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 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor Hong Seok Kang (email: hsk@jj.ac.kr) obtained his BSc (Chemistry) from Seoul National University, and his PhD (Physical Chemistry) from KAIST, South Korea. As a professor in Jeonju University in Korea, he has been extensively involved in research for designing and understanding electronic, optical, and chemical properties of various low dimensional nanomaterials using first-principles calculation. In collaboration with sophiscated experimental groups, his interest has been recently extended to the applications of those materials in secondary battery and photocatalytic/ electrocatayltic CO2/H2O reduction. For his research, he was awarded three major prizes: (1) Ipjae Physical Chemistry Prize from the Division of Physical Chemistry, Korean Chemical Society (2009), Breakthrough Research Award for honoring Jeonju University (2017), and Excellent Research Award supported by Ministry of Education of Government of Korea (2018). As the corresponding author, he has published many SCI papers in renowned SCI journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of American Chemical Society, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A/C, etc. Specifically, his purely theoretical papers were selected as cover articles in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. (2019), Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2018), and Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2017). For more details on his CV and publications, readers are recommended to refer to his homepage at https://www.jj.ac.kr/hskang/.

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.

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. 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.