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Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 107; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.

After earning his degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 2005, Brischetto received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Politecnico di Torino) and in Mechanics (Université Paris Ouest–Nanterre La Défense) in 2009. He won the excellence prize for PhD students in 2008 and the prize for young researchers in 2011 at the Politecnico di Torino. He worked as a Research Assistant at the Politecnico di Torino from 2006 to 2010, and as Assistant Professor from 2010 to 2018; currently he is Associate Professor since february 2018. His main research topics are:additive manufacturing, FFF 3D printing,smart composite structures, multifield problems, hygro-thermal stress analysis, CNTs, inflatable structures, shell 3D and 2D numerical and exact solutions and UAVs. He is the author of 158 articles, 81 of which have been published in international journals, and 1 patent. He serves as a reviewer for more than 100 international journals. He has been Guest Editor for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, for Technologies, and for Journal of Composites Science. He is a committee member for several international journals and 1 book series, and member of the "Shell Buckling People" web-site. Brischetto is Associate Editor of Curved and Layered Structures, and of Journal of Composites Science. He has been Teaching Assistant at the Politecnico di Torino for courses on computational aeroelasticity, structures for aerospace vehicles, nonlinear analysis of aerospace structures, principles of structural mechanics, aeronautic constructions, aeronautic structures, and numerical modelling and simulation techniques for aerospace structures. He was chair at the Polytechnic di Torino for the courses “Aeronautic law and human factors and safety”, "Design and Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications "and currently for "Aeronautic constructions", “Numerical modelling and simulation techniques for aerospace structures” and "3D shell models for composite structures". He is co-founder and co-chair of the group “ASTRA: Additive manufacturing for Systems and structures in Aerospace”, and also founder and chair of the project “PoliDrone, A multipurpose modular drone produced via 3D printing".

Dr Wei Min Huang is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With over 25 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 200 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 290 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

Karen A. Thole holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of both ASME and AIAA. At Penn State, Dr. Thole is the Director of the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Lab, which has been recognized by two gas turbine companies as a center of excellence in turbine heat transfer and aerodynamics. She has published over 300 archival papers and advised 80 dissertations and theses with many of those students now working in the gas turbine industry.Dr. Thole chaired two recent National Academy of Engineering studies including one on low carbon aviation and the other on advancing gas turbines. For Dr. Thole’s technical contributions, she has been recognized byASME’s George Westinghouse Medaland AIAA’s Air Breathing Propulsion Award.As an educator, Dr. Thole has been recognized by the United States White House as a Champion of Change for STEM. She was recognized by the Society of Women Engineers’ Distinguished Engineering Educator Award,by ASME’s Edwin F. Church Medal and by ABET’s Felbinger Award for diversifying engineering. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

Abdel-Fattah Seyam, Charles A. Cannon Professor of Textiles and the Department Head of the Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management, Wilson College of Textiles, NC State University, USA. He obtained a BS and MS in Textile Engineering from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. He also obtained a PhD degree in Fiber and Polymer Science from North Carolina State University, USA. After his graduation from NCSU, Dr. Seyam worked for two US companies for over five years. After gaining industry experience in US for over five years, he joined the College of Textiles, NC State University as Assistant Professor. Since joining NC State University Wilson College of Textiles in 1991, Dr. Seyam established numerous research areas:Structural Mechanics of Woven Fabrics, Carding Dynamics, Needlepunching Process and Products, Direct Garment Manufacturing using Meltblowing and Robotic Technologies, Smart Electrotextile Structures, Computer Simulation and Formation of Nonwovens using Electrostatic Field (electrospinning and flocking), Formation of Nanofibers, Applications of MEMS in Textiles, Static Generation/Dissipation on Polymeric and Textiles’ Surfaces, Modeling of the Hydroentanglement Process, Fiber Reinforced Composites from High Performance Fibers and Sustainable Biodegradable Natural Fibers and Resins, Protection of High Performance Fibers from UV, Jacquard Fabrics on Demand, Seamless Shaped Garments and Medical Textiles, Laminates for Airships,Non-stop Tying-in Process, and Formation and Structure of 3D Printed Fiber Reinforced Composites. The successes of establishing this significant list of research areas is related to the effective leadership and academic coupled with industry experience of Dr. Seyam, recruiting excellent students, involving faculty and industry experts from several disciplines and securing substantial research funds. Dr. Seyam has published numerous peer reviewed journal and conference papers and presented extensively at international conferences, including keynote and invited talks. He authored two user-friendly computer software packages with extensive codes for manufacturing and engineering woven structures for the two of his former industry employers. He is co-inventor of six patents in the areas of cold weather systems, electrotextile structures, airship, and non-stop tying-in process.

Professor Xiaochun Li is the Raytheon Endowed Chair in Manufacturing Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the founder of MetaLi LLC (www.metaliusa.com). and He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Western Regional Smart Manufacturing Center, USA Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2001. He is a holder of multiple best paper awards and patents, including more than 10 of those licensed by industry. Dr. Li received National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2003, and 2008 Howard F. Taylor Award from American Foundry Society (AFS). Dr. Li was previously a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) from 2001 to 2013. He served as the Director of Nano-Engineered Materials Processing Center (NEMPC) at UW-Madison between 2009 and 2013. Dr. Li has been elected Fellows in American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Society for Nanomanufacturing. His research interests are in manufacturing and practical applications of nanotechnology enabled metals, especially nanoparticle dispersion, nanoparticle-metal interaction, and control of microstructures etc.

Dr.Kun Zhou is an associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his B.Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2001, respectively, China and his Ph.D. from NTU in 2006. His research interests include additive manufacturing, mechanics of materials, and modelling and design for sustainable materials. He is Programme Director of Marine and Offshore in Singapore Centre for 3D Printing.He has published over 360 papers in refereed journals and over 20 book chapters. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Smart Manufacturing, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, and an associate editor or editorial board member of eight international journals including Virtual and Physical Prototyping and International Journal of Fatigue.

Gang-yu Liu, is currently a professor of chemistry at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1992, and completed her postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley in 1994 under a Miller Research Fellowship. Her overall research objectives focus on the development of advanced nanotechnology and exploration of its applications in materials science. One important aspect of the research is 3D-Nanoprinting, the design and engineering 3D nanostructures with designed chemical functionality and patterns. The exquisite precision attainable by the nanolithographic methods they have developed allows complex multivalent interactions such as surface reactions and bio-recognition to be controlled by varying the separation and local environment of the binding sites.The presentation will update audience with forefront academic research in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and to explore the new applications.

Prof. Cohn’s research activities focus on the synthesis, characterization and biological interactions of implantable polymeric biomaterials and the engineering of medical devices, with special emphasis on the following areas: Biomedical polymers Biodegradable polymers 3D printed biomedical systems In situ generated implants Smart medical devices He has published numerous scientific papers, holds many patents (more than ten have been commercialized), edited several books and organized many international scientific conferences. He has served as the Director of the Casali Center of Applied Chemistry and as the Head of the School of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Has been a key player in various start-up companies and has collaborative projects with leading Companies in the Medical Devices field, mainly in the US and Europe, based on technologies developed in his lab. Two products based on biodegradable polymers developed in his laboratory have been approved for clinical use by the FDA and other leading regulatory agencies. A third product based on a polymer developed in his laboratory has received the CE mark. Several additional polymeric medical devices developed in Prof. Cohn’s laboratory are at various stages of their industrial development and regulatory process.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics” for environmental improvements of “Geotechnology”, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration

Dr. Yucheng Liu (PhD, PE, FASME, FSAE) currently serves as the Department Head of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at South Dakota State University (SDSU) and holds the Duane Sander Professor of Entrepreneurial Engineering in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at SDSU. Prior to joining SDSU in the fall of 2021, Dr. Liu was an Associate/Full Professor in the ME Department at Mississippi State University (MSU) since the fall of 2014. In that department,he served as Graduate Coordinator from 2016 to 2021 and held the Jack Hatcher Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship in the Bagley College of Engineering from 2018 to 2021. Before joining MSU, Dr. Liu was an Assistant Professor of the ME Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). Dr. Liu received his PhD degree from the University of Louisville in 2005 and bachelor’s degree from the Hefei University of Technology in 1997, both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Liu’s research has historically focused on the areas of multiscale material modeling and simulation, high strain rate performance of materials, vehicle systems design and analysis, and hydropower and wave energy technology. His current research interests and activities center on gaining a better understanding of the process-structure-property-performance relations of structural materials through advanced multiscale theoretical framework and integrated computational and experimental methods. To date, Dr. Liu has publishedabout 240 peer reviewed publications, including more than 130 peer reviewed journal articles, and received 2 patents. He has been the PI and co-PI forover 40 research projects funded by NSF, DOD, DOE, NASA, FAA, Louisiana Board of Regents, and industry with atotal amount over $15.5M. Dr. Liu has served on review panels for many NSF, DOD, NASA, and DOE programs. Dr. Liu received the Junior Faculty Researcher of the Year of the College of Engineering at UL Lafayette in 2013, the Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award from the ME Department in 2016, MSU and BCOE Faculty Research Award in 2018, and the BCOE Service Award in 2021. Dr. Liu was named to the Jack Hatcher Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship in 2018 and promoted to Full Professor in 2019. In his professional societies, Dr. Liu was elected a Fellow of ASME in 2017, a Fellow of SAE in 2019, and received the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award in 2020. Dr. Liu is a Professional Engineer registered in Ohio State and also holds active membership in ASEE and AAAS.

Xavier Allonas PhD in 1995 on photoinduced electron transfer mechanism at the Department of Photochemistry in Mulhouse (France). Short post-doctoral training at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Fribourg in Switzerland on picosecond transient grating spectroscopy. In 1996, Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Institute of Mulhouse (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse). Full Professor at the University of Haute Alsace in Mulhouse in 2003. Since 2006, head of the Laboratory of Macromolecular Photochemistry and Engineering. Current research interests are the processes involved in photopolymerization studied through time resolved laser spectroscopies, real-time FTIR and molecular modelling. A particular interest is paid to the study of photoinitiating systems reactivity and photopolymerization kinetics for different applications such as laser imaging, paints and coatings, photocomposites, 3D printing... He is authors of more than 200 papers, 100 invited conferences and 10 patents.

Arief Suriadi Budiman received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, his M.EngScin Materials Engineering from Monash Univ., Australia and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, CA in 2008. During his doctoral candidacy at Stanford’s Department of Materials Science & Engineeringunder the supervision of Professor William D. Nix (MRS Von Hippel Award 2007), Dr. Budiman received several research awards (MRS Graduate Silver Award 2006, MRS Best Paper 2006) and contributed to several high-impact journal publications (Acta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Electronic Materials). Subsequently, Dr. Budiman has been awarded the prestigious Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Director's Research Fellowship in 2009 to conduct top strategic research for the energy and national security missions of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's. Dr. Budiman has a truly international career being academics in Singapore (2013-2019), Indonesia (2020-2021) and the United States (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014/5, and currently at Oregon Tech – Oregon Institute of Technology/OIT), as well as collaborating with researchers in Europe (ANR), China (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Japan (Tokyo University). He has published a book “Probing Crystal Plasticity at the Nanoscales – Synchrotron X-ray Microdiffraction” (Springer 2015). He has two U. S. Patents and one pending.

Dr. Liqiang Wang is a full professor in the state key laboratory of metal matrix composites at shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include deformation mechanism of materials, additive manufacturing, and modelling and design for biomedical materials. In the past five years, he has published more than 80 SCI papers (60 first and corresponding authors) in prestigious journals such as ActaMaterialia, Additive manufacturing, Compart B, etc.Currently, he serves in several journals: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions(Key Reader),Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Associate Editor),Frontiers in Materials (Associate Editor),Virtual and Physical Prototyping (Editorial Board Member),Current Nanoscience (Editorial Board Member),Coatings (Editorial Board Member).

Professor Dr. Xizhang Chen work at Wenzhou University, China, leads the Materials Joining& Processing, 3D print Team, conducting both fundamental and applied R&D and technology innovations for diverse interdisciplinary subjects related to materials joining/additive manufacturing and allied materials manufacturing processes. He also worked as HERE Faculty at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2011-2014, USA. With over 15 years R&D experience, Professor Dr. Chen has proven record in developing and leading major R&D programs to advance materials joining and additive manufacturing science and technologies. Over the past decade, Dr. Chen has been involved extensively in body structure light weighting programs, Intelligent Robot welding Program and Production Line, ITER program and some international cooperation Program, serving as PI on a number of materials joining/additive manufacturing technology development projects with cumulative funding. Dr. Chen has broad interactions with industry, and demonstrated experience in solving critical industry problems. Dr. Chen has about 150 publications and 20 patents.

Amir Ameli is an Assistant Professor of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell. His research interests encompass material design and advanced manufacturing of functional polymeric systems. His recent focus has been on the additive manufacturing of polymer nanocomposites and foams. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2011. He was the NSERC and MITACS postdoctoral fellow in Canada 2011-2014. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, he served as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University from 2015-2019. He has published 60+ journal articles and 110+ conference papers.

Roberto Torre received his Ph.D. degree in 2021 at Politecnico di Torino in Aerospace Engineering. During his doctoral career, Dr. Torre focused on Additive Manufacturing, with FFF/FDM as a specific target. His first concern has been to understand the structural behaviour of polymeric FFF/FDM printed elements to encourage their use in the production of functional components. His research activity won the quality prize for Ph.D. students in 2021. His research activities were mainly focused on additive manufacturing, polymers, hygro-thermal stress analysis, numerical and analytical solutions for shells, and UAVs. Currently, he holds a PostDoc position at the European Space Agency – European Astronaut Centre, where he is working on Advanced Manufacturing and In-Situ Resource Utilization. He authored 15 papers published in international journals and serves as a reviewer for many international journals. In addition, he is Guest Editor for a special issue of the Journal of Composites Sciences.

Prof. William Scheideler graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2013 with B.S.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Biomedical Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where his doctoral thesis explored scalable nanomanufacturing of metal oxide electronics. He then completed his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where he studied scalable fabrication and thermomechanical reliability of perovskite solar cells. William joined the faculty of Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2019,launching the SENSE (Scalable Energy and Nanomaterial Electronics) Laboratory. His current research interests include 3-D nanomanufacturing and 2D materials for energy and sensing.

Angélique Simon-Masseron is full Professor of Chemistry at the University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse (France) since 2010. Angélique’s research interests focus on microporous materials. After her PhD studies on zeolite acidity in 1998, her research focused on the synthesis of zeolitic materials (metallophosphates, zeolites) and metal–organic frameworks. She is currently working on zeolite/polymer composite development for 3D printing as well as the recovery of co-products/wastes for the synthesis of zeolitic materials. She was President of the French Zeolite Association (GFZ) from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Arnaud Spangenberg studied Molecular Physical Chemistry at the Paris-Sud University (Orsay, France) and received his PhD (2009) from the ENS Cachan dealing with the design and the characterization of photoswitchable nanosystems. At the University of Amsterdam, he spent two years as post-doctoral fellow in A.M. Brouwer’s group (HIMS, UvA) and developed a wide variety of experimental techniques related to single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy (including FLIM, FCS, FLCS, ...). In 2011, he was the recipient of the “ANR retour PostDoctorant” career development grant of the French National Research Agency focused on new insight in two-photon photopolymerization. Since 2013, he has now a permanent position as CNRS researcher in IS2M (Material Science Institute of Mulhouse) where he is developing multi-scale additive manufacturing and associated functional materials.

Dr. Chenglong Zhao is an associate professorwith a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics at the University of Dayton.He received his Ph.D. from Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2011. Then, he worked at theNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Pennsylvania State University. He leads the Nano-photonic & Nano-manipulation (NPNM) Lab,which is dedicated to developing cutting-edgenanotechnologies for additive nano-manufacturing, super-resolution nano-imaging and ultra-sensitive bio sensing.Prof. Zhao has authored and co-authored over 30 journal papers including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Light: Science & Applications, Nanoscaleetc. His research findings have been widely reported by Science Daily, Physics News, National Science Foundation, Science Codex, Science News, Nano Werk, etc.His NPNM lab has been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

Muhammad Imran Asghar works in the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto University, Finland as Academy of Finland Research Fellow.He was granted the title of Docent (professor) by the School of Science, Aalto University in 2017. In addition, he is a professor in the Faculty of Physics and Electronics Science at Hubei University in China. He has been awarded with prestigious fellowship by Academy of Finland (2019-2024) and another talent 100 distinguished professor position by Hubei province China (2019-2024). He has been also working in the Finnish industry as well. He worked in Marioff Oy (UTC Climate, Control and security) for a year (2018-2019) and in a photovoltaic panel manufacturing company Solarwheeler Oy for a year (2013). He completed his Doctor of Science degree from Aalto University in June 2012, Master’s degree in Micro and Nanotechnology in October 2008 from Helsinki University of Technology and Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering in May 2005 from National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. He has expertise in ceramic nanocomposite fuel cells, dye-sensitized solar cells,perovskite solar cells, crystalline-silicon solar cells, batteries and other energy technologies. Furthermore, he is an expert on modern printing technologies i.e. 3D printing, ink-jet printing, screen-printing and tape-casting. He has given over 40 invited talks and keynote speeches in renowned international forumsand acted as session chairs in many conferences. He is a member of various scientific societies such as American Ceramic Society, The Electrochemical Society, Finnish physical Society, and others. He is an associate editor of prestigious journals including WIREs Energy and Environment, Wiley interdisciplinary reviews and Nanoenergy Advances. He has published over 80 international publications in reputed journals and international conference proceedings. He has supervised numerous Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral theses. He has been givenseveral awards including “Outstanding contribution award” at the 6th Yangzi Rover Delta International Conference on New Energy for his research work on emerging energy technologies.

Amnah Y. Alqenaee obtained her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at California State University, Fullerton (2018) and her M.S. in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University (2021). She is currently a design engineer at the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). Her research focus has been on establishing an environmentally friendly concrete material suitable for 3D Printing (3DP) and on establishing a 3D printable cob (clay based) mixture. She has participated in several conferences and published a couple of journal papers in this research field.

Distinguished Professor of "Hongshen Young Scholars" at Chongqing University, PhD supervisor, assistant chairman of Chongqing Key Laboratory of Metal Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), director of High-performance intelligent Additive Manufacturing (HπAM) Lab. Dr. Li obtained his Bachelor degree at Jilin University, and obtained Ph.D. degree at Tsinghua University. Then he worked as a postdoctoral scientist at University of Texas at El Paso in USA. In 2019, he served as a senior researcher in the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in laser additive manufacturing and materials genome engineering. He has participated in many projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, the International Cooperation Projects with US and Singapore. His scientific research achievements won the Researcher Award of the University of Texas and the Houston Space Agency Technology Application Award.

Dr. Tran Van Mien is an Associate Professor in Civil engineering,received the B.E. (2002) and M.E. (2004) in Civil Engineering from HoChiMinh City University of Technology (HCMUT) - Vietnam, D.E. (2008) degree in Civil Engineering from Chulalongkorn University - Thailand. He is a Lecturer of Faculty of Civil Engineering, HoChiMinh City University of Technology (HCMUT), a member of ACI, ACF and VCA. His research interests include concrete technology, durability of concrete in aggressive media and 3D concrete printing.

Aji Mathew is a Professor in Materials Chemistry with focus on Biobased functional materials since February 2017, at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University. She holds a PhD in Polymer chemistry (2001) and her current research have a strong focus on designing materials in nanoscale for a sustainable society. The research activities include nanocellulose and nanochitin isolation/ characterization, developing and characterising biobased membranes/ filters for water purification, textile recycling, 3D printing of biobased hybrids and composites for medical applications; understanding surface chemistry and interactions of biobased materials, mechanical properties, viscoelastic properties; liquid phase atomic force microscopy and in situ SAXS. She currently also serves as director of the Stockholm University Centre for Circular and Sustainable Systems (SUCCESS) and contributes to the sustainable materials research at SU.

Ali Sadeghainmaryan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Memphis (TN, United States) and is working on developing bioactive scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. He completed his bachelor's degree, master's, and Ph.D. in Chemistry and Fiber science at IAU University with research internships at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in the field of 3D-Bioprinting of Chitosan to fabricate Cartilage Tissue Engineering. He has explored different skills during his professional career. such as Tissue Engineering, Scaffolding, Wound Dressing Fabrications, Polymers, and Fibers, Electrospinning, 3D-bioprinting, and Drug Delivery

Zhi Wang his a Full Professor at National Engineering Research Center of Near-net-shape Forming for Metallic Materials, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology. Research Areas: Additive Manufacturing, Meta-Stable Materials, Al and its alloys, Metal Matrix Composites, etc.

Prajwal Agrawal is currently a Research Associate at ETH Zurich, Switzerland working with Dr. Daniel Ahmed on Acoustics robots and their manipulation in humans and also developing new fabrication technologies for acoustics robotics, (bio)fabrication, and precision medicine. Previously he worked as a research assistant at Dr. Shrike Zhang’s group at Harvard Medical School and Brigham's and women's hospital, USA working towards fabricating and developing new techniques for tissue engineering. He received his graduation in Mechanical (Major) and Civil (Minor). He completed his bachelor thesis at Harvard University, USA, and his bachelor's studies at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Vellore, India. Since May 2017, he has worked at the Manufacturing Department, VIT campus. Here, he researched the fabrication & analysis of different metals, natural fibers, composites, and other elements. He has been awarded G.D. Naidu Young Scientist Award, Achievers award, and C.V. Raman Award by VIT for his outstanding academic and co-curricular performance. Outside of academics, he has collaborated with BOSCH, Mahindra Rise, Natural's Sugar LTD, and other such companies. He has published 10+ papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals including Small Structures, Applied Physics Reviews, Materials Today, Nature Communications, Advanced NanoBiomed Research, and others. He has also written 2 book chapters one for Wiley and the other for Elsevier publishing house (both are in press). His current interest lies in exploring new ways for advancements of Additive Manufacturing techniques to be used for the betterment of society.

Manuel F. M. Costa hold a PhD degree in Science (Physics) from the University of Minho (Portugal) where he works since 1985 at its Physics Department teaching and performing applied research in optical metrology, image processing,thin films nanostructures and applications, instrumentation, and, science education and literacy. President of the Ibero-American Optics Network, RIAO, for the term 2019-2022. President of the Hands-on Science Network, HSCI. Deputy Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Optical Society.Executive Committee member and Europe Regional Representative of the International Council of Associations for Science Education, ICASE.President of the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics, SPOF. Fellow of European Optical Society.

Valentina Bertana received her BSc and MSc Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In February 2020 she received her PhD degree at Politecnico di Torino in Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering. She is a PostDoc (Academic Discipline FIS/03 – Physics of Matter) at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) of Politecnico di Torino. Her research activities are mainly focused on additive manufacturing, smart materials, printable electronics and microfluidics.

Dr. Bhisham Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University (WSU). Prior to joining WSU, he obtained a PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University and performed postdoctoral work in the fields of composites and cutting mechanics for two years at Purdue University. At WSU, his research focuses on the development and application of advanced material systems for applications including stress wave control, impact energy mitigation, and vibroacoustic noise control and reduction.

Dr. Chien-Ho Ko is a Research Professor and Director of Craig and Diane Martin National Center for Construction Safety in the Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas, USA. He has been conferred numerous academic awards, including best paper, outstanding professor, researchawards, and teaching awards. Dr. Ko has published over 40 refereed journal papers and 70 conference papers. In addition, he has participated as Principal Investigator in over 40 research projects funded, e.g., by the National Science Council. Additionally, he is an inventor with more than 30 patents. Dr. Ko is a reviewer for more than 30 different journals, serves on the editorial boards of 20 more, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management (Scopus and EiCompendex indexed).

Prof Qiang Zhu has obtainedhis Dr.-Ing. degree in Materials Science (equivalent to PhD in the UK) from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germanyin 1994. After short worked in the same university, he came to the UK to work for University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge and Cummins Turbo Technologies Ltd UK until September 2010. He then moved to the General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (Beijing, China)as Vice Chief Engineer and since 2016 he works as Chair Professor forthe Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China). Current R&D interests mainly focus on development of light metals, mainly aluminum alloys, and their forming processing to meet requirements of light vehicles. In addition, he is also interested in R&D on additive manufacturing (3D printing) of light metals, superalloys, steels and titanium alloys, failure analysis and fracture mechanics, simulation and modelling of forming processes etc. He has published over130 papers and 60 patents. Among the numerous honors and awards, he has received the outstanding contribution to semi solid processing of alloys and composites 2018 (International Committee of s2p), the 2009 international award on Squeeze/semi solid casting from the North America Die Casting Association and two Steve Pawer awards from Cummins Turbo Technologies 2014 And 2016.

Philippe Belleville's area of expertise is the chemistry of hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Its contribution is concentrated in integrated research, that is to say scientific research (development of new materials and new structures of materials) associated with technological research, thus moving from material to product. Its scientific production is significant, particularly in terms of publications: 73 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 4,500 citations (writing of 5 book chapters). Furthermore, the innovative nature of his research in the field of new materials and new processes is illustrated by a large number of patents filed since the start of his career (33 patents between 1992 and 2020). Open to the materials community, the recognition of Philippe Belleville's expertise earned him the recipient of the "Prix Ulrich" awarded unanimously by the International Sol-Gel Committee in 2003. Regularly president of international conferences, he is the founder and organizer of the 7 editions of the French national conference "The sol-gel days" (2004 to 2019; 80 to 100 participants), main organizer of the 1st international conference "Hybrid Materials 2009" (920 participants), he was elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Sol-Gel Society (www.isgs.org) between 2007 and 2012 (2 terms), and will organize, as co-president, the next edition of the conference international sol-gel (more than 500 participants) scheduled for July 2022

Dr. Jianglong Gu, was jointly educated by Northeastern University (China) and Cranfield University (UK), being worked on metal materials additive manufacturing since 2013. He received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry of Metallurgy and a BEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently worked as an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Yanshan University, China. His recent research interests are mainly focused on the physical chemistry and phase transformation of nonferrous metals and functional metal materials during additive manufacturing, aiming to design and prepare metal raw materials that are specific for additive manufacturing. During the past five years, he published over 20 high-quality journal papers and obtained 9 patents.

Baochang Zhang received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of the Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999, 2001, and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, he was a research fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, PolyU in Hong Kong, and with Griffith University, Brisban, Australia. From 2014 to 2015, he was a senior Posdoc in Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. From 2008 to now, he was a lecture in 2008, and Associate Professor in 2011, Tenured Associate Professor (only 4 in the school), Professor (2020) with School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interest include dependable Causal learning, explainable deep learning, computer vision and patter recognition and data mining. He initiates the dependable Causal learning direction to build reliable AI system based on CoGradient Descent (CVPR 2020).

JiawenLi is an associate professor of the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his PhD from the University of science and technology of China in 2011. After that, he served as a postdoctoral in University of Science and Technology of China for three years. From 2015 to 2016, he worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Nano Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, 6 patents and a book chapter. Currently his research focuses on high-efficiency femtosecond laser processing, the interaction between ultrafast laser and materials, the fabrication and application of micro/nano functional devices, structural color mechanism and fabrication methods.

Dr. Dao Qian Chen is a senior scientist in Sunshine Lake Pharm. Co., Ltd. China. Dr. Chen was born in Puyang, China and obtained his B.S. degree in organic chemistry from Lanzhou University in 2016. Hejoined Professor Long Lu and Qilong Shen’s group at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, receiving his Ph.D. in 2019 on research related to organic fluorine chemistry. He joined HEC R&D Center in 2019 as a senior scientist in medicinal chemistry to design new small molecule drug. He gained the Second Prize in 2018 ACS Shanghai Chapter outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. He has published 4 papers including Green Chem.,Chem. Commun., Org. Chem. Front.as first author and CrysEngComm., as corresponding author and 5 patents as co-inventor. His activities are mainly focus e don pharmaceutical research, design of NME (New Molecular Entity) and process chemistry.

Jin-Ye Wang is a Professor of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000-2009); professor of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2009-). Published over 100 papers, 4 books (chapters); authorized more than 20 patents; invited speaker of European Conference on Biomaterials, Pacifichem et al.; awarded by the Hundred Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999), Life Sciences Prize from Meiji Dairies Corporation (2008) et al. Research interests: 3D Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering, Controlled Release, Biomimetic Materials and Biointerfaces. Recently we developed a novel 3D/4D printing ink material from plant. It induces tunable changes in 4D biomedical properties of the in situ printed structures, such as in drug loading, drug release, and degradation rate. Professor of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000-2009); professor of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2009-). Published over 100 papers, 4 books (chapters); authorized more than 20 patents; invited speaker of European Conference on Biomaterials, Pacifichem et al.; awarded by the Hundred Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999), Life Sciences Prize from Meiji Dairies Corporation (2008) et al. Research interests: 3D Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering, Controlled Release, Biomimetic Materials and Biointerfaces. Recently we developed a novel 3D/4D printing ink material from plant. It induces tunable changes in 4D biomedical properties of the in situ printed structures, such as in drug loading, drug release, and degradation rate.

Mr. Chen Jimin was born in 1965. At present he is a full professor in the department of manufacturing and materials,director of 3D printing center Beijing University of Technology. He is a member of Laser Processing Committee of COS( China Optics Society) and Special Machining Committee of CMES(China Mechanical Engineering Society). He is also a editor member of 《The Progress of Laser and Opti-Electronics》。 His SPIE No is 00664755. In 1986 and 1989 he got his bachelor degree and master degree in mechanical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology respectively. In 2000 he went to Germany for co-op research work. He achieved his Ph.D degree in Optics engineering from Beijing University of Technology. He worked as visiting professor in State University of New York at Buffalo during 2011-2012 and in University of Boston in 2018. He finished many projects including NSFC （Nature and Science Foundation of China)and NSFB(Beijing as well as others projects. He published more than 180 papers and held 18 patents. His interests focus on additive manufacturing, laser micro fabrication and laser processing.

Tanawat Tangjarusritaratorn is currently a researcher at the Urban management system laboratory (Kishida lab), Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests focus on the 3D numerical simulation of underground structure, suffusion modeling, and the utilization of stereo cameras for monitoring the movement of slope surface. After he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 2016, He received a MEXT scholarship from the Japanese government and continued his Master and Doctoral degree in Geotechnical Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan

Zhiqian Zhang is the founder and CEO of Beijing Tidetron Bioworks Co., Ltd. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Clinical Medicine at SYSU Medical College and has engaged in synthetic biology research for many years. He is the research fellow of the South China Stem Cell Research Center, the research fellow of SYSU Eye Center, and the research fellow of Cardiovascular Center, Yale University. He is also a member of PHEI of Peking Union Medical College - Tsinghua University, a professional member of China Computer Federation (CCF), and IEEE.

I am Gebremariam Birhanu Wondie (H index:9; Google scholar), I have a first degrees in Pharmacy (BPharm., 2003, Ethiopia); MSc in Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality assurance (MSc., 2006, Ethiopia) both from Addis Ababa University, and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics (Ph.D., 2017, Iran) from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. I was served as an Assistant Professor and Head of Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia for more than 3 years. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Health Sciences, University of Free State, South Africa. My postdoctoral study focuses on the design and development of herbal drug loaded Hydrogels and 3D printed biomaterials for wound healing application.

Samarah Vargas Harb is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Central Florida (UCF, United States) and Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil) working on the development of bioactive and bactericidal scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. She completed her bachelor's degree, master's and Ph.D. in Chemistry at São Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil) with research internships at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Northeastern University. She has explored polymeric composites processed by fused filament fabrication for biomedical applications.

Ehsan Malekipour is currently Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, Indianapolis. He started his master in Purdue University in 2015 and continued his Ph.D. in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before transferring his Ph.D. to Purdue in 2021. His research fields include different aspects of metal additive manufacturing processes by focusing on real-time optimization of scan strategy in PBF. He developed a novel monitoring method to evaluate the thermal evolution of the process by characterizingvarious macro thermal signatureof the process as part of his master’s thesis. Currently, he is developing ahighly accurate near real-time responsivethermos-physics based model that uses the thermal data captured by the developed thermography as input. His final objective is tomitigate residual stress and the resulting thermally induced distortionthrough development of a novel real-time and closed-loop feedback control system.

Mehak Khurana is certified Ethical Hacker and has more than 11 years of experience in research and teaching. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at The NorthCap University, Gurugram. She earned a Ph.D. degree in the field of Information Security and Cryptography. She completed her M.Tech degree with a silver medal in IT from USICT, GGSIPU. Her specialization is Cybersecurity, Information Security, Cryptography and Security in additive Manufacturing. She has published many papers in various reputed National/International Journals and conferences. To better align the department with industry best practices, she introduced and designed courses on Penetration Testing, Secure Coding and Software Vulnerabilities, Web and Mobile Security. She organized the International Conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics in 2021 in collaboration with Springer as a Convener. She has been a resource person in various FDP’s, workshops, guest lectures and chaired the session at various Conferences. She is editing books from the various publishers like Springer, CRC Press, etc. She is serving as a reviewer for many reputed Journals and TPC member for various International Conferences. She is leading chapters and societies in her current university. She successfully organized TEDx 2017 and 2019 as a co-curator. She is an active Member of various renowned societies including Open Web Application Software Project (OWASP), Optical Society of America (OSA), Women in Appsec (WIA), Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI).