Xiang Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1996, the M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, MN, USA, and the M.S./B.S. degree from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA, from 1996 to 1999, and as an Associate Professor and a full Professor at the University of California (UC) Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 1999 to 2004, prior joined Berkeley faculty in 2004. He has been the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at UC Berkeley and the Director of National Science Foundation Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center. He has been the Director of Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as a Member of Kavli Energy Nano Science Institute. He has been elected as a Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (National Academy of Republic of China), and Fellow of four scientific societies: The American Physical Society (APS), The Optical Society of America (OSA), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE).(Based on document published on 27 April 2016).

Ali Adibi is the director of Bio and Environmental Sensing Technologies (BEST) and a professor and Joseph M. Pettit chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research group has pioneered several structures in the field of integrated nanophotonics for both information processing and sensing. He is the author of more than 140 journal papers and 400 conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics, and the nanophotonic program track chair of the Photonics West meeting. He is the recipient of several awards including Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. He is also a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and AAAS.

Douglas H. Wernerreceived the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively. He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCainChair Professorship in the Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL: http://cearl.ee.psu.edu/) as well as a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI: https://www.mri.psu.edu/) at Penn State. Prof. Werner was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. In 1994, Prof. Werner received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award. He was aco-author (with one of his graduate students) of a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagationwhich received the 2006 R. W. P. King Award. He received the inaugural IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award and the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Awardin 2011 and 2014 respectively. In 2018, he received the DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He also received the 2015 ACES Technical Achievement Award,the 2019 ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award. He was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2000 and March 2002, respectively. He was also presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. In March 2009, he received the PSES Premier Research Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET, the OSA, the ACES, and the PIERS Electromagnetics Academy.He is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), SPIE, and URSI.Prof. Werner is a former Associate Editor of Radio Science, a former Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, aformerEditorial Board Memberof Scientific Reports(aNature subjournal),an Editorial Board Member for EPJ Applied Metamaterials,Editor for the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory & Applications, a member of URSI Commissions B and G, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He holds 20patents, has published over 900technical papers and proceedings articles, and is the author of 6 books and 35book chapters (withone book andseveral additional chapters currently in preparation). His research interests include computational electromagnetics(MoM, FEM, FEBI, FDTD, DGTD, CBFM, RCWA, GO, GTD/UTD, etc.),antenna theory and design,phased arrays (including ultra-wideband arrays), high power microwave devices, wirelessand personal communication systems (including on-body networks), wearable and e-textile antennas, RFID tag antennas, conformal antennas, reconfigurable antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, transformation optics, nanoscale electromagnetics (including nanoantennas), fractal and knot electrodynamics, and nature-inspired optimization techniques (genetic algorithms, clonal selection algorithms, particle swarm, wind driven optimization, and various other evolutionary programming schemes).

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ProfessorIbrahim Abdulhalim is with the Electro-optics and Photonics Engineering Unit, ECE Schoolat Ben Gurion University since 2005. He worked in academic institutions and companies such as OCSC in UC at Boulder, the ORC at Southampton University, the Thin Films Center of the University of Western Scotland, in KLA-Tencor, Nova and GWS Photonics. His current research activities involve plasmonic and photonic biosensors, liquid crystal devices for imaging, biomedical imaging, optical metrology and energy devices. Published over 300 articles, 2 books, 10 chapters and inventor on 20 patents. He is a fellow of IoP and SPIE and an associate editor for the Journal of NanoPhotonics and for the Journals of Sensors and Biosensors. He founded two companies: Photonicsys Ltd., and Photoliqsys Ltd., specialized in developing miniature plasmonic and photonic biosensors, and liquid crystal devices for photonic applications.

SUN Xiaowei, who currently is the Chair Professor of EEE(Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at Southern University of Science and Technology of China. He was the principal investigator for 18 scientific research programs supported by the Singapore government. He edited and co-edited 5 books and 3 books were published worldwide. His papers were published in world top journals like Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, etc. From the SCI database, his entire publications have been cited over 12000 times, other citations over 17000 times with an H index of 67. Prof. SUN Xiaowei had served as chair and co-chair for 35 international academic conferences, with over 50 times of invited reports and talks. Prof. SUN Xiaowei set up and is the chair of SID Singapore and Malaysia branch, chair of Energy Photonics, co-founder and vice-chairman of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science and Technology and he is the editorial member of International Journal of Nanotechnology and other international journals.

Jerome Plain has been promoted Full Professor at the Troyes University of Technology since 2011 and Distinguished Professor since 2019. Since 1998, he has been a contractual researcher in various European research centers: the Institute of Materials Science in Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Poitiers (1998-2001), the TU Wien (2000), the University of Tours (2001-2002), the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium, 2002-2004) and finally the University of Technology of Troyes. Jerome Plain is a recognized expert in nanostructuring (OMNT expert, nanoconstruction thematic, author of a book chapter entitled "Nanofabrication for Plasmonics") and in the applications of nanoparticles in the field of nanooptics (near-field photopolymerization, enhanced spectroscopy ,...). Jerome Plain is in charge for the regional Nano’Mat platform (www.nanomat.eu) dedicated to nanofabrication and nano-characterization of materials. He supervised more than 15 PhD students and authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in referred journals.

Dr. Hiroaki Minamide is currently a Team Leader of Teraphotonics team and a Group Director of Terahertz research group of RIKEN, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at Chiba University. He joined RIKEN in 1999, and after working as a researcher and deputy team leader, he has been working as the team leader since 2010 and as the group director since 2020. He received the B.S. degree in communication engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1993, 1996, and 1999, respectively. His research interests include high-power THz-wave generation and extremely sensitive THz-wave detection using nonlinear optics and their unique THz applications. He is a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ), The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and The Laser Society of Japan as a senior membership.

Guixin Li is currently a Professor in Nanophotonics, at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China. He was awarded the 2019 Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar of China. He has published 80 peer-review papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Materials and so on. He serves as the Panel Member of the Metamaterials Research Society of China.

Dr Shah Kwok Wei is presently Assistant Professor, and previously Deputy Program Director under the Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore NUS. Dr Shah was formerly Assistant Director of Building Energy Efficiency Hub under the Department of Building, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Deputy Head at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Dr Shah is Advisory Board member of Vietnam Green Building Council (VGBC) and sits on VGBC Education Committee.

Tsun-Hsu Chang received his Ph.D. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1999. In 2003, he joined the Department of Physics,National Tsing Hua University, as an Assistant Professor, where he became a Full Professor in 2011. His group can measure the complex permittivity andpermeability from DC to 1 THz using various techniques. His current research interests include the development of frequency-tunable terahertz gyrotron aswell as microwave/materials processing and characterizations.

Nordin Felidj's work and research projects concern, on the one hand, the study of the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles in interaction with different molecular systems (liquid crystals, photochromes, conductive polymers, etc.), and on the other hand, the link between these optical properties and enhanced surface spectroscopies (Raman, fluorescence).

Dr. Yijie Shen is currently a Senior Research Fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), specially a fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group in which. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in 2019. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He won the IOP and OSA Outstanding Reviewer Awards in 2020. He is a member in the Journal of Optics Advisory Panel. He is a guest editor in Frontiers in Photonics. He has published more than 50 papers in high-impact journals including Nat. Commun., Light: Sci. & Appl., Optica, Nanophotonics, Laser Photonics Rev., ACS Photonics, Phys. Rev. Res., Phys. Rev. Appl., etc., with over one thousand citations (Google Scholar).

Yumin Zhang received his Bachelor and Phd degrees from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and University of Science and Technology of China, respectively. After which he work as a post-doctoral fellow in HKU and research scientist in ZIRI-HKU. Dr. Zhang move to Foshan University in China as a principle investigatorin the year of 2021. His work focus on acoustics, acoustics metamaterials and acoustic time crystal. Recently, Dr. Zhang with his college realizes a new type acoustic Floquet time-crystal converting audible sound to infrasound and ultrasound.

Terence Kin Shun Wong received his BA and PhD degrees from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 1987 and 1992. His PhD thesis research was on nanofabrication of Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling devices using high voltage electron beam lithography. Since 1994, he has been a faculty member at the School of EEE of Nanyang Technological University Singapore and was program lead for Green Electronics from 2015-2020. His research interests are in earth abundant thin film photovoltaics and semiconductor devices for nanoelectronics. He is author of 86 research and review articles in international journals and is an editor of a forthcoming book on sulfide and selenide-based semiconductor materials for energy conversion and storage.

SHIN HUR received B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea, in 1987. In 1989, he received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea. He worked on translational control of one-link elastic arm with a tip mass during his Masters studies. After his M.S. degree, he received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea in 2005. He worked on evaluations and measurements of mechanical properties of nanoscale polymer film during his PhD studies. He joined Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea in 1991 as a researcher, and is currently working as a principal researcher. His research interests include acoustic metamaterials, acoustic sensors, MEMS devices, and inkjet printing device.

Dr. Mustafa Turkmen is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Erciyes University (Turkey). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Erciyes University, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He worked for Boston University as a visiting research assistant professor between 2009 and 2012. His current research interests include nanotechnology, fiber laser systems, metamaterials, plasmonics and their applications in chemical and biological sensing, and optical communication and microwave printed circuits, and patch antennas for wireless communication such as WLAN, and WBAN applications. He is a recipient of the Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Prof. Turkmen is also a member of KUSI Group as the Representative of TR72 Region and City of Kayseri, in the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. He is also the Founder of Fotonik Technology Co. Inc.

Dr. Mingchao Liu is currently Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics at Shandong University in 2013, and PhD in Engineering (Solid Mechanics) at Tsinghua University in 2018.He was an Endeavour Research Fellow at the School of Civil Engineering, the University of Sydney from 2017 to 2018, and a Newton International Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford from 2018 to 2021, sponsored by the Royal Society.His current research is mainly focused on the elastic instability and its application toshape-morphing structures and mechanical metamaterials.

Giuseppe Pirruccio obtained his bachelor and master degree at the University of Padua (Italy). Then he moved to the Netherlands where he joined AMOLF for the PhD. After a postdoc at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), he was hired as an associate researcher at the Physics Institute of UNAM where he leads the Nanophotonic Lab. His research is focused on light-matter interaction at the nanoscale both experimental and theoretical. In particular he studies 2D plasmonic lattices coupled to quantum emitters, optical cavities, near-field radiative heat transfer and the optical properties of 2D materials.

Humbert Bernard, doctor in physico-chemistry in 1991 and professor since 2001, develops his research thematic in the field of uses of electric optical near fields in processes of inelastic exchange of photon-matter energy. With J Grausem in 1997-99, he proposed optical near field Raman set-ups for the first time in Europe. On this basis, he has since developed, with the help of the plasmonic effect, the production of new materials and digital methods developed in-house, a set of "nano-Raman" approaches or devices. He is co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and supervised more than 19 theses in nano-sciences (h-index of 41 and i10-index of 85).

Vygantas Mizeikisis a professor at the Department of Engineering, and Research Institute of Electronics of Shizuoka University, Japan. He was born and educated in Lithuania, where he has received his PhD degree in physics from Vilnius University in 1997, and subsequently moved to Japan in 2000. His scientific research is focused on 3D micro- and nano-fabrication of materials using femtosecond laser pulses, and applications of laser-patterned structures in micro-optics, micro-mechanics, and related areas.

Dr. Alex Y. Song is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. Before joining USYD, he conducted postdoctoral research in the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He completed his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, and M.S in Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research interests include nanophotonics, topological materials, quantum photonics, non-Hermitian physics, and thermal photonics. His research finds applications in integrated photonic devices, sustainable energy, and information processing.

Marco Rahm received his doctorate in natural sciences in 2006 from the TU Kaiserslautern (Germany). In the same year, he joined the research group of Prof. Dr. David R. Smith at Duke University (USA) as a research associate. In 2008, he was appointed as a junior professor in physics at the TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and at the same time became the head of a Fraunhofer Attract group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in Freiburg (Germany). Since 2012, he is a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a member of the State Research Center OPTIMAS. Currently, he serves as the head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Dr. Shubhi Bansal is an expert in MEMS and Microfluidics, and is a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London, UK. She received her Ph.D. degree along with M.Sc. (Engineering) Degree in Nano Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, India in 2019. She received her B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering) in 2013. Her research skills include MEMS, metamaterials, microfluidics, and human-computer interaction.

Sawyer D. Campbell was born in Normal, IL. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, in 2008, the M.S. and PhD degrees in optical sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He began his fascination in optical physics working under Profs. Rainer Grobe and Q. Charles Su in the Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit (ILP) at Illinois State University as an undergraduate researcher performing experimental studies of laser light scattering in turbid media. He then studied under Prof. Richard W. Ziolkowski at the University of Arizona performing computational studies of plasmonic and metamaterial structures in the visible, infrared, and microwave regimes culminating in the defense of his dissertation entitled "Studies of active and passive plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles and their applications." He is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State Univeristy. Dr. Campbell has extensive experience in the computational modeling and inverse design of metamaterial- and transformation optics-based devices at RF, infrared, and optical frequencies. Additionally, he is an expert in the application of multi-objective and surrogate-assisted optimization techniques to challenging problems in both the RF and optical regimes. He has published over 50 technical papers and proceedings articles and is the author/coauthor of 2 book chapters. He is a member of the IEEE, the APS, the OSA, and SPIE and is the past Chair and Current vice-Chair/Treasurer of the IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section.

Ms. Rashmeet Kaur Khurana is pursuing Ph.D in Chemistry at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She is a budding researcher with interests focusing on synthesis of nanomaterials using chemical vapor deposition, spin-coating and hydrothermal and chemical synthesis techniques and studying the chemical, optical and electrical properties of materials using advanced characterization techniques. She did her master's in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad, India and bachelor's from University of Delhi, India.

Yuto Moritake received the M. S. and Dr. Eng. Degrees from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Innovative Photon Manipulation Team (conducted by Prof. Takuo Tanaka) in RIKEN, Japan. Since 2017, he is an assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is currently engaged in the research and development of nanophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanofabrication.

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Dr. Hong-Wei Wu is an associate professor at Anhui University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on spoof plasmonic structures; optical metamaterials; and photonic time crystals. He receivedthe Ph. D. degree in optical physics in physical school of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

Muhammed A. Unutmaz, Research Assistant at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He has received his BSEE degree from Hacettepe University (HU) in 2013, and MSEE and PhD degrees from Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU) in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Prior to his PhD, he worked in different research labs in HU and Middle East Technical University. During this time, he familiarized with video/image processing, radar and telecommunication signal processing, and RF systems. He also contributed to the development of a terahertz measurement setup in AYBU. He also founded and chaired the student society of Ham-Radio of HU. He is also selected for Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher Scholarship in 2020. In his PhD, he has given three invited talks in international conferences, and he is the co-author of six journal papers.

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Jeremie Grisolia is a university professor at INSA Toulouse. After graduating in physics of matter at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France) in 1997, he did his thesis at CEMES CNRS in Toulouse (2000), on the thermal evolution of defects introduced by ion implantation helium or hydrogen in silicon and silicon carbide. Then, he joined the Opsitech company from a spin-off from LETI CEA in Grenoble (2000-2002), where he became involved in the characterization of materials and metrology dedicated to the production from the silicon wafer up to the packaging of optical products such as MEMS, MOEMS, AWG mux demuxes, rows of VOA, dividers. He is currently working on the addressing of nano-objects (development of metallic and or magnetic nano-electrodes, functionalization of sites for localization ...). From 2004 to today, he has developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study, and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature. he developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature. he developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study, and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature.

Dr Shumei Chen is currently a Professor at the School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. She worked as the Marie Curie research fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom from 2017 to 2019, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University from 2014 to 2017. She obtained her Ph. D degree at the Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014. Her research interest is focused on the nonlinear light-matter interactions in optical metamaterials and metasurfaces. She has published over 30 peer reviewed papers with total citations over 2000.

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Prof. Dr. Wenxin Wang earned his academic degree of Dr. rer. nat. (cum laude) at the Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany) in 2018 and became the group leader of Photonic Materials Group (PMG) in the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering as well as the Innovation and Development Base (Qingdao) at the Harbin Engineering University (HEU) in the same year. His main research interests include fabrication of planar and microtubular photonic crystals using artificial alumina membranes, developing plasmonic lattice resonances, and studying band structure of photonic crystals as well as structural color modulated by nanoscale lattice arrangement. So far, he has authored for more than 30 papers, many of which are published in high-impact scientific journals, and received some research prizes and prestigious fundings (5.21 million RMB in total), such as the third prize of the “Rising Stars of Light” in the Light conference of LSA in 2018, HEU group-starting grant in 2018, NSFC grant in 2019, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in 2019 and 2020. Meanwhile, he has given quite a few invited talks, such as Postdeadline talk at DPG conference, and organized scientific conference (e.g., the CPFN in 2014) as well as several social events in Germany. Furthermore, he has been invited by the Chinese Embassy in Germany as a scholar representative to welcome President Xi and Premier Li in their visit to Germany in 2014. Currently, he serves as the deputy president of Heilongjiang Western Returned Scholars Association (Oversea-educated Scholars Association of Heilongjiang), the mentor of HEU "CHEN GENG" Talent Class, and the advisor of OSA-HEU student chapter as well as SPIE-HEU student chapter.

Tobias Stauber is a Tenured Scientist at the Material Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain. His research focus is on electronic phases and nano-photonics in two-dimensional materials. He is the co-author of 100 ISI-classified articles with more than 10,000 citations and h-factor > 35. He further acts as co-editor for New Journal of Physics and European Physical Journal B.

Dr. Saraswati Behera is a PhD in Physics from IIT Delhi India in the field of Optics and Photonics (Laser based micro/nano fabrications) under the supervision of Prof. J. Joseph and possesses MPhil, MSc, BSc in Physics. She has completed two Postdocs from EEE department, University of Sheffield in the field of Semiconductor nanophotonics and from the Optics and Metamaterials Research group headed by Prof. K Kim at the Yonsei University in the field of graphene oxide based plasmonic devices for optical applications in sensing, solar steam generation and desalination. She has more than 7.5 years of research experience in the field of optics, nanofabrications, lasers, and optical devices and 5.7 years of Pre- PhD teaching experience as Physics Lecturer and Assistant Professor at UG level. Her research interests are in the field of Optics, Photonics, Plasmonics, Metamaterials, Nanofabrications, Micro/ Nanoscale light mater interactions, Advanced optical materials, Optical and Quantum optoelectronic devices. She is currently associated with Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg in the research field of graphene based detectors, frequency mixers, quantum devices and graphene optoelectronics.

Dr. Guangyuan Li received his Ph.D degree from Peking University in 2009. After that, he worked as a postdoc with Peking University, Nanyang Technological University and Sydney University, respectively. Since 2018, he joined Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an Associate Professor. His current interests include ultra-high-Q resonances in metasurfaces and dynamically tunable metasurfaces. He is a Senior Member of Optica (formerly OSA).

Michelle Hedvard is a master student from Aarhus University. She is writing her master thesis in collaborate with the Laboratory for Mechanics and Physics of Solids (LAMPS) and will finish the thesis in January 2022. She has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Aarhus university.

Teik-Cheng Lim won a Faculty of Engineering Annual Book Prize for his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was subsequently awarded the NUS Research Scholarship to pursue his PhD at the same university. Upon earning his doctorate, Dr. Lim worked at NUS for a few years before joining SIM University (UniSIM). He is currently Associate Professor and Head of PhD (Engineering) programme at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Dr. Lim is the author of Auxetic Materials and Structures (2015) and Mechanics of Metamaterials with Negative Parameters (2020), both published by Springer Nature.

Dr.Jayeta Banerjee is currently a National Post- Doctoralfellow in the group of Dr.Manik Pradhanat S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata,India.She received her B. Tech and M. Tech degree in Optics and Optoelectronics from the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta in 2012 and 2014, respectively.She obtained her Ph.D. from the group of Dr. Mina Ray in 2021 from the University of Calcutta, India, having been awarded a prestigiousWomen Scientist-A fellowship by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.Her current research interests are in the field of Nanoplasmonics, Surface plasmon resonance, 2D nanomaterials, Spectroscopy, Trace gas detection and Isotope ratios measurements. She has authored 14 peer reviewed international journal publications and 16 conference papers / proceedings. She received best oral paper award by the Optical Society of America (OSA) in International Conference on Advances in Optics and Photonics, India in 2017 and many other best paper awards during her Ph.D. She delivered an invited lecture in Women in Photonics Programme organized by the IEEE Photonics SocietyCalcutta Chapter, India, 2018.She was awarded with Teaching Assistantship under TEQIP Phase II during 2013-2014. She got fellowship for Defence related project during B.Tech (approved by Advanced Technology Cell-a joint program between DRDL and Jadavpur University).She was an active member of SPIE & OSA Student Chapters.She also worked as the President of OSA and Vice President of SPIE Student Chapter, University of Calcutta, India.

Dr. K. Prahlada Rao is a full time Ph. D research scholar at Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Applied Electronics, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India. He has done his Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India and obtained his Masters of Engineering in Microwave and Radar Engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. K. Prahlada Rao has been awarded Ph. D degree in May 2021 for his work on "Some Studies on Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna Arrays". His areas of research interests include Microstrip Patch Antennas and Arrays, Frequency Selective Structures, Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures, Defective Ground Structures, Effect of Nanomaterials on Microstrip Antennas and Arrays, Microwave and Radar Antennas, Radar Communication, Microwave and RF Engineering, Electromagnetic Theory and Transmission Lines, Antenna Engineering, Radar Signal Processing etc. He has published several papers in national and international conferences and journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science etc. He has also a reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Access (Scopus Indexed), International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications (Scopus Indexed), Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research (Web of Science Indexed), Frequenz (Scopus Indexed), Journal of Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Materials Today Proceedings, Journal of Mineral, Metal and Material Engineering, Annals of Science and Engineering Research, International Research Journal of Science and Technology. He has also delivered two talks.

Dr. Pankaj Arora is working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (India) since 2018. Prior to that, he was a Post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel). His research interest includes plasmonic nanostructure based optical sensors, imaging microscopy and silicon photonics

Dr. Anna Castaldo completedher PhDon synthesis and characterization of macromolecular materials with Nonlinear Optical(NLO) propertiesin 2002at the University "Federico II", in a collaborative partnership with Pirelli Cables and Systems Telecom SpA (Milan, Italy). She then worked for Pirelli another two years as permanent PhD researcher on the development of plastic optical fibers (POF), producing US and EP patents. In 2004 she joined with a post-doc fellowship theItalian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA, where she workedon nanostructured polymeric and hybrid thin film materials for electronic devices. From 2009 she works at ENEA as permanent staff researcher, in the Energy Technologies Department. Her research activity is based on the fabrication and characterizationof spectrally selective coatings used in different fields (e.g. absorbers in the solar thermodynamic heat collecting element; low-emissive materials in smart glazing; photoactive layers in PV junctions; optical passband filters,self-cleaning solar mirrors coatings, passive radiative cool roof materials). She is referee of scientific journals, author of more than 30 40 papers on international journals, Professor of Chemical Science and Technologies at highSchool, Teacher of "Solar Thermodynamic course" in Doctorate Industrial EngineeringSchooland enrolled in Italian Chemists and Physicians Order, Campania’s register n.1321.

Dr. Padmnabh Rai is a Reader (F) in School of Physical Sciences at UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mmbai-400098 since March 2018. He received his M. Tech. and Ph. D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from IIT Delhi in 2004 and IIT Bombay in 2009, respectively. Dr. Rai is experienced in synthesizing carbon based materials (single crystal diamond, carbon nanotube and graphene). Carbon-based materials are being explored for photonics and plasmonics applications. Dr. Rai is also involved in teaching physics courses at graduate and undergraduate level. He has consulted industries to develop laboratory for growing single crystal diamond for gem and scientific applications.

Dr. Hari Shankar Singh was born in Sonbhadra, (U. P.), India, in 1990. He received his B.Tech. degree from the IEC College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida (U.P.), India, in 2011 and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, in 2015. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. His Ph.D. thesis has been awarded "Best Ph.D. Thesis" in 3rd IEEE UPCON 2016 conference, held in IIT (BHU), Varanasi during 09-11 December 2016. He has published 35 research papers in referred International Journals and more than 42 research papers published/presented in national and international conferences/ symposium/ workshops. His research interests include Microstrip antenna, MIMO antenna systems, Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas, Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) structure, RFID Antennas, Mobile antenna, and Multiple antennas- user interactions. He has published more than 45 papers in various peer review international journals and conferences. He is serving as referee of various referred journal.

Dr. Lokendra Singh has earned his doctorate degree in 2019 from DIT University, Dehradun, India, in 2019. He also worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Shandong, China. He is currently working as an Assistant professor at the College of Engineering Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He has strong background and experience in numerical modeling of all-optical devices using plasmonic metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides and the development of optical fiber biosensors for the diagnosis of biomolecules. He has published more than 30 research papers in reputed journals and international conferences.