Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 126) 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. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, HebeiUniversity of Technology, UFPI, 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.

Prof. T. S. Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology of NTUST, Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE department of NUS in 2011-2021. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received the Underwood Medal from IChemE UK for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from IDA in 2016.He was ranked as No. 6th in Chemical Engineering by “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford U. in 2022 and 2023. His H-index = 132 (Scopus) or 153 (Google Scholar) (July 4, 2024).

Dr. Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji is current a professor of Department of Chemistry, Drexel university. His research interests focus on polymers, MEMS devices, nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, drug discovery, nanopillars and phosphene for energy applications, and surface chemistry. He is currently a co-author of 220 peer-viewed journal articles and book chapters. He has an H-index of 43. He is an editorial board member of several chemistry journals.

Changyou Gao graduated from Department of Chemistry, Jilin University to get his Bachelor degree (1990), Master degree (1993) and Ph.D of Polymer Chemistry and Physics (1996). From 1996 to 1998, he worked in Department of Polymer Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University as a postdoctor fellowship. He was a DAAD fellowship and visiting scholar in Germany (1999). He is a Cheung Kong Scholar of Ministry of Education of China, a winner for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, a fellow of the International Federation of Biomaterial Science and Engineering Societies, the American Institute of Medicinal and Biological Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Chinese Society of Biomaterials. He is now serving as an associate president of Chinese Society of Biomaterials, and an associate editor of Biomaterials Advances and Progress in Materials Science. His research interests include self-adaptive biomaterials, immuno-modulation biomaterials, anti-bacterial biomaterials and their applications in tissue repair and regeneration. He has published more than 500 papers with an H-index of 78.

Jorge Lino Alves, Mechanical Engineer, PhD in Materials Science, Full Professor at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. FEUP Director of the Master in Product and Industrial Design (UPorto), Director of DESIGNSTUDIO FEUP and Laboratory of Additive Manufacturing, and Past President of the Portuguese Society of Materials (SPM). Develop research in product development and additive manufacturing. Co-author of 8 books, and more than five hundred papers in journals, book chapters, posters and conferences. Has a registration of a community design or model, and 30 awards in contests. Reviewer for several scientific journals and is Director of the Science and Materials Technology Magazine of SPM.

Dr. Daniel Grande is a CNRS research director at Charles Sadron Institute (ICS) in Strasbourg where he moved in January 2024. Before his present position, he acted as the director of the ICMPE in Thiais for the period 2020-2023. He received his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Bordeaux (France) and the University of Coahuila (Mexico) in 1998, and then he spent about two years at Emory University (Atlanta, USA) as a NIH post-doctoral fellow. His research interests include the development of functional polymer materials with a broad range of porosity scales, including nanoporous materials with controlled porosity and chemical functionality derived from polymer networks and nanostructured block copolymers, doubly porous materials with nano- and macro-porosity, as well as hybrid macroporous materials based on polymer fibers and inorganic nanoparticles.

Prof. Regina Jeziorska has received the M.Sc. (1984), the Ph.D. (1998and the D.Sc. (2008) degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology, Industrial Chemistry Research Institute and Lublin University of Technology, Poland, respectively. Currently she leads a group of researchers working on various aspects of recycling and reactive extrusion of bio(polymers), nanocomposites and their applications, and polymer technology. She is the author and co-author of over 150 publications, including 56 from the Philadelphia list, over 90 papers at national and international conferences and over 40 patents.

Magnus S Magnusson is a Research Professor in the University of Iceland. He has completed his PhD in 1983 from the University of Copenhagen. He is the Codirector of a DNA analysis project. He has numerous papers and invited talks at international mathematical, neuroscience, proteomics, bioinformatics and science of religion conferences and at leading universities in Europe, USA and Japan. He was the Deputy Director (1983-1988) in the Museum of Mankind, Museum of Natural History, Paris. Then, he was repeatedly invited as temporary Professor in Psychology and Ethology (biology of behavior) at the University of Paris (V, VIII &XIII). He is the Founder and Director of the Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Iceland. He formally collaborated with 32 European and American universities based on “Magnusson’s analytical model” initiated at University René Descartes Paris V, Sorbonne, in 1995.

Malcolm Kelland (BA and D. Phil in chemistry at Oxford University, UK), worked at NORCE, Norway for 10 years before becoming Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stavanger, Norway in 2001. He has worked on various oilfield chemical projects and other crystal growth inhibition projects involving polymers for 33 years especially low dosage hydrate inhibitors (LDHIs), some of which have been commercialised. A spin-off company, Eco Inhibitors, from his research was sold in 2019. He is the sole author of the handbook “Production Chemicals for the Oil and Gas Industry”. He has published over 230 papers, been awarded over 10 patents and several industrial prizes for his innovative work.

Wei Tian completed his Ph.D. from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Xiaodong Fan. He pursued his research work in polymer chemistry as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university until 2010. Following academic appointments at Northwestern Polytechnical University, he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a research associate. He came back to Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2011, and became a full professor in 2014. His scientific interests focus on supramolecular hyperbranched polymers and macromolecular self-assembly.