Dr. Zhongwei Chen is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Professor in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Director of Waterloo Center for Electrochemical Energy, Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Vice President of International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES).

He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Brasília (1977), a degree in Chemistry from the University of Brasília (1976), a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Brasília (1980), a PhD in Physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1986) and a postdoctoral degree. by Bell Communications Research (1987-1988). Full Professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Brasília until 2013. Emeritus Professor at the University of Brasília (2014). Professor at Universidade Católica de Brasília since August 2018. He has experience in the area of ​​Condensed Matter Physics, working mainly in nanomaterials (magnetic nanoparticles; magnetic fluids; magnetoliposomes; magnetic nanocapsules; magnetic nanoemulsions and magnetic nanocomposites).

Kazuko Matsumoto graduated and got Ph D from the University of Tokyo. After working as a research associate at the same chemistry department, she moved to Waseda University as associate professor in1984 and was promoted to full professor in 1989. Her major research interests are (i) Luminescent lanthanide complexes and their applications to biotechnology and energy conversion. (ii) Purification and surface modification of nanodiamond for luminescent material. After she retired from Waseda University, she joined Honda Foundation as Executive Director, continuing her research work.

Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang, PhD. Fellow, IAPR, ISIBM, IETI and IEEE & ISIBM Outstanding Achievement Awardee, Tenured Full Professor, Northeastern University, USA, iCORE (Informatics Circle of Research Excellence) Visiting Professor, M I T , H a r v a r d , University of Calgary, Canada, Otto-Von- Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, Magdeburg University, Germany, Zijiang Visiting Chair, ECNU, Shanghai, China, as well as honorary advisory professor of many key universities in China, including Sichuan University, Xiamen University, East China Normal University, Shanghai, and Guangxi Normal University, Guilin. Prof. Wang received his BSEE from National Chiao Tung University (Jiaotong University), MSEE from National Taiwan University, MSICS from Georgia Institute of Tech, and PhD, CS, Oregon State U.

Biography Kwon Young-Uk: Professor in Department of Chemistry and SAINT, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea; Dean of College of Science; Director of HRD Center for Creative Convergent Chemical Sciences; Managing editor of NANO (SCIE journal). He got his bachelor degree from Seoul National University in 1984, and Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1991. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the prestigious Bell Labs in the United States from 1991 to 1992, and as a visiting prof in University of California at Santa Barbara (1999–2000) and University of Namur in Belgium (2008-2009). He has served as the chairman of Chemistry Department of Sungkyunkwan University, organizing committee member of Asian Chemical Congress, member of Korea Science Engineering Foundation, and International Materials Management Society (IMMS). Professor Kwon is mainly engaged in many fields such as mesoporous materials, photoelectric materials, electrocatalysis and so on. Up to now, more than 170 high-level SCI papers have been published, including Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Angew. Chem., and other high quality papers.

Hen Friman holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees from Bar-Ilan University. His master's thesis investigated the effect of Cyt1Aa on prokaryotes, and his Ph.D. research focused on energy production from aromatic chemical degradation of bacteria Using "Bio-Fuel Cells". Since 2012, Dr. Friman is research and lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently the academic director at the Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Excellence Center at the HIT - Holon Institute of Technology.

Born in 1949 in Armenia in the family of teachers. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Yerevan State University on a specialty "theoretical and mathematical physics." After graduation he worked as a lecturer at various universities of Armenia (Vanadzor, Gyumri, Yerevan). The researchs devoted to the theoretical study of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with low-dimensional semiconductor structures. He is the author of more than ninety scientific publications.

Itamar Raz, MD, received his medical degree from the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem in 1980. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, is a full professor of Internal Medicine and has been the Head of the Diabetes Unit at Hadassah University Hospital since 2000. Prof. Raz is currently serving as head of the Israeli National Council of Diabetes which is responsible for formulating national policies regarding diabetes. In addition, Prof. Raz is President of D-Cure, a non-profit organization that promotes and funds scientific research in Israel for finding a cure and better treatments for diabetes. In the past he served as president of the Israel Diabetes Association from 1992-2004.

Junko Habasaki is senior scientist II at Schrödinger K.K., Japan. She graduated in chemistry from Tokyo University of Education, Japan, in 1977 and obtained her PhD in chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1984. She was an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and an invited professor of physics at Université de Lille 1, France (2007–2008). Dr. Habasaki retired from Tokyo Institute of Technology in March 2020. Her research focuses on the dynamics and structures of glasses, ionic liquids, and related systems using molecular dynamics simulations. She is a coauthor of the award-winning book Dynamics of Glassy, Crystalline and Liquid Ionic Conductors and also a technical committee member of the International Commission on Glass, TC27: Atomistic Simulation.

Farah JEMILI had the Engineer degree in Computer Science in 2002 and the Ph.D degree in 2010. She is currently Assistant Professor at Higher Institute of Computer Science and Telecom of Hammam Sousse (ISITCOM), University of Sousse, Tunisia. She is a senior Researcher at MARS Laboratory(ISITCOM–Tunisia). Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Big Data Analysis, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems. She served as reviewer for many international conferences and journals. She has many publications; 6 book chapters, 6 journal publications and more than 20 conference papers.

She is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of ABC and a collaborating researcher at the State University of Campinas. She has experience in the field of Pharmacology, with an emphasis on Biochemical Pharmacology, Biopharmaceuticals and Systems for controlled drug delivery (liposomes, cyclodextrins and polymeric gels). She works mainly on the following topics: local anesthetics, opioid analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anesthesia, analgesia.

1986, PhD (Optics), Kazan State University, Russia 2000, DoctSc (Optics and Laser Physics), Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine. Full-time professor of Department of Correlation optics of Chernivtsi University. Author/coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications (mainly in singular optics, statistical optics and holography). Medal named after D.S.Rozhdestvenskogoof the Russian Optical Society. Vice President of The Ukraine Society of Pure and Applied Optics, Ukrainian Branch of EOS Senior Member of OSA since 2017. 8 PhD dissertations were performed under my scientific governing. Areas of Technical Specialization: Singular optics,optical tweezers,statistical optics,holography, optical data processing.

Lingai LUO received her Bachelor’s (1982) and Master’s (1984) degrees in thermal energy engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. She received her Ph.D. degree (1991) in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. She worked as assistant professor (1991-1993) at INPL, as associate professor (1993-1996) at University of Nancy I, and at INPL (1996-2003). From 2003 until 2012 she was a professor at University of Savoie, France. She is now senior research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the laboratory of thermo-kinetics, Nantes (LTN), France.

Alexander Bagaturyants Russian Academy of Sciences | RAS · Photochemistry Center Professor, Dr. Sci. in Physical Chemistry Multiscale atomistic simulations of organic nanomaterials for sensing, light-emitting and photovoltaic devices