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Prof. Neal Tai-Shung Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at the 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 the National University of Singapore from 2011 to 2021. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water, clean energy, and pharmaceutic separation. He became a Fellow of 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 the Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was ranked No. 6th in Chemical Engineering worldwide by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford University in 2022 and 2023. His H-index = 132 (Scopus) or 153 (Google Scholar) (July 4, 2024).

Thomas J. Websters (H index: 122; 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, 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 Singhis a senior professor at Monash University, Australia. He is a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020, 2023, 2024), US Naval Research Lab, Indian Institute of Science, and University of Connecticut. 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 60 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).

Paulo C. DE MORAIS (H-60), 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.ProfessorMorais 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 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 more than500 published papers in peer reviewed journals, more than13,000 citations, more than 200 international invited talks, and more than 15 filed patents. He has appeared in recent World ranking of top scientists, such as 2020-Stanford, 2022-Research.com, 2023-AD Scientific Index, 2023-Research.com, 2024-Elsevier, and 2025-AD Scientific Index.

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Ping Liu is a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute of Materials Science in South China University of Technology (SCUT).He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Sun Yat-sen University in 1986 and 1991, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Materials chemistry from Osaka University in Japan in 2000.He joined the Institute of Materials Science, South China University of Technology (SCUT) in1991, and became a full professor in 2005.His research focuses on organic/polymer functional materials, including: organic/polymer optoelectronic materials and devices, organic/polymer flame retardant and flame retardant materials, adhesives for automotive, pressure sensitive adhesives for power batteries, etc.

Ahmed Hegazi is currently a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the National Research Center, Egypt. Prof. Hegazi received his master’s degree in 1979, and his PhD in 1981. Hegazi's research work has been focused lately on bee products and their therapeutic effects. Dr. Hegazi awards; First Class Decoration of Excellence, Egypt, 1995, The Senior Scientist Prize of National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1996, The National Scientific Prize In Biological Sciences, Egypt, 1990, The Scientific Prize of The National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1989, The Second Best Research Paper Award, International Congress of Propolis, Bones Aires, Argentina, 2000, Main Speaker Award,10 th Academic Conference, PRA, and NAS (Nippon Apitherapy Soc.) Japan, 2006, 2 Bronze medals from The International Innovation Fair of the Middle East, Kuwait, 2007 Awarded of Ghazi Wad Allah Salon Prize, 2008. Awarded the Merit Aware of Medical Sciences, The National Research Center, 2016. Dr. Hegazi contributed Chairman of the National Committee for Microbiological Sciences (NCMS) in Egypt, Academy of Science and Technology, Egypt, from 2018, Member of specialized Scientific Councils, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology; Being a member of the Specialty Committee of Apitherapy of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (2023) and Membership of the Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (2023). Hegazi organized and contributed to national and international research projects since 1977 and up till now; he has been the principal investigator on multiple research projects within the National Research Center. He conducted training courses on Clinical Microbiology at, National Research Center in 1979

Graduated from the Algerian University with a PhD (Doctorate) in science, specializing in Physical Metallurgy, A Research at the Center for Industrial Technology Research, Algeria. From 2003 until now. Served as the Scientific Project Leader for Composite Materials within the research division specializing in Non-Destructive Testing techniques using Ultrasound (D.T.E.C.N.D - C.R.T.I. Algeria). Founder and Director of the Unit for Thin Films and Applications (U.D.C.M.A-C.R.T. I-Algeria) from 2013 to 2016. Specialized in composite materials accompanied with the following techniques; Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation, and various software including Abaqus, Tec plot, version 9.0 and 11, and Acoustic Emission software.

Oleg V. Gradov is a Senior Researcher at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), working in the Department of Chemical and Biological Processes Dynamics (CHEMBIO). He is the author of 200 journal papers. His recent grants include: “Development of the novel physical methods for complex biomedical diagnostics based on position-sensitive mapping with the angular resolution at the tissue and cellular levels using analytical labs-on-a-chip” (RFBR 16-32-00914) and “Lab-on-a-chip development for personalized diagnostics” (FASIE 0019125), "Ferroelectric polymers for biomedical engineering" (RFBR 20-12-50344). He is also an ambassador of “ASAPBio”* (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology, based in Cambridge, USA).

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Dr. Roopa A.K. has been an Assistant Professor at KLE Technological University, India for the last 8 years. She completed her PhD in the area of development of cement-based Nano composite sensors for structural health monitoring applications from KLE Technological University in 2023. She had completed a Master of Technology in Structural Engineering by securing a Gold medal. She has explored her research areas in the self-sensing cement-based nanocomposite for structural health monitoring applications. She has expanded her research areas to molecular dynamic simulation, FEA Analysis, 3D printing, IoT, and machine learning-based applications, to monitor the self-sensing composites. She has published more than 15 technical papers in journals, and national and international conferences. She has filed two patents and one patent is granted for 20 years. She has also filed the patent entitled Nano ceramic coating for cement composites She is the co-author of “Introduction to Civil Engineering” textbooks. She has also filed a patent entitled Nano ceramic coating for cement composites. She has trained many young undergraduate students by imparting experiential learning in her course delivery. She has also been involved in administrative work as Head of PG Coordinator. She has guided more than 40 UG/PG students for final-year projects. She has been actively involved in real-time construction work/Structural consultancy works.

Dr. Zahid Iqbal Khan is an accomplished researcher specializing in polymer recycling, biodegradable materials, and hybrid nanocomposites with a focus on sustainability. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Dr. Khan has led impactful research projects on recycled polymer blends, nanocomposites, hybrid nanocomposites, and CO2 adsorption materials, contributing significantly to sustainable engineering and circular economy practices. His expertise spans the synthesis and characterization of advanced polymeric materials, including CO2 capture technologies and renewable resources. Dr. Khan has managed research projects worth over RM 500,000 and has authored more than 16 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals. Skilled in mechanical, thermal, and rheological analysis, he applies advanced manufacturing techniques, including extrusion and injection molding, to develop environmentally friendly materials. Recognized for his contributions to polymer science, Dr. Khan serves as a reviewer and advisory board member for international journals and conferences, actively supporting knowledge exchange and innovation in sustainable materials science