Alexander Gorin is a professor of Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. He is a holder of a conjoint Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and PhD degree in Engineering Science. Due to his achievements he has been awarded as well the Higher post-doctoral Doctor of Science degree and an Academic title of Professor. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK). His research in manufacturing and machining of advanced ceramics, composite materials, fundamental heat and mass transfer studies in porous media and fluid mechanics of separated flows, biofluidmechanics, multiphase systems, transport phenomena in living systems is widely recognized in the scientific and engineering communities. He has served on numerous organising committees for international conferences, has collaborated with various international institutions. He has published more than 200 papers, including books and patents. He is a member of Editorial Boards for International Journal of Energy & Technology, Bioceramics Development and Applications, Journal of Fluid Flow Heat and Mass Transfer and has been invited as a keynote speaker for many conferences, congresses, and symposia. More than 20 PhD students have been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for studies completed under the Prof Alexander Gorin’s supervision.

Manufacturing and machining of advanced ceramics, composite materials, biofluidmechanics, nanofluids, transport phenomena in living systems, transport phenomena in porous media, energy technologies

Vladimir Lee received his MSc degree in chemistry from the Far–Eastern State University (Vladivostok) in 1982, and PhD degree in organic chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) in 1987. After a couple of PD stays at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, Korea) in 1996 and at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1997, he is working at the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) currently holding a Lecturer position. He has been visiting professor at the several universities in Germany, France and Japan. He has authored over 110 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and a monograph. He has about 200 presentations at the international and national conferences.

low-coordinate derivatives of the main group elements: carbene analogues, cations, free radicals, anions, multiply-bonded derivatives, highly strained small rings, as well as their transition metal complexes.

Dr. Yuyuan Zhao is Reader in Materials Engineering at the School of Engineering, the University of Liverpool, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He serves on the Editorial Board of Powder Metallurgy, the official journal of the European Powder Metallurgy Association. He obtained his BEng and MSc degrees from Dalian University of Technology, and DPhil from Oxford University. He worked as a Lecturer at Dalian University of Technology and a Research Fellow at Birmingham University before he joined Liverpool University as a Lecturer. He pioneered the Sintering and Dissolution Process (SDP) for manufacturing porous aluminium and further invented the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process, which has been commercialised for mass production of porous metals. He has published over 85 papers in the processing, characterisation and modelling of particulate, porous and composite materials.

Manufacture of porous metals and syntactic foams by powder metallurgy routes and characterisation of their mechanical; Thermal; Acoustic and electrochemical properties.

Prof. Biezma studied Chemical Sciences, with Specialty of Materials Science and Metallurgy and obtained the special prize of PhD at University Complutense of Madrid, Spain, 1991, She is currently professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Head of Research Group of Degradation and Corrosion of Materials, at University of Cantabria, Spain from 1988. The main topics of research are devoted to looking for the relationship between microstructure of different metallic systems and corrosion behavior, stress corrosion cracking of rebar’s in concrete in marine environments, corrosion behavior of gas and petrochemistry pipelines, use the nondestructive testing by ultrasound to detect inner corrosion defects, or study wood properties. She usually visits University of Oporto, Portugal, University College of Horsens, Denmark, and University Technology of Wien, Austria, in Professor Erasmus Program. She has visited as research professor TUWIEN, Austria She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journals, attended more than 50 international and national congress and she is reviewer of Journal related to Materials Science, Corrosion and Civil Engineering. She participates at Marie Curie Program, Research Night, pointing out special attention to diffusion science to children. She is member of the Staff of Materials Spanish Society and belongs to European Federation of Corrosion European Society of Adhesion, etc. She has published some papers related to High Education Innovation related to the link Chemistry and Materials Science.

Materials Chemistry, material science, metallurgical engineering

I was born in 1967. I get my Ph. D degree at Middle East Technical University at 2001. I have been working for Karadeniz Technical University, since 1993. Following the research assistant position I have worked as a full time faculty member at Mining Engineering Department. I have taught underground mining, mine support, mine ventilation, mine design natural stone processing courses. My research area is underground mining, rock mechanics, rock breakage (cutting, sawing). I especially interested in material properties of rock and their effects in mechanical processes. Additionally, I am working on coal bed methane and CO2 Sequestration. I am currently supervising a project on CO2 sequestration. I have supervised some projects supported by intuitional and national authorities. I took part in scientific and advisory boards of some national and international meetings.

My research area is underground mining, rock mechanics, rock breakage (cutting, sawing). I especially interested in material properties of rock and their effects in mechanical processes. Additionally, I am working on coal bed methane and CO2 Sequestration.

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 was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975. He is the author and co-author of over 400 publications. His research interests are in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy Systems, and Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of sixteen professional engineering societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has been the recipient of many honors and awards.

Materials Genome; Nanoparticles and their Synthesis; Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulations of Engineered Materials; Energy Harvesting Materials; Nanomechanics, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics.

Professor González-Benito received his Ph.D. in Chemical-Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid and got the position at the University Carlos III of Madrid, UC3M, as a professor in 2003. He carried out several pre and postdoctoral research stays in very prestigious centers around the world, Institute of Chemistry and Biology Technology of University Nova de Lisbon (Portugal); Institute of Materials Chemistry of the Tampere University of Technology (Finland); Macromolecular Science Department of Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); Department of the University of California Santa Barbara and The National Institute of Standards and technology (Gaithersburg, Mariland USA) among others. Nowadays he is the head of the Group `Polymer Composite Materials and Interphases, having published more than 70 papers about polymers and polymer composites in reputed journals. He was Director of the Ph.D. program in Materials Science and Engineering of the University Carlos III of Madrid from 2006 to 2013.

Polymer interfaces in multiphase (micro and nanophases) materials using a variety of microscopic imaging methods and fluorescence based methods. Researching lines: i) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with especial electrical properties and ii) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with antibacterial activity. Characterization of polymers and composite materials; use of fluorescent probes and labels to monitor physico-chemical changes at a molecular scale; atomic force microscopy; structural, dynamics and ageing phenomena studies in polymer based materials.

Professor Michael Tausch, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, has been awarded the inaugural Heinz Schmidkunz Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCH, German Chemical Society). The award recognizes outstanding contributions to research into the teaching of chemistry, teacher training, and the development of material for teaching chemistry in schools. It was presented at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum 2015 in Dresden, Germany, on August 31, 2015. Among other honors, Professor Tausch has received the Friedrich-Stromeyer Preis of the GDCh in 1994 and the Johann-Joachim Becher-Preis of the J. J. Becher-Gesellschaft in 2007.

Professor Tausch's work includes photochemistry in science education, curriculum innovation, and the development of didactic materials on silicones and cyclodextrins. Recently developed experimental kits and teaching materials refer to Photoprocesses in Science Education, Photo-SciEd, especially to: photo-, chemo- and electroluminescence, photogalvanic and photovoltaic cells, photoisomerisation and photocatalytic redox reactions. Experimental approaches to the elementary key steps occurring at molecular level are investigated and transcribed into printed and electronic teaching materials suitable for the communication of Photo-SciEd in close combination with convincing applications from technology and nature, such as: generation of light in energy saving devices (LEDs, OLEDs, fluorescence micro- and nanoscopy etc.), supply of electric energy from sunlight (photogalvanic cells, inorganic, organic and hybrid photovoltaic, fluorescence collectors etc.), sun light conversion and storage in long living chemical systems (the “sustainocene age” behind the capture and conversion of CO2”), thin layer photoreactors in living systems (in green leaves, human eyes, human skin etc.), the “photoreactor atmosphere” as a precondition for life on the planet Earth (stratospheric and tropospheric photochemistry), thin layer smart materials with molecular switches (photochromic and photoluminscent isomers in solid matrices).

Dr. Yogeshwar Sahai is Emeritus Professor in Materials Science & Engineering Department at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus. He was a regular faculty member at OSU from 1983 to 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, England in 1979. He was a research associate at McGill University, Montreal, Canada before joining the faculty position at OSU in January 1983. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan during 1995-96. His professional interests include design optimization and improvement in materials processing for electrochemical devices. His current research interest is in the area of developing high efficiency and cost-effective Fuel Cells. Dr. Sahai has published over 150 technical papers in peer reviewed journals and refereed proceedings, and has published 4 books and six patents. He received many awards for his teaching, research, and professional service for the past 35 years.

Materials Chemistry; design optimization of materials; electrochemical devices; Fuel Cells