David J. Moss is founding Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. From 2016 to 2020 he was Director of the Centre for Microphotonics at Swinburne. From 2004 to 2014 he was with the University of Sydney and before that was a manager and senior scientist at JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He currently has over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar with an h index of 92. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

Dragan Mihailovic is Head of Department for Complex Matter at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Director of the CENN Nanocenter, Professor of physics at the University of Ljubljana, and at the JS International Postgraduate School, where he is currently Vice-Dean and the head of the Nanoscience program. He leads a research group on non-equilibrium studies of quantum materials. His two major current interests are in the study of mesoscopic metastable quantum states created through non-equilibrium processes using time-resolved methods in combination with scanning tunnelling microscopy and charge configuration topological memory devices. He won the Kidric award in 1987 and in 2002 the Zois prize, the highest award for outstanding achievements in science in Slovenia. He has held two ERC grants (AdG, PoC) on ultrafast studies of symmetry-breaking transitions, and ultrafast non-volatile (non-magnetic) memories respectively. He also received a Fulbright scholarship (1989-90). He is a member of the Engineering Academy of Slovenia.

Klaus Ensslin has been a Professor of Solid-​State Physics at ETH Zurich since October 1995. Klaus Ensslin studied physics at the University of Munich and at ETH Zurich. After completing his doctoral dissertation at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, he was a postdoc at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA. From April 1991 until September 1995 he worked at the University of Munich. His habilitation thesis was awarded a prize from the University of Munich. In 1995 he received the Gerhard Hess prize of the German Science Foundation promoting outstanding young researchers. The primary research interest of Klaus Ensslin lies in the physics of mesoscopic systems. The electronic properties of novel semiconductor nanostructures are investigated using material control down to the atomic scale. One important goal is the ever-increasing control and improved understanding of the quantum properties of electrons in nanostructures.

Lucian N. Cojocariu is a researcher in the Department of Elementary Particle Physics (DFPE) at Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) from December 2013, when he joined the Romanian Group working for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Previously, from 2008 until 2013, he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FIESC) from Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (USV). With two B.A. degrees, first one in Applied Electronics and the second in Engineering and Management, he obtained in 2012 a M.S. degree in Computers and Communication Networks from FIESC. In 2017, he received a Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from USV. Lucian’s area of research interest is radiation tolerant readout front-end electronics for particle detectors in high energy physics experiments. Over the last years, he investigated the impact of Total Ionizing Dose (TID) and Single-Event Effects on state-of-the-art ASICs and commercial off-the-shelf FPGAs with application in harsh environments, like particle detectors and space. Currently he is involved in the LHCb Upgrade Programme Phase Ia for the new photo-detection system of two Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) sub-detectors. The dissemination of its scientific results includes: 1 patent, 15 papers in ISI Journals, and 340 papers as co-author within the LHCb Collaboration.

Norbert M. Nemes is an experimental solid state physicist who obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and after postdoctoral stays in the NIST Center for Neutron Research and also the Materials Science Institute of Madrid he is a Professor of Applied Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, one of the largest and oldest Spanish universities. He has published over 100 research papers with an h-index of 22 on topics ranging from materials of reduced dimensions, superconductors, spintronics and magnetic anisotropy, multifunctional materials (magnetoelectric coupling), and in the last years on thermoelectrics.

Will update soon

Will update soon

Marta Pelc, assistant professor at Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Dr. Marta Pelc is a theoretical physicist who obtained her PhD in 2007 from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2008 she started her postdoctoral stay in Spain, where she worked in research facilities of the Spanish Academy of Science (CSIC): Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) and Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM-MPC) in San Sebastian as well as Donostia International Physics Center. After that she came back to NCU where she works as an assistant professor. The subject of her scientific interest is solid state physics, especially carbon-based low-dimensional systems. Her research is focused on electronic and transport properties of graphene-based nanostructures, recently it includes also topological phases, spin transport and plasmonics.

Morozov Sergey Vyacheslavovich head of the lab “Physics of semiconductor heterostructures and super lattices”, Institute for Physics of Microstructures Russian Academy of Sciences (IPM RAS). His research interests are Terahertz, mid and far IR, nanostructures, shallow impurities, nonlinear process, quantum well, spectroscopy, photoconductivity kinetics, narrow-gap semiconductors, photoluminescence, injection lasers, topological insulators, multiplications gyrotrons on semiconductor structures, quantum-cascade lasers. He has published 132 papers in scientific journals.

Dr. Nguyen Hoa Hong got her PhD in Materials Science from JAIST, Japan in 2001 and her Habilitation in Physics from the Univ. of Tours, France in 2004. She was research associate at Leipzig Univ. in 2001-2002, then worked at the Univ. of Tours, France from 2002 to 2009 as CNRS postdoc, CNRS visiting researcher, then termed lecturer. She then worked as Faculty and was the Head of the Nanomagnetism Lab. at Seoul National Univ. from 2010 to 2018. Currently she has been working as Faculty at the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czechia. Her main interest of research is about magnetism and magnetic materials. Her most significant work was about Diluted Magnetic Semiconducting Oxide Thin Films that are potential for Spintronic Applications. She has been author/co-author of 102 publications and currently has over 5200 citations and H-index as of 33 on Google Scholar.

Will update soon

Prof. Ninoslav Marina has been Rector of the University of Information Science and Technology (UIST) in Ohrid since 2012. He was President of the Rector's Conference of the public universities in the Republic of Macedonia (2015-2018).Dr. Marina graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Skopje in 1998 and obtained his Ph.D. degree at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2004. In partnership with Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki, his thesis was in information theory with application to wireless communications. Ninoslav Marina was Director of R&D at Sowoon Technologies (2005 - 2007), visiting scholar at University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu (2007 - 2008), postdoctoral researcher at University of Oslo (2008 - 2009) and postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University (2009 - 2012). Prof. Marina co-authored more than 100 scientific papers, books and popular texts and has been a guest professor at more than twenty universities in countries including United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Israel, Russia, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Norway, Finland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Portugal, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic. Dr. Marina is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is one of the co-founders of the Macedonian Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is an Associate Editor of Telkomnika Indonesia and was also Technical Program Committee Chair of the International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT). In 2015, Prof. Marina was a panel member at the United Nations General Assembly informal interactive consultations on the World Summit on the Information Society in New York.

Sungwook Hong, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). Prior to joining CSUB, he was a postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California during 2016 – 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in 2012; and received M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Kyunghee University in South Korea in 2009 and 2007, respectively. He is an expert in atomic scale modeling and simulations of chemical/physical processes of complex nanostructured systems using reactive and quantum molecular dynamics simulations. His current research interest includes computational synthesis of 2D layered materials, and combustion performance of metal nanoparticles using organic coatings.

Yuri Pusep has been an Associate Professor and Head of Semiconductor Laboratory at University of São Paulo, Institute of Physics of São Carlos since 2001. After completing his PhD at the Novosibirsk Institute of Semiconductors in 1985, he was a postdoc fellow in Prof. M. Cardona group at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. Yuri Pusep’s current research interest is focused on the electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures, which are studied using optical spectroscopy and electron transport techniques. In particular, it includes magneto-transport, magneto-photoluminescence on the micrometer scale and time-resolved measurements. He has published more than 150 scientific papers.

Meshal Alzaid, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of materials & nanotechnology and head of physics department at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials and Nanotechnology at North Dakota State University, USA in 2019; received M.S. degree in Materials Engineering at University of Dayton, USA in 2014; and B.S. degree in Physics at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia in 2010. He has published more than 35 research articles, supervised 3 MS thesis and trained a large number of young researchers. In 2020, he received 5 grants and funds related to investigate the structure of new nanomaterials for different applications in renewable energy technology. His research focused on synthesis of novel low-dimensional materials for renewable energy applications including solar cells and wastewater treatment.