Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic attended the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (Serbia), and moved to the US in 1990 where she received a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. From 1990 to 1994, she was involved in developing a voltage ratio bridge for the NASA Zeno experiment, that flue in space in 1994 and onboard the follow up the mission in 1997. She has been a Guest Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, since 1990. She is currently a Professor with the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. Her recent work in metrology involves the development of impedance measuring techniques and developing displacement sensors using nanotechnology. She has been focusing on laser propagation in a maritime environment since 2009 and performed numerous field and laboratory experiments with structured laser light. Earlier work includes exploration of spatial partial coherence and polarization of light where she is presently concentration on the light that carries orbital angular momentum. She currently leads the research on the development of an underwater communication system using spatial multiplexing of basis beams and the classification of the received messages using machine learning algorithms.

Anna Backerra has graduated in Theoretical Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and worked for three years at Philips Research Laboratories. She continued independently, making a search for complementary physics. To develop a way of complementary thinking she studied composition at the Conservatory in Enschede and in Saint Petersburg. After that she constructed a complementary mathematical language and applied this to Physics, obtaining Twin Physics. The results are published in Physical Essays (three papers), Applied Physics Research (three papers), and combined in a book (“Twin Physics, the Complementary Model Of Phenomena”- Lambert Academic Publishing).

Shaheera Rashwan is a computer science researcher at Informatics Research Institute, the City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Alexandria, Egypt where she served as a faculty since 2003. She received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, a Ph.D. in biomedical image processing � Computer engineering-- from Tanta University, and also holds a master's degree in Fuzzy databases from Alexandria University. Her research interests encompass bioinformatics, image processing, and artificial intelligence.

Arnaud Mussot received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Besancon in 2004. Until 2005 he had a post doc position at the French Atomic Agency (CEA) in Bordeaux in France. In 2005 he joined the University of Lille as a lecturer and he was appointed full professor in 2014. Since 2015, he has been a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). His interests focus on nonlinear fiber optics. He has co-authored more than 130 papers in peer-review journals.

Dr. Amlan. K. Roy completed his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from Panjab University, in India. Later he pursued his post-doctoral research in a number of places in North America, such as the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada), University of Kansas (Lawrence, USA), University of California (Los Angeles, USA), University of Florida (Quantum Theory Project). His primary research interest is to develop methods for the electronic structure and dynamics of many-electron systems, within the broad domain of density functional framework. Presently he is an Associate Professor at IISER Kolkata, India. He has published more than eighty research papers and book chapters in reputed journals. He has been serving as a reviewer in several renowned journals. His biography has been included in the 63rd Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2009. In 2012, he has edited a book entitled “Theoretical and Computational Developments in Modern Density Functional Theory”.

Mohsen Rahmani is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University. His research activities span over light-matter interactions with various subwavelength nanoparticles for applications in flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, etc. He has obtained his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London, and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2020, he has moved to the Nottingham Trent University as a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow and has recently been awarded the UK Research and Innovation Fellowship. Associate Professor Rahmani has delivered 20+ invited talks, seminars, and keynotes in international conferences, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers (H-index=31). He is a recipient of several prestigious awards and prizes including the Australian Eureka Prize, Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award.

Yahia CHERGUI has completed his Ph.D. from Badji Mokhtar University in Annaba, Algeria. His research field is Physics(condensed matter, simulation by molecular dynamics). He is a lecturer at Boumerdes University( Electrical & Electronics Engineering Institute) since 2012. He has published more than 7 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a referee with condensed matter journal (IOP), Energy journal (Elsevier), and recently accepted to be a reviewer of American Journal of Modern Physics. He did all his Ph.D. work at Cardiff University in UK.

Dagang Jiang is an associate professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his BS and MS degrees from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in optics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2014. Now, he is the deputy director of the Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province in China. His current research interests include free-space optical communication and laser atmospheric propagation.

Patrik Ščajev received a Ph.D. degree in 2013 at Vilnius University (VU, dissertation: “Investigation of wide-band-gap semiconductor photoelectric properties by using optical techniques with temporal and spatial resolution”). Since 2018 he is a senior scientific researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Physics, VU. He is a co-author of 70 papers and 100 conference presentations and involved in 18 scientific research projects. Patrik Ščajev research interests concern development of optical techniques for semiconductor characterization, characterization of semiconductor materials (silicon carbide, III‐nitrides, diamond, cadmium telluride, germanium alloys, perovskites) by nondestructive optical techniques (light-induced transient gratings, time-resolved photoluminescence, time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy, photoconductivity); analysis and modelling of carrier-exciton transport (diffusion, mobility, recombination) in various semiconductors.

Joaquín Calixto García Martínez graduated in Chemistry from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in 1998. I got my PhD in this same in 2002, with Cum Laude distinction, European PhD and a UCLM Extraordinary PhD Award in the academic year 2002-2003. The post-doctoral stay, with a MECD-Fulbright scholarship, was in the group of Prof. Richard M. Crooks, at The University of Texas A&M (USA), between 2003 and 2005. In November 2005, I joined the UCLM, as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher, and after 3 years and a half, I joined the UCLM staff as an Associated Professor in the Organic Chemistry Area of the Faculty of Chemistry of Ciudad Real. In September 2010, I moved to the Faculty of Pharmacy of Albacete, where I held the position of Associate Dean until 2014. I am currently leading the Organic Pharmaceutical Chemistry group since its creation in 2010. Currently, my main research interest is focused on the design, synthesis and self-assembly of new pi-conjugated light-emitting systems in order to control their photo physical properties in solution and solid state for various applications such as sensors, photodynamic therapies or drug-delivery systems. I have participated in about twenty research projects of regional, national and European character, eight of which as principal investigator. I have published a total of 61 articles (53 in JRC), including reviews, research papers, books and book chapters, with an H index of 22, inventor of 5 patents and have participated in more than 50 national and international conferences. I am also a member of different scientific societies such as the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (specialized groups of Organic Chemistry and Bioanalytic Technologies), and the Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry (SEQT). Since 2019 I am a member of the Board of Directors of the SEQT and of the Editorial Board of the MDPI journal Polymers.