Toshiaki Enoki is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He is also an honorary member of Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1969 and received PhD in 1975. After that he became a research associate in the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan. He was a visiting scientist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. Then he was appointed associate professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987, became aprofessor in 1991 and now professor emeritus. His research interests are in physical chemistry on electronic and magnetic structures of π-electron-based functional materials, particularly graphene nanostructures, in which he has successfully prepared single layer nanoislands (2001), single layer nanoribbons (2004) and discovered edge states in graphene edges (2005). He has received several awards including The Chemical Society of Japan Award, C. N. R. Rao Lecture Award, Mizushima-Raman Lecture Award and Rudolf Zahradník Honorary Lecture Award. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Carbon.

Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). He has demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilize phases with disparate properties for field effect transistors, catalysis, and energy storage. Prof Chhowalla is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was the founding Editor in Chief of Applied Materials Today and is now the Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2016

Prof. Baohua Jia is the Director of Centre for Translational Atomaterials (CTAM) at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She uses light to develop various functional nanostructures to effectively harness and store clean energy and boost the performance of communication devices. She is the Fellow of Optical Society, President of Australia-China Advanced Materials and Manufacture Association, and the Program Leader of Future Manufacturing Institution. She has co-authored more than 240 publications and delivered more than 60 keynote/invited talks at prestigious international conferences and serves multiples professional committees. She has secured more than $30m research grants as a key CI. Her recent awards include the ARC Future Fellowship (2021), Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2013), L’Oréal Australia and New Zealand for Women in Science Fellowship (2012), Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2012), Victoria Fellowship (2010) and Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009) et al.

Jamie Warner is the Hayden Head Centennial Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Electron Microscopy in the Texas Materials Institute, at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to this he spent 13 years in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford leading the Nanostructured Materials Group. His research includes atomic level analysis of nanomaterials by electron microscopy, along with their materials chemistry and implementation in nanoscale device applications including ultrathin all-2D photodetectors, light emitting devices, quantum materials, nanopores and sensors. Recent work has expanded into single atom catalyst sites and energy materials. A particular focus on 2D monolayers as a materials platform has been the theme for the past decade. He completed his BSc (2000) and then PhD (2005) in Physics at the University of Queensland. In 2019 he received an ACS Nano Lecturership for his contributions to electron microscopy of nanomaterials. He serves as the founding Editor for Materials Today Advances.

Born in Berlin, Ute Kaiser studied Crystallography at the Humboldt University Berlin, received her Diploma in Crystallography in 1976, worked at the Academy of Sciences in Jena, Germany and received her doctor degree in 1993.From 1993 until 2004, she worked as scientific assistant at the Jena University in the field of transmission electron microscopy applied to semiconductors, mainly SiC, and finished with her habilitation Experimental Physics in 2003. She had extended research stays at Cambridge (UK, 1994-1996), Sendai (Japan, 1999) and Bell Labs (US, 2002). Since 2004 she is full professor at Ulm University and head of the Group of Materials Science Electron Microscopy. She is both interested in developing new methods and instrumentation as well as in TEM application. At present she is applying TEM in the fields of battery-, semiconductor-, and catalysts- research. In her field of basic research she is interested in 2D inorganic and organic materials. She is the scientific director of the SALVE project and finalised recently the development of the unique chromatic and spherical aberration-corrected TEM to unravel the crystallographic and electronic properties of 2-D materials on the level of the single atoms, which is her main interest at present.

Professor Young studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and gained his PhD in 1973. He became Professor of Polymer Science and Technology in Manchester in 1986, and the founding Head of the School of Materials in the newly-formed University of Manchester in 2004, which is now the largest university materials department in the UK and the focus of major UK materials research initiatives such as the Henry Royce Institute.Professor Young is a Fellow of Royal Society (2013), Royal Academy of Engineering (2006)and Academy of Europe (2015). His main research interest is the relationships between structure and properties in polymers and composites. He has introduced of a number of revolutionary techniques that have given a completely new insight into the micromechanics of deformation in fibres and composites. In particular, he has pioneered the use of Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of deformation processes that take place in fibres at the molecular level. Over recent years he has extended this approach to the mechanics of deformation of graphene and other 2D materials in nanocomposites. His contribution in research has been recognised through numerous invitations to give Plenary and Keynote lectures at International Conferences and through the awards of the Griffith Medal (2002), Leslie Holliday Prize (2011), Swinburne Medal and Prize (2012) and Platinum Medal (2019) from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Prof Chul Park received his PhD from MIT in 1993 withhis PhD thesis topic on microcellular foaming of PS with CO2. He is Distinguished Professor of Microcellular Engineered Plastics at University of Toronto. He is also the NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Multi-Functional Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites and Foams. He has an international recognition in polymer foam area. He has published more than 1400 papers, including over 430 journal papers and four books with 78 Scopus H-index. Prof Park serves as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Cellular Plastics. He has been inducted as an Academician Fellow into 5 academies including the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also a fellow of 5 other professional societies including the Society of Plastics Engineers.

Yoke Khin Yap is a professor of physics, director of the applied physics graduate program, and an honorable University Professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU), USA. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from Osaka University as sponsored by the Japanese government as a Monbusho scholar. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science before his appointment at MTU. His research interest focuses on synthesizing nanoscale van der Waals materials and their applications in electronics, energy, and biomedicine. Professor Yap was honored with the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. He was a Charter member of the users' executive committee of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciencesat Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2005-2007 and the first elected user group chair in 2008. Professor Yap received the Bhakta Rath Research Awardin 2011,was appointed as a Faculty Fellow in 2014-2016, honored as an Osaka University Global Alumni Fellowin 2015, and received the MTU Research Award in 2018.

Martin Kalbac graduated in inorganic chemistry from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (1998), where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 and has been habilitated in the field of inorganic chemistry (2019). Since 2001 he has worked at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Currently, he is a vice-director of the institute and the head of the Department of Low dimensional Systems. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, 2D materials, Raman spectroscopy and spectroelectrochemistry, isotope engineering of carbon nanostructures and sensorics.

Gerd Bacher studied physics and received his PhD at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He continued his career as senior scientist at Würzburg University and joined Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as a guest professor 1996/1997. In 2003, Gerd Bacher got a full professorship for electronic materials and devices at the faculty of engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he co-founded the center of nanointegration(CENIDE) and established the studying program NanoEngineering.His research activities cover nanomaterials and nanodevices for optoelectronic, electronic and spintronic applications, with a main focus on 2D materials and nanocrystals. He published > 250 scientific papers, delivered more than 80 invited talks, and acts as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and funding agencies.

Prof. Moon-Ho Jo is Mueunjae Chair Professor of Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Associate Director of Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS). Moon-Ho Jo received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at University of Cambridge (2001), with a dissertation on electron-spin tunneling in half-metallic manganites. He joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at POSTECH in 2004 after a postdoctoral fellowship in Department of Chemistry/Physics at Harvard University. He was appointed Associate Fellow of The Korea Academy of Science and Technology in 2015. His current research interests include (1) atomic scale heteroepitaxial growth of semiconductors and strongly correlated materials, (2) light-matter interactions at atomically thin materials, as well as (3) electron transport and laser transport spectroscopy in atomic scale materials.

Hyeon Suk Shin is a professor at Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. He received his PhD from Department of Chemistry at POSTECH in 2002. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge, UK and subsequently as a research Professor at POSTECH, he joined UNIST in 2008. He received Minister Award (Basic Researcher of the Year, Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea) in 2020, Creative Knowledge Award (Minster Award by Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, Republic of Korea) in 2015, outstanding researcher award (Materials Chemistry Division, KCS) in 2015, the Faculty of the Year award of UNIST in 2014, and the Minister award of Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea in 2012. His current research is focused on 2D materials, including graphene, h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides, and their heterostructures, and their applications for electrocatalysts and (opto)electronic devices.

Prof. Anupama Kaulholds the PACCAR Professorship in the College of Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT)and serves as Director of the PACCAR Technology Institute (https://paccar.unt.edu/home) and the Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory (https://kaulgroup.engineering.unt.edu/). Her research is focused on the synthesis, characterization and integration of nanoscale materials and their heterostructures intodevice platforms for optoelectronics, nanoelectronics, sensors, flexible electronics and solar cells. Prior to UNT, Prof. Kaul was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP), and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.From 2011-2014, Dr. Kaul served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Engineering Directorate, where she was on rotation as an IPA from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Dr. Kaul is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence. At JPL-Caltech, Dr. Kaul received the NASA Service Award, a NASA Team Accomplishment Award, multiple NASA Patent Awards and numerous NASA Technology Brief Awards for her research. Dr. Kaul was selected to be a participant at the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2012 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and in 2014 she was invited to participate in the bi-lateral Indo-US FOE. She serves on the External Advisory Board of Penn State University’s 2D Crystal Consortium. Dr. Kaul has given more than 65 invited and keynote talks at major international conferences and meetings sponsored by professional societies such as the IEEE, SPIE, MRS, TMS, and NSTI, among others. She serves on the Editorial Board of several international journals and she has also edited Microelectronics to Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices and Manufacturability, that was published by CRC Press. Dr. Kaul obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in Materials Science and Engineering with minors in Electrical Engineering and Physics, where she was advised by Professor Theodore Van Duzer, a National Academy of Engineering Member, and Prof. Timothy D. Sands, current president at Virginia Tech.

Prof. Kim attained his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Department of Chemical Engineering at KAIST and joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering of KAIST as a professor in 2004.His main research interest is the directed self-assembly of soft materials, including block copolymers and 2D nanomaterials such as graphene oxide aiming at the practical utilization of the resultant nanostructures for electronics, energy, environmental and biological applications. Noticeably, he has pioneered the extension of molecular level self-assembly principle, previously mostly associated to biomolecules or polymers, for the general material fabrication methodologiesbased on various nanomaterials with molecular level precision. One of the prof. Kim’swell-known research achievements is the world-first discovery of graphene oxide liquid crystal. Since this original contribution, graphene based material fabrication has been rapidly advanced and approaching real-world applications in the form of 1D fibres, 2D films, and 3D nanoassmbled structures. Significantly, graphene oxide liquid crystal offers a valuable precursor state for the mass-production ofsub-5 layer level high quality graphene powders. His contribution in materials research has been widely appreciated by prestigious honours, including the youngest fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (2020), Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics (2018), the KAIST Grand Prize for Academic Excellence (2015) and Presidential Young Scientist Award (2013).

Zonghoon Lee is a professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in S. Korea and had been the department head for four years. Since 2019, he has been a group leader and co-affiliated with Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. He graduated from Yonsei University with B.S. and M.S. and received Ph.D. in Materials Science at University of Southern California. And then he moved to the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral scientist fellow and became a senior staff member. After six years in Berkeley, he moved back to Korea to join UNIST as a faculty member in 2011. He founded Atomic Imaging Center and Center for Multidimensional Programmable Matter. He supervised the installation of FEI Titan G2 Cube with double correctors and a monochromator. He published more than 180 journal papers with more than 11,000 citations in the field of materials science and electron microscopy. He is the editor-in-chief ofApplied Microscopy journal published with Springer Nature. He serves Korean Society of Microscopy as a vide president. His research focuses on atomic-scale characterization, design, and synthesis as well as the properties of advanced materials including 2D materials, carbon materials, and soft matter by means of aberration-corrected S/TEM and spectroscopy. In situ experiments at both the atomic and nano scales are implemented for his study.

Professor Raman Singh’s expertise includes: Alloy Nano/Microstructure-Corrosion Relationship, Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC), Corrosion/SCC of Biomaterials, Corrosion Mitigation by Novel Material (e.g., Graphene), Advanced and Environmentally Friendly Coatings, High Temperature Corrosion. He has supervised 50 PhD students. He has published over 225 peer-reviewed international journal publications, 15 books/book chapters and over 100 reviewed conference publications. His professional responsibilities include editor-in-chief of two journals, Fellow ASM International and Engineers Australia, over 40 keynote/plenary talks at international conferences (besides numerous invited talks), leadership (as chairperson) of a few international conferences.

Dr Santos received his PhD in 2011 from the Danish Technical Universitywith a European Honor. Then, he moved to Harvard University as a John A. Paulson Postdoctoral Fellow to undertake research on energy materials and method developments. He moved to Stanford University in 2013 as an assistant staff scientist to investigate novel functional devices. Dr Santos started his research group in 2015 at Queen’s University (QUB) in the UK as a full Lecturer.At QUB, he took a leading role on the research of two-dimensional materials and energy efficient processes with several high-impact contributions. Dr Santos is one of the recipients of the 2020 Charles Hatchett Awardfor his investigations on Nb-based catalysts. He moved in 2020 to The University of Edinburgh as a Reader in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics. He is part of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics within the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is an EPSRC Fellow on 2D magnetic materials.

Liang Wu has been an assistant professor in department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania since July 2018. He got his Ph.D in Physics at The Johns Hopkins University in 2015 and was a postdoc fellow at University of California, Berkeley from 2016 to 2018. He has been using terahertz spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to study topological insulators, Weyl semimetals and quantum magnets. He has received awards recently, including the William L. McMillan Award for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics and the APS Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.

After 25 years of extensive research experience in solid-state physics and nanotechnology at universities in the UK and the US, Prof. Kang moved to Sungkyunkwan University in 2005, one of the leading research-oriented universities in Korea, to take up a professorship. He is the director of the Brain Korea 21 Four Education and Research Division of the department as well as the chairman of the postgraduate school of the Department. He is also affiliated with the Department of Quantum Biophysics, Biomedical Institute for Convergence, and Interdisciplinary of Physics and Chemistry postgraduate course at SKKU. His research interests are in the area of non-conventional nanofabrication, physics and application of 2D materials, and physics and application of metal oxides. He has published more than 250 SCI peer-reviewed articles in the top journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, and Advanced Functional Materials in the field of solid-state physics and nanotechnology ranging from nanofabrication to materials synthesis and to device physics. The quality of his work can be easily indicated by Google Scholar’s H-index of 50 and the total citations of over 8,500. He has served on the editorial boards of several internationally renowned scientific journals, including the IOP journal Nanotechnology, Nano Futures, Applied Sciences. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Current Nanoscience since 2014. He has played a key role in securing several of the country's most competitive research programs, including the Science Research Center (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites at SKKU), Priority Research Center (Institute of Basic Sciences at SKKU), and World Class University programs (Department of Energy Science at SKKU), in which he participated as a Co-Principle Investigator, demonstrating his research excellence and expertise. In addition, in 2007, he participated in the Global Partnership Program with the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the UK, where he successfully demonstrated his confidence in conducting international collaborative research programs as a Principal Investigator. He has also served on many organizing committees for international conferences. He has also organized several international conferences including the Advances in Functional Materials Conference as the chair of the organizing committee. He has given numerous plenary (keynote) and invited talks at many international conferences such as MRS, APS, etc.  

Maya Bar Sadan is an associate Professor in the Chemistry department of the Ben Gurion University in Israel. She did her PhD with Prof. Reshef Tenne in the Weizmann Institute, focusing on inorganic fullerene-like structures and graduated in 2007. Thereafter she joined the group of Prof. Knut Urban at the Institute of Solid-State Research, Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Research Centre Juelich, Germany. In 2011, she joined the Ben Gurion University. She was awarded a Minerva Fellowship (Max Planck Society) and the Sara Lee Schupf Postdoctoral Award funded by the Clore Foundation and S. Donald Sussman, The Weizmann Institute of Science Program for Advancing Women in Science (2008) and the Krill prize of the Wolf foundation for excellence in research (2016).

Maxim Ilyn is a researcher at the Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU. He received PhD degree from Moscow State University in 2006 and after postdoctoral terms in the University of Basque Country and Spanish Research Council (CSIC) he joined the Nanophysics lab in the Materials Physics Center in San Sebastian, Spain. His work is concerned with the study of magnetic and electronic properties of semiconductors and heterostructures semiconductor/superconductor by means of various spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, including the ones available in the synchrotron facilities.

Jakob Heier received a diploma in physics from the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1994 and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University (US) in 1999.Today he is research group leader at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), and is heading the wet coating and printing activities in Empa's Coating Competence Center. His research ranges from basic studies onassembly of molecules in thin film coatings for applications in electronic and photonic devices to practical aspects of large area coating and printing. A specific focus is the formulation of inks from 2D materials for applications in printed functional devices.

Dr. Matthieu JAMET (born 1972)is a research director in Spintec(http://www.spintec.fr/) at the CEA Grenoble in France. He obtained his PhD degree in 2001 from the University of Lyon on nanomagnetism and his Habilitationdegree in 2010 from the University of Grenoble on magnetic semiconductors. In 2001, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Germany) to work on van der Waals epitaxy and the self-organization of nanomagnets. His research interests are: semiconductor spintronics, 2D Materials including graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions and perpendicular anisotropy materials.He is currently the Head of the 2D spintronics group (http://www.spintec.fr/research/2d-spintronics/) at Spintec. The group focuses on the van der Waals epitaxy of transition metal dichalcogenides (MoSe2, WSe2, 2D magnets…) and topological materials by molecular beam epitaxy to study fundamental spintronic and valleytronic phenomena.

Antoine BIDENT received is DUT in physical measurement (2014) at the University of Lille, a license in chemistry (2016) and a master's degree in high performance ceramic materials (2018) at the University of Limoges. He is PhD student in the field of composites for the development of copper/graphite composite materials. His PhD work is carried out within the Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux (ICMCB) in the group of Intermetallics, Metals and Composites in partnership with Schneider Electric company of Grenoble.

JKV is a full professor and group leader at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Prague. She graduated from Charles University with MSc. In "Chemistry" in 2003 and Ph.D. in "Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Research" in 2007. After her postdoctoral stays at Hasselt University, Belgium, and National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, she worked as the head of the department in the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences (2011–2017). Her current research interests cover the experimental physics of low-dimensional materials, including carbon nanotubes, magnetic nanoparticles, graphene, and other two-dimensional materials, focusing on advanced magnetometry techniques, cryomagnetic optical and nuclear spectroscopies. She also has ∼20-year experience in neutron and synchrotron radiation scattering techniques applied to magnetic materials and nanomaterials. She is a chair of the doctoral study school "Physics of nanostructures and nanomaterials," a member of the faculty's Academic Senate and Scientific Council. Her work has been funded by ∼15 projects as PI (∼3.5 MEUR), including the prestigious ERC Starting grant (2016). She is a member of the expert panel for the Graphene Flagship evaluation.She published ∼160 papers, presented ∼30 invited/plenary talks, and received multiple recognitions, e.g., Scopus/Elsevier Award (2010), Otto Wichterle Award (2014), F. Behounek Award for promotion and popularization of Czech science in the European Research Area (2019).

Michael Naguib is a Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Science and Engineering and an assistant professor in the department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Prior to joining Tulane in 2018, he was a Wigner Fellow (2014-2017) and Research Staff (2017-2018) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University in 2014 where he co-invented MXenes. He has published more than 95 papers (with more than 26,000 citations and h-index of 48) in international journals and presented many plenary, keynote and invited lectures and seminars at number of international conferences and universities. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics twice and has received many awards such as NSF CAREER Award, Robert L. Coble Award, KrotoAward, Ross Coffin Purdy Award, Rising Star Award by Tulane University, MRS Gold Graduate Student Award, Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Award, and was listed as Drexel University Forty- Under-Forty. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He is an Associate Editor of Energy Advances.

Jani Kotakoski is a professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include atomic scale structural tailoring of 2D materials and nanostructures, (scanning) transmission electron microscopy, ion and electron irradiation effects on materials, and other topics.

Dr. Shengnan Wang is currently a senior research scientist in NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Physics studying the electronic properties of graphene from National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China in 2012. After her Ph. D course, she joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 2012 as a researcher, from 2017 as a research scientist, and from 2020 as a senior research scientist. Her current researches focus on the large scale growth and characterizations of 2D materials and their heterostructures.

Tilmar Kümmell studied physics in Kiel and Würzburg, and received his PhD in 2000 at Würzburg University. After a brief intermezzo in industry, he returned to the science of low dimensional semiconductor structures in 2003. In his research career he has explored novel optoelectronic emitters based on quantum dots and nanowires, as well as the control of single spins and charges in quantum structures. Currently he is working as a group leader at the faculty of engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His scientific focus in the last years is on the application of 2D materials and 2D heterostructures for novel optoelectronic devices.

Yin-Ting (Tim) Yeh is an assistant research professor in the Department of Physics, Material Research Institute, and The Huck Institutes of the Life Science at the Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Penn State in August 2015. Then, he did his postdoc training at the Department of Physics at Penn State, under the supervision of Prof. Mauricio Terrones. His work focuses on synthesizing low-dimensional materials and integrating them into a miniaturized platform to manipulate the living organism and biomolecules. Currently, he is visiting Elodie Ghedin’s lab at National Institutes of Health. His research focuses on a combination of enhanced Raman spectroscopy, the development and application of a virus enrichment microfluidic device, and suitable deep learning algorithms to rapidly detect viruses, their antigenic variants and track genetic and antigenic evolution in real-time.

Prof. Kazuyuki TAKAI was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1973, and received his BS (1996) and PhD in Science (2001) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. In 2001, he joined the Department of Chemistry of Tokyo Institute of Technology, as a Research Associate, and then as an Assistant Professor. In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Hosei University, and is a Full Professor from 2016. Prof. Takai has published over 100 peer reviewed international journal articles. His research interests are in the area of Physical Chemistry of Condensed matter, in particular Electronic properties of Graphene and 2D-materials, and their Host-Guest interactions, including: Magnetic and Electron transport properties, Chemical activities of π- electron systems such as Nano-sized Graphene, Nanodiamond, and its controlling though the Chemical Modification; Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopic characterization; design and fabrication of 2D Material-based Electronic and Energy devices. Prof. TAKAI has received the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan in 2010, the Research Award of the Carbon Society of Japan in 2012, and the Outstanding paper Award of the Carbon Society of Japan in 2018. He is Editor-in-Chief in the editorial board of the Journal of the Carbon Society of Japan and the Carbon Reports.

Dr. Sun earned his Ph.D. (1989) at the Florida State University with Prof. Jack Saltiel. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Josef Michl (1989-91) and Prof. Marye Anne Fox (1991-92) at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined Clemson faculty in 1992.

Ali Shaygan Nia is currently the research group leader in the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technical University of Dresden (TUD). Ali received his Ph.D. with the highest honor (summa cum laude) in June 2016 from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) and joined Prof. Xinliang Feng’s group in TUDin July 2016. His current research interest is focused on the exfoliation and functionalization of emerging two-dimensional materials via wet-chemistry, particularly electrochemistry, for application in (opto-) electronics and energy storage. In parallel to his activities in TUD, Ali also acts as the Process & Application Engineer in Sixonia Tech GmbH to develop 2D materials ink and paste formulations. Moreover, Ali is the Business Developer of the Graphene Flagship project and helps introduce 2D material-based technologies to the industries. Ali has broad experience in both academic and applied research, evidenced by several publications, patents, and patent applications.

Valentino Romano is currently a Research Fellow at the Department MIFT of the University of Messina, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2019 at the University of Messina, working on perovskite solar cells and the production/processing of 2D materials (such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides) for the realization of supercapacitors, solar cells and photoelectrodes (for the production of H2 from water splitting). His interests concern solar-powered green technologies, such as photovoltaic devices and systems for solar fuels synthesis, with particular emphasis on the fundamental physical processes behind their working mechanisms.

Christopher Petoukhoff is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Solar Center (KSC). He is one of the first recipients of the KAUST Global Fellowship for Postdocs (KGFP), enabling him to pursue his independent research over a 3 year period. Christopher received his PhD in 2017 from Rutgers University in Materials Science and Engineering, where he was awarded with a Corning, Inc. fellowship, an NSF-IGERT traineeship, and an NSF-EAPSI – JSPS Summer fellowship. He transitioned to Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) as a postdoc in 2017 to undertake research on ultrafast spectroscopy of energy materials, with a focus on organic-2D heterojunctions. Christopher’s research interests range from nanophotonics and plasmonics to applications of 2D materials for solar energy harvesting, to semiconducting conjugated polymers for optoelectronic applications. As part of the KGFP fellowship, Christopher will be investigating liquid-phase exfoliated 2D materials as multifunctional hole transport layers in high-efficiency organic solar cells.

Ravindra Pandey is Professor and Chair of Physics at the Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. Pandey received his education at Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar, National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, Atomic Energy Research Laboratory, Harwell, UK, and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He has participated in multi-disciplinary efforts (theoretical and experimental) to build the programs in novel nanostructures and the application of chalcopyrite semiconductors as the next generation optoelectronic materials with industrial and national laboratories and is the author of more than 150 publications. He also has co-organized and participated in several international conferences in Materials Physics and Nanoscale Science. Pandey is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Keun Su Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Physics, Yonsei University, South Korea. He earned his PhD from Yonsei University, and undertook postdoctoral research in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States. From 2013, He started his assistant professorship in Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, and move to Yonsei University in 2017. He has studied the electronic band structure of low-dimensional quantum materials, such as black phosphorus, by means of mainly angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).

Prof. Jang-Yeon Kwon is an associate professor of School of Integrated Technology at Yonsei University, Korea. He got his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in material science and engineering at Seoul National University in Korea in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He has been a Principal Researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2010. He was in charge of research and development of AMOLED display with oxide semiconductors. Prof. Kwon’s research background is in advanced functional devices focused on applied nano and macro scale materials of semiconductor, such as oxide TFTs and 2D materials like TMDs. He pursues fundamental studies on new material and its applications of TFT, biosensor and photo-electronic device. Prof. Kwon has published more than 100 SCI journal papers, and has delivered more than 120 international conference presentations. In addition, he has been grated 55 patents including 23 US patents Abstract As a means to overcome the limitation of installation space and to promote the utilization of the solar cell in various applications, a transparent thin-film solar cell has been studied by many researchers. To achieve a transparent solar cell, the choice of materials which are transparent enough and showing the photovoltaic property at the same time is the key. Here, we suggest a two-dimensional (2D) p−n heterojunction of WSe2/MoS2 and an indium tin oxide electrode to fabricate a transparent thin-film photo-voltaic cell. Because of advantages that 2D materials possess, a highly transparent (∼80%) solar cell with considerable efficiency was achieved. Furthermore, by introducing a transparent passivation layer composed of a fluoropolymer, the photovoltaic performance was much improved. With the passivation layer, our WSe2/MoS2 transparent photovoltaic cell reached an efficiency of ∼10%. A comparison of photovoltaic parameters before and after applying passivation and analysis on the origin of such differences are also discussed. Our result exhibits a great potential of the van der Waals p−n heterojunction of 2D semiconductors to be utilized for an active layer of a highly transparent and lightweight thin-film solar cell.

Seongil Im, applied physicist and device engineer, earned his BS from the dept. of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Yonsei University, Seoul Korea in 1984, and moved to Univ. of California at Berkeley for his Ph.D study. After his Ph.D in 1994,he worked as a research fellow at the dept. of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) from 1995 till 1996. He joined the dept. of MSE at Yonsei Univ. as an assistant professor in 1997. However, in 1999 he moved to the dept. of Physics of the same university as an associate professor. His research expertise is device physics and detailed research subjects are thin-film and low dimensional electronics foroxide, organics, nanowire, and 2D nanosheet. Photon-probing to characterize device stabilities and properties is his another expertise. He has been awarded as an excellent researcher from university, company, and Ministry of Science in Korean Government. Currently, he is Underwood Distinguished Professor in the dept. of Physics and Director of van der Waals Materials Research Center (vdWMRC) at Yonsei. He has published more than ~300 peer-review journal papers including Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Nano Today, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Nano Energy, IEEE Electron Device Letters, etc.

"Professor Wong examines ultrafast, precision, and quantum measurements in mesoscopic systems. He serves as the Tannas Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is elected a member of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of APS, IEEE, OSA, ASME and SPIE. He is a recipient of the NIH Early Scientist Trailblazer Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Google Faculty Award and 3M Faculty Award among others. He also the Global Foundry visiting professorship at the National University of Singapore. He completed his Doctorate of Science in 2003 and the Masters of Science in 2001, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 1999, he completed his double degree, B.Sc. with highest distinction and B.A. with highest distinction, both from the University of California at Berkeley.

His work has appeared in more than 380 journals and conferences, including Nature, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nature - Light: Science & Applications series amongst others. He delivered 135+ plenary and invited talks at universities and industry, published 4 book chapters, and has been awarded 26 patents and 7 provisional patents. He has supervised 51 PhD students and research scientists, about half are now in their own professorships including full professors, and sat on 87 PhD thesis committees. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano, running and snowboarding."

Professor Alain Rochefort obtained a MSc in Quantum Chemistry from Université de Montréal, and a PhD in Heterogeous Catalysis from Institut Français du Pétrole and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). He is an expert in electronic structure calculations of low-dimensional materials (0D, 1D, 2D) and adsorbed species on metal and semiconducting surfaces. He made pioneered work on the electronic and transport properties in carbon nanostructures and, he is very active in describing molecular interactions of molecular assemblies including 2D organic polymers. His expertise covers theoretical and experimental knowledge related to surface science, heterogeneous catalysis, materials characterization methods and high-performance computing.

Prof. Kinloch holds the Morgan Advanced Materials/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Carbon Materials. His research follows nanomaterials from their production through to their processing and ultimately to applications. This vertically integrated approach means that the appropriate materials can be processed into the optimum architecture for a given application, enabling new materials to realise their potential. Applications studies focus on composites and electrochemical power storage.

Andreas Isacsson received his PhD in 2002 from Chalmers University of Technology and, after 3 years as postdoc at Yale University and NORDITA Copenhagen, he returned to Chalmers as an assistant professor and is now a professor at the department of physics."

Ouri is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the group of Prof. Tony F. Heinz at Stanford University. He studies the optical properties of layered semiconductors and their heterostructures, dominated by many-body interactions. Ouri completed his Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering at The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Summa cum Laude, in 2006. For his graduate studies Ouri joined Prof. Gad Eisenstein’s group in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where he completed his PhD in 2016. His dissertation dealt with the ultrafast light-matter interactions and the subsequent electronic transients they trigger in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Along his academic track Ouri received numerous fellowships, including the Adams Fellowship of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Rothschild Fellowship of Yad HaNadiv Fund, and the Koret Fellowship of the Taub Foundation.

Dr. Fabian Schütt received his PhD in 2018 (highest honours) from Kiel University, Germany. He is currently working as a research group leader at the chair of Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute for Materials Science at Kiel University, Germany. His current research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of multi-scale material systems based on 1D and 2D nanomaterials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and carbon nanotubes and their application in the fields of photonics, hybrid composites, gas sensing and energy conversion and storage. He has a broad experience in applied Graphene research and is involved in several international research collaborations and projects, such as the Graphene Flagship. His PhD thesis was awarded by the priority research area “Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science” of Kiel University (2019). In 2021 he received the Young Talent award from the German Materials Society (DGM).

Education: University of Tsukuba 2003 Received a Dr. (Engineering)

Professional Career:

2003–2007 Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)

2007–2011 Assistant Professor (Tenure track), University of Tsukuba

2011–2015 Lecturer, University of Tsukuba

2015–present Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba

Himani Arora is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Nanoelectronics group led by Dr. Artur Erbe at Helmholtz‐Zentrum Dresden‐Rossendorf (HZDR). Himani completed her Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT‐BHU, India). She was an awardee of Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for pursuing her joint Master’s degree from the University of Augsburg (Germany) and Grenoble Institute of Technology (France) and later, an awardee of IHRS NanoNet Scholarship for completing her PhD in Physics at Technische Universität Dresden in 2020. During her PhD, she was also a visiting scholar in the group of Prof. James Hone at Columbia University (USA). Her research interests are focused on the investigation of novel 2D semiconductors for electronics, optoelectronics, and sensing applications.

Victor Carozo is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the PUC-Rio. His research interests are in the optical spectroscopies of two-dimensional TMD's and graphene. He has contributed to the synthesis of 2D materials, understanding the Raman scattering mechanism in Moire materials, and the study of defects.

Sunmin Ryu is an associate professor of chemistry atPohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).He obtained his B.S. (1998), M.Sc. (2000), and Ph.D. (2005) in Chemistry at Seoul National University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) until 2006 and then at the chemistry department of Columbia University until 2009. He started his independent research and teaching at the department of applied chemistry at Kyung Hee University as an assistant professor and moved to POSTECH in 2014. His research group (http://sunryu.postech.ac.kr) is studying excitons and nonlinear optical phenomena in 2D organic & inorganic crystals using various optical spectroscopy methods.

Sakineh Chabi is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She received her PhD degree in Materials Engineering from University of Exeter in 2015. Before joining UNM, she worked as a postdoc at Florida Tech (2015-2017) and Temple University (2017-2018). Her research background includes graphene related 2D and 3D materials, energy storage, solar fuel and fuel cells, and solid mechanics. Currently, her research team focuses on the growth of novel 2D materials from covalently bonded bulk materials.

Dr. Pengcheng Liunow is conducting the research activities at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Guest Editor for the academic journal of Nano Materials Science, and is organizing the Special Issue “Special issue on emerging materials for carbon neutrality”. He received his Ph.D. at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2017. His current research interests are the advanced alkali metal batteries, and focus are paid on the stable alkali metal anode and the interface issues in non-aqueous and all-solid-state batteries.

Dr. Balendhran (Shiva) is a research fellow in the Nano-optics Group from The Univeristy of Melbourne, exploring alternative materials for infrared photodetection. His research focuses on the synthesis of 2D materials and planar device development for a wide range of applications (electronics, optoelectronics and sensors).Prior to this, he was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at RMIT University, where he led his research on large area 2Dα-MoO3 synthesis and applications based on it. He obtained his PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2013, from RMIT University Australia.

Prof. Víctor M. Castaño is a recognized international leader in several areas of applied science and technology . He holds a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He spent 2 years at IBM´s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York as postdoctoral fellow. He has been a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Faculties of Chemistry, Sciences, Engineering, Accounting and Administration and Dentistry), Universidad Autonoma de Querétaro (Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Accounting and Administration, Psychology and Law), the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Faculty of Physical-Mathematical Sciences), the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro, etc. He was the founding Director of the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology of the UNAM in Juriquilla, Querétaro. Prof. Castaño has published around 800 articles in international refereed and indexed journals, 260 articles in conferences proceedings, 31 book chapters,8 books and has 36 patents. He has 752 papers presented at conferences and 62 technical reports to various industries. He has been advisor to over 93 B.Sc., 33 M.Sc. and 73 Ph.D. thesis in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, the USA, Canada, Spain and Germany. His work has received over 17,500citations, especially in the last few years, when some of his pioneering contributions have begun to have great impact and have led him to receive international awards and recognitions and he is one of the most cited Latinamerican scientists in his area. In this respect, it is important to emphasize the fact that Víctor Castaño is an engineer and scientist of great originality, who dares not only to explore subjects that do not represent the fashion of international science, but also has the capacity of having his proposals receiving worldwide attention. He is Associate Editor of several prestigious international journals and Editor-in-Chief of CurrentnanoMedicine. He is Treasurer, by election, of the International Council for Materials Education and has been a member of several evaluation committees in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, etc.Probably the areaswhere Prof. Castaño is best known is in materials science and biomedicine, where he invented a very extensive list of new materials and technologies for various applications. He has also been strongly involved on the social implications of Science and Technology and he is currently associated to the M.Sc. Program of Applied Ethics and Bioethics of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro and the Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative Master of Science Program, with the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro (Mexico), St. George's University (Grenada), Clarkson University (USA) and The National Institute of Health (USA).

Phil King is Professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews, UK. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, PhD from Warwick University, and undertook postdoctoral research in St Andrews and Cornell before moving to join the faculty in St Andrews in 2013. His research specialises in the study of the electronic structures of quantum materials using angle-resolved photoemission, as well as their epitaxial growth using molecular-beam epitaxy. Particular topics of recent interest include 2D materials and transition-metal oxides.”

Prof. Chul-Ho Lee is an Associate Professor in KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology and Department of Integrative Enegy Engineering at Korea University. He recieved his B.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2011) from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Pohoang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea. After his Ph. D course, he worked in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, United States, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2014, then, he joined the faculty of the KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology at Korea University. His current researchesfocus onthe characterization and applications of 2D semiconductor electronics/opotoelectronics, the MOCVD growth of 2D semiconductors.

My research line is focused on the study of mechanical and electrical properties of low dimensional materials. Since 2009 I co-lead the NanoForces research group at IFIMAC, UAM, Madrid, Spain. My research career began 2001, with my doctoral thesis on electrical properties of carbon nanotubes in 2006. From 2006 to 2009 at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, I started a line of research focused on the preparation and characterization of graphene sheets via graphite oxidation / reduction.

Prof. Liu is leading a research group at the National Tsing Hua University, Institutes of Photonics Technology. His research interests lie in fundamentally understanding the unique electrical, optical and mechanical properties of emerging two-dimensional materials, as well as exploring their applications in novel optoelectronic and optomechanical devices. Prior to joining NTHU, Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in January 2014, working on room temperature graphene photo-detectors with ultra-broadband and -high responsivity. After graduation, he worked at Northwestern University, Materials Science & Engineering for 1.5 years and focused on developing atomically-thin optomechanics. From 2015 to 2017, he worked in the Physics Department at the University of Washington as a postdoctoral research fellow, exploring the applications of 2D materials integrated with nanophotonics. He co-authored 23 publications in peer-reviewed journals and his research works have led to multiple patents and a startup company.

Dr. Anthony B. Dichiara is a Weyerhaeuser-Endowed Assistant Professor of Bioresource Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA. His research encompasses every aspect related to the sustainable design and engineering of advanced materials, from the synthesis and characterization of innovative bio-sourced nanoparticles to their assembly,both in the laboratory and large-scale facilities, into multifunctional composites with exceptional performance in catalytic,environmental, andelectronic applications. His research production includes over 45 peer-reviewed publications in higher impact journals, 5 journal covers, 1 book chapter, and 5 patents and disclosures with 2 being licensed for commercialization purposes.

Derosh George joined the Form Finding Lab of Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher in July of 2021 after receiving his doctorate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His doctoral studies concentrated on three-dimensional micro/nanomanufacturing with a focus on carbon micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The key product of his Ph.D. research is the development of programmable self-foldable films for origami-based carbon micromanufacturing. His research work has been published in 12 articles in refereed journals and presented at numerous conferences. He received the ASME-SMASIS 2020 Best Paper Award for the high quality and potential impact of the publication. Derosh has also published a book chapter on the topic of origami MEMS. Besides academic research, he has worked at General Electric (GE) for one and a half years, where he was a part of the Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP) in their Gas Turbine—New Product Introduction team.

Leandro Seixas is a theoretical physicist. Assistant Professor Doctor at the School of Engineering, Mackenzie Presbyterian University (UPM) since 2016. He works in computational simulations of two-dimensional (2D) materials with application bias in renewable energies and photonics in his research. Recently, he has been working with two-dimensional black phosphorus and modifications to improve stability, electronic and optical properties. Leandro holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics (Bachelor's Degree) from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), a Master's degree in Physics from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP) with a sandwich doctoral period at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore.

Dr. Ki Kang Kim is currently an associate professor of Department of Energy and Materials Engineering at Dongguk University in Republic of Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the Department of Physics in Sungkuynkwan University, Republic of Korea, in the year 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Young Hee Lee. After a four-year postdoctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Jing Kong at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.He become an assistant professor in the year 2012. His current research interests include the synthesis of 2D materials and engineering the electronic structure of low-dimensional materials.

Dr. Su obtained his Ph.D. from National Tsing Hua University in 2010. After that, he joined Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, as a postdoctoral research fellow before taking a faculty position at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University in 2012. In 2013, he transferred to Graduate Institute of Energy Engineering, National Central University, as an assistant professor. In 2018, he was promoted as full professor. His research interest focuses on advanced functional nanomaterials, including the fundamental study and their industry-scaled production and applications. His recent works include (1) the graphene and other 2D semiconductors, starting from their fundamental properties and the synthesis methods toward their scalable integration on multi-functional applications in nano-electronics, energy conservation, and energy storage, (2) the wafer-scale (6”) graphene as an ideal epitaxial substrate for the industrial growth of high crystallinity of GaN for future niche lighting and high-power devices. (3)The manipulations of electronic structure (band-gap, work function, etc) on graphene and 2D materials through the heteroatomic doping (F-, B-, N-, P-) by the developed low-damage plasma treatment and the ion-implantation, where the etching-free patterning of graphene via the rational designed atomic layered functionalization is realized. His bibliography includes over 90 publications(citation> 5500; h-index: 29) in refereed journals and 10 patents. He has over 15 invited lectures at highly recognized international conferences on graphene and 2D-related materials. He has won awards including MOST Futuristic Breakthrough Technology Award (2020), MOST Outstanding Young Scholar Award(2020), Outstanding Research Awards in NCU(2016-2020). He also served as Associate Editor for Journal of Frontier in Material (2018-now).

Prof. Susumu Okada received his PhD in Science (1998) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. After getting PhD, he joined the Institute of Material Science of University of Tsukuba. In 2001, he moved to Institute of Physics of University of Tsukuba. His research fieldsare computational material sciences and theoretical condensed matter physics.

Munkhbayar Batmunkh is a lecturer and DECRA Fellow (awarded by Australian Research Council, ARC) in the School of Environment and Science and Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy at Griffith University. He has also worked at the University of Queensland (2018–2019) and Flinders University (2017–2018). He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2017 at the University of Adelaide (Australia) and obtained his M.E. and B.Sc. degrees in 2012 and 2010 from Gyeongsang National University (South Korea) and National University of Mongolia (Mongolia), respectively. His research interests focus on the production of functional nanomaterials for energy-related applications. He has contributed to the fields by publishing 1 editorial, 2 book chapters and more than 80 refereed journal articles in the top-ranking journals including 42 papers in impact factor (IF) over 10.0 journals (3 x Advanced Materials (IF: 30.85), 4 x Advanced Energy Materials (IF: 29.37), 3 x Advanced Functional Materials (IF: 18.81), 2 x Advanced Science (IF: 16.81), 3 x AngewandteChemie International Edition (IF: 15.34)), attracting 3,000 citations and 30 h-index.In recognition of his research excellence, Dr Munkhbayar Batmunkh has been featured and selected in RSC's Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF: 12.73) Emerging Investigators 2020, which highlighted 2020’s rising stars of materials chemistry research. This issue gathers the very best work from materials chemists in the early stages of their independent career. He has recently secured a prestigious award (DECRA) from Australian Research Council (ARC).

Chandra Sekhar Tiwary is a professor at Department of metallurgical and materials engineering, at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur India. After receiving his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India. He worked as postdoc at Rice University, Houston, USA. His group works on 2D materials, nanomaterials,3D printing, development of new alloys and its applications in environment, energy, electronics and catalysis etc.Based on his contributions, all three Academies of India (Indian National Science Academy, National Science Academy, India and Indian National Academy of Engineers) awarded him the Young Scientist Awards. Apart from this, the Ministry of Steel, India, has awarded him the Young Metallurgist of the year 2020 for his contributions to metal research. Electron microscopy society of India has recognized his contribution to electron microscopy and awarded him the Excellent Microscopist of 2020. He has been also awarded the Alain Reza Yavari Young/Junior Scientist Award -International Society of ISMANAM and many more. For carrying out cutting-edge research in India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, has awarded Prof. Tiwary the Ramanujan Fellowship in 2018. He has published more than 300 papers and 15 patents with citation more than 7500. For more details, visit webpage:http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~cstiwary/

Antonio Riul Jr holds an M.Sc degree in Applied Physics from the University of São Paulo (1995), a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of São Paulo (1998), and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Wales (1998 - 2000), Embrapa/CNPDIA (2000 - 2002), and the University of Texas at Dallas (2018-2019). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics (DFA) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He has experience in Physics and Materials Science, with emphasis on self-assembled ultra-thin films made by physical adsorption. In addition, he works in e-tongue sensors, microfluidics, and more recently with multifunctional coatings formed by self-healing and conductive nanocomposites for the nanoengineering of interfaces.

Dr. Lorenzo Botto's research expertise is in theoretical hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics of multiphase systems, with current focus on fluid dynamics of carbon materials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, biochar dispersions). After receiving his PhD in fluid mechanics at Johns Hopkins University (USA), he worked as postdoctoral research associate in the Departments of Chemical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania (USA) and Imperial College (UK). In 2012 he joined the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London, and in 2019 he moved to the Process & Energy Department of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands as Associate Professor. He is currently leading the European Research Council project FLEXNANOFLOW on the fluid mechanics of graphene, which aims to establish a framework to understand how graphene and other flexible 2D nanomaterials deform and orient when suspended in sheared liquids.

Prof. Seong-Ju Hwang is a full professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University. He received a B.S./M.S./Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry (1992/1994/1998) from Seoul National University (Korea) and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Université Bordeaux I (France) in 2001. He hadworked as a professor atKonkuk University and Ewha Womans University, and moved to Yonsei University in 2019. His research interest is focused on the synthesis of two-dimensional inorganic nanosheets and their nanohybrids, and the application of these nanostructured materials for the production and storage of renewable energy and the purification of environmental pollution. He has authored more than 290 refereed journal articles in prestigious journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater.,Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Sci., ACS Nano, ACS Energy Lett., etc. and filed 79 patents. His publications have attracted ~10,700 citations with an H-index of 55 (google scholar).Currently, he is serving as an associate editor for Journal of Solid State Chemistry (Elsevier) and as an international editorial board member for Materials Today Energy(Elsevier),Particle & Particle Systems Characterization (Wiley), Topics in Current Chemistry (Springer), etc.

Lara Kühl Teles received her Doctor of Sciences degree from the University of São Paulo in 2001. During her PhD, she did an internship at the Friedrich-Schiller Universität in Jena (Germany). She is currently a full professor at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology - ITA (Brazil). She is the head of the Group of Semiconductor Materials and Nanotechnology. In 2014 she received the Santos-Dumont merit medal by the Air Force Command. In 2018 Kühl-Teles was honored as a Distinguished Professor of ITA. She also earned several awards for outstanding PhD and scientific initiation orientations. She is a member of the Brazilian Physics Society. Her research focus is on understanding the structural, electronic, optical, and thermodynamic properties of solids and nanostructures through ab initio calculations. Among her current projects, the ones that stand out are: study of the properties of different two-dimensional 2D materials, study of semiconductor alloys, perovskites, topological insulators, and development of approximate quasiparticle method for the study of excited states.

Prof. Shyamal K Saha did his BS and MS from University of Calcutta, Kolkata and Ph D from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. He has visited several Universities like Purdue University (USA), Osaka University (Japan), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) and many others as visiting Professor and currently he is working as a Senior Professor and Chairman of the School of Materials Science at Indian Association for the cultivation of Science, Kolkata. His major work is on the electronic and magnetic properties of nanomaterials and during the last 10 years he is working on 2D Materials. He has published more than 150 papers in different reputed International Journals.

Dr. Soohyung Park is a research team leader on "Advanced Photoemission Spectroscopy for Nano-materials and Electronic structure (APS-NE)" at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Advanced Analysis Center (AAC). He received his Ph. D. degree in physics from Yonsei University (Korea) in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Yeonjin Yi. During his doctorate studies, he studied ultraviolet/X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for molecular semiconductors and perovskite photovoltaics. In 2014, he was awarded a research scholarship from Samsung Display Co., Ltd and was awarded the Brain Korea 21 Scholarship. He then moved to Berlin (Germany) the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt University as a post-doc researcher working with Prof. Norbert Koch. During the same year, he was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. In his post-doc period, he began working with the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials and their interfaces. Beginning in 2019, he has moved into a tenure-track position as a junior research team leader at KIST AAC in Seoul, Korea.

Pradip Kumar Roy obtained his Ph.D. degree from National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan) in 2015. After that, he worked as a postdoc research fellow in Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University. Since September 2019, he joined at the University of Chemistry and Technology as a CHEMFELLS III (European Structural and Investment Funds) postdoc fellow. His research interests are focused on optoelectronic and sensing applications of 2D materials beyond graphene.

Myungsoo Kim is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials, their characteristics, and device applications. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and 2020, respectively. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University in 2016. He previously worked as an R&D Device Characterization Engineer at Micron Technology before joining UNIST.

Dr. Krishanu Biswas is current working as Ranjit Singh Chair Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of IIT Kanpur. Dr. Biswas has made significant contribution towards understanding of the several important scientific and technological aspects of metallurgy and materials engineering. The research work performed by him ranges from development of complex concentrated high entropy alloys, understanding the solidification behaviour of complex concentrated alloys, novel processing of ceramic composites, understanding the alloying behaviour at nanoscale, development of bulk alloy catalysis for hydrogen energy and environment. His recent research activities involve research on sintering of nanomaterials, nanocrystalline high entropy alloys (HEAs), ionic nanoparticles, graphene etc. His recent work on multicomponent multiprinciple alloys and ceramic is commendable. He has published over 200 papers in international repute peer reviewed journals and delivered 42 invited talks in different national and international conferences. He has completed 12 projects and currently 4 other projects are under progress. He could garner total funding to the tune of USD 50,000 in a span of 12 years. The projects include small projects from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA) to bigger projects from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Bio- technology (DBT), Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences (BRNS). Currently, he has 10 Phd students, 5 MTech students, 2 project staffs and several B.Tech students working on different research problems. 12 Phd students and 35 M.Tech students and large number of B.Tech students have completed their degree under his supervision. He has international collaboration with Japan and Germany. He teaches extensively at IITK on variety of subjects including, Phase Equilibria, Manufacturing Processes, Phase Transformations, Process Metallurgy, Solidification Processing etc. He is a prolific teacher. He has taught large number of courses at IIT Kanpur and developed courses on NPTEL platform as well as Massive Open Online Courses for the benefit of students in the materials science community in last 3-4 years. He has received a number of awards, fellowships and professional reorganization including INSA Young Scientist Medal, Young Engineer award, BOYSCAST fellowship, JSPS fellowship, INSA-DFG fellowship etc

Prof.Hyung-JoonShin is a professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science Technology. He obtained B.Sc. (1996), M.Sc. (1998)& PhD (2001) from Seoul National University. Prior to taking his current posts, he worked at Department of Physics at Seoul National University (2006) and RIKEN and The Universityof Tokyo in Japan (2010). He is a Fellow of The Korean Vacuum Society and a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Vacuum Society, The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, The Korean Physical Society, and The Korean Chemical Society. His primary research goal is focused on understanding physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials, in particular single atoms and molecules,by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.

Suman Kalyan Pal is a professor at School of Basic Sciences, at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India. He is also the chairperson of School of Basic Sciences. He obtained Master degree in Physics from The University of Burdwan in 1995 and received PhD in 2006 from Indian Association of Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, India. He worked as postdoc at Lund University, Lund, Sweden and Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, USA. Then he was appointed assistant professor in Indian Institute of Technology Mandi in 2010, and became a professor in 2020. He is a life member of the Optical Society of India. His research interests includephysics of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal mono-/di-chalcogenides (TMCs), carrier and exciton dynamics in quantum dots (QDs) and multiple exciton generation, optical propertiesof metal halide perovskite and device applications and organic photovoltaics. He has published more than 60 research articles in internationally reputed journals.(Website: http://faculty.iitmandi.ac.in/~suman/USOLab/)

Choongyu Hwang is an associate professor of Physics and a director of the Research Center for Dielectric and Advanced Matter Physics, in Pusan National University, South Korea. He received his B.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees in Physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea. He had worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, as a physicist postdoctoral fellow, until he joined Pusan National University in 2013. His research focuses on the realization of strongly correlated electron phases in two-dimensional systems such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, utilizing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

Abdus Salam Sarkar received his B.Sc in Physics (H) from University of Calcutta, India, M.Sc. degree in Physics from Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India and his Ph.D. degree in emerging 2D materials optoelctronics from School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT), India, with Prof. Suman K. Pal. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow in IESL, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece with Prof. Emmanuel Stratakis. He has published more than 15 articles in reputed 2D Material and device application related journals including npj, Wiley and ACS. His research interests focused on introducing of novel 2D materials, understanding of 2D quantum science and demonstration in optics, optoelectronics, photonics, energy and biophysical electronic devices.

Hui Shao is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in the CIRIMAT Laboratory (UMR CNRS 5085). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2020 in chemistry-material science at Université Paul Sabatier, under the supervision of Prof. Patrice Simon and Dr. Pierre-Louis Taberna. His research is mainly focused on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage, including 2D MXenes, graphene, and other carbon materials. He is also interested in probing the electrochemical interface.