MATERIALSMEET2023

Nian Liu is an Assistant Professor at School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received B.S. in 2009 from Fudan University, and Ph.D. in 2014 from Stanford University, where he worked on the structure design for Si anodes for high-energy Li-ion batteries. From 2014 to 2016, he worked at Stanford University as a postdoc, where he developed in situ optical microscopy to probe beam-sensitive battery reactions. Dr. Liu’s lab at Georgia Tech is broadly interested in the combination of materials, electrochemistry, and operando microscopy for studying the global energy challenges. Specifically, the Liu’s lab is focusing on electric vehicle battery and stationary battery science and technologies. His publications have been cited over 28,000 times,he is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate™. He is the recipient of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Daniel Cubicciotti Award (2014), American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award (2015),Chemistry of Materials Up-and-Coming Researcher (2017),Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator (2018), Jim Pope CREATE-X Faculty Fellow (2021), and NanoscaleEmerging Investigator (2022).

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 111; 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.

An innovator with senior leadership experience in high-risk, high-complexity technology development and in new product introduction. Developed several breakthrough new products and transitioned them to high-volume manufacturing. A collaborative/strategic¬ leader with proven track record of ability to recruit and develop a diverse team that harnesses the right strategy which unleashes their collective inspirations to achieve objectives so that the organization is a trailblazer. A critical thinker with outstanding organizational, verbal & written communication skills, as well as presentation skills. Has the audacity to dream, the competence to tone down those dreams with a good sense of humor-supported by reality, and the capacity to act on them with passion. Proficiency to work assiduously and imaginatively for securing the resources that are needed to translate the aspirations into reality.

Dr Serge Cosnier is currently Research Director exceptional class at CNRS at the Grenoble Alpes University (France) and the scientific director of the POLYNAT Carnot Institute. He received his doctoral degree in Chemistry from the Toulouse university (1982) and was an Alexander von Humbold postdoctoral fellow at the university of Munich, Germany. He is member of the Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (2016-2023) and serves as Editor of Bioelectrochemistry, Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Analytical Chemistry and Commissioning Editor for Electroanalysis. Dr Cosnier’s activity is focused on the molecular electrochemistry and bioelectrochemistry with the development of electrode materials whose applications include analytical chemistry with biological sensors (enzyme electrodes, immunosensors, aptasensors and DNA sensors), electrocatalysis, electrochemical biomimetic systems and energy conversion (biofuel cells and abiotic fuel cells). He has developed innovative conceptual advances in the field of electrogenerated organic polymers, inorganic nanostructured materials and 3D nanostructured electrode materials based on carbon nanotubes Dr Cosnier has authored over 400 peer reviewed publications (h-index 70). In 2009, he received the Katsumi Niki Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry and was appointed as Fellow of this Society in 2010. In 2013, Dr Cosnier became a member of the Academia Europaea and was awarded in 2015 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). Finally, he was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in 2019 and Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021.

Renata Wentzcovitch is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Her research is devoted to computational quantum mechanical studies of materials at extreme conditions, especially planetary materials. She addresses electronic, structural, and vibrational properties from a fundamental and inter-related perspective.

Nikhil Koratkar is the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His research has focused on the synthesis, characterization and application of advanced materials. Professor Koratkar is a winner of the NSF CAREER Award (2003), RPI James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award (2005), the Electrochemical Society's SES Young investigator Award (2009), American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2015), IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award (2019) and the RPI William H. Wiley 1866 Distinguished Faculty Award (2021). In 2016, Koratkar was elected a Fellow of the ASME and in 2021, he was elected to Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has published a book on graphene as an additive in composite materials and over 230 archival journal papers. In 2018 and 2021, Clarivate. Analytics named him in their highly cited researchers list (top 1% by citations). Koratkar serves as an Editor of CARBON (Elsevier). He is also a co-founder and serves on the advisory board of a start-up company (Alsym Energy) aimed at commercializing next-generation energy storage solutions.

Alain Celzard obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 1995 on a confidential-defense topic related to carbon-based composites for radar stealth. Recruited as the youngest lecturer of his academy in 1996, he worked at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry of Nancy (France) on all kinds of carbonaceous materials and taught for 9 years at the Faculty of Sciences & Techniques of Nancy. After obtaining a habilitation to direct research in 2002, he was appointed full professor at the age of 34 and took a position at the ENSTIB engineering school, specially created to set up new activities related to bio-based materials. There he founded a branch of his laboratory in 2005, which became the "Biosourced Materials" team of the Institut Jean Lamour (IJL) in 2012. The IJL is currently one of the largest European laboratories dedicated to materials science. At the end of 2017, he left the leadership of the team to become head of one of the 4 scientific departments of the IJL, which currently has 7 research teams with a wide range of activities, from nanomaterials for health to embedded electronics, biomaterials, microsystems and metamaterials. Alain Celzard develops a global approach to the study of materials for energy, environmental and electromagnetic applications: synthesis, characterization, properties, modeling and integration. He also conducts fundamental research on complex, disordered and/or porous heterogeneous systems, including their optimization for various applications. This work has allowed him to (co-)write more than 420 articles (publications and book chapters) and 8 patents, and has earned him the title of junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, as well as 3 national prizes including 2 first prizes, and 2 international prizes. He is now director of a joint laboratory with a major producer of activated carbons and biochars, and has been reappointed to the Institut Universitaire de France, this time as a senior member.

Professor Prabir K Dutta is an Emeritus Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and CTO of ZeoVation and RedNOx. Prof Dutta obtained his PhD from Princeton University, and prior to joining Ohio State, Professor Dutta worked as a scientist at Exxon Research and Engineering Company. He has published 269 refereed manuscripts as an independent investigator, several book chapters, edited two books, written another and is the author oftwentyissued patents, and ten patent applications, and been a mentor for about 100 postdoctoral and graduate research students. The Ohio State University has licensed several of Professor Dutta’s sensor inventions to companies. Professor Dutta has recently co-founded ZeoVation, which is an applied materials company focused on zeolitic microporous materials with added functionalities for environmental and consumer markets.Another company he co-founded called RedNOx deals with sensors for greenhouse gases. On the pedagogical side, a significant contribution has been to develop a NSF-supported Ohio-wide effort to alter the curriculum of undergraduates taking chemistry courses with the goal of increasing the number of Science and Engineering graduates in the state of Ohio. The innovation was to introduce research into the laboratory curriculum, and this program has reached tens of thousands of students. Professor Dutta is a Fellow of AAAS and National Academy of Inventors.

Prof. Vimal Chandra Srivastava is currently serving as a G.B. Pant Chair Professor, and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. His major research interests are in Chemical & Environmental Engg., Wastewater Treatment, Alternative Fuels, Desulfurization, Solid waste management, etc. He has authored 11 book chapters, >215 papers (>210 in ISI) in peer-reviewed journals and more than 125 papers in conferences/seminars. He has received >11,200 citations (as per Scopus as on June 2020) with h-index of 50. He has guided 18 Ph.D. thesis, 10 more are in progress. In addition, he has guided 50 M.Tech. dissertations. Prof. Vimal has handled several sponsored and consultancy projects (>15) with a total overlay of more than Rupees Sixty million (INR 6 Crore).

Giacomo Cao, was born in Cagliari on September 22, 1960. He received his Master Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cagliari in February 1986 and his PhD also in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bologna in 1990. He became Assistant Professor in 1990, Associate Professor in 1992 and Full Professor in 2001. He has been "visiting scholar" at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA in 1988, 1992 and 1993 as well as "research associate" in 1993 at the same University. From 1992 he has been teaching several courses related to Fundamentals in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cagliari. He has been University of Cagliari representative in the Interuniversity Consortium "The chemistry for the environment" from 1994 to 2008 and responsible of the corresponding research unit as well as founder and first chairman of the Interdepartmental Center of Environmental Science and Engineering from 1996 to 2004 at the University of Cagliari. He has been consulting for CRS4 from July 1998 to July 2015. In July 2020 he became the Sole Admistrator of CRS4. Since October 2013, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Legal Representative of the Sardinian AeroSpace District (DASS) Scarl and, since November 2016, he has been included in the list of the Top Italian Scientists. He has been coordinating/participating several national and international research project funded by various national and international Companies, Institutions, and Agencies. He is co-author of 6 books, 13 patents, more than 220 papers in refereed journals and more than 300 presentations at national and international symposia.

Ma is a professor of chemistry and PhD supervisor at Kyushu Institute of Technology, in Japan. Professor Ma interesting in researching development materials and applications to perovskite solar cell, photocatalyst, and energy storage. She leads research teams studying dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cell among other related projects including development of solar catalysts, solar-powered hydrogen production, fuel cell, and metal batteries. She published papers over 200 and 10 books. Professor Ma is also a council member of the following organizations: Japan Society for Chemistry: Materials Research Society US, China Energy Society, China Solar Energy, and so on.

Prof. Tokeer Ahmad did his masters in chemistry from IIT Roorkee (2000) and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi (2006) in the area of Nano-Chemistry. Immediately after PhD, he joined Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 2006 and became full Professor of Chemistry in 2019. His research interest includes the development of advanced functional nanostructures for photo/electro-catalysis, nanocatalysis, gas sensing and energy applications. He has supervised 10 PhD’s, 77 post graduate students and currently supervising 9 Ph.D. students. Dr. Ahmad has been instrumental to receive nine research projects from MHRD, DST, CSIR, UGC, JMI innovative programme and one international project from Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ahmad has published 138 research papers in peer-reviewed journals of international repute, one patent and authored two books on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to his credit. His current research citation is around 4880 with an h-index of 43 and i10-index of 96. Dr. Ahmad has been the active member of various National and International academic societies such as CRSI, MRSI, ISCAS, SMC BARC, ACT Mumbai, ACS, American Nano-society etc and also serving NPG’s Scientific Reports journal as an editorial board member. He has been active reviewer of 119 different international journals. Dr. Ahmad has delivered 115 Invited/keynote talks and presented 126 conference research papers at National and International platforms. Dr. Ahmad has organized MHRD-GIAN Program (2016) and Science Academies Lecture Workshop (2013) as Coordinator and instrumental in organizing several conferences and symposia at JMI. He also served Jamia as Coordinator, Swachh Bharat Mission of Govt of India. Dr. Ahmad has received DST- DFG award from Govt. of India (2009), ISCAS Medal (2011) for the significant contribution in Nanotechnology and prestigious Inspired Teacher’s recognition from Hon’ble President of India in 2015. Prof. Ahmad has received the “Distinguished Scientist Award” for the year 2019 from the Indian Association of Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists due to his outstanding contribution in the area of chemical sciences and also elected as Member of very prestigious National Academy of Sciences India (NASI). Prof. Ahmad has been figured continuously third time in World Top 2% Scientists in both the coveted lists by Stanford University, USA and has been conferred the prestigious Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Excellence Award of Education for the outstanding contribution in the field of education. Recently, he has been conferred by SMC Bronze Medal (2022) from Society of Materials Chemistry, BARC, Mumbai.

Alireza Heidari Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Distinguished Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry and also Enrico Fermi Distinguished Chair in Molecular Spectroscopy at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nano-chemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. His research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular and Biomedical Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nano-chemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Synchrotron Radiation, Synchrocyclotron Radiation, LASER, Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs, Nano Drugs Delivery, ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Intelligent Molecules, Molecular Dynamics, Biosensors, Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics, Numerical Chemistry, Nucleic Acids, DNA/RNA Monitoring, DNA/RNA Hypermethylation & Hypomethylation, Human Cancer Tissues, Human Cancer Cells, Tumors, Cancer Tissues, Cancer Cells, etc. He has participated at more than seven hundred reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, summits, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Medline/PubMed and Scopus Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Romania, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Egypt, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, China, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor and so on heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industries and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than twenty books and book chapters in different fields of Chemistry. Syne he has been awarded more than one thousand reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international and peer–reviewed journals, books and publishers. Hitherward, he is a member of more than seven hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. It should be noted that he is currently board member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), the President of the American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Head of Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Director of the Bio-Spectroscopy Core Research Laboratory (BCRL) at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Magdalena Szumera has completed her PhD from AGH UST Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics. Currently, she holds the position of Associate Professor at her alma mater. So far, she has supervised five doctorates, over 25 master's theses and 35 engineering theses. She is a member of the Polish Ceramic Society, the Scientific Council of Chemical Engineering, and the Ceramic Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow. She is also an expert on the Polish Accreditation Committee and the National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA. Furthermore, she has published more than 89 papers in reputed journals.

Dr. Rada Novakovic earned her B.S. in Applied Mathematics, followed by M.S. degree in Materials Scienceat the University of Belgrade anddoctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart. She obtained PhD degree in Technical Science in 1992 and she was Post-doc at the University of Genoa and at the National Research Council (CNR), Genoa, Italy, where she has got a permanent position in the 2001.At the present, she is employed as Research Scientist at the Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Energy Technologies (ICMATE-CNR) Italy. She was short-term visiting professor at many universities in Europe and in the world. The main research activity of Dr. Rada Novakovic is mathematical modelling of processes and phenomena in the broad areas of Materials Science covering many fields and topics, such as Modelling of physical-chemical processes of metallic, ceramic and composite materials (diffusion, sintering), Thermodynamic calculations, Thermophysical and structural properties of liquid metallic materials, Wetting & interfaces, Thermal and transport properties of Nano-sized systems and biomaterials, widely investigated over the years. She has been involved in numerous international projects as a participant and/or leader and is author / co-author of 3 books, 9 book chapters and more than 180 publications.

Dr. Sheela Devi received her M.Sc degree in Physics from kurukshetra University, kurukshetra 2005 and Ph. D from Delhi University in 2011 in Material Science. From 2011 to till now she is working as assistant Professor in Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She received Outstanding Woman Researcher Award in Materials Science by Venus International Foundation on 5th March 2022 (VIWA 2022). She Visited Xian Xiatong University, China, 2009, and Jeju National University, ICC Jeju, Korea, 2013 Funded by DST (India). She has published more than thirty research papers in SCI reputed international journals. She has published two patents and three book chapters. She has attended more than 20 national and international conferences. She also received best poster award in national conference. She has guided 2 Ph.D. thesis, 2 more are in progress. She is reviewer of Material Today Proceedings. In addition, She has guided 2 M.Tech. dissertations. Her research areas in ferroelectric , Nanoferroelectric, bulk materials, multiferroics, antiferroelectric materials and ceramics materials.

Dr. Oleksandr Tkach is an Assistant Researcher of the University of Aveiro and CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal. He graduated in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Devices by the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” in 1999. In 2005 he got Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Present research interests of Dr. Tkach include the development of giant permittivity dielectric oxides for energy storage; thermoelectric and piezoelecric oxide materials and composites for energy harvesting technologies; nanostructured magneto electrics for sensor and electronic applications; and alternative energy efficient concepts for electrically assisted ceramic sintering.

Dr. Bishnu Pada Majee is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Materials Science &Engineering and Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY 12180, USA. He earned a master’s degree in Applied Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India in 2016 and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2021. His research interest includes synthesis and characterization of 2D Materials such as MoS2, MoSe2, Graphene etc., Raman Spectroscopy, Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Photodetector etc. His current research has focused on experimental study of rare earth phosphate as potential environmental barrier coatings.

Dr. Joaquin Caro-Astorga developed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Universities of Malaga, Harvard, and Groningen. He is currently a Lecturer at London South Bank University and a Research Training Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute. He is an expert in Engineered Living Materials and specifically in bacterial cellulose and bio silica. His current research interests range from engineering life to make it suitable for Mars to Engineered Living Materials produced by microbial communities.

Ahlem Mnasri is a postdoctoral researcher at LGP2 - Process Engineering Laboratory for Biorefinery, Bio-based Materials and Printed Electronics (Grenoble, France). In July 2022, she got a PhD in materials chemistry from the university Grenoble Alpes. During her PhD, she worked on the pre-treatments of cellulose fibres to produce micro fibrillated cellulose. The thesis work was focused on the use of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) as greener pre-treatment. She has 3 publications related to cellulose fibres , micro fibrillated cellulose, micro fibrillation process and green solvents (DES). Now, as a postdoctoral researcher she is working on programmable materials from paper.

Youxin (Linda) Mao received her B.S. degree in Physics and M.S. in Electronics Science from the Nankai University, China, in 1982 and 1985, and Ph.D. in Opto-Electronics from Lancaster University, UK, in 1995. From 1985 to 1992, she worked in Electronic Engineer Department, Tianjin University, China, as a Lecturer. From 1995 to 1997 and 1997 to 1999, she was a Research Associate with the Lancaster University, and a NSERC visiting fellowship with National Research Council in Canada, respectively. As a Research Scientist, she worked in Exploratory R&D group with JDS Uniphase from1999 to 2003 and with Medical Biophysics in University of Toronto from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006, she has been a senior Research Officer with National Research Council Canada. She is the author of over 150 peer reviewed articles. Her research interests include ultra-low timing jitter quantum-dot/dash mode-locked semiconductor lasers, PAM and QAM data format digital coherent optical and wireless networks, high speed and high power wavelength swept laser, semiconductor laser package, fiber optics, ultra-small optical fiber probes for medical imaging, and optical coherence tomography.

Zakaria Boumerzoug is a Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Biskra University. His research field is Metallic materials ( Welding, Coating, Creep, Wiredrawing). He has supervised 27 PhD students. He has published more than 70 research articles, two book chapters, one patent, and edited a book (Advanced Materials Design and Mechanics) in Materials Science field. He was as a member and also as a guest editor in some international conferences. He participated to more than thirty international conferences as speaker, key-note speaker, and invited speaker. He is the academic editor of the journal Advances in Research. He conducted many national projects and one international project ( WBI with university of Mons , Belgium).

Mohsen Saremi, Professor, Member of Academic Staff in School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. Publications:- Two books and three chapters on concrete and rebars corrosion, Thermal Barrier Coatings, TBC, -More than 250 papers in domestic and international Journals

Dr.Asieh Davoodi. Assistant professor and faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Izeh branch, Iran. Master's degree in road and transportation civil engineering, Shahid Chamran university, Ahwaz, iran. Graduated from Najaf Abad Azad University with a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering. favorite fields: Green pavements, Improving the subgrade and pavement layers with chemical and mechanical methods, semi flexible pavement, Application of Nano additives to improve the properties of concrete, slurry or mortar.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Neslihan TAMSÜ SELLİ graduated from Anadolu University Material Science &Eng. in 2005. After graduation, she accepted as Ph.D student at Anadolu University Industrial Ph.D. Programme. In 2010, shegotPh.D. degree and started as a Project Development Engineer at Eczacibasi Building Group. In 2017, shegotAssociatedProffesorDegreefrom Marmara University.After many years of private sector experience, she has been working as an academician at Gebze Technical University since 2019.Sheconductsstudies and projects on traditional ceramics, functional surface coatings, sealing glasses and bioceramic materials.

Payam Mohammadi completed his Master degree in Bussiness innovation and technology management (Girona university) and completed his PhD candidate last year in Bussiness adminstration and management at polytechnic university of Barcelona in Spain.

Lidia Benea is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in Materials Science and Engineering at Dunărea de Jos University of Galati, Romania (www.cc-ites.ugal.ro), member of the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates (CNATDCU), Ministry of Education and Research, România. Author and co-author of over 300 scientific articles, 115 being in ISI journals and proceedings volume, cumulating an Impact Factor of 209.59, 23 books and chapters and more than 360 presentations at scientific conferences. Her research interests are in the field of composite coatings, biomaterials and multifunctional materials and nanomaterials. Many achievements in electrochemical methods applied to surface modification and materials characterization.

Prof Pramod Kumar Mallya is a post-graduate naval architect having 28 years of experience in the field of ship design, ship construction, and as a Senior classification Ship surveyor presently working as a professor in the leading engineering college Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering (SNGCE). Prof Pramod is actively involved in research projects involving Green Hydrogen production, storage, and transportation using special materials suitable for shipbuilding applications. His active interests are in the research of solar energy and Green Hydrogen energy as futuristic fuel and suitable materials for the storage of Liquefied Green Hydrogen at cryogenic temperatures

Helena Belchior Rocha has a PhD in Social Work, is an Assistant professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies and deputy director of the Soft Skills Lab. Integrated researcher at CIES, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, linked to national and international research projects, namely 2 from Marie Curie Actions and 4 ERASMUS+. Author of papers and communications at national and international congresses, in the areas of social work theory and methodology, environment, sustainability, community Intervention, ethics, human rights, social policies and Well-being, education and soft skills. Member of the Editorial Board of national/international indexed journals.

Dr. Shivani Dhall has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, D.A.V. College, Jalandhar, since July 2018. Previously, she worked as a NPDF in Department of Physics, IITD. During her PhD, she worked in CEN, Electrical Department, IIT Bombay. She got best INUP project award from IIT Bombay in 2015. In 2018, she awarded with CSIR Nehru and DS Kothari Fellowships. In 2019, She received TARE project under DST for continue her research work. She is working on carbon materials, nanoparticles and their device fabrication using lithography technique for gas sensing, photo-sensor and interconnected applications. She is reviewer of many SCI journals. She has 21 SCI Journals publications.

Dr. Alper Bideci, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, at Architecture Department of Düzce University in Turkey. He has been teaching building materials, cement and concrete technology at Düzce University since 2012. He has also, articles about construction materials composite materials, building materials, cement and concrete technology in value journals. He is interested in polymer concrete technology, oil shale and ashes. He has been caring out projects about polymer concrete and writing articles on composite materials. Dr Bideci has presented his many studies at international conferences and symposia, including in the Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Malta, Switzerland, Estonia, Kosovo and Turkey.

Maria-Anna Gatou is a PhD Candidate/Researcher at the Laboratory of General Chemistry of the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).She has studied Geology and Geoenvironment at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BScNKUA), specializing in Materials Science and Technology (MSc NTUA) and Resources, Environment and Sustainabilityat the University of British Columbia (MSc UBC), while her PhD is orientated in Environmental Technology and specifically in the “Development of advanced smart nanomaterials for decontamination of wastewater deriving from hydrocarbon extraction and treatment installations”.Among her research interests,the interdisciplinary field of Nanotechnology holds a dominant position, with emphasis on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials, as well as nanocomposite materials, mainly for environmental applications (wastewater treatment, green technologies for heavy metal removal), as well as self-cleaning, antibacterial and anticancer applications. She has worked as a researcher in a number of European and National programs related to environmental education, land degradation and rehabilitation, green economy and nanotechnology. Her research work that has been carried out as part of research projects has been published in 14 international peer-reviewed journals and a book, 10 publications in abstracts of international conferences and 4publications in proceedings of Greek conferences. In addition, she has participated in the teaching and writing of the educational material of the NKUA’s e-learning programs entitled "Geographic Information Systems in Geosciences" and “Nanomaterials: Characterization Techniques and Novel Applications”. Lastly, she is co-author of the book entitled “Electrodeposition of nanowires”, which will be used by students of Greek Universities and was approved for funding by the “Kallipos” Action (2021)that is being developed by Hellenic Academic Libraries, National Technical University of Athens and National Research Network.

Dr. J. MARTIN SAM GNANARAJ is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Dr. NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. His areas of expertise are Crystal Growth, Nanomaterials and Waste Management. He is exploring zero cost raw materials for Third order NLO activity, Energy Storage and Water Purification applications. He is graduated from St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilandu, India. He obtained his Doctorate Degree from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. He did his Post Doctoral Fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Muthu Senthil Pandian, Research Scientist, Grade-II, SSN Research Centre, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, a notable researcher in the field of Crystal Growth and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. To his credit he has published 14 research articles in various journals and presented 30 papers in national and international conferences. He has delivered 5 invited talks in colleges located in and around Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. He is a life time member of Indian Association for Crystal Growth and Indian Association for Physics Teachers. He is collaborating with various laboratories and research teams across the globe for technical discussions and characterization analysis. He is an active reviewer in the Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Spectrochimica Act: A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy and Editorial Board Member and Technical Reviewer in Symbiosis online Publishing Services, Nanoscience & Technology: Open Access, Symbiosis Group.

Dr. Srinath M. K. graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belagavi, Karnataka, INDIA, with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, a Master of Technology (M-Tech) in Tool Engineering in 2011, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Mechanical Engineering Sciences in 2019. He has worked in the Mechanical Engineering department at New Horizon College of Engineering in Bangalore, INDIA, as an Assistant Professor since 2011 to 2019 and as an Associate Professor 2019 onwards. He completed his summer faculty research fellowship from the mechanical engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, INDIA. He is the author of numerous research articles published in reputable international journals as well as textbooks for mechanical engineering courses. He has also served as a peer reviewer for a number of research articles for Scopus Indexed international journals. Additionally, he has published and submitted patents to his name. In the 2018 International Conference held at NIT-Rourkela, INDIA, he received the "Topper Position" award. At the commemoration of Indo-Serbian Engineers Day in 2021, he received the "Outstanding Young Engineer Award." For his work on corrosion in marine applications, The Institution of Engineers (INDIA) bestowed the coveted, "Marine Engineering Division Prize" in 2021. Hi primary research interests include Surface engineering, advanced materials processing and manufacturing, corrosion, tribology, FEM, computational simulations, and product design and development.

Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta , Head of Department, Department of Physics St.Wilfired P.G College Jaipur, India, , With over 17 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience, he has held various administrative positions as the Head of Department in various degree colleges and engineering colleges and has a vast experience of teaching in IIT-JEE Institute.