Dr. Richard J. Spontak is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Alumni Distinguished Graduate and Undergraduate Professor at North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering (with honors/high distinction) from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and was later awarded the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. He then pursued post-doctoral research in Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and Condensed Matter Physics at the Institute for Energy Technology (Norway) before joining the Corporate Research Division of The Procter & Gamble Company in 1990. In 1992, he accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University, where he supervises the Macromolecular Materials & Morphology Group. Since that time, Spontak has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 35 scholarly works as book chapters and invited monographs, and his work has been featured on 31 journal covers and cited over 14,000 times according to Google Scholar (as of November 2021). Although active in a diverse range of disciplines, his primary research interests relate to the phase behavior and morphology/property development of nanostructured polymers, polymer nanocomposites and coatings, electron microscopy, and stimuli-responsive soft materials. In recognition of his fundamental and applied research endeavors, he is the recipient of numerous honors and awards such as the Alcoa Foundation Engineering Achievement and Distinguished Engineering Research Awards, Alexander von Humboldt and Tewkesbury fellowships, the North Carolina State University Alumni Outstanding Research and Global Engagement Awards, the 2006 American Chemical Society (PMSE Division) Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science & Engineering, the 2007 German Society for Electron Microscopy Ernst Ruska Prize, the 2008 American Chemical Society (Rubber Division) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award, the 2011 Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3) Colwyn Medal, the 2012 Norwegian University of Science & Technology Lars Onsager Medal, the 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers International Award, the 2021 Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2021 International Association of Advanced Materials Researcher of the Year Award. An elected fellow of the American Physical Society, IOM3, and the Royal Society of Chemistry, he is or has been on the editorial advisory board of more than 20 international journals and holds editorial positions on three of them. He has been recognized as a 2007 Outstanding Scholar Alumnus and a 2012 Alumni Fellow by the Pennsylvania State University, and he is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the North Carolina State University Research Leadership, Global Engagement and Outstanding Teaching Academies.

After graduated from Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University at 1960, Qiu-he Peng was a teacher at Peking University for 18 years and then is teaching at Nanjing University. Q.Peng is mainly engaged in nuclear astrophysics , particle astrophysics and galactic astronomy research. In the field of nuclear astrophysics, Peng’s researches involve neutron stars (pulsars), the supernova explosion mechanism and the thermonuclear reaction inside the star, the synthesis of heavy elements and interstellar radioactive element such as the origin of celestial 26Al. 235 papers of him have be published。 In recent 10 years, his works are mainly on the astrophysics with both particle physics and condensed matter physics.

Chi WU, Ph.D., Director, The Research Center for Food Science and Processing in the Shenzhen University; Wei Lun Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Honorary Professor of Physics in the Chinese University of Hong Kong; In 1982, he graduated from Chemical Physics in the University of Science and Technology of China. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1987 and then remaining as a postdoctoral both under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Chu in the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he moved to BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) in 1989: first as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow for one year to do research works under the supervision of Dr. Dieter Horn; and then as a permanently hired staff to supervise the laser light-scattering laboratory in the Dispersion Group, the Department of Solid Stat and Polymer Physics. In 1992, he resigned from BASF to join the Department of Chemistry in the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Lecturer (British System); underwent a double promotion to Reader in 1996; became a Professor of Chemistry in 1999 and an Honorary Professor of Physics in 2003; and was further appointed as a Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry in 2010. For his significant contributions in profound understanding of conformation, dynamics and phase transition of macromolecular chains in solutions, Professor Chi Wu was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and 2003, respectively. His research specialty is to combine synthetic chemistry, polymer physics and molecular biology to design and execute decisive experiments to address certain important problems in biology, macromolecules and polymer colloids, including the development of non-viral vectors for gene and molecular medicines; the nucleation of protein-protein aggregation in neuron-degenerative diseases; the stress-induced stem cell differentiation and its biomedical applications; the design, synthesis and self-assembly of functional macromolecules; the structure and dynamics of polymer solutions and gel networks; and molecular characteristic properties of intractable and special polymers. His current research interests have been extended to food science and processing, especially profound processing of soy proteins. For details: http://chiwu.chem.cuhk.edu.hk

Alexander G. Ramm was born in Russia, emigrated to USA in 1979 and is a US citizen. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics with broad interests in analysis, scattering theory, inverse problems, theoretical physics, engineering, signal estimation, tomography, theoretical numerical analysis and applied mathematics. He is an author of 718 research papers, 20 research monographs and an editor of 3 books. He has lectured at many Universities throughout the world, gave more than 150 invited and plenary talks at various Conferences and had supervised 11 Ph.D students. He was Fulbright Research Professor in Israel and Ukraine; distinguished visiting professor in Mexico and Egypt; Mercator Professor in Germany; Research Professor in France; invited plenary speaker at the 7-th PACOM; he won Khwarizmi international award in 2004 and received other honors. A.G.Ramm was the first to prove uniqueness of the solution to inverse scattering problems with fixed-energy scattering data; the first to prove uniqueness of the solution to inverse scattering problems with non-over-determined scattering data and the first to study inverse scattering problems with under-determined scattering data. He studied inverse scattering problems for potential scattering and for scattering by obstacles. He solved many specific inverse problems and developed new methods and ideas in the area of inverse scattering problems. He introduced the notion of Property C for a pair of differential operators and applied Property C for one-dimensional and multi-dimensional inverse scattering problems. A. G. Ramm solved many-body wave scattering problem when the bodies are small particles of arbitrary shapes, assuming that a  d  λ, where a is the characteristic size of the particles, d is the minimal distance between neighboring particles, and λ is the wavelength in the material in which the small particles are embedded. Multiple scattering is essential under these assumptions. He used this theory to give a recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient and materials with a desired wave-focusing property. These results attracted attention of the scientists working in nanotechnology. A. G. Ramm gave formulas for the scattering amplitude for scalar and electromagnetic waves by small bodies of arbitrary shapes and analytical formulas for the polarizability tensors for these bodies. A. G. Ramm gave a solution to the Pompeiu problem, proved the Schiffer’s conjecture and gave many results about symmetry problems for PDE, including first symmetry results in harmonic analysis. A. G. Ramm has developed the Dynamical Systems Method (DSM) for solving linear and nonlinear operator equations, especially ill-posed. These results were used numerically and demonstrated practical efficiency of the DSM. A. G. Ramm developed random fields estimation theory for a wide class of random fields. A. G. Ramm has developed a theory of convolution equations with hyper-singular integrals and solved analytically integral equations with hyper-singular kernels. These results he applied to the study of the NSP (Navier-Stokes problem) and resulted in a solution to the millennium problem concerning the Navier-Stokes equations. A. G. Ramm formulated and proved the NSP paradox which shows the contradictory nature of the NSP and the non-existence of its solution on the interval t ∈ [0, ∞) for the initial data v0(x) 6≡ 0 and f(x, t) = 0. A. G. Ramm has introduced a wide class of domains with non-compact boundaries. He studied the spectral properties of the Schr¨odinger operators in this class of such domains and gave suffient conditions for the absence of eigenvalues on the continuous spectrum of these operators. A. G. Ramm developed the theory of local, pseudolocal and geometrical tomography. He has proved a variety of the results concerning singularities of the Radon transform and developed multidimensional algorithms for finding discontinuities of signals from noisy discrete data.

Dr. Daoud is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his PhD in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Daoud’s current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to find storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modelling and design of compatible flow batteries. He has received international renown and several awardsforhispioneering research on wearable solar and kinetic energy harvesting technologies.His researchhas featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews by major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015) SCMP (2017),Physics World (2021) and PV Magazine (2022).He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronicsand Editorial Board member of the Journal of Power Sources Advances.

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 nearly 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals and 15 patents, he has appeared in recent World ranking of top 1% scientists, such as 2020-Stanford and 2022-Research.com.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 111; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.

Prof. Valtencir Zucolotto is a Full Professor at São Carlos Physics Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and coordinator of the Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group (GNano). He was Visiting Professor at University of Valladolid, Spain, in 2006, and at the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, in 2010. His main scientific interests are focused on Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology, more specifically in the development of nanocomposites for Cancer diagnosis and therapy, and of highly sensitive biosensors (immuno- and genosensors) for infectious diseases and cancer diagnosis. Nanotoxicology studies at Prof. Zucolotto´s group comprise in vitro and in vivo analyses to evaluate the impact exhibited by nanomaterials on health, agriculture and environment. Prof. Zucolotto´s has authored more than 200 international, peer- reviewed papers, 20 book chapters and 30 patent filings. He also delivered more than 450 invited talks on Nanomedicine and Scientific Writing. He has mentored dozens of graduate students and supervised more than 60 postdocs. Prof Zucolotto´s publications received more than 5800 citations, granting an H-factor of (44, 46,53) (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar).

Prof. Oleg Figovsky is the founder and R&D the Polymate Ltd. - International Nanotechnology Research Centre where he is working on research in nanostructured corrosion-resistant composite materials and protective coatings based on a polymer and silicate matrix. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Head of the UNESCO Chair "Green Chemistry". For his inventions in nanotechnologies he was awarded gold and silver medals at IENA-98 and Gold Angel Prize at the Genius 2006 exhibition.

Omar Chaalal is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Abu Dhabi University (ADU). Chaalal is an internationally renowned expert in the separation technologies. He is the inventor of the EnPro Process that deals with the sequestration of carbon dioxide and global warming reduction. He has undertaken several successful research related to CO2 cleaning in Natural Gas and subsequently two patents applications have been filed for the use of this technology. The benefits of these patents were, in addition to the environmental benefits, used in the treatment of large quantities of desalinated formation water in the oil field. Chaalal has pioneered among others the use of seawater and ammonia to reduce the effect of carbon dioxide on the environment. Recently, 2020-2022, professor Chaalal supervised the testing of Tritonite and conducted works on the strength, the permeability, the workability, air content, water absorption and heat conduction for concrete when the chemical tritonite is added. Professor Chaalal was the Chief Scientist of Enpro As. Norway, a member of Al Mobdioon Center of Excellence and innovation of King Abdul Aziz University (Saudi Arabia), an Advisory Board of IIB environmental Company in Japan and a member of the board of several scientific journals. He has authored 150 refereed publications, 2 European patents and 1 US patent and 250 presentations.

Jamal Davoodi was born in Iran in 1969. He received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from the Tabriz University, M. Sc. degree in Condensed mater Physics from Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciencesand Ph. D. degrees in Solid State Physics from Isfahan University. Jamal Davoodi is a Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Zanjan. He is a member of IranianNanotechnology Society, also member of The Physics Society of Iran. His research interests areStudies of condensed phase systems based on molecular dynamics simulation, thermal and mechanical properties of materials in nano, micro and macro scales, advanced methods in Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Nanostructures.

Professor Tong Lin obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1998. He is currently a Tiangong University professor and the Founding Director of the Institute for Nanofiber Intelligent Manufacture and Applications. Prof Lin has a broad research interest in functional fibers/fabrics, electrospinning, nanofibers, polymer materials, and novel energy materials. He has been an active researcher, contributing to developing innovative materials and techniques, such as coil electrospinning for large-scale nanofiber manufacture, durable and self-healing superwetting surfaces, and unique energy-harvesting nanofibers, high-temperature piezoelectric polymers, and direct-current nanogenerators. His research has resulted in over 310 articles in prestigious journals, 16 books, and 19 book chapters

Dr. Francisco Bulnes received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from IM/UNAM, 2004. He is the Director of International Advanced Research in Mathematics and Engineering Centre in Mexico (IINAMEI), 2015-Actually. Editor-in-Chief of two Journals of Mathematics, one of USA, and others in India. Dr. Bulnes is a Member of various international committees of science, reviewer of British journals of mathematics and physics indexed in SCOPUS. Dr. Bulnes is Head of Research Department, TESCHA, 2009-. He has written numerous papers (more than 100) or articles in mathematics and physics research journals, and he is the author of more than twenty books (math monographs and specialized book chapters in theoretical physics and advanced electronics research). Dr. Bulnes is recognized and famous in East Europe, Asia, Arab continents. He has many theories, theorems, Math Objects with his name. He has received various Doctor Honoris Causa by universities and NGO’s, likewise, GO’s. His Biography has been included in numerous archives of great mathematicians and also the GMW book, published in the IBC, Cambridge, UK. Dr. Bulnes is also a distinguished member (JCFM) of the Czech Republic Mathematics Society. He obtained two Post-doctorates in Cuba and Russia in mathematics

Sanjeev Kumar Raghuwanshi (M’12, SM’19) received the Bachelor’s degree in electronic and instrumentation engineering from S.G.S.I.T.S. Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India and the Master’s degree in Solid State Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in Aug. 1999 and Jan. 2002, respectively. Since July 2009, he has been obtained PhD degree in the field of optics from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India. He is an Associate Professor in Electronics Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. He was the Post-Doctoral Research Fellow during 2014-2015 at Instrumentation and Sensor Division, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London, Northampton Square, London. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed and indexed International SCI Journal papers in the last 10 years. He has been published 6 books on contemporary optical fiberdomain. Since last 5 years 6 Indian patents have been filed and published. He has been sanctioned and executed several R&D projects from different central Government funding agencies including, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India (GOI), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) GOI,Council of scientific and Industrial research organization (CSIR) GOI etc. He served as reviewer of Journals like IEEE-Transactions on measurement and instrumentation, IEEE sensor journal, IEEE photonics technology letter, IEEE Quantum electronics to mention few. He is editorial board members and reviewers of several Indian journals. He receipts the Erusmus Mundus Scholarship for his Post Doc study. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), Life member of IETE, senior member of IEEE (USA) and a Life Member of the International Academy of Physics Sciences.

Dr. JieshanQiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China, and Dean of Chemical Engineering College at BUCT. He is an internationally-recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published over 700 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Nano Today, etc., with a citation over 31000 times and an H-index of 86 (web of sci.). He has a strong record of innovation - with over 140 Chinese and International patents issued. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Associate Editor of the CIESC Journal, and is on the advisory board of 22 high-profile journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, and Science China Materials. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 in the field of chemical engineering in China, and 2019 Top 1% highly cited author in the field of energy & sustainability in 2019 in China by the Royal Society of Chemistry of the UK. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including Carbon, FlatChem, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Bing-Huei Chen, male, food scientist, received his Ph.D. degree in Food Science & Technology, Texas A & M University, USA in 1988. His postgraduate career includes working at Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan as Associate Professor from 1988–1994, Professor from 1994–2004, Distinguished Chair Professor from 2003–present, Chair of Department of Nutrition and Food Science from 1994-2000, Director of Graduate Institute of Medicine from 2006–2009, and Dean of College of Human Ecology from 2012–2015. He specializes in Lipid Chemistry, Pigment Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, Food Toxicology, Functional Food and Botanical Drug Development and Biological Activity Determination as well as Nanotechnology. Until now he has published 215 research articles in internationally renowned journals and authored 11 book chapters in edited books published by International Publishers. He has received numerous awards including the prestigious National Invention Gold Medal Award by Ministry of Economics, Taiwan in 2018 and was honored with Outstanding Research Scientist by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He was also honored with International Outstanding Inventor of Biotechnology by Taiwan Inventor Association/International Innovation and Invention Alliance Association in 2019 and Distinguished Professor by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China in 2015. Most importantly, Prof.Chen has developed a nano-product “Lycopene Chylomicron”, which has completed a phase III clinical trial in both Taiwan and USA in 2017 and demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of patients with prostatauxe syndrome. Expectedly, this product will become the first botanic drug in the world for treatment of patients with prostatauxe syndrome without side effect. In 2020, the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), a European organization has honored him with IAAM Scientist Award 2020 for his contribution to the advancement of science and technology. At the same year he was also honored with Vebleo Fellow. Also, he has been rated as the top 2% scientists in the world in 2021 by Elsevier Publishers/Stanford University. More recently, the IAAM has conferred him with the Fellow of IAAM (FIAAM) for his contribution to Nanomaterials–Physics, Chemistry and Biology. He also serves as Editor-in-Chiefof the journal “Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition and Agriculture” and Associate Editor of 2 journals “Journal of Food & Drug Analysis” and “Asian Science Bulletin”. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of 140 journals. Currently he is the President of Professors Association, Taiwan and was the Past President of AOAC Taiwan section from 2016-2018.

Dr. Ahmed A. Elngar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Egypt. Dr. Elngar is also, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computer Information Technology, American University in the Emirates, United Arab Emirates. Also, Dr. AE is Adjunct Professor at School of Technology, Woxsen University, India.Dr. AE is the Founder and Head of the Scientific Innovation Research Group (SIRG). Dr. AE is a Director of the Technological and Informatics Studies Center (TISC), Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University. Dr. AE has more than 106 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and over 25 books covering such diverse topics as data mining, intelligent systems, social networks, and smart environment. Dr. AE is a collaborative researcher He is a member of the Egyptian Mathematical Society (EMS) and International Rough Set Society (IRSS). His other research areas include the Internet of Things (IoT), Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence. Big Data, Authentication, Cryptology, Healthcare Systems, Automation Systems. He is an Editor and Reviewer of many international journals around the world. Dr. AE won several awards including the Young Researcher in Computer Science Engineering”, from Global Outreach Education Summit and Awards 2019, on 31 January 2019 (Thursday) in Delhi, India. Also, he awards the Best Young Researcher Award (Male) (Below 40 years)”, Global Education and Corporate Leadership Awards (GECL-2018), Plot No-8, Shivaji Park, Alwar 301001, Rajasthan.

Sergey Ivashov, PhD, graduated from Space Research faculty, Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, with honors in 1972; as post-graduate student he had successfully submitted the thesis for a PhD degree in 1975. He worked as a scientific researcher in rocket industry of the USSR in 1975-1977. Since 1977 up to 2000 he had been working in the Central Scientific and Research Institute of Radio & Electronic systems, Moscow, as a senior scientific fellow and thereafter he had been promoted for a head of Laboratory. From January 2001 up to now he is the head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow. His latest research relates to NDT&E of thermal insulation of rocket cryogenic fuel tanks by holographic radar. Other scientific interests are connected with holographic subsurface radar design and its applications for searching of bugging devices and civil construction engineering. His latest research is related to the use of microwave holography to examine cultural heritage objects. Under his leadership, the RASCAN-5 holographic subsurface radar was developed and put into serial production, which is sold to many countries of the world. The air reconnaissance of mine fields and development of radar sensors for mine’s detection related to humanitarian demining operations are also included in area of his scientific interests.

Dr. J. C. Tarafdar did his M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Post Doctorate from Institute of Agricultural Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. He has made original and well recognized contribution on mobilization of native phosphorus. He has developed an in-vivo filter paper technique for phosphatase estimation. He is successfully developed biosynthesized nano nutrients and nano induced polysaccharide powder for agricultural use. He also developed a sequential P fractionation scheme and a rapid method for assessment of plant residue quality. Dr. Tarafdar has pioneered in finding out the origin of different phosphatase fractions and also developed a potential biological indicator. His developed notable other techniques are: Visual demonstration technique of germinating AM spore, Soil solarization technique for mass scale production of AM fungi, Freeze-drying technique to understand nutrient movement and Electrofoccusing technique to demonstrate the origin of enzymes. Dr. Tarafdar has published 379 research articles in national and international journals which include 42 book chapters and five books. He has four patents and 73 new organisms in his credit. He has to his credits >8600 citations and 44 h-index. Dr. Tarafdar has been placed amongst the top 2% scientists, across all sciences in the world, by Stanford University, USA.

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 340 scientific publications. He is a member of Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy)as well as American Physical Society (USA). Research Interest Current research interests include various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics of imperfect structures; more particularly - theoretical study of the dispersion of electromagnetic excitations in non-ideal lattices of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots.