Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor and the Director of the Promotion Office of International Alliance at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career as a scientist and a senior scientist at AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty at many universities in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, Belgium, etc. He has been a SPARC fellow at IIT Hyderabad, India, and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has been an associate editor of J. Photochem. Photobiol. C, and NPG Asia Materials.

Dr. Sib Krishna Ghoshal is currently Associate Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science, University Technology Malaysia since 2010. From 2004-2010 worked in the Physics Department and Materials Science Program of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Africa as Associate Professor in the United Nations Development Program for the expansion of Graduate Studies. He served as senior lecturer and promoted as reader at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India during 1998-2006. He received PhD degree in Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics in 1996 from School Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India). Carried out two post-doctoral researches one in Martin Fisher School of Physics (Brandeis University, USA) during 1999-2000 and the other in a joint research project of Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) & Oxford University (UK) in 1996-1998. Supervised few Master Theses with Nicola Marzari (MIT, USA) and worked with Sir Roger Elliotte (Oxford, UK). He received Master Degree in Physics in 1989 from Premier Presidency University, Calcutta and BSc (Physics Honors) degree in 1986 from Calcutta University. Besides having a long innings-spanning almost three decades in teaching Physics/Materials Sciences at various levels and advising an appreciable number of doctoral and masters theses, he possesses a remarkable research profile too. He published over 600 research articles (334 in Journals with total impact factor of 660), 15 book chapters, and 7 books. His Google scholar h-index is 38, i10-index is 111 and citations are 4691. So far, he received 55 research grants, supervised 25 PhD, 80 MSc, and 65 undergraduate theses. He is listed as top 2% scientists in physics worldwide in 2020. His recent research interests are in Advanced Optical Materials, Statistical Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomaterials Syntheses and Applications, Laser Physics, Simulation and Modeling as well as Nanoscience. One of his major concerns other than research pursuits is the social impact of science and technology on environment, marginalized societal groups deprived of higher education, and the imbalances thereupon in the distribution of its fruits and adverse impacts on these stakeholders.

Professor Sukhdev Roy received the theBSc (Hons) Physics degree from Delhi Univ, in 1986, MSc Physics from DEL in 1988, and PhD from ift Delhi in1993. He joined the DayalbaghEducational Institute in 1993, where he is at present the Head of theDepartment of Physics and ComputerScience. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, including Harvard (USA) Waterloo(Canada), Würzburgand Regensburg (Germany) Osakajapan) City University, and Queen Mary University of London (UK) TIFF, Mumbai, and Sc Bangalore (india). He has also been an Associate of the international Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and is a Member of the Global Panel of MIT Technology Review, Prof. Roy has made significant contributions in Photonics that encompass nano-blo-photonics, silicon and neuro photonics, fiber optics, and optical computing. His experimental and theoretical research on nano-bio-photonic systems that includes low-power and high-frequency optogenetic control of neural spiking, defines a new paradigm of technological convergence and innovation and opens up fascinating prospects for energy-efficient, ultrafast and low cost all-optical information processing sensing energy conversion, and healthcare. He has won a number of awards and fellowships that include, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2001, 15PS Invitation Fellowship, japan in 2004, HC Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University in 2006, 1st IETE BB Sen Memorial Award in 2007, IETE-Conference on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies Award in 2012, IETE-M Rathore Memorial Award in 2016, the Systems Society of India's National Systems Gold Medal in 2016, and the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2021. He also has been awarded seven best paper awards in international and national conferences. He has published 175 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and 11 book chapters. He chaired the 8th World Conference and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, the USA in 2020. He has delivered more than 100 invited talks in India and abroad that include Keynote Addresses and Plenary Talks at International Conferences that include the prestigious international Year of Light.commemorative Keynote Address at the 38th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETSL in 2015 and at the Annual Meeting of American Physical Society in 2008. He was the Guest Editor of the March 2011 Special issue of ET Circuits. Devices and Systems Journal 10 on Optical Computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics journal He is also a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences India, IETE (India), and the Optical Society of India. He is listed in the recent Stanford researchers study of Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

Professor Dr Maxim G. Ponomarev, CEO, Director, Founder Cambridge Research and Consultancy was born on January 24, 1968. Famous Plasma Scientist mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plasma_physicists Published many peer-reviewed research papers regarding novel physical methods. listed at http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxim_Ponomarev https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7530-3116

Xizheng Ke, Ph.D., Second-level Professor, deputy director of Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Cooperative Network Military-civilian Joint Construction. Famous Teaching Teacher of Shaanxi Province, Fellow of Chinese Institute of Electronics, Foreign academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Director of Chinese Optical Engineering Society, Standing Director of Shaanxi Optical Society.

Adelaida García-Magariño studied Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid finishing her studies in November 2009. She started working at INTA in Spain in February 2010 as an external consultant and approved the exam to become a civil servant at INTA in November 2016, taking possession on December 15, 2017. When she started working, she also started the University Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering that gave access to the doctorate, finishing the Master's studies in November 2011. He began his research career in the field of deformation and breakup of droplets in the vicinity of the leading edge of an airfoil for ice formation on aircraft wings, within the framework of an INTA-NASA collaboration. In September 2014 she began her doctorate entitled "Water Droplet Deformation and Breakup in the vicinity of the leading edge of an incoming airfoil" directed by A. Velázquez at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, finishing her Ph.D. in November 2016. Since 2017, she has expanded her field of study to other areas of experimental aerodynamics and engineering such as aerodynamics on the deck of aircraft carriers, the flow field around the Martian Rover, the study of filters to be embarked on aerial research platforms, the ILIDS method for long-range measurements, or the naval hydrodynamics. She has participated in the projects PHOBICZICE (Super-IcePhobic Surfaces to Prevent Ice Formation on Aircraft), SENS4ICE (SENSors and certifiable hybrid architectures for safer aviation in ICing Environment), DFLOW (Droplet deformation and breakup in normal and supercooled conditions in aeronautics related flows), MICRAS (Scientific missions from manned and unmanned aerial platforms), ELECTROBIOTA (Development and implementation of sampling equipment for the study of airborne microorganisms at altitude: one stage electrostatic precipitators in Aerial Research Platforms), MEDA (Science and Technology of space instruments for the characterization of the martian environment in multiple NASA missions: REMS, TWINS and MEDA. Phase C/D), MINEOLICA (Promotion of small power wind technology), EnviroPlanet (Thematic Network of Micro- and Nano plastics in the Environment) and CAMELIA-MICRO (The Cycle of Aerosols on Mars and Earth, a comparative study. Implications for Life and PlAnetary Protection). Up to now, she has published more than 20 scientific papers in journals belonging to the JCR rank, she has participated in a patent and in works presented in more than 40 conferences.

Professor Oliker received his Ph.D. in mathematics from St Petersburg University, Russia (formerly Leningrad State University, Soviet Union). He has published over a hundred papers in the fields of pure and applied mathematics, co-authored with R. Winston and L. Jiang the book Nonimaging Optics, CRC Press, 2021, co-edited two books published by the American Mathematical Society, and co- translated a book on nonlinear partial differential equations published by Wiley. Since 1984 he has been developing theoretical and computational methods for the design of freeform optics. He is a Fulbright US Scholar, a Senior Member of the SPIE, and is a recipient of numerous research grants and awards.

Yahia CHERGUI is an assistant Professor in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Institute, Boumerdes Algeria. He has completed his PhD from Badji Mokhtar University in Annaba, Algeria. He did all his PhD work in Cardiff University in UK. His research field is Physics(condensed matter, and soft matter simulation by molecular dynamics). He has many published articles and international conferences. He has been serving as a referee with condensed matter journal (IOP), Energy journal (Elsevier), and American Journal of Modern Physics.

Dr. Govind Gupta is Senior Principal Scientist & Head, Sensor Devices & Metrology Group, CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India and Professor, Academy for Scientific & Industrial Research (AcSIR). His core area of expertise is the of growth of III-Nitrides, metal oxide and layered 2-dimensional materials, fabrication of smart optical & gas sensors, surface & interface Physics, etc.. He has published ~250 research articles in SCI journals and supervised many Ph.D. theses. He is an Associate Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and received numerous awards & fellowships including MRSI medal, Young Scientist Medal-National Academy of Sciences, India, BOYSCAST fellowship, etc.

Jyoti Rajput was born in Punjab, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India in 2019. She is currently an Associate professor of Physics at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. Her research focused areas deal with laser induced electron acceleration in vacuum and plasma (DLA, LBWA, PBWA), harmonic generation and THz radiation. She has published around 15 research articles in various international SCI journals and presented her research work at various international conferences/workshops. She is also a member of different renowned associations/societies e.g., PSSI, ISCA etc.