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Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018.In 2018 he was appointed asexecutive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,the EU Academy of Sciences, aForeignMember of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE,a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Associationand a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturiand MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award),to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg AlferovUniversity of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 69,000 and his Hirsch factor is 115 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication

Caterina Ducati is Professor in Nanomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. From October 2018 she has taken over as Director of the Wolfson Electron Microscope Suite. She is a Tutor, Director of Studies in Materials Science and a Fellow of Trinity College. Cate is Director of the MPhil in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise, and co-Director of the NanoDTC in Cambridge. Cate is a co-investigator on the Faraday Institution's Battery Degradation project, led by Prof Clare Grey. Her PhD (1999-2002) was entitled "Nanostructured Carbon for Field Emission and Electrochemistry Applications", and was carried out at the Electronic Devices and Materials Group, Department of Engineering, Cambridge. Her interest has focused on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, and the study of their growth model derived from transmission electron microscopy analysis. She has also been involved in various experiments concerning the growth of metal-seeded nanostructured carbon films, silicon and silicon carbide nanowires, nickel and cobalt sulphide nanowires, titanium dioxide nanocrystals. From April 2003 she was a KTP Associate working on Programme 4151 between the University of Cambridge and Alphasense Limited. Then, between 2004 and 2007, as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, she worked on new properties of metal oxide nanostructures for electronics and catalysis. She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to study photon-stimulated spectroscopy and electron microscopy of nanostructures (2007-2012). From 2009 to 2013 she was a Lecturer, and then a Reader in the Department until 2019. In 2010 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to study third generation solar cells at the nanoscale. In 2014, she was awared an ERC Proof of Concept grant to study air purification through novel metal-metal oxide nanocomposites. Between 2005 and 2008 she was a Sackler Junior Fellow, and then a Research Fellow at Churchill College until 2015.

Oleg V. Angelsky, born on May 5, 1957, is the Director of the Correlation Optics Department at Chernivtsi University, Ukraine. With a career spanning over four decades, he has made significant contributions to optics, earning worldwide recognition. Angelsky holds MSc, PhD, Dr of Science, and Full Professor diplomas from Chernivtsi State University, specializing in Rough Surfaces Characterization, Fractal Optics, Holography, and Singular Optics. He has authored 300+ publications, including over 200 in refereed archival journals, and co-authored 7 monographs. His research achievements include developing holographic measurement methods for quasi-spherical Brownian particle ensembles, interference correlometry methods for rough surface characterization, and applying fractal geometry in surface diagnostics. He's also contributed to analyzing singularities in vector fields and studying coloration mechanisms in light-scattering media. Angelsky is a fellow of prestigious organizations such as the Institute of Physics (UK), SPIE, OSA, and EOS, and a member of the Academy of Science of Universities of Ukraine. He has held leadership positions in professional societies, including Vice-President of the Ukrainian Optical Society and President of the Society "Pure and Applied Optics." Angelsky has chaired numerous international conferences and served on editorial boards for scientific journals. At Chernivtsi National University, he has held roles as Head of the Department of Correlation Optics, Dean of the Engineering Faculty, and currently serves as Director of the Institute of Physical, Technical and Computer Sciences. Angelsky's career has been marked by a commitment to advancing optics through research, education, mentorship, and organizational leadership.

Ya-Hong Xie was born in Beijing, China. He entered the Physics Department of Peking University in 1977. He transferred to the Physics Department of Purdue University in Indiana, USA in 1979. He graduated with the B.S. degree in physics from Purdue University in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph. D degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1983 and 1986, respectively. His Ph. D thesis research was on Si Molecular Beam Epitaxy under the guidance of Prof. Kang L. Wang. Ya-Hong Xie joined Bell Laboratories in 1986 as a member of the technical staff. During his 13 years tenure at Bell Laboratories, Ya-Hong Xie’s research included impurity center mediated luminescence in semiconductors, light emitting porous Si, GeSi/Si molecular beam epitaxy, dislocation kinetics in relaxed GeSi/Si heterostructures, strain induced surface roughening in GeSi epitaxial thin films (also known as self-assembled quantum dots), fabrication of high mobility two-dimensional electron and hole gases in GeSi/Si, and the transport properties and device applications of various Si-based heterostructures. Ya-Hong Xie joined UCLA as a professor of Materials Science & Engineering in 1999. His current research interests include the physical properties (optical, electronic and mechanical) of graphene and other van der Waals materials especially pertaining to biomedical applications, plasmonics, and epitaxial growths of dislocation-free group III-nitride as well as wide bandgap semiconductor devices.

DR. FRANCISCO BULNES is PhD in Mathematical Sciences, IM/UNAM. IINAMEI Director, Mathematics Research Centre in Mexico, 2015-Actually. Pioneer in curvature energy theory, formal theory of engineering and mathematical theory of nanotechnology. Editor-in-Chief of Journals of Mathematics, in USA, and India, 2015- Actually. Member of various international committees of science. Reviewer of British journals of mathematics and physics in SCOPUS; Head of Research Department, GITESCHA. Numerous papers (more than 150) in mathematics and physics research journals, and author of much books of mathematics and physics. Recognised and famous in East Europe, Asia, Arab continents. He has many theories, theorems, math objects with his name. He has received various honors and awards (Doctorates Honoris Causa) by universities and NGO’s,likewise GO’s. He received the Doctor Honoris Causa in Education Philosophy and Peace Ambassador by ODAEE in Frankfurt, Germany. Also is Czech Republic Mathematics Society distinguished member (JCFM). He has two post-doctorates in Cuba and Russia in mathematics. Many international awards and badges (more than 70) as Publons badge, SCOPUS, ZbMath, Thomsom Reuters, MathSci, ORCID, Peace Ambassador and others. His biography appear and has been published in many books of the United Kingdom, India, China, Russia, Ukraine, USA,Spain and Mexico. He has received various tributes from publishing houses in United Kingdom and others. Also he has advanced research in electronics, micro-electronics, nanomedicine and spintronics

Borja Sepulveda received his PhD degree in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2005. His PhD research was carried out at the Microelectronics Institute of Madrid (IMM-CNM, CSIC). In 2006 he started a two years Postoctoral stay at the Bionanophotonics and Bioimaging group in Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden) funded by a prestigious VR Swedish grant. In 2008 he joined the Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) as Research Fellow, where he got a Ramon y Cajal grant in 2009. In 2012, he got a permanent CSIC researcher position at the ICN2. In 2021 he moved to the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC). During his scientific career (2001-), B. Sepúlveda has acquired a highly multidisciplinary experience focused on the development of opto-magnetic nanosystems for clinical and environmental applications.

Vasily Temnov received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in 2004 for experimental studies of destructive femtosecond laser interactions with solids. In 2005-2008 he worked as a postdoc on nanoplasmonics with colloidal quantum dots and magneto-plasmonics at the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany). In 2008-2011 he joined, with a DFG research fellowship, the MIT Chemistry Department (USA) to explore ultrafast acousto-plasmonics. In 2011 he obtained a permanent CNRS position at the IMMM CNRS 6283 in Le Mans (France) and focused on ultrafast magneto-acoustics. After several collaborative research stays at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and the ITMO University on St. Petersburg he moved to the Laboratory of Irradiated Solids at Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris in Palaiseau, where he is currently supervising undergraduate and graduate students and advancing femtosecond laser nanofabrication of magnetic materials for applications in nanophotonics and acousto-magneto-plasmonics.

Si-Cong Tian was born in Changchun, China. He received his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He joined Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2012. From 2016–2017 he studied at Arkansas University, US, as a visiting scholar. Currently, he is a Professor at the Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, CIOMP, CAS. His current research interest includes high-speed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and high-brightness semiconductor lasers.

Chen Shiguo, male, Ph.D., born in September 1980, professor at the School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, serves as deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Complex Environmental Optical and Electromagnetic Information Sensing of the Ministry of Education, and deputy director of the Shaanxi High-Performance CAE Software Innovation Center. He is also a member of the China Society of Optical Engineering and the China Astronautics Society, and has been engaged in infrared simulation research for a long time. He has pioneered the research direction of intelligent generation of infrared images driven by physics, and has published translations of books such as "Infrared Thermal Imaging" and "Infrared Detectors".

Prof. Manoj Kumar received the M.Tech. degree in Instrumentation from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2016. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, and from 2017 to 2019 a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. From 2019 to 2023 he was an Assistant Professor with the Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University. His research interests include 3D imaging, digital holography, 3D fluorescence microscopy, quantitative phase imaging, biomedical optics, and speckle metrology. He is a member of the OPTICA and SPIE.

Dr. Ahmad Alenez is a distinguished clinical scientist, technology specialist, and academic lecturer affiliated with Kuwait University’s Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, specializing in the Department of Radiologic Sciences – Nuclear Medicine Track. With a robust academic background including a PhD in Medicine from the University of Aberdeen, where his research focused on predicting cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients, Dr. Alenez has established himself as a leader in academic teaching, clinical research, and radiation protection. His expertise extends to medical imaging, radiopharmacy, and radionuclide production, supported by an MSc in Medical Imaging from King’s College London and a BSc in Radiologic Sciences (Nuclear Medicine Track) from Kuwait University. Dr. Alenez’s contributions are further highlighted by his role as a Faculty Council Member and founder of The Nuclear Medicine Syndicate, alongside his certifications as a Radiation Officer, Radiochemist, and Radiopharmacist. He is also an accomplished reviewer for esteemed journals such as Heliyon, and his research interests encompass PACS administration, MATLAB programming, image and data analysis, research methodology design, and philosophical reasoning. Active in numerous professional societies including the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and the British Society of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Alenez continues to advance the field through his published articles and ongoing research projects focused on leveraging AI in medical diagnostics and improving imaging techniques in healthcare.