Prof. Ricardo Lopez Anton obtained his PhD in the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU, Spain) in 2002, worked at SIEMENS AG (Erlangen, Germany) as a Marie Curie fellow and at ISIS Spallation Neutron Source (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK) as instrument scientist, and currently is full Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Castille-La Mancha (UCLM, Spain). His main research focus is on magnetic materials, especially at the micro- and nanoscale, although he has also studied other topics, as materials for solid state fuel cells. He has authored more than 60 scientific articles in international journals and presented his works at various international conferences. He is member of the European Magnetism Association, of the IEEE (and IEEE Magnetics Society), and treasurer of the Spanish Magnetism Club (Spanish Association of researchers of Magnetism, with more than 250 members).

Full Professor at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the Gipuzkoako Ingeniaritza Eskola (EHU/UPV) in Donostia. He was born in Eibar (Basque Country) in 1975. He obtained Bachelor degree in Chemistry at the Basque Country University (EHU/UPV) in 1998 at Macromolecules speciality and PhD degree in Chemistry at the Basque Country University in 2004 under the supervision of Dr Iñaki Mondragon.His research is based on the synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites based both on synthetic polymers (thermosetting matrices, block copolymers) and biopolymers. Generation and characterization of nanostructures based on self-assembled block copolymers and nanofillers (metallic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes). Expert in dielectric spectroscopy, developing polymeric materials for capacitive applications. He is also interested and implied in polymer recycling.He has published more than 100 papers in indexed journals (h=31), 16 book chapters and has edited two complete books on nanocomposites. He has presented more than 50 oral contributions to international conferences. He has taken part in more than 60 research projects founded by Spanish Ministry, Basque Government, EU or private companies, both as main researcher and collaborator.

Dr Abhishek Asthana, CEng FEI FIET FHEA PhD MEng MRes BEng, is Associate Professor in Energy Engineering and the Director of Hallam Energy at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). In 2009, he co-founded Hallam Energy and has since led and delivered more than 75 projects of industrial energy research, consultancy and knowledge transfer. He has won £9 million grant funding, including £4 million as PI, co-authored 50 scientific papers and 3 books, invented 4 patents and developed 5 commercial software packages. Abhishek is also the Director of Industrial Energy Pioneers Ltd, a leading energy and environmental consultancy company in the UK. In 2015, he established a Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy to train PhD students conducting energy research. The DTA consisted of 90 PhD students and 180 Supervisors across 19 British Universities in the University Alliance, UK, and Abhishek served as its Deputy Director. Abhishek is a reviewer for the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Renewable Energy Division. He is a grant committee member of UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), responsible for awarding £18 Million of grant funding for UKERC’s Flexible Fund.

Maica Morant-Miñana holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Valencia (Spain). After completing postdoctoral stays at several national and international research centers, including the University of Konstanz (Germany), CIC microGUNE (Gipuzkoa), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany), and CIC nanogune, she joined the CIC energiGUNE prototyping group in June 2018. Her work focuses on adapting innovative materials for electrodes to enhance the electrochemical performance of solid-state batteries. She currently leads the Solid-State Microstructures team.

Dr. Daniel Salazar-Jaramillo (PhD in Physics and Mathematics) is an electronic engineer from Universidad del Quindío (2007) and earned his doctoral degree in Physics and Mathematics from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in 2012. During his PhD, he researched nanostructured and granular magnetic materials, magnetic properties and electrical transport in nanocrystalline oxides, and the magnetic, structural, and thermal properties of strongly correlated electron systems. Since late 2013, he has been at BCMaterials, initially as a postdoctoral researcher and currently as a Senior Researcher. His work focuses on the magnetocaloric effect and its underlying physics in single crystals of magnetic shape-memory alloys, as well as enhancing coercivity in nanostructured rare-earth-free hard magnets through grain-boundary engineering. Recently, he has begun developing formulations for multifunctional magnetic inks, pastes, and powders as feedstock materials for 3D-printing processes. Dr. Salazar has co-supervised three doctoral theses (nine more in progress), seven master’s theses, and several bachelor’s theses. He has published more than 70 SCI papers and four book chapters. He has contributed to over 50 international conferences, delivered twenty invited talks at international conferences, and given numerous seminars at institutions including Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA), Ames Laboratory (USA), TU Darmstadt (Germany), University of Pittsburgh (USA), NIMS and TIT (Japan), and Texas A&M University (USA). He has been a visiting scientist at NCSR-Demokritos (Greece), the University of Delaware (USA), and Universidad del Valle (Colombia). He has participated in more than 15 publicly funded projects and one privately funded project, including those supported by the EU Horizon (H2020) program and the European Space Agency. He has organized over 15 international symposia/workshops and serves on the boards of five Scientific Advisory Committees. He is the former Chair of the Magnetic Materials Committee and a former member of the Scientific Program Board of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS, USA). He is also a member of the Spanish Club of Magnetism, the European Magnetism Association, SOCIEMAT, and MRS.

Dr. Kien Wen Sun was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, United States. From 1995-2000, he was on the faculty of the Electronic Engineering at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. He jointed the faculty of Department of Physics as a professor at National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, from 2000-2005. Since year 2005, he became a professor of Department of Applied Chemistry at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly known as National Chiao Tung University), Hsinchu, Taiwan. During his sabbatical in 2012, he was a visiting professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sun was appointed as the Department Chair of Applied Chemistry at NCTU from 2012-2014. He was also a Joint Appointment Professor at Department of Electronics Engineering and Director of the Center of Nano Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University from 2016-2019. His research interests include femtosecond laser and laser spectroscopy in III-V compound semiconductors, spintronics, nanoimprint, nanolithography, nanoelectronics, organic/inorganic solar cells, diamond related nanomaterials, perovskites and perovskite LEDs, and chemosensors. He has published more than 150 SCI journal papers in above research fields. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and Fellow of Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES). He was given the Rudolph A. Marcus Award by Publishing Division of Cognizure and LOGNOR in 2017 and Taiwan Future Tech Award on 2020. He has served as reviewers for numerous high impact international journals, such as Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, Nanoscale Horizons, etc. He served as Guest Editors of several Special Issues in Chemosensors and Talanta Open and is currently a Topic Editor of Chemosensors.

Dr. Aziz Et-tahir, born in 1964 in Rabat, Professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat since 1996, Ph.D. in Physics (heat transfer, thermodynamics) from the University of Pau, France in 1993 and Habilitation to Supervise Research (since 2004) from the Mohammadia School of Engineering at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Since 2020 he has been Head of the Mutualization Department at the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research – Morocco (CNRST).
From 2000 to 2020, he held a number of positions, including Director of Scientific Research and Cooperation at the Higher School of Technology in Salé (EST-Salé), under the Mohammed V University (2014-16), and expert member of the National Agency for Quality Assessment in Higher Education and Scientific Research (since 2015), he was Head of the Continuing Education Department (2008-2014), Head of the Industrial Maintenance Department (2000-2008), Coordinator of the Industrial Maintenance DUT (2006-2010) and of the Master's Program in Information Systems Management and Consulting (2007-2014). He is the author of more than seventy scientific publications in international journals, of which more than fifty are indexed by Scopus and/or WOS. Mr. Et-tahir has presented over 70 papers at international conferences. He is also the author of several book chapters and textbooks, including two for the World Health Organization. He has been the coordinator of numerous funded research and development projects. He has been a member of the jury for prizes and doctoral theses and a member of the scientific committee of several international scientific and educational conferences (Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Maghreb, Benin, Belgium, Egypt, France, Tunisia...). He is currently supervising numerous doctoral students in interdisciplinary fields, and has supervised more than 20 master's theses and 100 undergraduate theses in various disciplines.
Pr. Aziz Et-tahir was awarded the first Jean Demal Prize by the International Association of University Pedagogy (AIPU-International) at the 25th AIPU International Congress, Montpellier-France (2008) and at the 28th AIPU International Congress, Mons-Belgium (2014). With regard to professional associations, he was elected Vice-President in Canada (Trois Rivières) (2012-18) and member of the International Board of Directors (2009-2018) of the International Association for University Pedagogy and has been Treasurer General of the IAUP Morocco Section since 2000. He is a founding member and board member of the Société Marocaine d'Acoustique (SCA) (2010) and the Association Marco-Française de l'Energie et de l'Environnement (AMFREE) (2006). It is accredited by the Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Mines (1997) for the inspection of gas and steam pressure equipment.

Professor Jesús Toribio graduated in Civil Engineering in 1982 and then in Mathematics in 1986. In 1987 he was awarded his PhD in the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and turned into Associate Professor in that Institution. In 1992 he became Full Professor and Head of the Materials Science Department of the University of La Coruña (at the age of 32, thus being the youngest Full Professor in the area of Materials Science in Spain). In 2000 he moved to the University of Salamanca (USAL) where is currently Full Professor of Materials Science and Head of the Fracture and Structural Integrity Research Group (FSIRG) of that Institution.
His research work is mainly concerned with fatigue and fracture mechanics, environmentally assisted cracking, stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement/degradation/damage of metals and alloys (mainly cold drawn pearlitic steel wires for civil engineering and austenitic stainless steels for nuclear engineering and energy applications), covering theoretical, computational and experimental aspects. He actively participates in International Conferences, very often being member of the International Advisory Committee, organising Special Sessions/Symposia, being Session Chairman or delivering Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. Professor Dr. Jesús Toribio has published more than 500 scientific papers, most of them in international books and journals.
He is the Chairman of the Technical Committee 10 (TC10): Environmentally Assisted Cracking of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) and has been Director (2013-2017) of the International Congress of Fracture-The World Academy of Structural Integrity (ICF-WASI), being responsible of launching the Ibero-American Academy of Structural Integrity (IA2SI). Prof. Toribio has been awarded a variety of scientific research prizes and awards including: (i) UPM Young Scientist Award of the Polytechnic University of Madrid; (ii) METROTEC Award for the best Technological Research Project; (iii) Honour Medal of the Spanish Group of Fracture (GEF/SEIE) in recognition of his research achievements in the field of fracture mechanics; (iv) Fellow of the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) in recognition of leadership and outstanding work in engineering sciences; (v) Top Reviewer 2011 in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the Elsevier International Journal Engineering Fracture Mechanics; (vi) Fellow of the European Structural Society (ESIS Fellow) for his outstanding contributions to the art, science, teaching or practice of fracture mechanics and his service to the society; (vii) Honorary Member of the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) in acknowledgement and appreciation of his outstanding achievements in the research field
of fracture mechanics; (viii) Best Paper and Presentation Award in the International Conference on Energy Materials and Applications (ICEMA 2017) held in 2017 in Hiroshima, Japan, with a paper entitled: Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Diffusion in the Pressure Vessel Wall of a WWER-440 Reactor; (ix) María de Maeztu Scientific Award of the University of Salamanca (800th anniversary during 2018) in recognition of academic trajectory and excellence in scientific and technological research; (x) Scientific Merit Award of the Portuguese Group of Fracture (PGF) in recognition of scientific contributions during his career.

Narayanamoorthy Bhuvanendran is a research professor in the Department of Energy and Materials Engineering at Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. from SCSVMV University, India, in 2014, and subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at HySA Systems, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2014-2015), and the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University, China (2018-2021). His primary research focus involves designing and developing novel nanostructured materials using various wet and dry synthesis approaches for energy and environmental applications, including fuel cells, water electrolyzers, and metal-air batteries. Dr. Bhuvanendran has authored over 50 research articles published in reputable journals and has actively presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. As a principal investigator, he has led various funded research projects and collaborated with several research groups in different countries.

Dr. Mourad MEBARKI is a permanent researcher at CRTSE as researcher director, Research Center on Semiconductors Technology for Energetic, Algiers, Algeria. He did his doctoral research, in material physics, and habilitation to supervise research (HDR), at Bejaia University, Algeria. He has published many of research articles, book chapters in many material sciences’ fields, in reputed reviews, and has been serving as a reviewer.