Plenary Speakers

Thomas J. Webster

Hebei University of Technology, USA

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 129) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Kun’ichi Miyazawa

Nano Alloy Technology Inc, Japan

Dr. Kun’ichi Miyazawa is now working with Nano Alloy Technology Inc. (Nagaoka, Japan), and also with Tokyo University of Science and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a visiting researcher. He belongs to Yokohama City University as a visiting professor as well.　He received Doctor of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo in 1987. He was a lecturer in the School of Engineering at The University of Tokyo from 1989 to 2002, and moved to NIMS in 2002, where he studied various fullerene nanomaterials like fullerene nanowhiskers, fullerene nanotubes and fullerene nanosheets, as a group leader of Fullerene Engineering Group till 2016.　From 2016, he has been mainly engaged in the transmission electron microscopy study of fullerenes, carbon and metal nanomaterials, as well as the electronic study of fullerenes, carbon and metal nanomaterials using the DFT calculation.

LIU Zishun

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Zishun LIU (刘子顺) City University of Hong Kong (DG)/Xi'an Jiaotong University/NUS Singapore/IHPC Singapore

Afang Zhang

Shanghai University, China

Afang Zhang International Joint Laboratory of Biomimetic & Smart Polymers, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Nanchen Street 380, Shanghai 200444, China

Jesus Canales Vázquez

University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Jesús Canales-Vázquez Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Vladimir CHIGRINOV

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974.

Blaz Likozar

National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

Blaž Likozar Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry

Osman Adiguzel

Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 180 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, in the coronavirus outbreak in four year of his retirement, 2020 and 2023. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction and crystallography.

Pillay Kriveshini

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Kriveshini Pillay Department of Applied Chemistry University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrey Belousov

Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine

Prof. Andrey Belousov is Doctor of Medicine. Author a new medecine products – nanotechnology preparations based on magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3O4) of the size 6-12 nm: the peroral form - Micromage-B (the biologically active additive officially registration in Ukraine); Magnet-controlled sorbent brand of MCS-B for extracorporal detoxication of biological liquids (officially registration in Ukraine and was allowed for medical practice); Nanobiocorrector for intravenous application – ICNB (intracorporal nanosorbent). The published more 340 scientific works on results application of nanotechnology preparation in experimental and practical medicine. A. Belousov - the Head of Laboratory Applied Nanotechnologies of Belousov, DM, Professor of Department Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine.

Tokeer Ahmad

Jamia Millia Islamia, India

Tokeer Ahmad Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India