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Professor Elias Siores is the Provost and Director of Research and Innovation, Bolton University. Educated in the UK (BSc, MSC, MBA, PhD) and pursued his academic career in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne) and Asia (Hong Kong, Dong Guan) before returning to Europe (UK) as a Marie Curie Fellow. He is also President, Board of Governors, TEI – Athens and Director of Innovation, FibrLec Ltd. His R&D work concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the field of automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. His recent R&D work focuses on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed Electromagnetic, Electrorheological, Photovoltaic and Piezoelectric Smart Materials based Energy Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy, Medical, Health Care and Wearable Devices. He has published over 300 publications including 8 Patents . He has been a member of editorial boards of international journals and a Fellow of IOM, TWI, IEAust, SAE and WTIA. He has served on Board of Directors of a number of research centres worldwide including UK, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, all associated with the Bio-Nano-Materials field. He is a member of the Parliamentary Scientific Committee and has received 15 international awards in his career for R&D and innovation achievements.

R&D work in the past concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the fields of: Non-Traditional Manufacturing Processes including Microwaves Plasmas, Abrasive Ice Jet and Solar Joining; Intelligent Manufacturing Systems including Real-Time Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Networks; and Automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. At the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), his recent R&D work concentrates on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed electromagnetic, electro rheological, and piezoelectric and photovoltaic hybrid smart materials based Micro-power Re-generators and Energy Conversion Systems for Medical and Health Care Devices.

Fellow of the British Royal Academy of Engineering Amr Elnashai is the Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair of Engineering. As dean, Amr is responsible for all aspects of operation and leadership of the College of Engineering, with 11,000 students, 300 professors, 400 staff, $240M total budget, $137M research expenditure, over $210M endowment, 12 departments, 2 institutes and 20 research centers. He is member of the Academic Leadership Council and chairs the university Committee on Inclusive Penn State. Amr served as the chair of one of five Penn State research thrusts development committees, focused on Managing Resources. During his time as dean, Amr initiated a one-year MS and MEng program comprising 16 disciplinary and interdisciplinary degrees that are transforming the profile of the college and significantly expanding its graduate and research student populations. He has targeted biomedical and mechanical engineering for growth and secured 22 new faculty lines between the two departments. He also raised resources to expand the faculty by over 20%. He has reorganized the Engineering fundraising group, office of finance, and HR. He created, with the heads, associate/assistant deans, and directors, a strategy and an implementation plan, a five-year hiring plan for faculty, staff and development of infrastructure, a strategy for inclusion, created a Communications office and two offices of Associate Dean for Research and Associate Dean for Innovation. He also started an office of Global Affairs, an office of Corporate Research and Philanthropy, and an office of Data and Assessment. He hired 45 professors since he joined Penn State, many are joint appointments with life sciences, ethics, agricultural science, medicine, and materials research institutes and colleges. He also hired 4 associate deans, 4 department heads and a center director who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was previously head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 2009 to December 2013) and the Bill and Elaine Hall endowed professor. During his tenure as department head, research expenditure increased by 30% and graduate tuition income increased by more than 500%. He created three interdisciplinary majors, minors, MS and PhD programs that have attracted large percentages of students. He was Director of the NSF multi-institution interdisciplinary Engineering Research Center (ERC), MAE Center (2004-2009). He was also Director of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES) Laboratory at Illinois (2002-2009). His total research expenditure during his 13 years at Illinois was in excess of $20M. He was the professor with the highest research expenditure in this top-ranked department for 4 consecutive years (2006-2009). Amr obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Cairo University (1977), followed by MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College (1980, 1984), University of London. Before joining the University of Illinois in June 2001, Amr was Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Head of Division at Imperial College (1985-2001). He was Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (1997-2014). Other visiting professor appointments include the University of Tokyo, the University of Southern California, and the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, Italy. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis, SCI-expanded) and editorial board member of several other journals, a member of the drafting panel of the European design codes, past chair of the UK earthquake engineering association, UK delegate to and past senior Vice-President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering and a member of the Council of the UK Institution of Structural Engineers (ISE; 2013-2015). He serves the ISE as ‘US Education Ambassador’. He is the winner of the Imperial College Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (1984), the Oscar Faber Medal for best paper in the Institution of Structural Engineers, and two best paper medals from the International Association of Tall Buildings, Los Angeles.

Amr’s research interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis under stress and disruption, large-scale fire ignition and spread modeling, hybrid testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures to earthquakes. He is currently the sole advisor of one PhD student at Penn State and serves on the PhD committee of another student at Illinois. He has produced more than 250 research publications, comprising 146 refereed journal papers and many conference papers, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, 3 books and several book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake investigation reports. His Google-based H-index is 41, with 7760 citations. His highest downloaded publication is his report to FEMA/DHS on impact of earthquakes on the central USA, with 51,813 unique downloads from the Illinois digital database (IDEALS). Amr has supervised 46 Doctoral and over 100 Master of Science theses. Many of his students hold significant positions in industry, academia and government around the world.

David Cardwell is Head of Department and Professor of Superconducting Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD at the age of 26 years at Warwick University in the U.K. and was employed subsequently for 6 years by Plessey Reserach Limited. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has published more than 350 papers in reputed journals and serve sas an editorial board member on a number of international journals, including Superconductor Science and Technology.

Bulk superconductors, flux pinning, magnetic fields, ceramic processing.

PhD in Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino on 1992. Presently he is Professor of Physics of Matter at Polytechnic of Turin. In 1999 he was a co-founder of Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino, from 1999 he is responsible in this framework of a Research Group working in the field of micro- and nano-science, actually composed by 45 researchers. Since 2003 he is Coordinator, for the Polytechnic of Turin, of the International Master Degree in Micro- and nano-technologies for ICT (Master in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems, POLITO, INP Grenoble, EPF Losanne). In 2004 he is appointed representative for the Polytechnic of Turin for “Micro- and Nanotechnologies” in the framework of Cluster Project, a pool of the most prestigious European Polytechnic Schools. Since 1997 to 2002 he was member Executive Board of National Institute for Physics of Matter – Division Semiconductors and Insulators. Since 2004 he is Coordinator of the FIRB Project “LAboratorio di Tecnologie Elettrobiochimiche Miniaturizzate per l'Analisi e la Ricerca (LATEMAR)”, for the realization at the Polytechnic of Turin of a National Center of Excellence for micro- and nanotechnologies applied to genomics, proteomics and biotechnologies. The project has been financed with a grant of 9.868.000 Euro. Since 2004 he was member of “Evaluation Board” for Industrial and Scientific Projects of the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) and Italian Ministry of Industry (MAP). In 2005 he was appointed by MIUR as a member of “Evaluation Board” of “Veneto Nanotech” Technological District. Since 2005 he is consultant of Regione Piemonte Investment Agency for nanotechnological industrial activities. He has been and still is Scientific Responsible of several Research Agreements and Collaborations with industries in the field of materials and micro- and nano-technologies. He is/was national Coordinator of FIRB, FISR and Regional Projects in collaboration with several Italian industries. He is/was unit responsible of EC project with several European industries. His research activity is reported in more than 150 articles published in international journals with referee, more than 100 of them in impact factor journals. From March 2011 to May 2016 he joined to Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia as director of the Center for Space Human Robotics. He is author of 230 articles in international journals, h-index 26 (SCOPUS/ISI) and 2600 citations.

Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies, Bio-nanotechnologies, Biotech Diagnostic devices, Nanoelectronics

Professor Il Kim, polymer chemist, graduated from chemical engineering department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering in 1990. He worked for University of Ulsan 1990-2000, Pusan National University (PNU), 2000 to date. Since 2013, he became the director of the Brain Korea 21 PLUS Center for Advanced Chemical Technology supported by the Ministry of Education and the chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering・Polymer Science and Engineering in PNU. He has published more than 350 SCI papers and got more than 20 items of awards for the science and technology success. He played important roles in organizing lots of international scientific meetings related with polymer science and advanced materials and has been editorial board members of 9 international journals.

In recent year he focused on the designing synthetic polymer bioconjugate hybrid materials for tissue engineering applications, therapeutic delivery, surgical sealants, and antimicrobial polypeptides for treatment against infectious diseases. He is also expanding variety of chemistry based on sustainable feedstocks.

Professor Liew is the Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Chair Professor of Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Liew was appointed Chair Professor of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, a tenured Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the Founding Director of Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization. He was visiting professors of MIT, University of Southern California, University of Toronto and Tsinghua University. His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation. Over his academic career, he has published over 700 SCI journal articles. Professor Liew is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a Highly Cited Researcher in engineering. His publications have been cited over twenty-two thousand times and his current H-index is 75 (Google Scholar). To date, Professor Liew has attracted over US$40 million research and development funds from government funding agencies, industries and higher learning institutions. He has graduated over 50 PhD students and supervised over 60 Post-doctoral fellows. His students are well received by industries and many of them have become faculty members of universities worldwide.

His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation.

Dr. Ming Dao is the Principal Investigator and Director of MIT’s Nanomechanics Laboratory, and a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He published more than 110 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers (averaging more than 50 citations per paper), and delivered more than 90 invited presentations in research conferences, workshops and leading research institutions around the world. He was named Singapore Research Chair/Professor of Bioengineering and Infectious Disease by MIT in 2012, and received twice the best paper award from Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (2006 & 2013). He chaired or co-chaired 11 symposiums/workshops.

His broad interdisciplinary research interests include nanomechanics of advanced materials, mechanics of nanoindentation, cell biomechanics and biophysics, malaria, sickle cell disease, and cancer.

Dr. Genda Chen has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from the State University of New York at Buffalo and continued his postdoctoral study before he joined Steinman Consulting Engineers for bridge design, inspection, and construction support. He is the director of System and Process Assessment Research Laboratory. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals (out of 350 publications total and 3 patents) and has been serving as an editiorial board member of four reputed journals. He will chair the 9th ISHMII International Conference, St. Louis, 2019.

Structural health monitoring (sensors, sensing systems, data analysis, and nondestructive testing/evaluation), structural control (active, semi-active, and passive systems), interface mechanics and deterioration, bridge engineering, and multi-hazard effects on transportation infrastructure.

Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals, given keynote or invited speeches in international conferences more than 60 times. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society (AWS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (NSC), and NSYSU, the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from NSC, the Adams Memorial Membership Award, the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award, and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS. He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.

Thermal and fluid flow processes, and mechanisms for surface patterns such as humping, rippling and undercutting, root spiking and porosity in manufacturing and materials processing.

Prof. Rafal Kozubski academic carrier: 1984 Ph.D., Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 1987 - 1988 post-doctoral position, Strasbourg Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (IPCMS), France, 1988, 1990, academic visitor, Institute for Applied Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1993 - 1995 Lise-Meitner Fellow, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1997 habilitation (DSc), Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 1997 - 2006 associate professor, 2006 - full professor in the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 2006-2008 International Fellow, Queen’s University in Belfast, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Visiting professor L.Pasteur University in Strasbourg/University of Strasbourg. Research output: over 100 publications in international reviewed journals, over 150 communications on international conferences.

Modelling of materials, atomistic simulations, diffusion-controlled processes.

Yongmei Zheng, PhD, is a professor at School of Chemistry and Environment, Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, in Beihang University. Research are focused on bioinspired surfaces with gradient micro- and nanostructures to control wettability. Publications are 90 papers included in Nature, Adv. Matter., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Matter., etc., with 12 Cover stories, and a book with topic of “bioinspired wettability surfaces: Development in micro- and nanostructures”.

Bioinspired wettability,bioinspired micro-/nanostructure, gradient wettable surface, water repellency, droplet driving/transport, etc..

Professor Jacek Przybylski is a specialist in applied mechanics. At the early stages of his work for the Czestochowa University of Technology his scholarly research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory. Over the last thirty years he has been mainly concerned with the stability and vibration of mechanical systems. During that period he has published his doctoral and postdoctoral theses and many technical papers and articles. He has also been conducting research into other subject areas, such as the theoretical and experimental investigations of vibration of the divergence-pseudoflutter systems, computer aided design of mobile cranes and resonance boxes of musical instruments as well as the interaction problems between the supports of truck cranes and the ground of particular rheological properties. In the last ten years his investigation has been focused on the influence of the piezoelectric actuation on the static and dynamic behaviour of mechanical systems, including the geometrically non-linear systems. His work in the above areas has been published in a large number of various Polish and international highly reputable journals. Moreover, he has published as an author or co-author seven research monographs in the field. Professor’s didactic activities cover lectures, classes, workshops, seminars and laboratory classes on mechanics, mechanics of materials, theory of vibrations, and computer aided design. He is the author of curriculum-oriented textbooks, laboratory instructions and concepts of many laboratory and didactic stands for graduate and postgraduate students at various stages of higher education. Other activities include being a supervisor who mentors postgraduate students preparing for their PhD examinations. For his scientific and didactic activities Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has awarded him two individual and three collective prizes. He has also been awarded twelve prizes by the Rector of CUT.

Physics, Materials Engineering

Dr. Kwun Nam HUI is an assistant professor, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China. His current research focuses on synthesis of hierarchical carbon/graphene materials as well as on the development of 3D hierarchical metal oxide materials as advanced electrode materials for energy storage and conversion applications. His research has led to one US patent, 7 Korea patents, four review papers, three book chapters, 86 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers. He has served as guest editor/member of the editorial board of a number of journals.

Applications of nano-porous catalysts/adsorbents/nanowires such as zeolite, MCM-41/SBA-15, MWCNT, graphene composites, Co3O4, etc. in air purification, catalytic combustion, energy production/storage, water treatment, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), ZnO based photovoltaic cell, III-V semiconductors LEDs and solid-state lighting.

Currently Dr. Zhang is the Distinguished Research Professor of mechanics in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her PhD in 2010 from Shanghai University and continued her postdoctoral study in Shanghai University and City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Zhang’s main research trust is focused on computational mechanics, multi-scale modeling, nanocomposite materials and optimization. Her research areas are on theoretical development and application of numerical algorithms and computational methods for problems in mechanics and nano materials. Dr. Zhang has published over 70 SCI journal articles and her publications have been cited over 1,200 (ISI). Her current h-index is 19 (ISI). She is Editor of Journal of Modeling in Mechanics & Materials (De Gruyter), Guest Editor on a Special Issue of Mathematical Problems in Engineering Journal (Hindawi Publishing) on Computational Methods for Engineering Science in 2014, and Editorial board member of Polymer Science (iMedPub).

Computational mechanics, numerical modeling, nanocomposite and ocean engineering.

Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi has a PhD from IIEES and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran. He has been a member of the scientific and organising committee of more than 50 international conferences worldwide, and has published various articles in the field of structural/earthquake engineering. He is the Founder and Chief Editor of Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering as well as serving on the Editorial Board of more than 20 international indexed journals in the field of civil, structural and earthquake engineering.

Hybrid Materials for Engineering Applications, Smart Structures, Innovative Seismic Controling Devices, Performance Based Design, Structures under Extreme Loadings, Risk and Uncertanity Analysis

Dan Cohen is PhD candidate specializing in nuclear physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and an ISU­ SSP14 alum, and Member of MUSE collaboration which trying to solve the 'proton radius puzzle'. Among His achievements he developed a positron particle accelerator for NTD, the first of its kind in Israel. In addition, he is also a researcher at HUJI and PSI; Switzerland. Lately Dan was excepted as a staff member at the International Space University (ISU) at the space sciences department. Dan has vast experience in developing simulations and models of ionized particles propagation. In addition, he is a member of team Space-IL, non-profit organization working towards landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the moon. He is the CSO of Informa-tix, a premier Big-Data service organization and a contractor of the Israeli space agency. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Nuclear physics, Radiation damages, Non-destructive testing, Self-curing materials, Smart materials, Materials science, Space oriented structures, Space oriented materials, Space technologies, Quantum physics and Big-Data.