Prof. Shaobin Wang obtained the degrees of BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Peking University and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland. He has been a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University and is now a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, the University of Adelaide. His research interests focus on nanomaterial synthesis and application for adsorption and catalysis, fuel and energy conversion, and environmental remediation. He has published more than 500 refereed journal papers with citations over 51000and H-index= 127 (Google Scholar). He was awarded the 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Awards in Australia and is listed as a highly cited researcher in Engineering and Chemistry in 2016-2020. He is a co-editor of Journal of Colloid and Interface and associate editor of Chemical Engineering Journal Advances as well as an editorial board member of several international journals.

Dr. Daolun Chen is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He received his BSc and MSc from Northeastern University (China), Ph.D. from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr.rer.nat. from the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Chen has authored 630 papers, including 343 refereed journal articles. His pioneering work on nanocomposites leads to a well-known method that bears his name and is twice identified by the Council of Canadian Academies to be one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, G.H. Duggan Medal, Canadian Metal Physics Award, MetSoc Award for Research Excellence, MetSoc Distinguished Materials Scientist Award, and Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Fellow of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (FCIM), Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (FIMMM), Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of 28 highly-regarded journals.

Len Gelman, Ph.D., Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation)joined HuddersfieldUniversity as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring, and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines, and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than250 publications, 17 patents, and is Co-Editor of 12Springer books. He is Fellow of British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR), Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring.

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and of Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA, and worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute. He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, and Oxford s Begbroke Science Park. He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA, and Rolls-Royce, and editor of Progress in Materials Science. He invented the new field of multi-component high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys

Dr. Qiao joined the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide (UoA) in March 2012 as a professor (the inaugural Chair of Nanotechnology). He is the founding Director of the Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis (CMEC). His research expertise is in nanomaterials for new energy technologies (electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries, fuel cell). He has co-authored more than 446 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Chemistry, Nature Materials, Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Angew Chem Int Ed, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Advanced Materials (over 84,500 citations, h-index: 152). He has filed five patents on novel nanomaterials and attracted more than 15 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and the Australian Research Council (ARC). In recognition of his research achievements, he was honored with the inaugural UoA Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (2019), an Australian Star of Research (Lifetime Achievers Leaderboard, by "The Australian" 2019, 2020), prestigious ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013), Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society) and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). Dr. Qiao is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in two categories of Chemistry and Materials Science.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 450+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems). Ephraim is the third Russian American, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Currently the Scientific Director of the Project Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Engineering (PCNAE), a joint initiative of the Greek National Research Center for Scientific Research Demokritos and the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute , and Emeritus Professor, Founder of the Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. A graduated Mechanical and Electrical Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, he has obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Victoria University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) He has a vast industrial experience as Chief Engineer/Technical Manager in Steelworks in Germany and Greece for several years, and over 55 years of cooperation in research and industrial activities with the American, British, German, European Union, Japanese, Chinese, ExSoviet Union Republics, Hungarian and GreekIndustry. Subsequently, he moved to the academic sector for over 55 years, with Visiting Professorships in Cambridge University, England University Hannover, Germany RWTechnischeHochschule Aachen, Germany Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Full Professorships in Michigan Technological University, USA National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He received numerous Academic Degrees and Awards worldwide: Elected Member of various Academies of Sciences Honorary Professor (multi) Honorary Doctor (multi) Fellow/Member of many international Scientific Organizations and Journals (Editorial Board) Citations in the USA, UK, Europe, Hungary, Japan, Greece, etc. His published work covers the theoretical, experimental, and industrial aspects of Mechanics Manufacturing Technology Precision / Ultraprecision Engineering Nanotechnology Ferrous and Nonferrous Materials Technology from Macro, Micro to Nanoscale Powder Production and Processing Technologies Biomechanics / Biomedical Engineering Transport / Structural Plasticity / Crashworthiness of Vehicles Energy and Environmental Aspects Safety and Defense Industrial Sustainability. It consists of 32Books and Monographs, 12 Textbooks,610 Papers in Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings, 2 Patents, worldwide.

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, Everest Chair is among the top three impactful authors at the National University of Singapore, NUS. He is the Director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at NUS and is regarded as the guru of electrospinning & nanofibers. He is named among the World s Most Influential Minds (Thomson Reuters), and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in materials science and cross-field categories (Clarivate Analytics). Microsoft Academic ranked him among the top 26 authors out of three million materials researchers worldwide. He is an elected Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; the Indian National Academy of Engineering; and ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology. He is an elected Fellow of International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE); Institution of Engineers Singapore; ISTE, India; Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, UK; and American Association of the Advancement of Science; ASM International; American Society for Mechanical Engineers; and American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, USA. He is a senior member of IEEE, USA. He is the Editor in Chief of Springer NATURE journal Materials Circular Economy. European Commission Director-General for Environment, Excellency Daniel Calleja Crespo said Professor Seeram Ramakrishna should be praised for his engagement in leading the reflections on how to develop a more sustainable future for all in his foreword for the Springer Nature book on Circular Economy. He is a member of UNESCO s Global Independent Expert Group on Universities and the 2030 Agenda.

Mohd Sapuan Salit (S.M.Sapuan) is a professor (A grade) of composite materials at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Head of Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology, INTEROP, UPM. His research interests include natural fiber composites, biopolymer composite packaging, concurrent engineering for composites, conceptual design for composites, design for sustainability, and materials selection for composites. He is a Professional Engineer, a Society of Automotive Engineers Fellow, an Academy of Science Malaysia Fellow, a Plastic and Rubber and Institute Malaysia Fellow, a Malaysian Scientific Association Fellow, and an International Biographical Association and an Institute of Material Malaysia Fellow. He is an Honorary Member and past Vice President of Asian Polymer Association based in IIT Delhi and Founding Chairman and Honorary Member of Society of Sugar Palm Development and Industry, Malaysia. He is the co-editor-in-chief of Functional Composites and Structures and a member of more than two dozen editorial boards. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 1800 publications including over 950 journal papers, 50 books, and 175 chapters in the book. Besides, he has delivered 48 plenary and keynote lectures, delivered over 150 invited lectures, organized 29 journal special issues as a guest editor, presented over 500 technical articles in conferences and seminars, reviewed over 1100 journal papers, and has 8 patents to his credits. He has successfully supervised 89 Ph.D. and 70 MSc students and 15 postdoctoral researchers mainly in the areas of mechanical engineering and composites. He received nine Outstanding Researcher Awards from UPM. Hewas awarded ISESCO Science Award, Plastic and Rubber Institute Malaysia Fellowship Award, and Forest Research Institute Malaysia First Prize Publication Award

Professor Slawomir Wiak DSc, Ph.D., Meng, Doctor Honoris Causa University d Atrois, Arras, France, and Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Russia. Professor SÅ‚awomir Wiak was Rector of Lodz University of Technology (2016-2020), Vice-Rector of Lodz University of Technology (2012-2016), Dean of the Faculty Electrical, Electronic, Computer, and Control Engineering, Lodz University of Technology (2008-2012), Director of the Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems Lodz University of Technology (since 2008). His specialized scientific areas are Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he is visiting professor at the University of Pavia, Italy for 4 years, and the university d Artois, arras, France for 8 Years. He gave invited talks to over 20 universities, and he chaired 100 sessions at the conferences, he is a member of the international steering committees with 17 authors, 400 publications, 21 national and 24 international grants.

Assoc. prof. Jan Kruzelak works at the Institute of Natural and Synthetic Polymers (INSP) at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology STU in Bratislava. He is extensively experienced in the study of preparation and characterization of rubber compounds based on various elastomers filled with traditional fillers used in the rubber industry as well as with magnetic active fillers. His area of expertise is also the research and development of vulcanization systems used for cross-linking of rubber matrices. He has been a member of the IRCO, an international organization bringing together representatives of rubber industry research associations and production organizations of each member country.

Matteo Tonezzer won the Young Scientist Award 2011 by the European Materials Research Society. He worked in research centers in France (ESRF), Brazil (UFMG), Vietnam (HUST), Italy (INFM, CNR), South Korea (INHA University), and the USA (GeorgiaTech). He is currently working for IMEM-CNR. His main area of interest concerns the sensing properties of nanostructured materials and machine learning to make them smart.

Dr. Lunyong Zhang is currently an associate professor of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) with general research interests in the preparation craft and novel properties characterization as well as their artificial modulation of quantum materials single crystal and thin filmswith nontrivial magnetic and electronic structures. Before joining HIT in May 2020, he was an associated researcher at the Max-Planck-POSTECH center for complex phase materials of Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea and a visit scientist ofthe MaxPlanck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D., MS, and BS from HIT. He has reported a series of new results about the strong spin-orbit interaction iridates, for example, the first electronic transport evidence of the semimetal state of SrIrO3 and the strong temperature sensitivity of spin-orbit interaction in iridates. He is an expert reviewer of the Italian Ministry of education, University and Research (MIUR) and invited referee of journals such as Applied Physics Review, Materials Science & Engineering A.

Dr. Tahir muhammod is currently a full-time associate faculty member at Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, School of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing P.R.China. He also served as senior researcher at State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai China. He is doing research in Nano-Chemistry and Nano-Materials field. He published research articles in well-reputed journals (JCR/SCI ranked) as the first/corresponding author. He received six Academic Research Publication Rewards and two Academic Success Rewards. He wins the Elite Government Award from CS-Beijing Council, P.R.China. One of his research articles got the VIP (Very Important Paper) title from WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co.KGaA, Weinheim, for publishing the innovative research.

Dr. Fei Xue is currently a senior postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and will soon join HIC-Zhejiang University as an independent PI. He got a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences with Professor Zhong Lin Wang in 2017. His research interest focuses on low-dimensional ferroelectricity, ferroelectric devices, neuromorphic computing, and piezotronic devices. He has published 16 peer-reviewed papers with first or corresponding authorship, which include Applied Physics Reviews, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and ACS Nano.

Dr. Omid Akbarzadeh Pivehzhani is working with Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre since 2016. His main research area is heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering. He has spent 10 years in academic-industrial projects as a research officer and post-doctoral. Dr. Omid has worked for 5 years in the oil and gas industry as a chemical engineer. He developed advanced smart catalysts, especially for the oil and gas industries. Dr. Omid has contributed to two PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd industrial catalyst projects and worked on an international Airbus R&D project in NANOCAT. Currently, he is the PI of the graphene catalyst project at Hokkaido University in Japan, a project member of the FRGS grant in UTP, and assigned to the NANOCAT center project. Dr. Omid was the Chairman, keynote speaker, and organizing committee of many international conferences. He is currently the supervisor of three Ph.D. students from different countries. He has published many ISI papers; book chapters and has two approved and granted patents. Also, he has hands-on experience and passed several pieces of training on handling different types of equipment that are being widely used for material synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation. He is in close collaboration with other departments, government agencies, and universities around the world. He is visiting researcher of Jiangsu University China and Hokkaido University Japan. He is a member of the society of petroleum engineers (SPE) and a Senior Member of the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. Omid was awarded a full fellowship from UTP during their Ph.D. and was involved as a lab demonstrator and teaching in the different courses of chemical engineering. He was awarded Silver Medal in 27th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX 2016), Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia, and Silver Medal of Post Graduate Research Project in the 35th Science & Engineering Design Exhibition (SEDEX 35).