Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. He is the author and coauthor of over 600 publications and serves on the editorial board of 20+ journals. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ASME, AIAA, IEEE, SAE and SME.

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska completed her PhD in Physics and postdoctoral studies at the National Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University. She also obtained an MSc in Solar Energy from the University of Sydney. She is a Physics Professor and Graduate Dean of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, founder and director of the Laboratory for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, and founder and CTI of an advanced materials start-up, SafeLi LLC. With ~140 peer-reviewed publications and ~150 conference/invited talks, she is Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America and serves on the Editorial Board of Microscopy and Microanalysis.

Professor Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science, Executive Director of the Strathclyde Space Institute and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships (US & Far East) at the University of Starthclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prior to his present positions, he was the Executive Dean (Engineering) at the University of Strathclyde, Head of Aerospace Sciences and Professor of Fluid Mechanics & Computational Science at Cranfield University (2003-2015). His expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Molecular Dynamics for flows and materials, fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research across a diverse spectrum of aerospace and mechanical engineering applications. To date, he has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 400 papers/book chapters in the above technical areas

Alexander Seifalian, Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine worked at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London for over 26 years, during this time he spent a period of time at Harvard Medical School looking at caused of cardiovascular diseases and a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School looking at treatment of liver. He published more than 647 peer-reviewed research papers, and registered 14 UK and International patents. He is currently CEO of NanoRegMed Ltd, working on the commercialisation of his research. During his career Prof Seifalian has led and managed many large projects with successful outcomes in terms of commercialisation and translation to patients. In 2007 he was awarded the top prize in the field for the development of nanomaterials and technologies for cardiovascular implants by Medical Future Innovation, and in 2009 he received a Business Innovation Award from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). He was the European Life Science Awards’ Winner of Most Innovative New Product 2012 for the “synthetic trachea”. Prof Seifalian won the Nanosmat Prize in 2013 and in 2016 he received the Distinguish Research Award in recognition of his outstanding work in regenerative medicine from Heals Healthy Life Extension Society. His achievements include development of the world first synthetic trachea, lacrimal drainage conduit, and vascular bypass graft using nanocomposite materials, bioactive molecules and stem cell technology. He has over 15,000 media report from his achievement, include BBC, ITV, WSJ, CNN, and many more. Currently he is working on development and commercialisation of human organs using graphene based nanocomposite materials and stem cells technology.

Professor Pankaj Vadgama qualified in Medicine and Chemistry. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and recently, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials, at Queen Mary University of London. His interests are in electrochemical biosensors for near-patient and in vivo monitoring, using miniaturised sensors and microdialysis. He has adapted biosensor chemistry for direct operation in biofluids and tissue, and has over 200 publications, 20 published patents. His underpinning research is in membrane technology for device packaging, and he was one of the first to report diffusion control membranes for extended linear range enzyme electrodes. He has variously worked on spider silk as an implant material, microfluidics for diagnostics, electrochemical characterisation of bone adhesives and is currently working on biodegradable sensors and on nanosilver as an antimicrobial for urine catheters. His has recently established a sensors spinout company, Camstech Ltd., to develop optical sensors.

Dimitrios H. Roukos, MD, PhD, is Professor of Surgery – Precision Cancer Medicine and Founding director of “Centre for Biosystems and Genome Network Medicine” in the Ioannina University, School of Medicine. His translational and clinical research from traditional and single gene investigation to molecular networks and clinical cancer genome NGS analysis has been recognized by international scientific community. He has published > 236 PubMed papers with recent focus on NGS conventional and breakthrough genome analysis (> 80 articles) and more recently in precision cancer medicine (31 articles). These publications have received more than 8420 citations with h-index: 72 (Scopus). He is reviewer in many high impact journals including some with impact factor (IF) >30, evaluator in innovative research projects (EU, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland), and member in the editorial board of 25 international journals with IF. He has been invited speaker in many international and world congresses

M. Monier has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Mansoura University, Egypt and postdoctoral studies from Chemistry Department, Drexel University, USA. He was the director of Polymer lab in Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt before temporary contracting with Taibah University in Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute

Xue Ben has completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. She is Research&Software Engineer at MathWorks Inc, a leading technology company that develops products to accelerate pace of engineering and science. Her research focuses on building multi-physics models to investigate properties of nanomaterials with continuous methods and atomistic simulations. She is expertise in atomistic simulation, FDTD, FEM, nanomaterials, surface plasmon, surface/size effects, and building high performance computing infrastructures for computation. She has first author publications in Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Physical and Chemistry C, Applied Physics Letter, Nanotechnology. She also serves as the reviewer for journals and international conferences, including Nanoscale, Nanotechnology, IOP MRE, etc.