Prof. Tokeer Ahmad is graduated from IIT Roorkee and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Presently, he is full Professor at Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi since 2019. Prof. Ahmad has supervised 16 PhD’s, 79 postgraduates, 10 projects, published 190 research papers, one patent and three books with research citation of 7375, h-index of 50 and i10-index of 147. Prof. Ahmad is active reviewer of 172 journals, delivered 168 Invited talks, evaluated 61 external doctoral theses and presented 128 conference papers. Prof. Ahmad is the recipient of MRSI Medal, SMC Bronze Medal, ISCAS Medal, Inspired Teacher’s President of India Award, DST-DFG award, Distinguished Scientist Award, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Excellence Award of Education, Teacher’s Excellence Award and elected as Member of National Academy of Sciences India. Prof. Ahmad has been figured in World Top 2% Scientists for consecutive four years since 2020 in both coveted lists including career long by Stanford University, USA. Prof. Ahmad has been recently admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK.

Prof. C.-J. Li received his Ph.D. at McGill University 1992 and was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University (US). He was an Assistant (1994), Professor (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry and E. B. Eddy Chair Professor at McGill University. He was a pioneer in using water as a green solvent and a leader in developing Green Chemistry for chemical synthesis. He was listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters (2014-2017). He received a US NSF’s CAREER Award (1997), US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001), 2010 Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, 2015 R. U. Lemieux Award and 2018 Alfred Bader Award of the Canadian Chemical Society, the 2020 Catalysis Award and the 2022 CIC Medal of CIC, the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the 2018 Killam Research Fellow of the Canadian Council of Arts among others. Dr. Li was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2007), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012), Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (2013), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2015), a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2016) and a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2020).

Dr. Lipshutz arrived at UC Santa Barbara in 1979 after completing a two-year American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Lipshutz is the recipient of several honors and awards including: American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award, 1981-1983 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1984-1988 Harold J. Plous Memorial Teaching Award, UCSB, 1984 Esquire Magazine, National Register, December, 1984 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1984-1989 Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print, Organocopper Chemistry, 1989 Chairman, Gordon Research Conference, Reactions & Processes, 1992 Chairman, OMCOS-8, Santa Barbara, CA, 1995 NIH Medicinal Chemistry A Study Section, 1996-2000 American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1997 Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print, Organonickel Chemistry, 1998 Organizer, NSF Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2000-2002 UCSB Foundation Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2002 Board of Consulting Editors, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, 2003-2008 Solvias Ligand Prize, 2003 Science Advisory Board, Cambridge Major Labs, 2004-2007 Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Santa Barbara, June, 2008 Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Obernai, France, June, 2010 U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2011 Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Nantasket, June, 2012 EROS Reagent of the Year Award, 2012 Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Avignon, France, June, 2014 Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Santa Barbara, June 19-23, 2016 Organic Letters "Publication of the Year", 2016 ACS H. C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, 2017 ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Peter J. Dunn Award, 2017

My research goals are to understand and to design functional materials through the use of atomic-scale computer simulations and to establish the tools to do so. The methodologies I utilize are primarily machine learning, quantum mechanics, density functional theory, numerical analysis, statistical mechanics, micro kinetic modeling, and rate theory.

Litter is Doctor in Chemistry from the Buenos Aires University, Argentina (1974) with Postdoctoral stage at the University of Arizona, USA (1983). She is Senior Researcher of the National Research Council (CONICET) and Full Professor at the University of General San Martín, Argentina. She was Principal Researcher and Head of the Environmental Chemistry Remediation Division at the National Atomic Commission. Main research interests: treatment of organic and inorganic contaminants in water and air by innovative advanced technologies, especially heterogeneous photocatalysis and use of iron nanomaterials. She authored more than 250 scientific publications in international journals, books and chapters of books. She received the Mercosur Prize twice in 2006 and 2011. She was President of the Organizing Committee of the 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. She was designated pioneer on photocatalysis in Argentina (2016). She received the Eduardo Charreau Prize 2021 Edition

Abdeltif Amrane, full Professor at the University of Rennes 1. (Google Scholar: h-index: 41; citations: 6289 // Web of Science: h-index: 32; citations: 4106). Since approximately 13 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewaters and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has managed 9 PhD theses as thesis director and 3 are in progress; he has also co-managed 6 PhD theses and 2 co-management theses are in progress. He has been involved in several projects as a manager or a participant, as well in international collaborations (Algeria, Belgium, Hungary, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia…). He has published about 330 international papers including 17 papers in press. He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications.

Prof. Ahmed Mohammed Abu-Dief Mohammed Chemistry Department Sohag University, Egypt Email: ahmedabudief@science.soag.edu.eg, ahmed_benzoic@yahoo.com Qualifications 2013 Ph.D., Sohag University, Egypt, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 2010 M.Sc., Sohag University, Egypt, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 2006 B.Sc., Sohag University, Egypt, Chemistry Publications (Selected) Targeting ctDNA binding and elaborated in-vitro assessments concerning novel Schiff base complexes: Synthesis, characterization, DFT and detailed in-silico confirmation, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Nashwa M.El-Metwaly, Seraj OmarAlzahrania, Afrah M.Bawazeer, Saad Shaaban, Mohamed Shaker S.Adam, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 322, 2021, 114977. Facile synthesis and characterization of novel Gd2O3–CdO binary mixed oxide nanocomposites of highly photocatalytic activity for wastewater remediation under solar illumination, Ahmed M Abu-Dief, Amr A Essawy, AK Diab, WS Mohamed, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 148, 2021, 109666. Chemical, physical, and biological properties of Pd(II), V(IV)O, and Ag(I) complexes of N3 tridentate pyridine-based Schiff base ligand, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Faten M. Atlam and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, A.A. Alothman, Ali M. Alsalme and Ayman Nafady, Journal of coordination chemistry, 73(23), 2020, 3150-3173. Impact of rare earth europium (RE-Eu3+) ions substitution on microstructural, optical and magnetic properties of CoFe2− xEuxO4 nanosystems, W.S. Mohamed, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Ceramics International 46 (2020) 16196–16209. A robust in vitro Anticancer, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Agents Based on New Metal‐Azomethine Chelates Incorporating Ag (I), Pd (II) and VO (II) Cations: Probing the Aspects of DNA Interaction, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 2020,34(2) e5373. Design and nonlinear optical properties (NLO) using DFT approach of new Cr (III), VO (II), and Ni (II) chelates incorporating tri-dentate imine ligand for DNA interaction, antimicrobial, anticancer activities and molecular docking studies, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, H. Moustafa and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 13(1) 2020, 649-670. Synthesis and characterization of new Cr (III), Fe (III) and Cu (II) complexes incorporating multi-substituted aryl imidazole ligand: Structural, DFT, DNA binding, and biological implications, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Laila H.Abdel-Rahman, Antar A.Abdelhamid, Adel A.Marzouk, Mohamed R.Shehata, Mohamed Abdelaal Bakheet, Omar A.Almaghrabi, Ayman Nafady, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 228, 2020, 11770. Green synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst with high reusability for synthesis of 1, 2‐dihydroquinoline derivatives, Mahmoud A. Ali Ali El-Remaily, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief and O.Elhady, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 33, 2019, e5005. Fabrication, spectroscopic characterization, calf thymus DNA binding investigation, antioxidant and anticancer activities of some antibiotic azomethine Cu (II), Pd (II), Zn (II) and Cr (III) complexes, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Hussein M. El-Sagher and Mohamed R. Shehata, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 33, 2019, e4943. Development, structural investigation, DNA binding, antimicrobial screening and anticancer activities of two novel quari-dentate VO (II) and Mn (II) mononuclear complexes, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Journal of King Saud university, 31(1) 2019, 52-60. Catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol using nanosized Cu/Ni Schiff-base complexes and their metal oxide nanoparticles, Sameerah I. Al-Saeedi, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Shimaa M. Abdel-Fatah, Tawfiq M. Alotaibi, Ali M. Alsalme and Ayman Nafady, Catalysts 8(10), 2018, 452. The synthesis of CuO and NiO nanoparticles by facile thermal decomposition of metal-Schiff base complexes and an examination of their electric, thermoelectric and magnetic Properties, E M M Ibrahim, Laila H Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M Abu-Dief, A Elshafaie, Samar Kamel Hamdan and A M Ahmed, Materials Research Bulletin, 107, 2018, 492-497. Synthesis, theoretical investigations, biocidal screening, DNA binding, in vitro cytotoxicity and molecular docking of novel Cu (II), Pd (II) and Ag (I) complexes of chlorobenzylidene Schiff base: Promising antibiotic and anticancer agents, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed Shaker S. Adam, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, H. Moustafa, Maram T. Basha, Ahmed S. Aboraia and Hanan El-Sayed Ahmed, Appl Organometal Chem. 32(12) 2018;e4527. Synthesis, characterization and photocatalysis enhancement of Eu2O3-ZnO mixed oxide nanoparticles, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief and W. S. Mahmoud, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Soilds, 116, 2018, 375-385. DNA interaction, antimicrobial, anticancer activities and molecular docking study of some new VO (II), Cr (III), Mn (II) and Ni (II) mononuclear chelates encompassing quaridentate imine ligand, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Moustafa O. Aboelez and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology 170 (2017) 271–285. Electrical, thermoelectrical and magnetic properties of approximately 20-nm Ni-Co-O nanoparticles and investigation of their conduction phenomena, E.M.M. Ibrahim, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, A. Elshafaie, A. M. Ahmed, Materials Chemistry and Physics 192 (2017) 41-47. α-Bi2O3 nanorods: synthesis, characterization and UV-photocatalytic activity, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, W S Mahmoud, Material Research Express 4(3), 2017, 035039. Three novel Ni (II), VO (II) and Cr (III) mononuclear complexes encompassing potentially tridentate imine ligand: Synthesis, structural characterization, DNA interaction, antimicrobial evaluation and anticancer activity, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Maram Basha and Azza A. Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Applied organometallic Chemistry, 31, 11, e3750, 2017. Magnetic NiFe2O4 nanoparticles: efficient, heterogeneous and reusable catalyst for synthesis of acetylferrocene chalcones and their anti‐tumour activity, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Ibrahim. F. Nassar, Wafaa H. Elsayed, Applied organometallic Chemistry, 30, 2016, 917-923. Some new nano-sized Fe (II), Cd (II) and Zn (II) Schiff base complexes as precursor for metal oxides: Sonochemical synthesis, characterization, DNA interaction, in vitro antimicrobial and anticancer activities, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Rafat M. El-Khatib, Shaimaa Mahdy Abdel-Fatah, Journal of bioorganic Chemistry, 69, 2016, 140–152. Some New Nano-sized Mononuclear Cu(II) Schiff Base Complexes: Design, Characterization, Molecular Modeling and Catalytic Potentials in Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Mohammed S. Adam, Samar Kamel Hamdan, Catalysis Letter, 146, 2016, 1373-1396. Effect of chromium substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline zinc ferrite, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Mohammed S.M. Abdelbaky, David Martínez-Blanco, Zakariae Amghouz, Santigo García-Granda,Materials Chemistry and Physics, 174, 1 2016, 164–171. Investigation of adsorption and inhibition effects of some novel anil compounds towards mild steel in H2SO4 solution: Electrochemical and theoretical quantum studies, Hany M. Abd El-Lateef, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Bahaa El-Dien M. El-Gendy, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 758, 2015, 135–147. CuFe2O4 nanoparticles: an efficient heterogeneous magnetically separable catalyst for synthesis of some novel propynyl-1H-imidazoles derivatives, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief and Mahmoud Abd El Aleem Ali Ali El-Remaily, Tetrahedron 71 (2015) 2579-2584. Metal based pharmacologically active agents: synthesis, structural characterization, molecular modeling, CT-DNA binding studies and in vitro antimicrobial screening of iron (II) bromosalicylidene amino acid chelates, L. H. Abdel-Rahman, R. M. El-Khatib, Lobna A. E. Nassr and Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Mohamed Ismael, Amin Abdou Seleem, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 117, 2014, 366-278. Novel sandwich triple-decker dinuclear NdIII-(bis-N, N′-p-bromo-salicylideneamine-1, 2-diaminobenzene) complex, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Raúl Díaz-Torres, Eva Carolina Sañudo, Laila H. Abdel-Rahman, Núria Aliaga-Alcalde, Polyhedron, 64, 12, 2013, 203-208. Synthesis, physicochemical studies, embryos toxicity and DNA interaction of some new Iron (II) Schiff base amino acid complexes, Laila H. Abdel Rahman ; R. M. El-Khatib,; Lobna A. E. Nassr and Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1040, 2013, 9-18.

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 more than 150 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With nearly 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals, more than 12,000 citations and 15 patents, he has appeared in recent World ranking of top scientists, such as 2020-Stanford, 2022-Research.com, 2023-AD Scientific Index, and 2023-Research.com.

Prof. Chung received his PhD from State U of NY at Buffalo (USA). He had worked for US industries for 15 years before joining NUS in 1995. He has produced 48 PhD students, published 1 book, 18 book chapters, 70 patents and patent applications, 533 journal papers and 350 conference papers. He is a Subject Editor of CHERD (Chem Eng Research and Design) and editorial board members of 20 journals including J. Membrane Science, AIChE J., I & EC Research, Desalination, Separation and Purification Reviews, Chemical Engineering J., Chemical Engineering and Technology, Polymer Engineering and Science, J., Applied Polymer Science, and many others.Prof. Chung research focuses on membranes for clean water, clean energy, and CO2 capture. Novel membranes for purification of natural gas and hydrogen, and CO2 capture have been developed. Breakthroughs on high performance forward osmosis, membrane distillation and aquaporin embedded biomimetic membranes for clean water have been demonstrated. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He was a co-inventor of Hyflux Kristal™ 600 ultrafiltration membranes which commercialized worldwide. He received two IChemE “Highly Recommended” Awards in Energy and Water in 2009, and IES (Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, and Hyflux‐SNIC (Singapore National Institute of Chemistry) Award in Environmental Chemistry, and IChemE in Singapore Awards in Sustainability in 2010. He was appointed as Provost’s Chair and received Research Leadership Award at NUS in 2011. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012.

Sónia Carabineiro is an Assistant Professor at Nova University of Lisbon. She is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, recognized as one of the world’s top female reviewers (Publons), and evaluator of several international projects, including ERC grants. She has published more than 200 papers in reputable journals, with over 8,000 citations and a h-index of 51 (Scopus, November 2023). She has been included in the list of the worldwide most cited scientists (top 2% of Chemistry) published by Stanford University since 2017. Her research interests include with the development of composite materials for environmental protection and “green” chemistry.