GRCMAT2025

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 129) 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 formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 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, Hebei University 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.

Professor Raman Singh’s primary research interests are in the relationship of Nano- /microstructure and Environment-assisted degradation and fracture of metallic and composite materials, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Mitigation of such Degradations. He has also worked extensively on use of advanced materials (e.g., graphene) for corrosion mitigation, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion and corrosion-mitigation of magnesium alloys (including for the use of magnesium alloys for aerospace, energy, defence and bioimplant applications). Prof Singh is a senior professor at Monash University, Australia. He is/was a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020, 2023, 2024, 2026), US Naval Research Lab, Indian Institute of Science, University of Connecticut, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He worked as a scientist at Indian Atomic Energy and as a post-doc fellow at University of New South Wales, Australia. Prof Singh’s professional distinctions and recognitions include: Guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Editor of a book on Cracking of Welds (CRC Press), Lead Editor of a book on Non- destructive Evaluation of Corrosion (Wiley), Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier and an MDPI journals, leader/chairperson of a few international conferences and numerous plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, over 285 peer-reviewed international journal publications and 15 book chapter, and several competitive research grants (that includes 4 Discovery, 7 Linkage and one ITRH grants of Australian Research Council). Prof Singh has supervised 61 PhD students. His vibrant research group at Monash University comprises of PhD students from different disciplines (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials and Mining Engineering, and Science) as well as from different cultural backgrounds (Australian, Middle-eastern, Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, African, North American and Israeli).

Yoshihiko Muramoto is Founder, President & CEO of Nitride Semiconductors Co., Ltd. Our group developed the world first Ultraviolet LED in 2000 and we developed many UV-LED related applications, UV sensing, UV curing, UV sterilizing etc.

Prof. Suckeveriene is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, the Chairman of the Kinneret Institute for Industrial Water Engineering Research, and group leader of the Laboratory of Polymers, Composites, and Nanocomposites at Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee. He is a former Head of the Water Industry Engineering Department. Prof. Suckeveriene is a specialist in sonochemistry and nanotechnology, including their preparation and characterization. He is also the CTO of the Kinneret Innovation Center (KIC), and the former CTO of the CaleeTech startup. He has mentored and advised several startups such as KIINNS LTD. and Substances LTD. And NoWaste. Prof. Suckeveriene has vast experience in chemical engineering and processes, different polymerization techniques, compounding equipment (batch and continuous techniques), multi- functional materials, anti-bacterial and anti-viral materials, morphology characterization (SEM, HRSEM) and polymer characterization methods such as TGA, DSC, rotational and capillary rheology, Instron, DMTA, electrical measurements, etc. He also has considerable experience with the bureaucratic inroads of academia, such as writing research proposals, applying for grants and scholarships, supervising graduate and undergraduate students, etc. Prof. Suckeveriene earned his Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering (2012), M.Sc. (2008) and B.Sc. (2005) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Technion – The Israel Institute of Technology. He has published more than 40 academic articles and holds 5 patents. He serves in an editorial capacity and as a reviewer for several leading journals, as well as an industry consultant. Research topics (partial list):  Multifunctional surfaces, membranes, and filtration apparatuses.  Sonochemistry  Antimicrobial membranes fabricated from functional nanotubes.  Solid phase separation (SPE)

Dr. HamidReza Vanaei's research focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, particularly Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). He conducts research at ESILV (De Vinci Higher Education) and LIFSE (Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology) in Paris, France. Given the challenges associated with producing high-quality final parts, optimizing these processes has become a key area of study. With the growing emphasis on theoretical and numerical methodologies - especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) - Dr. Vanaei’s research primarily revolves around the integration of AM and AI. Additionally, his work extends to their application in other related research areas and industrial projects. In parallel with his research activities, he serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for prestigious journals such as Bioprinting, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Mechanical Science, and Journal of Biomedical Engineering.