Philippe Knauth is Professor ("Classe Exceptionnelle") of Materials Chemistry at Aix Marseille Université (France). He earned his PhD in 1987 at Saarland University (Germany) and his habilitation in 1996 at Université d'Aix Marseille. He has spent sabbaticals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997-1998 and now in 2013 as well as at the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) in 2007 and 2010. Prof. Knauth is recipient of the CNRS Bronze Medal (1994), has been elected member of the French National Council of Universities (materials chemistry division) since 2003, is President of the regional section "Provence-Alpes-Côté d'Azur" of the French Chemical Society (SCF) since 2010 and is a member of its national administration council since 2012. Prof. Knauth has been working for many years on solid ionic conductors, especially ionic conduction at interfaces, and nanostructured materials for energy storage and conversion. His current research topics include self-organized TiO2 nanotubes for Li-ion microbatteries and ion-conducting membranes for fuel cells.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation)joined HuddersfieldUniversity as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering,in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 12Springer books. He is Fellow of:British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Honorary Technical Editor, International Journal of Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR),Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Editorial Board member of the International Journal “Electronics”, the International Journal “Sensors”, the International Journal “Energies”, the International Journal “Insight”,the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management,the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research and the International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing. He was Chair,First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of ICNDT and EFNDT and Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring. Len made 42 plenary keynotes at major international conferences. He was Visiting Professor at ten Universities abroad. Len received two Rolls-Royce (UK) Awards for Innovation, COMADIT Prize (by British Institute of NDT) for significant contribution through research/development in condition monitoring, Oxford Academic Health Science Network Award, William Smith Prize by UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and USA Navy Award.

Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State University. He has also served as a Finland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry with the department of Chemstry of the University of Helsinki, Finland and Distinguished visiting Professor with the centre for Advanced Materials and the Department of Chemistry King Abdulaziz University, Jedah, Saudi Arabia. Professor Argyropoulos’sresearch team is internationally recognized for his leading contributions to Green Chemistry using cellulose and lignin wood-based polymers. His work focuses at promoting our understanding of the structure and reactivity of such polymers and the development of novel NMR and material science techniques for the structural elucidation and upgrading of these biopolymers. The efforts of his research group have been disseminated in excess of 200 scientific papers, numerous scientific conferences invited presentations and patents. Professor Argyropoulos is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Academy of Wood science and the Chemical Institute of Canada.

Dr. John Montesano, Assistant Professor. John Montesano is the Director of the Composites Research Group (CRG) and has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo (Canada) since 2015. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson University (Canada) in 2012 and was an NSERC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Toronto from 2013-2015. He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in conference proceedings. His research is focused on developing and implementing advanced experimental techniques and numerical tools to investigate and model the highly intricate multiscale failure processes of high-performance composite materials and structures under cyclic and impact loading.

Senior Researcher of the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares T.C. UNAM, and professor The chemistry Faculty of the National Autonomus University of Mexico, UNAM., Investigador Nacional Emeritus of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores; member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias; Award as Catedrático UNAM 1997-2001, Award UNAM Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2004); Award to the best article in 2010, by the American Nuclear Society, Latinoamerican Section. Award Nacional de Química, 2015, by the Mexico Chemical Society. Publishing of 159 international and 19 national publications, 8 chapter of books and one chapter in one Polymer Encyclopedia, 3 divulgation articles and 71 publications of memories. Presentation of more than 350 research in Congress and Academic events, several of them by invitations in Turquía, China, Australia, España, Japón, Chile, México, Rumania, Yugoeslavia and USA. Direction of 90 Thesis: 59 Bachelor thesis, 17 Master on Sciences and 14 of Ph degree.

Dr. Norkhairunnisa Mazlan is an Associate Professor of polymer nanocomposites at University Putra Malaysia. She is currently serving under the Department of Aerospace Engineering. She graduated with honors from Universiti Sains Malaysia's (USM) School of Industrial Technology in 2005. In 2006, she earned her master`s degree in Materials Engineering from USM and in 2012, she received her PhD in Nanotechnology from USM. Her research focuses on the use of natural fibres in composites, nanocomposites and the development of geopolymers for various potential applications.To date, she has authored and co-authored more than 80 publications. Based on her background and knowledge in materials, Norkhairunnisa Mazlan has been involved in multidisciplinary research across department, faculty and communities.

Dr Evangelos Kordatos graduated with a MEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2008. He received his MSc in Chemistry and Materials Technology and his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Ioannina in 2013. Upon the completion of his PhD, he became a Postdoctoral research associate at the Texas A&M University, Texas (USA), working on Non-Destructive assessment of aerospace materials, shape memory alloys (SMAs). Evangelos joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2013 as a Lecturer in Materials Engineering and became a Senior Lecturer in 2016. Evangelos is the Course Leader for the BEng and MEng Materials Engineering courses at Sheffield Hallam University, UKand he led the MEng Materials Engineering course successful accreditation by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).Evangelos’ research is focused on the study of the mechanical and thermal behaviour of advanced materials, such as Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs), Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs), Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs), Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), smart materials, etc. He has worked extensively on the non-destructive monitoring of materials.

Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan is currently associated with Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab, as a research fellow, in College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and a Master's in Biotechnology from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He earned his doctoral degree in Biomaterials Science from Donghua University in 2020. He received the grand prize for outstanding international researcher award from Donghua University for the year 2020. In recent years, he published his finding in prestigious journals of materials science. His core interests include the fabrication, characterization and evaluation of polymer-based regenerative biomaterials and drug delivery systems mainly through electrospinning and 3D printing techniques. His major interest is to fabricate bioactive polymer-based composite biomaterials for various biomedical applications mainly including regeneration of soft tissues.

MD. Valentin POPESCU is a general surgeon from Bucharest, ROMANIA, with a PhD thesis on natural polymers involved in wound healing and hernia mesh integration at University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" Bucharest. His research in a multidisciplinary team which involves top surgeons and top researchers from Advanced Polymer Materials Group (APMG) at Politehnica University of Bucharest is focused on tissue integration of artificial polymers used as implants in general surgery. In his career as Assistant Professor he is teaching and orienting young medical doctors and students in the Translational medicine point of view.

Dr. Gulshan Kumar done his Master Degree from Guru Jambheshwar University, Hissar, India with specialization in Polymer Science. Completed Ph.D in polymer science in the year 2004 from Guru Gobind Singh Inpraprastha University, NCT of Delhi, India having the topic of synthesis & characterization of co-polymers of Alkyl-ita-conates with Styrene. Joined Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, NCT of Delhi, India as Assistant Professor during the year 2005. Till now having teaching & research experience of more than twelve years. Immensely contributed in the field of polymer science. Having number of publications in National and International Journals and also presented papers in various conferences in India and abroad like USA, UK, South Korea, Portugal, Italy, Finland, France etc. Presently research work is being carried out in the field of Green Composites and nanocomposites. Some students are also pursuing their Ph.D. and four students had already been awarded degree.

Dr. Frederik Claeyssens is a Senior Lecturer at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Sheffield (U.K.). During his independent career Dr. Claeyssens established a materials microstructuring laboratory, and his main research explores laser-based 2D and 3D direct-write techniques for (bio)materials micro-structuring and the use of these structures in a range of different applications, e.g. tissue engineering, (bio)sensors, and microelectronics. Frederik Claeyssens has published papers in leading chemistry and materials science journals, he has 82 publications in refereed journals which have received 3059 citations, and an h-index of 27.