Scientific Board
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Mizi Fan, Research Director, has both academic and industrial profiles previously developed at the University of Bath, the Building Research Establishment, UK (BRE) and universities in China over the last 20 years: He spent the early part of his career as a university lecturer in natural fibre, composite and engineering subjects before receiving his PhD from the University of Wales, UK in 1997. He then carried out major research and research consultancy at BRE for a period of 12 years before re-entering academics at the University of Bath. Upon his appointment as Chair in Civil Engineering at Brunel University London, his research for the next few years will centre on solving the critical issues of future building materials and systems, particularly in nano cellulose and fusion technology, and innovative low carbon materials. In his research field of Fibre Science and Technology, Composites, Recycling and Zero Carbon Construction, he has an international profile with four international patents, three books, and over 160 journal and conference publications, including top journals in the field such as Materials Sciences, Wood Science and Technology, and Vibrational Spectroscopy. He was the winner of the BRE Trust Award for outstanding achievement in European projects, BRE Trust Award for outstanding achievement in recognition of outstanding success in the EULIFE programme and in winning bids from IRTU, and the BRE Trust Outstanding Publication Awards for the two best papers on Built Environment.
China
Biography
Prof. Guosong Wu received his PhD in materials processing engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2007. After graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, and Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Korea). In 2016, he joined Hohai University, China and became a full professor. Now, he is Chief Editor of Scanning (since 2021) as well as a member of the editorial board of 9 international journals. Surface engineering; Corrosion science; Smart materials; Biomaterials; Plasma related technologies Prof. Guosong Wu has published more than 110 academic papers that have been cited over 4300 times according to Scopus (H-index > 40). He is listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Career-long Impact: 2020,2021,2022,2023; Single Year Impact: 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023) according to metrics compiled by Stanford University.
North Macedonia
Biography
Multi-task effective, resourceful, detail-oriented professional with an interdisciplinary approach for solving problems, critical thinking, and a strong commitment to education, vocational training, research and scientific work recognized by superiors and colleagues. ï‚· Self-motivated to make an efficient impact, versatile and learning-agile professional with an initiative to achieve both personal and institutional goals in an outcome-oriented way. ï‚· Experienced in design and establishing/coordination/conducting educational programmes and courses on topics that are of global meaning and importance. ï‚· Supervising activities at different levels of education/training: STEM mentorship and challenge tournament. ï‚· PhD/MSc advisor and evaluator of thesis at national and international institutions. ï‚· Circularity by design; utilization of materials that could be re-processed /reused/recycled or redesigned. Utilization of by-products / biowaste, all in the context of circular economy and the global UN Sustainable Development Goals. ï‚· Open for discussion and finding solutions on global syndemic; climate changes, sustainable food systems and healthy lifestyles. ï‚· Wide cooperation with industrial partners in- and out-of-the country. Innovation and competitiveness of the companies toward a clean sustainable future; climate smart actions and a carbon neutral world. ï‚· Specific competencies include but are not limited to the development of novel materials, functional compositions, structure-processing-properties relationship, characterization using a wide range of instrumental techniques and analytical methods. ï‚· Evaluator and reviewer of international projects, journals and curricula.
USA
Biography
A native of Liverpool in the U.K., Dr. Jackson began his engineering career in 1983. He received an Ordinary National Diploma in Engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Jackson continued his studies and conducted research at Liverpool gaining a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He subsequently became materials technologist and technical manager at Unicorn Abrasives’ Central Research and Development Laboratory. Dr. Jackson then accepted a research fellowship at the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge working with Professor John Field, on impact and friction of diamond and related materials before becoming a lecturer in engineering at the University of Liverpool. At Liverpool, Dr. Jackson established research in the field of micromachining and nanomachining and attracted research contracts in excess of $10 million. In 2002, Dr. Jackson became associate professor at Tennessee Technological University and a faculty associate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He continued his research, and teaching and engagement activities, by joining Purdue University in 2004 becoming Associate Department Head for Research in 2010. For his applied research, he was awarded the University Faculty Scholarship at Purdue and subsequently joined Saint-Gobain Corporation as Research Leader. In 2011, he created a new product development strategy for the field of machining science. After working as a Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering Technology at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Jackson began his duties as Professor and Department Head of Engineering Technology at K-State Salina on July 1, 2013. He is a McCune and Middlekauff Endowed Chair at Kansas State University, Salina.
Serbia
Biography
She has published more than 70 scientific papers in the country and abroad, several books (Models of Motivation ISBN: 978-620-2-31076-5 Publisher: Scholars' Press 2018, Protection ISBN 978-86-83573-20-2 Higher business-technical school of vocational studies 2010, supplemented and updated edition of Uzice 2014, Thermal treatment of steel, published by Technical faculty Cacak, 1999, university textbook.), one patent, several projects. After 44 years of working with students, She is retiring. Now she is still active in IOM.3 in London, of which she has been a member for several decades.
China
Biography
Baoguo Han received the Ph.D. degree in smart materials and structures from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering with the Dalian University of Technology, China. He has authored one book, seven book chapters, and more than 50 published papers. He was invited to the University of Minnesota as a Visiting Research Scholar for three years. His main research interests include smart materials and structures, sensors, structural health monitoring, traffic detection, nanotechnology, and cement and concrete materials. He is a member of the Editorial Board of three international journals. He also was awarded the New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education of China and the First Prize of Natural Science by the Ministry of Education of China as the third
Portugal
Biography
André Pereira completed his Mechanical Engineering PhD (Production Technologies branch) in March of 2019, with the elaboration of a PhD thesis entitled "On the Constitutive Parameters Identification of Metal Sheets: Bulge, Shear and Tensile Tests". He participated in 6 Projects in the areas of Engineering Sciences and Technologies with an emphasis on Mechanical Engineering (Sheet Metal Forming Processes) and Nanotechnology. From his research work, 21 papers were published in international journals, 22 works in international conferences and 1 paper in a book chapter. Additionally, he has performed editorial work as a topic board member and as Guest Editor in two Special Issues "Deformation of Crystalline Materials" and "Recent Advances and Applications of Machine Learning in Metal Forming Processes". He has also peer-review activities in International Journals, being member of the reviewer board of the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing Engineering and International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems . Complementary to the research activity, since 2019, he is an assistant professor in the University of Coimbra, at the disciplines, "Numerical and Computational Methods" (2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2021/2022), and "Elasticity and Plasticity" (2020/2021). At the same time, he also supervised MSc dissertations and PhD Thesis."
USA
Biography
Distinguished Visiting Professor supported by Royal Acad. of Engineers, Sep.10-Oct.10, 2009, Univ. of Leicester. Distinguished foreign professor at the University of Cairo, Amer. Univ. of Cairo, Al-Azhar Univ. of Cairo, (Nov. 2004, Dec. 2006), Academy of Science of Mexico (Oct. 1997) Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award (1997). Fulbright Research Professorship at the Technion 1991-92. Elected member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1994); Elected member of the Electromagnetics Academy MIT (1990).
Norway
Biography
IRIS, Stavanger, April 2008 “ September 2013, Senior Research Engineer. Modelling within drilling and software development. Speciality wellbore hydraulics, wellbore cleaning, barite sag, bridging, density modelling. MI-SWACO, Houston, April 1997 – July 2007, Senior Research Engineer. Modelling and software development of downhole wellbore pressures. The software I have developed are called Virtual Hydraulics (downhole ESD, ECD and pressures), Virtual Completion Fluids (displacement of completion fluids in deep water), PressPro RT (real time downhole pressures during drilling, circulation and tripping), Tpro ST (temperature profiles for multiple annuli during production and shut-in of a production well), and OptiBridge (bridging using PSDs of calcium carbonate). Other keywords are liner- and casing drilling, down holes temperature profiles, compressibility and thermic expansivity of drilling- and completion fluids with corresponding densities related to temperature and pressures. Anchor Drilling Fluids / MI-SWACO, Stavanger, November 1995 – April 1997, drilling fluid engineer on the Norwegian continental shelf. Geoservices, Stavanger, November 1989 – April 1992, technical support.
France
Biography
Professor Mathieu Pétrissans is an Exceptional National Class Professor at the University of Lorraine, France. He served as Vice-President of Research at Nancy 2 University (from 2010 to 2012, 19000 Students), and then as Research Officer in charge of the Clusters of Excellence. He have been the coordinator of the "Scientific Counseling Committee" in Lorraine (France, 2500 researchers, 2014-2022), Dean of the Technological Institute of Epinal (450 Students, 2014-2022) ; Director of the Technological Collegium (2022-2023, 8000 students) and CoDirector of the « Cluster of Excellence ARBRE » (Forest under climate changing). He's an international expert of biomass and wood thermal behavior, focusing on the thermal treatment of biomass. His main scientific achievements are the demonstration of the connection between the severity of the treatment and the inhibition of fungi attack, and also the description of the thermodegradation chemical pathways of wood biopolymers. These results have been integrated in a tow-step kinetics model. He has published over 80 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is the editorial member of the journals Wood Material Science and Engineering and Forest. He currently has 6000 citations with an h-index of 37. For his career accomplishments, he received the "2 Medals of knight and officer in the order of the academic palms" by the French Minister of Education and Research.
Nigeria
Biography
Dr. Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ugwu was promoted to the rank of full professor of solid State Physics and Material Science during 2014/2015 academic session in Ebonyi State University where served from 1999 to 2021, but now I have joined the service of Nigeria Army University in the Department of Physics. I got my B.Sc. and Master in Science from Nnamdi Azikiwe University; Awka, Nigeria where I majored in Solid State Physics was in 1994 and 1997 respectively. My PhD which I completed in 2014 from Ebonyi State University and also majored in the same area, but this time I focused in nanoscience. He has served as a visiting Associate Professor to University of Jos during 2015-2017 and is currently serving as a visiting Professor to Taraba State University Jalingo, Nigeria. He has attended many workshops and also presented papers in so many conferences within and outside Nigeria with more than Ninty-Nine journal publications with some chapter contributions to textbooks and a editorial Board member of up to six journal publishing houses. My research interest is in Nanoscince/ Mathematical modeling. I had served as one of the members of a technical program committee in a lot of conferences and also currently I serve as one of the editorial board member of not less than five international Journal publishing outfits. RESEARCH Interest: Condensed Matter Physics/Nanoscience, Radiation Physics and Optics
United Kingdom
Biography
Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Derek Fray FRS, FREng was educated at Imperial College (BSc 1961, PhD 1965). In his subsequent career, he was an assistant professor of metallurgy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; group leader, Rio Tinto plc; university lecturer, University of Cambridge; professor of mineral engineering and head of department, University of Leeds; professor of materials chemistry and head of department, University of Cambridge. At Fitzwilliam, he was librarian, estates bursar, junior bursar and senior bursar at various times. He was a founder director of the following companies, Ion Science Ltd., British Titanium plc., EMC Ltd., Camfridge Ltd., Metalysis Ltd., Chinuka Ltd. and Inotec AMD Ltd. He is an honorary professor at University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Hebei Polytechnic University and Liaoning University of Science and Technology in China and has won many international awards.
Singapore
Biography
Prof. Chung received his PhD from State U of NY at Buffalo (USA). He had worked for US industries for 15 years before joining NUS in 1995. He has produced 55 PhD students, published 1 book, 18 book chapters, 70 patents and patent applications, 560 journal papers and 350 conference papers. He is a Subject Editor of CHERD (Chem Eng Research and Design) and editorial board members of 20 journals including J. Membrane Science, AIChE J., I & EC Research, Separation and Purification Reviews, Chemical Engineering J., Chemical Engineering and Technology, Polymer Engineering and Science, J., Applied Polymer Science, and others. Prof. Chung research focuses on membranes for clean water, clean energy, and CO2 capture. Novel membranes for purification of natural gas and hydrogen, and CO2 capture have been developed. Breakthroughs on high performance forward osmosis, pressure retarded osmosis and membrane distillation membranes for clean water and osmotic energy have been demonstrated. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He was a co-inventor of Hyflux Kristalâ„¢ 600 ultrafiltration membranes which commercialized worldwide. He received IES (Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, and Hyfluxâ€SNIC (Singapore National Institute of Chemistry) Award in Environmental Chemistry, and IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK) in Singapore Awards in Sustainability in 2010. He was appointed as Provost’s Chair and received Research Leadership Award at NUS in 2011. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012.
India
Biography
Prof.AyyasamyElayaperumal is a full professor of Engineering Design Division,Department of MechanicalEngineering, Anna University, Chennai, India. He has established, Surface Engineering and Tribology Laboratory (SETL), in the Department of Mechanical for the benefit of the UG, PG and Research scholars and also heading the same Lab. He is having More than 32 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at Anna University, India.His area ofresearch interests are Surface Engineering, Tribology, Materials and Mechanical Behaviour of Materials.He is having more than 170 publications in the reputed Scopus indexed and SCI journals with google citations of more than 7300, h-index of 37 and i10 index of 83. He is an active reviewer of various SCI and Scopus indexed journals. 20 Research Scholars has completed their Ph.D. under hissupervision and currently 10 Research Scholars are doing Ph.D. under his guidance. He has completed manyNational/International research Projectsfunded by various funding Agencies.He has received Research Excellence award and Giri Metrology Endowment Award from Anna University and many other awards. He has been awarded fellow of Academy of sciences and Indian Institute of Engineers. Hehas chaired many National and International conferences, Symposia, Workshops and Technical meetings. He has also delivered many Plenary, Keynote and Invited lectures in the various academic and research events globally.He is an academic expert reviewer and acted as member and chairman for number of Academic, Research and Accreditation panels.Alsohe has an international academic& research exposures through various international visits to more than 20 foreign Universities.
Denmark
Biography
Dr. Indra Sulania has been working as a Scientist at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, for nearly 20 years. She has been awarded with prestigious SIRE fellowship from SERB, DST, Govt. of India. She has recently joined the Smart Materials Group, Nanosyd, Southern University of Denmark, Denmark with Prof. Y K Mishra, under the same fellowship, and started working on smart materials based on the ZnO tetrapods for functional applications. She did her PhD in Physics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, in 2016. She has more than 100 papers in internationally reputed Journals with more than 1000 citations. She has served as an associate editor for Frontiers in Physics Journal and is a part of reviewer’s team for Elsevier, Science Direct, Wiley and Springer and many more publication teams. She has been a part of many organizing committees for national and International Conferences related to ion beams and applications. Her areas of research are Sensors and catalysis, radiation resistant and shielding materials, Ion beam induced modification of surfaces and applications, polymer composites and applications, ZnO tetrapod-based composites as functional materials etc. She is in charge of Materials Science experimental beamline in Beam Hall 1, Scanning Probe Microscope and few major equipment in Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
USA
Biography
Dr. Hossein Hosseinkhani, Biomedical Engineer, has 30 years of experience in biomedical engineering in both academia and industry in biomedical engineering research and development, which includes several years of basic science research experience in a number of premier institutions related to the structure and function of biomaterials, and in polymer-based medical implants development in the medical device industry. He is inventor of 22 International patents, several of which are licensed to companies acting in the biomedical fields and translated to 7 commercial products. He authored more than 100 scientific papers published on peer-reviewed Journals, 5 books (H-index: 49 Google Scholar). He is the founder of Matrix HT, Inc. a world leading biotech company dedicated to healthcare technology to improve patient's quality of life.