Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Then he was appointed to a Principal Scientist position at the HML/SNCI of theMax Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the "Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics" at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, and of the American Physical Society. He is recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 65,000+ and his Hirsch factor is 111 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Jimmy Xu, currently the Chales C. Tillinghast Jr. 1932 University Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University, USA. Prior to coming to Brown in 1999, he was the James Ham Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Toronto, Canada. A fellow of AAAS, APS, Guggenheim, IEEE, IoP, he received a number of awards and prizes, including the 1994 Steacie Prize of Canada. Professor Xu is interested in nanoscale science and technology, quantum electronics and photonics, sensors, semiconductor lasers, electro-optics, and collective behaviors of large coupled systems such as neuromorphic computing. His ongoing research includes carbon nanotubes; diamond nanowires, Silicon lasers, active metamaterials, quantum materials, synthesis and non-lithographic fabrication and study of quantum-arrays made from metals, superconducting, molecules and semiconductors; DNA conductivity; physics of redox processes in proteins and cells.

Zhigang Chen is a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University and a professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, and optical manipulation, with more than 250 papers in referred journals and numerous citations. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Light: Science & Applications and Optics Letters, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including General Co-Chair for the CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Bahram Jalali is the Director of the Photonics Laboratory, the Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1989 and was with the Physics Research Division of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey until 1992 before joining UCLA. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of IEEE, OSA, APS, AIMBE, and SPIE. The recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America for the first silicon laser, Bahram has received the Aaron Kressel Award from IEEE, and the Achievement Medal from IET (U.K), and the Pioneer in Technology Award from the Society of Brain Mapping & Therapeutics. Bahram was the Founder and CEO of Cognet Microsystems, a company that pioneered CMOS ICs for optical networks and which was acquired by Intel in 2001. In 2005, he was elected into the Scientific American Top 50 and MIT Technology Review Magazine Top 10.

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.

Dr. Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) (www.iesl.forth.gr) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH) (www.forth.gr ). He received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Crete in 2001 from the Physics Department, University of Crete. After graduating, he joined as a visiting Researcher the IESL-FORTH working on the ultrafast laser engineering of materials and as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete. In the fall semesters of 2006 and 2008, he was appointed as a visiting Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007 he was elected Researcher at IESL-FORTH where he is leading the "Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing" laboratory (http://stratakislab.iesl.forth.gr ; https://www.iesl.forth.gr/en/research/ULNMP-Group). His research interests are in the fields of (a) Laser-matter interaction; (b) Ultrashort pulsed laser processing of biomimetic surfaces ; (c) Laser processes for organic & hybrid electronics; (d) Laser engineeering and diagnostics of Graphene and related 2D materials; (e) Advanced photonic processes in photovoltaic and energy storage devices; (f) Photo-assisted synthesis of nanocrystals; (g) Applications on non linear imaging in materials science and biology; (h) Laser assisted biofabrication for tissue engineering applications (i) Multipurpose 3D printing complemented with subtractive manufacturing. He has over 220 SCI publications and more than 8000 citations, h-index=48 (Scopus), and he has coordinated many National and European grants. He has delivered more than 50 invited and keynote lectures and has been organizer and chair in major international scientific conferences. He has been an Editor of the journals 'Optoelectronic Advances', 'Materials Today (Bio)', 'Applied Sciences' and 'International Journal of molecular Sciences'. Since 2015, he is the Director of the Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is a National expert in the High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of COST. Since January 2020 he is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biomimetic (www.biomimetic.gr).

Professor Sukhdev Roy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics degree from Delhi Univ. in 1986, M.Sc. Physics from DEI, in 1988, and PhD. from IIT Delhi in 1993. He joined the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 1993, where he is at present a Professor in the Department of Physics and Computer Science. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, Harvard (USA), Waterloo (Canada), Würzburg and Regensburg (Germany), Osaka (Japan), City University and Queen Mary University of London (UK), TIFR, Mumbai and IISc. Bangalore (India). In 2016, he was a Visiting Professor at the 2018 Nobel Laureate Prof. Donna Strickland's Lab. in Univ. of Waterloo, Canada. He is also an Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and Member of the Global Panel of MIT Technology Review. Prof. Roy has made significant contributions in Photonics that encompass nano-bio-photonics, silicon and neuro photonics, fiber optics, and optical computing. His experimental and theoretical research on nano-bio-photonic systems that includes low-power and high frequency optogenetic control of neural spiking, defines a new paradigm of technological convergence and innovation and opens up fascinating prospects for energy-efficient, ultrafast and low-cost all-optical information processing, sensing, energy conversion and healthcare. He has won a number of awards and fellowships that include, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2001, JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan in 2004, H.C. Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University in 2006, 1st IETE B.B. Sen Memorial Award in 2007, IETE-Conference on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies Award in 2012, IETE-M. Rathore Memorial Award in 2016, the Systems Society of India's National Systems Gold Medal in 2016, and the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2021. He also has been awarded six best paper awards in international and national conferences. He has published 175 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and 11 book chapters. He chaired the 8th World Conference and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, USA in 2020. He has delivered more than 100 invited talks in India and abroad that include Keynote Addresses and Plenary Talks at International Conferences that include the prestigious International Year of Light commemorative Keynote Address, at the 38th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), in 2015 and at the Annual Meeting of American Physical Society in 2008. He was the Guest Editor of the March 2011 Special Issue of IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Journal (U.K.) on Optical Computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics Journal. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, India, IETE (India), and the Optical Society of India. He is listed in Stanford University's coveted Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

Alex de Marco obtained his PhD at EMBL in Heidelberg, focusing on developing methods for cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging to allow large-scale structural studies on heterogeneous and pleomorphic samples. After graduation, he immediately joined FEI Company (now ThermoFisher Scientific) and was responsible for the development of hardware and software solutions for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM). Currently, Alex is an Associate Professor at Monash University. Here his main focus is on developing new methods and technologies (from optics to image processing) to obtain molecular resolution imaging in biological samples.

Jin Li is Associated Professor in the College of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China since Jan. 2016. He was born in the city of Yuncheng, Shan Xi Province, China in Dec. 1983. He earned the Doctor's degree in Physical Electronics at HIT, China in 2013. He works in Laser Physics Centre of the Australia National University during the whole year of 2017 as a visiting fellow. His research interests include micro/nano-structured photonics, nanomaterials' nonlinear optics, micro/nanofiber sensors and integrated optical devices.

Elsa Fonseca received the 5-year B.S. degree in Physics Engineering and Technology in 1995 and the M. Sc. degree in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering in 1998, both from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. degree in Physics, from Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, UBI. She is also a PhD member integrated in the Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech) Research Unit of UBI. Her main research interests are Digital Holography, Simulation and Development of Optical Systems and Signal Processing Applications in the areas of Image and Video Coding, Remote Sensing, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Vision Sciences. She has authored or co-authored several international refereed journals and conferences and participated in the editorial review board of several International Journals. She is also a member of the Optical Society of America - OSA.

Prof. Boris Luk'yanchuk graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia under supervision of Prof. A. A. Abrikosov. Luk'yanchuk got his PhD from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1979. Later he worked as a Head of the Laboratory at General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. During 1999-2019 Luk'yanchuk was working in Data Storage Institute in Singapore where he got IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004, President's Science Award 2013, and Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) gold medal and award, 2016. Scientific interests of Boris Luk'yanchuk are related to laser matter interactions. He published 5 monographs and above 280 original papers.

Dr Kamal Nain Chopra has done B.Sc. (University of Delhi), M.Sc. (Physics - IIT, Delhi), M.Tech. (Opto-Electronics - IIT, Delhi), and Ph.D. (Applied Physics - IIT, Delhi). He has served DRDO for a period of 33 years and superannuated as Scientist G, from Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC), Delhi, in the year 2005. Subsequently, he has also served as Professor (Physics) in NSIT (DU) and MAIT(GGSIPU), and as Project Scientist in IIT, Delhi, in various Projects, on Topics including Photonics, Thin Films, and Optical Testing. He has about 390 publications including about 300 in International journals (UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland, and China- including, J.Opt.Soc Am, APPLIIED OPTICS, OPTICA ACTA, REV D OPTIQUE APPLIQUE, OPTIK, THIN SOLPROCEEDINGCHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, and CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF TAYLOR AND FRANCIS etc.) on various topics including Thin Films Optics, Lasers and Laser Components, Holography, and Modern Optics; 12 Invited talks; 15 Technical reports; and 30 papers in International Conference Proceedings (e.g.Taylor and Francis, UK; and Scientific Net, Switzerland). Dr Kamal Nain Chopra has co-authored a Monograph titled , "Thin Films and their Applications in Military and Civil Sectors", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2010. He has authored a Monograph titled, "Unconventional Lasers: Design and Technical Analysis", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2017. He has also authored a Book titled, "Conventional and Unconventional Sources of Renewable Energy : Renewable Energy Sources ", Lambert Academic Publishing, LAP, GERMANY, 2017. In addition, he has authored a Monograph titled, "Spintronics Theoretical Analysis and Designing of Devices Based on Giant Magnetoresistance", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2019.His recent book on Optoelectronic Gyroscopes and Applications has been published by SPRINGER NATURE. He has undertaken visits to foreign universities and industries including (i) School of Thin Film Coatings, Department of Physics, St. Jerome University, Marseille, FRANCE [5 months (1984-85)]; (ii) Department of Physics, Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, AUSTRIA , including 5 days in M/s. Balzers, Liechtenstein, SWITZERLAND [10 days (1995)]; and (iii) M/s. Elettrorava, Torino, ITALY [15 days (2000)]. He has vast experience of serving the Recruitment and Assessment Boards of DRDO (RAC and CEPTAM), as Chairman as well as Expert Board Member. He is a Reviewer and Editorial Board Member for some leading International Journals. His fields of Specialization are Opto-electronis, Unconventional Lasers, Optical Gyroscopes, Thin Films Designing, Fabrication, and Characterization by modern Techniques, and Specialized Optical Testing Techniques.