1. Current Position o March 2012 – Present: Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, South Korea o January 2013 – Present: Acting Director of Jeju Secretariat, UNESCO World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves o March 2012 – Present: Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University, South Korea 2. Educational Attainment o BA and MA in Sociology from Korea University, South Korea o PhD in Environmental Sociology from The University of Queensland, Australia 3. Past Major Professional Activities Since 2000 o Professor at Jeju National University, South Korea (March 1981 – February 2012) o President, Asia-Pacific Sociological Association o Teaching Professor at The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom o Member, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development of the Republic of Korea o Delegate of South Korean Government to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) o Delegate of South Korean Government to OECD Environmental Meeting o Research Associate, Environmental Policy Committee for Sustainable Development, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea 4. Academic Research Publications: 13 books including Environmental Sociology and 60 academic research papers in domestic and international journals 5. Unpublished Research Projects; 95 environment-related projects funded by domestic and international organizations

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.

Professor Dr. Vladimir M. Fomin Vladimir M. Fomin, Principal Researcher at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden and Professor at the State University of Moldova. Member of APS, German Physical Society, European Physical Society, IEEE, Nanoscale Superconductivity COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics. Scientific Editor of the Encyclopediaof Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd Edition (Elsevier), Coordinator of the Platform "Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development" of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova. Scientific interests in nanophysics: theory of strain-induced self-rolled nano-architectures,topological effects in quantum rings and strain-induced micro- and nanoarchitectures,phase boundaries and vortex matter in micro- and nanoarchitectures and patterned superconductors,superconducting properties of metallic nanograins,phonons, vibrational excitations and polaronic effects in nanostructures, topological states of light and spin-orbit coupling in microcavities, optical properties of quantum dots,thermoelectric properties of semiconductor nanostructures,surface-induced magnetic anisotropy in mesoscopic systems of dilute magnetic alloys,quantum transport in sub-0.1 m semiconductor devices. Awards: State Prize of Moldova 1987. Diploma of a Scientific Discovery of the Phenomenon of the Propagation of Spatially-Extended Interface Phonon Polaritons in Composite Superlattices (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 1999). Medal “Academician P. L. Kapitsa” (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 2000). Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova (2007). Publications: 6 monographs, including “Self-rolled micro- and nanoarchitectures: Effects of topology and geometry”, De Gruyter, 2021; “Physics of Quantum Rings” (Editor), Springer, 2014; 2nd edition, Springer International Publishing, 2018, 3 textbooks, 14 review papers, 10 patents, 211 scientific articles.Citations: 5200, h-index: 36.

Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with 1st class honours. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

Mathias Uhlen  research is focused on protein science, antibody engineering and precision medicine. His research has resulted in more than 700 publications and he is co-founder of 20 biotech companies. Since 2003, he has led an international effort to systematically map the human proteome and transcriptome  to create a Human Protein Atlas. He is member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in USA, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA), the Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). From 2010-2015, he was the Founding Director of the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), a Swedish national center for molecular bioscience.

Prof. Suksun Horpibulsuk obtained a B.Eng. (Civil Engineering) with Honors Award from Khon Kaen University, Thailand in 1996. Prof. Suksun was subsequently granted a scholarship by the Royal Thailand Government to pursue a M.Eng. in Soil Engineering at Asian Institute of Technology and duly completed in 1998. He then received a prestigious MONBUSHO scholarship from the Japanese Government to pursue his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at Saga University in Japan that he duly completed in 2001. Prof. Suksun joined Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) as a lecturer in 2002. His outstanding research, teaching and service for the university, community and profession over the years was duly recognized when he was promoted to the level of full professor in 2010. He is an associate fellow of The Royal Society of Thailand, as well as a professor of School of Civil Engineering and a founder director of Center of Excellence in Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure Development at SUT. He is also an Academic Senate member of SUT and Rajamangala University of Technology Isan. He is presently the president of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) – Thailand Chapter, an adjunct professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia and a visiting professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. He also serves as an editor and reviewer for several prestigious national and international journals. His most significant contributions have been in the field of ground improvement techniques and pavement engineering, specifically issues associated with compaction, earth reinforcement, chemical stabilization and sustainable rigid and flexural pavements. He has been awarded a large number of competitive research grants totalling US$10 million. He has published extensively with over 500 technical publications, including over 350 in leading journals. He has a H-index of 67 (Scopus), 12000+ citations and currently averages 1890 (Scopus) citations per annum. He is a senior professional engineer accredited by Council of Engineers, Thailand and science and technology professional in engineering geology accredited by Council of Science and Technology Professionals, Thailand. He has received Telford Premium Prize from Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK in 2023. Due to his outstanding contributions for the profession and community as well as his national and international recognition, he was nominated as a TRF Senior Scholar in 2013 and 2016 by the Thailand Research Fund. He received an Outstanding National Researcher award in 2019 from National Research Council of Thailand and a Chair Professor award in 2020 from National Science and Technology Development Agency.

Prof. Dr. Ilaria Cacciotti is Full Professor of Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering and Materials Science and Technology at University of Rome "Niccolò Cusano", with consolidated expertise in the synthesis and characterization of (bio)materials and eco-sustainable systems. She graduated in Medical Engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Master of Science Award ‘Fondazione Raeli’). Afterwards, she completed the Ph.D in Materials Engineering (Ph.D Thesis Award ‘Marco Ramoni 2011, Ph.D Thesis AIMAT Award 2012) and she obtained the II Level Master degrees in “Forensic Genetics” and in "Protection against CBRNe events". She is expert in the synthesis, processing and characterisation of biocompatible nanostructured materials, particularly for applications in the biomedical, environmental and agri-food sectors, including bioceramics (undoped and doped calcium phosphates, bioactive glasses), biopolymers and composites. She is reviewer for more than 100 peer-review journals, e.g. Acta Biomaterialia, Biofabrication, Chemical Engineering Journal, has been/is Guest Editor of several Special issues, and is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals, including Applied Science-MDPI, Applied Surface Science Advances- Elsevier, Frontiers in Biomaterials, Open Journal of Materials Science-Bentham Science, Recent Patents on Materials Science-Bentham Science, The Open Materials Science Journal-Bentham Open, Reviews on Advanced Materials Science-DE GRUYTER OPEN, and serves on various grant review committees, such as National Science Foundation (NSF), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and National Science Center (NCN, NARODOWE CENTRUM NAUKI). For her research activity, she achieved several awards, including 8 th CCT Award “Best Oral Presentation for Young Researchers 2011”, 10th International Award "Giuseppe Sciacca" for Young Students, the European Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Doctoral Award (EDA-ESB (European Society of Biomaterials)) Award 2011, "Top Cited Author 2011-2012 ChemEngJ", “L’ORÉAL- UNESCO Italy for Women and Science 2011”, “Under 35 Talents in Lazio 2012”, “Featured Articles and Cover Pages for the following International Journals Chem Eng J, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials Interfaces”, ”Young Researcher Award Elsevier" Materials Science and Engineering C" 2014, “Good Energy Award 2016”, “SRB Excellence Award 2018”, “Best Poster Award for 18th International Conference ”Life Sciences for Sustainable Development” 2019”, “BIOREMED Excellence Award 2019”, “Polymers 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award”, “IOP trusted reviewer 2021”, “Inspirational Scientist Award in the International Scientist Award on Engineering, Science, and Medicine 2021”, “Women Researcher Award" in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine 2021”, “International Research Awards on Science, Technology and Management (INSO) 2022”.

Prof. Alexander Bagaturyants is a full professor at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" (Moscow). Alexander Bagaturyants was graduated from D.I. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia in 1962, obtained his PhD degree, Dr. Sci. degree, and the academic title of professor in 1968, 1987, and 1992, respectively, all in physical chemistry. His main research interests are in the field of atomistic multiscale simulations of organic functional materials. Alexander Bagaturyants is a co-author of more than 200 research articles and the book “Multiscale Modeling in Nanophotonics: Materials and Simulations,” Alexander Bagaturyants, Mikhail Vener, Singapore, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2018, 274 Pages, ISBN 9789814774406, available at https://www.amazon.com/Multiscale-Modeling-Nanophotonics-Materials-Simulations- ebook/dp/B077Q29FRW and at https://www.crcpress.com/Multiscale-Modeling-in-Nanophotonics-Materials-and- Simulations/Bagaturyants-Vener/p/book/9789814774406

Professor Dr. Mohammed Ali Hussain received his Post-Doc from Malaysia, Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. He has more than 21 years of teaching experience in India and Abroad. Served in various capacities as a Professor Incharge Academics in designing Course Structures and Curriculum for B.Tech and M.Tech Programme and acted as Incharge for NAAC and NBA Accreditation. He has been awarded with different prestigious awards and recognitions like Researcher of the Year 2019 from GSR Foundation and The American College of Dubai, Innovative Technological Research & Dedicated Teaching Professional Award from Malaysia, Mahatma Gandhi Award for Teaching and Research Excellence, Engineering & Technology Research Excellence Award, Rashtriya Gaurav Award and Best Computer Science Faculty Award from various Technical & Professional Organizations. He is a recipient of International Book of Records and India Book of Records for Acting as Editorial Board Member &Technical Reviewer for more than 100 International Journals. He has published about 180 refereed technical articles in scholarly International Journals and proceedings of International Conferences. Received Grant for one Patent and Published 8 Patents, Authored 2 Books in the area of Web Security & Data Science and 5 Book Chapters with reputed publishers. He acted as Program Committee Member for various IEEE Symposiums and conferences across the globe. He is a recognized supervisor for Ph.D. Programme from various Universities and Produced 23 Ph.D’s to his credit. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches/ Guest Lectures at various National & International Conferences in India and Abroad. He is a professional member of FISEEE, ASDF, IACSIT, IAENG, IAEST, IRACST and UACEE.

Professor MARK BOMBERG, Technology D. (Lund Uni., Sweden 1974, D. Science in Engineering, Warsaw TU, Poland, 1965), Research Prof. at Mechanical Eng., Clarkson U, Potsdam NY, Honorary Member of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment (BETEC) Committee of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) in Washington, DC, worked at National Research Council of Canada (1975-2000) and was Editor-in-Chief of J. Building Physics (1984-2018). He lives in Canada but works in the US. He was teaching in the US, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Poland and China. He is an Academic Editor in Journals: Energies and Sustainability (Basel, CH) and SJEE (NY, NY). He received the highest awards in building physics in the US and Canada. His research background includes heat, air and moisture, material science and durability of construction materials. He has 45000 reads and 1100 citations on the Research Gate from more than 220 peer reviewed papers and 7 books.

Professor David W. Yarbrough(PhD Georgia tech 1966, MS 1961, Bch 1960), is Vice President of R and D Services, Inc., a testing and consulting company located in the United States. He is a Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, at Tennessee Technological University, retired from the Faculty in 2002 as Department Chair. Dr. Yarbrough also served as a Research Staff Member (part time) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1979 to 2011. He is a Fellow and Board Member of the International Thermal Conductivity Conference, and a Fellow and Past President of the Tennessee Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) chair of the Integration Committee of Building Enclosure and Environment Committee of the Nation al institute of Science in Washington, DC. Received 17 awards including, 2014, 2012, National Institute of Building Sciences, 2009 R&D 100 Award, Distinguished University Scientist, Tennessee Academy of Science, 1998, 2015, 2000, 1997, 1992 ASTM C16 Awards, Outstanding Faculty Award (TTU, College of Engineering),1990; Patents 2015 and 2010 and more than 220 research papers

Professor Anna Romanska-Zapala(PhD 2001 at AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Kraków, Specialization: Machine Building, Topic: Vibroacoustic) leads laboratory of Infotronics at Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow, PolandTopic: Automation and Robotics. She specializes in multidisciplinary linking Building and Industrial Automatics with Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency in Buildings, with her background in Product and process ergonomics she also lectures in Transport Psychology Faculty at University of Social Sciences and Humanities and with her multidisciplinary background she advises postgraduate students at AGH University of Science and Technology. She works at the Univerity at parttiime as she also works under industrial research sponsored by the Polish National Center of Research and Development as a projects. She is highly innovative R&D project manager and during last 5 years she led or developed 8 industrial projects. She was also a co-founder of Malopolska Energy Efficient Building Laboratory at Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow U of T.

Sandra Pinelas Education and academic qualifications Ph.D., in 2007, in Mathematical Analysis at the Azores University MSc, in 1997, in Mathematic at the Évora University Graduation, in 1995, in Mathematical Analysis at the Évora University Research Interests Difference and Differential Equations, Oscillatory Behavior Professional Activities as Teacher 1. 1995, December - 1999 March, Assistant in Évora University 2. 1999, March - 2007 January, Assistant in Azores University 3. 2007 January – 2012 April, Professor in Azores University 4. 2012 April – until now, Professor in Military Academy Professional Activities as Visiting Professor 1. 2006, September, Munich University of Tecnology (Munique, Germany). 2. 2009, February - March, Florida Institut of Tecnology (Melbourne, Florida, EUA). 3. 2010, February – March, Florida Institut of Tecnology (Melbourne, Florida, EUA). • More than 150 scientific publications with referee in international journals • Author of 1 book • Editor of 8 Springer’s Proceedings Books • Participation on more than 50 international conferences (20 as Invited Speaker) • Organizing board of more 40 international conferences (10 as chairwoman) • Member of 10 editorial boards of international journals • Referee of more than 40 international journals • Adjudicator of more than 30 Ph.D. Thesis

Alessandro Ruggiero, PhD from 1999 to 2005 was Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Salerno, where he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering since 2005 till today. In 2017 he received the National qualification to Full Professor in Applied Mechanics. He authored more than 220 scientific papers on prestigious indexed international journals and national and international proceedings. He is included in the “Stanford lists of the best influencer Researcher of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 on the world”. He serves as Editor, member of the Editorial Board and reviewer for many WoS/SCOPUS indexed International Scientific Journals, and as evaluator of national and international research projects. He cooperates with numerous international Universities and prestigious Research Centers. He is member of the PhD Committee in Industrial Engineering (University of Salerno) and Production and Industrial Design (Polytechnic University of Madrid -SP- from 2018). He serves as vice-President of the International Advisory Board of the Czech University of Life Science in Prague (Czechia). He is member of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science IFToMM -Technical Committee for Tribology- and National Coordinator of Italian AIMETA Tribology Group -GAIT. He is founder and CEO of the Academic Spinoff and innovative Startup ACOUSTICLAB srl. His current research interests are focused on (bio) tribology, biomechanics, in-silico wear calculation of artificial human synovial joints, but they include also dynamics of mechanical systems, noise and vibration measurements, mechanical measurement and diagnostic on mechanical systems.

Obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, in 1975, 1979 and 1983, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled “The behavior of the Blade of a Darrieus Wind Turbine”, while his M.Sc. thesis title was “Correlation between Vibrations and Buckling of Stiffened Shells with Realistic Boundary Conditions and Combined Loading”. He has been with the Technion since 1987, heading the Aerospace Structures Laboratory. In 2020 he has retired from the Technion. He spent three years with the Israeli industry and between 1996-1998 he was Guest Professor at ETH Zurich Institut fur Leichtbau und Seilbahntechnik, Switzerland, while from March-September 2018, he was at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands. His main fields of interest are: static and dynamic stability of thin walled structures, piezoelectric materials, laminated composite structures, dynamic buckling of thin walled structures, smart structures technologies, structural mechanics and energy harvesting using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials . He has published 115 papers in well-known international journals on these quoted subjects. He is the author of 10 patents on piezoelectric harvesting devices. He is also the author of six books: 1. H. Abramovich, Intelligent Materials and Structures,© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 386 p. 2. H. Abramovich,Stability and Vibrations of Thin Walled Composite Structures, © 2017 Elsevier Ltd,Woodhead Publishing Limited, (Woodhead Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier),The Officers’ Mess Business Centre, Royston Road, Duxford, CB22 4QH, United Kingdom; 50 Hampshire Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States;The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, 778 p. 3. H. Abramovich, Advanced Aerospace Materials – Aluminum-based and Composite Materials, © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 308 p. 4. H. Abramovich, Advanced Topics of Thin Walled Structures, © 2021 World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore; Hackensack, NJ; London, 404 p. 5. H. Abramovich, Intelligent Materials and Structures,2nd Edition,© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 484 p. 6. H. Abramovich, Advanced Aerospace Materials – Aluminum-based and Composite Materials, 2nd Edition © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 508 p. Since 2013,editorial board member of the International Journal of Composite Materials Since 2014, editorial board member for International Journal of Aeronautical Science & Aerospace Research (IJASAR). Since 2018, editorial board member for Actuators, MDPI. Serve as Referee in the following Journals and external Committees: J. of Sound and Vibrations, Computers and Structures, Composite Structures, Thin Walled Structures, Composites Part B: Engineering, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, International J. of Mechanical Sciences, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, ASME Journals.

Prof. Vaclav Skala as a professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia (UWB), Pilsen [Plzen] and at the University of Defence, Department of Military Robotics, Brno. He has been with the Brunel University at London, U.K., Gavle University, Sweden, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia and others. He is the Head of the Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization at UWB. Prof. Vaclav Skala is active especially within computer graphics, visualization, applied mathematics and artificial intelligence research and organizing research oriented international conferences, e.g. WSCG, GraVisMa, HCI-Europe, etc. He has also been serving as an international program committee member of many international conferences. He is a member of several editorial boards of established research journals (details available at http://www.VaclavSkala.eu). His current research is targeted to geometric algebra, meshless (meshfree) methods for scalar and vector fields interpolation and approximation, fundamental algorithms and data structures for computer graphics and visualization, geometric algebra and applied mathematics. Prof. Vaclav Skala is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association. Hehas been serving as an associate editor of prestigious research journals such as Computers and Graphics (Elsevier), The Visual Computer (Springer), Computer Graphics Forum (John Wiley & Sons.), etc. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of WSCG and Computer Science Research Notes[CSRN]. Prof. Vaclav Skala has published over 160+ research indexed papers with more than 780+(WoS/Publons), 1220+(Scopus) and 2570+(Scholar Google) citations.

Natalia Vladimirovna Kamanina – Leader of the team, Head of the Laboratory for Photophysics of media with nanoobjects at Vavilov State Optical Institute. She coordinates the job of the team, participate at all experiments and analyze the data. Scopus Author ID: 55980751700. h-index in Scopus is 22. Web of Science ResearcherID Q-9959-2016. h-index in WoS is 22 e-library: SPIN-код: 1231-5045, AuthorID: 40388 N.V. Kamanina has current interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, laser-matter interaction, fullerenes and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of LC cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC structures to orient human blood cell. She has published more than 200 scientific papers in theInternational and Russian journals. She is the author of the Book ―Features of Optical Materials Modified with Effective Nanoobjects: Bulk Properties and Interface‖, New York, Physics Research and Technology, ―Novinka‖, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2014, 116 p. ISBN: 978-1-62948-033-6; Book ―Surface Structuration and Its Advantages in Optoelectronics, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2018. She is an author of handbooks for the students: ―New Optical Materials – Fullerenes. Properties and Applications‖ published by Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―LETI‖, 2002; ―Liquid crystals – perspective materials of optoelectronics. Properties and application area‖ published by Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―LETI‖, 2004; ―Electrooptical systems based on liquid crystal and fullerenes – perspective nanoelectronics materials. Properties and area of applications‖ published by Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―IFMO‖, 2008; ―Nanostructures influence the surface and bulk properties of the optical materials‖, ―IFMO‖, 2012. Her pioneer ideas and experienced contributions in a creation of nonlinear absorbers, spatial light modulators and liquid crystal cells for aligning erythrocytes of human blood were applied in technique and were certificated by 13 Russian Patents. She is a member of the European Optical Society (from 1999); of the International (from 1996) and Russian Liquid Crystal Society (from 1991); of D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (2002). Laureate of the Prize from the International Academic Publishing Company ―Nauka/Interperiodika‖ for best publication in its journals in 2000 year. Laureate of the Russian National President Stipend on Physics and Astronomy (2000-2002). Laureate of Yu.I. Ostrovskii Prize for the best work in the area of optical holography and interferometry (2003). Laureate of the Competition ―Idea-Samsung: Perspective Display Technology and Information Processing Methods‖ organized in Russia on May-June 2004. Laureate of the Competition in the Nanotechnology area organized by Nanotechnology News Network LTD, 2005. She was an Editor of the books: 1). ―Features of liquid crystal display materials and processes‖ Edited by Natalia V. Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2011. 240 p.; 2). ―Nonlinear Optics‖ Edited by Natalia V. Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2012. 224 p. 3). ―Fullerenes and Relative Materials - Properties and Applications‖ Edited by Natalia V. Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2018. 143 p. https://www.intechopen.com/books/fullerenes-and-relative-materials-properties-and-applications She was awarded by Russian Medal devoted to three-hundredth anniversary of SaintPetersburg (Medal №391679, 19 Feb., 2003). She was the RusNano expert during 2009-2012 years (certificate #418); She is Federal Russian expert in scientific-technical area; certificate #04-04583, 2013-2016; 2016-2019 ; certificate #8 on 30.09.2019, 2020-2022. By the decision of the attestation commission for the accreditation of experts in the "Federal Register of Experts in the Scientific and Technical Sphere" (dated 30.09.2022, Protocol No. 8), the accreditation was extended for a period of three years). By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 19, 2003, she was awarded the Medal in Memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg (No. 391679, February 19, 2003). She is awarded by Ministry (certificate #37p on February 10, 2012). She was awarded by A.A.Lebedev medal and diploma for the development of the innovation direction ―Photophysics of media with nanoobjects‖ (December 2013), by S.I.Vavilov medal (November 2016) for the study of the features of the nanostructuring process of the material surface, by D.S.Rozhdestvenskiy (December 2017) for the review with the brief title: ―Nanotechnology in optics‖. She was involved in a work in the RFBR grants ## 00-15-99067, 01-03-33162, 04-03-32249, 08-02-00966; in the ISTC Project 1454 (2000-2002). She was a chief of the Russian Nanotechnology Base Program according the Project ―Limiter‖ (2003-2006), of the Project ―Modulator with SEW‖ (2011), and of the Project ―Nanocoating-SOI‖ (2012-2015); the chief, from Russian side, in ISTC Project IPP A-1484 (2007-2009). She is a chief of RFBR grant #10- 03-00916 (2010-2012); grant 13-03-00044 (2013-2015), the chief, from Russian side, in the FP7Marie Curie International researchers exchange proposal ―BIOMOLEC‖ (2011-2015), the chief of the Project ―Adaptatsiya‖ (2017) between Israel (Ariel University) and Russia (Vavilov State Optical Institute), the chief of the Vavilov State Optical Institute Project ―LC-nano-WS2», 2019- 2020, etc. She was an Invited speaker at different conferences: at E-MRS Conference (June 2001, Strasbourg, France), at NATO Organic Nanophotonics Workshop (August 2002, Aix-enProvence, France), at XV Conference on Liquid Crystals (October, 2003, Zakopane, Poland), at 5th Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, ICEPOM–5 (May, 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine), at Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation of Materials Technologies, ММТ-2004 (September, 2004, 2008, 2010, Ariel, Israel), at IXth International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials (ICFPAM) Cracow, July 2007, at YCOMAT (Serbia, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018), at 5th International Symposium on Materials and Devices for Nonlinear Optics, Porquerolles (France), June 26th - July 1st 2009; the chief of the International Nanotechnology session organized in the framework of MMT conference (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, Israel), at Israeli – Russian Bi-National Workshop 2011, Jerusalem, 20 - 23 June, 2011, at International Workshop on Nano and Bio-Photonics (IWNBP), St. Germain au Mont d’Or (near Lyon) France, 23-28 October 2011, at 3rd International Symposium on Surface Imaging/Spectroscopy at the Solid/Liquid Interface - ISSIS 2012, May 27th – June 1st, 2012, Cracow, Poland; ModTech-2013- 1st International Conference on Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering, Mara Hotel, Sinaia, Romania, June 27-29, 2013; 2nd International Workshop on Nano and Bio-Photonics (IWNBP2013), Domaine de Françon, Biarritz , France, 3-8 November 2013; International conference on bio-science and bio-informatics, Gdansk, Poland, May 14-17, 2014; VIII International conference on crystallization kinetic and mechanisms. Crystallization as the form of the self -arrangement of the matter‖, Ivanovo, Russian Federation, June 24-27, 2014; RAD-2016, RAD-2017 conferences, Nis, Serbia, Budva, Montenegro; PIYAPH-Kurchatov Institute (September and October 2017, Gatchina-Saint-Petersburg), Russian Bi-National Workshop, 2017; SPIE Security+Defence conference (September, 2018, Berlin, Germany); Natural Sciences session at International Conference on Innovations in Science and Education (March 2018, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic); etc. She is (has) referred some European Journals, for example, such as: https://publons.com/researcher/1696479/natalia-kamanina/peer-review/ https://publons.com/researcher/1696479/natalia-kamanina/peer-review/ Natalia Kamanina

Prof. Dr. Yousef FARHAOUI, is a Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of sciences and Techniques, Morocco. Chair of IDMS Team, Director of STI laboratory. Local Publishing and Research Coordinator, Cambridge International Academics in United  Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Security from Ibn Zohr University of Science. His research interests include learning, e-learning, computer security, big data analytics, and business intelligence. Farhaoui has three books in computer science. He is a coordinator and member of the organizing committee and also a member of the scientific committee of several international congresses, and is a member of various international associations. He has authored 7 Book and many Book Chapters with Reputed Publishers such as Springer and IGI. He is served as a Reviewer for IEEE, IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier Journals. He is also the Guest Editor of many Journals with Wiley, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, and Panelist in Several Conferences. He is Senior Member of IEEE, IET, ACM and EAI Research Group.

Distinguished Professor of "Hongshen Young Scholars" at Chongqing University, PhD supervisor, assistant chairman of Chongqing Key Laboratory of Metal Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), director of High-performance intelligent Additive Manufacturing (HπAM) Lab. Dr. Li obtained his Bachelor degree at Jilin University, and obtained Ph.D. degree at Tsinghua University. Then he worked as a postdoctoral scientist at University of Texas at El Paso in USA. In 2019, he served as a senior researcher in the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in laser additive manufacturing and materials genome engineering. He has participated in many projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, the International Cooperation Projects with US and Singapore. His scientific research achievements won the Researcher Award of the University of Texas and the Houston Space Agency Technology Application Award. Personal link: http://mve.cqu.edu.cn/info/1306/4243.htm

Dr. Vita Petek is a researcher at the University of Maribor. She obtained her doctorate in the field of agrarian economics, and at the same time she completed her law studies and is a lawyer. Her areas of research are wine, gastronomy, wine tourism and wine label. Shee publishes scientific and professional articles, participates in national and international projects and give lectures at Universities around the world. In the field of wine, she has additional education and is a level 1 sommelier and has WSET 2 certificate. In her free time, she travels around the world and researches wine destinations, reads wine labels, attends wine festivals and tries different wines.

Dr. Mudassir Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor and former Head in the Department of Computer Science at College of Science & Arts Tanumah, King Khalid University Abha, Saudi Arabia. He has completed Ph.D. in Computer Science from Noida International University (NIU), India. He has completed his Graduation from Aligarh Muslim University and master’s from Gautam Budh Technical University, India. He has more than 12 years of Teaching Experience at the King Khalid University of Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 34 papers in International Journals (SCIE, ESCI, Scopus, UGC Care), conferences IEEE and Springer Nature) and 1 patent. He is the Member of various technical/ professional societies such as IEEE, UACEE, Internet Society, IAENG and CSTA. His research interest includes Big data, IoT, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, eLearning, Fuzzy Logic, Image Processing, Cyber Security and Cloud Computing.

Dr Elsa M. Gonçalves received a “Licenciatura” (5 years BEng degree) in Food Engineering in 1991 from the College of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Portugal. She obtained her PhD degree in 2011 in Biotechnology with a specialisation in Science and Food Engineering at the same University. From 1992 to 2013, Dr Elsa M. Gonçalves worked as a Researcher at the Department “Ciencias e Tecnologia dos Alimentos” of the “Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária”. Areas of research interest included innovative and traditional preservation techniques, enhancing nutritional contents of foods, packaging and shelf life estimation, modelling of physic & biochemical proprieties, quality systems, risk assessment, food safety and quality. She has published extensively in these fields. Dr Elsa M. Gonçalves’s research involved collaborative projects with the Food Industry, Universities and other organisations. From September 2013 until June 2015, she worked as a visiting scientist at Helsinki University, collaborating with different professors from the Department of Food and Environmental Sciences in their research activities and teaching. From July 2015 to March 2017, she worked at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) as Scientific Officer in the Risk Assessment of biocides products, dissemination and product characteristics. In October 2017, she returned to Portugal as a researcher at her previous institution, INIAV. She is responsible for the Sensory Testing Laboratories, implementing various sensory analysis techniques to evaluate different food products and applying statistical analysis, allowing products to be grouped and their similarities and differences quantified. She is a member of the Competence Centre of the Mediterranean Diet (CCDM). She is the National Delegate on the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS). Since 1995, Dr Elsa M. Gonçalves has taught in different institutions by invitation in her expertise area, and she has significant experience in orienting trainees and fellow students. She is an editor and a referee in various international scientific journals. She is open-minded, social and calm. She enjoys working independently and as part of an interactive team. She is willing, enjoys getting into new fields of experience, and is keen to learn new things. She is organised, and methodical however recognises the importance of being flexible. She travelled to over 30 countries and appreciated and respected the diversity of cultures and points of view. She likes reading, painting, and photography.

My main scientific activities are related with the development of new non-traditional molybdate and tungstate glasses in binary and multicomponent systems, involving oxides of heavy metals, transition metals and oxides of rare earth elements with optical and electrical properties and investigation of their structure and thermal behavior, by infrared (IR), Raman, diffuse reflection UV-visible (UV-Vis), x-ray photoelectron (XPR) spectroscopies, and differential thermal analysis (DTA). My sphere of interests also includes the development and application of new methods for obtaining crystalline molybdate and vanadate phases with catalytic, photocatalytic and electrical properties such as conventional and mechanochemically activated solid phase synthesis, melt quenching method and controlled crystallization of glass and investigation of the local structure and morphology of the resulting crystalline phases by infrared and Raman spectroscopies, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. - Scientific Articles – 46 (Articles in peer-reviewed international journals – 32) - Citations – 300 Education: I. Higher education 2000-2005 PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 1990-1997 Master degree, Chemist, Chemistry Teacher with second specialty Physics, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Chemistry Faculty, Sofia, Bulgaria II. Secondary education 1978-1989 – High school “Hr. Smirnenski”– Bankya, Bulgaria Professional Occupation: 07/2010-10/2021, Assistant Professor, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; 11/2021 –present, Associate Professor, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria. Specializations abroad 01/06/2022-15/06/2022, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute (TPCI) at National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) Athens, Greece, Training on the principles and practical application of infrared reflectance and Raman spectroscopies for structural studies of oxide glasses. 04/2014 - 09/2014, 6 months, The Matsumae International Foundation Research Fellow, Osaka, Japan, project title “Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of ion-conducting materials in the Li2OV2O5-MeOx (Me = Mo, W, Cu) system” 09/2010 - 04/2012, Postdoc position, Chemistry Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, project “Preparation and Characterization of Au/WOx-MO2 Catalysts (M = Ti and Zr) addressed to the Catalytic NO Reduction by Hydrocarbons)”. Scientific awards and membership in scientific societies: 05/2004 - 05/2005 Scholarship student of World Federation of Scientists, Lausanne, Switzerland theme “Nanostructure perovskite materials for biomagnetic applications.” 26/03/2018 – 30/03/2018 Erasmus+ grant Staff Mobility For Training for 2017/2018 academic year, in the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute (TPCI) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Athens, Greece; 01/04/2019 – 05/04/2019 Erasmus+ grant Staff Mobility For Training for 2018/2019 academic year, in the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;2 18/09/2021-25/09/2021, Erasmus+ grant Staff Mobility For Training for 2019/2020 academic year, in the Centre for Energy Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary 6 selected publications: 1. M. Milanova, R. Iordanova, K. L. Kostov, “Glass formation in the MoO3-CuO-PbO system”, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS 355 (6) (2009) 379-385 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022309308008648. 2. M. Milanova, R. Iordanova, M. Tatsumisago, A. Hayashi, P. Tzvetkov, D. Nihtianova, P. Markov, Y. Dimitriev, “Soft mechanochemical synthesis and electrochemical behavior of LiVMoO6 for allsolid-state lithium batteries, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 51 (2016) 3574-3584 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10853-015-9677-6. 3. Reni Iordanova, Margarita Milanova, Lyubomir Aleksandrov, Atul Khanna, “Structural study of glasses in the system B2O3-Bi2O3-La2O3-WO3”, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 481, (2018), 254-259 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022309317305677.

Patrícia Alexandra Curado Quintas Dinis Poeta, Full Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD)., EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Microbiology. Member of CECAV-UTAD and collaborator of LAVQ-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, University NOVA of Lisbon. PhD in Veterinary Medicine by UTAD and Coordinator of the Research Group MicroArt- Microbiology and Antibiotic resistance Team and Head of Medical Microbiology Laboratory. Her main research interest is the characterization of antibiotic resistance mechanisms in bacteria of different origins as humans, animals, food, water and the environment, as well as the performance of studies of molecular epidemiology to characterize the genetic lineages of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Director of several doctoral and masters’ theses. Also responsible for research projects funded by private companies and inter-university projects, teaches International courses and Master’s degree and keeps working activities with several national and international entities. With regard to scientific production has published more than 200 articles in journals from the SCI and book chapters. Has more than 500 communications at international scientific meetings, presentations at national or Iberian scientific meetings, posters at scientific meetings, publications in GenBank, publications in UniProt, records in MLST, technical and scientific journals and series or educational work. Received 45 awards. Operates in the areas of Veterinary Science. In professional activities interacted with 175 workers in authorship and co-authorship of scientific papers.

Prof. Jaroslaw Milewski is is employed by Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Institute of Heat Engineering. He is a Head of Power Division at the Institute of Heat Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Power Technologies, and a Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Energy. Prof. Milewski hold a position of the Director of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Centre at Institute of Applied He has experience in fuel cell research (Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells–-MCFC and Solid Oxide Fuel Cell–-SOFC) and other power sources, hybrid systems, advanced power systems (hydrogen-based), and steam/gas turbine power generation systems. He has substantial experience with cooperation with the power engineering industry. He is an author and a co-author of 300+ publications and 5+ patents with Hirsch index 24 based of Google Scholar statistics. He teaches students in turbomachinery, theory of fluid flow machinery, environment protection, numerical tools in power plant simulations, hybrid systems, and others.

Alexander Aguila Téllez. - In 2005, he graduated as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Camagüey - Cuba. In 2010 he received his master's degree in Energy Efficiency, awarded by the University of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. In 2019 he received his second master's degree in Engineering, awarded by the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín – Colombia, where he has also collaborated as a researcher in several scientific projects. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering at the aforementioned university in Colombia in 2021. Over the last seven years, he has worked as a professor and researcher at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana in Ecuador, where he has conducted several electrical engineering courses and supervised some master theses. Currently, he is the director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at this university. He is a member of the research group on smart electrical grids (GIREI) and a member of the Colombian research program “Energética 2030”. He has participated in several prestigious international conferences and events, where he has collaborated as an exhibitor and committee member. Alexander has participated in various national and international research projects in Electrical Engineering. He has published several high-impact international papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and has also been a reviewer of various scientific papers. He has work experience in electrical network design companies. His major research interests include reliability, fault diagnosis on electrical distribution systems, smart grids, Volt–Var control, minimizing power losses, renewable energy systems, and energetic efficiency.

Filipe R. Ramos has a degree in Mathematics and holds a PhD in Management - Specialization in Quantitative Methods from ISCTE Business School. He is currently an Invited Assistant Professor Faculdade de Ciências - Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) and an integrated researcher at Centro de Estatística e Aplicações - Universidade de Lisboa (CEAUL), teaching courses in the areas of Statistics, Mathematics and Computing and applications. His research activity focuses on the areas of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling applied mainly to the Engineering and Social Sciences. Part of the work carried out focuses on the following topics: (i) Time Series Analysis and Forecasting; (ii) Data Analysis/Data Science; (iii) Machine Learning/Deep Learning; and (iv) Business Analytics/Business Intelligence.

Professor Razin is a world-leading scientist in the field of mast cell biology. His first major contribution was over 30 years ago, when he developed a cultured mouse bone marrow-derived mast cell model. This system changed mast cell research and is still one of the main tools for studying mast cell function. Around 10 years ago, his group presented a key advancement in the field when they reported a previously unknown signaling pathway directly involved in gene regulation. The main focus of the present proposal is further exploration of this pathway, which involves the ubiquitously expressed Hint1, a repressor of both USF2 and MITF transcriptional activity via its tight association to these proteins. The interaction between USF2 or MITF and Hint1 is reduced upon physiological stimulation in several cell types, as a result of the synthesis of Ap4A, acting as a 2nd messenger as described by Prof. Razin’s team. He also demonstrated that following physiological stimulation in these cell types, 207 serine phosphorylated lysyl tRNA synthetase (LysRS) associates with either of these transcription factors and forms a multi-complex with Hint. This Erk-mediated phosphorylation is followed by a dramatic conformational change of the LysRS protein through the opening of its domain-domain interface. This enables it to not only be released from the multi-synthetase cytosolic complex, but also switches its function from catalysis of the formation of lysyl-tRNAs to the synthesis of Ap4A. This 2nd messenger binds specifically to Hint1, changes its confirmation and causes its dissociation from the transcription factors, which are now able to activate their target genes. In close proximity to these protein complexes of LysRS-transcription factors-Hint1, the enzyme Ap4A hydrolase catalyzes the excess intracellular Ap4A. This research has been described in eleven publications and is summarized in this animation http://tinyurl.com/o5hd2m7. One of these publications describes his research performed in collaboration with a team from The Scripps Institute, Florida, which used a structural biology approach to confirm their earlier results. This paper was reported in the news of the day section of the Science Daily News (http://tinyurl.com/lun4yp8) and was featured in the News Beyond Our Pages section of the JACI (http://tinyurl.com/qdnnej4). Recent papers of his own and others have served to demonstrate the importance of this pathway in diseases such as non-small cell carcinoma and melanoma and in HIV-1 infection. Professor Razin now felt that it was time to expand this research to in vivo systems, which led to his pioneering work on MITF in cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death in the Western world, with heart failure representing the fastest-growing subclass over the past decade. The stage that often precedes heart is pathological hypertrophy - the growth of the heart muscle in an attempt to increase its output. Not all hypertrophy is pathological; for example, during pregnancy or high physical exertion the muscle of the heart grows but myocardial function remains normal. However, when hypertrophy is excessive, prolonged and unbalanced, it becomes pathological, leading to heart failure and arrhythmias. Now for the first time, Prof. Razin’s team in collaboration with Prof Roger Foo from Singapore have revealed how a protein called Erbin acts as a brake against this excessive and pathological growth of heart muscle. They also demonstrated that damage to this protein leads to a decrease in function and severe pathological growth of heart muscle. His findings also revealed a link between Erbin and the Hint1-MITF-LysRS-Ap4A pathway since Erbin expression is regulated by MITF in mice and human hearts. Prof Razin’s work has contributed significantly to understanding the role of PIAS3, the main cellular inhibitor of STAT3, in activated mast cells. MITF and STAT3 are key players in the regulation of mast cell growth and function. Prof. Razin’s team has elucidated the role of PIAS3 in the regulation of transcriptional activity and the molecular mechanism involved. Based almost solely on Prof. Razin’s research, five Norwegian mathematicians presented a model describing the MITF-PIAS3-STAT3 signaling network, and concluded that this crosstalk between MITF and STAT3 via PIAS3 as described by Prof. Razin’s team offers a unique mechanistic explanation for MITF-PIAS3-STAT3 signaling in melanoma. Recently his team explored the potential involvement of STAT3 in mitochondrial ATP production and in exocytosis of immunologically activated mast cells and the involvement of MITF and pyruvate dehydrogenase in this process. These results are of great importance since they provide the first direct evidence for an additional physiological function of STAT3 as a key regulator of mast cell exocytosis. Over the years, Prof Razin has published his research in top peer-reviewed journals such as Immunity, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Cell, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His research is supported by top competitive grants available to Israeli scientists. He has supervised many graduate students some of whom are now faculty members in academic institutions in Israel.

PhD in Electrical Engineering (UFSM), Master in biomedical and automatic engineering (UFU), postgraduate in computer engineering (UFU), postgraduate in business management and information technology (FGV) and electrical engineering with emphasis in electronics of computers (FEI). Professional with more than 34 years of experience in the field of electrical engineering in power electronics, control and automation, project management, researcher in the field of renewable energy, communication protocols, telecommunication, converter projects and distance learning (EAD). Main projects: Design, development and implementation of a 300 kWp power inverter with a new interleaved topology with parallel legs, design and development of a microconverter based on a T-type topology with parallel legs. Design and development of a vertical axial flow turbine Design and development of a thermoelectric generator with renewable energy based on vegetable oil. Development of Management Software, modeling, analysis and development of ERP (Integrated Factory Management System - object-oriented server-client application), using agile programming technique (Extreme Programming). Author of the Power Electronics Book “Discontinuous Modulation for Interleaved Converters”

Marco S. Lucas is Assistant Researcher and Deputy Head of the Chemistry Department at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD). Holds a PhD in Chemistry, a Master in Environmental Technology and a Degree in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources. His main research interests are i) water and wastewater treatment, ii) advanced oxidation processes, iii) water disinfection, iv) environmental chemistry, v) biosorption, vi) biologic processes, vii) process intensification and viii) water-energy production. To date has published 60 papers in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals, 1 patent, 5 book chapters and more than 150 conference proceedings and communications. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2015, European Commission) and several prizes: i) Prize Dr. Francisco da Fonseca Henriques - awarded by the Administração da RegiãoHidrográfica do Norte, Portugal; ii) Prize APRH 2010/11, awarded by the Associação Portuguesa dos RecursosHídricos, Portugal and iii) Prize Young Researcher 2013 - UTAD.

David G. Santos: PhD in Philosophy since 2013, he has been teaching at the University of Beira Interior for 14 years. He is mainly interested in Philosophy of Biology, Ethics, Meta-Ethics and Biopolitics. With more than 20 lectures given from Oxford to Toronto, passing through Madrid and, of course, Lisbon, he is frequently invited to give lectures on the Philosophy of Biology.

I graduated in Food Engineering, obtained my master´s degree in Food Quality and Safety in 2017 and my PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, specialty in Nutrition and Food Chemistry in 2022.The main focus of my PhD was the optimization of olive oil extraction process to obtain an enriched-phenolic compounds product. In addition, I´ve proposed the development of lab-made electrochemical sensors devices for olive matrices evaluation.I am currently a PostdoctoralResearcher of PreVineGrape POCI-01-0247-FEDER-049695 project (Development of a biogingicide against grape diseases).During my career I´ve been acquiring important skills in the field of food science and technology by exploiting natural matrices.My research targets are the identification, separation, and recovery of functional molecules, as well as their implementation as ingredients and bioactive in food, with an ultimate goal to extract high added-value molecules and reuse them in the food chain (from agriculture to the consumer).Being amember of Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), together with my research team, I´ve been exploiting the agrifood sector, mainly in the valorization of bio wastes, optimizing and implementing greener processes, and optimizing ideal conditions of stability for industry application.

Rui Manuel da Costa Soares completed the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine on 2013/07/12 at the University of Coimbra. He is attending a PhD in Health Sciences, in the area of ​​Microbiology, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, where he is also an Invited Assistant in the Curricular Units of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He develops research in the "Medical Microbiology" Group, which is part of the FMUC and the CNC (Center for Neuro Sciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra). He is also an Invited Assistant at the University of Algarve. He is a Clinical Pathologist, Hospital Assistant at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, being responsible for the Virology Sector. He is part of the IPO's PPCIRA Local Coordinating Group and is a Consultant in Sexology in the Multidisciplinary Group of OncoSexology. During the "Covid-19" mitigation and emergency phase, he streamlined the interconnection between the IPO Coimbra and the Institute of Microbiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, making it possible to research and diagnose SARS-CoV-2 in urgent patients . He is Technical Responsible for the Microbiology Laboratory of the UC Faculty of Medicine, having obtained certification by INSA, for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis by molecular biology. In June 2021 he took over the Coordination of the Coordinating Office for Research at the IPO in Coimbra. So far, he has published 14 articles in specialized journals. Organized 2 international events. He supervised 4 master's dissertations and co-supervised 1. He participated as Researcher in 2 projects (one of them European, as IP). He works in the area of ​​Medical and Health Sciences with an emphasis on the interconnection between Basic Medicine and Clinical Medicine. He is a Clinical Sexologist with competence attributed by the Medical Association.

Manuel José Cabral dos Santos Reis graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal in 1991. He obtained his Master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, branch of Digital Signal Processing, University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1996. His PhD, in Electrical Engineering, was also obtained from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2001. He is presently Associate Professor with Agregação in the UTAD’s Electrical Engineering Department. His research interests include the lines: signal & image processing and applications; study and development of devices & systems for friendly smart environments; development of multimedia-based teaching/learning methods and tools, with particular emphasis on the use of the Internet. He was the coordinator of the Signal Processing and Biotelemetry group, which included researchers from the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC-TEC, pole of UTAD) and from the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), where he is a research member. He also collaborates with the “IFPA-Santarém-Brasil Multidisciplinary Research Group (IFPA)” and with the “Research Center for Didactics and Technology in Teacher’s Training (CIDTFF)” at the University of Aveiro, since January 2014. He is President of the Scientific Council of ECT-UTAD, since December 2021. He has been responsible for coordinating several working groups on proposals for the creation of new undergraduate, masters and doctoral courses. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed indexed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, among others. He completed the supervision of 7 post-doc and PhD students, and 29 Masters students. He participated in more than 80 events worldwide. He was a research team member on 28 projects, including 16 projects where he was lead investigator. He owns 8 patent registrations and public utility models and has won 4 awards.

Mr. Suresh Aluvihara completed his postgraduate degree in the year 2023 from Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka which is well recognized university in the world. His postgraduate research disciplines were Environmental Engineering, Material Engineering, Water Treatments, Pollution Control Engineering and Chemical Engineering. He received his first degree in the year 2017 from a recognized government university in Sri Lanka under the disciplines of Earth Science and relevant scopes. According to his research and academic profile, he has done more than 75 research publications in reputed journals, international research conferences and international workshops as the full papers, conference proceedings and abstracts while obtaining a large number of citations. When considering his contribution in conference works, he participated in a large number of international research conferences under the roles of keynote speaker, invited speaker, featured speaker, guest speaker, moderator and organizing committee member in both online and in person mode. At present he is serving as a researcher in Agricultural Soil Science while joining with an Agricultural Research Institute. In the consideration of his additional research and associated experiences, currently he is giving his services for a few of research journals as an editor and reviewer in his research interests. Nowadays he is conducting a few of research works as the leading investigator in Earth Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Water Engineering disciplines. Furthermore, he received some awards in best young scholar and best young scientist in a few of world recognized awarding schemers and he received some competitive opportunities for the participation in international research conferences and training workshops.