Tom Blundell has been Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge since 1995, and from 1 October 2003 Chairman of the Council of Biological Sciences in Cambridge. His research is focused on structural biology of cell regulation, structural bioinformatics and applications to drug discovery and medicine. After research and teaching positions in Molecular Biophysics in Oxford and Biochemistry in Sussex Universities, he was appointed in 1976 Professor in Birkbeck College, University of London and in 1989 Honorary Director, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Unit of Structural Molecular Biology. Tom Blundell is a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences. He has Honorary Doctorates from fifteen universities.

Dieter Bimberg received his Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at the Technical University of Berlin.

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).

Mário F. S. Ferreira graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books, namely: “Optics and Photonics” (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), “Topics of Mathematical Physics” (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2018, Brazil, in Portuguese), “Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances” (Ed., NOVA Science Publishers, 2017), “Advances in Optoelectronic Technology and Industry Development” (CRC Press, 2019), “Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers” (John Wiley & Sons, OSA, 2011), “Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers” (CRC Press, 2020), “Optical Fiber Technology and Applications – Recent Advances” (IOP Publishing, 2021), “Solitons in Optical Fiber Systems” (John Wiley & Sons, 2022), and “Dissipative Optical Solitons” (Springer, 2022). He was the Guest Editor of five Special Issues of “Fiber and Integrated Optics” (Taylor & Francis): “Fiber Optics in Portugal” (2005), “Nonlinear Fiber Optics” (2015), “Optical Fiber Sources and Amplifiers” (2020) and “Quantum Communications” (2020), a joint Special Issue of “Optics Express” and “Applied Optics” (OSA) on “Optical Sensors and Sensing 2019”, and two Special Issues of “Fibers” (MDPI) on “Optical Fiber Communications” and “Specialty Optical Fibers – Material, Fabrication and Applications” (2022), and and a Special Issue of “Fibers” (MDPI) on “Optical Fiber Communications” (2020).

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).

Prof. Rafal Kozubski completed his Ph.D. and D.Sc. at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was a post-doc at the Strasbourg Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (IPCMS), France, an academic visitor in the Institute for Applied Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland and a Lise-Meitner Fellowat the Vienna University, Austria. His international experience includes also an International Fellowship at the Queen’s University in Belfast, a visiting professorship at the University of Strasbourg, France, and the Conjoint Professorship at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He published over 100 scientific papers in internationally reviewed journals and is an author of over 150 communications on international conferences.

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.

Jian Wang received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Southern California, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a professor at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He is the vice director of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.He was elected as an OPTICA Fellowin 2020 and SPIE Fellow in 2022. He leads the Multi-Dimensional Photonics Laboratory (MDPL).His research interests include optical communications, optical signal processing, silicon photonics,photonic integrated circuits, orbital angular momentum, and structured light. He has published over 240 refereed journal papers (Science, Science Advances, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, Physical Review Letters, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics, etc) and over 150 conference papers (OFC, ECOC, CLEO, etc). He has also given more than 110 tutorial/keynote/invited talks in international conferences including the invited talk at OFC2014 and tutorial talk at OFC2016.

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.

Dr. Wang received his BSc and MSc degrees from Tongji University, China and his PhD degree from Virginia Tech, USA. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of micromechanical characterization and modeling of granular soils. His research aims to explore the multiscale physics and mechanics underlying the macroscopic soil behavior using the discrete element method (DEM) simulation and X-ray computed tomography (CT). His works over the past 20 years include the X-ray CT characterization of micro-structures and micro-morphologies of geomaterials, and the DEM modeling and analysis of fundamental soil behaviors of crushable sands and their applications in various kinds of geotechnical engineering problems such as pile foundation, slope stability and retaining structures, etc. Dr. Wang's work has been awarded the prestigious international prizes including 2011 Geotechnical Research Medal (UK Institution of Civil Engineers) and 2010 Higher Education Institutions Outstanding Research Award - Natural Science Award (the Ministry of Education of China). His research has attracted over 7 million HKD of external grants including the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Wang currently serves as an Editorial Board Member of several top journals including Géotechnique, Computers and Geotechnics, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Soils and Foundations. So far Dr. Wang has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles including 80 SCI journal papers and over 60 international conference papers, with a Google Scholar H-index of 28.

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.

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.

Prof. D. Sakthi Kumar is currently working as Deputy Director for Bio Nano Electronics Research Centre (BNERC) and as Professor in Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in 1989,1991,1998 respectively from Mahatma Gandhi University of Kerala, India and Post Graduation in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI-ML) at University of Texas, Austin in 2020. After receiving his Ph.D.; he worked as research associate at the Thin Film Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, IIT Delhi, India. He joined BNERC after winning prestigious JSPS, Japanpostdoctoral fellowship in 2001. He is interested in research fields such as developing bio-nano devices and nanodrugs to fight against cancers, biomaterials,scaffolds for implantations, Application of AI in biofield, bio/chemical/optical sensors, plant nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes for bio imaging and as a treatment method for cancers, quantum dots for bio imaging and solar cell applications etc. He edited 3 books,published156 peer reviewed research articles including many review articles (Many of them came as cover page articles of leading journals), publishedbook chapters (22) and having9 patents in his creditand delivered many Plenary and invited talksin international seminars.Under his guidance 23 students received their doctoral degrees. For his work in biopolymers;The Society of Polymer Science, Japan honoured him with Asia Excellence Award in 2012, In 2018 he received Academic Excellence Award and 2021 received International Achiever Award.He is currently serving as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). He received 8274 citations for his work and having 40 h-index.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Xin Wang received her M.S. degree in Computer and its Application from Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, China in 2004 and Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China in 2010, respectively. She is currently a professor in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Hunan University of Technology. Her current research interests relate to the intelligent methods for complex system modelling, control and optimization, and the application of these to resolving various engineering problems.