Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 137) 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 formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, University of the Basque Country, and others. 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); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

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Tadeusz Burczyński is Full Professor of Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Chairholder of UNESCO Chair on Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence, OrdinaryMember ofthe Polish Academy of Science and European Academy of Sciences and Art.
Main area of activity is inter- and multidisciplinary scientific research on Information and Computational Science, especially in Computational and Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics and Computational Materials. He has developed a methodology and computer programs for multiscale modeling, optimization and identification problems.
Recently he has elaborated an intelligent computational methodology for nano-scale optimization of new 2D materials based on carbon, molybdenum, silicon and tin.

Professor Kwang Leong Choy is Professor of Materials Science and Co-Director of the Environment Research Centre at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a DSc from the University of Nottingham. Previously, she was a faculty member at Imperial College London, Chair Professor at Nottingham, and Professor & Founding Director of the Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London.

Her research focuses on earth-abundant and nanostructured materials, and ultrathin to thick films via eco-friendly processing, translating discoveries into applications in energy, optoelectronics, environmental engineering, healthcare, and biomedicine. She has led numerous national and international research projects with academic
and industrial consortia. A pioneer in non-vacuum Chemical Vapour Deposition, her platform has generated patents, industrial collaborations, and honours including the Kroll Medal & Prize and Grunfeld Memorial Award (IoM3). She holds >20 patents, has authored >330 publications, and received the Association of American Publishers' Award of Excellence. She is consistently ranked among the world's top 2% most-cited scientists (Stanford University).

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Dr. Joshua Island is an Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He completed his undergraduate degrees in physics, mathematics, and computer science at the College of Santa Fe (2004) and the University of New Mexico (2008). His master’s work was completed at Concordia University in Montreal (2011) under the supervision of Prof. Alexandre Champagne and focused on ultra-short transistors made with carbon nanotubes. He earned a PhD from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2016) studying two-dimensional materials and molecular devices under the supervision of Prof. Herre van der Zant. Before arriving at UNLV, Dr. Island spent three years at the University of California, Santa Barbara working with Prof. Andrea Young on van der Waals heterostructures.

Professor E.F. Sheka is the author of 390 articles and six monographs. Her areas of interest include excitons and phonons (optical spectroscopy, inelastic neutron scattering, calculations) of molecular crystals, as well as exciton-phonon interaction and vibronic spectra of molecular crystals; phase transformations in molecular solids with liquid-crystalline behavior (vibrational spectroscopy and neutron diffraction); the launch and development of neutron scattering spectroscopy as applied to vibrational spectroscopy of nanoparticles; quantum-chemical modeling of nano-objects as the launch and development of virtual materials science, virtual fullerenics, virtual chemical physics of graphene, the concept of digital twins of nanomaterials as a new model of virtual nanotechnology; the first steps into the virtual worlds of science using polymerization and carbon science as examples. She is a member of the 2% list of the most cited scientists in the world.

Dr Hatim Alotaibi is currently a Research Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering (Specialised in multiphysics modelling and advanced numerical methods) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). Alotaibi received his B.A.Sc. (2016) in Industrial Systems Engineering from University of Regina (Canada), MSc (2019) in Aeronautical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), and PhD (2023) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). Alotaibi’s research focuses at using a combination of modelling, theory and simulation to study manufacturing processes and structural analysis of aerostructures (e.g., composites), aerospace propulsion (e.g., Combustion), heat transfer, complex flow, and flight dynamics. His research can also be extended to areas like airframe and satellite design, and space mission analysis.

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Simon is CEO of Paragraf, the company he founded in 2018. With a diverse background in physics, engineering and materials science, he spent nearly 20 years in the fields of compound semiconductor materials, devices, and applications. Working in multiple scientific and technology disciplines led to the innovation of a novel manufacturing technique for graphene fabrication and subsequently Paragraf.
Today Paragraf is the only company in the world capable of producing graphene-based electronics at scale, the company’s products are transforming the worlds of magnetic sensing and biosensing in application spaces ranging across electrification of vehicles, quantum computing, medical diagnostics and renewable energy to name a few. Simon has so far raised over $150m in private capital to finance Paragraf’s growth, in the next 5 years the company will make graphene and other two-dimensional materials standard in the semiconductor world, enabling industry to reap the high performance, low power consumption benefits of these extraordinary materials.

Tsun-Hsu Chang joined National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in 2003 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. He has served as Vice Chair of the Department of Physics and as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program of Science. He also served as Director of the Physics Research Promotion Center and Director of the Tsing Hua Interdisciplinary Optoelectronics Research Center. He recently stepped down from his roles as Chair of the Department of Physics and Director of the Institute of Astronomy.Professor Chang’s research interests can be divided into three main themes: (1) Frequency-tunable, high-power terahertz gyrotrons, (2) Microwave/material interaction and characterization, and (3) Microwave physics and applications. They use microwave to process various materials, such as carbon fiber, semiconductors, magnetic materials, and biodiesel.They find that microwave/materials processing has two features: shortening processing time and reducing processing temperature.

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PAULO ERNESTO MARCHEZI is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in the Laboratory of Nanotechnology and Solar
Energy (LNES). His research focuses on advanced materials for photovoltaic applications, particularly perovskite solar cells, 2D materials, and interfacial engineering. He specializes in in
situ and operando characterization, with strong expertise in synchrotron-based techniques such as GIWAXS, XPS, and NEXAFS to investigate film formation, degradation pathways, and charge transport at interfaces. He has performed experiments at major international facilities including ALS, MAX IV, and Solaris. His work integrates spectroscopy, materials design, and device physics to develop scalable strategies for improving efficiency and long-term stability in next generation optoelectronic devices.