Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics” for environmental improvements of “Geotechnology”, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic and industrial collaboration.

Peter Matthews trained at Oxford University, and was subsequently awarded a college lectureship at St Catherine’s College. He is Emeritus Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a Director and CEO of its spin-out company PoreXpert Ltd. He is also a member of the EDF Energy IndependentGraphite Validation Group advising on active core weight loss, and consequent end-of-life, of the U.K’s fleet of AGR nuclear reactors. During his career at PlymouthUniversity, he attracted £4.5m of research funding, and published 100 research publications and a textbook on Experimental Physical Chemistry (Oxford University Press).

Dr. Per A. Löthman obtained his Ph.D. degree from Twente University , The Netherlands in the field of Macroscopic Magnetic Self-assembly and conducted research in Canada, France and Germany on carbon nanotubes, Graphen and related nanomaterials. His research is interdisciplinary and involve BioNanotechnology including DNA, S-layers, Viruses (archaea, bacteriophages), Biomolecular Architecture. Botany and functional surfaces. Dr. Löthman has published over 60 scientifical articles, several book chapters and serves as a reviewer for several journals such as Journal of Bioanalytical and Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Thin Solid Films, Sensors and Actuators, Microsystems Technologies, Biophysical Reviews and Letters, He is Senior Research Scientist at Foviatech GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, a young innovative high-tech company in the field of advanced materials and artificial intelligence, and a lecturer in Nanomedicine, Nanopharmacy and Nanomaterials (Kaiserslautern University) and Mechatronics Systems and Design (Hamburg University), Germany.

J.C. Umavathi completed her Post Doctral from the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Piazza Roma 21, 82100 Benevento, Italy. She is working as Professor in the Department of mathematics, Gulbarga University since 1993. She has published more than 215 research articles in reputed international journals. She is a recipient of Kalpana Chawla Young Scientist award, Sir J.C. Bose award and Erasmus Mundus Fellowship.

A.V.Dvurechenskii has completed in his Doctor degree in physics from Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics. From 2002 to 2018 he was the Vice-Director of this Institute and currently he is the Head of the Lab. of Nonequilibrium Semiconductor’s Systems, Professor of Novosibirsk State University. As a guest scientist he worked at New York State University in Albany (1979), Research Center Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany (1980 – 2006) and at Fudan University in Shanghai, China (2001, 2002, and 2006). He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an expert board member of repute.

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67; following academic life of 45 years. He published over 60 papers in international and national journals. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Adiguzel are as follow: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction and crystallography.

Narugopal Manna is a Doctoral Fellow at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory. He has done M.Sc from Calcutta University. After that, he joined NCL in 2016. His main research lines include the synthesis and characterization of low-cost nanomaterials for electrochemical energy applications. Throughout his scientific career, he has participated in national and international conferences. Additionally, he published three articles on electrocatalysts development and energy applications.

Alina Vladescu has completed her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. She works at National Institute for Optoelectronics, Department for Advanced Surface Processing and Analysis by Vacuum Technologies since 2002. She is also associate professor at University Politehnica of Bucharest since 2015 and research scientist at National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia, since 2016. She has published more than 123 papers in reputed journals, 14 patents, 4 books. She was Guest Editor in Frontiers in Materials (2016-2017), Composite Interfaces (2016), Coatings (2019-2021).

Since the completion of his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering, from the University of Huelva, Spain, Adrian Tenorio-Alfonso has been working on biopolymers and biopolyurethanes with different applications (adhesives, lubricating greases, drug delivery materials,…), as well as on the production of phase change materials based on graphene and carbon nanotubes. He has published several research articles in reputed international journals, and is currently working in the Pro2 TecS research centre, affiliated to the University of Huelva.

Tzu-han Ma has completed her BSc and MSc from the Materials Science and Engineering Department, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. She had worked as a Graduate Researcher of Smart Material and Computational Mechanic laboratory, NYCU, from 2018 to 2020. Her MSc research focused on simulating the special biomechanical models by finite element method within the bio-inspired material innovation project, funded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology. Alongside the project, she has published the article about the deformation prediction of hydrogel further applied in manipulating stem cell differentiation in an international journal.

Melissa Bacatelo has completed her MSc in Materials Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) and participated in the Erasmus program at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). Her thesis had a 19/20 score at IN+/IST. Melissa worked as a R&D Engineer at MCG to develop innovative products for the railway industry, and she is currently a researcher at c5Lab to decarbonise the cement sector through state-of-the-art technologies such as Carbon Capture Utilisation and Sequestration (CCUS) and green hydrogen. Simultaneously, Melissa is a PhD student in the Sustainable Energy Systems course under the MIT Portugal Program.

Anatoliy Zavdoveev, Ph.D. has been worked in Donetsk Institute of Physics and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2003. From October 2005 to October 2008, he studied at the graduate school of the Donetsk Physics and Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2007 A.V. Zavdoveev was awarded Academician A.A. Galkin scholarship. From November 2008 to November 2014, he worked in the department of high-pressure physics and advanced technologies of the Donetsk Physics and Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since November 2014 A.V. Zavdoveev works on Researcher position of the department of alloy steels welding, Paton Electric Welding Institute of the NAS of Ukraine. A.V. Zavdoveev defended his thesis for the positions degree of candidate of technical sciences in 2014. The scientific interests of A. V. Zavdoveyev concern the structural, physical, and operational characteristics of low-carbon steel subjected to various thermal-deformation processing methods. A.V. Zavdoveev successfully works with such techniques as backscattered electron diffraction (EBSD), scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, fractography, etc. His work shows the effectiveness of rolling with shear on the structure and properties of low carbon steel. In particular, the use of rolling with shear allows creating a special structure, which is inherited during further processing by traditional methods. He has 1 monograph, more than 15 articles in international journals and over 20 abstracts of conferences, actively participates in international conferences, Institute activities, and student training.

Dr.Buvaneswari Gopal has completed her Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology- Madras and got Post Doctoral training from University of Florida. Later, she joined the department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Science, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India and is currently Professor, Higher Academic Grade (HAG). Her broad research area is inorganic materials in which her research group focuses on catalytic, photocatalytic, pigment materials and materials for waste management. The research findings resulted in the development of novel materials in these fields and the results are published in reputed journals. The research works are aided by the sponsorship from Indian government agencies such as CSIR, DST, DAE-IGCAR, DAE-IGCAR, UGC-DAE-CSR and seed money from the parent institute VIT.

Esperanza Cortés-Triviño has completed her PhD at the University of Huelva in 2019 obtaining an international recognition and Cum Laude Mention. Her work, framed in the bio-lubricating greases field, was awarded for the best 2019 Doctoral Thesis of the University of Huelva, and received an honourable mention at the IBEREO 2019. She is a member of The Complex Fluid Engineering Research Group and Pro2Tecs Centre affiliated to the University of Huelva, as well as The Spanish Rheology Group belonging to RSEQ. She has been working on the development of different polymer-based biodegradable products with applications on lubricants and bioplastic fields and publishing several scientific articles in high reputed international journals. She is currently working at the University of Huelva within an international project for the P&G Company.

Mahboobeh Azadi received her BSc and MSc in Materials Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2007 and 2009. She then received her PhD in corrosion, coating, and surface engineering from Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) Iran, in 2014. She as an associate professor, works at the Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at Semnan University, Semnan, Iran, from 2015 until now. Azadi’s research interests include bio-inhibitors, corrosion, multilayer coatings, nanocomposites, mechanical properties of coating, and wear.

Anders Winkler worked in the German automotive industry for 15 years, during which he also spent 10 years conducting research in the fields of experimental mechanics and process-induced material properties. His research led him to achieve the degree of Dr.-Ing, from Chemniz University of Technology in Germany. He later joined Dassault Systemes in 2013 to work on fatigue algorithms for polymer materials, and is now Director of Manufacturing & Materials Initiatives. He served as the secretary in CIMAC WG4 for 7 years, and currently represents Dassault Systemes in the NAFEMS metal manufacturing working group.

Fazle Elahi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Material Science and Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. He earned his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. After graduation, he worked as a Lecturer in the same institution for 3 years. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. His Ph.D. research was focused on the analysis of fracture in high-temperature ceramics. Along with many other awards, he was designated as the Distinguished Doctoral Fellow of the University of Delaware in 2019. His current research interests focus on the predictive and experimental investigation of failure modes in metals and semiconductors.

Ganesh Ji Omar is a Physicist and Material scientist with over 5 years of experience engaged with oxide electronic and magnetic devices. He has been working with pulsed laser deposition systems extensively and characterization in various testing equipment to investigate material’s multifunctionalities. He has been designing and developing spintronics devices with the motivation to solve the pressing problem of high energy consumption in CMOS technology. He has completed his Ph.D. doctorate research degree in the Department of Physics from the National University of Singapore with NUS Research Fellowship. His Ph.D. work aims to explore oxide interfaces or heterostructures that can exhibit a strong spin-orbit effect and triggers fascinating quantum phenomenon. He has completed his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal with INSPIRE Fellowship. He has also worked as visiting researcher for short time in various universities such as (i) École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, (ii) Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, France, (iii) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has received several academic awards, including the Ph.D. best thesis Gold Medal (2021), Best Graduate Researcher Award (2020), IEEE Gold Medalist in magnetic symposium (2020) and Global Young Scientist Award (2020). He is Mitacs Globalink Fellow. He has cleared and qualified various competitive exams namely, IIT-JEE, CSIR JRF, JEST and GATE.

Dr. Lichchhavi has completed her PhD in January 2021 from Indian Institute of Technology Indore and pursued postdoctoral studies from Indian institute of Technology Hyderabad. Now she has joined Indian institute of Technology Kanpur as an institute post doc fellow (IPDF). She has worked on the electrochemical applications of transition metal oxide nanomaterials. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed high impact factor international journals.

Rajkumar Wagmare has completed his M Tech from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India. and PhD studies from the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology Pune, Maharastra,India. He has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at R&DE(E),DRDO, Pune,Maharastra in India since 2017. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals.

MSc in Polymers for Advanced Technologies, University of Sheffield. Internship in semiconducting polymer synthesis in CNRS, Strasbourg. Internship in LBNL in organic PV fabrication, San Francisco. Internship in biodegradable capsules fabrication, Polymer Centre, Sheffield. Currently Senior Lecturer in KazNU al Farabi and Senior Researcher in the Center for BioEnergy Research R&D centre. Several patents and publications related to biodegradable implants.