Materials Science & Engineering

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 117; Google Scholar) 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 served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, 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 53,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023).

Sergey Suchkov was born in the City of Astrakhan, Russia, in a family of dynasty medical doctors. In 1980, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University with MD. From 1980 through 1983 has been working as Res Associate, and from 1983 through 1985 as Senior Res Associate at the Inst of Medicical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1985, maintained his PhD at the Sechenov University. From 1986 through 1989, has been working as Senior Res Associ- ate at the Koltzov Institute of Dev Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1989 through 1994, was a Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology &Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Res Institute in Moscow. In 1989-1993, was trained at the NEI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, and Wills Eye Hos- pital, Philadelphia, PA, USA, as well as at some of the British universities on the invi- tation of the Royal Society for Immunology. In 1993-1996, was an Executice Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedi- cal Science, an int journal published jointly by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. From 1994 through 2006, was a Director (full-time job) of the Division for Clinical Immunology & Immunobiotechnology, Vladimiskii Moscow Clinical Research Insti- tute (MONIKI), and The Clinical Immunology Physician-in-Chief (quater-time job) of the Moscow region. In 2002, maintained his Doctor’s Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. In 1999, was working as a Clinical Immunology Physician (quater-time job) at the “Ehinacea” Clinical Center in Moscow, Russia. From 2006 through 2014, was The First Vice-President (full-time job) responsible for Personalized and Precision Immunology of The University of World Politics and Law, Moscow, Russia. From 2000 through 2007, was collaborating with some US and European Healthcare and Pharma companies (half-time job) staying in Moscow, Russia. From 2003 through 2021, was a Professor (quator-time job) of the Dept for Clinical Human Pathology of Sechenov University,Moscow, Russia. From 2007 through 2021, is a Professor (quator-time job) of the Dept for Clinical Al- lergology & Immunology of A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine & Dentistry, Moscow, Russia. From 2014 through 2021, was a Professor and Director (full-time job) of the Dept (since 2016 The Center) for Personalized & Precision Medicine of Sechenov Univer- sity,Moscow, Russia. From 2021 through 2021, is a Professor and Chair (full-time job) of the Dept for Per- sonalized Medicine, Precision Nutriology & Biodesign of the Institute for Biotecholo- gy & Global Health of the RosBioTech National University, Russia. From 2004 through the present, utilizing an experience gained whilst staying in USA, Europe and Japan, was doing a lot to implement technologies and philosophy of Per- sonalized and Precision Healthcare services into the daily clinical practice of Russia. Have prepared and finalized a Business Plan for getting it done in a stepwise manner!

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Dr. Chuanyi Wang, FRSC and FIAAM, is a distinguished professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology (SUST), China. Before moving to SUST in the summer of 2017, he was a distinguished professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), serving as Director of Laboratory of Environmental Science & Technology of Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS, and Head of CAS-SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (2010-2017). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Photographic Chemistry of CAS in 1998, worked in Germany (Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover and Free University Berlin) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow with Prof. Detlef Bahnemann from 1999 to 2000, and then worked in USA (Tufts University and Missouri University-Kansas City) as a research faculty from 2000 to 2010. Currently, Dr. Wang also serves as an associate editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters, and works as an editorial board member for number of international journals. Dr. Wang’s research interest covers catalysis and photo-/electro-catalysis at nanostructured materials, including material design, synthesis, functionality evaluation and in situ surface probe studies with focus on applications in photo-/electrochemical energy conversion and environmental remediation. By far, he has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals with over 15600 citations and h-index of 72, and was named in the top 2 % of the most influential scientists in the world in their scientific career, 2021 and 2022 (Physical Chemistry, #87 in 2021 by Stanford University (California, USA) "Ranking of the World Scientists: World's Top 2% Scientists").

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Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career - as a scientist and a senior scientist in AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty in many universities, including in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, etc. He was a SPARC fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board of India and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has beenan associate editor of the Elsevier Journal, J. Photochem. Photobiol. C (Impact factor 17.1), and an associate editor of the NPG journal, NPG Asia Materials (IF=10.9).

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I am Board of Council and Former Deputy President at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) and OB Chair World Technology University Network (WTUN) and Professor at the Graduate School of Science andEngineering / College of Engineering. My main task is to transform SIT into a high rank university. To accomplish this goal, I have been working and further designed several innovative programs to enhance global initiatives for SIT. For instance, global project based learning (gPBL), advanced project based learning (aPBL), Ph.D innovative program, publication based internship program, sakura science program, high school internship program as these programs are crucial towards global ranking projects. I aminterested in applications and technology of bulk single-grain superconductors; thus, I had developed a new class of mixed LRE-123 system which can be used up to 15 T at 77 K and high temperatures up to 90.2 K. I also developed a novel technology to produce a RE-123 type silver sheathed wire on the basis of solid state / liquid phase reaction. I have developed bulk MgB2 with enhanced superconducting properties, paving the way to affordable superconducting magnets for medical and transportation applications. I am successful my intellectual mindset enabled me to produce a small type superconducting bulk magnet which is useful to magnetize both high-Tc superconducting materials and magnetic materials in a variety of industrial applications. Further, I also contributed to develop technology for the development of DC Superconducting Cable for Railway system applications. I have made notable advancements in the production of nano-scale particles using Ultrasonic techniques. This breakthrough has greatly enhanced the cryomagnetic performance of the low-cost MgB2 magnet, for which I have recently filed a patent. This development is of utmost importance for various sectors, including healthcare, transportation, and power applications, as it enables the creation of cost-effective products. Additionally, nano-sized boron particles play a critical role in numerous applications such as superconductors, semiconductors, and explosives. Elemental boron, due to its exceptional volumetric heat of combustion and other advantageous characteristics, serves as an excellent choice for wide range of industrial applications. I am an author and co-author for more than 550 research items including patents, books, review-articles, articles, press release etc., and delivered over 150 oral presentations including plenary and invited ones. I hold several Japanese national and international patents. Awards: Young Scientist Project Award, DST-Govt. of India (1995), Director’s Award, SRL-ISTEC (1998 and 2003), 1999 PASREG Award of Excellence (1999), Best Presentation Award at the IWCC11 (2003), Best Researcher Award, ISTEC-SRL (2007 and 2008), Best Researcher Award, Railway Technical Research Institute (2012), the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award (2017), Engineering Education Award for Contribution in Higher Education (2018), SIT Excellent Education Award (2019) by President. IAAM Fellow (2020), Vebleo Fellow (2021), Best Faculty Award (2021), Pravasi Bharatiya Summan Award by President, Govt. of India(2021),SIT Chairman’s Award (2021), Incredible Academician of World Award (2022). I am an Editor-in-Chief and Editorial board member of several international journals. Currently I am adjunct professor including Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), visiting professor and international advisor for several universities in worldwide.

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Dr. Andrei Kholkin is a IEEE Fellow Head of Advanced Microscopy of Functional Materials Lab. He completed his PhD at Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russia in the year 1987 in the field Solid State Physics. He completed his MSc and BSc in Physics at St. Petersburg State University, Russia in the year 1979. At present he is a research coordinator (full research professor), principal investigator in Physics Department & CICECO - Materials at Institute of Aveiro and University of Aveiro, Portugal. However, he was the General chair of the 22nd Intl Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (Portugal, 2012).And he was a Guest editor of Special Issue: ”Scanning Probe Microscopy of Ferroics” Materials in the year November 2017. He got IEEE Ferroelectrics Recognition Award in the year 2015 for the “substantial contribution to the understanding of ferroelectrics at the nanoscale". His scientific interest is Processing, characterization and applications of ferroelectric films and nanostructures, Sensors and actuators, MEMS, smart systems, Ferroelectric polymers, bioferroelectrics and biomimetric polar materials.

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Asif Abdullah Khan is currently a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He pursued Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Dayan Ban from 2018-2023 at University of Waterloo. In 2015, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. He was a recipient of the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His research interest includes synthesis and characterization of advanced energy materials for high-performance piezoelectric nanogenerators and self-powered wireless sensing systems for IoT applications.

Professor Eveliina Repo is a head of the research group of Hydrometallurgy for Urban Mining in Department of Separation Science, LUT university, Finland. Her main research focus is the recovery of valuable elements from the various secondary resources such as ashes, slags, e-waste and brines by electrochemistry, ionic-liquids, metal-organic-frameworks, and 3D-printed separation materials. In addition, water treatment with advanced technologies is one of her research interests. She has 110 scientific publications with h-index of 42 and she also holds a position of Academy Research Fellow.

Renato Tomašborn in Trogir, Croatia, June 20, 1967.Received his PhD from the University of Split, Croatia, in 2002.He is currently Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology (FCT), University of Split, Croatia. Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, FCT, University of Split: (2007-2009 and 2011-2013).Field of work and research experience: solution chemistry; supramolecular chemistry; ionic liquids; thermodynamic and transport properties of electrolytes. Teaching experience: lecturer on Selected topics in physical environmental chemistry for PhD students in chemistry; lecturer in Physical chemistry for undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry, chemical technology, pharmacy, biology, and chemistry; seminar leader for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Physical chemistry. Published 40 scientific papers and participated in over 30 international scientific conferences. Currently member from Croatia in COST project CA18202, Network for Equilibria and Chemical Thermodynamics Advanced Research, NECTAR, 2021 - 2024.Member of the Croatian Chemical Society.

Kátia Cardoso holds degrees in physics from the São Paulo State University (1989; Brazil) and in materials science and engineering from the Department of Materials Engineering (DEMa) at the Federal University of São Carlos (Ph.D., 1999; Brazil). Currently, she is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Institute of Science and Technology (ICT) of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. Throughout her career, she has undertaken internships at renowned institutions such as the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas in Spain and at the University of Grenoble. During these periods, she focused on the application of severe plastic deformation (ECAP) processing techniques for aluminum matrix composites and the study of hydrogen storage in high entropy alloys, respectively. Kátia's research interests encompass the development, processing and characterization of advanced alloys and composites. Her work spans various materials, including aluminum alloys, aluminum-based composites, amorphous and nanocrystalline materials, and high entropy alloys. She has expertise in metal processing techniques such as severe plastic deformation (ECAP), powder metallurgy (mechanical alloying), conventional casting processing, and rapid solidification techniques. In her recent research, Kátia's emphasis lies in the development of high entropy alloys for hydrogen storage and for coating applications

Prof. Daining Fang is an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member in several reputed journals of mechanics and materials science.

Dr. Masataka Ijiri obtained a Bachelors Degree in engineering, a Masters Degree in mechanical and systems engineering, and a Ph.D. Degree in engineering at Okayama University. He is a specialist in materials engineering for titanium alloys. After obtaining a doctoral degree, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Sanyo-Onoda city University and studied cavitation processing technology. Currently he is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Franz Weber graduated from the University Konstanz (Germany) with a PhD in Biology/Muscle Biochemistry. He completed a 3-year postdoctoral training on muscle cell biology at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and served as a lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy. He spent the following two years at Biochemistry of the ETH Zurich working on the lipid uptake from the small intestine. In 1995, he joined the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich. Beside his obligations at the University of Zurich, he became Director of the European Technical Center of Inion Ltd in Cambridge (UK) in 2005 and occupied this position until 2009. His research encompasses additive manufacturing, bone substitutes, osteoconduction, bone morphogenetic proteins, delivery systems, epigenetics, bone and pulp tissue engineering. Franz E. Weber has authored 137 peer- reviewed research articles published in international journals amounting to more than 7234 citations, 16 patents, several review articles, book chapters, and an h- index of 40. He is member of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering international & Regenerative Medicine Society), IADR (International Association for Dental Research), DKG (German Ceramic Society), ACerS (The American Ceramic Society), and SSB+RM (Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine). He is currently appointed as Professor of Craniofacial and Oral Biotechnology at the Center of Dental Medicine and member of the Medical and the Science Faculty of the University of Zurich.

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Prof. Jaroslaw Milewski works at the Warsaw University of Technology's Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, specifically in the Institute of Heat Engineering. He serves as the Head of the Power Division at the Institute of Heat Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Power Technologies, and a Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Energy. Prof. Milewski also holds the position of Director of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Center at the Institute of Applied Research. His expertise includes fuel cell research (Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells–MCFC and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells–SOFC) as well as other power sources, hybrid systems, advanced power systems (hydrogen-based), and steam/gas turbine power generation systems. Prof. Milewski has considerable experience collaborating with the power engineering industry. He has authored and co-authored over 300 publications and 5 or more patents, with a Hirsch index of 24 based on Google Scholar statistics. He teaches courses on turbomachinery, turbomachinery theory, environmental protection, numerical tools in power plant simulations, hybrid systems, and more.

Dr.Alper Bideci is an Assoc.Prof.Dr. at Duzce University, Department of Architecture. Alper’s research focuses on the building materials especially concrete and cement. Alper is the author of Polymer Covered Lightweight Aggregate Concrete (Turkish Edition). He has lots of articles about building materials, concrete and cement. His special area of expertise is the production of polymer coated pumice aggregate and lightweight concrete. He was at the University of Bradford for a Post PhD between 2022-2023

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jiehua Li was born in 1979. He graduated and obtained his Ph.D degree from State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnic University in 2010. During his Ph.D study (from 2008-07 to 2009-08), he also worked as a joint Ph.D candidate in Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Sydney, Australia. After his Ph.D in January 2010, he moved to Austria and worked as University Assistant in Chair of Casting Research, University of Leoben. In July 2014, he has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Chair of Casting Research, University of Leoben. On May, 2015, he was promoted to Privatdozent. His research works mainly focus on (i) melting metallurgy, (ii) high performance alloys, (iii) solidification principles, (iv) advanced casting technologies, and (v) advanced scanning / transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. Currently, he is leading one project supported by Austrian Science Funding (FWF), one project supported by Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and 4 projects supported by industry companies (SAG, BMW, Aeromet UK, Eckart Germany). On the basis of his research work, 39 first-authored and 44 co-authored, peer-reviewed papers have been published in prestigious journals, including Acta Mater. (12). He was the reviewer of more than 31 prestigious journals, including Acta Mater, Scripta Mater and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. He holds 2 Chinese patents and one USA patent. He was the winner of the international prestigious HZG Magnesium Research Award in 2017. In 2018, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. In 2021, he was awarded the best paper of S2P2021 (16th International Conference on Semi Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites). He is the chairman of S2P2021 and the member of the international scientific committee of Semi Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites. In 2022, he was nominated the editor of Metal and Special casting & nonferrous alloys, the guest editor of special issues (Advances in semi-solid forming, Grain Refinement and Mechanical Properties of Cast Alloys) in Metal. In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated the best reviewer of Journal of Magnesium and alloys.

Marta Dias graduated in Chemical Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) in 2003. In 2011 she completed the PhD degree in Materials Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon with a thesis entitled 'B-Fe-U phase diagram and ternary compounds characterisation. The work focused on the solidification and solid-state transformations as well as on structural and property characterisation of B-Fe-U intermetallic compounds. M. Dias had a Post-Doc position at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) investigating materials for nuclear applications in the Materials for fusion group affiliated with Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN). Recently, Marta Dias (MD) won a research position at IST since January of 2019 up to now. Three main different research lines have been followed: production and characterization of (i) W-Ta composites as plasma wall materials, (ii) WC-Cu and Cu-Y2O3 composites and (iii) CuxCrFeTiMo, CuxCrFeTiV and CrNbTaVW high entropy alloys, all as thermal barriers. Investigations on the characterization of materials exposed to extreme conditions are particularly important to the lifetime of the nuclear fusion reactor. The study of the microstructures before and after plasma interactions using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) as well as the study of deuterium retention in the composites using ion beam techniques were performed in the last years.

Ian M. Reaney (IMR, PI) is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, ECerS, ACerS and the IOM3, and Dyson Chair in Ceramics at UoS. He is European Site Director for the US National Science Foundation Centre for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics. He has won numerous awards, such as the Verulam Medal (2017) and most recently the Robert E Newnham Award (2021) from the IEEE for structure-property relations in electroceramics. He is a named investigator on >35 EPSRC grants totalling > £45m with > £10m as PI, including the recent, multi- and interdisciplinary grant (EP/L017563/1, £2.4m) on ‘Substitution and Sustainability in Functional Materials and Devices’ (SUBST) and Transforming the Foundation Industries Network+ (EP/V026402/1, £2.3m). He has >400 publications.

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Alana Pinto Caroso Souza was born on February 27, 1996. She completed her Master at Piracicaba School of Dentistry/ Unicamp Brazil. Her Master in Dental Materials, her PhD at Piracicaba School of Dentistry/ Unicamp , Brazil her PhD in the field of Dental Materials. She is a Researcher in Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials She is Specialist in Public Health - Faculdade Eficaz, Brazil she worked as a Dentist from the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB),Brazil.

Dr. Seunghyun Cho obtained a Ph.D in 2004 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hongik University in Republic of Korea for pressure vessels for HIP (Hot Isotropic Press) and worked at Samsung Electro-Mechanics Central Research Institute for four years to conduct research on the reliability of PCB for semiconductors. Since 2009, he has been a professor of mechanical engineering at Dongyang Mirae University and has been conducting reliability research in the fields of semiconductor PCB, pressure container, and mechanical components.

Dr. Ke Han is a Distinguished University Scholar in Florida State University and group leader for Materials Science and Characterization in Magnet Science and Technology Division in National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab). Since joined Florida State University, Dr. Ke Han has been the lead researcher for high strength materials development and characterization in the MagLab. He coauthored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. Some of his publications are on new fabrication methods 1) for large sized cobalt-nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloys (tested at both room temperature and 77 degrees Kelvin (°K)) that achieves strength about 25% higher than had ever been achieved before in similar sized material, and 2) for increasing the size and strength of copper-niobium conductors. Since then, this fabrication method has been used for construction of reinforcement in all NHMFL high field pulsed magnets above 60 T. Han has continued to expand research on this alloy; he recently discovered that it can perform very well even as low as 4 °K if it is fabricated by his method. The successful manufacture and characterization of high strength materials made it possible in 2012 for NHMFL to achieve a pulsed magnetic field of 100 T, the strongest of this type in the world so far.

Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur received her Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Materials Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Western Michigan University. Her professional experience includes also industrial experience as Senior Research Engineer, R&D, at RAFAEL, Advanced Defense Systems, Israel. Her academic experiences include post-doctorate fellowship in Material Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and sabbaticals at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand and at the Department of mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Dr. Ari-Gur is the director of the laboratory of smart and advanced materials, and of the virtual laboratory. Her research focus is on smart materials, such as advanced alloys for magneto caloric application and ferromagnetic shape memory alloys. Also the use of artificial intelligence for materials and processes design. Some of her other projects include the development of smart helmet to prevent concussion and virtual white cane to assist the visually impaired in navigation. Her research has been regularly funded by numerous research awards, most recent ones are NSF-MRI: Acquisition of a Physical Properties Measurement System for Research, Education, and Outreach (co-PI) $621,618; National Science Foundation (NSF), Major Research Instrumentation (PI) ($452,399 to acquire an advanced X-ray diffraction system), and National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER Award (co-PI) $111,834.00. Also recent is a FRACAA award for energy harvesting to power the smart white cane and a current FRACAA award Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Additive Manufacturing.

Xianguang Yang received his Bachelor’s degree in Optics from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2012, and completed his Doctorate in Optical Engineering with the theoretical and experimental combination of nanowire and nanoparticle photonics at the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies affiliated with SYSU in 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Baojun Li (Changjiang Scholar). He received National Postgraduate Scholarship in 2016. He became an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Nanophotonics at the Jinan University in 2016 and became an Assistant to the Dean since 2018, then promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. He has mentored 9 MS students. His main research interests include photonics, plasmonics, nano-optics, detectors, optoelectronics and optothermal mechanisms, which were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Yang has published 3 Book chapters, and 30 peer-reviewed journal publications, such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Optical Materials, Nanophotonics, Nanoscale, ACS Photonics, and etc. He has been an Editorial Board Member of Optics in 2018 and to be a member for RSC Advances Reviewer Panel since 2020. In 2021, he has been appointed as guest editor of Frontiers in Materials (IF 3.5), managing the research topic of Photo-Sensitive Materials and Devices for Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics and Photoelectrocatalysis. He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), Optical Society of America (OSA), Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE).

José Pedro Rino is a Full Professor at Physics Department of the Federal University of São Carlos – Brazil. He obtained his Mater Degree (1978) and his PhD (1983) from Universidade de São Paulo at São Carlos – Brazil. He spends 2 years as a Pos-Doc fellow at Argonne National Laboratory – USA under the supervision of Prof. Priya Vashishta which whom he has been working since them on the development of interatomic potential for materials. He was a visitor professor for several times at University of Southern California. His actual research concern with development of interatomic potential for vitreous materials and the study of crystallization and crystal growth.

Michael Aizenshtein received his PH.D. in Materials Engineering at 2006 from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He is working as a researcher at NRC-Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Lecturing in the Material and Engineering Department at BGU. His Fields of interest are high temperature capillary, Metal Ceramic Composites (MCC's), High Entropy Alloys (HEA's) and irradiation damage.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Plenary Session: Combat Vehicle Weight Reduction - The U.S. Army Research Challenge,” em Combat Vehicle Weight Reduction by Materials Substitution: Proceeding of a Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2018. National Research Council, Application of Lightweighting Technology to Military Aircraft, Vessels, and Vehicles, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 21st Century Paradigm Change in Performance and Design Metrics: Proceedings of a Workshop, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2019. X. Chen. Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection, Cambridge, MA USA: Elsevier Ltd, 2016. J. Marx, M. Portanova e A. Rabiei. “Ballistic performance of composite metal foam against large caliber threats,” Compostie Structures, p. 12, 28 May 2019. M. Garcia-Avila, M. Portanova e A. Rabiei. “Ballistic performance of a composite metal-foam ceramic armor system, ”Procedia Materials Science, p. 6, 2014.

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Victor Dyomin is a First Vice-Rector at National Research Tomsk State University (TSU), Associate Professor at the Department of Optoelectronic Systems, and Head of the Laboratory of Radiophysical and Optical Methods of Environmental Research. He got PhD in optoelectronics from TSU in 1988. During the last 10 years Professor Dyomin has been a PI and co-PI of more than fifteen successful grants projects with the total funding over three million US dollars. Professor Dyomin is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America, Regular Member of IEEE, SPIE. He authored 80+ journal papers, 44+ papers in Proceedings (SPIE, IEEE, OSA, etc.), 14 patents and 2 text books and made many invited presentations at national and international conferences, the whole list of works includes more than 250 items. Scientific interests include optics, holography, digital holography, underwater holography of plankton, and methodology of education in optics.

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Giovanni Magno is an experienced researcher in the field of electromagnetics, with a focus on optical and microwave devices. He obtained his master's degree in electronic engineering (2011) and his PhD (2015) at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, focusing on the numerical modelling of plasmonic and photonic crystal devices based on mesoscopic autocollimation (in collaboration with LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse). From 2015 to 2020, he was a researcher at the C2N-CNRS (Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies) in Palaiseau (France), where he worked on a number of projects, including: numerical design and near-field characterization of plasmonic tweezers for micro and nanoparticle manipulation; design and near-field experimental characterization of integrated electron beam optical modulators based on plasmonic nanoantennas; development of a time-domain opto-thermal simulator able to take into account phase change in inhomogeneous media, for the analysis of laser-matter interaction in additive manufacturing processes. Since December 2020, he is a research fellow in Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Politecnico di Bari, where he is involved in the design and characterization of optical and microwave devices, with a particular focus on optical metasurfaces for augmented reality applications and reconfigurable reflective intelligent surfaces with graphene. He has published over 70 papers in international journals and conferences and is an active reviewer for international journals. He is a member of the IEEE, OSA, CNIT, S.I.Em and SIOF.