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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

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.