Paulo C. DE MORAIS (H-62), PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology – China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010. 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. Professor Morais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With more than 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals, more than 14,500 citations, about 300 international invited talks (35 countries), and 16 filed patents. He has appeared in recent World ranking of top scientists, such as 2020-Stanford, 2022-Research.com, 2023-AD Scientific Index, 2023-Research.com, 2024-Elsevier, ONE Research Community, 2025-AD Scientific Index, 2025-Research.com, and 2025-Stanford-Elsevier.

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Dr. Tomasz Krystofiak in 1994 was finished study of Faculty of Wood Technology at Agriculture Academy in Poznan. In 2002 he prepared a PhD dissertation and in 2019 habilitation. Author or co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in the scope of gluing and finishing of wood and wood based composites. To his research activities belongs surface phenomena, wettability, adhesion and adherence, modification, gluability and paintability of lignocellulosic materials. He was a Management Committee Member of COST Actions FP1006 and CA15216 and Working Group Member (FP1303 and FP1407). Since 2021 Guest Editor in 6 Special Issues in Coatings, Forests, Materials journals.

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Diogo M.F. Santos is a Principal Researcher at CeFEMA and an Invited Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (ULisboa, Portugal). He studies electrodes and membranes for fuel cells and electrolyzers. D.M.F. Santos has authored over 200 publications; his current h index is 41. He has been listed since 2020 on Stanford University's “World’s Top 2% Scientists list.” His research interests are related to electrochemical energy conversion and storage

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Tony Barrera is a certified autodidact math genius. He have published more than 42 Ordinary high rated scientific papers And up to several hundred publications ,computer simulations and animations In different subjects, scientific papers in mathematics , computer graphics, numerical analysis, astrophysics and Particle Atomic physics. Tony does research general together with prof Ewert Bengtsson, Prof Anders Hast and Physicist Bo Thelin and the crew of Barrera Science Lab. Tony Barrera have been working for the company AB Consonant with implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform, FFT , and as a computergrahics researcher at Cycore AB (Webbgraphics). Constructor of about 10 - 20 different Graphics Engines , Assembler ,Basic, Pascal and/or C++ computer languages. Started with mahematics and science at age 3, got the first Astronomy book (from mother Elisabeth Mercadal) at 9, the first Chemistry set at 10 , Chief (head) of Barrera Science Lab.

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Enrique Zuazua (Eibar, Basque Country–Spain, https://dcn.nat.fau.eu/enrique-zuazua/) holds, since September 2019, the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics - Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, at the Department of Mathematics of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany and part-time appointments at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. He is also a member of the Basque Academy “Jakiunde“, Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Academy (AIIA), of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and of the Academia of Europaea, and scientific advisor of the artificial intelligence company Sherpa AI in Bilbao. He holds a degree in Mathematics (1984) from the University of the Basque Country, and a dual Ph.D. degree from the same university (1987) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1988). In 1990 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to later move to UAM in 2001. His fields of expertise in the broad area of Applied Mathematics include Partial Differential Equations, Systems Control and Numerical Analysis and Machine Learning. He has been awarded the Euskadi (Basque Country) Prize for Science and Technology 2006 and the National Julio Rey Pastor Prize 2007 in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology and the Advanced Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) NUMERIWAVES in 2010, DYCON in 2016 and CoDeFeL in 2022. In 2022 he was awarded the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize of SIAM. He is an invited section speaker in “Control and Optimization” in ICM2006, Madrid. With over 300 articles published, his work had an important impact (h-index = 50). He has supervised 30 PhD students and a broad network of master students, post-doctoral researchers and research and management technicians. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journals “Mathematical Control and Related Fields” and “Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models” and member of the editorial committee of other Journals and of scientific committees of various centers and agencies. He was the first Manager for Mathematics of the Spanish National Research Plan in 1999-2002, the Founding Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in 2008-2012 and of the Chair of Computational Mathematics at the University of Deusto-Bilbao in 2016, both in Bilbao. Since 2021 he is the inaugural Speaker of the FAU Research Center for Mathematics of Data (MoD). He also develops an intense dissemination agenda, gathered at https://cmc.deusto.eus/enzuazua/

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Dr Orestis D. Valianatos is the Global President and CEO of ATMOS Global Pty Ltd (ATMOS Global ™), a highly accredited and accomplished professional company director, an astute investor in the capital markets, an established innovator, a role model, a visionary thinker with a diverse portfolio of formal qualifications (BSc, MSc, PhD in Atmospheric Physics, Climate & Sustainability, Master of Business Administration, Professional Doctorate in International Business and Sustainability, Corporate Governance training as a Professional Board Director, and soon a Diploma of Finance), experience, unique insight and influential global perspective across multiple domains including artificial intellignce, leadership, strategy and innovation, sustainability, ESG, climate-tech, thematic and sustainable investing. Entrepreneur and agent of change, he has authored more than 50 ground-breaking international research papers as a subject matter expert working in partnership with senior personnel from government departments, universities and major private clients from the mining, manufacturing and energy & utilities sectors.

Farah JEMILI is an Associate Professor at ISITCOM, University of Sousse, and a Senior Researcher at the INSIGHT Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. and an HDR (Habilitation to Direct Research) from ENSI, University of Manouba. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Distributed Systems, with a particular focus on Cybersecurity and E-Health applications. She has authored more than 60 international publications and has contributed to several European projects, including Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe. She is also actively engaged in Academic Leadership and International Research Collaborations.

Dr. Sailesh Iyer has a Ph.D. (Computer Science), Post Doc from University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA (Public University ranked among the top 100 Public Universities) and currently serving as a Professor and I/c. Principal at NSIT-IFSCS, Ahmedabad. 9 Scholars have been awarded Ph.D. and also recognized as Co-Guide for Post Doc Scholars at 3 reputed International Universities like University of Louisiana (Lafayette, USA), Singapore Institute of Technology (Singapore) and Lincoln University College (Malaysia). IEEE and CSI Membership. He is also an Adjunct Research Faculty at Lincoln University College, Malaysia from January 2025. He has more than 26 years of experience in Academics, Industry and Corporate Training out of which 21 years are in core Academics. He has been awarded Research Excellence Award for years 2021, 2022 and 2023 by Rai University and an Honorary Adjunct Research Scientist at Neurolabs International under Dana Brain Health Institute, Iran from August 2022 to August 2025. He has several Patents granted and published to his credit and is involved as an Editor for various book projects with Elsevier, IGI Global (USA), Wiley, CRC Press Taylor and Francis (UK) and Bentham Science (UAE). He has been invited as Keynote Speaker in various International Conferences held in 11+ Countries all over the world. A hardcore Academician and Administrator, he has excelled in Corporate Training, delivered 200+ Expert Talks in various AICTE sponsored STTP’s, ATAL FDP’s, Reputed Universities, Government organized Workshops, Orientation and Refresher Courses organized by HRDC, Gujarat University. Research Contribution include reputed Publications, Track Chair in reputed International and National Conferences, Reviewer of International Journals like Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), Journal of Computer Science (Scopus Indexed), International Journal of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare (IGI Global), Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment and Editor in various Journals. He has also been invited as a Judge for various events, Examiner for Reputed Universities, is a Computer Society of India Lifetime Member and also serving as Managing Committee (MC) Member, CSI Ahmedabad Chapter from 2018-2020. Research interest areas: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Cyber Security, Data Mining and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hizmawati Madzin is an academic, researcher, and technology leader at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), specializing in image processing, medical imaging, computer vision, multimedia computing, and interactive education technology. She holds a PhD in Multimedia Information Retrieval from the University of Malaya. Her research focuses on AI-driven medical image analysis, particularly tuberculosis lung cavity segmentation, as well as augmented reality, digital learning innovation, and multimedia applications. She has led and contributed to multiple national research grants, published in indexed journals, supervised postgraduate students, and received numerous awards in teaching, learning, innovation, and research. Dr. Hizmawati is also actively involved in student development, entrepreneurship education, digital innovation, and industry-community engagement. She currently serves as the Director of the Centre of Entrepreneurial Development and Graduate Marketability, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

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