Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 138) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 45,000 patients. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, University of the Basque Country, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Enrique Zuazua (Eibar, Basque Country–Spain, https://dcn.nat.fau.eu/enrique-zuazua/) holds, since September 2019, the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics - Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, at the Department of Mathematics of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany and part-time appointments at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. He is also a member of the Basque Academy “Jakiunde“, Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Academy (AIIA), of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and of the Academia of Europaea, and scientific advisor of the artificial intelligence company Sherpa AI in Bilbao. He holds a degree in Mathematics (1984) from the University of the Basque Country, and a dual Ph.D. degree from the same university (1987) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1988). In 1990 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to later move to UAM in 2001. His fields of expertise in the broad area of Applied Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Systems Control and Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning. He has been awarded the Euskadi (Basque Country) Prize for Science and Technology 2006 and the National Julio Rey Pastor Prize 2007 in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology and the Advanced Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) NUMERIWAVES in 2010, DYCON in 2016 and CoDeFeL in 2022. In 2022 he was awarded the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize of SIAM. He is an invited section speaker in “Control and Optimization” in ICM2006, Madrid. With over 300 articles published, his work had an important impact (h-index = 50). He has supervised 30 PhD students and a broad network of master students, post-doctoral researchers and research and management technicians. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journals “Mathematical Control and Related Fields” and “Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models” and member of the editorial committee of other Journals and of scientific committees of various centers and agencies. He was the first Manager for Mathematics of the Spanish National Research Plan in 1999-2002, the Founding Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in 2008-2012 and of the Chair of Computational Mathematics at the University of Deusto-Bilbao in 2016, both in Bilbao. Since 2021 he is the inaugural Speaker of the FAU Research Center for Mathematics of Data (MoD). He also develops an intense dissemination agenda, gathered at https://cmc.deusto.eus/enzuazua/

Fernando Moreira established the Science and Technology Department, created the first engineering degrees, and served as its head from May 2018 until February 2022. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1992, a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 2003, all from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. In 2018, he also achieved his Habilitation. He has been a member of the University since 1992 and currently holds the position of Full Professor. Additionally, he serves as a visiting professor at several other esteemed universities. His teaching portfolio encompasses a range of subjects across undergraduate and postgraduate studies. He also supervises Ph.D. and Master's students. He has made significant contributions to his field, with over 325 peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed scientific publications in national and international journals and conferences. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for several journals and books. He has organized numerous special issues for JCR journals (Telematics and Informatics, Future Generation Computer Systems, Cluster Computing, Expert Systems, etc.). His commitment to advancing research is reflected in his consistent participation as Conference Chair, Workshop Chair, Chief Guest, and Keynote speaker, as well as on the programme and scientific committees of national and international conferences. He served as the MSc in Computation coordinator for a decade, demonstrating his dedication to academic leadership. He is a member of the REMIT research centre steering committee, with extensive editorial experience and a track record of co-editing several books. His professional affiliations include NSTICC, ACM, and IEEE. His primary research interests include mobile computing, AI in higher education, Machine Learning, and Digital transformation. He received the prestigious Atlas Elsevier Award in April 2019 for his contributions.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS (H-62), PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology – China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010. 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. Professor Morais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With more than 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals, more than 14,500 citations, about 300 international invited talks (35 countries), and 16 filed patents. He has appeared in recent World ranking of top scientists, such as 2020-Stanford, 2022-Research.com, 2023-AD Scientific Index, 2023-Research.com, 2024-Elsevier, ONE Research Community, 2025-AD Scientific Index, 2025-Research.com, and 2025-Stanford-Elsevier.

Dr Orestis D. Valianatos is the Global President and CEO of ATMOS Global Pty Ltd (ATMOS Global ™), a highly accredited and accomplished professional company director, an astute investor in the capital markets, an established innovator, a role model, a visionary thinker with a diverse portfolio of formal qualifications (BSc, MSc, PhD in Atmospheric Physics, Climate & Sustainability, Master of Business Administration, Professional Doctorate in International Business and Sustainability, Corporate Governance training as a Professional Board Director, and soon a Diploma of Finance), experience, unique insight and influential global perspective across multiple domains including artificial intellignce, leadership, strategy and innovation, sustainability, ESG, climate-tech, thematic and sustainable investing. Entrepreneur and agent of change, he has authored more than 50 ground-breaking international research papers as a subject matter expert working in partnership with senior personnel from government departments, universities and major private clients from the mining, manufacturing and energy & utilities sectors.

Tony Barrera is a certified autodidact math genius. He have published more than 42 Ordinary high rated scientific papers And up to several hundred publications ,computer simulations and animations In different subjects, scientific papers in mathematics , computer graphics, numerical analysis, astrophysics and Particle Atomic physics. Tony does research general together with prof Ewert Bengtsson, Prof Anders Hast and Physicist Bo Thelin and the crew of Barrera Science Lab. Tony Barrera have been working for the company AB Consonant with implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform, FFT , and as a computergrahics researcher at Cycore AB (Webbgraphics). Constructor of about 10 - 20 different Graphics Engines , Assembler ,Basic, Pascal and/or C++ computer languages. Started with mahematics and science at age 3, got the first Astronomy book (from mother Elisabeth Mercadal) at 9, the first Chemistry set at 10 , Chief (head) of Barrera Science Lab.

Diogo M.F. Santos is a Principal Researcher at CeFEMA and an Invited Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (ULisboa, Portugal). He studies electrodes and membranes for fuel cells and electrolyzers. D.M.F. Santos has authored over 200 publications; his current h index is 41. He has been listed since 2020 on Stanford University's “World’s Top 2% Scientists list.” His research interests are related to electrochemical energy conversion and storage.