Marin Soljacic is a Professor of Physics at MIT. He is a founder of WiTricity Corporation (2007), LuxLabs (2017), and Lightelligence (2017). His main research interests are in artificial intelligence as well as electromagnetic phenomena, focusing on nanophotonics, non-linear optics, and wireless power transfer. He received numerous awards for his work, including: the Adolph Lomb medal from the Optical Society of America (2005), the TR35 award of the Technology Review magazine (2006), MacArthur fellowship “genius” grant (2008), Blavatnik National Award (2014). In 2011 he became a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum.

Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs where his career advanced from postdoctoral fellowto Vice President for Physical Research. He has made contributions to optics and photonics, nanoscience,materials science, and QED, including the bandgap engineering technique leading to many new devices such as solid-state photomultipliers, resonant tunneling transistors and the invention of the quantum cascade laser. He and in group have carried out pioneeringresearch on plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces includingthe generalized laws of refraction and reflection, high performance metalenses and “flat optics”,and new methods to generate structured light. He carried out fundamental studies of the Casimir force, including new MEMS and the limits it places on this technology, and the first measurement of the repulsive Casimir force. He is a coauthor of over 500 publications and holds 70 US patents. His awards include the Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize and the Rob Wood Prize of the Optical Society, the Balzan Prize in Applied Photonics, the IEEE Edison Medal, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the IEEE Streifer Award, the APS Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, the King Faisal Prize,the AAAS Rumford Prize, the Enrico Fermi Prize of SIF, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize,the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the MRS Medal, the Czochralski Award for lifetime achievements in Materials Science, the Rank Prize and the Matteucci Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Europaea, the Accademia dei Lincei, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).He holds honorary doctorates from Lund University, Diderot University and the University of Bologna.. He is a board member of Metalenz (https://www.metalenz.com/), which he cofounded and is focused on bringing to market metalenses and cameras for high volume markets and of Pendar Technologies (https://www.pendar.com/).

John Pendry is a condensed matter theorist working at Imperial College London. His early work addressed electronic and structural properties of surfaces developing the theory of low energy diffraction, EXAFS, and of electronic surface states later moving on to studies of transport in disordered systems. In the mid 1990's he turned his attention to metamaterials and proposed several structures which radically influenced the development of the field leading to the experimental discovery of negative refraction by the Smith group and later, also in collaboration with David Smith, the design of a cloak of invisibility. His investigation of negative refraction led to the discovery that it is theoretically possible to design a lens whose resolution is limited only by the perfection of manufacture, not by the well known Abbé law which limits resolution to the order of the wavelength. The technique of transformation optics which he pioneered has led to many applications in the field of plasmonics, particularly building on the perfect lens concept and showing how to concentrate light into sub nanoscale volumes. His most recent work is the topic of today's talk and moves the study of metamaterials on to structures that vary in time as well as in space.

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Chair of Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he has worked since 1982. He was the 2017 President of the Optical Society, where he served on the board for 7 years. He currently is Chair of the OSA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Optical Society. Mazur is a prominent physicist known for his contributions in nanophotonics, an internationally recognized educational innovator, and a sought after speaker. Mazur’s research has focused on the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with materials, nanophotonics, and photonic metamaterials. Mazur has founded a number of companies based on technologies developed in his laboratory, including SiOnyx, Learning Catalytics and Perusall. He is author or co-author of several books, 400 publications, and holds 52 patents. He is a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands and a Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Mazur is Fellow of the APS, the AAPT, and the AAAS. He has received numerous awards, including the Esther Hoffman Beller award from the Optical Society of America and the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers. Mazur holds Honorary Doctorates from the Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Montreal, Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos, Lima, Peru, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. He holds Honorary Professorships from Beijing University of Technology, Beijing Normal University, Sichuan University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and the Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tie Jun Cui (M’98–SM’00–F’15) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In March 1993, he joined the Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Xidian University, and was promoted to an Associate Professor in November 1993. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Research Fellow with the Institut fur Hochstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In July 1997, he joined the Center for Computational Electromagnetics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist. In September 2001, he was a Cheung-Kong Professor with the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Currently he is the Chief Professor of Southeast University. He is also Founding Director of the Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University. Dr. Cui’s research interests include metamaterials and computational electromagnetics. He proposed the concepts of digital coding and programmable metamaterials, and realized their first prototypes, based on which he founded the new direction of information metamaterials, bridging the physical world and digital world. Dr. Cui is the first author of books Metamaterials – Theory, Design, and Applications (Springer, Nov. 2009) and Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals (CRC Press, Mar. 2016). He has published over 500 peer-review journal papers, which have been cited by more than 33000 times (H-Factor 89; Google Scholar), and licensed over 80 patents. Dr. Cui was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in 1995, received a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science in 1999, was awarded a Cheung Kong Professor by the Ministry of Education, China, in 2001, and received the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2002. Dr. Cui received the Natural Science Award (first class) from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, and the National Natural Science Awards of China (second class, twice), in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His researches have been selected as one of the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research “Optics in 2016” by Optics and Photonics News Magazine, 10 Breakthroughs of China Science in 2010, and many Research Highlights in a series of journals. His work has been widely reported by Nature News, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientists, etc. Dr. Cui is the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, and IEEE Fellow. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Guest Editors of Science China - Information Sciences, Science Bulletin, IEEE JETCAS, and Research. Currently he is the Chief Editor of Metamaterial Short Books in Cambridge University Press, the Associate Editor of Research, and the Editorial Board Members of eLight, PhotoniX, Advanced Optical Materials, Small Structure, and Advanced Photonics Research. He presented more than 60 Keynote and Plenary Talks in Academic Conferences, Symposiums, or Workshops.

Guoliang Huang is a James C. Dowell Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Huang works in the broad area of Solid Mechanics and Architected Materials in particular the new frontiers of structural dynamics, topological mechanics, wave propagation, and dynamical behaviors of composite materials, both man-made and formed naturally. His recent research has been focusing on addressing challenges in development of passive and active metamaterials for wave propagation and noise control, mechanical topological insulator, vibration and sound mitigation, flow/structure interaction, aerodynamics, structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, bio-sensing, and among others. Dr. Huang is a renowned scholar in the emerging field of elastic and acoustic metamaterials and metacomposites. His work has pioneered a new class of active metamaterials with sensing, actuation and information processing and response and space-time modulated metamaterials for mechanical nonreciprocity. Dr. Huang has published more than 130 first class international journal papers in those fields(include Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, et al.), one book, three chapters in book, and around 100 international conference publications. His research projects are funded by NSF, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, NASA, ARPA-E and major industries. He gave many plenary/keynote talks in many international and national conferences and served as organizing committee members. He is the fellow of international association of advanced materials (IAAMs) and he serves as Associate Editor of Wave Motion.

Andrew Webb is the Director of the High Field Imaging Centre in the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. On his sabbatical year he is the acting Director of the Clinical Imaging Research Center in the Stephens Family Clinical Imaging Center at Carle Foundation Hospital. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was previoulsy a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition to over 330 peer-reviewed publications he has authored four academic text books on medical imaging and biomedical instrumentation. He is the current President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology. In 2010 he founded the Nadine Barrie Smith trust at UIUC which supports four student fellowships per year for women in science and engineering.

Zhigang Chen earned his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and was promoted to the rank of Senior Research Staff Member at Princeton University before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University in 1998. He is currently a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University, China. His research interests include nonlinear photonics, topological phenomena, structured light and biophotonics. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Optics Letters, Light Science & Applications, Science Bulletin, and Advances in Physics X, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including the Program/General Co-Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Douglas H. Werner received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively. He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCainChair Professorship in the Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL: http://cearl.ee.psu.edu/) as well as a member of the Communications and Space Sciences Lab (CSSL). He is also a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State. Prof. Werner was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. In 1994, Prof. Werner received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award. He was a co-author (with one of his graduate students) of a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation which received the 2006 R. W. P. King Award. He received the inaugural IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award and the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Awardin 2011 and 2014 respectively. In 2018, he received the DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He also received the 2015 ACES Technical Achievement Award,the 2019 ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award. He was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2000 and March 2002, respectively. He was also presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. In March 2009, he received the PSES Premier Research Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET, the OSA, the ACES, and the PIERS Electromagnetics Academy. He is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), SPIE, and URSI. Prof. Werner is a former Associate Editor of Radio Science, a former Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports(a Nature subjournal),an Editorial Board Member for EPJ Applied Metamaterials, Editor for the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory & Applications, a member of URSI Commissions B and G, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He holds 20 patents, has published over 900 technical papers and proceedings articles, and is the author of 35 book chapters with several additional chapters currently in preparation. He has published several books including Frontiers in Electromagnetics (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2000), Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/IEEE, 2007), Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications (London, UK: Springer, 2014), Electromagnetics of Body Area Networks:Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/IEEE, 2016), Broadband Metamaterials in Electromagnetics: Technology and Applications (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2017), and Nanoantennas and Plasmonics: Modelling, Design and Fabrication (London, UK: SciTech Publishing, IET, 2020) He has also contributed chapters for several books including Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms (New York: Wiley Interscience, 1999), Soft Computing in Communications (New York: Springer, 2004), Antenna Engineering Handbook (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007), Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design and Engineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011), Numerical Methods for Metamaterial Design (New York: Springer, 2013), Computational Electromagnetics (New York: Springer, 2014), Graphene Science Handbook: Nanostructure and Atomic Arrangement (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: CRC Press, 2016), Handbook of Antenna Technologies (New York: Springer, 2016), and Transformation Wave Physics: Electromagnetics, Elastodynamics and Thermodynamics (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2016). His research interests include computational electromagnetics (MoM, FEM, FEBI, FDTD, DGTD, CBFM, RCWA, GO, GTD/UTD, etc.) antenna theory and design, phased arrays (including ultra-wideband arrays), microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems (including on-body networks), wearable and e-textile antennas, RFID tag antennas, conformal antennas, reconfigurable antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, transformation optics, nanoscale electromagnetics (including nanoantennas), fractal and knot electrodynamics, and nature-inspired optimization techniques (genetic algorithms, clonal selection algorithms, particle swarm, wind driven optimization, and various other evolutionary programming schemes).

Dr. EUGENE O. KAMENETSKII received diploma of Engineer in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Electrical Engineering Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1969 and 1986, respectively. He is presently with Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel as a Head of Microwave Magnetic Laboratory. He is an author (co-author) of 180 refereed journal and conference papers. He is an editor of 3 books: "Electromagnetic, magnetostatic, and exchange-interaction vortices in confined magnetic structures", Research Signpost Publisher (2008), “Fano Resonances in Optics and Microwaves”, Springer (2018), and ”Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures”, Springer (2021). He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (USA) since 2007. Research interests: Magnetic waves and oscillations, spectral theory of artificial atomic structures, metamaterials for microwave and optics applications, microwave microscopy, and microwave biosensing. Recent scientific results: During last several years, in our Microwave Magnetic Lab we study effects of interaction of EM fields with magnetostatic oscillations – magnetostatic magnon polaritons – observed in small ferrite particles. We have obtained very interesting and promising results on microwave chiral magnon polaritons. Our results concern both fundamental studies and unique applications, such as chiral-field microwave microscopy, microwave biosensing of enantiomeric liquids.

Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay received M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. He worked as a postdoc in Stanford University and he later worked as a scientist in Iowa State University. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in Physics and EEE Departments. In 2003, he founded Bilkent University Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM) where he leads a research group working on nanophotonics, nanometamaterials, nanoelectronics, and GaN based devices. He is the 1997 recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal of OSA and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He worked as an editor for Optics Letters, PNFA, SPIE JNP and IEEE JQE journals. He has published 525+ articles in SCI journals. His papers have received 17500+ SCI citations with an h-index of 61. He has given 165+ invited talks in international conferences. He is also the CEO of a spin-off company: AB-MicroNano Inc., which is founded to commercialize the technologies developed in NANOTAM.

Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman is Cymer Chair and Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received the Ph. D. from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1983. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to near field optical phenomena, inhomogeneous and meta-materials, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. His current research interests are in near field optical science and technology withapplications targetting information technologies and biomedical sensing.He contributed over 320 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 540 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and AharonGutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, SPIE Gabor Award, OSA Emmett N. Leith Medal and OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.

Massimo Ruzzene received the PhD degree in applied mechanics from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999. He is currently the Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department of CU Boulder. He joined CU in the summer of 2019, after serving as the Pratt and Whitney Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. M. Ruzzene is author of 2 books, more than 190 journal papers and 280 conference papers. His current and past research has focused on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation with application to ultrasonic imaging, structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control. M. Ruzzene is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), and he is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautices (AIAA).

Ole Sigmund is a Professor and Villum Investigator at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He obtained his Ph.D.-degree 1994 and Habilitation in 2001 and has held research positions at University of Essen and Princeton University. He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and the Royal Academy of Science and Letters (Denmark) and is the former President (2011-15, now EC member) of ISSMO (International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization) and former Chairman of DCAMM (Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2004-2010). Together with Noboru Kikuchi and Martin Bendsøe, Ole Sigmund is one of the founders and main contributors to the development of topology optimization methods in academia and industry. Present research interests include theoretical extensions and applications of topology optimization methods to mechanics and multiphysics problems under the consideration of manufacturing constraints and multiple length scales. Ole Sigmund has authored more than 290 international journal papers which are cited more than 20,000 times in the ISI Science Citation Index and his H-index is 67.

Baohua Jia (PhD in 2007) is the Director of Centre for Translational Atomaterials at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She uses light to develop various functional nanostructures to effectively harness and store clean energy and boost the performance of communication devices. She is the President of Australia-China Advanced Materials and Manufacture Association, the Program Leader of Future Manufacturing Institution and the Head of Laser and Nanomaterial Interaction (LNI) Group. She has secured more than $25m research grants as a key CI in the past 13 years. She has co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and delivered more than 50 keynote/invited talks at prestigious international conferences and serves multiples professional committees. Her recent awards include the Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2013), L’Oréal Australia and New Zealand for Women in Science Fellowship (2012), Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2012), Victoria Fellowship (2010) and Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009) et al.

Arnaud Tourin is a professor of physics at ESPCI Paris-PSL and is head of the Langevin Institute. His research focuses mainlyon wave propagation in strongly scattering media, with contributions in acoustics, microwaves and seismology.His work on time-reversal focusing of ultrasound through multiple scattering media contributed to creating a new paradigm for the manipulation of waves in complex media: contrary to long-held beliefs, disorder is not only an impediment to focusing and imaging but can be turned into an ally for controlling waves.Together with his colleagues G.Lerosey, J. de Rosny and M. Fink, he then extended the concept of time-reversal focusing to microwaves. Using acoustic waves, he has also revisited intriguing phenomena ofcondensed matter physics such as weak localization, Anderson localization or resonant tunnelling.Hiscurrentresearch interests arein acoustics of granular mediaandacoustic bubble mematerialstargeting exotic properties such as super reflection, super absorption, negative refraction and subwavelength focusing. Arnaud Tourinis the co-authorof more than80 publications in peer-reviewed journals,conference proceedings and books. He is the co-inventor of 6 patents and the co-founder of a start-up, Time Reversal Communications (now part of the Bull-ATOS Company).

Professor Guihua Tang is currently Head of Department, and Director of Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education in China, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He obtained a PhD in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics in 2004, and BEng in 1996 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He worked as a Higher Scientific Officer in the UK STFC Daresbury Laboratory from 2007 to 2009. He has extensive research experiences in microscale and nanoscale fluid flow and heat transfer and the applications in solar energy, thermoelectrics materials, super-thermal insulating materials, and phase-change heat transfer. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed international journal papers and the citation number is over 3000 in the SCI database. Currently he serves as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and Top Editor for Nanomaterials. He was awarded with Chung-Hua Wu Award by the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, New Century Excellent Talents in University of China, Excellent Young Scholars and Distinguished Young Scholars from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Ten thousand plan" - National high level talents special support plan of China, etc.

Yan Pennec is Professor in the physics’ department at the University of Lille in France. He got a permanent position as an assistant professor in 1994 just after his PhD defense at the University of Le Mans. He belongs to the Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) where he is doing his research on simulation of wave propagations in phononic, photonic and plasmonic nanostructures and their interactions through optomechanical and phoXonic devices. He became full Professor at the University of Lille in 2014. He has published more than 120 papers in international refereed journals and about 10 review articles and book chapters. Since 2015, he leads the theory group EPHONI at the IEMN.

Prof. Yongbo Deng is a full professor at Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He derived a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2018, and was elected as the member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences in the same year. During 2016 and 2017, he derived the Grant Fellowship of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany as a guest professor in the Institute of Microstructure Technology. He published 48research papers, in the areas of nano-optics, topology optimization and microfluidics. He also published one monograph on topology optimization of flow problems and obtained 12 issued invention patents.

Bahram Djafari-Rouhani is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Lille, France. Afterhis doctoral degrees (PhD in1974 and Doctoratd’Etat in 1978)at the University of Paris-Orsay and a post-doctoral position at the University of Gent (Belgium), he obtained a research position atthe French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1985 he became Professorat the University of Mulhouse before moving to the University of Lille in 1990. He leaded a theory group on the modelling of wave propagation and elementary excitations in heterogeneous and nanostructured materials, more particularly in the topics ofphononiccrystals and acoustic metamaterials,optomechanics,photonics and plasmonics. He was pioneering in the field of phononic crystals and was awarded the BlochPrize at the conference Phononics2013.Currently, he belongs to the editorial boards of Physical Review Applied and Applied Sciences.

Nahid Talebi graduated from Tehran University with a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2011, defended with distinction. During her studies, she visited the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart for the duration of 7 months with a Scholarship from the Max Planck Society. In 2012, she joined the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. In 2015, she became a group leader at theMax Planck Institute for Solid State Research and in 2018, she received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. In 2019, she joined the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel as an associate professor and a director of the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, holding the chair for Nanooptics.Her work concerns exploring the interaction of electron beams with light and nanostructures, to both investigate fundamental quantum mechanical aspects of electron-light interaction, and to propose and realize novel characterization techniques with electron beams. She has also expertise in computational physics, particularly numerical electrodynamics and plasmonics.

Dr Zhenhua Ni is currently a professor in School of Physics at Southeast University (SEU, China). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU, China) in 2003, Ph.D. degree in Physics from National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore) in 2007, and did his postdoctoral research in Department of Physics and Applied Physics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) from 2007-2010. His current research interests include the spectroscopic investigation of two dimensional materials and their applications in optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and receiving over 14000 citations with H-index of 57.

Jeff Owrutsky is head of the Spectroscopy and Dynamics Section in the Chemistry Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC. He has a BA in Chemistry from Brandeis University and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from UC Berkeley. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania, he came to NRL and has worked on ultrafast gas phase photochemistry, solution ultrafast studies of photochemistry, vibrational relaxation and solid state dynamics. Current areas of interest include exploring different aspects of chemical physics, nanophotonics and nanomaterials, as well as studies of interfacial and confined species, molecular photochemistry and photophysics. In addition, optical methods are used to investigate catalysts and fuel cells, especially high temperature methods for solid oxide fuel cells. More information is available on googlescholar, orchidid, and linkedin.

Xianzhong Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK. He is leading the Experimental Nanophotonics Group at HWU, which is dedicated to the fundamental physics of metasurface and its application in ultrathin optical devices for imaging, defence, displayand information processing. The ultrathin nature and unusual functionalities have enabled the discovery of new phenomena and the development of novel prototype devices for future technologies. His research highlights include arbitrary manipulation of polarization profile for image concealment, multichannel device for dynamic manipulation of twisted light beams, dual-polarity metalens for imaging and image-switchable metasurface holograms for anti-counterfeiting. He has published 78 papers, including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, and Light: Science & Applications. To explore the commercial applications of novel nanodevices and integrated optical systems, he has built connection with industry, including STMicroelectronics, Renishaw and Holoxica. Group website: http://nanophotonicslab.eps.hw.ac.uk/.

Yuebing Zheng is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, directing the Zheng Research Group (http://zheng.engr.utexas.edu). He is holding the William W. Hagerty Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (with Prof. Tony Jun Huang) from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Chemistry and Biochemistry (with Prof. Paul S. Weiss) at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013. Since the establishment in 2013, Zheng Research Group has been innovating optical manipulation, manufacturing, and measurement for quantum, nano, and biological world.They have invented and applied a new class of optical tweezers, lithography, spectroscopy, robots,andlab-on-a-chip devices todeliver innovative healthcare solutions,to advanceresearch in biology and astrobiology, and to accelerate use of nanomaterials in addressing challenges in quantum computing, Internet of Things, and energy.They received 2020 IEEE NANO Best Poster Award, 2019 University Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper, 2018 Materials Today Rising Star Award, 2017 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2017 NASA Early Career Faculty Award, 2017 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2015 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and 2014 Beckman Young Investigator Award. Yuebing is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a senior member of the Optical Society of America.

Long Li is a professor of Xidian University. He is the member of microwave branch of Chinese Institute of Electronics, senior member of IEEE, and an executive director of metamaterials branch of Chinese Materials Research Society. He received the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education of China, and Shaanxi Outstanding Youth Fund. Prof. Li is the Director of Key Laboratory of High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC, Ministry of Education, China, and the Dean of Hai-Tang No.9 Academy of Xidian University. His main research directions include electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, new antennas and microwave circuits, electromagnetic compatibility, wireless power transfer and RF energy harvesting, and so on.

Giacomo Scalari has studied physics at the University of Pisa, Italy. He then moved to Switzerland for his PhD at the University of Neuchâtel. In 2007 he joined the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zürich as a Post-Doc. After becoming Oberassistant he was hired permanently in 2011 as a Senior Research Scientist. In 2020 he received the title of Professor from ETH Zürich. Prof. Scalari’s research interests span both applied and fundamental experimental physics, particularly in the field of THz photonics with the development of new THz laser sources and frequency combs based on semiconductor heterostructures and in the field of strong light-matter coupling with the realization of new platforms for THz quantum optics. in 2016 he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant for his work on THz quantum cascade lasers frequency combs.

Zhijun Liu obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University at 2008, and have been a full professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2013. His research interests include subwavelength photonics, plasmonics and infrared lasers and sensors. His research results have been reported in over 60 refereed journal papers and at over 40 talks at conferences in the areas of optical structures and infrared devices.

Mohsen Rahmani is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University. His research activities span over nonlinear nanophotonics, flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, etc. He has obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London, and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2020, he moved to the Nottingham Trent University as a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, and has recently been awarded by the UK Research and Innovation Fellowship. Associate Professor Rahmani has delivered 20+ invited talks, seminars and keynotes in international conferences, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers (H-index=31). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and prizes including the Australian Eureka Prize, Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award. He is a senior member of the Optical Society of America and IEEE.

Bart van Tiggelen is a CNRS research professor at the LPMMC at the University Grenoble Alpes. He is a theoretician interested in all classical and quantum aspects of wave propagation, with contributions in optics, acoustics and seismology, and organizer of many meetings on these subjects. He is currently working on angular momentum of light in magneto-optical materials and Anderson localization of electromagnetic waves.

Dr. ABUL K. AZAD is an experimentalist with expertise in plasmonic metamaterials, ultrafast optics, terahertz, microwave, and applied electromagnetism. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2006. He is presently a scientist at Center for Integrated Nano Technologies (CINT), MPA division. He served on many national and international conferences as organizing committee members and chairs, and contributed his expertise as panel chairs to NSF and DOE Basic Energy Sciences. He authored/co-authored 90 publications, including 1 Science, 2 Nature Photonics, 4 Nature Communications, 2 Nano Letters, and 5 PRLs. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of American.

He-Xiu Xu was born in China in 1985. He received the B.S. degree in radar engineering in June 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology in June 2014 from Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an, China. He was a Visiting Scholar at the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from February 2012 to January 2014, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China from 2015 to 2017, and also a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, from December 2017 to December 2018. Dr. Xu joined the Air Force Engineering University, in September 2014 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2016, and a full Professor in 2019. Currently, he is also a guest professor of Hengyang Normal University. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed first-author and co-author journal papers in Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Light: Sci. Appl., Proceedings of IEEE, Advanced materials, ACS Photonics, Advanced Optical materials, Photonics Research, IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagations, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Annalen der Physik, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Scientific Reports, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE, Transactions on Magnetics and IEEE Microwave Magazine, etc. He has also published 3 Chinese books, 1 English books and 2 English book chapters. He served as an editor of AEU Int. J. Electron. Commun since 2014, a guest editor for Special Issue “Metamaterial Circuits and Antennas” of ‘International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering’ in 2018, and served as an invited reviewer for more than 20 leading journals including Light Science & Applications, etc. He has owned 24 China patents and has given more than 21 invited talks. He served as a special session chair 16 times and a TPC co-chair/member more than 16 times in international conferences. His research interests include passive/active metamaterials/metasurfaces, and their applications to novel microwave functional devices and antennas. Dr. Xu received the 8th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award in 2013. He won the best Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award at Air Force Engineering University in 2014 and later received the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Military, Shaanxi Province, and Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). He has hosted several programs such as the National Science Foundation of China, the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China Scholarship Fund, and First-Class General and Special Financial Grant from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He receives the URSI GASS Young Scientist Award, URSI AP-RASC Young Scientist Award, and URSI EMTS Young Scientist Award and ACES Young Scientist Award in 2019 and several Scientific and Technological Progress Awards like Gold Award of National technological invention. He was awarded outstanding scientific and technological worker of CIE in 2018, a Young Talent from China Association for Science and Technology in 2017, Young Scientist Nova from Shaanxi Technology Committee in 2016. He was also the receipt of Excellent Paper Award in metasurface multifunctional devices at the 23th Annual Youth Conference of CIE in 2017, in helicity control of metasurface at PIER Symposium in 2018, Outstanding Paper Award from Nature Light Science & Applications in 2019, The 14th Excellent Scientific Paper Award from Shaanxi Government in 2019, Annual Excellent Research Paper Award in Conformal metasurface from CIE in 2020, and a co-recipient of three Best Paper Awards such as in bifunctional metasurfaces at the A3 Metamaterials Forum in 2017. Dr. Xu is now also a Fellow of IET and a Senior Member of CIE.

Tao LI, Professor in Nanjing University (NJU), received his PhD degree at NJU in 2005, joined College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2008, and was promoted to full professor in 2013. He worked as a visiting scholar in Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, in 2012, and Hong Kong Baptist University under the support of “K.C. Wong Education Foundation” scholarship in 2013. He won "Dengfeng Talent Program B" from NJU (2012), "National Funds for Outstanding Young Scientists" (2013), and "Young and middle-aged leading scientists" from MOST (2018). His research includesmetamaterials,plasmonics, nanophotonics. Till now, he has published >100 SCI papers (including Nature, Nature Nano., Nature Commun.,PRL, LSA, Nano Lett., etc.) with a recent H index of 32, presented >50 invited talks in international conferences and seminars. He is currently working as the Topical Editor of Chinese Optical Letters, Executive Board Member of Science Bulletin, and Editorial Committee of Frontier of Optoelectronics.

Associate Professor Jon A. Schuller graduated from UCSB with a B.S. degree in physics before completing a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University. His doctoral work on nanophotonics, the study of light-matter interactions at nanometer length-scales, comprised research in plasmonics, metamaterials, and CMOS-compatible photonics. As a Fellow of the Columbia University Energy Frontier Research Center, he applied nanophotonics concepts and techniques towards the fundamental study of solar cell materials and design. Professor Schuller joined the electrical and computer engineering department at UC Santa Barbara in the summer of 2012, earning tenure in 2018. He is the recipient of an AFOSR Young Investigator Award and NSF CAREER award.

Massimiliano Gei received a master in civil engineering from the University of Bologna in 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in materials and structural engineering from the University of Trento in 2001. He was Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Trento (2005-2015) and Professor at Cardiff University (2015-2020). He is now Professor of solid mechanics and structures at the School of Engineering of University of Trieste where he leads the Solid and Structural Mechanics group. His research interests include soft smart materials and structures, composite materials, and elastic metamaterials. He has recently introduced the concept of canonical configuration for quasicrystalline-generated elastic waveguides and has published more than sixty papers in leading international journals in mechanics and applied physics.

Philippe BEN-ABDALLAH is Research Director at CNRS in France and adjunct Professor at Sherbrooke University in Canada. He is head of the team “thermoplasmonic” of Charles Fabry Laboratory at the Institut d’Optique at Paris. He got his PhD in applied Physics at ENSMA in 1997. He held a tenured position at CNRS in 2000 and became senior researcher in 2008. His research activities are mainly on nanophysics and mesoscopic physics, plasmonics and near-field heat transfer with applications in the fields of nanoscale thermal management, energy conversion/harvesting, IR spectroscopy and data recording. He is author of more than 210 scientific communications among which 120 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Jichun Li is Professor of Mathematics and Director for Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics in U. of Nevada Las Vegas. His previous positions include Postdoc Fellow at University of Texas at Austin, Summer Research Faculty at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Associate Director of Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in U. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Research areas include analysis of finite element methods, high-order finite difference methods, RBF meshless methods, and applications in image processing and electromagnetic wave propagation. He has published over 130 SCI journal papers and 2 monographs (one on "Time-Domain Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Metamaterials", Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol.43, Springer, 2013). Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of "Results in Applied Mathematics" (RINAM: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/results-in-applied-mathematics) and Managing Editor of "Computers & Mathematics with Applications" (CAMWA: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-mathematics-with-applications).

Stéphane Lanteri is a senior research scientist at Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée. He is the scientific head of the Atlantis project-team whose activities aim at the design of innovative numerical methods for the study of nanoscale light-matter interactions. His research interests are concerned with high order finite element type discretization methods and high performance solvers for electromagnetic wave propagation models relevant to nanophotonics and plasmonics. He is the scientific coordinator of the development of the DIOGENeS software suite, which is dedicated to computational nanophotonics.

Sergey Kharintsev graduated from Kazan State University with a MS in Physics in 1996. He received his PhD in 1999 from Kazan State University (Russia), for solving inverse ill-posed problems in applied spectroscopy. In 2005, he joined the group of Prof. De G. With at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) as a postdoctoral researcher (project entitled “Quantitative Analysis with Nano Probes”). Since 2011 up to now, Prof. Kharintsev S. is a Head of Nano-Optics Lab at the Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University. His research focuses on enhanced (SERS/TERS/SNOM) spectromicroscopy, nonlinear photonics, thermoplasmonics and optical metamaterials. He contributed into theoretical and experimental studies towards an adaptive electrochemical etching of TERS-active nanoantennas, an analysis of polarization states of optical near-fields beneath a tapered gold tip, local electro-optical poling of azo-benzene polymers and a photo-induced heating of a free-standing azo-polymer thin film, stimulated Raman scattering in titanium nitride square-shaped planar nanoantennas, reconstruction of Raman tensors of characteristic modes of single anisotropic molecules using TERS, among others.

Xue-Xia Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2001. From 1994 to 1998, she was a teaching assistant and a lecturer in Lanzhou University, China. From 2001 to 2008, she was a lecture and an associate professor in Shanghai University, China. She is currently a professor and the Head of the Antennas and Microwave Research Center at Shanghai University. She has authored or coauthored over 200 technical journal and conference papers. She is also a frequent reviewer for over 10 scientific journals. Her research interests include antennas theory and technology, metasurface for antenna and microwave circuits, computational electromagnetics, and microwave power transmission. She is now the senior member of IEEE, the Committee of Antenna Society of China Electronics Institute, the Committee of Microwave Society of China Electronics Institute. She is now an associate editor for Radio Science, Journal of Shanghai University (Science edition)

Dr. Igor Bondarev is a tenured Professor of Physics in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Bondarev earned his MS (1989, Physics, with Honors) and PhD (1994, Theoretical Physics) degrees from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus. He earned his DSc degree (2001, Theoretical Solid-State Physics) from the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. (Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics is the Habilitation Degree awarded to less than one percent of active former Soviet Union scientists holding PhDs.) In 1989-2005, Dr. Bondarev worked in the Theoretical Physics Lab of the Institute for Nuclear Problems at Belarusian State University (last occupied position – Principal Research Associate/Group Leader). At the same time, as a visiting Professor he performed research in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, and Japan, supported by DAAD (Germany), OSTC (Belgium), JSPS (Japan), and by other highly competitive visiting professorship fellowships. Dr. Bondarev has authored and co-authored over 200 research articles, including one US patent and five book chapters in collective monographs published by Nova Science, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and American Scientific, USA. He presented his research at over 30 invited seminars and over 150 international conferences and symposia in Europe, China, Japan, Mexico, USA, and Canada. Dr. Bondarev is the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award (Belarus, 1999-2001), NCCU College of Science & Technology Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2007, 2012), NCCU Faculty Senate Award for Scholarly Achievements (2007), NCCU Office of Sponsored Research Award for Technology Innovations (2012), and Research Grant Awards from the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, and US Army Research Office.

Professor Xiaofeng LI received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2010, he was working as a research fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2010 to 2011, he was employedas a research associate in Department of Physics, Imperial College London. He began to work in Soochow University as a full professor since January 2012. He is now the dean of School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Soochow University. His interests include nanophotovoltaics, surface-plasmon physics and devices, hot-electron photodetection, optical sensing, etc. He has already authored more than 140 ISI-index journal papers and presented over 40 invited talks in conferences. Prof. Li is a senior member of IEEE and Chinese Optical Society. He is serving as an associate editor of OSA Applied Optics and IEEE Photonics journal as well as the Editorial member of several other journals.

Bal S. Virdee is Professor of Communications Technology at London Metropolitan University, UK where he is Director of Center for Communications Technology. Previously he was a research and development engineer for Philips, future product designer in RF/microwave communications systems at Teledyne Defence & Space and has taught at various UK Universities. Dr Virdee is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE). He is often invited to chair technical sessions at international conferences. He is a peer reviewer for prestige journals and international conferences such as IET and IEEE, among others. He is in the Editorial Board of various international journals including Cogent Engineering a Taylor & Francis open access journal, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications, and previously International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering. He was Guest Editor of International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Hindawi Publishing Corporation. He is also in the Program Committee & Conferences Co-Chair for The World Congress on Engineering. He has extensively published peer reviewed research papers and co-authored the book “Broadband Microwave Amplifiers” published by Artech House in 2004. In 2017 he co-authored six book chapters in the following books “Microwave Systems and Applications”, “Microwave Antenna Systems”, and “Metamaterials - Devices and Applications” published by IntechOpen. Dr Virdee’s research interests broadly include metamaterials, Internet of Things (IoT), UWB communications and next generation of wireless technology.

Lu Zhenbo is currently a professor in School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Flight Vehicle Propulsion from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA, 2003), Master of Engineering in Aerospace Propulsion Theory and Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA, 2006),Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU, 2012). He was working as a Research Scientist in the Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore for six years (2012 to 2018), and promoted to be a Senior Research Scientist from 2019 to 2020. His research interests include smart acoustic metamaterial and metasurface, bio-inspired acoustic (Propeller and flapping wing MAV), computational aeroacoustics (CAA), noise and vibration control (Active flutter control, acoustic liner design, impedance identification) and fluid-structure interaction.

Christophe Galland studied at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (X2003) and received his PhD in 2010 from ETH Zürich for a thesis in solid-state quantum optics with individual carbon nanotubes, in the Quantum Photonics Group of Prof. Ataç Imamoglu. As a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Lab (USA) he studied the photophysics of individual nanocrystal quantum dots in the groups of Victor Klimov and Han Htoon. He was investigating the mechanisms responsible for fluorescence fluctuations and how to control them. I then moved to the University of Delaware in the group of Michael Hochberg to work in the emerging field of integrated quantum optics. I was leading international projects such as the realisation of an on-chip source of quantum correlated photons integrating optical filters and demultiplexers. From 2013 to 2016, He was working at EPFL in the group of Prof. Kippenberg in the field of quantum optomechanics with an Ambizione Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). His work focused on the creation of non-classical vibrational states of mesoscopic oscillators and on the amplification of vibrations in molecules. Since May 2017, he is leading the Laboratory of Quantum and Nano-Optics at EPFL as an SNSF-funded professor in the Institute of Physics. My team investigates two main phenomena: (i) the vibrational dynamics of molecules embedded in nanoscale plasmonic cavities, and (ii) non-classical correlations mediated by individual quanta of crystal vibrations at room-temperature. We employ state-of-the-art spectroscopic tools such as femtosecond lasers and single-photon counters to get new insights into sub-nanometer scale dynamics.

Teik-Cheng Lim won a Faculty of Engineering Annual Book Prize for his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was subsequently awarded the NUS Research Scholarship to pursue his PhD at the same university. Upon earning his doctorate, Dr. Lim worked at NUS for a few years before joining SIM University (UniSIM). He is currently Associate Professor and Head of PhD (Engineering) programme at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Dr. Lim is the author of Auxetic Materials and Structures (2015) and Mechanics of Metamaterials with Negative Parameters (2020), both published by Springer Nature.

Dr. Mahmoud A. Abdalla was born in 1973. He received the B.Sc. degree, with grade of excellent with honors, (GPA=3.91), in electrical engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt in 1995. He was awarded the M.Sc. degree, (GPA = 4) in electrical engineering from Military Technical college in 2000, and the PhD degree from Microwave and Communication group, School of Electrical Engineering, Manchester University, UK, in 2009. He has been with Military Technical College since 1996 where he is now a professor, the head of the the Council Committee and the electromagnetic waves / microwave group in Electronic Engineering Department. Also, he has been a Visiting Professor in Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada since 2017. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research is focusing on miniaturized multiband antennas/wideband microwave/ millimeter components and antennas with great attention is to employ metamaterial / EBG, structures. Also his research includes electromagnetic MIMO antennas, energy harvesting systems, smart antennas, frequency selective surfaces, radar absorber and electromagnetic launchers. He is currently an editor and a reviewer in many electromagnetic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Transactions in Microwave Theory & Techniques, IEEE Microwave Wireless Components Letters, IEEE Transactions in Magnetics, IET Microwaves, Antenna and Propagation, IET Electronics Letters, IET Communications, Microwave and Optical Technology Letetrs, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Scentific Reports, AEU Int. journal of communication and electronics, Personal Wireless Communication, Applied Physics, and others. Dr. Mahmoud Abdalla is currentely a senior member of the IEEE and URSI and the European Microwave Association EuMA. Dr. Mahmoud was the recipient of Egyptian encouragement state prize award for engineering sciences in 2014. In 2019, he was the recipiant of Egyptian El-sherouq inovation award in electronic engineering. He was awarded the top 1 % Publon world wide reviewer award for 2018 and 2019. In 2020, he was named in the top 2% scientists in "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field / "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators".

Ubirajara P Rodrigues-Filho is currently an associate professor in the Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos, at University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos campus, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Chemistry from Federal University of Parana (BSc, 1991), Master and PhD of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He received a post-doc fellow from Brazilian Ministry of Education to work on Surface Physics of Nanohybrid polymeric materials at University of Namur, Belgium, and was an invited researcher at Ecole Polytechnique at Palaiseau, France, working on Surface Design of Silicon. He is an Associate Professor in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry and the head of the Group of Hybrid and Inorganic Chemistry of the Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo (USP). His research interests are on hybrid and inorganic materials for photocatalysis, photochromism and alkali metal photoabsortion.

Dr. Junfei Li is currently a research scientist at Duke University, USA. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015, and his Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 2020. He has been awarded John T. Chambers Scholar (2018-2020). His research has focused on acoustic and electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, energy harvesting, theoretical modeling of wave propagation in complex media, ultrasound, and acoustic tweezers. Dr. Li has authored and co-authored more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nat. Comms., Sci. Adv., Phys. Rev. Lett./B/Appl./Mat., Appl. Phys. Lett., Opt. Express, Smart Mater Struct., etc. He has also served as a reviewer for more than 10 reputable journals.

Dr. Yan-Feng Wang is currently an associate professor in Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, China. He is working on wave propagation in phononic crystals and metamaterials/metasurfaces. He has 41 peer-reviewed journal papers and 5 Chinese patents.

Dr. J. T. Andrews obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from SGS Institute of Technology & Science (Engineering Discipline, Devi Ahilya University), Indore in 1994 and 1998 respectively. He held faculty positions at SGSITS, Indore as well as at Birla Institute of Technology, - BITS, Mesra, Ranchi. He is presently Professor and Head of Department of Applied Physics and Optoelectronics, SGSITS, Indore. He worked at the Biomedical Application Division of Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology (RRCAT, Indore), Indore as well as at Institut fur Physik, Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany. He worked for a short spell at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and visited major R&D facilities in Europe. He is a recipient of Dr. K. S. Krishnan Award of Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai and BOYSCAST Award of Department of Science & Technology, GOI, New Delhi, Young Scientist Award from Department of Biotechnology, GoI, New Delhi and nominated for Dr. N. S. Satyamurthy Award of Indian Physics Association. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed international papers and contributed a chapter each in five books. Eight students have been awarded and four are pursuing for Ph.D. under his Guidance. More than 2.5 crores of rupees have generated through R&D Projects. Dr. Andrews’ research interests center around Optical Tweezers, Manipulation of nanomaterials, Biomedical Imaging, Non-invasive glucose measurements with Optical coherence tomography, Optical properties of Quantum dots, Quantum Optical Computer, and NDT&E using real-time holography, etc.

Prof. Abir De Sarkar has been serving the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India as Scientist-‘F’ and Dean (Academics). Prof. De Sarkar has been the recipient of the President of India, medal for the year 2000 for having topped all the postgraduate disciplines in the Calcutta University. He completed his Ph.D. in Computational Physics in 2004 from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. He had his first postdoctoral stint at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany in 2004-2005. While he had his last one jointly at the Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In between these two points, he had worked as a Research Scientist and Engineer on A*STAR Visiting Investigator Program (VIP) between CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France and Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore. Prof. De Sarkar is into scientific computing and has been pursuing research in the broad area of Computational Nanoscience. His forte is different kinds of energy conversion in nanomaterials, which includes piezoelectricity, photovoltaics, photocatalysis and thermoelectricity.In addition to different kind of energy conversion at nanoscale, Prof. Abir De Sarkar’s research group is involved in designing new materials and structures for controllable spintronics and valleytronics to meet the information processing and storage demands for the future. To his credit, he has published 82 articles in leading International Journals, such as, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Physical Review B, Nanoscale, etc. He has guided two students to the successful completion of their PhD and has mentored Postdoctoral Fellows. In recognition of hispursuit of research in 2D materials, he has been conferred the Prof. CNR Rao Award for excellence in Nanoresearch for the year 2018.

Dr. Yuri Gorodetski is a Head of the Nanooptics group. He obtained his B.Sc, 2003 and M.Sc degree, 2006 in Mechanical Engineering, in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa). During his Ph.D in Nanooptics Laboratory there he was awarded for Levi Eshkol and Russel Berry scolarships. His dissertation was focused on the experimental investigation of geometric phases in plasmonic 2D meta-structures. In 2010 he joined Laboratoire de Nanostructures, Université de Strasbourg as Post-Doctoral fellow. There he studied plasmonic interactions with chiral metamaterials and developed time-resolved plasmonic leakage microscopy. He took his current position in 2014 in the Faculty of Engineering in Ariel University where he established the Ariel Nanooptics Laboratory. He holds the Assistant Professor appointment in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Prof. Alejandro Manjavacas received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2009 and 2013, respectively, working under the supervision of Prof. Garcia de Abajo. After completion of his Ph.D., he moved to Rice University in 2013 as the J. Evans Attwell Welch postdoctoral fellow working in the group of Prof. Peter Nordlander. In the summer of 2015, he joined the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor. Prof. Manjavacas is the recipient of several awards including the RSEF-BBVA Foundation award to the best young theoretical physicist in Spain and the NSF Career Award. The focus of his research is to understand the fundamentals of the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. He has co-authored over 70 articles and reached over 5000 citations with a h factor of 33 (Google Scholar).

Prof. Ashish Yadav, Ph.D. His work focuses on advanced self-assembly based photonic crystals and plasmonic nano structures. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor on fabrication methods and the development of three-dimensionally ordered high quality photonic crystal films and their application as optical materials for lasing and devices. He is also interested in laser spectroscopic techniques for low threshold devices.

David Babonneau is Research Director at CNRS in France. In 1999, he received the Ph.D. degree in materials science from the University of Poitiers. After a postdoc at the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thomson‐CSF (Orsay, France) and at the CSIC (Madrid, Spain), he joined the LMP (Poitiers, France) in 2001 and became senior researcher at the Pprime Institute in 2016, where he headed the team ‘Physics and Properties of Nanostructures’ until 2021. His research interests are focused on nanostructured functional surfaces and thin films. His activities include the self-organized growth of plasmonic and magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires by physical vapor deposition, and the advanced characterization of nanostructured materials by grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering.

Dr. Bing Li is currently an associate professor in the School of Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He conducted his Post-Doctoral training in 2015-2018 at The University of Akron (Akron, US). He obtained his Ph.D. in the College of Engineering at Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2015. He received his Joint-Supervision Ph.D. training in the School of AMME at The University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) in 2013-2014.His primary research interests lie in the field of dynamical responses of advanced composite structures and elastic/mechanical metamaterials/metasurfaces.Hehas published over 60 research articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and renowned international conferences.

Gaëtan Lévêque, 45 ans, is an associate-professor in the EPHONI group (Physics of waves, nanostructures and interfaces), at IEMN (Institute of electronic, microelectronic and nanotechnologies) in Lille, France, since september 2010. He received his PhD in 2003 in Université Toulouse III, and was afterwards hired as a postdoc in the group “Nanophotonics and Metrology” of Prof. Olivier Martin, EPFL, Switzerland (2004-2007), and next in the “III-V” group of Brian Corbett, in Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland (2007-2010). He has published more than 60 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and essentially works in numerical simulations applied to photonics, plasmonics, and interaction of plasmon modes with elastic waves.

Daniel Ramos holds a Distinguished Researcher position at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN-CSIC). He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2009) carrying out his research at the Bionanomechanics Lab at Microelectronics Institute of Madrid (IMM-CNM-CSIC). After that period, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Nanodevices Lab, Yale University, and the Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics, Harvard University financed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant from the European Union. His research activities are mainly focused on the interplay in between phonons and photons in optomechanics with special attention to the energy exchange from electromagnetic field and nanomechanical resonators with applications in novel quantum sensing schemes.

Dr. Emiliano R. Martins completed a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 (USP, Brazil). He holds a Msc in Electrical Engineering (USP, Brazil, 2008) and a Msc in Photonics (St. Andrews, UK, 2010). In 2014 he completed his PhD with a thesis entitled “Light Management in Optoelectronic Devices” (St. Andrews, UK). He is currently a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil). His main research interests are in controlling light for applications in optoelectronics, biosensors and integrated optical systems. His research activities involve photonic crystals, metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, biophotonics, photovoltaics and thin-films.

Andrea Schmessane is a Physics Engineer of University of Santiago de Chile (2009). She has been a professor in different universities of Santiago, Chile since 2004. One first area of interest that she investigated was the connection between Engineering education, science, nanothecnology, technology, development and economy on her country. In the last ten years she works in experiments on water waves; exploring water wave localization, N wave generation and behavior, and Wood’s anomalies on surface gravity water waves, so Fano and Rayleigh's resonances on water waves. She also study tsunami caused by landslides applied to the case Aysen fjord in 2007.

Cuicui Lu is an associate professor in Beijing Institute of Technology. She received her Ph. D. degree in 2015 from Peking University. Her research interests include nanophotonics and topological photonics. She has published 40 papers, including Advances in Optics and Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Light: Science & Applications, Optica, Advanced Optical Materials, etc. She is a topical editor of Optics Letters.

Dr. Yongquan Liu is currently an associate professor in the School of Aerospace at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in the College of Engineering at Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2015. Then he conducted his Post-Doctoral training in 2016-2018 at The University of Birmingham and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include the design of elastic metamaterials/metasurfaces, wave propagation and vibration control methods in complex solid structures. He has published over 20 research articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

Dr.Subash is an academic veteran, technocrat cum avid researcher, Mentor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship cell. He is currently a Full time professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering & Dean, Academic & Research of Mangalam College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala. He is also serving as the Global Strategy Representative for India, IEEE Photonics Society, USA since 2020. He is the active senior member of IEEE and Founding Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society Madras Chapter till 2020. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Master of Engineering in Embedded System Technologies from Anna University, India in the year 2008 and 2011 respectively. He completed his PhD in Nanoelectronics from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2016. He enjoys teaching and research. Dr.Subash has received the fellowship from Government of Japan to represent India for two weeks “Japan – Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (SAKURA Science Exchange Program)” which is promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) during September, 2018. First Youngest Engineering College Professor from India to received this fellowship. He also received travel grant & fellowship from IEEE Photonics Society, USA to attend the IEEE Photonics Conference held at San Antonio, Texas, USA during October, 2019. He has 46 publications in International and National Journals and 28 papers in International and National Conferences in the area of Nanoelectronics, Nanoscale Device Modelling, Nanotechnology and Wireless Sensor Networks. He also filed 4 patents to his credit. He is the recognized research supervisor of Anna University, Chennai and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala. He serves as the active member of Editorial board/ reviewer board of various international Journals. Dr.Subash has been invited to deliver more than 30 keynote speeches and invited talks across the world. He has also been active in professional bodies. He was serving as the Vice-Chairman of IEEE EDS (Electron Devices Society) Coimbatore Chapter since 2014. He also served as the Secretary of IEEE MAS Young Professionals Madras Chapter from the year 2014 to 2016. To his credit he was the founder IEEE student branch counsellor of 2 IEEE Student branches and advisor of 3 IEEE Student branches under IEEE Madras section. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to professional bodies, IEEE Madras section bestowed him with certificate of appreciation for organizing activities towards the advancement of IEEE and Engineering Professions during the year 2012. Under his leadership, IEEE Photonics Society Madras Chapter received Chapter of the year award for the year 2017, Largest Membership Increase award for the year 2019 & Most Innovative Chapter award for the year 2020 from IEEE headquarters, USA. Due to his outstanding contributions in education, research, administration and professional services, his biography was listed along with the World professional biographies @ Marquis Who’s Who in the World (33rd Edition, 2016) United States of America and also listed along with 2000 outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st century -9th Edition- International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2016.

Johannes Lischner is currently a Senior Lecturer and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. He obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 2010 working in the group of Prof. Tomas Arias. From 2010 to 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the groups of Prof. Steven Louie and Prof. Marvin Cohen. In his research, he studies the physical and chemical properties of materials using theoretical modelling approaches. Currently, much of his work is focused on nanomaterials and energy materials. For example, he is interested in understanding the properties of twisted bilayer materials, catalytic metal surfaces, plasmonic nanoparticles and defects using a range of quantum-mechanical modelling techniques, including first-principles density-functional theory, Green’s function method or the renormalization group.

Since receiving my PhD from the University of Alberta in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Zubin Jacob, I have worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Alejandro Rodriguez's research group at Princeton University, studying a variety of subjects orbiting the central themes of computational modelling and optimization in electromagnetics. As of July 1st 2021, I have officially joined Polytechnique Montréal as a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Physics, and am actively looking to hire both student and postdoctoral researchers with broadly overlapping interests.

Alexander Solntsev has graduated with a double degree in Physics and Education from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2009 and received a PhD from the Australian National University in 2013. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2013-2015) and a Research Fellow (2016-2017) at the Australian National University. In 2017 Alexander joined the University of Technology Sydney as a Senior Lecturer to establish a laboratory focused on nonlinear and quantum optics. In 2021 he was promoted to Associate Professor.

ZHAO JUNJUAN is working from Dec.2012- Present as a Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor at Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental noise and vibration, Beijing Municipal Institute of Labor Protection. And she worked from Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020, Academic Visitor, ISVR, University of Southampton, UK. Her Current Research Interests are, Acoustic materialsand metamaterials, especiallysoundabsorption and insulation materials and structures;Room acoustics and noise control; Railway health monitoring, Railwaynoise control, and Railway vibration isolation; Photoacoustic spectroscopy;

Xiaofei Xu received the B. S. degree (with honors) in June 2007 and the Ph. D. degree (also with honors) in June 2011, both from Nanjing University, China. He is currently with the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, China as an associate professor. Dr. Xu has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His research interests include electromagnetic wave theory,metamaterials, and innovational antennas.

Wen Xuan Tang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Southeast University, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Queen Mary, University of London in 2012. In 2012, she joined the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include metamaterials, microwave devices and antennas. Dr. Tang has coauthored more than 40 journal articles, 1 book, and 2 book chapters. She serves as an Associate Editor for Advanced Electromagnetics and Reviews of Electromagnetics, and as a Guest Editor for EPJ Applied Metamaterials.

Navid Nemati received two MS degrees in theoretical physics of complex systems, and mechanics, both from the University of Paris, France. After spending two years as a research assistant at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, he moved back to France to do his PhD in acoustics in the Laboratory of Acoustics at Le Mans University (LAUM). He continued to work for a year at the same university as a lecturer, before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, as a postdoctoral associate, where he stayed for two years. After postdoctoral stays at the University of Paris-Est in Paris, France and then at Duke University, USA, he is currently pursuing his research in association with Gustave Eiffel University in Paris, France. His current research activities include acoustic metamaterials, nonlocal theory of wave propagation, acoustics-electromagnetics analogy, and dissipative processes.

Daniel Ho studied an Electrical Engineering degree at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan (1999) and received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Bristol for his thesis in designing efficient single-photon sources for quantum information applications, in the Photonics & Quantum Group of Prof. John Rarity. Subsequently, he was employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher and then a Research Fellow there. His work as a Research Fellow (Researcher Co-Investigator and Co-Investigator) under the EPSRC Programme Grants (EP/M009033/1 and EP/P034446/1) has led research in direct laser writing using two-photon polymerisation in the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, and he is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University Bristol. In September 2019, he started a position as a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University, after a career in Quantum Photonics research at the University of Bristol. Daniel's research is concerned with both the theory and application of artificially structured electromagnetic materials for photonic engineering and quantum technologies including Nanofabrication Techniques, Optical Characterisation and Numerical Modelling. Currently, his group investigates three main topics: (i) 3D Nanophotonics in artificially structured materials, (ii) Single-photons on-demand, (iii) Micro-Nanostructure-Stabilized Liquid-Crystalline Blue-Phase.

Ngoc Diep Lai obtained a Ph.D. degree in laser physics at the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2003. He spent 4 years at the National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan), for his first Postdoctoral Research. His work focused on studies of nonlinear properties of polymer materials and nanotechnologies for fabrication of polymer-based photonic crystals. In 2007, he joined the Quantum Nanophotonics Research Group of the Quantum Photonics and Molecular Laboratory (LPQM) of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now called ENS Paris-Saclay), France. He worked towards the optimization of single photons source, coherent manipulation of single-electron spin associated to color center in diamond, and super-resolution imaging techniques. He is hired in 2009 at ENS Paris-Saclay as an Assistant Professor and he became an Associate Professor in 2013. His current research focuses on elaboration of magneto/photonic/plasmonic and quantum nanostructures by optical lithography technique and various applications. He has supervised and co-supervised 13 PhD students in the domain of the photonic crystals and nonlinear photonic crystals, optical and magnetic manipulations of single solid-state emitters, plasmonics and laser. He is co-authored 70 peer-review articles, 4 book chapters, and 21 proceedings papers.

Dr. Giuliana Di Martino research career started in Italy at the Scuola Superiore di Eccellenza and University of Catania. She spent part of my Master studies at Boston University and completed my PhD at Imperial College London. Her recognition on an international scale in the plasmonic community led to several awards (CSWP Woman Physicist of the Month from the American Physical Society and the 2014 ABTA Doctoral Researcher Award). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cambridge and later on, after being awarded the prestigious Winton Advanced Research Fellowship in 2018, She became an independent group leader at the University of Cambridge, at the Cavendish Laboratory. She was appointed as Lecturer ( assistant professor) in Device Materials at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, at the beginning of 2020. Her research (https://www.dimartinolab.msm.cam.ac.uk) links the fields of low-energy nanoscale device engineering and plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions by implementing optically-accessible memristive devices. Her research group uses the ultra-concentration of light to develop innovative fast ways to study real-time movement of individual atoms that underpins this new generation of ultra-low energy memory nano-devices, thus overcoming the limitations of traditional investigation techniques and opening up new routes to sustainable future IT.

Alex Baron received his Ph.D. in 2010 in Paris (France) from the University of Paris 11. From 2007 to 2015, he has conducted research in several institutions such as the Institute of Optics in Rochester (USA), the Laboratoire Charles Fabry of the Institute of Optics in Paris and the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics at Duke University in North Carolina (USA). His research interests cover Nonlinear Optics, plasmonics, nanophotonics and metamaterials. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Bordeaux and conducts his research at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal. He investigates Self-assembled meta-atoms, metamaterials and metasurfaces.

Dr. Ali Adawi is a reader in physics whose research focuses on areas of organic and inorganic semiconductor nanostructures, nanophotonics and their technological applications. His current research interests include hybrid organic / inorganic two-dimensional photonic crystal nano-cavities, plasmonic and hybrid plasmonic/photonic nanopatch antennas for highly efficient nano-light sources, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and the development of plasmonic nano-gaps for single molecule detection, near-zero refractive index metamaterials for directive emission and the spectroscopy of organic and inorganic nanomaterials. Dr. Ali Adawi has more than 60 research publications and one patent.

Since Fall 2017, Suprem Das is an assistant professor at Kansas State University (KSU) in Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, jointly with Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments. Prior to KSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and Division of Materials Science and Engineering in Ames Lab (U.S. Department of Energy) at Ames, Iowa from 2015-2017 and one-year postdoctoral fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue in 2014. He was awarded best postdoctoral award in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State and was elected as an emerging leader in Iowa State graduate and postgraduate community. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, in December 2013. At KSU he has been awarded University’s Mentoring Fellowship and has received a named faculty award as Jeffrey and Joy Lessman - Carl and Mary Ice Keystone Research Scholar. His research interest is nanoscience and nanotechnology involving novel atomic thin materials for electronics and optoelectronics. He leads an international team of researchers from US and UK (Sheffield University) to study Signal-in-the Soil (SitS) by designing graphene-based soil phosphate sensor, a NSF-UKRI funded project. His ongoing and past research have been highlighted in number of news outlets and professional magazines such as Materials Today, Electrochemical Society, IEEE Spectrum magazine. He can be reached at srdas@ksu.edu

Dr. Yijie Shenis currently a Senior Research Fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, also working as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow funded by Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA),speciallya fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group inwhich. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in2019. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He is a senior reviewer of journals Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, IEEE Photon. J., J. Opt., etc., who especiallywonthe IOP andOSA Outstanding Reviewer Awardsin2020. He is also a member in theJournal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impactjournals including Light: Sci. & Appl.,Optica,Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with over hundreds ofcitations.

Dr. Charles Whittaker is an experimental researcher in the LDSD group at The University of Sheffield, UK, where he has been a post-doc since July 2018 following the completion of his PhD in the same group. His main focus is on strong light-matter coupling in semiconductor heterostructures, in particular the strong coupling of photons and quantum well excitons in planar microcavities and waveguides to form exciton-polaritons. His current research topics include: photonic simulators of solid-state physics phenomena, topological phases in polariton lattices and nonlinear effects in polariton quantum fluids.

Bernard Bonello received his PhD degree in Physics from University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, in 1989 and accreditation to direct researches (HDR) in 2000. Soon after he received his PhD degree, he joined the French Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) as research scientist to study the elastic properties of micro and nanostructures. In 1992, he had a one year stay in Florence, Italy, as an invited researcher at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy. He was appointed senior research scientist at CNRS in 2010. Since 2003, he heads the research group for phononic crystals and elastic metamaterials at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Sorbonne Université. Between 2012 and 2017, he was Program Officer at the French Agency for Research (ANR), representing the agency in the European network for new materials (M-ERA program). Dr. Bernard Bonello participated as principal investigator or as group leader in several national and European research projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed articles and proceedings.

Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto earned his PhD at Macquarie University in 2014. Now, he is a Marie-Curie Researcher at the Plasmon Nanotechnologies unit of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova. He has some experience in most of branches of nano-optics, including theory, design and implementation of optical experiments, scattering, fluorescence, and nanofabrication.

Dr. Fontana is a Research Physicist in the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.. His research is primarily focused on developing nanocomposites with unique optical properties and transitioning these properties to functional materials.

Peter Halevi received his D.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1969 and is permanently at the research institute INAOE in Mexico. He made pioneering contributions to Phononic Crystals and to waves in time-modulated systems and contributed significantly to Photonic Crystals and to a variety of wave phenomena in diverse systems. He was winner of the annual prizes of the Mexican Physical Society and the Mexican Academy of Optics, among other prizes, and is "Investigador Nacional". Also, Halevi had postdoctoral and sabbatical leaves at McGill University in Montreal, UC-Irvine in California, the Weizmann Institute in Israel, Pierre Fourier University (CNRS) in France, etc.

Dr. Bright Keswani is an Academician and Researcher having vast experience in the field of Teaching, Domain specific Research, and Administration. He has done M.Sc.(Computer Science), MCA, M.Tech, M.Phil (Computer Science) and Ph.D. His research areas includes Software Project Management, Big Data Analytics, Information Retrieval, Computer Networking, Cloud Computing, Software Testing, ERP Systems, E-Commerce and related Technologies, Reconfigurable Machines, Human-Computer Interaction, Remote Sensing, and Precision Agriculture. He is currently working as Professor in the Department of Computer Application & Learning Centre of Excellence with Google, and Principal of the Academic Staff College (since 2014), Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India, where he has been since 2006. He worked as ‘Head’ of the Department, Department of Computer Applications’ (2010-2017). Dr. Bright has chaired many National and International Conferences and technical sessions in his domain specific areas. He is founder Editor-in-Chief of Suresh Gyan Vihar University’s Journal of Engineering and Technology (established in 2015) and is in the ‘Editorial Boards’ and ‘Reviewer Panel’ of various Journals of International repute. Dr. Bright holds more than 90 papers and received numerous awards including ‘Bharat Jyoti Award’, ‘Shiksha Bhushan Award’ and ‘Award of Excellence in Education’ for promotion of multi-disciplinary research. Being a prolific writer, he penned down 06 books on IT related courses like Operating System, E-Banking and Security Transactions, Software Engineering, Elementary Computer Applications, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Visual Basic. He has authored ‘Book Chapters’ with Wiley Publications, Apple Academic Press, Springer, Elsevier, CRC Press like International publishing houses as well as submitted ‘Self Learning Material’ of Computer Science for Virdhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota and Bhoj University, Madhya Pradesh, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur etc. for UG and PG learning. Being ‘Organizing Secretary’, ‘Convener’ and ‘Co-Convener’, he has organized various International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops including ‘SGVU-Global Science Summit 2020’, ‘International Faculty Development Programme’ and delivered expert lectures on various advance topics of Computer Science like IoT, Data Science, Machine Learning and Research Methodology.

Dr. Giovanna PALERMO is a research fellow in Physics at Unical (University of Calabria) since August 2019. She received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Mesophases and Molecular Materials from University of Calabria, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. The main research activity is focused on the design and characterization of plasmonic materials, metamaterials and metasurfaces usable to realize high sensitivity biosensors and tunable photonic devices.

Dr. Fan Wang is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, working on nanophotonics and biophotonics research. Dr Wang was awarded the UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2019) to support his research in deep tissue super-resolution imaging. He has also been awarded the ARC DECRA fellow (2020) to conduct his research in biological laser cooling technology. Dr Wang has published over 56 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research articles are published in premier international journals, which has resulted in a high average impact factor 10 over his publications. Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 2014. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Jagadish’s group at the Australian National University studying semiconductor nanowires. Since 2015, Dr. Wang joined the ARC center of excellence for nanoscale biophotonics at Macquarie University. From 2017, Dr. Wang joined Prof. Dayong Jin’s group in UTS to lead the biophotonics team. From 2020, Dr Wang joined the School of Electrical and Data Engineering as a lecturer to establish his nano-optoelectronics group.

Penglin Gao is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He received his Ph. D degree in Mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2018. Dr. Gao has keen interest in wave mechanics and engineering, in particular the interdisciplinary frontiers of phononic crystals, acoustic/mechanical metamaterials and topological insulators. He has authored and co-authored 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Phys. Rev. Lett., Adv. Funct. Mater., Phys. Rev. B, etc. He has also served as a reviewer for more than 5 reputable journals.

Dr. Tuo Liu is currently a research assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BSc degree in Acoustics from Nanjing University in 2010 and MSc degree in Physics from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 2013. After graduation, he worked as an acoustic engineer in industry for about 1 year. In 2018, he obtained his PhD degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before being appointed as Research Assistant Professor, he was first a research associate and then a postdoctoral fellow in the same department. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on physical acoustics, acoustic metamaterials, non-Hermitian acoustics and other acoustics-related topics.

Matthieu Davy is an assistant professor at the University of Rennes 1. He is conducting his researchs at IETR, Rennes, France. He is a junior member of 'Institut Universitaire de France' since 2019. His research activities are mainly devoted to the control of wave propagation in disordered media and the enhancement of wave-matter interactions. He investigates both theoretically and experimentally wavefront shaping techniques based on measurements of the scattering matrix. He also leverages tunable metasurfaces to reconfigure and optimize the boundary conditions of an enclosure. He is finally interested in imaging techniques related to the cross-correlation of diffuse electromagnetic fields or taking advantage of compressive devices such as leaky chaotic cavities. His experimental studies are conducted in the microwave range.

Dr. Arnab Banerjee completed his Ph.D. from the University of Auckland in 2018. He investigates the designing of novel structures and oscillators of mechanical metamaterial for vibration isolation, shock absorption, for resilient infrastructures. Modulation of the elastic waves in the beam, frame, grid, and more complicated structures are one of the major areas of his research. Implementation of the concept of metamaterials towards resilient infrastructure development is the main aim of Dr. Banerjee's research. Dr. Banerjee has joined in Civil Engineering Department of IIT Delhi in May 2019 as Assistant Professor. Previously, he was at the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Jammu. Dr. Banerjee was awarded Newton International post-doctoral Fellowship from Royal Society London in Dec 2018. He received the Inspire faculty award from the Department of Science and Technology, India in July 2018. Dr. Banerjee is involved in two international and two national funded research projects. He authored 20 international journals, 10 conference papers, and 2 book chapters. He reviews for more than 15 international journals. Mechanics or Metamaterials and Extreme Structures (MMMES) is a research group, comprised of one post-doctoral, ten doctoral candidates, and three master's candidates, is lead by Dr. Banerjee.

Peng Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences from the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, in 2012. His research interests are in theory and modeling of nanoelectronics, plasmas, and accelerator technology. He was a receipt of 2020 IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Early Achievement Award, 2020 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), and 2018 YIP Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He is currently a member of the IEEE Plasma Science and Application (PSAC) Executive Committee, an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and of Plasma Research Express.

Luca Carletti received the Laurea (cum laude) degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, the MSS degree in physics and nanotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, both in 2011 with a TIME double degree scholarship, and the Ph.D. degree in photonics from the École Centrale de Lyon, France, in 2015. He was Research Fellow from 2015 to 2018 at the Department of information Engineering, University of Brescia (Italy) and from 2018 to 2020 at the Department of information Engineering, University of Padova (Italy). Since 2020, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of information Engineering, University of Brescia (Italy). He has authored of about 90 publications on international peer-reviewed scientific journals. His current research interests include integrated photonics, silicon photonics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical antennas.

Yabin Jin currently is the Eastern Scholar Professor at Tongji University, China. He received two Ph.D.s from Tongji University and University of Lille (France) on March 2017. He joined Tongji University in September 2018 in his current position after a post-doc position at the University of Bordeaux (France) from April 2017 to August 2018. He leads a research group studying the elastic wave localization/propagation of phononic crystals/metamaterials and mechanical metastructure with multifunctional integration. He obtained 7 national or provincial projects, and published over 20 papers as the first or corresponding author in international journals including Reports on Progress in Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review B/Applied, Nanophotonics, Extreme Mechanics Letters et al."

Dr. Chun-Chieh Chang received his B.S. and M.S. degree in physics from National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Wisconsin, USA. He was then appointed as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, USA. Dr. Chang is currently an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University. His current research interests are primarily focused on metamaterials and plasmonics for applications in mid-infrared and terahertz photonics and optoelectronics, as well as tailored light-matter interactions in micro- and nanostructures.

Dr. Panwar received Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, and subsequently joined KAIST, South Korea as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Brain Korea Research Fellowship. Since 2017, he has been with the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing, Jabalpur,where he currently holds the position of Assistant Professor, Grade-I in the Discipline of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Before the current assignment, he has been Visiting Professor at the Opto-Electro-Robotics Lab of KAIST, South Korea. Recently, he is invited to a Visiting Professor Position at the University of Campania, Italy.He serves as an IEEE Senior Member since 2019. He has expert knowledge and insights onelectromagnetic interference (EMI) mitigation techniques, stealth technology, RF and microwave absorbers,nanocomposites, metamaterials, frequency selective surfaces, airborne radomes, artificial intelligence/machine learning in electromagnetics, surface plasmon resonance sensors, terahertz materials & devices, and e-waste management techniques. Dr. Panwar has strong application-oriented, government-funded project engagements, having a great potential to be commercialized. He has authored more than 70 research papers (in peer-reviewed journals/conference proceedings), and 04 patents (filed). He is a reviewer for various government-funded projects and leading International journals of repute. He has served as an invited speaker and session chair for several IEEE conferences/ workshops in India and abroad. Besides, he is a recipient of various reputed National and International awards/fellowships. He is also serving as an active technical reviewer of leading International publishers like IEEE, IET, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Elsevier, etc.

Dr Rajib Ahmed is a research fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection. His research focuses on micro- and nano-technologies to create inexpensive optical devices for biomedical applications. This is an interdisciplinary research field with a combination of nanotechnology, optics, photonics, and biomedical science. His research involves light interaction with nanostructures, and subsequently engineering of those nanostructures for advanced bio-medical devices. He has published his research work in the most prestigious journals (more than 55), including Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, ACS Nano, Light: Science & Applications, Advanced Optical Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, SMALL, Scientific Reports, Nanoscale, ACS Photonics, Optics Express, Optics Letter, Applied Physics Letter, etc. Besides his research publications, he has contributed to the publication of 4 book chapters, 2 USA patent (under consideration) and also working as editors and reviewers in scientific journal communities (more than 30).

Dr. Abigail Juhl is a Materials Research Engineer in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Dr. Juhl is leading an effort to dynamically control mechanical wave propegation through architected materials for application in acoustic and vibration mitigation. She is an expert in patterning nano- and micro-scale materials over macroscale volumes. Abby received her Bachelors of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University, and her Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She completed a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Optical Materials Branch at AFRL before starting in her current position. She also served as the Acting Assistant Chief Scientist and the Polymers and Responsive Materials Research Team Lead for the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. She won the AFRL Early Career Award and DOD Lab Scientist of the Quarter in 2020.

Md. Samiul Habib is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology. After undergraduate studies and master's Degree from the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Australia, in 2018. During his Ph.D., he co-developed a number of numerical methods to mitigate imaging artefacts in wire array metamaterials. After completing Ph.D., he joined as an Assistant researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, to work on metamaterial-based Hyper-Prism. In the mid of 2018, Dr. Habib returned to his home institute and in 2019, he was promoted as an Associate Professor. In 2020, he was elevated to the grade of Senior Member, IEEE. Dr. Habib has authored and co-authored over 30 publications in refereed journals, including articles in Physical Review B, OSA Continuum, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Journal and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. His journal papers have been cited over 700 times according to Google Scholar with a h-index of 14. He also served as a reviewer in highly reputed journals. His research interest includes metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and photonic crystal fibers. Dr. Habib is a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh. He now holds the position of counselor of the IEEE RUET student Branch, Bangladesh.

Fei Ding received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in optical engineering from Zhejiang University in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU Nano Optics) in Denmark from 2015 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at SDU Nano Optics. His current research interests are in the areas of nanophotonics, applied electromagnetics, metasurfaces, plasmonics, and quantum nanophotonics, with a particular focus on innovative and extreme aspects of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. He has authored or co-authored more than 45 scientific contributions published in peer-reviewed journal papers and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, such as Reports on Progress in Physics, Light: Science & Applications, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, and Laser Photonics Review, among which there are/were 9 ESI highly cited papers and 1 hot paper, receiving more than 2800 citations (Google Scholar) with an H-index of 20 (Google Scholar). He is serving as a reviewer for more than 15 international journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Optica, ACS Nano. He was the guest editor of a special issue on metasurface for the journal of Applied Sciences. Now he is the guest editor of a special issue on plasmonic metasurface for the journal of Photonics. He received the PIERS 2018 Toyama Yong Scientist Award in 2018 and the PIERS 2019 Rome Yong Scientist Award in 2019.

Diego Misseroni is an Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, Italy. He earned his PhD in ‘Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems’ from the University of Trento in 2013. He was Marie Curie experienced researcher at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK, in 2014. In 2017, he was awarded the ‘AIMETA Junior Prize’ in Solid and Structural Mechanics (by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics). Dr. Misseroni is currently involved in two international and two national funded research projects. His research interests are in the field of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures and include wave propagation, metamaterials and origami engineering; buckling and instabilities of structures undergoing large deformations; fracture mechanics; contact mechanics; elasto-plastic modelling and mechanical characterization of traditional and advanced ceramics;bio-inspired and bionic materials. The peculiarity of his research approach is the employment of a broad vision of mechanics. His way of attacking solid and structural mechanics problems is a combination of mechanical modelling, numerical simulation, and experimental validation.

Dr. Nilesh Kumar Pathak has completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and postdoctoral studies from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)/University of Delhi, India. He was exchange fellow at EPFL Switzerland. He was Visiting Research Fellow in National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan. He is Assistant Professor in Department of Physics,Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi since 2018. He is working in Computational plasmonics field to explain the electromagnetics of metallic nanogeometries. He has published more than 30 Research papers, 5 Book chapters 7 conference proceeding in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewers of reputed journals like ACS Photonics, Scientific Report, Plasmonics, Nanoscale etc. Dr. Pathak has also delivered talk in several national/ International as a Invited/ Keynote Speaker.

Dr. Liuxian Zhao is a Postdoc Research Associate of University of Maryland-College Park, USA. He received PhD from University of Notre Dame (2018). His research has focused on Acoustic/Elastic Metamaterials, Structural Dynamics and Acoustics, Structural Health Monitoring, Energy Harvesting, Vibration Control. He has published more than 20 journal papers, and severed as a reviewer of more than 20 international journals, including MSSP, JSV, SMS, JPhysD, etc.

Dr. Amit Kumar Baghel did his PhD from Indian Institute of technology (IITG), Guwahati in the year 2020 and Bachelor of technology (B. Tech) from National Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in the year 2014. His area of research includes metamaterial, microwave wireless power transfer for drone, aerostat, robot charging, SSPS, and antenna design. He has 3 research publication in international journal of high impact factor, 7 conferences, 3 patents, and 4 awards including president and governor awards. Presently he is working as a research associate in the IITG and also a visiting faculty in the National rail and transportation institute, India.

Dr. Xiao Lin received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees both from Zhejiang University (ZJU), China in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He visited MIT, USA as a joint Ph.D. student in 2015-2016. He was a research fellow in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore during 2017-2020. Now he is a research professor in ZJU. His research interest mainly lies in the realms of free-electron nanophotonics and polaritonic optics.Remarkably, his paper entitled Superlight Inverse Doppler Effect wasselected as the editors' favorite paper in the area of optics, from all papers published between 2005-2020 in Nature Physics [see “15 years of Nature Physics”, Nature Physics 16, 999 (2020)].

Dr. Tubaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also currently a Faculty member of the Maryland Robotics Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University (2017), her M.S. Double Degree Diploma at Politecnico di Milano and École Polytechnique de Montréal in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering (2013), and her B.S. at Politecnico di Milano in Aerospace Engineering (2010).Her research interests sit at the interface of nonlinear dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and soft materials science for applications in nonlinear mechanical metamaterials, soft robotics, and biomechanics. In 2020, she has been awarded the Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award by Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation and the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. She is author of several peer-reviewed international journal papers (Physical Review E, J. of Fluids and Structures, J. of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, and Int. J. of Nonlinear Mechanics among others). She serves as Associated Editor for Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines: An International Journal. She is member of the ASME Dynamics & Control System & Structures (DCSS) Technical Committee.

Lea Sirota is an assistant professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. Her research area includes feedback-based acoustic/mechanical metamaterials with real-time reprogrammable properties, adaptive acoustic silencing and cloaking, active imitation of artificial acoustic environment, and more. Lea completed postdoctoral appointments at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University. Her PhD is from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion.

Dr. Anthony Maho conducts research activities on inorganic (metal oxides, perovskites…) and organic (polyacenes…) materials for energy-related applications in electrochromism, photovoltaics, optoelectronics and semiconductors. He is currently affiliated to University of Liège (Belgium) and Imperial College London (UK).

• Dr. Pankaj Arora is working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (India). Prior to that, he was a Post doctoral research fellow in the Department of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel). His research interest includes plasmonic nanostructure based optical sensors, imaging microscopy and silicon photonics.

Dr. Manoj Tripathi is currently working as Assistant Professor in Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida India. Dr. Tripathi has received his doctoral degree from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur-Malayisia. He has completed his Master degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-India. He is an active researcher and has the research interest in the field of energy storage materials, renewable energy and waste management. His research work is more focused towards the development of biomass derived supercapacitor electrodes, latent heat thermal energy storage devices and polymer based energy storage systems. He has published a good number of research articles in reputed journals. He has jointly developed research labs in universities and is member of various committees to promote academic &research activities. Moreover, he is an member of many scientific and professional societies working in the field of science and technology.

Dr. Ashish Gupta is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Sr. Grade) in Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. He has done his Ph.D. in RF and Microwave Engineering from Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad in 2017. He did his M. Tech. from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science, Indore in 2010. He is the author of more than 20 articles in the refereed journals of repute and more than 15 papers in renowned IEEE conferences in the relevant area. His current research interests involve Metamaterial and its applications in passive devices such as Microwave antennas, Microwave absorbers etc. He is also serving as active reviewer of the several IEEE journals, Wiley, Springer and Elsevier journals in the relevant area. He is also involved in the editorial board of few journals.

Vishal Vashistha. Currently, he is working as a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland. He hired under PREIN flagship program. I received his PhD with distinction from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań , Poland in Dec 2019. In the past, He was working with Prof. Maciej Krawczyk group. His area of research is related to nanophotonics devices based on metasurfaces. He received Master of Technology (M.Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee India under Electrical engineering department, in 2014. His master's dissertation topic was - "Design and fabrication of dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) design for ultra-wideband communication". He was a visiting scholar with Prof. Majumdar group at the University of Washington, Seattle, United States until Sept 2019. I was working on cavity-based tunable metasurfaces. He primarily focused on the following research areas ; All dielectric metasurfaces Metasurfaces based lens and holography applications Nanoantenna for color filter Dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) Nanofabrication RF and microwave antenna design.

Dr. Wenlong Gao got his Ph.D degree in Tianjin University. He was a research fellow in the University of Birmingham from 2017-2019. Currently he is a research fellow in the ultrafast nanophotonics group in the Paderborn University. His research interests include photonic topological phases in metamaterials, plasma and photonic crystals.

Dr. Yonatan Sivan is now faculty at Ben-Gurion university; PhD in Physics from Tel Aviv University.

ANNA C. TASOLAMPROU received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. She is currently with the Photonic-Phononic and MetaMaterials (PPM) Group, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). She has a long experience in analytical and numerical electrodynamics and an active presence in contemporary applied physics. Her research interests include the areas of electromagnetics with a focus on the wave propagation properties through random and periodic media such as photonic crystals, liquid crystals,2D materials, metamaterials, and metasurface.

Dmitry Fedyanin is a senior research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). He received the M.Sc. degree in 2012 from MIPT and obtained his Ph.D. in 2013. He was awarded the Medal of the Russian Academy of Science and received the European Material Research Society Young Scientist Award. Dmitry does research in Electrical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research is focused on nanoscale and quantum optoelectronics for data-processing, communication, and sensing applications.

Shuomin Zhong received the B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2009 and 2014，respectively. He was a visiting scholar at Aalto University, Finland, from 2019 to 2020. He is currently at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. His research interests include metamaterials,metasurface, artificial electromagnetic structure and their applications inantennas and absorbers.