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Educated at Cambridge, Sheffield and Birmingham the author first trained as a physicist, then became a metallurgical engineer, but finally specializing in liquid metals and casting. He developed the Cosworth Casting Process, then a novel process making Al alloy cylinder heads and blocks for the Formula One racing engines, using counter-gravity filling of molds by an electromagnetic pump, subsequently adopted by GM and Ford. The process immediately solved the universal fatigue problems of that era, reducing them to zero. He was co-developer of the new and exciting Ablation Casting Process in the USA, and for 15 years was the first Professor of Casting Technology in the University of Birmingham, UK. His “Complete Casting Handbook” published in 2011 is not light bed-time reading, but is a bargain for the determined and fearless reader with an open mind. The “Mini Casting Handbook”, distilled from the “Complete” book, and updated, contains the minimum knowledge required to make sound cast products every time. The potential upgrade to the properties of our metals, simultaneously raising toughness, creep, fatigue, corrosion resistance etc. is explained in his “The Origin of Fracture– The Mechanisms of Metallurgical Failure” published 2020. He regrets this revolution in metallurgy will cause much trouble, but should eventually bring a more accurate understanding of metallurgy and benefit to the engineering world. He continues to work around the world, lecturing and training, solving production problems, helping to raise quality and productivity, and reduce both energy and costs. He is particularly concerned to encourage the use of melting and casting processes which deliver metals with fewer defects. This is an additional low cost technique to improve properties, supplementing conventional metallurgical techniques such as alloying, working and heat treatment. He targets the production of metals which cannot fail by cracking; metals we can trust.

Dr. Gobind Das has been associated with Khalifa University since 2019. He was Research/ Staff Scientist at King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia. Dr. Das received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Trento, Italy. He joined Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy as a Team Leader in 2009. His research interest spans from Spectroscopy characterization to nanofabrication techniques for biomedical applications. Enhanced spectroscopy techniques such as SERS, TERS, and near-field imaging on among them. He has vast experience with different techniques employed in micro and nanofabrication laboratories for the fabrication of different nanophotonics plasmonic devices.

Gradimir Dimitrijevic was born in Novi Sad 13.05 1955. Elementary school and Gymnasium (High School),finished as excellent pupil 1974. and then I started Medical faculty in Novi Sad. Father of daughter and son. I am one of those to whom the profession is in front of him, rather than his personal interest.Completed Medical Faculty at 1981. As a stipend's of British Council I was at London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine 1987/88 year where I worked on AIDS in Serbia from epidemiological aspect. During that period I participated at First Global conference on AIDS in London. In 1993, I have completed Specialization in Transfusion medicine at Medical Faculty in Novi Sad since then have mastered Blood Transfusion. In 1998, I have become the Master of Medical science with scientific work : "Following of changes in some proteins among blood donors at plasmapheresis program". In 2002, I have attended a seminar entitled "Conceptual Foundation about Managements" by a Company named ADIZES in Belgrade and I have myself organized a Seminar on "Skill in business communication". In 2003, I havee got trained in "Quality in Transfusiology Sevres" organized by EAR (European Agency for Reconstruction of the transfusion service in Serbia ) by DreanFarma/Kennet Bioservis, Belgrade. In 2005, attended a seminar about Haemovigilance at European haemovigilance seminar in London. I have attended courses of ESTM (European school in transfusion Medicine) in Barcelona in 1993, Bratislava in 2000, Sofia in 2002, Belgrade in 2003, courses in Transfusion Medicine at Patras in 1994, ESO (European Oncology school) at Delfi in 1995, Rome in 2001.

Dongqing Cai, Professor, Donghua University, working on solid waste recycling and soil remediation. 46 publications in ACS Nano, Chemical Engineering Journal, etc.

Dr. El-Sherif has received the B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University, respectively. He has forty-five years of experience in academia and in industrial technology development. His expertise ranges from academic teaching, curriculum development, and supervising PhD and MS theses, to industrial innovation in research and technology development. Dr. El-Sherif is a leading American inventor in the fields of nano and microelectronics, smart and intelligent materials/structures, optical communications and fiberoptic sensors, devices and systems. Dr. El-Sherif holds 30 Patents and Patent-Pending, including joint patents with the NASA Langley Research Center and with the US Army Research Engineering Center. He has published several book chapters, over two hundred papers in peer review journals, and attended countless conferences and seminars as an invited Plenary Speaker. Dr. El-Sherif has received a NASA Certificate of Recognition in 2002, on innovation and significant contribution to NASA Research and Development. He has received the Presidential Gold Medal of Drexel University in 2005. He has received the Drexel Engineering Alumni Distinction Award for 2011. He has received several Certificates of Appreciation from the US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Center. Dr. El- Sherif has been invited by the Canadian’ Networks of Centers of Excellence (NCE), to serve on several International Expert Panels, since 2004 (the panel is seven members from US, Europe, and Canada) to review and approve new Programs on the establishment of new Canadian Centers of Excellence, as well as on regular evaluation of existing Canadian National Centers of Excellence past achievement, and approval of new research funding. Dr. El-Sherif is an honored member of many publications of; Who's Who of American Inventors, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in the East. He has served as the Director and Principal Investigator (PI) of several US Federal and State Research and Development Programs with the NASA Lewis Research Center, the US Department of Defense (Army, Air Forces, and Naval Surface Warfare Center), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institute of Health (NIH). In addition, he has served as the Project Director of a large number of industrial projects with large size companies, including the David Sarnoff Research Center (formally RCA), General Electric (GE), GM Company, Smith and Nephew Richards Inc., Vickers Inc., Eaton Inc., and other companies. Dr. El-Sherif has supervised several International Collaborative Programs with Germany, France, Japan, Canada, China, and Brazil.

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.

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Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He 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 interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >9,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >50 issued or pending patents, >170 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >20 plenary and >30 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, Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >80 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

Dr. Wu Wenya obtained BSc & MSc from Nanjing University and PhD in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is an A*STAR scientist working at t Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore. Her expertise is the rational design and characterization of functional colloidal nanostructures for optoelectronics, catalysis, photovoltaics and sensors. Wenya is particularly interested in nanoscale physics and chemistry at the material interface. Benefiting from transmission electron microscopic (TEM) techniques, wenya focus her research on nanomaterial etching, growth, structural /compositional dynamics and interface property via a combination of ex-situ and in-situ TEM.

Francesco Paolo La Mantia is Professor Emeritus at the University of Palermo. Former vice-Rector University of Palermo. His area of expertise is rheology and properties of polymer systems; polymer processing; polymer blends; nanocomposites; polymer recycling; biodegradable polymers. Has published more than 390 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Prof. Regina Jeziorska has received the M.Sc. (1984), the Ph.D. (1998), and the D.Sc. (2008) degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology, Industrial Chemistry Research Institute and Lublin University of Technology, Poland. Currently she leads a group of researchers working on various aspects of recycling and reactive extrusion of bio(polymers), nanocomposites and their applications, and polymer technology. She is the author and co-author of over 150 publications, including 56 from the Philadelphia list, over 90 papers at national and international conferences and over 40 patents.

Dr Agnieszka Szadkowska is a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Warsaw. Currently, she works as a chief specialist of the Polymer Technology Research Group at the Łukasiewicz Research Network - Industrial Chemistry Institute in Warsaw. Research interests: polymer biomaterials and nanocomposites as well as polymer processing and recycling. She is the co-author of 17 publications from the Philadelphia list, 13 chapters in a monograph and 20 patents (including 2 patent applications).

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Dr. Mineo Hiramatsu received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. (Eng.) degrees from Nagoya University. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Meijo University, Japan. He also serves as the Director of the Research Institute, Meijo University. He is author of more than 150 scientific articles and patents on plasma processes for materials science, author of five books, and more than 30 invitations to speak at international conferences on plasma science and nanomaterials. His main fields of research are plasma diagnostics and plasma processing for the synthesis of thin films and nanostructured materials. He is a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

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Hyojung Kim is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sejong University.She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Seoul National University in 2021. Her worked as a postdoctoral course at Purdue University from 2022 to 2023. Her current research interests lie in the science and applications of halide perovskites, and focuses on resistive switching memories and field-effect transistors based on halide perovskites

Yanping Zhu, assistant professor, Donghua University, working on organic waste management and recycling. 15 publications in Chemical Engineering Journal.

Sheng Yun Wu, I am a National Dong Hwa University professor in Taiwan. I have worked for this institution since 2005 and have received a Ph.D. from the National Central University in Taiwan, where my thesis title was “Neutron scattering investigations of the hole-doped CMR magnates (Nd1-XCaX)MnO3 and (La2-2XSr1+2X)Mn2O7.” Some of my areas of research include nanoparticles, magnetic properties, thin films, and nanotechnology.

Prof. Tao Wang received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics and optoelectronics from the Key Laboratory of Laser Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2001. He is a Professor with the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He directs an optics laboratory and his group’s research interests include optoelectronic devices and integration, biological optical sensing, information optics and photonics technologies, nonlinear optics and applications, nanophotonics, nanostructures and nanometrology, and semiconductor lasers and applications.

Si Yin Tee obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from National University of Singapore. Currently, she is working as a research scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR. Her research focuses on the development of functional metal and semiconductor nanostructures for biomedical, environmental and energy applications .

Dr. Efstathia Ioannou received an Integrated Master’s degree from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at the Agricultural University of Athens in 2003 and obtained her MSc and PhD degrees from the Department of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2005 and 2009, respectively, specializing on natural products from marine macroalgae. She carried out postdoctoral research on the chemistry of natural products from marine actinobacteria at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD, CA, USA), before returning to Greece in 2010 to take up a lectureship at the Department of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She has significant teaching and educational experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, having supervised or co-supervised 11 postdoctoral researchers, 18 PhD students, 40 MSc students and several BSc students. Her research output includes 91 original research articles and 10 review /overview articles published in peer-reviewed journals, 4 chapters in books of international publishing houses and more than 200 oral or poster presentations at international and national conferences. She has served as a member of the organizing committee for several international conferences on natural products’ research, including acting as Chair for the 10th European Conference on Marine Natural Products in 2017 and PSE Trends in Natural Products in 2022. She has served as Guest Editor for a number of special issues and is a recurring reviewer of manuscripts for more than 45 peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has served as the Meetings' Secretary (2017-2022) and Regional Representative for South-East Europe (2011-2015) of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE). In the last 5 years, her research activities have attracted significant funding from both the public and the private sector, allowing her to focus on the isolation, structure elucidation and biological activity evaluation of natural products mainly from marine macro- and microorganisms.

Prof. Vassilios Roussis is a Professor at the Section of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is currently the Director of the Laboratory “Valorization of Bioactive Natural Products”. His specialization is in Marine Pharmacognosy and marine natural products chemistry. He is the author of more than 200 publications and 5 patents. He is actively involved in the chemical investigation of marine organisms from the East Mediterranean Sea, has isolated more than 350 new marine natural products and his research has been funded by several national and European grants. In 2015 he received the PSE – Bruker Award “in recognition of his outstanding contributions to chemistry, structure and function of marine natural products”. He is the editor for Marine Natural Products in 3 international scientific journals. He has served for 4 years as the vise-President and for 2 years as the President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. He has organized 14 international conferences in Greece.

Asha Srinivasan completed her MSc and PhD from University of Bradford, UK. She was worked at Max Plank, Germany followed by her Postdoctoral Research at Thomas Jefferson University, USA. Currently, she heads PG program in Nanoscience and Technology at Department of Nanoscience and Technology, Faculty of Life Sciences, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, India. Her area of research involves in the development of aerosol formulations for pulmonary delivery, development of nanoformulation of biologics especially antibody, harnessing biomaterials in nanomedicine and endocytosis of nanomedicine.

Prof. K. D. Mandal did his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India in 1989 and joined as lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India in June, 1995. He has shifted to Department of applied Chemistry, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University [Presently Known as IIT ( BHU) ] Varanasi in 2004. Presently, He has been working as Professor in Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He has guided around 2 dozens of Ph.D. and M. Tech. Students and published around 150 research articles in peer-reviewed international Journals.

Dr. Indrajit Sinha did his M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. in Materials Science from BHU Varanasi, India. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India. His broad areas of research include fields in computational materials science, computational physical chemistry, adsorption, catalysis, and photocatalysis. Dr. Sinha’s group conducts computational and experimental research to elucidate molecular-level mechanisms for designing specific catalysis/adsorption application-based materials.

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Dr. Vinod Saharan graduated from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (CCS HAU), Hisar, Haryana, Indian. He was awarded Israel Government Scholarship in 2003 for Ph.D. Research at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Israel. He did Post Doc from Agricultural Research Organization of Israel (ARO) Volcani, Israel, in 2007. Currently, He is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. He is heading the Nano Research Facility Laboratory at university and a pioneer in developing chitosan-based nanomaterials for plant growth and protection. His has numbers of patented technology in field of agricultural nanotechnology. Currently his gropu is working on developing of next-generation nanofertilizers. He has 80 peer reviewed international publications (average IF:5). He has more than 10 book chapters in Springer, Elsevier etc. His laboratory has research linkage and collaboration with Washington State University, USA and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA.

MD, Professor Aleksandr Urakov is Head at the Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology at Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Russian Federation. He defended his doctoral dissertation at Kazan State Medical University in Russia, published about 200 scientific articles in various journals, developed 230 inventions in various fields of knowledge and led 38 postdoctoral students and doctors to a successful defense of their dissertations.

Mr. Kai-Han Su is currently studying at National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan and is majoring in Material Science, especially the Advances in materials synthesis and processing.