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Professor Joondong Kim is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and a director in Multidisciplinary Core Institute for Future Energies (MCIFE) at Incheon National University in Korea. He got his PhD in 2006 from State University of New York at Buffalo and MS in 2001 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. He has research topics on energy devices (transparent photovoltaics and hydrogen generator), sensors, bioinspired electronics and functional materials and designs. He published >240 SCI papers and holds > 100 patents.
Lidia Benea is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in Materials Science and Engineering at Dunărea de Jos University of Galati, Romania (www.cc-ites.ugal.ro), member of the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates (CNATDCU), Ministry of Education and Research, România. Author and co-author of over 300 scientific articles, 115 being in ISI journals and proceedings volume, cumulating an Impact Factor of 209.59, 23 books and chapters and more than 360 presentations at scientific conferences. Her research interests are in the field of composite coatings, biomaterials and multifunctional materials and nanomaterials. Many achievements in electrochemical methods applied to surface modification and materials characterization. 2020 and 2021 She is cited in Top 2 World Ranking of the World's Top Scientists by Stanford University in conjunction with Elsevier Publishing and SciTech Strategies.
Shen-Ming Chen(陳生明) received his PhD degrees in chemistry from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1997. He joined Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan in 1985. He had been an associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan from 1991 to 1997. Since August 1997, he has been a full professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been the Dean(Curator) of library, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 2000 to 2006 and the Director of Extracurricular Activity, office of student affairs, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 1995 to 2000. He received three time Distinguish Professor awards from 2010-2018. He also received Lifetime Distinguish Professor award from 2019. He has published over 1200 research and review papers in international SCI journals. Two of our papers have been selected as the most cited papers in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry during the years 2005-2009. He have edited or attended two books for NOVA publications titled “Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Biosensors” and “Biosensors: Properties, Materials and Applications” and contributed four book chapters. His research interest includes Nanostructured Materials, bioelectrochemistry, electroanalytical Chemistry, biosensors, chemical sensors, electrocatalysis and electroanalysis, photoelectrochemistry, metalloproteins, metalloporphyrins, nanotechnology, spectroscopic techniques, scanning probe techniques, quartz crystal microbalance, materials research, fuel cells, solar cell and photovoltaic cells. We have edited or attended two books for NOVA publications titled “Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Biosensors” and “Biosensors: Properties, Materials and Applications” and contributed four book chapters.
Dr. Moon is currently an associate professor (tenured) and assistant chair (research) in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 2008, his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea, in 1995 and 1992, respectively. His research focuses include applying sciences and economic theory to the design of customized and sustainable products, services and systems, strategic and multidisciplinary design optimization, advanced modeling and simulation, design for additive manufacturing/3D printing, embedded sensor design for 3D Printing, digital twins, and smart factory. He worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea for eight years before embarking on his PhD degree. After completing his doctoral degree, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University for one year as a postdoctoral research associate. He served as a Chair in IEEE Technology Engineering Management (TEM) Singapore Chapter Executive Committee and a Chair in ASME IDETC and CIE Conference, Advanced Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Technical Committee. He has served as committee member in various professional organizations such as IEEE, ASME, Design Society, international conferences and workshops. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing – Green Technology, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (AE), Smart Manufacturing (AE), and Smart Science.
Dr. Jean-François SILVAIN is a Senior Researcher in the “Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux” (ICMCB-CNRS) and an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (USA). He received his bachelor’s degree from Poitiers University (France) in 1980, and PhD degree from Poitiers University (France) in 1984 both in Material Science. From 1987 to 2002, he was a CNRS Research Fellow at the University of Nancy (France). He joined the “Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux” (ICMCB-CNRS) in 1992. He has over 20 years of experience in composite materials processing and characterization at micro/nanoscales. Dr. SILVAIN’s main field of interest is the processing and the characterization of ceramic and inorganic multi materials ranging from metal and ceramic matrix composite (CMC and MMC) to functionally graded materials (FGM) with the aim to develop materials with adaptive physical (thermal, electrical) and/or mechanical properties. Dr. SILVAIN is currently working on new processes, for metal powders, such as hot extrusion process, equal-channel angular pressing, microwave sintering (with and without pressure), and spark plasma sintering and on laser-mater interaction and additive manufacturing with the University of Nebraska Lincoln (USA). Dr. SILVAIN has authored or co-authored over 185 journal papers and 170 conference papers. He has served as chair of international conferences including the Powder Metallurgy Conference in 2012.
Jinghua Guo is Senior Scientist in the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.S. from Zhejiang University, M.S. from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, and Ph.D. from Uppsala University. He continued as postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at Uppsala University in 1995-1997 and Assistant Professor in 1997-2001 before joined the ALS as Staff Scientist in 2001. His research interest focuses on the nano-structured materials, battery and hydrogen-storage materials, catalysis, water solvation and environmental sciences with emphasis on the physical and chemical properties using in-situ/operando soft x-ray spectroscopy to detect charge transfer processes at the interfaces. He has pioneered the use of in-situ/operando soft X-ray spectroscopy for characterization of electronic structure properties of molecules solutions, energy materials and electrochemical and catalytic interfaces. A true challenge in these studies in the soft X-ray range is the design of the sample environment in order to deal with the small penetration depth of the X-rays. He has developed the in-situ soft X-ray spectroscopy for characterization of solid/liquid interface in nanostructure materials and electrochemical interfaces in battery and photocatalysis, and made a range of in-situ/operando cells to handle special sample environments for operando studies of, e.g., electrochemical process of batteries and photocatalysis, catalysis and hydrogen storage applications. He published over 480 peer-reviewed papers with a H-index of 91, and received the MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award (2020) and David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS (2022).
Shizuo Tokito is a Distinguished Research Professor at the Research Center for Organic Electronics (ROEL) at Yamagata University. He received a Doctor of Engineering degree from the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences, Kyushu University, and became an Assistant Professor there in 1987. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Alan J. Heeger, the Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He subsequently joined Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc. as a senior research engineer and then at the Science & Technology Research Laboratories of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) as a Research Director. He currently maintains a large research group of more than 20 people and 30 students, including visiting researchers from many partner organizations within the electronics industry. He also contributed to the publication of a new scientific journal, ‘Flexible and Printed Electronics', issued by IOP Publishing as one of its associate editors. He also published more than 300 papers in the areas of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), printed TFT circuits, and various printed sensors based on organic materials, as well as employing printing technologies. These developed devices can be fabricated on flexible substrates using printing processes. In 2016, he founded a startup company based on his lab’s research work, ‘Future Ink’, which develops and deals with silver nanoparticles, organic semiconductor inks, and sheet-type pressure sensors. More recently, his group has focused on developing sensors that employ environmentally friendly materials and commercializing their technologies in collaboration with industry.
