Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education and consulting industry. An Environmental Engineer skilled in Waste Management, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Water Resource Management, & Air Pollution Control. Strong education professional graduated from University of Sydney, Australia; and Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Professor Yazami is the inventor involved in over 150 patents related to battery technology, including the graphite anode used in most commercial lithium ion batteries an over $100b business. Dr. Yazami co-authored about 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and international meeting proceedings. Yazami served a visiting associate in Materials Science and in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in collaboration with JPL/NASA together with being the President of the International Battery Association (IBA). Dr. Yazami joined the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU) where he held the Nanyang Visiting Professor in Materials Science position together with being a PI of battery research at the TUM Create Center of e-mobility, jointly managed by NTU and the Technological University of Munich. In recognition of his invention of the graphite anode in lithium ion batteries, Yazami received several scientific awards, including from NASA, NATO, IBA, JSPS, Hawaii Battery Conference, the IEEE and the Draper Prize in 2014 considered as the Nobel Prize in Engineering. In 2014 Yazami was decorated by HM the King of Morocco. He is the recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 2016 and of the “2018’ Takreem Award” in Science and Technology Innovation, considered the Arab Scientist of the Year Award. Recently Prof. Rachid was the recipient of the 2019’ Arab Investor Award during a Forum held in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris together with the Mohamed Bin Rached Medal of Scientific Distinguishment of Life Achievement given by the Ruler of Dubai in 2020.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 107; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He has directed numerous international centers in biomaterials and has graduated over 200 students with over 750 peer-reviewed publications. Prof. Webster is a fellow of over 8 academic societies and is a Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researcher (Pharmacology and Toxicology), SCOPUS Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% citations for materials science and mixed fields) as well as a Public Library of Science (PLoS) World Top 2% Scientist by Citations in all fields.

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and of Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA, and worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute. He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, and Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park. He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and editor of Progress in Materials Science. He invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys.

Yang Yue received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging and display technology, integrated photonics, free-space and fiber optics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >9,000 citations, four edited books, >50 issued or pending patents, >100 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, 5 plenary and 31 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for eight journal special issues, Chair or Committee Member for >60 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

Professor Ji Wang is the founding director of the Piezoelectric Device Laboratory, Ningbo University. Professor Ji Wang also held visiting positions at Chiba University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD and Master degrees from Princeton University in 1996 and 1993 and bachelor from Gansu University of Technology in 1983. Professor Wang has been working on acoustic waves and high frequency vibrations of elastic and piezoelectric solids for resonator design and analysis with several US and Chinese patents, over 200 journal papers, and frequent invited, keynote, and plenary presentations in major conferences around world.

Prof. 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-industrial collaboration.

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.

× Biography Prof. J.C. Umavathi, Gulbarga University, India 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.

Bursa Technical University, Turkey × Biography Prof. Dr. Ayşe Bedeloğlu graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Textile Engineering, in 2003. After working in the private sector (Hugo Boss, İzmir) for a short time, she became a research assistant at Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Textile Engineering in the same year. She completed her master's degree in 2005 and her doctorate in 2009. Within the scope of her doctoral thesis on the development of photovoltaic fiber, she carried out studies at the Gent University (Belgium) Department of Textile Engineering and at the Organic Solar Cells Institute of Johannes Keppler University (Austria) Linz. In addition to her expertise in different applications of polymers, especially in smart and technical textiles, there are fiber reinforced composites, nanocomposites, flexible renewable energy production and storage technologies, photovoltaic solar cells, piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators, synthesis of nanomaterials such as graphene, mxene and nanowire, and applications in smart materials.

Valentyn Smyntyna is Full Professor, Doctor of Sciences in the field of Physics of Semiconductors, the Head of Department of Experimental Physics and scientific leader of many scientific projects in the field of sensorics focused, particularly, on semiconductor gas sensors. He is the author of over 120 articles in highly indexed scientific journals with Scopus h-index 21.

Clarisse Ribeiro graduated in Biomedical Engineering (master in Electronic Medicine) in 2008, receiving PhD in Physics in 2012 (both at Minho University-Portugal). She is an Assistant Researcher at the Physics Center of Universities of Minho and Porto, integrating the "Functional and smart materials and surfaces for advanced applications" line. Her research has been focuss on the understainding and modulation of cell-materials interactions, working on development of funtional biomaterials/nanostructured materials, smart scaffold and cell culture for active tissue engineering with leading publications and innovations in the different areas. Furthermore, she has developed innovative bioreactors taking advantage of the developed materials to create suitable cell microenvironments.

Agnieszka Maria Jastrzębska is a Professor of the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). She leads an interdisciplinary research team at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Ceramic and Polymer Materials, WUT. Her original research works are concentrated around nanotechnology for bioactive materials with multifunctional hybrid nanocomposite structures. They were conducted in numerous national and international projects and received many prestigious awards, including Minister of the Education and Science Award for industrial implementations or Polish Intelligent Development award. The current fields of interest comprise biomedical, environmental, and catalytic applications of novel 2D materials within emphasis given to their sustainability and toxicological effects observed at relevant exposures.

Dr. Vinayak G. Parale is currently working as a Research Professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea. He received the B.Sc. degree (Physics) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2008, the M.Sc. degree (Solid State Physics) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2010, and Ph.D. degree (Physics) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2013. He worked as a Lecturer in Sanjay Ghodawat Polytechnic, Kolhapur (June 2013-Feb 2015) and as an Assistant Professor in Engineering Physics at Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Islampur (March 2015-May 2016). In June 2016, he joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea. He served as BK 21 Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) and BK 21 Research Professor (2018-2019). At present, he is working as a Research Professor at the same department in the Aerogel Materials Research Centre, Yonsei University, South Korea. His current research interests include porous materials, aerogels, functional materials, energy storage and conversion, photocatalysis. Till now, he has published 2 international books, 73 international papers, and actively participated in more than 30 national/international conferences and symposiums. He received various awards and prizes. Additionally, he gave invited talks in various conferences and colleges. He has been served as a guest editor in MDPI polymers journal, and presently serving as a recognized reviewer in more than 30 International peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Zuhair Jamain has completed his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, and is currently a senior lecturer in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for several journals. Dr. Zuhair’s research interests focus on synthesizing and modifying organic compounds for various applications such as liquid crystal, fire retardant, and dielectric materials. Moreover, he has been involved in various research projects as a principal investigator and collaborator.

Dr. Chiang received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2019. She is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Central College, USA. Dr. Chiang sees her research as part of the broader effort in the sustainable energy to study the interaction linking human society, environment, and materials development in the contemporary world. Her research includes ceramic-based electrolytes, and Na-ion battery materials to provide a safe and reliable grid-scale energy storage for next generation batteries. In addition, Dr. Chiang is committed to disrupting national trends in engineering with respect to women and men of color receiving engineering degrees, and to make North Central College a national model for equity and excellence in engineering!

Gerard Tobias obtained the degree in Chemistry (with Honours) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2000), Master in Materials Science and Ph.D. with European mention (UAB, ICMAB, 2004). He was a research visitor at Ames Laboratory (USA) and EMAT (Belgium). Between 2004-2009 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (UK). Since 2009 he leads research on "Nanoengineering of Carbon and Inorganic Materials" at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Dr. Tobias has coordinated the FP7 European network RADDEL and has been granted an ERC Consolidator Grant (NEST, 725743).

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from the Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received Ph.D.- 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; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last even years (2014 - 2020) over 80 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries.

Laura Paradis-Fortin is an ambitious and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher working on the development of new thermoelectric materials. During her Ph. D. in collaboration between CRISMAT (Caen, France) and ISCR (Rennes, France), she worked on the synthesis and processing of chalcogenide materials. She has a particular interest in crystal structure and the structure-properties relationship. In her current position at National Taiwan University she continue to use her crystal structure approach to study half-Heusler materials.

Lucía G. Pérez Amaro has a master’s degree in Materials Engineering from the Simón Bolívar University (USB) - Caracas, Venezuela, and a doctorate from the University of Concepcion Chile and a post doctorate from the University of Pisa (UNIPI) - Pisa, Italy. Eng. Pérez Amaro is currently Head of R&D at the Innovative Start-up LMPE Srl SB Lucca - Italy (5 years), has 10 years of experience in polymeric materials (CNR, INSTM, UNIPI – Italy), and 3 years of experience in the Oil&Gas sector (PDVSA – Venezuela). Eng. Pérez Amaro has 15 scientific articles, 3 international patents, 2 national patents, 2 book chapters and 16 communications at international conferences.

Morteza Shaker Ardakani completed his B.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering, followed by M.Sc. in Engineering Materials-Design and Selection in Iran from Sharif University of Technology. He worked as lecturer and metallography lab supervisor for two years. He also worked as melting expert in Chadormalu Steel Making Plant in Iran for a few months. He joined Michigan Technological University in the Fall of 2017 to pursue his studies. His focus is understanding the fundamental of the mechanical behavior of Zn based alloys for the bioabsorbable implant applications under the guidance of Professors Kampe and Drelich.

Fahd Moumni has completed his Double Masters degree in both Materials Sciences and Mechanical & Space Systems Engineering, from the Université de Lorraine (France) and the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan), respectively. Fahd Moumni is a member of MicroOrbiter Inc., specialized in the CubeSat industry. He has been awarded the IAF ESL award for his achievements as a young professional in the space field.

Badr Eddine Lebrouhi was born in July 1995 in Safi – Morocco, and received his Bachelor of Technology degree from University Cadi Ayyad (UCA-Morocco), in 2015. Three years later, Lebrouhi received his engineering degree from University Hassan 1st of Settat (UH1-Morocco). After, Lebrouhi started his international Joint Ph.D. program between Mohammed V University of Rabat (UM5 – Morocco), and the University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour (UPPA-France). Lebrouhi’s research interests focus on Battery Thermal Management Systems, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. Moreover, he has been involved in various research topics including Energy transition, Renewable Energy, Hydrogen Energy, and the Geopolitics of energy etc.

Dr. Xiangming Xu is KAUST Postdoctoral Fellow of material science and engineering, with Prof. Husam Alshareef as his advisor. He got the Ph.D. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He received the young researcher award in the ISFOE-2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, His researches focus on the high-quality 2D films (TMDs, MOF and MXene) growth methods for large-area integrated circuits.

Stephanie Nunes is a senior researcher at Riga Technical University (RTU/Latvia) and a collaborative researcher at Luleå Technical University (LTU/Sweden). She has a Ph.D. in Material Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brazil) in 2018. Dr. Nunes current research topic is “Design methodology for composite structures by controlling and optimizing the evolution of polymer properties during processing”, focusing on viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity studies. Her research and development experience is mainly in Materials Engineering, especially in structure, processing and properties of polymeric composites.