Hendrik Heinz is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Materials Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Senior Editor for the American Chemical Society (Langmuir). He received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich and carried out postdoctoral work at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His research focuses on the simulation of biomaterials and nanomaterials from atoms to the microscale, including data science methods. He leads the development of the Interface force field and surface models for the simulation of compounds across the periodic table in high accuracy, including minerals, alloys, 2D materials, proteins, polymers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the International Association of Advanced Materials, received the Career and Special Creativity Awards from NSF, a Sandmeyer Award from the Swiss Chemical Society, the Max Hey Medal from the Mineralogical Society, a NASA Group Achievement Award, and held guest professorships at ETH Zurich, the National Institute of Materials Science in Japan, and the University of Paris. He served as an Amazon Scholar and his contributions support developments by several companies.

Norbert M. Nemes is an experimental solid state physicist who obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and after postdoctoral stays in the NIST Center for Neutron Research and also the Materials Science Institute of Madrid, he is now a Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, one of the largest and oldest Spanish universities, and Director of the Magnetometry and High Pressure Synthesis Laboratories. He has published over 130 research papers with an h-index of 30 on topics ranging from materials of reduced dimensions, superconductors, spintronics and magnetic anisotropy, multifunctional materials (magnetoelectric coupling), and in the last decade on thermoelectrics.

David Andrés Fernández Benavides, Ph.D., is currently a professor-researcher at the Center for Industrial Engineering and Development (CIDESI), where his activities are focused on Additive Manufacturing Management within the Emergent Technologies area. He is a mechatronic engineer from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente and holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, both in Cali, Colombia. He also earned his Doctorate in Materials Science at CINVESTAV, Querétaro, Mexico. His main research interests involve the development of multifunctional materials through the study of structural, microstructural, dielectric, and electromechanical properties, and their subsequent analysis using advanced experimental design techniques. Additionally, it focuses on the development of devices, such as biodetection platforms, specifically for detecting viruses and toxic substances. He has experience in advanced manufacturing processes, including additive manufacturing of metals, polymers, polyacrylates, and ceramics.

Pierre SAINT-GRÉGOIRE has been research fellow in CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research - Montpellier university) and Toulouse (CEMES laboratory) before reaching a position of professor (Toulon university). He was also involved in Africa as professor and special adviser of african ministers for high education and research for development. He works in the fields of structural phase transitions, incommensurate phases, ferroic materials, and materials for photovoltaics, in which he published about 150 papers and, as guest editor two special issues (of ISJAEE, and of Ferroelectrics). He also authored recently a volume entitled « Perovskites and other Framework Structure crystalline materials» (http://perovskitesandotherfws.co-ac.com ). He is involved in several scientific journals (including open access) and in series of scientific meetings. He is now the president of the NGO Collaborating Academics gathering scientists from various countries to develop science and open access publication. Defensor of academic freedom, he is convinced that « Science is the motor of development, and knowledge is a powerful tool against poverty », and is nowadays fully involved in international collaborations, development, and open scientific edition.

Jinlian Hu is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong and serves as the President of the Hong Kong Federation of Invention and Innovation as well as Executive Vice Chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Invention and Innovation Association. Professor Hu is a top 2% of scientists by Stanford Ranking (actual ranking 0.07%), an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (USA) and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Association of Advanced Materials, Textile Institute in UK and the Hong Kong Institute of Textiles and Apparel respectively. Professor Hu is also an awardee of National Talents by China Central government, a recipient of Sang Ma Technology award (China) and distinguished achievement award of USA Fiber Society. Specialized in textiles engineering and materials by education, Professor Hu received PhD from the University of Manchester, is a pioneer in shape memory polymer materials for textiles and medical devices. Her research areas cover 1)smart polymers/ fibers /textile materials, 2)spider silk and bionics, and 3)biomaterials and wearable devices. She published 14 books and 33 book chapters and has been a keynote/Plenary speaker at more than 140 conferences and published more than 400 journal papers. Professor Hu is also distinctive in her impact on industries: Apart from 5 start-ups from her Ips, she has cooperation with ~60 local, regional, national, and international companies, holds more than 100 patents and has translated more than 20 items to industries. Besides, for her sustained influence in the theory and application of shape memory polymeric and fiber materials, the University of Manchester awarded her a Doctor of Science in 2023.