Prof. Neal Tai-Shung Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE dept of National University of Singapore in 2011-2021. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water, clear energy and pharmaceutic separation. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012. He received the Underwood Medal from IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK) for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was ranked as No. 6th in Chemical Engineering worldwide by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford University in both 2022 and 2023. He was one of the top 0.1% of scholars on Water Purification over the past 10 years, as "World Expert" by Expertscape (2021). (Water Purification: Worldwide - Expertscape.com). H-index = 130 (Scopus) or 150 (Google Scholar); Number of citations > 63,928 (Scopus) and > 81,420 (Google Scholar) (Feb 21, 2024).He is an editorial board member of journals including J. Membrane Science, Env. Sci. & Tech., AIChE J., Separation & Purification Tech., Desalination, J. Applied Polymer Science, and many others.

Vladimir Torchilin got his M.S, Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the Moscow State University and currently serves as a University Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. He has published more than 450 original papers, more than 200 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 15 books, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 90,000 citations of his papers with H-index of 133. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and on the Editorial Boards of many other journals. He received more than $20 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. He has multiple national and international honors and awards and in 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010. In 2021 Elsevier/Stanford analysis ranked him as a single highest-cited researcher among more than 130,000 ranked researches in the area of Pharmacology/Pharmacy. He is also selected by Clarivat as the 2023 Citation Laureate

Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 900+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with citations 63000+ times and h-index of 125(google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 160+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 170+ Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2023 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2023. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of the journals, Battery Energy (Wiley) and Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier).

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 124; 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 in over 20,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, 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 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Graduated from the University of Sydney with PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1991, Prof. Kim has more than 30 years of faculty career with the Australian National University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently professor at the Khalifa University of Science & Technology and concurrently affiliated with theUniversity of New South Wales. Kim served as Associate Dean of Engineering (Research and Graduate Studies), Director of Finetex-HKUST R & D Center and Director of Advanced Engineering Materials Facilitieswhile at HKUST. Kim was the Editor of Composites Part A (2012-23) and is currently Associate Editor of Aerospace Science & Technology and Energy Materials & Devices, apart from sitting in the editorial/advisory boards of 12 refereed journals in advanced materials, including Nanoscale Horizons, Energy Storage Materials, and Nano Materials Science. Kim has been honored with many awards and honors, including President of the Asian-Australasian Association for Composite Materials, Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship, numerous Best Paper Awards from international conferences together with graduate students, HKUST President Cup Silver Medal, multiple Best Reviewer Awards, and the Life-long Achievement Award. As an internationally renowned scholar, Prof. Kim is one of the leading authorities in the field of composites, nanocomposites and nanostructured energy storage materials. He has pioneered in the development of multifunctional composites reinforced with 2D and nanocarbon materials for polymer dielectrics, EMI shielding, flexible electronics, sensors, cooling aerogels, and emerging rechargeable batteries/supercapacitors. In recognition of his scholarly achievements and outstanding contributions to professional societies, Kim has been elected as Fellows of prestigious academy and learned societies, including the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He has been included in the Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists List since its first edition in 2020, and its 2023 List identified him as the top 0.05% most influential scientist in the subfield of Materials in both career total and single year. Kim has been named the Highly Cited Researcherby Clarivate Analytics.

Prof. Dr. Yarub Al-Douri is a Fellow of European Academy of Sciences. Al-Douri is winner of the prestigious Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation2024. He has initiated Nanotechnology Engineering MSc Program and Nano Computing Laboratory. He has received numerous accolades including winner of IAAM Scientist Award by International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden 2022,World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA 2023, 2022, 2021 & 2020, World’s Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation Impact by Stanford University, USA 2020, OeAD Award, Austria 2020, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award 2019, Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) Award 2019, the total is 75 awards. Al-Douri is Associate Editor of Nano-Micro Letters (Q1,IF=26.6,Springer), Editor-in-Chief of Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY, Editor-in-Chief of World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering. His research field focuses on nanotechnology, renewable energy, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, modelling and simulation, semiconductors, optical studies. Finally, Al-Douri is a public figure at international media in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar and UAE.Al-Douri has more than 860 publications including Citations < 12000, h-index = 59, i10-index = 243 and US$ 5.1M research grants. Finally, Al-Douri is one of the Middle-East, North of Africa, Malaysia and Southeast Asia’s most renowned scientists known for his contributions in Nanotechnology and renewable energy, and a public figure at international media in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar and UAE.

Dr. Hossain is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering (SoMME) and has a joint appointment in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland (UQ). He currently leads a medium size research group within the Australian Centre of Materials Nanotectonics where he is the Co-Director. Dr Hossain has extensive expertise in the area of Materials Science and Engineering and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of applied superconductivity. He has extensive expertise in a research field in which he has 12 years of experience. His research career has strongly supported by a number of awards, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from ARC, Strategic Research Fellowship from Australian Academy of Sciences, Priming and Bridging grant award from Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the Vice-Chancellor’s Emerging Researcher Excellence Award and Vice-Chancellor’s Excellent Industry Partnership Award from University of Wollongong (UOW). His innovative research at the intersection of materials science, magnetism and applied superconductivity has already resulted in the elegant and efficient design of magnetic and superconducting materials for a range of applications including MRI, power cables, fusion magnets and chemical biosensors. He has devised novel strategies based on underlying physics and chemistry to design highly efficient nano-engineered materials and engineering devices which exhibit significantly enhanced superconducting and electromagnetic properties compared to current commercial counterparts. The existing and new collaboration with leading universities, government organization and industry within Australia and abroad, including UOW, ANSTO, CERN and MIT will strengthen Australia's research profile in the field and the involvement of Dr. Hossain’s long standing industry partner Hyper Tech Reseatch Inc will ensure practical applications in an industry context.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology – China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010. 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. Professor Morais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He has delivered 170 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation,

Dr. Huaiyu Shao is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME) at the University of Macau, China. With a focus on advancing energy storage technologies, Dr. Shao's research interests encompass a wide array of topics including Battery Materials (Li/Na/Mg ion batteries, All-solid-state Batteries), Hydrogen Energy, Energy Storage, and Electrochemical Catalysis. Dr. Shao's academic journey has been marked by significant contributions to the field of energy storage, particularly in the development of advanced materials for batteries and hydrogen storage applications. Through his diverse research experiences across different countries, he has gained invaluable insights into various aspects of materials science and catalysis. His dedication to pioneering research continues to drive innovation in sustainable energy technologies.