Dr. Choi is an internationally recognized researcher in nanotechnology and has conducted pioneering research on nanomaterials and applications in rechargeable batteries and electronic devices. He is a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow since 2009 and has received MRS Medal Award in 2006. He is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of North Texas, and a founder of a rechargeable battery start-up company to make a commercial Li-S battery based on licensed patents. He is the author/co-author of over 80 patents, 1 book (GRAPHENE CRC Press 2011), 10 book chapters, over 260 publications, which includes 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and 80 conference proceedings. His research articles have been cited ~16,000 times with an H-index of 65 (Google Scholar).

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. A registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and was a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 900 publications, Dr. Rosen is active in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

Jiazhao Wang is a Professor at the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research activities are focused on electrochemical energy storage in batteries, including Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, metal-air batteries (Li-air, Na-ion Zn-air batteries), and Li/Na-sulfur batteries. She has won more than 30 research grants including 20 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants as a chief investigator (CI). She has published more than 240 papers in international journals (Citations>21600, H index = 81, Google Scholar). She is an associate editor of Energy Material. She has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. students to completion.

Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modeling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling, and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters, and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and the top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works have garnered more than 10,600 citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.

Dr. Dongsheng Li is a distinguished professor at Shantou University and director of Guangdong Engineering Center for Structure Safety and Health Monitoring. Before joining Shantou University in 2018, he served as an engineer in the industry for five years and worked at Dalian University of Technology as a lecture/associated professor for 16 years. Dongsheng Li received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 1994; his M.S. degree from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, majoring in engineering mechanics; and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Siegen, Germany in 2012. His research interests include structural health monitoring of large-span bridges and wind turbines, including fiber Bragg grating sensing, damage. identification under varying environments, optimal sensor placement, and random loading identification. He conjectured the existence of the mode localization phenomenon in wind turbine blades and afterward proved it. He developed a novel loading-dependent sensor placement theory that depends on both. structural characteristics and actual loading conditions. His contributions also include the strain transferring mechanism in optical fiber sensors. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dominick J. DeMichele Scholarship Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, and China National Award for Technological Invention(2ndPrize). He is currently the Editor of Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Frontiers Research of Architecture and Engineering, and Advances in Civil Engineering (Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded). He has published more than 80 technical papers in international refereed journals and conferences. His paper was cited more than 1000 times.

Dr. Shafieezadeh is the Lichtenstein Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and is the director of the Risk Assessment and Management of Structural and Infrastructure Systems(RAMSIS) lab at Ohio State University at The Ohio State University. His research interests include multi-hazard reliability and risk-based life-cycle analysis of the built environment; resilience assessment and improvement of civil infrastructure systems; aging and deterioration modeling; uncertainty quantification; and decision making in uncertain environments. His research on resilience of the power grid in the face of climatic extremes and dynamic risk quantification and communication of risks to critical infrastructure systems have been supported by US federal and state agencies, the industry, and international research institutions. He is a recipient of the Sam Nunn Security Fellowship on the role of technology in public policy from Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (2011), an M.S. from Utah State University (2008), and both M.S. (2006) and B.S. (2003) from the University of Tehran. He has authored/co-authored over 200 journal and conference proceedings and presentations. His research related to power grid resilience has been published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Access, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Structural Safety, among others.

Nana Wang is a research fellow in the Department of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials of the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include (i) developing innovative battery chemistries, such as lithium/sodium-sulfur batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and Li-O2 batteries. (ii) Understanding the fundamental science of the interfaces, charge transport, and reactions in and of materials using advanced characterization techniques, and (ii) designing and fabricating new electrode materials with desired properties. She has published more than 65 papers in scientific journals with more than 3100 citations and H-index-32. She is a recipient of the 2020 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. She is also the Youth Editorial Board Member of Carbon Energy and Nano Research Energy.

Shenghao Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology GraduateUniversity (OIST), Japan, from 2013 to 2016. Then, he joined the University of Tsukuba. In 2018, he has appointed as a full professor at Shanghai University, China. He is also currently a visiting scholar at OIST. His research interests include surface and interface sciences, thin-film growth, and solar cells. He has published more than 40 papers, such as Nature Energy, Energy & Environmental Science, etc. He was awarded the “Top Peer Reviewer” by Publons in 2019. He is an associate editor for Frontiers in Physics and is listed on editorial board members of Energies.

Paul Grunow completed his Ph.D. at the age of 30 years from Technical University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and postdoctoral studies at the COPPE/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the general manager of Trinity Solarbeteiligungen GmbH, an investment company in renewable energies. Before, he co-founded three companies in the area of photovoltaics based in Berlin, i.e. Solon, Q-Cells, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals.

Elizabeth Teresita Romero-Guzmán is a Chemist with, a Master's Degree in Ecology and a Ph.D. in Engineering with an emphasis in water science at the Autonomous University of Mexico State. She has experience in analytical chemistry using conventional and radiochemical techniques, currently, she works in the structural characterization of Alli alloys to produce clean hydrogen such as alternative energy to reduce the greenhouse gases released into the environment.

Tefera Mekonnen is an Assistant Professor at Jimma university, institute of Technology in the faculty of electrical and computer Engineering, Jimma, Ethiopia. He did his first degree in Electrical /Electronics Technology. He received his master’s degree in Power System Engineering. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at TH Koln University, Germany, having 13 years of experience in the field of teaching and research. He is a reviewer for many journals & published 10+ papers in prestigious international journals and conferences. He served the Faculty in different academic positions. His area of interest is in the area of Renewable energy, power systems dynamics, power electronics, power quality, and power system protection.