Prof. Masakazu ANPO is presently a Special Honorary Professor & International Advisor, Fuzhou University in P. R. China after the retirement of Osaka Prefecture University (March 2015) where he worked for 40 years and served as Dean of Graduate School of Engineering, Vice President, and Executive Director, and Advisor to President for last 10 years. He is a pioneer in the research of heterogeneous photochemistry on solid surfaces including photocatalysis and has published the first book, “Photocatalysis” in 1988 from Asakura-shoten and then “Photochemistry on Solid Surfaces” in 1989 from Elsevier. He published many books such as “Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts” in 2010 from Springer, “Plant Factory Using Artificial Light” and “Chemistry of Silica and Zeolite-based Materials” in 2019 from Elsevier. He has published more than 115 scientific books including a recent book entitled “Current Developments in Photocatalysis and Photocatalytic Materials” in 2020 from Elsevier. Establishing “Solar Chemistry” as a new sustainable environmentally-friendly science and technology is his dream.

David Cahen studied chemistry & physics at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (HUJI), materials research at Northwestern Univ., and, as PD, biophysics (of photosynthesis) at HUJI and Weizmann Inst. of Science (WIS). As WIS faculty he specializes in opto(bio)electronic materials chemistry & physics, focusing on what can make such materials sustainable; in related work he studies proteins as electronic conductors. He is AVS, MRS and Helmholtz Int’l fellow, active in energy & sustainability (E&S) research (co-founded the first WIS centres in the field) and in E&S education; from 2017-2022 he also heads/headed a group at Bar-Ilan Univ.

Prof Chul Park received his PhD from MIT in 1993. He is Distinguished Professor of Microcellular Engineered Plastics at University of Toronto. He is also the NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chairin Multi-Functional Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites and Foams. He has an international recognition in polymer foam area. He has published more than 1500 papers, including over 470 journal papers and four books with 83 Scopus H-index. Prof Park serves as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Cellular Plastics. He has been inducted as an Academician Fellow into 6 academies including the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada,the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of 6 other professional societies including the Society of Plastics Engineers.

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and of Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA, and worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute. He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, and Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park. He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and editor of Progress in Materials Science. He invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys.

Dr. Frank Cheng is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary. Frank is an internationally recognizedresearcherin Energy Pipeline Technology, specializing in pipeline corrosion and cracking, advanced materials technology, and new energy transport systems. Heis theauthor of4 books and 270+ journal papers. The total citations of his publications exceed 13,300, with a H-index of 69. Frankis the recipient of many prestigious awards from ASM, IAAM, NACE, MetSoc, etc. He was named the Canadian Distinguished Materials Scientist in 2019. Frank is elected Fellows of NACE, IOM3, ICorr, IAAM and CSCP. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering.Frank obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta in 2000.

Prof. Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor (玉山學者) at the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology of NTUST, Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE dept of NUS in 2011-2021. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water, clear air, clear energy and pharmaceutic separation. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK) Underwood Medal for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was a highly cited researcher in Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering by the Elsevier and Shanghai Global Ranking in 2016 and received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from International Desalination Association (IDA) in 2016. He was also a highly cited researcher from Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019. He was ranked as No. 7 in Chemical Engineering worldwide by the list of “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford University in 2020 (http://www.globalauthorid.com/WebPortal/EliteOrder. 2020). His H-index =116 (Scopus) or 135 (Google Scholar); Number of citations > 52633 (Scopus) and > 66,847 (Google Scholar) (March 16, 2022). He is an editorial board member of more than 20 journals including J. Membrane Science, Env. Sci. & Tech., AIChE J, Separation & Purification Tech., I&EC Research, Membranes and many others.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics as Sustainable Geoengineering” for environmental modifications and resource circulations, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Prof. Chun-Sing Lee obtained his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Hong Kong in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He then furthered his research career at the University of Birmingham of UK with the support ofthe Croucher Foundation Fellowship. Prof. Lee joined City University of Hong Kong in 1994 and is currently a Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and the Dean of College of Science. He also co-founded the Center Of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF) in 1998 and is now the Center’s Director. Prof. Lee’s current research interests include organic electronic devices and nanomaterials for energy, environmental and biomedical applications. In 2016, he established the journal Materials Today Energy with Elsevier and served as the Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Lee has published about 900 journal papers with over 40,000 citations and a Scopus/WoSh-index of over 110.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology– China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010, 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB.ProfessorMorais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He has delivered more than 150 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With more than 450 published papers in peer reviewed journals, he has appeared in recent World ranking of top 1% scientists, such as 2020-Stanford and 2022-Research.com.

The research work on photocatalysis by Professor Bunsho Ohtani started in 1981 when he was a Ph. D. course student in Kyoto University. Since then, he has been studying photocatalysis and related topics for 40 years and published more than 300 original papers (h-index: 70) and two single-author books. After gaining his Ph. D. degree from Kyoto University in 1985, he became an assistant professor in the university. In 1996, he was promoted to an associate professor in Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University and was then awarded a full professor position in the Catalysis Research Center (presently Institute for Catalysis), Hokkaido University in 1998 and retired at the end of March 2022. He was awarded several times form the societies related to chemistry, photochemistry, electrochemistry and catalysis chemistry.

Dr. Matin has been a full professor in Stanford Medical School for several years and is affiliated with several programs, including the Stanford Cancer Research Institute; he elected to become emeritus, July 1, ‘21. His research contributions are numerous, including discovery of new drugs, therapeutic enzymes, and their improvement as well as their specific targeting to cancer (and other diseases). He did his Ph. D. at UCLA, spent some years in the Netherlands (State University of Groningen), where he directed a research group, before joining Stanford. He is recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Dr. Habil. Vaidotas KAŽUKAUSKAS is a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He was awarded Dr. Habil. degree in 1999. The topics of his research work are carrier transport, generation, recombination and trapping phenomena in advanced materials and structures for (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic applications. Prof. V. Kažukauskas is/was involved as a team leader into the six large-scale international projects and other numerous projects. He was awarded the National Science Award of Lithuanian Republic, the National Science Award for the Distinguished Scientist, the Science Award of the Rector of Vilnius University and others. V. Kažukauskas has more than 380 publications, had delivered more than 60 invited lectures at the international conferences, and authored three textbooks.

Dr. Yuhai Dou was graduated from University of Wollongong Australia in 2016, and is currently a Distinguished Professor in Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology. He was awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Taishan Scholar, Shandong Excellent Young Scientist (Oversea), Jinan “5150” Talent Program, and Distinguished Professor of Jinan. Dr. Dou’s research has been focused on the controlled synthesis and defect activation of atomically thin materials (ATMs) for energy conversion and storage. He has chaired 10 research projects as Chief Investigators with a total budget of 16.0 million CNY, and published 80 papers, attracting 5000 citations with an h-index of 36.

Prof. Vilas G. Pol is a Chemical Engineering Professor at Purdue University, USA. He authored/ co-authored >240 research publications (h index 53) and an inventor on 13 issued US patents and 25+ applications. Pol delivered hundreds of invited, keynote and plenary talks including ‘TEDx’. He is honored with ‘Argonne Scholar’, Intel prize, R and D 100 award, British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly award, American Chemical Society’s ‘Grand Prize’ and ‘Salutes to Excellence’ awards, Materials Research Society’s Science as Art first prize, American Institutes of Chemical Engineer’s ‘Sustainable Engineering Forum Research’, ‘Professional Achievement’ and ‘Excellence in Process Development’ awards, American Ceramic Society’s ‘Richard M. Fulrath’ award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s Best Energy Paper Award, and a Gold Medal in Kabaddi (DRDO, India). Purdue University honored him with Bravo, Outstanding Engineering Teacher (2019 and 2021), Seed for Success and Purdue Faculty Scholar awards. In 2018, Pol set a new ‘Guinness World Record’ for the fastest time to arrange 118 elements of the periodic table.

Yoshitaka Umeno is currently professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan.Prof. Umeno got his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2002 for his work of materials strength by means of the density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics calculations. While working as research associate and lecturer at Kyoto University for years,he was guest researcher at InstitutfürZuverlässigkeit von Bauteilen und Systemen, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany,from November 2004 to October 2005.He moved to the University of Tokyo in 2006.As the head of Nano-Micro Mechanophysics Lab., he has been working on numerical simulations to reveal fundamental mechanisms of materials strength (e.g. ideal strength) and functional aspects (e.g. ferroelectric instability in ultrathin capacitors) at the nano and microscopic levels. He has been also working on multiscale modeling and simulations for fracture of polymers and fatigue of metals.

Prof. Sandrine Gerber is, since 2007, Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC) and Head of the Group for Functionalized Biomaterials at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). She has solid broad knowledge in synthetic organic chemistry for the design and preparation of complex bioactive molecules. Her scientific expertise is related to the development of new chemical entities for bio-applications. The research activities of her group focus on the design, synthesis and evaluation of functionalized nanomaterials and biomaterials for therapeutic applications as carriers for gene delivery, cancer theranostic nanodevices and viral sensors. She manages several national and international multidisciplinary scientific projects. Sandrine Gerber received several awards for her research work, including the 2010 Werner Prize from the Swiss Chemical Society, and she was elected Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials in 2020.

Professor Pilar de la Cruz is researcher in Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials Institute at UCLM. She began her research career in the Department of Organic Chemistry I of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid, working in the Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Sulfur Polycyclic Derivatives of TCNQ and DCNQI: New Acceptor Molecules under the supervision of Profs. Drs. Carlos Seoane and Nazario Martín. Afterwards, she developed the work corresponding to his Doctoral Thesis that, under the direction of Dr. Fernando Langa de la Puente, was presented in November 1996 with the title Application of Microwave Energy in Organic Synthesis. She and obtained the maximum qualification of APTO LAUDE (1996). Subsequently, she made a postdoctoral stay, focused on the study of the reactivity of C59N and derivatives, from February 1997 to June 1997, at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in the group of Prof. Dr. Fred Wudl and from July 1997 to March 1998 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with the same group. She has participated in more than 15 research projects, national and regional, being Co-IP in 4 of them. All her research activity has given rise, so far, to 110 indexed publications, most of them in the first quartile of the corresponding area, and 9 book chapters, as well as numerous communications to congresses, both international and national. In addition, she has supervised five theses that obtained the highest grade.

Dr. Suckeveriene is head of the Water Industry Engineering Department and group leader, of the Laboratory of Polymers, Composites, and Nanocomposites at Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, specialized on polymers, composites and nanocomposites, including the preparation and characterization of such materials. He is also the CTO of Kinneret Innovation Center (KIC), and the CTO of CaleeTech (formerly known as Obvislim) startup. Ran is mentoring and advising several start-ups. Dr. Suckeveriene received his Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering (2012), M.Sc. (2008) and B.Sc. (2005) degrees in Chemical Engineering, all from the Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology. Ran has published more than 40 academic articles and patents. Also, ran is an editor and reviewer for several journals.

Dr. NattakanSoykeabkaew received her D.Phil. from Queen Mary, University of London in 2007 and continued to work as a postdoctoral researcher in 2008 before leaving the UK and went back to Thailand to resume her lecturer position at School of Science, Mae FahLuang University.Her current research interest includes1) Agricultural Waste and Biomass Utilization,2) Cellulose-Based Material, 3) Nanocellulose, 4) Nanocomposite, and 5) Sustainable Packaging. She is currentlyworking as the Head of the Center of Innovative Materials for Sustainability (iMatS) at Mae FahLuang University.

Dr. Hiroki Gonome received BS, MS and PhD degrees in engineering from Tohoku University, in 2009, 2011 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher, at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku Univ. From 2015 to 2017, he was a specially appointed lecturer, at Shibaura Institute of Technology. In 2017, he joined the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, as an assistant professor. In 2022, he was promoted to Associate Professor. His research interests include radiative heat transfer and biomimetics. He has received several academic awards including the Young Researchers Award (HTSJ, JSME, JSTP).

Jaylen James obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2022 after earning his Mechanical Engineering degree from Prairie View A&M University in 2017. His research focus is in the application of uncertainty quantification to material deformation. His work includes modeling the response of steel to sudden, high-speed impact by the fusion of existing models and interpreting 3D objects from 2D measurements, in a microstructure context, to predict fatigue life of Ti-6V-4V. Additionally, he has done work in optimizing processing conditions to obtain desired material properties and investigating the connection between images of microstructure to material properties using machine learning frameworks.

Prof. Kin Liao graduated with a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering Science from Virginia Tech.He had spent two years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Northwestern University as a visiting scientist before joining Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where he has served for more than a decade. He subsequently had taken up the position of professor of Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University of Science&Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Liao’s research interests are in nanomechanics and nanocomposites, and more recently focusing on novel two-dimensionalmaterials for energy and environmental applications. He has authored and co-authored more than 160 technical papers in leading international journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, and Applied Physics Letters. Prof. Liao is a Fellow of UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

She is a research fellow of BCAST at Brunel University London. She is working on the Lime Hub project. She is playing a leading role in the area of understanding heterogeneous nucleation mechanism and developing grain refiner for the Fe-containing intermetallic compounds in the recycled Al alloys. Her research interests lie in some other relative area such as multi-crystal transformation, in-situ solidification process. She developed a new approach to grain refine intermetallic compounds by interfacial segregating constitute elements of compounds. She developed a new concept of “composition templating” for heterogeneous nucleation of intermetallic compounds.

Smain FEMMAM is Director of research at the University of Haute-Alsace France and responsible of the Research team on Signals & Safety Systems of Polytechnic Engineers School Sceaux France. He received the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Signal Processing and Computers from Versailles University, France in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since 2013 he is promoted to a rank of senior director of research (HDR). After that, he joined the CMU Carnegie Mellon University & West Virginia University as Postdoc Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor. His main research area is signal processing, safety systems, communication and embedded systems. He has a strong interest in perception and characterization of signals, optimal filtering, spectral analysis, wavelets and perception haptics. Dr. Femmam is a senior member of IEEE, SEE and GDR ISIS. Member of IEEE C.A. committee France section. Board of Director of the Institute for Engineering and Technology Innovations in the World. He has guided numerous thesis projects, including some doctoral theses. He is active reviewer for several scientific academic journals and committee member of international conferences. He is the (Academic, Chief) Editor-in-Chief, Editor, Editorial Board, Guest Editor & Advisory Board members of more than 20 International Journals. He has authored and co-authored more tha

Sungwon Lee is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Chemistry, DGIST, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2011. He carried out his post-doctoral research at the University of Tokyo, Japan from 2012 to 2016. His research interests focus on extremely light, flexible, and bio-compatible devices and sensors that can monitor bio-information without human input. Ultra-flexible, sweat permeable devices for E-skin electronics and wearable devices that minimize discomfort during long term health monitoring are also part of his current research.

AMRANE Abdeltif (56 years old) Professor – Exceptional class, UMR CNRS 6226 ISCR, University of Rennes 1. (Google Scholar: h-index: 54; citations: 11325 // Scopus: hindex: 44; citations: 7872). 1998: Thesis Director Enabling Degree (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1991: PhD in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1988: Master (DEA) in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1987: Chemical Engineering Degree (USTHB – Algeria). Since approximately 15 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewater and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has managed 16 PhD theses as thesis director and 2 are in progress; he has also comanaged 24 PhD theses and 4 co-managements theses are in progress. He has been involved as a manager or a participant in several national and international projects, as well in international collaborations (Algeria, Belgium, Hungary, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia…). He has published more than 400 international papers including 15 papers in press. He is the co-Editor of three books (Elsevier). He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications.

Dr. Yuliang Mao Present Professor, School of Physics and Optoelectronic, Xiangtan University, China Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Post Doctor, CEA, Grenoble, France Post Doctor, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany

1989 Co-founder of Lithuanian -France Association,1991-untill nowMember of theLithuanian Academyof Sciences, Academician, 1991-2000 Director of theKaunas University of Technology (KTU) International Studies Centre, 1992-1996 Scientific Secretary of theKTUSenate, 1995-2000 NationalCoordinator of threeEuropeanTempus Phare Projects, from1996 Expert of EuropeanCommissionforFrameworkIV, V, VI and„Horizon 2020“ „Factories of theFuture“projectsevaluation, 1998-2003Chairman of International Scientific Conference“Vibroengineering”, 1999-2007NationalCoordinator of theSociety of AutomotiveEngineers (SAE), 200-2007 KTU Vice-RectorforResearch, 2000-2003 SwissScienceOfficer, 2001-2004 Member of theEuropean University Association (EUA) ResearchWorking Group, 2001-2006Member of theCouncil of Lithuanian KnowledgeSocietyForum, 2001-2005Member of theCouncil of Lithuanian EducationForum, 2001-2007 Member of theKTU SciencePark, Kaunas High and Information Technologies Park, Kaunas Technopolis, Kaunas Recreation and TourismParkCouncils, 2003-2007 Member of theKnowledgeSocietyCouncilunderthetwoPresidents of theRepublic of Lithuania, 2007-2014 Member of theLithuanian Engineering IndustryAssociation (LINPRA)Presidium, 2002-2005 Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Lithuanian Rectors Conference, 2003-2005 LocalCoordinator of European „Framework IV“EuroAtomproject , 2002-2008 Member of theFoundingCouncil of Kaunas Museum,2005-2013 Lithuania'sRepresentativeat NATO ScienceforPeace and Security and NATO-RussiaCommittees,2008-2010 Chairman of theNationalStateAward Technology Committee; 2011-2013 NationalRepresentative in theEuropeenResearchCouncil "Ideas" Committee, 2014-2017Member of the Scientific Board of theMinistry of NationalDefenceRespublic of Lithuania.

Tianzhuo Zhan is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science, Toyo University, Japan. He received his B.E. and M.E. degree from Beihang University, China and his Ph.D. degree from Kyushu University, Japan in 2012. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan from 2012 to 2017, he became a Junior Researcher in 2017, and a researcher in 2020at Waseda University.His research interests focus on nanoscale thermal transport, thermoelectric generators, thermal interface materials, and thermal management of microprocessors and power semiconductor devices.

Dr. Ankit Roy graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. program at Lehigh university, USA,in August, 2021. His work was on computational and experimental investigation of strengthening mechanisms in multi principal element alloys (MPEAs) inclusive of the high entropy alloys (HEAs). Dr. Roy used molecular dynamics (MD), DFT, machine learning (ML) combined with experiments to identify atomistic level phenomena that impart excellent properties to MPEAs at both room and high temperature. Currently Dr. Roy works for Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), USA, where he employs MD to assess the radiation damage on ceramics and metallic alloys. Dr. Roy hold several awards to his name, some of which include the best paper award for his 2020 Scripta Materialia work “Machine learned feature identification for predicting phase and Young's modulus of low-, medium-and high-entropy alloys” and the best dissertation award given to him by Lehigh University. Dr. Roy with his group, has published in several reputed journals like NPJ materials degradation, Acta Materialia and Scientific Reports during his Ph.D.

Dr. Guodong (David) Zhan is currently a Science Specialist and the Team Leader of the Advanced Drilling Tools team in Drilling Technology Division at the EXPEC Advanced Research Center, Saudi Aramco. Dr. Zhan is a world renowned materials scientist and drilling tools expert with an outstanding track record of advanced technologies from invention through to full commercialization such as “indestructible” PDC cutter technology. With over30 years of experience in industrial R&D and managerial positions, Dr Zhan’s influence spans academia and industry, from internationally renowned universities and laboratories such as the University of London, University California at Davis, University of Colorado at Boulder, National Institute for Materials Science in Japan, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, to global Fortune 500 companies such as Schlumberger and Applied Materials. Dr Zhan has received a number of prestigious academic and industrial awards such as World Oil Award, Global Energy Show Award and World IoT Award. He serves as many international conference section chairman and technical committee member in professional societies (SPE and MRS) and is a board member of a number of scientific journals. Dr. Zhan has published more than 200 technical publications such as Nature Materials and holds more than 130 filed/granted US patents with a citation of more than 5,200 and an H-index of 37.

Dr Guangyu Liu received his PhD in Materials Science in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST) at Brunel University London, in 2019. Since then, he has been working as a research fellow at the same institute. Prior to his PhD, he received his master’s and bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Central South University, China. His current research focuses on the development of lightweight metals and composites by various casting techniques including the sand casting, high pressure die casting (HPDC), direct chill (DC) casting, and thermo-mechanical processing approaches for automotive and electric vehicle applications. He is presently co-investigating two EU research projects, i.e., H2020 LIGHTME and FLAMINGo. Both are about the manufacturing of aluminium metal matrix nanocomposites (AMMnCs) with ultrasound-assisted liquid metal processing technologies.

Nilson C Cruz received the PhD degree in Science from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 1999. Since 2003 he is teaching at Univ Est Paulista. He has authored or co-authored about 150 papers and his scientific work is mainly devoted to surface modifications by PECVD, Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation and Deposition, Dielectric Barrier Discharges, and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation.

Dr Yuanfei Han is anAssociateProfessor at Materials Science and Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph. D in Materials Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, in 2013 and worked as a visiting scholar at Monash University, Australia. After that, he joined the State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites and has been working as postdoc research fellow for 2 years. Currently, his research interests are focused on additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy for nonferrous alloys, especially on titanium alloys and titanium matrix composites, aiming to gain a better understanding of these materials and to explore their potential applications in engineering.

She is the Director of Research and Development Division of Renewable Energy at the Institution of Scientific and Technological Research for Defense (CITEDEF), Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Her research interests include alkaline water electrolyzers, PEM fuel cells and conductometric titrations. She is Head Professor at the Engineer Faculty of the Army Div. Grl. Manuel Nicolás Savio, in charge of the subjects Organic Chemistry, Organic Synthesis and Solids and Colloidal Chemistry. Prof. Lavorante is a member of the Argentina Chemistry Association and the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences. She has been reviewer of different manuscripts to be presented in International Conferences

Professor Marco Javier Suárez Barón received the MsC degree in Information management from The Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito in 2012; and PhD Degree in strategic planning and technology management at UPAEP-Mexico in 2016. He worked in ECI University-Colombia and UPAEP Mexico. He is associate professor at UPTC Colombia. His research focuses are: Machine learning, AI, Deep learning. He has published more than 100 indexed papers and conference proceedings. Dr Suarez Barón is research associate at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia. He serves on the editorial board of numerous technology journals.

Hadiseh Alaeian got her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Stanford University in 2015. After her graduation, she moved to the University of Bonn in Germany as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in 2016 to work on Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical cavity. During 2017-2020 she was a group leader in the Integrated Quantum Science and Technology center in Max Planck Institute of solid-state systems and the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her interdisciplinary research interest is at the interface of atomic physics, quantum optics, and Nano-photonics. There, she aims to utilize strongly-interacting photons for studying many-body quantum phenomena. Hadiseh is the recipient of the silver graduate award from the Materials Research Society of America in 2015, the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship in 2016, and the early researcher award from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Germany in 2018 and 2019.

Dr. Mouni Roy has earned her Ph.D degree and performed her thesis work in CSIR CGCRI, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Her thesis work was majorly focused on synthesis of cost-effective mesoporous transitional metal oxides semiconductors for its application towards water remediation. She has gained more than two years of post PhD research experience while working in repute Indian Institutes, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Currently, she is associated with Banasthali Vidyapith, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. She is mainly teaching courses related to Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and General Chemistry, to Masters and Bachelors students, there. She is also well trained in executing online teaching programs. Along with teaching she is engaged in research activities too. Recently she is interested in working on advanced materials and their application. Two PhD student are currently working and three M.Sc. students has completed their dissertation work under her guidance. She has published one book chapter and thirteen research papers in well reputed international journals. Dr. Roy has also completed a Sponsored DST-SERB-NPDF Project (No. PDF/2017/000390) on Nano porous Transition Metal Based Semiconductors towards Catalysis and in Electrochemical Applications, as sole PI. Apart from this she has presented her research work in many national and international conferences. Currently, she is associated with two international journals as editorial board members. She had attended several training-based programs as well as achieved few national awards.

Muhammad Habibis currently a research fellow at Central South University China. His current research interest includes lead-free ceramics for high temperature piezoelectric sensors and actuators.Hereceived the MSc degree in Physics from University Peshawar, in 2013 and MPhildegree in Physics from University of Peshawar KP Pakistan in 2016. In 2020 he received PhD degree in Material Science and Engineering from Changwon National University, Republic of Korea under the supervision of Professor Tae Kwon Song.

Dr. Brahim Benyahia is a Reader in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is currently leading key activities in several national and international research consortia including the Future Manufacturing Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallization (CMAC HUB), the Digital Medicines Manufacturing Research Centre, and SusPharma. He has a well-established expertise in Integrated End-to-End Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Quality-by-Design, Industrial Digital Technologies, as well as plant-wide modelling optimization and control. He played a key role in the development of the first End-to-End Integrated Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Platform at MIT, USA (a $65 M Novartis-MIT project). He was the recipient and corecipient of several awards including the MIT’s Outstanding Contribution Award and the Council for Chemical Research Collaboration Awards.

Antonio Riul Jr holds bachelor and M.Sc degrees 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 experiences at the University of Wales (1998 - 2000), Embrapa/CNPDIA (2000 - 2002), and the University of Texas at Dallas (2018 - 2019). He has been working with the nano-engineering of interfaces since his master's degree and started applying then in sensors from a postdoctoral experience under Prof. David Martin Taylor (Bangor University – UK). One of these attempts (Langmuir, 2002, 18, 239) had a significant impact on both the public and scientific milieu after a flattering note in Nature, known as impedimetric electronic tongue. Further developments allowed the deposition of 1 international and 3 national patents, 1 software development, papers in specialized journals, the São Paulo State Governor Prize – 2001 Brazilian invention category granted by SEDAI, two documentaries on the Discovery Channel, a vote of applause in the Brazilian Federal Senate, and extensive dissemination in national and international media. He explored the 3D printing technique to integrate e-tongue systems into microfluidic devices, simplifying procedures and extending the use to applications such as soil analysis. Nowadays, he is focusing on multifunctional coatings formed by self-healing, conductive nanocomposites, with some results coming up with a simplified, attractive thin film transistor configuration where the film acts simultaneously as the insulator and channel, in collaboration with Prof. Henrique L. Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal). He is currently investigating layer-by-layer (LbL) assemblies as hybrid all-solid-state supercapacitors displaying high energy and power densities. The absence of liquid electrolytes in LbL-based hybrid supercapacitors expands potential applications as it eliminates complex kinetic reactions, leakage, and increasing structural weight problems.

Dr. Hitesh Panchal obtained his Ph.D. in Solar Thermal Engineering in 2015 from KSV University Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department in Government Engineering College Patan. Dr. Panchal has published 150 plus Research papers in reputed International Journal publications like Taylor and Francis, Springer, Elsevier, ASME, etc., and received 5800 plus Google scholar citations with H index 49 and I10 index 129. Dr. Panchal obtained 28 prestigious awards includes Tech GURU Award, Pedagogical Innovation Award, SSIP Prashansha Award, Preeminent Researcher Award, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Young Scientist Award, Bright Researchers Award, and many more. Dr. Panchal has completed 2 Research projects from GUJCOST and SYST, DST, and is currently working on a Research project under STEM grant, Education Department, Government of Gujarat. Dr Panchal filed 26 Full patents and 12 Industrial designs, and among them, two full patents and five industrial designs had granted. His areas of interest include “Solar Desalination, I C Engine emission analysis, Automobile engineering, etc. Dr. Panchal selected in the Top 2 % Indian scientist in Energy Category published by Stanford University & Elsevier during 2020 and 2021.

Dr. Sutapa Roy Ramanan is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. She obtained her Ph.D in Material Science from Jadavpur University India in 1995. Subsequently she was a faculty at the School of Materials and Mineral Resource Engineering, UniversitiSains Malaysia for 7 years before returning to India and joining BITS Pilani Goa. She has actively pursued research in different areas of Material science and engineering working in transparent conducting oxides, semiconductor packaging materials, perovskite materials guiding Ph.D students. For the last 12 years she has focused her research in the area of hydroxyapatite based nanomaterials for biological and biomedical applications. She has published over 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and continues to actively pursue her research in nanoscience and technology.

Mrs Linda Dyorisse NYAMEN is an Associate Professor at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She obtained her PhD degree in 2013 in Coordination Chemistry/Material Science. She is involved in the synthesis of coordination compounds and their use as single source precursors for the preparation of metal sulphide nanomaterials for potential application as photocatalysts for the degradation of organic pollutants, as antimicrobials for wastewater treatment, and in photovoltaics. Her research group obtained in 2014 the Royal Society- DFID Grant to synthesize nanomaterials for solar energy application. She obtained in 2019 the TWAS-DFG Postgraduate Fellowship to investigate the In-situ characterization of the formation of cadmium sulphide nanoparticles, at the University of Kiel, Germany. In 2020, she obtained the OWSD Early Career Women Scientists grant to develop functionalized nano-photocatalysts for the treatment of industrial wastewaters. She is currently the Vice President of the OWSD Cameroon National Chapter. She has co-authored several articles and is member of learning societies. She is also involved in mentorship programmes.

Juan José Encinas Cantaro, He was born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. Session Chair and participant of the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference-IEOM 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He received a certificate for attendance and presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing-ICIMA 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019 in Cusco, Peru. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019 in Lima, Peru. He with experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.