Dr. Niti Kant is a Professor at Department of Physics, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received Ph.D. degree in Plasma Physics from IIT Delhi in 2005. His research is focused on the areas of ultra-short intense laser interaction with plasmas and semiconductors, laser-plasma based accelerators, harmonic generations and THz radiation. He has supervised 26 PG and 7 Ph.D. students and published more than 80 research papers in various international SCI journals. He visited several countries e.g. UK, USA, Poland, South Korea, Egypt etc. and presented his research work at various international conferences/workshops. He is also a member of different renowned associations/societies e.g. OSI, PSSI, ISCA, IET, UKRI etc. Dr. Kant has been receiving Research Excellence and Research Appreciation Awards from Lovely Professional University since 2014 consecutively. He was also awarded with Best Researcher Award for 2020 by InSc and Science Father agencies.

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.

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.

Born in Toulouse (France), Souraya Goumri-Said is associate professor of Physics at Alfaisal University (Riyadh, KSA). She received her PhD degree from the Bourgogne University in Dijon (France) on 2004. Souraya spent one year in Val de Marne University as temporary assistant professor then joined the condensed matter group in physics department of technical university of Kaisterslautern in Germany on 2005. From 2006 to 2010, she was awarded different research fellows in France and Belgium as postdoctoral and assistant professor at Maine University (Le Mans, France) from 2006 to 2008. Then she worked as researcher at Namur University (Belgium) from 2008 to 2010. Souraya worked and managed an industrial project within Arcelor Mital research and development department in collaboration with three universities in Wallonie region in Belgium. From July 2010, she was employed at KAUST University (Saudi Arabia) before joining Georgia Tech where she is working as research scientist within Prof. Jean-Luc Bredas group at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. Her main area of research is density functional theory applied to material science and modeling the physical properties of functionalized materials such as perovskites, ceramics, carbides, nitrides, and materials for storage hydrogen. She also specializes in modeling optical, photonic devices and nanostructures for photovoltaic applications. Souraya is editor of open Physics (former the central European journal of physics,) within Dedegruyter edition since 2008. She edited her first book on 2006 about ab-initio methods applied to physical properties of semiconductors nitrides and perovskites. Souraya is author and co-author of more than 143 papers, 6 chapters and books with h-index=28. She joined the advisory Editorial Board of computational condensed matter journal at Elsevier.

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.