Dr. Aboubakr M. Abdullah is the Hydro/Qatalum Chair Professor at the Center for Advanced Materials at Qatar University since 2017. He has more than 26 years of experience in chemistry and materials science and engineering Research & Development, Industrial consultations, and project management since he was awarded his bachelor's and Master's degrees in 1993 and 1997 from Cairo University, Egypt and Ph.D. degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 2003. During his career, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed and 50 conference proceedings articles in the materials, energy, and environment research field in addition to one book chapter and filed and disclosed several intellectual properties. Furthermore he has supervised many young professionals at the Master and Ph.D. levels.

Experience researcher. Field close related to the semiconductors industry and research areas in microelectronics for sensors and MEMS. He obtained his PhD in Applied Science at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, emphasizing his work on microelectronic biosensors. Worked in research at the Université catholique de Louvain, focusing its work in biosensors, gas, pressure and optical sensors. Worked in different industrial projects with companies like Samsung, Canberra and vivaMOS, helping in process integration, quality improvement and validation for image and gas sensors. Currently working in the process development and characterization for thin film photodiodes in the IR light applications at IMEC, Belgium

Dr Ahmad Fahad Ahmad is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Physics Department, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). His methodological and theoretical Ph.D research of material engineering as well as a considerable portion of his applied and collaborative current work addresses the thermophysical properties of biocomposite materials at wide range microwave frequencies. His research work explores different characterization techniques, synthesis and electrical analysis of polymer materials, which are being pursued to potential commercial development in various areas such as antennas, scattering, elasticity, fluid mechanics and microwave circuits with mixed boundary conditions.

Peter Smith completed his academic studies at the Universities of London (Imperial College) and Sheffield, graduating with a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry in 1985. Upon graduation, Peter began his career in the consumer goods industry working in the Research & Development Department at Procter & Gamble. During his 27 years’ experience at P&G, Peter has worked in a wide range of product categories (ranging from toothpaste to household laundry/ cleaning products to Cosmetics and Pet Food). He has extensive experience across the different R&D disciplines and has lived in the UK, Italy, and Belgium. For the past 7 years, Peter worked at Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) where he had responsibility for the Product Stewardship Programme, covering the EU Chemicals regulatory framework and International Chemicals Management. Since 2015, Peter has also represented the chemical industry as a Member of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). And since 2016, he has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Helsinki Chemicals Forum.

Elvira Fortunato is full professor in Materials Science Department of Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon, a Fellow of the Portuguese Engineering Academy since 2009 and decorated with the grade of Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator by the President of the Republic in 2010, due to her scientific achievements worldwide. In 2015 she was appointed by the Portuguese President Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Celebrations of the National Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities.

Vanessa De Wolf, industrial engineer in chemistry from I.S.I.B., specialized in material science. Her first work experience with nanoparticles was at Nanocyl for 1 year. Before her actual work at Nano4, she followed a formation in quality and production management at Bruxelles Formation. At Nano4, she is in charge of technical part in European R&D projects (IASS, INNOHU, Silenthalpic…) and in upscaling and development of products in accordance with customer’s needs, since October 2012. She has an extensive experience in research and development in materials including thermosets and thermoplastics resins, nanomaterials, specific properties (self-healing through IASS, flame retardancy, thermal and electrical conductivity, antibacterial, COV absorption…). She has experience in R&D project management.

Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in the Dept. of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee Univ. (KHU). He received BS from Seoul National Univ., MS and PhD from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He spent sabbatical years at National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), Australian National Univ., and Samsung Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at Institute of Natural Sciences at KHU, and was appointed as Fellow Professor from 2009. He has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots/nanowires/graphene/2D-related materials, and the other on their applications in optoelectronic devices. He has published over 210 papers.