Dr Joachim Loo is Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He holds a joint appointment at the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), USA. He is also an international member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) for Sustainable Waste Management, and a member of the Coordinated Research Project (CRP) under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations (UN). His research interests include designing delivery systems for agri-food and biomedical applications. He has published more than 200 international journal papers (h-index: 53-Web of Science), three book chapters and filed more than 15 patents. From his patented technologies, he has spun-off two companies, i.e.LiberaTx and Dietrics. Recently, he was also awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop delivery systems for nutraceuticals. He is currently a co-convenor of the ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnology National Working Group (WG3), under the Singapore Chemical Industry Council.

Roger M. Leblanc, professor and chair of Chemistry Department of University of Miami. Dr. Roger M. Leblanc received his B. S. in chemistry in 1964 from University Laval, Canada, and Ph. D. in physical chemistry in1968 from the same university. He was appointed as professor in 1994 and chair of Department of Chemistry at University of Miami from 1994 to 2002 and again from 2013 to present. He was also one of the three editors of Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces from 1998 to 2013. He has published 540 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. As a professor, he has supervised more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 106; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021) Universities andhas formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He has directed numerous international centers in biomaterials and has graduated over 200 students with over 750 peer-reviewed publications. Prof. Webster is a fellow ofover 8 academic societiesand is a SCOPUS highly cited researcher (top 1% citations for materials science and mixed fields) as well as a Public Library of Science (PLoS) World Top 2% Scientist by Citations in all fields.

He is known as the "Father of Artificial Cells". While an honor Physiology B.Sc. student at McGill University, he proposed and prepared the first artificial cells on his own in his dormitory room and was then allowed to use this for his required honor research project (Chang, Hon B.Sc. research report, 1957). He continued this research in medical school then Ph.D. (Chang Science 1964, Nature 1971, Artificial Cells Monograph 1972) and for the rest of his research career to the present with 560 full papers. (references and full texts available at www.medicine.mcgill.ca/artcell ) In his Invited Monograph on Artificial Cells (Chang 1972) (Charles C Thomas Publisher). He stated that: "Artificial Cellis not a specific physical entity. It is an idea involving the preparation of artificial structures. For possible replacement or supplement of deficient cell functions. Different approaches can be used to demonstrate this idea". This area has now progressed well beyond his 1972 predictions. ARTIFICIAL CELL has now evolved into nanomedicine, biotherapeutics, blood substitutes, drug delivery, enzyme/gene therapy, cancer therapy, cell/stem cell therapy, nanoparticles, liposomes, bioencapsulation, synthetic cells, cell encapsulation/scaffold, biosorbent/immunosorbent hemoperfusion/plasmapheresis, regenerative medicine, encapsulated microbe, nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology. The potential of artificial cells in biomedical research and clinical application is only limited by one's imagination. An entirely new horizon is waiting impatiently to be explored.

Professor Peter X Ma received his BS and MS degrees in polymer chemistry and polymer materials from Tsinghua University, received his MS and PhD in polymer science and engineering from Rutgers University. He then did his post-doctoral research on biomaterials and tissue engineering at MIT and Harvard Medical School. Currently, Dr. Ma is the Richard H Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the Schools of Dentistry, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Peter's research areas include biodegradable polymers, polymeric scaffolds, controlled drug/biomolecule release, non-viral nucleic acid delivery, and tissue regeneration. Dr. Ma has published more than 300 full-length articles, 4 books, delivered 285 plenary/keynote/invited lectures. He is also an inventor of 35 issued and pending US patents. He has served on 92 grant review panels, reviewed articles for more than 90 journals, and served on 13 editorial/advisory boards. He has also served on 49 organizing committees or advisory boards of national and international conferences and has chaired 61 symposiums.Among his recognitions, Dr. Ma received a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Young Investigator Award. DuPont Young Professor Award, Distinguished Scientist (Isaac Schour Memorial) Award from International Association of Dental Research, a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials, and was named one of the Top 100 Materials Scientists in the world by Thomson Reuters. Dr. Ma is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, and a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Zheng-Rong Lu is M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Lu received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Lanzhou University, and Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Lu's research efforts involve molecular imaging, image-guided cancer therapy, multifunctional delivery systems for nucleic acids, and non-viral gene therapy. He has over 190 peer-reviewed scientific publications, over 25 US and international patents and pending patent applications. He is a Principal Investigator of several major grants from the NIH and private foundations. Dr. Lu serves on the scientific advisory board of several peer-reviewed scientific journal. Dr. Lu has served in numerous NIH and DOD Study Sections and grant review panels. Dr. Lu is a co-founder of start-up companies of Molecular Theranostics, and Motek Pharmaceuticals. One of his inventions, the first-in-class cancer-specific MRI contrast agent, is in clinical trials for precision cancer imaging. Dr. Lu is named a 2018 Gund-Harrington Scholar of Harrington Discovery Institute. He is a fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Dr. Smith's research has centered on the application of computer science and mathematical methods to comparative genetic sequence studies. These have ranged from the development of new functional pattern recognition tools to time-calibrated viral evolutionary studies. Recent efforts have focused on the prediction and modeling of protein structure using Markov models and on the evolution of the cellular information processing machinery. In addition, Dr. Smith has been involved in developing database structures suitable for large-scale genome sequencing and analysis, including new Internet Web page interfaces. As the director of the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Dr. Smith works closely with many Boston area experimental molecular biologists in supportive and exploratory data analysis.

Vladimir Torchilin got his M.S, Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the Moscow State University and serves currently a University Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. He has published more than 450 original papers, more than 200 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 13 books, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 73,000 citations of his papers with H-index of 121. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, and Drug Delivery, Co-Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and on the Editorial Boards of many other journals. He received more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. He has multiple honors and awards and in 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna is a professor of materials engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and among the leading six researchers of Singapore. He is also among the top three scientists of the world in Biomedical Engineering based on career-long impact of researchers or c-score. Thomson Reuters identified him among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Clarivate Analytics recognized him among the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in the world in materials science and cross-fields categories. Microsoft Academic ranked him among the top 50 authors out of three million materials researchers worldwide in terms of saliency, publications, citations and h-index. He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK; and an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is senior member of IEEE. He co-authored books An Introduction to Biomaterials Science & Engineering; Medical Devices- Standards, Regulations and Practices; Biomaterials- A Nano Approach; and An Introduction to Bio-composites. He is the Biomaterials Editor of Elsevier Current Research in Biomedical Engineering journal. He is a plenary Speaker of 6th EURO BioMat on Intelligent Biomaterials. He teaches graduate module on Materials in Medicine to the university students.

Animesh Jha is Professor of Applied Materials Science with special research interest in glass based and nano-scale materials, photonic materials, laser gain medium engineering and laser-matter interaction. He obtained his Bachelor and Master of Engineering Degrees in Metallurgy from the University of Roorkee (UP, India) and the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (India) in 1979 and 1981, respectively. In 1981, he joined the Imperial College of Science & Technology, London for his PhD in thermodynamics of sulphide minerals for metal processing, and acquired significant interest in heterogeneous chemical reaction kinetics and multiphase equilibria. After finishing PhD in Oct 1984, he pursued his interest in the area of phase equilibrium and transformation kinetics in metallic and inorganic glasses as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK) until April 1989, after which he was appointed as a lecturer at Brunel University in Uxbridge (UK). In March 1996 he joined the University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) as a Reader where he has been undertaking original research in nanoscience approaches for bio-materials, glass engineering and 2D-materials technology for device engineering. AJ became Professor in Aug 2000. He is author of more than 400 research papers and has also written a book on "Inorganic Glasses for Photonics" which was published in 2016. He is also inventor/co-inventor on more than 45 patents. AJ was awarded the Fellowships of Institute of Physics (London) and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He has also won innovation awards (SMART, Yorkshire Concept) for technological demonstration of advanced glasses and fibres for lasers and amplifiers, and their applications. He is actively involved in PhD and PDRF training and promotes emerging scientists in achieving career goals via Marie-Curie and other prestigious Fellowship schemes.

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 theHuazhong University of Science and Technology-China (2011), Visiting Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)-China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at the Anhui University (AHU)-China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at the Catholic University of Brasilia (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 the UnB. Professor Morais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and 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, nanosizedsemiconductors, polymeric dots, and carbon dots). His current metrics with Web of Science (Google Scholar) is H43 (H51), 480(610) publications and 7,530 (10,495) citations.

Prof. (Em.)Aharon Gedanken obtained his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles,he got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. He spent two sabbatical years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980-8l, and 1987-88 as well as a summer in 1984. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 880 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals and has applied for 40 Patents. His H-Index is 98 according to the WEB of SCIENCE. Gedanken has served as the Department Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He is on the editorial boards of 8 international journals. He still leads a group of 10 research people. He was a partner in 14 EC (European Community) projects in FP5, FP6, FP7, and Horizon 2020. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of ECin FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013.

Graduated from National University of Singapore. 2014 – now, Assistant Professor, Mary & Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Xie laboratory's research interests center on the synthesis, surface modification, self-assembly of materials at nanometer scale to address problems in the field of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and drug/gene delivery. Our research programs are built upon interdisciplinary subjects including materials science, engineering, biology and medicine. We develop novel, smart biomaterials with well-controlled composition, structure and functional properties. We employ analytical tools in materials science, biology and medicine to characterize these biomaterials as either scaffolds or drug/gene carriers. Specifically, we are interested in use of nano-structured materials together with signaling molecules to regulate cell/stem cell behaviors for regenerating various types of tissues including tendon-to-bone insertion site, cartilage, bone, skin, cardiac muscle, and nerve. We are also interested in developing nano-structured materials for enhancing survival, proliferation, and function of human islets in vitro and in vivo. Additionally, we are interested in developing nanofibrous materials as local drug delivery devices for prevention of surgical site infection

Carlos Roberto (Beto) Grandini, professor at Physics Department of Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), in Bauru, Brazil. Prof. Beto Grandini received his B.S. in Physics in 1985 from Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) in Physics from Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. He did his post-doctoral research on Physics at University Degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" , Italy. He was chair of the Department of Physics at UNESP from 1998 to 2000 and appointed as professor in 2008. He has published more than 150 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he has supervised more than 50 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Our research programs are built upon interdisciplinary subjects including physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, biology, and dentistry. We develop novel Ti-alloys aiming at orthopedical and dental applications, with well-controlled composition, structure, and functional properties. Ho Dr. Grandini is a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).

Alberto T. Estevez, architect, with a professional office of architecture and design in Barcelona since 1983. Chairman-professor, founder and first director of ESARQ, the School of Architecture of UIC Barcelona (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya). Founder and first director of UIC Architecture PhD and Masters. Director of iBAG-UIC Barcelona (Institute for BioDigital Architecture & Genetics), that includes the Genetic Architectures Research Group & Office, and the Master’s Degree in Biodigital Architecture. He has written more than 200 publications, participating in a large number of exhibitions, and invited lectures around the world, presenting his ideas, projects and works.

Dr. Hairong Chen is an associate professor in Ningbo University in China. He received my Ph.D. at the Shinshu University in Japan in 2018, and worked as an associate researcher at the Shinshu University from 2018-2020. His experience mainly focuses on the development of soft smart composites, microdevice fabrication, material mechanisminvestigation, nanopositioning, and energy harvesting. His current research interests are biological nano/micromanipulation, nanorobotics and wearable devices

Dr. Stefania Marzorati is currently a Post-Doc researcher at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Milan. The common line of her research projects is related to environmental issues and concerns, at different and complementary levels. Her research focus has been related to the development of innovative materials for bioelectrochemical systems, in collaborations with academic and private partners at international level. At present her main research studies aim at valorizing agro-industrial wastes as sources of bioactive compounds. Her expertise lies in the isolation of added-value natural compounds through environmentally-friendly techniques (i.e. supercritical CO2) and their characterization.

Dr. Xiaoyu Guan is a Lecturer in Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China. He received Ph.D. at the Shinshu University in Japan in 2021. His experience mainly focuses on the development of soft smart composites, microdevice fabrication, functional fiber, and energy harvesting. His current research interests are Bio-based smart fibers and wearable devices.

Lady Barrios Silva gained a BSc degree in Human and Medical Sciences from the University of Westminster in 2016 and a MSc in Musculoskeletal Science from UCL in 2018. In her academic years, she developed a strong interest in the use of biomaterials and cell culture as research tools. She is funded by the BBSRC via the London Interdisciplinary doctorate training programme in a collaborative project between UCL, Eastman Dental Institute, and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s College London.Her research focuses on developing and characterising biomaterials and protocols and exploring their potential application in biomedicine. With her research, she hopes to contribute towardstranslational technologies that can be used to improve research practices.

Nik Syahirah Aliaa received her BSc degree in Materials Technology from University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia and MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering) from Imperial College London, United Kingdom. She is currently a full time PhD student funded under King’s Scholarship, Public Service Department of Malaysia at University College London, where her research heavily coverednatural-derived biomaterials formulation, characterisations and cell culture aspects. She equipped herself with various research skills associated with development of advanced biomaterials and tissue engineering for biomedical engineering applications. Nik is hoping to continuously giveher best effort in improving biomedical engineering research field alongside other researchers, with a mind-set of helping those in needs by creatingbetter facilitiesand environment for our future generations.

Fabiola Munarin, PhD is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering (Research) at Brown University, School of Engineering. She obtained her PhD in Bioengineering cum laude from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2011. Her research interests are directed towards the use of natural polymers to design 3-dimensional systems for tissue regeneration and neovascularization. She was visiting researcher at Instituto de Engenharia Biomedical, Porto (Portugal) from 2009 to 2010, where she was trained in the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine. She joined Brown University in 2014 as a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Coulombe Laboratory, and widened her expertise to translational research, investigating vascularization, arrhythmia risk and electrical integration of epicardially implanted engineered human cardiac tissues in ischemia/reperfusion models. Her current research interest involves the development of smart biomaterials and delivery systems to leverage the activation of the cells of the immune system for promoting angiogenesis in ischemic tissues. Her research has been supported by the CardioPulmonary Vascular Biology COBRE Pilot Project and by the Rhode Island Foundation Medical Research Grants.

Ana Gabriela Rodriguez Calderon, PhD student. Graduated in chemical pharmacobiology, specializing in food, master's degree in environmental engineering, university professor in biochemical engineering and currently PhD student in the doctoral program in Metallurgy and Materials Sciences.

Dr. Coulombe specializes in cardiovascular regenerative engineering to address global needs to develop novel therapies for heart attack and technologies for cardiotoxicity assessment. A major focus of her research is to re-engineer contractility in the heart after myocardial infarction (heart attack) using engineered human myocardium with cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Complex biology underlies the engineering of heart tissue so that it has electromechanical function for predicting toxicity or integrating with the heart electrically and via neovasculature. Dr. Coulombe earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester summa cum laude in 2001 and was a Whitaker Predoctoral Fellow, earning a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 2007. She was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow in Pathology at the University of Washington where she won an NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00 award in 2012. She was recruited as an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Medical Science to Brown University and started her lab in January 2014.

Completed doctoral course at Department of Genetic Resource Engineering, Graduate School of Bioresource and Environmental Science, Kyushu University in 2003 andPh.Din Agricultural Science. From 2003 to 2006, she worked as Assistant Professor Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo Japan. In 2006, she joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST Japan) after serving as a specially appointed faculty member at Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Engaged in research and development in the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology. Currently, she is Vice Director at CBBD-OIL and also chief senior researcher atBioproduction Research Institute of AIST Japan. She is a guest professor at “Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Science” and at “Waseda University”, and a guest researcher at RIKEN Japan.

Konrad Kwiecien has completed his M.Sc. in materials science at AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Kraków, Poland in 2020. Now he is a second-year PhD-student at AGH-USTin the Department of Biomaterials and Composites. He is the first author of one published article and one accepted for publication. He actively participated in six conferences. In 2021 he obtained two Best Poster Awards: at the European Society for Biomaterials Conference in Porto, Portugal and Biomaterials in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in Rytro, Poland. His research is mostly related to biodegradable polymers and their processing into drug delivery systems.

Marina Zoccola received a degree in agricultural sciences in 1987 from the University of Turin. She has been working as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council-STIIMA in Biella (Italy) since 1989. Her principal interests are in the study and characterization of biopolymers, mainly structural proteins (wool, fine animal fibres, silk).

Dr. Kopáni has been working at the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University since 1999. His main occupation is the broad field of applied physical methods used in medicine, mainly scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive microanalysis and transmission electron microscopy. He applied SEM+EDX microanalysis for confirmation of chemical elements in human tissues and cells e.g. copper in human liver in Wilson’s disease and iron in hemochromatosis. He works as a supervisor of students participating at the Medical Students Researcher Contest and also regularly participates in teaching of laboratory medical technicians and of medical students. He gives lectures to the students of the third year of The Biomedical Physics and student of General Medicine concerning physical methods applied in pathology and basic histopathological techniques (fixation, staining). He regularly presents his work at international conferences and publishes in biomedical journals. Now he works at Institute of Medical Physics, Biophysics, Informatics and Telemedicine.

Anushree Ghosh Pursuing my Doctorate degree in Mechanical engineering in the field of Biomaterials at Queens University Belfast. And also on Bioresorbable Polymer Scaffolds for Articular Cartilage Regeneration. This project is funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Dr. Ita Junkar is a chemical engineer who obtained her PhD in 2010 andis currently employed as a senior researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute. Her main filed of work are biomaterials and modification of surfaces by highly reactive gaseous plasma. She developed several methods for surface treatment of materials by highly reactive gaseous plasma, mainly for the use in bio-applications. She has five granted patents, two filled at the European patent office. She is actively involved in the interdisciplinary research activities mostly based on surface modification of biomaterials and has many years’ experience in working with medical doctors and microbiologist in the field of biomaterials.

Dr. Susana Olhero is a Principal Researcher at CICECO-Aveiro Institute of materials in University of Aveiro and has a background in materials science, being recently focused on the research of innovative technologies, namely additive manufacturing (AM, robocasting) to develop new biomaterials for regenerative medicine field. Susana Olhero is author of 74 publications in peerreview international journals (SCI), 2 book chapters and 1 national patent, with over 1800 citations (h-index 26) andsupervise/co-supervise 5PhD (2 finishedand 3 others ongoing),12Master Thesis and several research fellows (Pos-doc and PhD) from her Projects.

Dr. Hettie is an NCI/NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow (PI/PD) in the Departments of Radiology and Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery within the School of Medicine at Stanford University that specialized in the design, development, and implementation of near-infrared-I/II peptidyl-, nucleic acid-, and immuno-based activatable bio-/molecular probes, biosensors, theranostics, and nanoparticles targeting biomarkers of brain cancers and their tumor microenvironment for their early detection, direct visualization, and surgical removal via utilizing image-guided surgery. He focuses on their rational design, bio-/chemical synthesis, and bio-/analytical evaluation in both a basic science research and preclinical setting. He has a Ph.D. in synthetic bio-/organic chemistry and previously was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University pursuing nucleic acid-templated near-infrared-I (NIR-I) fluorescent probes.

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Dr. Amgad M. Rabie, Professor & Researcher of Pharmaceutical Organic (Medicinal) Chemistry & Drug Design/Discovery, Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Anderson Sunda-Meya is a Congnolese-American physicist and the Norwood Endowed Professor of Physics at Xavier University in New Orleans. He also holds the position of Associate Dean. Sunda-Meya was awarded the 2021 American Physical Society Excellence in Physics Education Award

Sami Ramadan is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. His current research focus is on the development and fabrication of novel biosensors for early diagnosis of diseases using devices based on 2D and piezoelectric materials. He has a PhD in semiconductor nanostructures and their electronic and sensing applications from Newcastle University (UK).

Pandelis Kourtessis is the Director of the Centre for Engineering Research and a Reader in Communication Networks with the University of Hertfordshire, U.K., leading the activities of the Networks Engineering Research Group into communications and information engineering, including next generation passive optical networks, optical and wireless MAC protocols, 5G RANs, software defined network and network virtualization 5G and satellite networks and more recently machine learning for next generation networks. His funding ID includes EU COST, FP7, H2020, European Space Agency, UKRI, and industrially funded projects. He has served as a general chair, a co-chair, a technical programme committee member and at the scientific committees and expert groups of IEEE workshops and conferences, European Technology Platforms and European Networks of Excellence. He has published more than 80 papers at peer-reviewed journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings and international conferences. His research has received coverage at scientific journals, magazines, white papers and international workshops. He has been Co-Editor of a Springer book and a Chapter Editor of an IET book on softwarization for 5G

Ren was awarded BSc/BEng in Organic Chemicals & Engineering and worked at China Petrochem Institute worked on chemical additives for crude oil/water interface during 1983-85. He moved to Beijing Fibre Reinforced Plastics (FRP) R&D Inst. and worked there till 1993 as a Chemical Engineer for interface improvement of polymeric composites for a broad range of applications. He came to Queen Mary Unversity of London (QMUL) sponsored by FBFSS for a scholarship and did his PhD in inorganic mineral-based composite processing and characterisation. He then worked at QM for about 10-years (1997-08) as RA and later Senior Research Fellow and Senior Overseas Tutor. He gained R&D experience and expertise on antivirals nanoparticles and antimicrobials. Also, during this period, he was in collaboration with Professor John Oxford (QM Virology) and Dr Paul Reip (QinetiQ Nanomaterials). And together, we initiated AVNP (Antiviral Nanoparticles) Consortium and achieved £3.2M funding from DTI (2005-10). We had outcomes from this project covering 3 patents, following up funding and a number of publications. The latest EPSRC funding (EP/N034368/1, £274K,2016-19, PI joint with UCL) was on antimicrobials & Antiviral for water and air filtration systems for hospital surgical operation systems. This has been reflected in his current research interests in antimicrobial nanomaterials, and in dispersions of these nanoparticles in hydrophobic and hydrophilic fluids for healthcare applications.

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T V V L N Rao received PhD in Tribology of Fluid Film Bearings from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000, and MTech in Mechanical Manufacturing Technology from the National Institute of Technology (formerly known as Regional Engineering College) Calicut in 1994. Rao's current research interests are in Tribology, Lubrication, Bearings, Machining, and Manufacturing. He has authored (and co-authored) over 120 publications till date. He has secured (as PI and Co-PI) several research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and a research grant from The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan. Rao is a member of Editorial Board (2022) in Tribology & Lubrication Technology (TLT). He is a member of Guest Associate Editors in Journal of Engineering Tribology, Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. Rao is an executive member (2015-2021) of Malaysian Tribology Society. He is a member of Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, Malaysian Tribology Society and Tribology Society of India. He is also a reviewer of reputed journals associated with tribology and manufacturing. Rao is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science. Prior to joining MITS, he served as Research Associate Professor at SRMIST (2017-2020), Visiting Faculty at LNMIIT (2016-2017), Associate Professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (2010-2016), and Assistant Professor in BITS Pilani at Pilani (2000-2004, 2007-2010) and Dubai (2004-2007) campuses

ABDUL HALIM ABDULLAH obtained B.Eng. (Mechanical) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2005, M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia, in 2009, and Dr.Eng. in Biomechanical Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan in 2016. He is a Professional Technologist (P.Tech) with the Malaysia Board of Technologist and currently work as a Senior Lecturer and leadthe Biomechanical and Clinical Engineering (BioMeC) Group, at the School of Mechanical Engineering, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia. Dr. Abdul Halim has been lecturing on Advanced Numerical Method, Finite Element Method, Mechanical Engineering Design, 3D Printing Technology and Medical Engineering, which happens to be his areas of research interest.He has published more than 70 technical papers in journals, chapter in books and conference proceedings.

AdalgisaJ.Pereira is a Farmer Environmental Technician. Bachelor and Technologist in Agroecology from the Federal Institute of Education in the Southeast of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Master in Agroecology and PhD in Agronomy (Vegetable Production) by the Federal University of Vicosa-MG. Brazil. Agricultural operations manager at NMC Projects e Consultants. Professor at the Helena Antipoff-MG Foundation, Brazil. Expertise in the development of plant extracts in the control of agricultural pests, biological conservation control, bioinsecticides, identification of plants with potential for bio extracts, management of agroecosystems and agrobiodiversity, analysis of landscapes.

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Andreas Chrysanthou is Professor in Materials Engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Hertfordshire. After completion of his Bachelor's and PhD studies (on new synthesis routes for carbides) at Imperial College, he held lectureship posts at Nottingham and Surrey before joining the University of Hertfordhire in 1996. He set up and has been leading the Materials and Structures Research group since 1998. His main research expertise lies in the processing of Materials. His early research established the thermodynamic and kinetic requirements for the production of silicon carbide whiskers from the carbothermic reduction of silicon dioxide. He has been working on in-situ processes for the production of metal-matrix composites and his work established the mechanism of reaction for the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) using elemental powders for metal-carbide systems. This has led to collaborative work with industry on the reactive brazing of diamond tools. He participated in the FP6-funded Network of Excellence in "Knowledge-based Multi-component Materials (KMM-NoE) which then progressed to the establishment of the KMM-Virtual Institute (KMM-VIN). He has served as Working Group coordinator in Intermetallics research within KMM-VIN and has served on its Board of Governors. During the KMM-NoE project, together with Dr Anatolii Babutskyi, they initiated work on the use of electromagnetic fields as a processing step to extend corrosion resistance in metals. This investigation is now progressing as an FP7 Marie Curie project. The KMM-NoE project has also led to further collaborative work with the Polytechnic of Torino and industry on the development of a new glass-ceramic sealant for solid-oxide fuel cells.

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AycaBalOzturkis an Assistant Professor at Istinye University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey. She also holds a faculty appointment at Istinye University Research and Application Center for Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering (ISUKOK). She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Istanbul University in 2015. Awarded with The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 2016, she joined Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research interests mainly include nanostructured smart materials, design and synthesis of innovative micro/nanoscale biomaterials, as well as regulating stem-cell differentiation with the conclusive purpose of generating tissue-engineered organs.