational materials engineering for energy-related nanomaterials, such as 2D multifunctional materials and ion dynamics in nano porous materials. His group has published ~120 papers, including >30 on top journals like Science and Nature series, AM, PRL, and JACS.

Dr. Valérie Paul-Boncour has an Engineer diploma from ESPCI (France) and has completed her PhD at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France). She is senior researcher at the CNRS working in East Paris Institute of Chemistry and Materials Science and team leader of the group “Magnetic and Thermoelectric Properties”. She is specialist of metal hydrides properties and has published about 180 papers, 2 book chapters, presented 21 invited conferences and more than 250 contributions in national and international conferences

Dinh Loc Duong received his Ph.D. from the Sungkyunkwan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SAINT) in 2012. After his first postdoc period in the same lab from 2012 to 2014, he joined Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Kern’s department from 2014 to 2016 as a junior scientist. He was a research professor at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) from 2016-2019. He was promoted as an assistant professor of the Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University in 2019. He is leading the 2D magnetism group in CINAP. His current research interests are magnetic, superconducting, and topological properties of 2D materials, including their growth, characterization, and applications.

Andrea Perucchi is Senior Scientist at Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste. He held a Master’s degree in Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Natural Science at ETH Zurich in 2005. In the same year, he joined the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy), in charge of infrared and THz-based activities in condensed matter at the SISSI beamline. After winning as a PI, a FIRB “Futuro in Ricerca” grant, he led the project for the construction of the TeraFERMI beamline for THz non-linear and pump-probe studies. He is now responsible for the TeraFERMI beamline operation. His research interests span from Strongly Correlated Electron Systems to Low-Dimensional materials, Charge-Density-Wave, Superconductivity, Spin Liquids, Colossal and Giant Magnetoresistance, Oxide Heterostructures, Plasmonics. He is the author of over 130 publications in international journals (Scopus h-index 26) and 2 book chapters.

Dr. Mohsen Asle Zaeem is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines since August 2018. Prior to joining Mines, he was the Roberta and G. Robert Couch Assistant Professor and later promoted to associate professor in Materials Science & Engineering at Missouri University of Science & Technology (Rolla). Dr. Asle Zaeem received his B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (2010). He is currently serving as a member of the Research Advisory board of the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Asle Zaeem’s research has been funded more than 5M $US by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, NASA, and other funding agencies. He has published 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in prestigious and internationally recognized science and engineering journals, such as in Acta Materialia, Science, Physical Review B, and 2D Materials. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, and the Journal of Metals. Dr. Asle Zaeem is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and he is the recipient of the 2021 Faculty Research Excellence Award of the Colorado School of Mines, 2017 TMS FEMSYoung Leader International Scholar Award(the Mineral, Materials, and Metals & Federation of European Materials Societies), 2016 Faculty Research Excellence Award of Missouri S&T, 2016 Highly Cited Researcher in Computational MaterialScience (Elsevier), 2015 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award, and 2015 Junior Faculty Award from Mines and Metallurgy Academy. Dr. Asle Zaeem is the current chair of the Materials Processing technical committee of ASME.

Dr. Aurelian ROTARU received his Ph.D. in Molecular Magnetism in 2009 from University of Versailles (UVSQ), France and Alexandru Ioan Cuza (UAIC), Iasi, Romania under the joint supervision of Prof. J. Linares (UVSQ) and Prof. A. Stancu (UAIC). He spent 1 year at AMRI, New Orleans, USA in the Spin Dynamics group of Prof. L. Spinuas a postdoctoral researcher. He moved to Suceava in 2010 as a Lecturer at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FIESC), Stefan cel Mare University (USV). In 2011 he was promoted to Associate Professor in the same department. Since 2011, he is leader of the NANOMAT group (http://nanomat.usv.ro/) at USV. His present research is focused on molecular spin crossover materials and their integration in new nanoelectronic, spintronic and optoelectronic devices. His research activity is reflected by the 90 published ISI papers, 1 book chapter, h-index: 30 and 11 projects in his research field.

Rita Magri is associate professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, since 2010. Before she had been Assistant Professor at the same university for 18 years. She got her Master Degree in Physics, mark summa cum laude, in 1985 and her PhD in 1990. She had been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) (now National Renewable Energy Laboratory), in Golden, Colorado, USA, under the direction of Dr. Alex Zunger. From 1991 to 1992 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, in the group of Prof. J. Dahn. Her research interests have focused and focuses mainly on the theoretical modelling and computation of the structural and electronic properties of semiconductors and oxides, with particular regard to low dimensional systems and nanostructures. She has been principal investigator of international and national research projects, single author and coauthor of more than 100 articles in international journals, and she has been an invited speaker in international workshops and conferences and a lecturer at foreign Universities.

Stefania Pagliara is Associate Professor in experimental physicsat the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is the scientific responsible of the ELPHOS laboratory and her research interest are focused on the study of the relaxation dynamics in condensed matter by pump-probe measurements, time resolved photoemission and transient optical spectroscopy. The investigated materials range from metal and semiconductor single crystals to graphene/substrate and molecules/substrate interfaces. She is author of about ninety papers. The papers are published on international journals with referee or as contributions, with referee, to international workshops, H-index = 17 (SCOPUS and ISI-WOS; H=20 (Scholar)). She has been Supervisor of more than thirty degree thesis in Physics (Master and Bachelor thesis); Supervisor of two PhD thesis in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics at the University of Milano, and co-supervisor of two PhD thesis at the ARENBERG DOCTORAL SCHOOL (KU-Leuven) in Science, Engineering & Technology; Supervisor of three post-doc positions.

Dr. Mikel “Micky” Holcomb is an Associate Professor of Physics at West Virginia University. She got her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (advisor: Ramesh, topic: multiferroics), bachelors at Vanderbilt (advisor: Tolk, topic: ultrafast optics), and did an internship at IBM Almaden (topic: spin relaxation). While she studies a variety of issues, her main projects involve complex oxide magnetic thin films and magnetoelectric heterostructures. Some other current research areas include experimentally-motivated machine learning efforts, ultrafast optical measurements, and synchrotron measurements. She enjoys collaborations, particularly with people interested in element-specific x-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements, machine learning, or her high-quality complex oxide thin films. She has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the American Chemical Society, and NASA.

Education: faculty of physics and technology of Tomsk State University (1974), postgraduate course of the Moscow regional pedagogical Institute (1979). Her Ph.D. thesis was defended in 1982 at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Doctor of Science thesis was defended at Saint Petersburg State University in 1992. She has been the head of the Department of applied mathematics at Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN” since 1996. She awarded the gold medal named after Academician I.V. Petryanov. Scientific interests: nonlinear transfer processes, electrodynamics, condensed matter physics, phase transitions, quantum physics and chemistry, nonlinear differential equations, numerical methods.

Milan Klicpera is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, an experimental researcher in the field of condensed matter physics, and a university teacher at Charles University. He is expertise in Heat Treatment, Material Characterization, Crystal Structure, Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Powder X-ray Diffraction, Magnetic Materials and Magnetism, Superconductivity, Metals, Thermal Analysis, Materials. His presentation of Ph.D. work’s results as the invited talk at “The 21st International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements – SCTE 2018”, Austria: “Vibron quasibound states in Ce intermetallics”. He has 39 contributions at international conferences, given 13 talks, international peer-reviewed journals: 49 regular publications, 6 conference proceedings, 29 publications as a first author, 13 publications as supervisor/advisor/team leader, 17 publications without Ph.D. supervisor, 16 publications in last two years (2019-2021). He teaches graduate and undergraduate students and supervises/advise bachelor, master, and Ph.D. students.

Dr. Dima Cheskis is a faculty member at the Physics Department at Ariel University, Israel. His research focuses on studying the fundamental and application properties of Weyl and Dirac semimetals. Dr. Dima Cheskis’s use for his research transport and magneto-optical techniques. Recently he developed a simple Hall measuring system with extremely low noise working in microampere regime. Also, he performed intensive research of single-layer deposited graphene oxide films, studying the distribution of functional oxygen groups with STM/HR-TEM methods. Dr. Dima Cheskis received his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University in 2006, where he performed ultrafast magnetic dynamic research performed on ferromagnetic materials. After that, he finished the postdoctoral studies in prof. EfratLifshitz group at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2010, where his research focuses on photoluminescence spectroscopy of nanocrystal quantum dots.

Philippe Maugis completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Orsay, France, in 1993. He has worked for 13 years as a researcher in ArcelorMittal Research Center in Maizières-lès-Metz. He is now a full professor at Aix-Marseille University in the Institute Materials Microelectronics Nanosciencesof Provence. He focuses on the investigation and modeling of the microstructural transformations in carbon steels. His present interest is in the segregation of solute atoms at structural defects and its consequence on subsequent phase transformations. He recently developed mean-field models and atomic-scale Monte Carlo simulations of the kinetics of carbon redistribution in supersaturated ferrite and martensite.

Kohei Yoshimatsu is an Associate Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S., and D.Sc. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 2007, 2009, and 2012, respectively. After his Ph. D. student, he became a JSPS post-doc at the University of Tokyo for a year. Then, He was an assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology between 2013-2018. Since 2018, He is working in the present position. He has focused on oxide-thin-film growth using pulsed-laser deposition and the development of functionality in oxide systems. He is also interested in the investigation of electronic structures by using photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopies.

Masahito Watanabe is a Professor of Department of Physics at Gakushuin University. He joined Fundamental Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation in 1989 and served in numerous roles there, he is the inventor of a new crystal growth technique for the large diameter of Si single crystals. Dr. Watanabe joined the faculty at Gakushuin University in 2001 and his research includes the development of new materials processing methods using the levitation technique and microgravity in space. He is currently PI of INTERFACIAL ENERGY project using electrostatic levitation facilities (ELF) in International Space Station (ISS) and CI of International research project of Thermo Lab using the electromagnetic levitation in ISS.

Dr. Atsushi Hariki is an Assistant Professor at the Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. He received D.Eng. degree from the Osaka Prefecture University in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (2016) and Vienna University of Technology (2016-2020). His current research interests include ab initio and many-body computational simulations for strongly correlated electron systems, and theoretical modeling of x-ray spectroscopies in these systems, covering x-ray photoemission, absorption, and resonant emission.

Will is a post-doc researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His current research is on the rare earth nitrides, intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors. Interests also include heavy-fermion materials, mixed-valence systems, and DFT applications to 4f electron systems.

Dr. Bi-Ye Xie is Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Hong Kong in Department of Physics. He has completed his Ph. D. in Condensed Matter Physics University of Hong Kong. His research interests Topological photonics, Topological phononics, Non-Hermitian topological materials.

Kazuaki Takasan is a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley and the current advisor is Prof. Joel E. Moore. He is working on the theory for condensed matter physics and mainly interested in the nonequilibrium phenomena. His main focus has been on photo- and current-induced phenomena in solids. Also, he has investigated the nonequilibrium phenomena in AMO systems, such as non-Hermitian quantum and Floquet systems.

Monica Bollani is a researcher of the Photonic and Nanotechnology Institute (IFN) - CNR in LNESS laboratory (Como, Italy). She obtained a European Ph.D. in 2000 in Materials Physics from the University of Aix-Marseille (France) and until 2004, she moved to a research post-doc position targeting the SiGe epitaxial growth at the ETH in Zurich (CH). In December 2004 she became a researcher at the INFM in Italy working in the semiconductor growth and, starting from 2009 in optical and electron-beam lithography group in L-NESS, mainly dedicated to nano-fabrication of low-dimensional semiconductor systems. She has a broad and multi-disciplinary education integrated by an extended experience in sensor fabrication, photonics, and plasmonic, project management, and lab and cleanroom operations. She is responsible for the nano and micro-fabrication activity on semiconductor materials at the LNESS laboratory. Actually, she is P.I. for the European FET OPEN project “NARCISO”, an applied-oriented photonic research projects, she is CNR responsible for the Marie Curie project (SONAR) and the Italian PRIN project (NOMEN).

Luca Persichetti obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Roma “Tor Vergata” in 2012. In 2013, he joined ETH-Zurich as a Marie Curie COFUND Fellow to explore the nanoscale magnetic properties of single atoms on surfaces as qubits. Starting from April 2018, LP is a Researcher at the Department of Sciences of Roma Tre University, where his main research activity is focused on the growth and the structural/spectroscopic characterization of Group IV heterostructures for developing THz emitters, in particular Quantum Cascade Lasers.

Alberto graduated in Physics with full marks (110/110 cum laude) at Università Degli Studi of Milan (Italy) in 2001, with an experimental subnuclear physics thesis, carried out at CERN laboratories (Geneve, Switzerland). He then got a Ph.D. in Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2005, with an experimental activity focused on the investigation of thin films and interfaces of magnetic materials, oxides, and semiconductors through ultra-high vacuum spectroscopy and microscopy techniques. From 2005 to 2007 he obtained two post-doc grants at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano for projects related to organic/inorganic semiconductor interfaces and magnetic nanostructures. After one year (2007-2008) as a researcher at Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze fisiche della Materia (CNISM, national university pool for condensed matter physical sciences), he got the position of Assistant professor (2008) and then Associate professor (2014) at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano. His research activity has developed in the fields of Surface Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, by focusing on the growth and characterization of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces of magnetic materials and semiconductors (both inorganic and organic), by means of several experimental techniques, including the use of synchrotron radiation. He is the author of more than 80 ISI scientific publications with more than 900 citations and an h-index of 18 (Scopus, Dec 2020).

Roxanne Tutchton received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Colorado School of Mines in 2017. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Lab from 2018 to 2020 and transitioned to a staff scientist position in the Theory Division group, T-4, in 2020. Her expertise is in density functional theory (DFT), density functional perturbation theory (DFPT), and molecular dynamics (MD) calculation methods. As an early-career scientist, she has collaborated on numerous projects involving strongly correlated systems, lattice dynamics of topological materials, and heavy-fermion dynamics.

Giovanna Pintori received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Trento in 2017, with the thesis in “Relaxation dynamics in borate glass formers probed by photon correlation at the microscopic and macroscopic length scale”. She has collaborated on numerous research activities on the dynamical properties of complex systems carried out with the X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy technique. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento from 2017 to 2020. Her research work was focused on developing electric field-assisted ion exchange processes for improving the strength of borosilicate glasses. Since July 2020 she joined the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University (Venice), as a postdoc. Her research is concerned with the Physico-chemical and morphological characterization of glass surfaces after industrial treatments, interactions with drugs, and environmental factors.

Akinori Irizawa received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2001. He is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan. His current interest is condensed matter physics using a terahertz free-electron laser (THz-FEL).

Masaki Nakano received his D. Eng. degree in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 1955. He is a professor in the graduate school of engineering, Nagasaki University, Japan. His current research interest is an investigation of the magnetic and mechanical properties of permanent film magnets prepared using PLD.

Prof. Chun-Liang Lin started his research by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) when he was still an undergraduate student. After he received his Ph. D. in physics, he joined Prof. Maki Kawai’s group at The University of Tokyo to continue his research. For more than a decade, his research covers wide scopes from the geometrical structures of nanoclusters to electronic structures of two-dimensional materials. His works related to silicone ─ a honeycomb structure of silicon receive a large number of citations and help him to be awarded by Outstanding Young Scientist of The Physical Society of Japan in 2018. Currently, he is trying to use STM/S to uncover the mystery in layered topological and semiconducting materials. His academic Experiences are 2018-Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University, 2014-2018-Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, 2011-2013-Postdoctoral Research, University of Tokyo, 2011-2012-Visiting Scholar, RIKEN, 2010-2011-Postdoctoral Research, National Taiwan Normal University, 2005-2010-Research Assistant, Academia Sinica.

Zhao Zhang received the B.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he was with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow working on the design of ultra-low-jitter PLLs and PAM4 CDRs.From 2019 to 2020, he was with Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, as an Assistant Professor, where he focused on the low-jitter mm-wave PLL for THz communication. In 2020, he joined the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include the design of low-jitter and low-power PLLs, RF/mm-wave frequency synthesizers, and wireline transceivers

Tiange Bi was born and grew up in Jinan, Shandon China. She received her BS in chemistry from the University of Central Arkansas (USA) in 2013. Tiange completed her Ph.D. in 2020 at the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (USA) in the group of Professor of Eva Zurek. Tiange is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate in chemistry. Her research is concerned with theoretical studies of high-pressure superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials under the supervision of Professor Eva Zurek at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

Daniela Marongiu is a researcher at the Department of Physics of University of Cagliari (Italy). She obtained a Ph.D. in Nanostructure and Nanotechnology in 2011 from the University of Milano-Bicocca, then she moved to University of Sassari and later to Cagliari where she has been a tenure track associate professor since 2018. She studied a variety of nano material-related topics and now her main scientific interests involve the growth and characterization of hybrid and all-inorganic perovskites for energy applications. Recently she focused in particular on the synthesis of inorganic double-perovskites microcrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum yield in the visible range including the doping with rare earth such as Yb and Er for highly efficient NIR emitters and stable phosphors.

Dr. Todd Van Mechelen received his B.Sc. in Engineering Physics at the University of Alberta and M.Sc. in Quantum Optics at the University of Toronto before completing his Ph.D. in Fields and Optics at Purdue University. Currently, he is a post-doc at Purdue University where he studies topological materials and topological electrodynamics.

1988 B.S. Tohoku University 1991 Ph.D. Tohoku University 1991 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University 1993 Research Associate, Kobe University 1993 Research Associate, Institute for Molecular Science 1998 Associate Professor, Kobe University 2002 Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science 2013 Professor, Osaka University 2020 Professor (Cross Appointment), Institute for Molecular Science

Yu-Hwa Lo came to the Jacobs School in July of 1999. He has established a new lab to investigate biologically inspired photonic systems. A member of the Materials and Device Layer for the California Institute of Technology and Telecommuncations, he is collaborating with Professors Andy Kummel and William Trogler (Chemistry and Biochemistry) on early-warning biosensors. He is responsible for designing infrared photon counters in a joint effort with IBM's Almaden Research Center to build a quantum-communications system. He was Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, prior to coming to UCSD. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in electrical engineering in 1987.

Dr. Elia Strambini is a research scientist at NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa, Italy. He has extensive experience in nanofabrication and cryogenic electrical characterization of mesoscopic systems of low dimensionality including ballistic and diffusive semiconductors, metals, and hybrid superconducting/magnetic devices. During the Ph.D. and a postdoctoral fellowship at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2005-2010) he was investigating coherent electronic transport in multi-terminal geometries. Then he joined the MESA+ Institute of Nanoelectronics in Twente with a three-year postdoctoral fellowship (2010-2014) to study the electron interference in gold films magnetically doped by organic molecules. In this period, he developed the idea to combine this technique with superconductive films and mesoscopic structures to study the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity at the nanoscale and generate exotic states of matter. This idea was awarded a personal Marie Curie fellowship used to begin his own project at Nano-CNR in Pisa where he was appointed as a researcher (2014-Present). Today he is responsible for the laboratories of superconductivity at NEST, he is supervising the postdocs and PhDs of the Superconducting quantum electronics lab (SQEL, see http://web.nano.cnr.it/sqel/) and he is responsible for various national and international grants. He co-authored almost 40 scientific publications and 4 patents. He gave more than 10 invited talks at international conferences and Universities. His MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS are Quantum Transport and electronic properties of low dimensional hybrid heterostructures, quantum technology; thermal effects in mesoscopic systems; spin-dependent phenomena in equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium in hybrid systems, spin-orbit interaction in two- and one-dimensional electron gases, topological insulators, and Josephson topology in multi-terminal systems, phase-coherent quantum devices including phase-batteries, coherent thermal effects at the nanoscale, field-effect on superconductors, superconducting spintronic with application in low-temperature radiation detectors.

Adrià Gràcia Condal received his BSc in Physics in 2014 from the University of Barcelona, with a final year project on the magnetocaloric effect in Fe-Rh. He then obtained a MSc in Physics from the Freie Universität Berlin (2014-2016). He has been awarded a doctoral grant from the University of Barcelona and is currently in the final stages of his PhD at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Dr. Lluís Mañosa. His research focuses on the experimental study of caloric and multicaloric effects arising in the vicinity of first-order phase transitions in magnetic alloys. He has presented his research at diverse international conferences (Thermag, etc), and has co-authored up to ten publications in high impact journals which include Nature Materials (2018), Applied Physics Reviews (2020) and Advanced Materials (2021).

Georges Raseev is an Emeriti Research Director at CNRS. His research interests are Optics of surface plasmon polaritons and wave-guide modes on the multi-layer thin film stacks insulator-metal-insulator and metal-insulator-metal, Photoelectric effect and laser-matter interaction at surfaces and interfaces, Dynamics of the vibration of molecular adsorbates on stepped metallic surfaces, Photodesorption of the molecular adsorbates on metallic surfaces by pico-second laser, Photoionzation of the molecular adsorbates on metallic surfaces, Photoionization of molecules oriented in space valence and core excitations, Molecular photoionzation in gas phase: shape resonances and autoionization. His Recent publications are Metal-insulator-metal thin film stack: flux enhancement due to coupling of surface plasmon polariton with wave guide modes. An electrically induced probe of the modes of a plasmonic multilayer stack. He is proficient in: programming Fortran, Mathematica.

Simone Rossi received his MSc in 2018 from the University of Milano Bicocca with research on the Rashba effect by means of photoluminescence in Ge-based MQWs. He won a doctoral position and he is now in his final stages of Ph.D. in Material Science and Nanotechnology, under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Pezzoli. His main interest is the field of spintronics with a particular focus on spin physics in group IV semiconductors studied by means of polarization-resolved photoluminescence.

Masao Ogata graduated from Department of Physics, University of Tokyo. He became a research associate at the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, and subsequently became an associate professor at Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo (Komaba). Since 2000, he joined the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, where he is currently working as a professor. During 1989-1991, he worked as a postdoc in ETH Zurich and during 1991-1993 in Princeton University. His research field is theoretical condensed-matter physics, in particular, strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity, low-dimensional physics, topological nature of condensed matter, and thermoelectric properties.

Naoyuki Shibata is pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He completed his master's in Dept. of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo from Apr. 2017 – Mar. 2019. He has done his master thesis on the title “Exact solutions of quantum spin models with dissipation”. He performed in a JSR fellowship program by the University of Tokyo and JSR Corporation. He published 10+ articles in journals, given 10+ talks and poster presentations in conferences.

Fixed-term researcher at University of Cagliari working on novel materials for sustainable energy, in particular perovskite-based solar cells and light emitters, with expertise in optical spectroscopic techniques. Past experience of PhD in physics and a 2-years post-doc at University of Pavia – ST microelectronics working on integrated silicon photonics, mainlynon-classical light emitters and sensing devices.

Fernando Plazaola graduated from the UCM in Madrid, obtained a predoctoral fellowship from the Basque Government that enabled him to do the doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof Häutojarvi at the Helsinki Technological University (HUT), on new spectroscopic techniques (Positron Annihilation Spectroscopies, PAS) for the study of materials. The thesis allowed his specialization in nuclear techniques, as well as in the study of defects in semiconductors and metallic materials. When moving to the UPV/EHU, he began working on magnetic materials with Prof. Barandiarán and mounted the first Mössbauer spectrometer of the UPV/EHU, very useful for the study of magnetic materials. He entered the field of neutron diffusion and synchrotron radiation. He carried out multiple experiments at the ILL in Grenoble and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Liverpool. At the same time, he continued working from the theoretical point of view with the PAS techniques with the group of Prof de Diego of the UCM, thanks to several stays in the HUT, which allowed him to enter the field of electronic/positronic calculations (with Professor M. Puska). This incursion helped him both to train himself in the position calculations, fundamental for the interpretation of the PAS experimental results, and in the field of electronic calculations, which allowed him to more effectively study the magnetic intermetallics of Fe-Al base. The laboratory of optics (UPV/EHU) of Prof García had photoluminescence equipment, complementary to the PAS in the study of semiconductors and began to collaborate in the study of semiconductors. Together with Prof. Garitaonandia, an expert in Mössbauer, built the nuclear techniques laboratory of the UPV/EHU, which has several Mössbauer and positron annihilation chains. Since then, the research group that he leads, along with Profs Garcia and Garitaonandia, was introduced in other fields than the traditional ones without leaving aside the latter: magnetic and Nobel metal nanoparticles (with Prof. Suzuki), free volumes and their influence on both materials polymeric (with Prof. Lambri, Univ. of Rosario, Argentina), as in biomaterials (with Prof. Contera, Univ of Oxford). Likewise, with different groups of the UPV/EHU, medical doctors, and a COST Action, they are after hyperthermia mediated with magnetic nanoparticles as a therapeutic technique. On the other hand, and in collaboration with the UPNA group, they went from the intermetallic ones (without forgetting these) to the magnetic memory materials. He has directed 2 theses in soft magnetic nanostructured materials, 3 in intermetallics, 1 in compound semiconductors, 1 in positronic calculations, 2 in instrumentation for magnetic hyperthermia, 1 in the application of positron spectroscopy in biomedicine, and 2 in ferromagnetic alloys with ferromagnetic shape memory. They are currently making very noteworthy contributions in the fields of applications of magnetic nanoparticles, in applications in biomedicine, and in alloys with ferromagnetic shape memory. He has been the research vice-chancellor of the UPV/EHU from 2013 to 2017 and he is currently the Dean of the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU

Jacques K. Desmarais obtained a double doctorate in 2020 from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and the University of Turin, Italy. He is a primary developer of the CRYSTAL program for ab-initio calculations on periodic systems. His interests include the development of theories and algorithms for the joint treatment of relativistic and electron-correlation effects, their implementation in the CRYSTAL code, and their application to strongly-correlated solids. He has received accolades from the canadian government to fund all of his research activities, including the Vanier doctoral scholarship and the NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.

Farzana Nasreen received her MSc in Physics from University of Hyderabad, India in 2003. She received a merit scholarship in MSc as well as two gold medals for her excellent performance in her class. She finished her PhD in physics from New Mexico State University in 2010. During her Ph.D, she worked at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Los Alamos as a visiting graduate student and studied different kinds of uranium intermetallic compounds and organometallic compounds which exhibit strongly correlated electron behavior such as quantum criticality, superconductivity, heavy fermion and non-Fermi liquid behavior and quantum magnets and multiferroic behavior. In her last year of PhD, she was awarded Seaborg Fellowship from G. T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 2012 to 2014. In her postdoctoral work, she studied different rare earth and uranium intermetallic and organometallic compounds under very high pressure (up to 50 GPa) to investigate their valence fluctuation phenomena using synchrotron x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray scattering technique at high pressure beamline at Advance Photon Source in Argonne National Laboratory. During this period, she also guided few undergraduate physics students on their summer research projects under the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. Currently, she is working on a science education project to reach out to high school students to train them early in their academic career to participate in research at the university level.

P. Foury-Leylekian is professor at Université Paris Saclay (France). She is director of the Laboratoire de physique des Solides (LPS), Orsay. She performed her PHD in the LPS laboratory followed by a post-doc in GANIL (Grand accélérateurd’ionslourds) and IPN (Institut de Physique Nucléaire). She works on strongly correlated electronic systems investigated by X-ray and neutron diffraction. Currently, she is interested in multiferroics, their competition with superconducting phases and the microscopic origin of their magneto-electric coupling. She has published about 90 papers.

Josef Weinbub is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of High Performance Simulation in Micro- and Nanoelectronics and an IEEE Senior Member. He obtained the doctoral degree in Computational Microelectronics and the venia docendi (habilitation) in the field of Micro- and Nanoelectronics from the TU Wien. He was a visiting researcher at the EPCC, University of Edinburgh and at the Device Modelling Group, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK as well as at SILVACO Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA. He founded and now chairs the master’s program Computational Science and Engineering at the TU Wien and is involved with several international scientific conferences in various management and scientific roles. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Electronics and a Principal Investigator of various research projects funded by, e.g., the Austrian Science Fund and the Christian Doppler Research Association. Together with his team he investigates cutting-edge research problems in the area of computational micro- and nanoelectronics.

Alex Baron received his Ph.D. in 2010 in Paris (France) from the University of Paris 11. From 2007 to 2015, he has conducted research in several institutions such as the Institute of Optics in Rochester (USA), the Laboratoire Charles Fabry of the Institute of Optics in Paris, and the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics at Duke University in North Carolina (USA). His research interests cover Nonlinear Optics, plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metamaterials. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Bordeaux and conducts his research at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal. He investigates Self-assembled meta-atoms, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.

Slawomir P. Lepkowski has received his MSc degree in electronics from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland in 1991. He has completed PhD in optoelectronics from the Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw, Poland in 1999 and DSc (habilitation) in solid state physics from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2010. He is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at the Institute of High Pressure Physics - Unipress, Polish Academy of Sciences. His reasearch focuses on modelling of semiconductor nanostructures, ab-initio calculations of mechanical properties of solids, high-pressure effects and topological phase transition in semiconductor nanostructures. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an referee in more than 20 highly regarded journals. Presently, he is the guest editor of the special issue of Nanomaterials : "Advances in topological materials: fundamentals, challenges and outlook".

Masahito Mochizuki is a Professor at Waseda University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2003. After a postdoc at the University of Tokyo, RIKEN, and JST-ERATO multiferroics project, he became a Lecturer at the University of Tokyo in 2009 and an Associate Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in 2013 before moving to Waseda University in 2017. His research interests are theories of strongly correlated electron systems, multiferroics, spintronics, topological magnetisms, and photoinduced nonequilibrium phenomena.

Dr. Delin Zhang is a research scientist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhang received his Ph D. degree from the University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2012. Then he joined the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany as a postdoctoral scientist. In 2014, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, as a postdoctoral Associate. He has published more than 50 articles in journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Physical Review Applied, Applied Physics Letters, APL Materials, and so on. He also authors 4 Chinese patents and 4 US patents. He has given many invited talks/presentations at several conferences, including TECHCONs, TMRC, IEDM, and MMM-INTERMAG. His research interests mainly focus on spintronic memory devices, including magnetic tunnel junctions, spin-orbit torque devices, and strain/voltage-controlled spintronic devices, as well as novel spintronic devices with quantum materials.

Prof. Arvi Freiberg earned his Ph.D. in solid state physics from the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1976) and the Doctor of Sc. degree from the Latvian Academy of Sciences (1986). His scientific contribution belongs into the fields of ultrafast and spectrally selective spectroscopy of condensed matter, photo biophysics of primary processes of photosynthesis, and high-pressure bio spectroscopy. He has served as a Director of the Institute of Physics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and as a Chair Professor of the Department of Biophysics and Plant Physiology in Tartu University. Currently he is a Visiting Professor running the Biophysics Laboratory in the Institute of Physics of Tartu University. Arvi Freiberg is a founding member of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research and the Estonian Physical Society. In 2009, he was elected a Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Luca Vattuone received his Doctorate degree from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1994. He has been post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University, UK, in 1995 and thereafter at the University of Genoa and at INFM, Italy. In 1999 he joined the University of Genoa as Staff Member (Researcher) and from 2012 he served as Associate Professor of Matter Physics. His research activity focused on the investigation of gas-surface interaction by High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Supersonic Molecular beams and Single Crystal Calorimetry. His main results are: the discovery of the Acoustic Surface Plasmon, the study of the self-assembly of amino acids at surfaces, of the stereo dynamics of adsorption reactions, of the growth and of the chemical properties of ultrathin oxide films and graphene.

D. Valentinis obtained his M.Sc. in Physics Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan and CERN, and his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Geneva in 2017. He joined the Institute for Theory of Condensed Matter (TKM) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2018, under an SNSF fellowship and then as postdoctoral researcher.

Joanna Depciuch in 2009-2014, she studied at the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Rzeszow in Rzeszow, specializing in medical bioengineering and nanobiotechnology. She graduated from 1st and 2nd-degree studies with honors. In 2017, she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN. At present, she is working as a post-doc in the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN in the Department for Functional Nanomaterials. Her current researches are concentrated on using spectroscopy methods in biological research and synthesis of nanoparticles mainly for biomedical application. Moreover, she also biofunctionalize and immobilize biological activity compounds on the nanoparticles surface and she investigate these systems in combined anticancer therapy. In her study, she focused on the gold and platinum nanoparticles as well as gold-platinum complexes. She found the mechanisms of created gold nanoparticles with different shapes, gold nanostars with different length of stars arms, and porous gold nanoparticles with control the size of the pores and their number during the seed-mediated synthesis method. Moreover, she showed what time is needed for the reaction between CTAB and AgNO3 molecules that plays a key role in the evolution of gold nanoparticles in the seed-mediated method. Furthermore, she showed a combination of which nanoparticles parameters are responsible for the absorption waves in a wide range for photothermal therapy application. In used spectroscopy methods for biomedical application, she is co-authors of models that can be used to evaluate the efficacy of chemotherapy by FTIR spectroscopy. She is having training to the use the Raman, FTIR, UV-Vis spectrometer, and Nanolive 3D-cx microscope. Additionally, she has also experience in performing of in-situ experiments using TEM, FTIR, and Nanolive 3D-cx. She is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education and a laureate of national and international competitions. She also managed projects financed by the EU and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She is co-authors of patents application focused on the biomedical applications of nanoparticles.

Jun Yin received Ph.D. degree in Physics and Applied Physics from Nanyang Technology University (NTU) in 2016. Then he joined Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas’ group as a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Now he is a research scientist with Prof. Osman Bakr and Assoc. Prof. Omar Mohammed at KAUST. His research deals with the hybrid nanostructured materials by a combination of computational strategies and first-principle approaches, including density functional theory (DFT), time-dependent DFT and many-body perturbation theory. He has published 2 book chapters and more than 110 peer-reviewed journal articles (h-index: 43), including 34 articles as first (co-first) and corresponding author in Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, and ACS Energy Lett.

Professor V.G. Plekhanov has graduated from Tartu State University (Estonia). He obtained Ph. D. (physics and mathematics) 1972 as well as Doctor of Science (physics and mathematics) 1982 – both degrees from Tartu State University. He is author more than ten monographs in different field of physics and informatics. Main interest field: the origin of the mass and natuure of the residual strong nuclear interaction as well as science of thew materials

Mauro Del Ben, PhD in Chemistry from the University of Zurich, since 2018 Research Scientist at the Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and member of the Center for Computational Study of Excited-State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM) at LBNL. His research is focused on the development of new computational and mathematical methods for first principle simulations of ground and excited state phenomena in chemistry and materials, with a particular focus in the development of high performance computing algorithms for large scale massively parallel applications, including hybrid accelerated architectures.

Yang Cao is an assistant professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in materials science from Tohoku University in 2016. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher (2016-2019). In 2019, he joined the faculty at Tohoku University as an assistant professor.He was awarded as JSPS fellow (2015-2017) and Prominent Research Fellow of Tohoku University (2021-2024).His research is concerned with spin-dependent charge transportbehavior in nanogranular composites with particular attention on tunneling magnetoresistance and magneto-dielectric effects.

Douxing Pan was awarded Ph.D degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Jul. 2015. He now works in University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) as an associate professor in applied mechanics at School of Mathematics and Physics from March in 2021. His research interests mainly refer to first-principle calculations, classical molecular dynamics simulations, finite element methods, and phonon spectrum analysis, and he has published more than twenty papers in ACS Nano, Phys. Rev. B, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., and J. Appl. Phys., etc. He currently focuses on the development of new technologies and the understanding of basic principles in the areas of twisted black phosphorus, graphene-based foams, and chiral nanotubes or nanoscrolls.

David Babonneau is Research Director at CNRS in France. In 1999, he received a Ph.D. degree in materials science from the University of Poitiers. After a postdoc at the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thomson‐CSF (Orsay, France) and at the CSIC (Madrid, Spain), he joined the LMP (Poitiers, France) in 2001 and became a senior researcher at the Pprime Institute in 2016, where he headed the team ‘Physics and Properties of Nanostructures’ until 2021. His research interests are focused on nanostructured functional surfaces and thin films. His activities include the self-organized growth of plasmonic and magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires by physical vapor deposition, and the advanced characterization of nanostructured materials by grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering.

Dr. Xiaogan Liang is currently working as an Associate Professor at The Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Michigan (UM). Before joining UM, Dr. Liang was a Staff Scientist working at The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His current research interests are focused on nanofabrication, nanomanufacturing and microsystem integration, nanoelectronics, and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional nanostructures, biosensors, and flyer/microdrone sensors. Dr. Liang has coauthored 69 journal publications and >50 conference presentations, has given >30 invited presentations and has 8 US patents. Dr. Liang is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, and he is a member of Sigma Xi, IEEE, and ASME. Dr. Liang obtained a BS in Physics from Peking University, an MS in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University

Dr. Bruno Paroliis a researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Milan. He is member of the Complex Systems and Condensed Matter Groups of the University of Milan and member of the Optical Instrumentation Group of the University of Milan for the development of novel diagnostics aimed to characterize complex media such as colloids and biological systems. He actively collaborates with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) for the developments of nanostructured devices for applications to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Junxue Li obtained his Ph. D. degree in condensed matter physics from Fudan University in 2015. From March 2015 to September 2020, he worked as Postdoc and Assistant Project Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in University of California, Riverside (UCR). He joined the Department of Physics in Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as an Assistant Professor since Dec., 2020.Dr. Li’s research concentrates on novel physical phenomena in nanoscale electronic devices and heterostructures originating from complex interactions such as spin orbit coupling and exchange interaction. His research interests include: (1) transport of spin and heat current across interface of heterostructure,(2) manipulation of the efficiency of spin current generation and detection using quantum materials. He is also interested in epitaxial thin film growth using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) methods. Up to now, His Google Scholar Citations=878, h-index=19.

Debajyoti De presently working as Assistant Professor in Physics, Sukumar Sengupta Mahavidylaya, Keshpur, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. Worked as Assistant Professor in Physics, The Neotia University, Jhinga, D. H. Road, P.O. Amira, South 24 PGS, West Bengal, India. Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Awarded Ph.D from Department of Solid State Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Worked as Guest Asst. Professor in Dept. of M.Sc. in Physics, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, D. H. Road, South 24 PGS, West Bengal, India (2016)Asst. Professor in Dept. of Physics, Neotia Institute of Technology, Management and Science, Jhinga, D. H. Road, P.O. Amira, South 24 PGS, West Bengal, India. His research interests are Synthesis and studies on magnetic and transport properties of Nanostructured Materials, thin films and graphene based nanocomposites. Instruments familiar with (operation/data recording): For synthesis: Spin coater, dip coater, ball miller, PLD For characterization and property analysis: TGA, DSC, AFM, AFM-STM, SEM, TEM, PPMS, SQUID, lab made I-V and resistivity setup, Mossbauer spectrophotometer, UV Vis, FTIR, XRD. Software known: Visual Basic, Fortran 90, Microsoft office, Latex, Origin, Chemdraw, Gnuplot, MAUD Synthesis Skill: Sol-gel, ball-milling, dip-coating, spin-coating, PLD, solid-state reaction, wet chemical route etc.

Professor Bertrand Lenoir completed his PhD from Lorraine University (France) and has been teaching Physics and Materials Science at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy (France) since 1994. His research, performed at Institut Jean Lamour (France), focuses on experimental studies of thermoelectric properties in a variety of materials. Much of recent efforts have been directed towards the identification and exploration of novel thermoelectric materials and the development of modules for electrical power generation from waste heat. He has published more than 185 publications in international peer-review journals, has supervised Ph.D. thesis of fifteen graduate students and mentored twelve postdoctoral researchers. He is serving as an Editor or Editorial Board Member for Applied Sciences, Energy, Materials and Open Physics. He is also serving on the board of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS) and is the Director of the French “Groupement d’Intéret Scientifique” (GIS) on Thermoelectric.

Yoshiaki has been involved in the physics of ferroelectrics, ferroelastics, multi-ferroelectrics, fabricating oxide thin films using the PLD method, and constructing the SHG microscope to observe artificial and natural domain and domain boundaries of ferroic materials and biomaterials (muscle fibers). The main paper related to the present talk is: Hiroko Yokota, and Yoshiaki Uesu: Optical second-harmonic generation microscopy as a tool for ferroelastic domain wall exploration, J. Applied Physics, 129, 04101(2021).

Yuan Ping received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 2007 and her Ph.D. from UC Davis under Giulia Galli (currently at U. Chicago) in 2013. She was a material postdoctoral fellow in JCAP at Caltech from 2013 to 2016, under the supervision of William Goddard III. In 2016 summer, she joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and an affiliated professor in the physics department. Ping developed many-body perturbation theory with efficient numerical methods, in particular solving Bethe-Salpeter equation without empty states for solids with her coworkers during her Ph.D. She then worked on charge transfer and catalytic properties at solid/liquid interfaces and polaronic transport in doped oxides during her postdoc and afterward. Starting at UCSC she moved into a new direction of developing quantum dynamics for spin and exciton from first-principles and designing new materials for quantum information science. Ping has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Phys. Revs., JACS, Chem. Soc. Rev. where she was the sole or co-corresponding author. She was a recipient of the Airforce Young Investigator award 2021, Nature Research award in 2020, and Hellman fellows in 2018.

Teresa Gatti holds a Master Degree in Chemistry from the University of Bologna, Italy (2008) and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2014). After postdoctoral activities at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padova (Italy), since 2019 she holds a Junior Research Group Leader position at the Center for Materials Research of the Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany). Her research interests cover the production, processing, and application in optoelectronic devices of different emerging semiconducting materials, with special attention to species based on non-critical elements and featuring low-environmental impact.

Piotr Surówka did his PhD in Jagiellonian University in 2010. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics. Since 2016 he is a staff scientist in the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and since 2021 an associate professor at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. His research interests include effective hydrodynamics and elasticity in classical and quantum systems.

She received the title of “Docteur d'Etat” in 1996.She is a Professor since 2003. She is a member of UIPAP networking group of women in Physics and Team Leader of Tunisian Group. She is a Member representative of Tunisia of NanoAfNet. She is a Member representative of Tunisia of NanoAfNet and join the African Network of Quantum Information (QI-Africa). She was Vice President of University of Carthage (2008-2011). She is at the head of the group of nanostructures at Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux Structure & Propriétés and Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée. She has been or is being involved in a number of EU ( FP7, CMCU, CNRS, IMEL GREECE, AECID (spain) ERANET- MED and national projects (DGRST). She co-chaired several National and International Conferences and Symposia. Her main research interests are in nanoscience and nanotechnologies. I have been particularly active in the theory of fundamental properties of low-dimensional structures, and in the simulation of advanced nanodevices. In these fields, She has published over 100 papers in refereed international journals, and have participated on international workshops and conferences. She has investigated electronic of few-particle states (excitons and electrons, electron-phonon: polarons states) in quantum dots. A novel research branch connected to the implementation of electronic devices is devoted to exploit the properties of (semi)magnetic nanostructures with spin states. Other work has addressed quantum optic through organic inorganic heterostructures and hybrid microcavities. More specifically, a novel research branch connected to the implementation of electronic devices is devoted to investigate and exploit the properties of Graphene and optics of TMD Materials.

He received both a Bachelor's degree (in 1996) and a Ph.D. degree (in 2001) in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). And he joined the faculty of CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (KLQI) USTC in 2001 and became a full professor in 2007. He is the associate dean of school of physical sciences, USTC. His research interests focus on quantum simulation, physical realization of quantum information processing, physics of ultracold atoms, and manipulation in the synthetic dimension systems. He has published 115 papers, including 3 Nature series, 6 PRL and 56 PRA/B papers.

Guoqiang Zhao is now a joint postdoc of Columbia University (CU) and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IoPCAS) under the supervision of Prof. Changqing Jin in IoPCAS and Prof. Y. J. Uemura in CU. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on the material growth and physical properties study on new diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) with independent spin and charge doping. His current research interests are material fabrication, especially by floating furnace method, and muon spin Relaxation (μSR) measurements on the strongly correlated system, such as DMSs, superconductors and topological magnets, etc. He has published more than 20 peer review articles with around 300 citations. In addition, he has given more than 10 talks (3 Invited speakers, 4 Oral talks, 4 Posters) at various kinds of meetings, such as the 33rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, the 26th International Conference on High-Pressure Science and Technology, the 19th International Conference on II-IV Compounds and Related Materials and 17th International Conference in Asia, etc. He has won more than 10 awards including the Excellent Young Scientist Award by the 19th China High-Pressure Conference Committee, the BHP Billiton by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Distinguished Director’s award by IoPCAS (top 5%), and Excellent League Member by CAS, etc.

Feng Tang received his Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University (NJU) in 2019. Now he is a research fellow in the school of physics at NJU. His research area is condensed matter theory, including topological materials, magnetic systems, and superconductors. His research combines first-principles calculations with group theory, linear-response theory, effective models, etc. to analyze and clarify electronic properties. To date, he has published 11 papers including 1 Nature, 1 Nature Physics, and 1 Science Advances as the first author.

Mingtao Li received his PhD.D in condensed matter physics from Shanghai University in 2015. During Dec. 2011 and Sept. 2014, he had a joint Ph.D. study at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. He was an R&D Engineer in Pioneer Energy (Shanghai) Co., LTD until Jan. 2018. Since Feb. 2018, he joined HPSTAR as a postdoc. He mainly focuses on studying the correlation between structure and unconventional superconductivity in topological materials using in-situ high-pressure techniques.

Dr. Wen-Yong Lai is a full professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2007. He then joined the Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics & Information Displays, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications. His research mainly focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of organic & polymer optoelectronic materials for organic/flexible electronics. He is also interested in the exploration of novel materials and processes for printed electronics.

Prof Dr. Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov has his expertise in theoretical molecular and chemical physics. Education: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Faculty of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1966 – 1972), Moscow, USSR. He has completed his Ph.D. from Theoretical Department of Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (1981), and he has completed his Dr. Phys&Math Sci degree from Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is a leading researcher at FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Prof Egorov is working on the development of a fundamentally new physical theory ‒ quantum-classical mechanics and its applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and biomedicine.

Dr. Nikitov received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University). Dr. Nikitov has published more than 400 technical papers in the area of condensed matter physics, namely, magnetism, magneto-optics, fiber optics, etc. He is currently Director of the Kotel’nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), and Director of the Physics and Mechanics Institute in Saratov State University.

Vasily R. Shaginyan received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 and his Doctor of Science degree in 1990 from Leningrad (Petersburg) Nuclear Physics Institute and is currently a leading research fellow at this Institute. His fields of interest include theoretical nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, strongly correlated Fermi systems and HF compounds, quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals, high-Tc superconductors, and quasi-classical behavior of HF compounds. He is the author and co-author of 160 papers, including seminal papers on the fermion condensation phase transition and flat bands, heavy fermion metals, quantum spin liquids, and quasicrystals.

Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi holds a Ph.D. in Particle Physics, Mathematical Physics and Modeling from Provence University (currently Aix-Marseille University), France, and a diploma of advanced studies in Plasma Physics and Radiation Astrophysics from the same institution. He worked with different worldwide research departments in UK, South Korea, China, Greece, India, and he is currently affiliated with Athens Institute for Education and Research (Mathematics and Physics Units). He is the author of more than 240 peer-reviewed papers in peer-refereed reputed journals and a reviewer for more than 90 scientific journals. His research ranges from applied mathematics to theoretical physics including nonlinear dynamical systems, space physics, celestial dynamics, high-energy astrophysics and cosmology, geophysical flows, physics and chemistry of solids, plasma MHD, nuclear reactors, magnetic materials, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and physics at nanoscales among others

Luis Torres is a post-doctoral researcher in the Magnetic Materials Laboratory, MAGMA-UFSC (Florianopolis, Brazil). He focused his research in the area of design and manufacture of graphene-based devices, as well as in the study of nano-scale and micro-scale magnetic systems. Luis Torres received a diploma of Bachelor of Physics from the National University of Engineering - UNI (Lima, Peru) in 2010 and a doctoral degree in Physics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC (Santa Catarina, Brazil) in 2017. During his doctoral studies, he worked on the structural properties of thin films of metals with high electronic correlation, as well as on the study of plasmonic microstructured systems. He was also a visiting scientist at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - INL (Braga, Portugal / 2016 - 2017) to develop nanodevices and nanostructures for the study of nanoscale spin transport.

Professor at The Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ILT&SR) in Wroclaw, where he completed his PhD and habilitation degrees in experimental condensed matter physics in 1990 and 2004, respectively. He has been the Head of the Superconductivity Department and a Member of the Scientific Council for many years. His current research focuses on classical and high temperature superconductivity including coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity, vortex dynamics, pinning mechanisms and critical currents issues; also on the unconventional effects in high magnetic fields, phase transitions and critical phenomena. He is the author of more than 160 papers being cited over 1800 times (Web of Science). He has presented more than 150 works at conferences including many invited lectures and been the guest speaker at several prestigious scientific institutions such as The University of Tokyo, ETH Zurich, Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois, USA),Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) in Dresden (Germany), Jagiellonian University and AGH University in Krakow (Poland), and Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). He has carried out numerous sabbaticals worldwide including the University of Tokyo (2010, visiting Professor), ETH Zurich (2004-2006, senior research scientist - SRS), Northern Illinois University (1996-1998, visiting Professor), Argonne National Laboratory (1994-1996, SRS), Bayreuth University (1994, SRS) and ForschungszentrumJulich (1982-1984, RS).

Dr. Marisa Alejandra Frechero is Full Professor at Universidad Nacional de Sur. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemestry, Universidad Nacional de Sur. She is a Visiting professor at Dept. Física Aplicada III. Universidad, Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She supervised 18 graduate thesis and 34 researchers. Her research interests are solid conductor materials, ceramics and glasses, green energy storage, low environmental impact materials and processes, Experimental design and Molecular dynamic simulation.

Yahia CHERGUI is a lecturer in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Institute, Boumerdes Algeria. He has completed his PhD from Badji Mokhtar University in Annaba, Algeria. He did all his PhD work in Cardiff University in UK. His research field is Physics(condensed matter, simulation by molecular dynamics). He has many published articles and international conferences. He has been serving as a referee with condensed matter journal (IOP), Energy journal (Elsevier), and recently accepted to be a reviewer of American Journal of Modern Physics since 20/11/2018.

Yudi Darma is a full professor in the Physics Department of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. He completed his doctoral studies at Hiroshima University in the field of Quantum Matter and Integrated Devices in 2004. Before returning to ITB, He joined several research groups including as a postdoctoral researcher at Research Center for Nanodevices and Systems, Hiroshima University Japan, then as Research Fellow at Photonic Lab. School of Physics at The University of New South Wales Sydney Australia as well as a Research Fellow at Singapore Synchrotron Light Source-National University of Singapore. He received some International and National awards including the Indonesian Achievement Award for Science and Technology in 2007, Indonesian Science Institute Award for the best young researcher in Engineering and Technology in 2006, Solid State Devices and Material 2003 Award in Tokyo, President Hiroshima University 2004 Distinction Award in Hiroshima and Micro processes and Nanotechnology 2002 Award in Tokyo. Now, He serves as the head of the Quantum Semiconductor and Device laboratory in the Physics Department of ITB. His research focus is in the field of advanced materials for multifunctional device applications. Additionally, in the year 2016-2018, He also serves as a vice president of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI) for the frontier of science. He also serves as senior adviser and part of several task forces at the ministry of research technology and higher education in Indonesia.

Sanaz Mehdipour received her master´s degree in Electrical Engineering (Micro and Nano Systems) at TU Chemnitz (Germany) and her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) at Shiraz University of Technology (Iran). Later, she has joined as a Ph.D. student to the group of professor Enrique Diez at Salamanca University (Spain) to pursue her studies on fabrication and characterization (temperature-dependent magnetotransport and Raman Spectroscopy) of 2D devices out of topological insulator materials at Cleanroom and low-temperature laboratory of Salamanca University, respectively.

Alexander Riss is a PhD student at the Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien. He studies Fe2VAl-based compounds for TE applications with the main focus being on thin film systems.

Michael Parzer is a PhD student at the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Wien. He is working on thermoelectric materials and their possible application in low-power sensor systems.

Fabian Garmroudi is a second-year PhD student at the Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien. His research interests are finding new strategies to improve thermoelectric materials.