BIOSKETCH: J. Michael Kosterlitz is a theoretical physicist recognized for his work with David J. Thouless on the application of topological ideas to the theory of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems with a continuous symmetry. The theory has been applied to thin films of superfluid 4He, superconductors and to melting of two-dimensional solids. Experiments on two dimensional layers of colloidal crystals agree with theoretical predictions in quantitative detail. This work was recognized by the Lars Onsager prize in 2000, membership in the AAAS 2007, by the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics and elected to the NAS in 2017. He graduated from Cambridge University earning a BSc in physics in1965, an MA in 1966 and received a D. Phil. from Oxford in 1969. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Torino University, Italy, in 1970 and at Birmingham University, U.K., from 1970-73. There he met David Thouless and together they did their groundbreaking work on phase transitions mediated by topological defects in two dimensions. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell in 1974 , on the faculty at Birmingham 1974-81 and Professor of Physics at Brown University 1982 to present.

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.

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.

Prof. A.K. Sood, FRS is Year of Science Chair Professor in Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was the President of the Indian National Science Academy(2017-2019), President of the Indian Academy of Sciences(2010-2012)and the Secretary General of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2013-2018).Currently, he is a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India. Prof. Sood’s research interests include Physics of Nano systems such as graphene and other 2D materials and soft condensed matter, with a strong focus on innovative experiments. The latter includes the flow behaviour such as rheo-chaos, nonequilibrium phase transitions, deconstruction of glass physics using colloid experiments, active matter and stochastic thermodynamics. The experimental probes used for exploring physics at nanoscale are Raman spectroscopy, Ultrafast time resolved spectroscopies including terahertz spectroscopy, transport measurements and x-ray diffractions He has published morethan 440 papers in international journals and holds a few national and International patents. His work has been recognized by way of many honours and awards .These include the Fellowship of the Royal Society ( FRS), all the three science academies of India and TWAS; the civilian honor, Padma Shri by Government of India, S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, G.D. Birla Award, TWAS Prize in Physics, FICCI Prize, Goyal Prize, M.N. Saha Award and Millennium Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress, Sir C.V. Raman Award of UGC, Homi Bhabha Medal of Indian National Science Academy, DAE Raja Ramanna Award of JNCASR, National Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by Government of India, Nano Award by Government of Karnataka,G.M. Modi Award of Science and R D Birla Award for Excellence in Physics by Indian Physics Association. He is Associate Editor of ACS Nano.

Dr. Fan Zhang obtained his bachelor degree from Univ. of Science and Technology of China in 2006 and PhD from Univ. of Texas at Austin in 2011. He did his postdoc at Univ. of Pennsylvania before joining Univ. of Texas at Dallas as a faculty in 2014, where he is an associate professor now. His research focuses primarily on topological matter, correlated electrons, and 2D materials. For his work on topological matter, he received the Herbert Callen Memorial Prize from Univ. of Pennsylvania and the CAREER Award from US National Science Foundation.

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.

Matjaz Valant is Professor of Material Science at University of Nova Gorica, where he serves as a Dean of the School for Environmental Sciences and Head of Materials Research Laboratory that he established in 2007. In the past, he carried out his research at Jozef Stefan Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College London and London South Bank University. Now, he is an adjunct professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The main topics of research in his laboratory are heterogeneous processes on solid surfaces. He is focusing on spectroscopic and atomic-level studies of topological insulator surfaces when interfaced with different overlayers, dynamics of structural defect and their influence on functional properties. For his scientific work he won Zois Prize in 2012, the highest national award for scientific work, and become recognized as Distinguished International Expert "Overseas's Master" by Ministry for Education of China in 2017.

Zongyou Yin obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Jilin University in China, and completed his Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Then, he started his postdoc careers at NTU/Singapore, IMRE/Singapore, followed by MIT and then Harvard University. Dr Yin started his own Research Group at Australian National Univesrity (ANU) from 2017. His group’s research is interdisciplinary, encompassing AI-driven materials innovations, nano-to-atomic materials science, fundamental relationship among materials-structures-devices, and synergistic integration of multi-functions towards systems for energy and wearable applications. Dr Yin has been honoured as one of The World Highly Cited Researchers every year since 2015.

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.

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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.

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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.

Oleg Berman, Professor Physics Department, New York City College of Technology, completed his M.S./B.S. (Diploma) (Physics) (summa cum laude), Moscow University of Steel and Alloys, Moscow (Russia), 1996 and Ph.D. (Physics) in -The Institute of Spectroscopy (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow (Russia), 1999. Research Interests: Condensed Matter Theory, many-body theory, quantum nanophysics, light-matter interaction, novel two-dimensional (2D) materials. Phase transitions, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), superfluidity, transport and optical properties of excitons, micro cavity polaritons, and microcavity photons. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum entanglement in a cavity.

Mariano de Souza studied Physics at the Sao Paulo State University (1997-2000), obtained his Master of Science degree (2003) with distinction in the same institution, and his doctorate with Summa cum laude from the Goethe-University Frankfurt (2005-2009). In 2011, he received the Werner Marttiensen Prize in recognition of his contribution to the field of Fe-based superconductors. After his postdoc (2009-2011) at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Doctor de Souza joined the faculty of the Sao Paulo State University – Campus Rio Claro SP. Doctor de Souza’s research focuses on the understanding of various correlated electronic phenomena, including superconductivity, Mott Physics, and quantum criticality. His research and teaching activities have been recognized through numerous national and international honors such as from The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation and Austria Academy of Science. He is a research fellow of The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – Brazil, and a visiting professor at LIOS-Johannes Kepler University - Austria (2018). Yet, Doctor de Souza is an active referee of various journals and international research foundations.

Dr K Praghash Ph D is with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram. He received his Ph.D. in the faculty of Information and Communication Engineering (I&C) at the Centre for Research - Anna University, Chennai. He is an awardee of the TANSCST Research Fellow for the year 2016. He has more than five years of academic and research experience with reputed institutions and research centers. He authored and co-authored research publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and periodicals. His current research focuses on IoT sensor communications, networking, and routing protocols.

Sepideh Akhbarifar is a postdoctoral researcher in Physics/Materials Science and adjunct faculty in the School of Engineering at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC, USA. She holds a master and a PhD in physics, a master in Nuclear Environmental Protection from CUA and one in Chemical Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran, Iran. Her main interest and expertise are in green energy science and technologies and in environmental protection. Her current research focuses on quantum physical interpretations of the properties of thermoelectric materials, including metal insulator transitions. She is also con-ducting research to develop very low carbon footprint materials, e.g., geopolymers. Her teaching comprises materials science and engineering, materials laboratory, mechanics of materials, and dynamic laboratory. She has published her work in journals, in an upcoming book chapter on thermoelectricity, and she is presenting at conferences worldwide. She was honored as 'Young Women Inventor of 2010' by the Iranian National Elites Foundation. She is a member of several scientific societies, especially the Materials Research Society, where she is in the Early Career Subcommittee.

Prof. Sergey Sokovnin is the head of group of electrophysical technologies, Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. He has completed a degree of Candidate (1994) and Doctor of Technical Sciences (in Electrophysics) in 2005. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed journals. He developed a method for production of nanopowders, including evaporation of a target by a pulsed electron beam, condensation of the vapor of the material in a low-pressure gas, and deposition of nanopowders on a large cold square crystallizer.

Prof. Ganesh D. Sharma is working as Professor (HAG Scale) of Physicsand Dean (Research and development) at The LNM Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Jaipur (Raj.), India since Dec 2015. He also the leader of center for nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Prof. Sharma obtained his Ph.D. degree from India Institute of Technology in 1985 and after than he had joined as Assistant Professor at JNV University, Jodhpur (Raj), India in Nov 1985. After than he had appointed as Professor of Physics and Electronics in 2004, in same university and continue upto Nov 2014. In 1989, he had been awarded young Scientist Award by CSIR, Government of India and a prestigious BOYCAST Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 1990 to work as Visiting Scientist at Department of Electrical and Computer Science, The state University of New Jersey for two years. His area of Research is Organic solar cells, nanocrystalline organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells and fuel cells, organic electronics and nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage and published more than 320 research papers. He had research collaborations with different International and National research organization.

Dr. Debashree Chakraborty obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur on 2011. She has done her post doctorate from University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada (2011-2013) and Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France (2013-2015). Subsequently, she joined National Institute of Technology Karnataka as Assistant Professor on 2015. Her main interest is in biophysics. She worked in variety of fields from voids in the liquids, spectral dynamics of hydrogen bonded liquids, interfaces, nucleation of crystals to stability of proteins, drug discovery. She is also selected as Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences (2020-2023).

Jun Onoe was graduated from Department of Chemistry at Osaka University (1987), and got Ph. D from Department of Physics at Kyoto University (1997). After he was a senior researcher at RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), he joined the faculty member at Tokyo Institute of Technology as an associate professor (2002). Finally, he has been a full professor at Nagoya University since 2014. While being the present position, he was concurrently a Senior Fellow for Science and Technology Policy, Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (CSTI), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (2016–2017), and a Presidential Advisor/Head of Innovation Strategy Office (2018–2019). He has been a visiting professor at University of Strasbourg (France) since 2015. He won the 28th Incentive Award from The Atomic Energy Society of Japan and the 2nd Incentive Award from The DV-X Society in 1996, the Research Paper Award from Teshima Industrial Education Fund in 2006, the 7th Research Academic Award from The DV-X Society in 2009, and the Research Paper Award (Category A) from the Liquid Crystal Society of Japan in 2020. The current topics of his concern are 1) an interdisciplinary between modern geometry and materials science (quantum mechanics of submanifold), 2) Energy-harvesting using molecular materials (solar cells and thermoelectric devices), and 3) Specific nano-space materials applied to the disposal of nuclear wastes and the recycling of precious metals, by using in situ UHV cryo FT-IR spectroscopy, in situ UHV cryo four-probe measurement system, in situ UHV STM/STS system, in combination with first-principles calculations based on density functional theory.

Aljaz Godec obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics in 2012 from the University of Ljubljana. His dissertation on the many-body origin of the hydrophobic effect was awarded with the Stefan golden emblem prize and the Pregl award for outstanding doctoral work. After his PhD he joined the theoretical physics group of Ralf Metzler at the University of Potsdam in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow. In 2016 he was awarded with ‘Journal of Physics A Emerging talent’ title – a recognition of the best early-career researchers in the field of theoretical and mathematical physics. In 2017 he received the Karl-Scheel Prize of the Berlin Physical Society (PgzB). Since 2017 he is the head of the Emmy Noether research group 'Mathematical bioPhysics' at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany). His group develops and applies statistical and mathematical physics approaches to study emerging phenomena in soft matter as well as molecular and cellular biophysics.

Shyamal K Saha did his BS and MS from University of Calcutta, Kolkata and Ph D from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. He has visited several Universities like Purdue University (USA), Osaka University (Japan), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) and many others as visiting Professor and currently he is working as a Senior Professor and Chairman of the School of Materials Science at Indian Association for the cultivation of Science, Kolkata. His major work is on the electronic and magnetic properties of nanomaterials and during the last 10 years he is working on 2D Materials. He has published more than 150 papers in different reputed International Journals.

Dr. Lexian Yang obtained his bachelor and doctoral degrees from Fudan University, China. He worked as a Humboldt scholar in Kiel University during 2011-2014. After that, he continued his post-doctoral work in Tsinghua University for two years. He joined Tsinghua University as a faculty in 2016 and he is an associate professor now. He is interested in the electronic structure of quantum materials, including topological quantum materials, strongly correlated materials, and low-dimensional materials. As an experimentalist, he studied these interesting materials mainly using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with time, spin, and real-space resolutions.

Thamraa is an associate professor in physics department, Princess Norah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a solar energy specialist. Focusing to improve the solar cells efficiency and stability. As a scientist she also applying project management and leadership strategy in her projects to gain both solutions and best practices. Her Ph.D from Bangor university, united kingdom in organic solar cells 2016 and also, Master degree in nanotechnology and microfabrication in 2010. She did her postdoctoral research in PV Lab at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Boston 2017-2018, and she conduct a research with the MIT PV lab group in topic relating to her country (Perovskite Si Tandem Solar Cells for Hot/Arid Climates) and the result was presented in MRS 2018 spring conference in Arizona. Also, she was a visiting researcher in civil structure and environmental engineering department at Trinity college of Dublin in summer 2019. Her research interest areas include but not limit to photovoltaics, LED, transistor, energy storage, hydrogen fuel cells, semiconductor materials, Nanomaterials. She published several articles in peer reviewed journals some of them related to solar energy application. Also, she participated in several conferences and committee relating to the solar energy.