He is a petroleum engineering consultant (senior reservoir engineer) and a research associate in the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His expertise includes improved and enhanced oil recovery (IOR/EOR), reservoir modeling and performance analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs, reservoir simulation, software development and application, and multiphase flow in porous media and wellbores. He holds a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Dr. Arkady Voloshin is an internationally known Professor and Scientist in two areas of knowledge Optical methods in experimental mechanics and Biomechanics of the human musculoskeletal system. Dr. Voloshin received his M.S. degree in Engineering Physics from Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia and his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics, Materials and Systems from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He joined Lehigh University in 1984, where he is currently Professor of Bioengineering as well as of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Voloshin was elected a Full Professor of the Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2009. Dr. Voloshin has authored more than 260 Technical Publications and Scientific Papers. Dr. Voloshin presented short courses and seminars at many universities around the world.

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Solid and Fracture Mechanics, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Biomechanics.

Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

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Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Numerical Chemistry

He was born in Banki, India. He received a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Utkal University, an M.S. in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University, and a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Rath was Assistant Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Washington State University from 1961 to 1965. From 1965 to 1972, he was with the staff of the Edgar C. Bain Laboratory for fundamental research of the U.S. Steel Corporation. From 1972 to 1976, he headed the Metal Physics Research Group of the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, until he came to NRL as Head of the Physical Metallurgy Branch. During this period, he was adjunct professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Maryland, and the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Rath served as Superintendent of the Materials Science and Technology Division from 1982 to 1986, when he was appointed to his present position. Dr. Rath is recognized in the fields of solid-state transformations, grain boundary migrations, and structure-property relationships in metallic systems. He has published nearly 240 papers and several patents in these fields, organized more than thirty international conferences and edited over twenty published conference proceedings.

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Structure of matter; Bio-molecular science and technology; Chemistry; Materials science and technology; Condensed matter and radiation sciences; Electronics science and technology; Plasma physics; Computational physics and fluid dynamics.

Prof. Anming Hu received his Ph. D degree from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Canada in 2008, after which he joined Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo as a research assistant professor. In 2012 He was appointed as a chair professorship in Institute of Laser Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Since November, 2013 he joined the department of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, as an assistant professor. His current research interests include laser 3D printing, micro-nano-manufacturing, nanojoining, nanotechnology for energy devices,flexible electronics and water treatment.

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Micro and nanoscopic 3D printing, femtosecond laser processing, nano joining and nano brazing, micro- and nano- manufacturing, printed electronics, spectroscopy, nanotechnology for energy, sensing and environmental application

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Materials Science and Engineering; Nano-Catalysts; Atomistic Simulation; Fuel Cell; Supercapacitors; Interfaces in Eelectrochemical Power Sources and Electrochemical Sensors.

Dr. Nadeem Kizilbash received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Boston University in 2003. His doctoral thesis was titled: “Biophysical Studies of Fatty Acid Binding Proteins & Hydrophobic Ligands”. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State University and is presently serving as Head & Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Northern Border University (Arar, Saudi Arabia). He is the author of more than 38 papers published internationally.

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Drug Delivery, Nanotechnology, Structural Biology, Gene Polymorphism

Dr.Khan is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research,King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has been awarded Ph.D. in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2011. He has secured 3 books, 5 Chapters and more than 100 research papers published in journals of international repute. He is also the Editorial Board Member, as well as the Reviewer of many reputed international journals. His research encompasses all aspects of nanomaterials, synthesis and characterization as well as application in chemical sensing, environmental applications, drug delivery system for mechanistic and interaction studies using a wide range of spectroscopic techniques and thermodynamic parameters.

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Macromolecular and Materials chemistry

Professor of Oral and maxillofacial Radiology in Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and pharmacy 2013-present. Faculty of dentistry, Dammam University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2006-2013). Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (1983-2006). Postgraduate certificate in Medical Education, Center for Medical Education, University of DUNDEE, 2013. Certificate of diploma education in counselling (Distinction). Oxford College (ODL) 2010, Ph.D. of Oral Medicine, Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology , College of Dentistry, Alexandria university, Egypt. 1995. Msc. in Dental Radiology, King’s College, London University, UK (1988). BDS of oral surgery and dental sciences, College of Dentistry, Alexandria university, Egypt (1983).

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Dr. Khalid Z. Elwakeel, who holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Physical Chemistry; He has thirty five research articles published in the international journals as well as three books. Elwakeel reviewed more than 370 research article for 80 international journals in the field of environmental research and also a member of the editorial board of some journals. Elwakeel is the associate professor of the environmental chemistry at Port Said University. Currently; He works as associate professor at Jeddah University, Saudi Arabia. In addition to the academic and research experience, Elwakeel has practical experience in drinking water companies (private and governmental), and he worked for four years as an inspector for the drinking water quality and efficiency of sewage treatment in the Egyptian water and wastewater regulatory Agency. Elwakeel is the recipient of the Egyptian Encouragement Prize in Chemical Sciences. Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt, the Misr El-Kheir Award for the best publication (2013) and the Award of professor, Dr. Faiza Al-Kharafi in the field of basic science (2010). His biography was nominated to appear in the “Whos Who in the World 2011(28th Edition).

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Polymer synthesis, Adsorption, Environmental remediation, Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Water and waste water purification

Dr. Atiqullah is a Senior Research Engineer (Full Professor) and the Coordinator of the Polyolefin Catalyst and Application Research, at the Center for Refining and Petrochemicals (CRP) in the Research Institute (RI) of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He is the Founding Director, and Deputy Director Technical of the Center of Research Excellence in Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals (CoRE-PRP). He is the founding member of KFUPM Innovation Center. He obtained his PhD, under the supervision of late Prof. Edward B. Nauman, in 1988 in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Polymer Reaction Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at Troy, New York, USA. Dr. Atiqullah teaches, supervises graduate theses, and lectures in polymer short courses in collaboration with the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at KFUPM. His recent academic collaborations with ChE include teaching Polymer Technology and petrochemical short course (polymer part) for Saudi Aramco participants, submitting and executing joint proposals and projects in polyolefin catalysis and application, supervising MS thesis, and a series of joint publications in ISI journals.

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Support, catalyst, polymerization, characterization, performance evaluation, composite/blend, flow aid/drag reducing polymer (all in polyolefin polymer)

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He received his Ph.D. degree in the Inorganic Chemistry from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He then worked as a Postdoc at Iowa State University and Northwestern University and, subsequently moved as a senior researcher to LG Chem., Ltd. After then, he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor at Chungbuk National University in Korea. He has contributed greatly to the development of new homogeneous catalysts in the field of polyolefin and polylactide. He is involved in the development of new organometallic and organic-based catalysts that are currently in carbon dioxide conversion and utilization technology. He has published more than one hundred journal articles.

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Carbon dioxide conversion and utilization technology, organometallic and organic–based catalysts for polycarbonates and aliphatic cyclic carbonate, organometallic and organic–based catalysts for biodegradable polylactide and its copolymers, organometallic catalysts for polyolefins such as LLDPE, PE, sPS, and iPP, catalysts for LAO, catalysts for olefin metathesis catalysts for ethenolysis-cross metathesis with ethylene, OLED materials.

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Polymeric Composite Materials

He is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University. He has authored or coauthored more than 140 SCI journal papers, more than 10 book chapters and several patents. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), an honor member of Phi Tau Phi Society, a life member in various academic Societies including American Nano Society, European Atherosclerosis Society, Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society, Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Asian Biotechnology Directory, Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Biochemical Engineering Society of Taiwan, and Taiwan Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society.

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Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Drug delivery system, Tissue engineering, Blood-Brain barrier, Cancer therapy, Stem cell differentiation, Nerve regeneration

He gained his BS, Master, and PhD degrees in1986, 1988, and 1993 from “Department of Electrical Engineering” of Cheng Kung University. He has vast experience in different areas of materials’ and in electrical applications, including ferroelectric ceramics, microwave ceramics, dielectric thin films, nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory, transparent conduction oxide (TCO) thin films, ceramic-polymer composites, silicon-based thin film solar cells, CIGS or CIS solar cells, inorganic optical ceramics, microwave antennas, and microwave filters.

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Dielectric and microwave ceramics; Dielectric and ferroelectric thin films; Optical materials and thin films; Microwave passive filters and antennas; Thin film solar cells; Nanotubes and nanosensor devices.

Krishnamachar Prasad’s research focuses on the development and reliability studies of novel interconnects in conventional and three-dimensional integrated circuits. He has extensively worked on the technology development and characterization of a variety of silicon and compound semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He has also ventured into a study of semiconductor based sensors for odor, color and chemical profiling, in order to developsmart tools that can be used in fruit, wine, fish and fast food industries. He is currently working in the areas of surface electromyography and high temperature superconductor applications in the electric machines. Krishnamachar Prasad has Ph.D. (University of Western Australia), M.Tech. (IIT Madras, India) and BE (Bangalore University, India) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering.He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences.

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Professor Kim, Ick Soo earned doctoral degree at Nagaya University in Japan, and now is a Rising Star Professor of Institute for Fiber Engineering in National University Corporation Shinshu University. He is also distinguished professor of Soochow University in China, Project Leader of Nano Fusion Technology Research Group in Japan, Visiting professor in Seoul National University. He is selected a one of the greatest foreigner scientist among 100 scientists in 2016, chosen by Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China. In addition, he is an associate editor for RSC Advances, and editorial board member for Advance Research in Textile Engineering, Fashion and Textiles, and International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine et al. His research is focused on developing and improving the property of nanofibers for industrial applications. His work is multi-disciplinary involving chemistry, polymer, biomedical, mechanics, nanotechnology et al. For his outstanding performance, he has been honored by Scifinder in 2011 for the most published in the whole word in nanofiber research field. Up to now, he published more than 200 papers in refereed academic journals and more than 150 patents.

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Nano fiber, Nano materials

The professional work he began, still during the course of studies, in 1960, as the technical assistant in the Department of Crystallography at Warsaw University. During this employment, my main duties were maintenance, and the modification of the research equipment. Simultaneously he conducted the own investigations which become the basis of graduates work. The X-ray diffraction studies on the structure of the crystals of chemical compounds formed by entrapping of the cobalt chloride molecules in the crystal lattice of urea. In 1964 he received the proposal of the employment at the Institute of General Chemistry in Warsaw, in which he started investigations of the structure of polymers, and also the structure of catalysts using X-ray diffraction methods. The co-operation with industrial institutions, mainly those producing synthetic fibers attracted my attention to the number of problems, to which there was no answer in the literature. In the 1967 a possibility appeared to enroll at the doctoral studies at just created Division of Polymer Physics at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research at Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN) to which he was accepted. After approximately a year of participation in the doctoral studies, he was engaged as the fulltime employee at the same division in IPPT PAN. The creation of the laboratory, and the conducting investigations on the formation of structures in polymeric materials became my main duties. The main idea of conducted research was studying formation of structures in conditions resembling the real conditions occurring in the industrial processes, and the comparison of results with those obtained in the conditions of „classic” experiments. Investigations conducted in IPPT PAN were the basis of my doctors (PhD) thesis, and later of DSc (habilitation) dissertation. During the work at IPPT PAN he linked the number of contacts with many researchers in Poland and abroad, and he was offered several foreign contracts, due to which he got the knowledge of modern research facilities, and acquaintance with the methods being used in leading laboratories as well as a possibility to perform several collaborative research tasks.

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X-ray crystallography and texture analysis, correlations between structure and properties of materials, structure formation under variable external conditions, polymers and environment (the role for energy consumption, environmental pollution, etc.), recycling of polymers, Management of technology transfer,

Francisco Chinesta is currently visiting Professor of computational physics at ENSAM ParisTech (Paris, France) and member of the High Performance Institute at Centrale Nantes. He was (2008-2012) AIRBUS Group chair professor and since 2013 he is ESI Group chair professor on advanced modeling and simulation of materials, structures, processes and systems. He is fellow of the “Institut Universitaire de France”, Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He received many scientific awards in four different fields: bio-engineering, material forming processes, rheology and computational mechanics. He is author of 250 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He is president of the French association of computational mechanics (CSMA) and director of the CNRS research group (GdR) on model order reduction techniques for engineering sciences. He is editor and associate editor of many journals.

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He was born in Bijnor, India on 21st Jan. 1974. He received his Ph.D. Degree in the field of Natural Product Chemistry from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2001. From Nov. 2000 to Sept. 2001, he was a Research Associate at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India and worked on synthesis of water soluble derivatives of Silymarin. Upon completion of his education, he started his career as an Executive-R&D in a Flavour & Fragrances Company and after words he had served as Manager & Head-R&D in different National & Multinational Herbal Industries. Dr. Alam has more than 15 years of R&D experiences in the field of Natural Products. He has been worked as Associate Professor in Eritrea Institute of Technology, State of Eritrea. He is Ph.D. supervisor in JJT, University, Rajasthan, India and Advisor in Natural Food Colours Industry. He is also a Member of Editorial Boards and Referee for more than Eight National & International Journals. Since March 2015, he is looking the Production Unit for commercialization of Omani Medicinal & Aromatic Plants at University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance; Biomaterials, Tissue engineering

He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is working as Professor and Chair in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at RIT-Dubai. He joined RIT-Dubai as a Professor of thermo-fluids, air conditioning and renewable energy systems. Prior to joining RIT, he spent five years in industry and engineering consulting as the Head of MEP Design Department and Engineering Manager at Al-Gurg Consultants, Dubai and TRANSCO, Abu Dhabi where his work involved large scale water transmission systems and energy systems for high rise and industrial buildings in the UAE. Prior to moving to the UAE, he served as the Associate Dean for research and graduate programs and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering, University of Mosul from 2003 till 2006 and was as a Faculty of Mechanical Engineering since 1987.

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Thermo-fluids; Energy systems and sustainability

He is an associate professor in industrial and mechanical engineering. He has a double major in the industrial engineering/ Engineering Management, and mechanical engineering/ Manufacturing Processes and Materials. He earned his PhD’s degrees from Iowa State University/ United States of America in 2005. He published more than thirty research conference and journal articles. He has worked as a consultant for many companies in USA, Jordan and gulf region in the areas of industrial management, manufacturing processes and production planning and control. He has conducted many training courses and seminars in Jordan, Turkey, Libya and the Gulf region in the areas of project management, supply chain and inventory management, reliability, safety and risk management, instrumentation and control, production planning and control and CAD/CAM.

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NC/CNC and DNC machines; Geometric modeling; Computer graphics; Visualization; Simulation; Optimization; Virtual reality; Human-computer interaction; Statistical analysis.

Consultant community and Family medicine, Dubai Health authority, Consultant Public health Medicine World Health Organization, Senior specialist public health, preventive services center, primary health care / Dubai health authority. WHO, CDC, and Uniceif expert and EMPHNET consultant, poliomyelitis global Eradication, Outbreak response team, global health and immunization. WHO consultant Outbreak alert and response team n Nominated to Emro Regional Counselor of International epidemiological association, Global Health Mentor at Swedish global health mentorship network , Expert consultant Public Health and Epidemiology at Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network ( EMPHNET). Professor at Dubai residency training program/ Community and family medicine/ Arab Board for health specializations. Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health Medicine at Faculty of Medicine, University of Baghdad. Senior specialist community and family physician Director of school health and educational institutions program in Dubai / Government of Dubai / Dubai / UAE .Enrolled with different international organization, UNICEIF, WHO, ICRC, IOM and others as programs manager and expert. Worked as environmental expert ant ministry of environment, Iraq, Worked as training consultant, researcher, and programs manager at ministries of health and higher education and scientific research in different Middle East and North Africa region. Member of editorial Board of Middle east journal of internal medicine, Middle east journal of age and aging, middle east journal of Alzheimer and psychiatry.

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Renato Toffanin received a Laurea degree in biological sciences from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1984. In 1988, he joined the group of Annalaura Segre at the National Research Council (Rome) to work on the NMR spectroscopy of complex carbohydrates. From May 1989 to March 1993, he worked at POLY-biós (Trieste) on the structure and conformation of oligo- and polysaccharides using high-resolution NMR techniques and molecular simulations. From April 1993 to June 1997, he had a senior research position at POLY-tech (Trieste), an innovative start-up specialised in the chemistry and biochemistry of biopolymers for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. From July 1997 to February 2005, he was responsible for the Laboratory of NMR Microscopy at the University of Trieste, promoting research in skeletal MRI and tissue engineering. Since March 2005, he has served as director of the Advanced Research Centre for Health Environment and Space (Bari area), greatly expanding its level of funding and research.

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Francesco D’Auria had born 1954, received Master degree in Nuclear Engineering in1978 and PHD degree in Nuclear Reactor Safety in 1980 both at University of Pisa. He was awarded of a research grant from University of Pisa in 1978; then he was winner of the Assistant Professor position in 1981 at University of Pisa (area of nuclear thermal-hydraulics), of the Associate Professor position at University ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome in 1991(area of radiation applications) and the Chair (Full) Professor position at University of Pisa in 2000 (area of nuclear thermal-hydraulics), the last one being the current position. He was engaged as ‘Adjoin Professor’ at University of Genova in the period 1993-2003 (area of world energy status and planning). He is ANS member since 1981. Since 1980 has been member in several international working groups at ANS, EC, IAEA and OECD/NEA including CSNI membership since 2016. He has been responsible for research projects valued more than 20 Million Euro in the period 2000-2015. He was member and Chair of Technical Program in several International Conferences and member of the scientific committee for a dozen Journals. He is co-author of more than 1000 publications including more than 200 papers in Journals and around 100 reports published by International Institutions like IAEA and OECD. Recipient of various recognitions, e.g. best paper, excellent session organizer, most downloaded paper notification, etc.

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Nuclear reactor Thermal-hydraulics; Nuclear reactor Safety; Improving licensing process for nuclear power plants (Best Estimate, Uncertainty evaluation, Scaling, etc.); Establishing a new barrier against the release of fission products in nuclear power plants

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1987 at the Palermo University. The research work begins in 1996 as PhD in Structural Engineering and as post-doc in 1998. In 2000 she becomes researcher in the Structural Engineering Department of university of Palermo and in 2001 Associate Professor , in 2016 Full Professor in the same department. Author and co-author of about 90 scientific papers dealing with the following fields: Stochastic Dynamics, active and passive control, stochastic differential calculus. From 2014 Honorary Professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.

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Bioengineering, Computational biomechanics, Prosthesis design, Biomedical software

Prof. Dr. J Ma Rincón is a Senior Research Professor (Profesor de Investigación) at the Instituto E. Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, where he is the foundator and Head of the Glass- Ceramics Laboratory. He was the former General Secretary of the Spanish Glass and Ceramic Society and Editor - in- Chief of the scieniific bulletin: Bol. Soc. Esp. Ceram.Vidr. Since last 2006 he has promoted as Head of the new Department at IETcc, CSIC: Construction Systems for Buildings (Sistemas Constructivos de la Edificación) .Dr. Rincón since 1970 has conducted electron microscopy research on ceramics, glasses and glass-ceramics and their raw materials, being the author of seven monograph books ( three edited on english ) and more than 100 scientific papers in glass-ceramics and advanced ceramics. He has worked as invited Professor at the Department of Materials Science and National Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the University of Califomia, Berkeley during 1984-85. There he collaborated with Prof. Gareth Thomas in microstructure and microanalysis (AEM and HREM ) characterization of zirconial/ mullite composite ceramics. The group leadered by Prof. Rincon is mainly investigating, under european and industry contracts, in the design and development of new glass-ceramics for coatings and by recycling of industrial wastes and also is member of the CSIC Network of Restoration and Historical Patrimony Protectio, having developped wide research in ancient ceramics and glasses as well as publication in Archaeometry of these materials . Since last 15 years his group is specially active in the VITRIFICATION and RECYCLING of a wide range of residues, from minerals and natural stone production, metallurgical, ceramics, electronic, energy production, etc…to radioactive industrial wastes

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Nanomaterials based on polymer, silicate and metallic matrixes, Testing of materials and structure under extreme conditions, including strength and creep of structural materials (metals & composites) in the three-dimensional stress state, Improving protective properties of nonmetallic materials, Novel technologies for corrosion and radioactive protection, Advanced coating for corrosion protection of metals and concretes, Adhesives for electronic industry, wet concrete and chemical equipment.

Dr. A. S. Sarpal completed his Ph.D degree in 1980 in analytical chemistry on a research topic of photochemical reduction of uranyl ion with triphenyl arsine or phosphines. He joined R&D centre of Indian Oil Corporation, India (Fortune 500 Company), in 1977 and worked in various research position from 1977 to 2011, and superannuated in the capacity of General Manager. He has a 40 years of vast experience in the development and characterization of petroleum and related products, bio-fuels and catalyst by the applications of sophisticated analytical techniques such as FT NMR, FTIR, Gas & Liquid chromatography, X-Ray Techniques (XRD & XRF), Electron spectroscopy (TEM, SEM, ESCA), metal analyses (ICAP, ICP-MS, AAS) etc. He has special interest on applications of Multipulse NMR Techniques (300, 400, 500 and 600, 800 MHz). Molecular Dynamic Studies of Lubricant Systems for structure-property correlation (viscosity-temperature and viscosity pressure properties) by NMR and IR are his new innovation for development of novel lubricants. Dr. Sarpal was responsible for providing analytical research support to the key projects of Indian Oil such as development and quality up gradation of fuel range products including biofuels and speciality products, lubricants including high viscosity index base stocks and high performance additives, polymers and petrochemicals, refinery catalysts and feed stocks for various refinery processes.

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Product Development and Analytical sciences of Petroleum, Lubricants, Biofuels (Vegetable oils, Microalgae, Yeast ), catalyst and polymers.

Dênis Pires de Lima obtained B. Sc. in Pharmacy at Federal Universityof Minas Gerais (UFMG) – Brazil (1986) and Ph.D. in Science, field of Organic Chemistry, at UFMG (1994). During the Ph.D.program, took two years of fellowship at the University of Alberta(Edmonton – Canada) in the Department of Chemistry. Post-Doctoral was taken at the University of Liverpool (1998) in the field ofBiotransformation of Organic Compounds under the supervision ofStanley M. Roberts and Andrew Carnell. Presently, works as a Full Professor and Research Advisor for masters and doctoraldegree programs at the Institute of Chemistry at UFMS. Experiencedmainly in the following subjects, related to organic synthesis: (i)synthesis of potential cytotoxic phenolic compounds (ii) synthesisof phenolic lipids and (iii) chemical transformations of bioactivenatural products.

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Organic Synthesis, Natural Products Transformation, and Medicinal Chemistry

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Behavior of Concrete under Elevated Temperature; Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC); Impact behavior of concrete; Polymer concrete; Lightweight concrete; Rubberized Concrete; Sustainability of Concrete Materials.

Prof. Dr. Tarık Baykara, obtained his PhD from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. He is currently teaching at the Faculty of Engineering in Istanbul Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is also directing the Advanced Machinery Laboratory (the MIT Lab). He has 8 books (in Turkish) and 81 papers published in international journals. He has a vast research and management experience in the following areas of advanced materials science and technology: Processing, properties and performance of advanced metals, alloys; Powder metallurgy: Hardmetals, processing and sintering routes; Advanced ceramics: Oxide and non-oxide ceramics: Processing, shaping, forming and sintering; Add on composite armor technology; Technology Management; Managing Knowledge Workers in High Tech; Knowledge Creation Process; Creatiivitiy for innovation; R&D Management for high tech projects.

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Advanced materials science and technology: Processing, properties and performance of advanced metals, alloys; advanced ceramics; advanced composites, Powder metallurgy: Hardmetals, Powder Injection Molding, Metal matrix composites, processing and sintering routes

He received his BS from Chemistry Department of Boğaziçi University, Turkey in 1999. He did his MS and PhD studies in Materials Sciences and Engineering Programme at Sabancı University in 2001 and 2004, respectively. Later he moved to Max Planck Society Polymer Research Institute in Mainz, Germany as post-doc researcher under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Wegner. Since2007, he has a faculty position at Izmir Institute of Technology. He is now chairman of Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Institute. Dr. Demir has over 60 publications and >2300 citations in Google Scholar.

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İlker Erdem studied at Ege University Food Engineering Dept. BSc. Program between 1995-1999. He got MSc. Degree from İzmir Institute of Technology Biotechnology and Bioengineering MSc. Program in 2002 and he got the PhD. Degree from the same institute again (İzmir Institute of Technology) from the Chemical Engineering PhD. Program in 2009. He is currently working at Abdullah Gül University.

Research Interest

Ceramic materials; Ceramic membranes; Sol-gel; Micro- filtration; Ultra- filtration; Nano- filtration; Calcination; Photocatalysis; Instrumental analysis; Biotechnology; Food technology

He was graduated from Gazi University in 2002 with a B.Sc. in Automotive Education. He received his M.Sc. degree from Dumlupınar University in 2005. He then obtained his PhD from Süleyman Demirel University in 2010. Currently, he is an Associate Professor Doctor at Mechanical Engineering of Süleyman Demirel University. He is also directing the Automotive Engineering Undergraduate Program. He has 9 papers published in international journals (SCI-SCI expanded) and 28 papers published in other journal or symposium. He has a vast research in the following areas of automotive engineering and technology: internal combustion engine, fuels and combustion, alternative fuels, hydrogen energy, ion current, waste heat recovery, brake performance and noise, driver warning systems, automotive mechatronics systems.

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Energy; Automotive; Internal combustion engines; New vehicles technologies; Alternative fuels; Hydrogen energy; Thermoelectric; Ion current; Hydrogen assist Jet Ignition.

He was graduated from Hacettepe University in 1994 with a B.Sc. in Hydrogeology Engineering. He joined to the Engineering Sciences Department of Middle East Technical University-METU in 1995 as aresearch assistant. He received his MSc. in 1997 and PhD. in 2002 in the field of Engineering Sciences from METU. He attended to the Fracture-Fatigue Group of Turkish Aerospace Industry-TAI in 2005 as a design engineer. At the end of this year, he started to work in Mechanical Engineering Department at Bulent Ecevit University as an assistant professor. Then, he was promoted to associate professor in 2015. His fields of interest are solid mechanics, fracture mechanics and biomechanics.

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Solid Mechanics; Fracture Mechanics; Biomechanics

Dora Cortés-Hernández works at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Cinvestav-Unidad Saltillo, México. She studied her PhD at Queen Mary College, London University. Dora and her research group have published 100 scientific papers in indexed journals and 150 full papers in proceedings. She has graduated 16 PhD and 16 MSc students. Her research line is Bioceramics.

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He is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the same university in 1995. He joined the master program at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi in 1995, and in 2000 was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry. From 2000 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Professor Samuel Braverman at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In 2003 he was selected as a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working with Professor Henning Hopf in TU Braunschweig - Germany. Since then numerous return fellowships were granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Research Interest

Organic synthesis; sulfur compounds; cyclophanes; flavonoids; acetylenes; allenes.

He is one of the earliest scientists who initialized nanoresearch in China in 1985 with over 30 years of research, teaching, and industrial experience in a wide range of materials (metal, ceramic, semiconductor, biomaterials, and polymer) science and engineering areas. He received PhD in Electronic Materials Engineering on nanostructures and their metastability in silicon induced by ion bombardment at the Australian National University in Canberra. Thereafter, he joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the stability of nanostructures in semiconductors under energetic beams irradiation at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory to extend his concepts and explore nanoinstability under electron beam irradiation as well as to develop inorganic/organic coreshell nanostructure. He once also worked as associate professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; as a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore; as a senior researcher at the ODU Applied Research Centre in the Jefferson Lab; and as an assistant professor at the University of Georgia on fabrication of low dimensional nanostructures for potential nanotechnology and nanodevice applications.

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Low dimensional nanostructures under external excitations; Energetic beam nanoprocessing; Controllable fabrication and growth of low dimensional nanostructures; Controllable assembling and construction of large scale arrays of zero dimensional nanostructures; Organic and inorganic hybrid at nanoscale, and functionalization of nanostructure.

He is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been working on plasmonics for years. His research interest focuses on the plasmon mediated fluorescence and sensing by using plasmonic crystals. In particular, he has developed the temporal coupled mode theory in understanding the underlying mechanisms of decay dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons, emission enhancement, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and polarization conversion. He obtained his BA in Chemistry and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering both from Northwestern University, USA. He has been delivering more than 50 invited talks in international conferences and is in Editorial broad in several journals.

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Plasmon mediated fluorescence and sensing by using plasmonic crystals

He was born in Jiangsu Province, China. He received a B.S. in mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, and M.D. and Ph.D. in chemical process machinery from Nanjing Tech University. Prof. Wenchun Jiang joined College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China) as a lecturer. He was Assistant Professor of Chemical Equipment and Control Engineering from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, he was appointed as a professor and invited to Department of Neutron Science, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute as a visiting scholar. Prof. Wenchun Jiang is recognized in the fields of structural integrity, brazing, residual stress, creep and fatigue. He has published nearly 70 papers and 20 patents in these fields, attended several international conferences and won the First Prize of Technological Invention of Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association of China and the Third Prize of Technology Invention of Shangdong Province.

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I work on the problems related to failure and integrity of mechanical structure; particular in pressure vessel and piping. This includes determining stress distribution in loaded components; Structural integrity; Welding and Brazing; Stress analysis; Residual stress; Creep; Fatigue; Finite element modelling.

Over more than twenty years, Professor Zhang Jinliang has been engaged in the teaching and research of major oil and gas exploration and development, and has initiated many courses including "Petroleum Geology," "Reservoir Sedimentology," "Oil Field Development Geology," "Geostatistics," "Reservoir Engineering," and "Oilfield Modeling and simulation Technology.“

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Theory of oil-gas reservoir formation and evaluation technology, reservoir geology and reservoir description technology, and development geology and remaining oil distribution and exploitation

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Constricted Flow, Separation ,Laminar flow, Aerodynamics, Turbulence flow , Moving Surface Control, Unconventional airfoils, Flow in Artères and Veins, Simulated Ice.

He received both M.E. (Structures) & B.E. (Civil Engineering) degrees from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala in the year 1995 and 1993, respectively. Subsequently, he was awarded Ph.D. degree in the field of Repair and Retrofitting of structures, by Thapar University, Patiala. Presently he is working as Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab. He has more than 21 years of research and teaching experience in the field of design of steel and R.C.C. structures, development of civil engineering materials and repair & retrofitting of structures. He is life member of Indian Concrete Institute, Institution of Engineers (India), and ASCE (India) and also certified charted engineer by Institution of Engineers (India).

Research Interest

Design of RCC & Steel Structures; Retrofitting of Structures.

He serves currently as Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA)at the International University of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. He holds a BS from Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco, a Doctorate from the National Polytechnic Institute, Toulouse, France, and a Ph.D. from Glasgow University, UK. He served as a professor at Marrakech University, Morocco, since 1982. In 1994, he moved to the newly established US-style Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, as a professor. Four years later, he became Academic Coordinator and later Dean of the School of Science and Engineering and VPAA.He is member of several scientific advisory committees, including the Global Engineering Dean’s Council, the Board of Governors of the Arab Water Council, the Board of Advisors of the Arab Water Academy, the Advisory Board of Arab Knowledge Report, the Network of Experts on Water and Environment.

Research Interest

Intercalation compounds; Biomaterials; Environment and education.

Dr.G.P.Karmakar completed his post-graduation in Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Engineering from Institute of Petroleum and Gas, Ploiesti, Romania, M.Tech. in Petroleum Engineering from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He did his post-doctoral research at FSU, Jena, Germany, at Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London and at FHL, Senftenberg, Germany. After working at KDMIPE, ONGC, Dehradun, Dr. Karmakar worked as a Faculty Member in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He worked as Professor in Petroleum Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Raebareli and at School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gadhinagar, India. From 7th December 2010, to 6th June, 2012 Dr. Karmakar worked as Director-in-Charge, School of Petroleum Technology, PDPU, Gadhinagar, India. From 19th May, 2014 to 18th May 2017 he worked as Total Chair Professor in Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Mining Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. From 19th May, 2017 onwards Dr. Karmakar has been working as a Visiting Professor in the same Department at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is recipient of UNESCO Scholarship (IPG, Ploiesti, Romania) in 1981-1982; DAAD Fellowship (FSU, Jena, Germany) in 2000-2001, British Commonwealth Fellowship (Imperial College, London, UK) in 2001-2002 and DAAD Fellowship (FHL, Senftenberg, Germany) in 2006-2007. He is actively engaged in research in the area of Enhanced Oil Recovery using Polymers, Oilfield Waste Treatment using Polymers. He has published more than 68 research papers in national/international journals/conferences.

Research Interest

Enhanced Oil Recovery, Reservoir Engineering, Shale Gas, Oilfield Polymers.

Professor Dr. Nasrallah M. Deraz is Professor of Advanced Nanomaterials Chemistry and Catalysis at National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. He received B. Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry (Solid State, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) in 1990, 1996 and 1999, respectively, from College of science, Zagazig University, Egypt. However, he received B. Law in 2005 from College of Laws, Zagazig University, Egypt. He joined Physical Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, since 1992 till now. He was awarded a Post- doctoral fellowship in 2004 to Institute of Materials Science, Structure Research, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He joined Chemistry Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 2009 till 2013.

Research Interest

Solid-state chemistry, nano-structured materials, surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, science and technology of advanced nano-materials

He was born in 21 of March 1957 in Mashhad, a big city in the north eastern of Iran. He received his B. Sc. in Chemistry from Kharazemi University in Tehran in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 1994. He was the dean of science faculty in Islamic Azad University of Tehran from 2000 to 2006 and director of Interdisciplinary Science and Research Center from 2006 to 2008. He has been collaborating with several universities worldwide; including his collaborations with Professor Arkonites ( Karplus’s research group) in Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, (working on Regulation of Glycogen metabolism and oxidative repair of DNA using CHARMM software program), Professor James E. Boggs in the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry in University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA (working on molecular modeling and computational calculations of nano-molecules), and so on. He is a professor in the field of Computational Chemistry in Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran. His research interests are in the area of interdisciplinary sciences, mainly in molecular modeling and QM/MM calculations of macro-biomolecules, electronic structure calculations of nano-biomolecules, non-bonded electronic structure of BnNn rings, NMR contour maps, and quantum investigations of non-bonded interactions. He designed a nano- molecular motor structure which can be used for detecting the biological molecules.

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QM/MM method and Quantum Chemistry Simulation of Biochemical & nano Structures in Biotechnology and chemical engineering in addition computational chemistry for investigation and calculation macro molecules properties

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Nabil Abd El-Basset Ibrahim, born on April 11, 1949 in El-Mansoura, Egypt, obtained his PhD in Applied Organic Chemistry (Textile Finishing) in 1979. He is a Professor of Textile Chemistry and Technology, Textile Research Division NRC (from 1990 to 2007) and was the Head of the Textile Research Division NRC (August 13, 2001 to August 21, 2008). He has published over 230 scientific papers in well- known international journals dealing with textile chemistry and chemical technology, pollution prevention and cleaner production in textile industry, functional finishes of cellulose-based textiles using nanotechnology, bio-technology and/or plasma technology.

Research Interest

Synthesis, characterization and utilizations of new textile auxiliaries, Pretreatment of textile materials, Textile coloration, Functional finishes of textile materials, Biosynthesis and applications of enzymes in textile wet processing, Bio- and chemical- synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications in functional finishing of textile materials, Application of plasma technology for enhancing textile surface and performance properties, Pollution prevention and cleaner production in textile industry, Materials and energy conservation in textiles wet processing, Sustainable and functional polymers for textile applications, Removal of textile pollutants (end of pipe treatments).

Prof. A.S.Khanna is a Senior Professor at Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He has been in IIT Bombay since March 1991, and is teaching Corrosion related topics and Surface Engineering. He is dedicated teacher with expertise in High Temperature Corrosion, High Temperature Materials and Surface Engineering. In the last 25 years, he has produced 26 Ph.d’s and another 1 Ph.d’s is presently working under him, more than 115 Master’s projects and about 25 B.Tech projects. His research Topics are High Temperature Corrosion, Surface Modifications by laser and thermal spray methods, Organic Paint Coatings, Smart Coatings such as Self Cleaning and Self Healing Coatings, Grapheme Research. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was in Atomic Energy working on corrosion and compatibility of fuel with Stainless steel clads. He has extensive publication list with more than 180 papers in peer reviewed International Journals, thru’ which he has got a Citation of about 1450. He has attended several International Conferences and presented several papers. Prof. Khanna has received several Awards. He is Fellow ASM International and NACE International, Life member of Indian Institute of Metals and Society for Electrochemical Science. He is a founder Chairman of SSPC India, a professional body which hold National/International conferences on coatings and Surface Engineering and conducts industrial courses and training programs.. He is a fellow of Humboldt Foundation Bonn and also of Royal Norwegian Science and Technology and Fellow of Japan Key Centre. He has done post doctoral work at France, Germany and Japan. He has already written three books, two on high temperature Corrosion and one on High Performance organic coatings. He has also edited 5 conference proceedings. He has organized more than 25 National and International conferences. Prof. Khanna is also very active socially. He is an active member of Rotary International and has been President of Rotary Club in Mumbai.

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Dr. A. Maria John Newton, published many papers in peer reviewed international journals in the field of drug delivery , nanomedicine and ocular nano drug delivery. He Also published a book On “Polymeric nanoparticles for colon cancer”. He currently serving as an Editor Open Access E book Inflammatory Bowel disease. He also developed a nanoemulsions for glaucoma. He contributed two chapters in Elsevier’s Pharmaceutical nanotechnology book. He have the vast experience and Knowledge of Nanotechnology& nanomedicine, Drug delivery & Drug Targeting, Drug discovery Technologies, Dosage form design, Analytical & Bio-analytical Research, Bio Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Pharmaceutical R&D, (Pre-clinical), Regulatory Affairs, Intell ectual Property Rights. He enriched with research concepts in pharmaceutical sciences. He proved his Sound understanding of all research work, scientific study, statistical tools through structured analysis and laboratory work by working as Editor, Editorial board member and reviewer in various Journals. He is expert in teaching methodologies, including curriculum design and development of student-centered, congenial learning techniques to instill enthusiasm towards learning in students Innovative conceptualist with sharp eye for fresh approaches & details. He is a committed academician organized researcher, committed to professional research and development and acquisition of continual knowledge. He involved in extensive research and development functions as well as facilitating administrative control & policy formulation for managing day-to-day working of the research institute Synthesizing new moieties, which are further used in processing for patenting.

Research Interest

Advanced Bio Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Advanced nanotechnology & Nanomedicine, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Advanced drug delivery system, Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology, Advanced Physical Pharmaceutics, Advanced clinical pharmacokinetics, Dosage form design.

He was born on June 23, 1976 in Suez, Egypt, obtained his PhD in Advanced Analytical Chemistry (Chemical Sensing based Nanomaterials) in 2011 from Germany, Univesity of Regensburg, Institute of Bio-Analytical and Chemical Sensor, under supervision of Prof. Otto. S. Wolfbeis. He is a Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Nanomaterials Technology, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Suez, Egypt (August 1999-Present). Moreover, he also participated in several international projects with the European Union in the field of Nanotechnology (FP7), Enhanced Oil Recovery (STDF), solar energy and water desalination.

Research Interest

Syntheses and characterization of nanomaterials and their applications in wide scientific area as Nanotechnology; Chemical sensing; Renewable energy systems and Enhanced oil recovery.

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Air pollution; Environmental chemical pollution; Synthesis of new advanced materials; Extraction and digestion process of rare earth metals

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He is a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan (Zahedan, Iran) since 1989. His research work is focused on modern sample preparation techniques including µ-solid phase extraction, solid phase microextraction, liquid phase microextraction and stir bar sorptive extraction. He has published over 100 research articles; presented ca. 120 seminars/conferences; authored two textbooks, and (co)supervised more than 100 MSc and PhD thesis. He is secretary of three national mirror committees of ISO/TC and member of editorial advisory board of 84 journals. He finished 25 industrial projects and has been counsellor in 10 companies in Iran. In 2017 he awarded the best researcher of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Research Interest

Modern sample preparation techniques including μ-solid phase extraction; Solid phase microextraction; Liquid phase microextraction and stir bar sorptive extraction.

N. K. Kishore received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1983; the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering (High Voltage Stream) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in the area of Lightning Transients on Electric Power Systems from the IISc. Bangalore in 1991. Currently, he is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Faculty of School of Energy Science and Engineering with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He was a Scientific Officer( research Projects) with IISc Bangalore from 1987 to 1991 working in the area of Lightning Interaction with Telecommunication Circuits and Air crafts for Defense applications. He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, in 1991. He is a Senior Member of IEEE(USA), Member of Electrostatic Society of America (ESA USA) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India.

Research Interest

high‐voltage engineering, Insulating Materials, Conducting Materials, Materials for Engg., power systems, lightning, EMI/EMC, condition monitoring of power apparatus and renewable energy.