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Franky So is Associate Department Head and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He worked for Motorola and OSRAM Opto-Semiconductors for 14 years before he became a professor at the University of Florida. He was a Rolf E Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Since 2015, he joined the North Carolina State University and is currently the Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. So is currently a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science and Engineering Reports and Associate Editor of four other research journals. He chairs the OLED Symposium of the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. Dr. So holds 100 issued patents and has 14 pending. He has over 200 publications and has a Google H-index of 81.

Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturiand MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award),to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg AlferovUniversity of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 66,000 and his Hirsch factor is 113 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Bin Zhu received his M.Sc., in 1987 from University of Sci. & Tech. of China and PhD in 1995 from Chalmers University of Technology, Physics and Engineering Physics, Sweden and during 10/ 95-12/97 worked as Postdoc. in Uppsala University (in Ångström Lab). Since 1998-2018, Dr. Zhu moved to KTH and in 1999 became senior researcher and associate professor in Dept of Chemical Engineering and Technology, and then in Dept of Energy Technology, KTH. He is visiting professor in Aalto University and Nanyang Technological University as well as in several Chinese universities to co-supervise research projects and PhD students. Since 2018, Zhu has been visiting professor in Loughborough University, UK; since 2019, lecturer professor ( chair) in Xian Jiaotong University and since 2020, chair professor in Southeast University. Dr. Zhu has more than 300 publications in nano-composites and new functional semiconductor-ionic materials for advanced fuel cells/solar cells from material to device, technology for polygeneration systems, innovations made on low temperature, 300-600°C SOFCs, electrolyte (layer)-free fuel cell (EFFC), new functional semiconductor-ionic materials, single layer fuel cells (SLFCs), semiconductor-based fuel cell (SBFC) as next generation high-efficient fuel-to-electricity conversion highlighted by the latest publication on Science (1). He has also devoted to establish frontier disciplinary of Semiconductor-Ionics for superionic conductors and Semiconductor Electrochemistry for fuel cells and other energy storage devices, e.g. solid batteries.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology– China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010, 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. Professor Mora is is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He has delivered more than 150 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With nearly 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals and 15 patents, he has appeared in recent World ranking of top 1% scientists, such as 2020-Stanford and 2022-Research.com.

Michal Bockowski received the M.Sc. Eng. in Solid State Physics from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (1989), the Ph.D. in the Chemistry of Solids from the University Montpellier II, France (1995) and the DSc in Physics from the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS), Poland (2013). He received his professorial appointment from the President of the Republic of Poland in 2021.Since 1989, he has been associated with the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IHPP PAS). In 1998, he received the European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) award for his contributions to nitride semiconductors. From 2004 to 2008, he also worked as a technologist at Top GaN Ltd. In 2008, he became vice president of this company. He held this position until September 2015.From 2015 to 2022, he was head of the Crystal Growth Laboratory at IHPP PAS. He currently serves as the chief director of IHPP PAS. He is also a professor at the Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics (CIRFE), Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University (NU) as well as at the Institute of Global Innovation Research (IGIR), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan. As of February 2023, his scientific output includes 355 publications cited more than 5700 times, and his Hirsh index is 46 (@Google Scholar). He is included in all TOP 2% ranking lists. He has participated in more than 100 scientific conferences giving more than 60 invited lectures in person. He has been a leader, principal investigator and contractor in many international scientific, science and technology and implementation projects. His main scientific interests are related to nitride semiconductors, material processing and crystal growth as well as soft matter (glasses).

Yong Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. from Xiamen University and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College all in Physics. He joined National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1994 as a postdoc and was a Senior Scientist before he moved to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte as Bissell Distinguished Professor with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2009. He is an Adjunct Professor of Department of Physics and Optical Science. His research interests include electronic and optical properties of semiconductors and related nanostructures, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, impurity and defects in semiconductors, and novel materials and device architectures for energy, electronics, and related applications (e.g., photovoltaics, solid-state-lighting, electronic-photonic integrated circuits, solar-battery cells), using various optical spectroscopy techniques and large-scale first-principles electronic structure calculation methods. Examples of the recent work from his group include a unified bound exciton theory for shallow and deep impurities; size-dependent electron-phonon coupling in semiconductor nanostructures; intrinsic and extrinsic long-term stability of organic-inorganic hybrid materials; comparative studies of optoelectrical properties of prominent PV materials: halide perovskite, CdTe, and GaAs; operando characterization of extended defects in semiconductor devices; all-optical determination of radiative and non-radiative recombination processes in semiconductors; monolithic and single-functional-unit level integration of electronic and photonic elements: FET-LET hybrid 6T SRAM; novel-phenomenon of light-induced ion displacement in mixed halide perovskites. He has authored more than 250 papers, 5 patents, and edited 3 books. His research works has been cited exceeds 9,000 with a H index 46 (in Google Scholar). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dae Joon Kang has completed his PhD in Physics in 1999 from University of Cambridge, UK and postdoctoral studies from University of Maryland, USA and University of Cambridge, UK. He is the head of Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, a premier research-oriented private university in Korea. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editor-in-chief of Current Nanoscience and a section editor of Nanotechnology.

Ajmal Khan (Wazir) was born in Wana (South Waziristan), Pakistan. He received his M.Sc and M.Phil degrees in Applied Physics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Later, he received his PhD degree in applied physics from Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2013. In 2012, during his PhD work, he has discovered the thin film of boron (B) doped p-type BaSi2 layer "p+" along with his PhD supervisor Prof. Takashi Suemasu (Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 252104 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885553). After his discovery the efficiency of the solar cell was enhanced from 1.4% to 10%. Later he joined the team of FUTURE PV-Innovation, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Fukushima Renewable Energy AIST Institute (FREA), Koriyama in 2014 and worked on Si NWs, c-SiGe and a-Si/c-Si heterojunction solar cells. In 2017, he moved to Prof. Hideki Hirayama Lab at RAP Riken and later in 2020 moved to RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research as a research scientist. Since then, he has been doing research on the epitaxial growth, characterization, and device applications of group III-nitride semiconductor-based UV LEDs and UV Laser Diodes. He has developed an AlGaN UVB LED with a world record efficiency of 9.6% with a light power of 40 mW on the wafer (Sci Rep 12, 2591 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04876-x). In 2021, he moved to Farmroid as a senior research scientist and to work on the R&D project of Far-UVC LED for SARS-CoV-2 inactivation. He bears various roles and responsibilities, such as being a visiting Scientist at RIKEN, a renowned member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and guest editor of the MDPI journal of “Crystals”. He delivered more than 100 talks including keynote and invited talks in the international conferences.

Abdelkader Aissat received the magister diploma and doctorate degree in electronics from the University of Blida, ENP Algeria in 1999 and 2007 respectively. He became lecturer in the department of electronics of Blida University. He occupied a post of the head of electronics department. He joined the Engineering Faculty of Blida University in 2000 to 2003 as director of pedagogy and research. His research interests include materials, semiconductors, semiconductors lasers, detection, modeling of the components optoelectronic, microwaves and mixed. His is an active reviewer in Elsevier, IEEE, Springer and Wiley. He has several publications more than 230. He has achieved international projects in the field of materials, new materials and nanostructures for optoelectronics and photovoltaic.

Karlheinz Blankenbach is full professor at Pforzheim University and has three decades of experience in displays. His activities resulted in many projects and about 200 publications. From 1988 until 1995 he was with a Mercedes subsidiary in Germany, developing displays and software. In 1995 he was appointed to full professor at Pforzheim University, Germany, where he founded the university’s Display Lab. His main R&D activities are automotive displays. Blankenbach is a member of the Society for Information Display’s program subcommittee “Automotive/Vehicular Displays and HMI Technologies”, co-chair of the Special Topic "Outdoor Displays" and a member of SID’s “International Committee for Display Metrology”. He has served as a member of the board of the Displayforum (DFF) since 2000; after nine years as chairman, he was appointed to honorary chairman in 2020. Prof Blankenbach and his Display Lab are one of the founding members of the ISELED Alliance (https://iseled.com/), a network of excellence for automotive RGB LED lighting. As of end 2022, more than 100 million ISELEDs are sold.

Jyi-Tsong Lin (M’96–SM’08) was born in Taiwan, in 1959. He received the B.S. degree in physics from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1982, the M.S. degree in electronics from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and computer science from the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 1993. He has been with the National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1984, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include the design and modeling of small-geometry SOI devices and the design of high-speed and low-power circuits of bulk and SOI MOSFETs. He was recently working on the development and process integration of nonclassical SOI, TFT, TFET nanodevices, and memory.

Mujib Ullah has completed his PhD in tissue engineering/regenerative medicine, and postdoctoral studies from Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Ullah is the medical investigator in the Department of Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University. Previously he worked in Harvard University and MIT. He is editor-in-chief for Artificial Intelligence in Cancer, guest editor for ACS Nano, and section editor for Stem Cells Research and Therapy and Nature. He has published numerous papers and has served as an editorial board member for many journals, such as the American Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. Dr. Ullah has designed many labs, protocols, and study sections. He has mentored many undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. He has supervised and managed many projects and is the advisor for Bio Thinking and Bio Aims Society. He has received many grants, awards, and fellowship in the field of stem cells regeneration and the CPRIT award for Cancer therapies. He has established cell banks for worldwide distribution under NIH and FDA guidelines. He has developed quality assurance protocols for the Food and Drug Administration to monitor stem cell therapies in regenerative medicine.

Al-Juboori graduated with a BSc (1st Hons), MSc, PhD in Optoelectronics and Laser System Engineering from Nahrain University in 1999, 2001, 2005, respectively. Over a 15 year career, Dr Al-Juboori completed numerous scientific and research projects in highly regulated laser and quantum technologies. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Germany, and German Aerospace Centre (DLR)-Germany, before completing the second Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from University College Dublin and RWTH Aachen University. Additionally, He has a certified PRINCE2 (by AXELOS-UK) and Six Sigma (Yellow belt) Professional for project management , as well as he is an active member in SPIE and OSA (optica) professional societies, with 10+ years of experience focused on developing new scientific/business ideas in system engineering and leading high-impact projects especially in precision design, microstructure, and machine vision techniques. He is looking forward to applying the knowledge and experience in technological/industrial and innovative project management and develop new concepts especially, in some fields of disruptive technologies and teaching techniques of quantum technologies concepts.

Ajmal Khan (Wazir) was born in Wana (South Waziristan), Pakistan. He received his M.Sc and M.Phil degrees in Applied Physics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Later, he received his PhD degree in applied physics from Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2013. In 2012, during his PhD work, he has discovered the thin film of boron (B) doped p-type BaSi2 layer "p+" along with his PhD supervisor Prof. Takashi Suemasu (Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 252104 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885553). After his discovery the efficiency of the solar cell was enhanced from 1.4% to 10%. Later he joined the team of FUTURE PV-Innovation, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Fukushima Renewable Energy AIST Institute (FREA), Koriyama in 2014 and worked on Si NWs, c-SiGe and a-Si/c-Si heterojunction solar cells. In 2017, he moved to Prof. Hideki Hirayama Lab at RAP Riken and later in 2020 moved to RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research as a research scientist. Since then, he has been doing research on the epitaxial growth, characterization, and device applications of group III-nitride semiconductor-based UV LEDs and UV Laser Diodes. He has developed an AlGaN UVB LED with a world record efficiency of 9.6% with a light power of 40 mW on the wafer (Sci Rep 12, 2591 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04876-x). In 2021, he moved to Farmroid as a senior research scientist and to work on the R&D project of Far-UVC LED for SARS-CoV-2 inactivation. He bears various roles and responsibilities, such as being a visiting Scientist at RIKEN, a renowned member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and guest editor of the MDPI journal of “Crystals”. He delivered more than 100 talks including keynote and invited talks in the international conferences.

Abdullah M. Zaman has received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia in 2010. Received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, USA, in 2015. Worked as a research assistant in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at UCF on mode-locked semiconductor laser diodes between 2015-2018. Working currently towards a Ph.D. degree in the School of Engineering at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, on fast terahertz metamaterial/graphene based optoelectronic devices for wireless communication. Accepted as a keynote presenter and acted as a chair of the metasurfaces and plasmonic session at the 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) conference. Selected twice for the 3rd prize of the best oral presentations at the Annual Postgraduate Researcher conference held by the School of Engineering at Lancaster University amongst the 1st and then 3rd year Ph.D. students in 2020 and 2022, respectively. Received the best poster award at the first UK-Saudi Research Forum (UKSRF) in 2022, organized by Saudi researchers in the UK. Holding a scholarship from Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia, where he works as a lecturer in the Department ofEngineering. Research interests include terahertz optoelectronic devices, ultrafast photonics, mode-locked semiconductor laser diodes, and optical communication systems.

Riadh Bourzami completed his PhD from Strasbourg University-France was earned in 2014 after obtaining a Master's degree from the European School of Chemistry Polymer and Materials (ECPM) in 2010. I have worked as a teacher- researcher at the University of Sétif Algeria for more than ten years. In 2021, I received my Research Direction Accreditation. I really oversee a multidisciplinary research team that is aiming to develop innovative materials for water remediation based on adsorption and advanced oxidation processes. We also work in the area of molecular chemistry, designing and developing novel multifunctional molecules with practical uses. There have been more than 47 publications in these two fields.

Morteza Gholipour (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in 2000, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2003 and 2014, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran. From 2002 to 2005, he worked with ICT Research Institute (formerly Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC)), Tehran, Iran. From 2005 to 2009, he was a faculty member of electronics engineering with the Islamic Azad University, Behshahr, Iran. From 2012- 2013 he worked as a Visiting Researcher with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. His current research interests include high performance and low power integrated circuit design, nanoelectronics circuits design, and emerging device modeling and analysis.

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

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored about 500 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Ghulam Yasin received his Master and PhD. in Materials Science and Engineering from the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China. He was working as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Nuclear & New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2020. Currently, he is working as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, and the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Dr. Yasin has published over 150 scientific contributions in the form of Research Articles, Reviews, Book Chapters, and Editorials in various areas of Science & Engineering. He has more than 3800 citations and an h-index of 36. He is the Editor of over 20 books in the Micro & Nano Technologies Series, Elsevier, and Emerging Materials & Technologies Series, CRC Press Engineering. Dr. Yasin has ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists (by Elsevier BV, and Standford University, USA). He is also serving as an Assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC), Canberra, Australia, since January 2022. Dr. Yasin has been honoured with many awards and accolades, most recently receiving the Research Fund for International Scientists (FRIS) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Yasin is serving as Associate Editor, Section Editor, Guest Editor, and editorial board member for several international journals. Dr. Yasin’s expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices/technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for energy-related and various functional applications for real-world impact.

Davood Fathi have been doing research in the field of computational optics and photonics, and in this way, I teach a course entitled "Computational Optics and Photonics" at Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have also defined and supervised several Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses in this field. Nowadays, utilizing numerical methods to solve analytical equations in various fields has become very important. Among these, the analysis of various optical and photonic structures and the study of their behaviors using methods based on numerical solution of the relevant equations has been focused by many researchers.

Salah Aldin M. A. Naman had graduated 42 PhD. Students and 31 MSc Students during 1972 tile now in above universities in Iraq in the field of solar energy, Hydrogen clean fuel production and improving of Petroleum fuels natural gas, gasoline, Diesel and heavy Fuel oil (HFO).

Amir Sa'ar obtained the PhD in Physics from Tel-Aviv University in 1988. In 1988 he received the Fulbright fellowship and joined the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a postdoc. In 1991 he joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel as a faculty member and, since 1998 as a Professor of Applied Physics. His research interests include developing low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, particularly silicon-based nanostructures such as porous silicon and silicon nanocrystals, and their utilization for electronics, photonics, sensing and photovoltaic applications. He has published more than 150 papers in scientific journals and conferences and has delivered numerous presentations and invited talks in international conferences and meetings. Prof. Sa’ar is among the founders of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the former academic director of the research infrastructure of the center.