Prof. Mineo Hiramatsu received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1987. He has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Meijo University, Japan, since 2006. He has played leading roles in the Japanese applied physics community, including serving as a Director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. His research focuses on plasma diagnostics and plasma-based processing for the synthesis of thin films and nanostructured materials. In recognition of his long-standing contributions to plasma science and materials research, he was elected a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2017.

Prof. Tadeusz Burczynski is Full Professor of Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Chairholder of UNESCO Chair on Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Ordinary Member of the 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.

Prof. Sang Ouk Kim is a Professor in Materials Science & Engineering, KAIST and the director for the InnoCore Research Center entitled ‘Sustainable Materials Institute for Post-AI Era. His research interest focuses on the directed molecular assembly of nanoscale materials, as a synthetic platform for discovering novel functional materials. His major scientific achievements include the world-first discovery of graphene oxide liquid crystals and Fe-N4 single-atom catalysts. He have received numerous honorable awards, including the Presidential Korean Engineering Award (2025), Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics (2018), the KAIST Grand Prize for Academic Excellence (2015) and Presidential Young Scientist Award (2013). Based on the Google Scholar statistics, Prof. Kim’s h-index is 99 and the total citation number is more than 34,000.

Mr. Michel de Ruiter is the founder of Graphene Pioneer. He specializes in the industrial application of graphene to decarbonize the construction sector. His work focuses on reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment through nano-material integration and sustainable manufacturing.

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.

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).

Prof. Dr. Siva Bohm is a Royal Society Industry Fellow at Imperial College London, CSO of Xian Xinsanli Composite Materials Tech, and Visiting Professor at Xi’an University. An
expert in graphene, 2D materials (h-BN), electrochemistry, and energy storage, he has 25 years of industrial R&D experience across automotive, aerospace, and construction
sectors. He holds >50 patents, >100 publications, and has delivered >15 commercial products for companies including Tata Steel, ArcelorMittal, Ceylon Graphite, and Talga
Group. Dr Bohm has held academic positions at Cambridge, Imperial, Swansea, TU Delft, and IIT Bombay. He is a multiple award-winning scientist and consultant in industrial
graphene applications.

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.

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.

Bayu Indrawan is a visionary leaderin renewableenergy and thecirculareconomy, known for
pioneering sustainablesolutions. As founder ofthe Center ofWaste ManagementIndonesia, he drives
waste-to-energy transformation and promotes integrated,technology-driven waste management.With
a multidisciplinary background in electricalengineering,economics, and environmental science, Bayu
advances sustainableinnovation and environmental stewardship. In 2025, he was appointed to the
IndonesiaHigher Education Councilto providestrategic guidance and leadership in enhancing higher
education quality and innovation.

Dr. Ernie Suzana Ali is a lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). She obtained her PhD in Materials Science from UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Her research interests include polymer composites, polyurethane materials, nanocomposites, functional coatings, dielectric materials, and electromagnetic interference shielding.Her research also covers the development of bio-based and sustainable materials for different applications. She has been involved in several research projects supported by national and institutional grants and has published her work in Scopus-indexed journals and academic publications.In addition to research, Dr. Ernie is actively involved in undergraduate teaching, student supervision, curriculum development, academic assessment, and professional training. She also serves as a reviewer for research grants and academic publications. Her current research focuses on the development and application of functional and sustainable materials, with particular interest in polymer-based materials and their potential use in industrial and practical applications.

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 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.

Gary J. Dickelman is a thought leader, researcher, strategist, and solution provider for the
knowledge ecosystem: technology-based learning, performance support, predictive analytics,
knowledge management, and artificial intelligence. He has developed global knowledge
solutions while directing cross-functional teams in the learning and knowledge spaces.
Solutions include global eLearning, software simulations, predictive analytics, just-in-time
reference, emergency management, business continuity, pandemic response, customer
support, digital transformation, and AI integration. Dickelman has authored scores of peer
reviewed articles, contributed to industry books, publishes the p-literate.com blog, and has
served as author/editor of industry journals. He has served as adjunct faculty for university
graduate programs in the learning technologies and human performance engineering.
Dickelman works across a plethora of industries, including nuclear power, software
engineering, advanced materials science, human resources, finance, insurance, publishing,
travel, hospitality, education, sales/marketing, defense, security, performing arts, and
historical preservation.

Dr. Dou Zhang is an Assistant Researcher and M.S. Supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her research focuses on the mechanical behavior of shape memory polymer (SMP) composites and their application-oriented validation, with particular emphasis on constitutive behavior, thermo-mechanical coupling, and structure-function integration for deployable mechanisms. The SMP-based locking-and-release deployment mechanism developed by her team enabled the first dynamic unfurling of the national flag on China’s inaugural Mars mission, Tianwen-1. This achievement was selected as one of the “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances of Chinese Higher Education Institutions” in 2021

Prof. Dr. Shahid Hussain is a Full Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, China. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Chongqing University in 2015 and joined Jiangsu University in 2017, becoming Full Professor in 2020. His research focuses on advanced materials—including metal oxides, sulfides, MXenes, and metal-organic compounds—for gas sensors, supercapacitors, and Li–S batteries.

He has published over 340 SCI-indexed papers, 2 books, and 9 book chapters, with an h-index of 61 and more than 13,500 citations. Prof. Hussain serves as editor for 17 international journals, has delivered 29 keynote lectures, and is a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials. He actively leads national and international research projects and continues to advance sensor technologies and energy materials through global collaboration.

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.

Prof. Un Jeong Kim received her Ph.D. in Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Peter C. Eklund. Her doctoral research focused on the optical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphitic nanoribbons, with particular emphasis on Raman spectroscopy.

After completing her Ph.D., she joined the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), where she worked as a Senior Scientist until February 2024. During her tenure at SAIT, she led and participated in a wide range of research projects involving carbon nanotubes, two-dimensional materials, optoelectronic and electronic devices, and CMOS-based spectrometers. Her work resulted in numerous publications in leading journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Today and so on.

In addition to her academic achievements, Prof. Kim has been actively involved in technology commercialization and innovation. She successfully led projects selected for the Samsung Tech Fair two times and received the Gold Medal in the Samsung Best Paper Award (Base Technology Division) in recognition of her outstanding research contributions.
In March 2024, she joined the Department of Physics at Dongguk University as an Assistant Professor. Her current research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of emerging materials and device structures through advanced light–matter interaction techniques, including Raman spectroscopy and hyperspectral phase microscopy. Her group is particularly interested in translating scientific discoveries into practical technologies that can benefit society and improve everyday life.

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.

Naijie Ren is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Optoelectronics, Shanxi University, China. They are affiliated with the Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics and the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices. Their research focuses on topological quantum phenomena in artificial quantum materials, especially artificial quantum Hall insulators, helical edge states, and quantum transport. They are particularly interested in Hilbert-space-selected control of edge channels and its potential applications in topological quantum devices. Their recent work, “Hilbert-space selected switch of helical edges in an artificial quantum Hall insulator” (arXiv:2609.11732), will be presented as an oral talk at WS2DM 2026. Their research aims to understand and control topological edge states in low-dimensional quantum systems and to explore their potential for future quantum technologies. They look forward to exchanging ideas with researchers working on graphene, 2D materials, and carbon nanostructures.

Professor V.G. Plekhanovhasgraduatedfrom Tartu State University (Estonia). He obtained Ph.D. (physics and mathematics) 1972 as well as Doctor of Science (physics and mathematics) 1982 – bothdegreesfrom Tartu State University. The list of my publication contains more than 200 articles in peer – reviewed journals and more than 25 fundamental reviews in leading journals in English and Russian.

I will add that I have written more than tenmonographs in different field of physics and quantum informatics. Main interest field: isotopic materials science including the origin of the mass and natuure of the residual strong nuclear interaction aswell as origin mass of elementary particles.

Mr. Minwoo Kim is CEO of INIWORLD Co. in South KOREA, and a member of Sungkyunkwan University DEU-Enterprise Partnership Program. My R&D academic background is physical science and I majored in physics at Korea University. My research interests are the pivotless rotating functional mechanism for geometrically multifaceted floating platforms and efficient energy harvesting and design and development high power floating solar systems and floating platform stabilizers for anti-rolling, anti-pitch, anti-yaw on a fluid.

Qiong Liu is a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on two-dimensional semiconductor devices, non-volatile memory, and reconfigurable electronics, with particular interests in carrier-transport engineering and floating-gate device physics.