University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Vistasp M. Karbhari is a Professor in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, & Civil Engineering, at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he served as the 8th President. Dr. Karbhari is an expert in the processing and mechanics of composites, durability of materials, infrastructure rehabilitation, and multi-threat mitigation. He has authored/coauthored over 500 papers in journals, book chapters, and conference publications and has edited/co-edited 7 books. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the National Academy of Inventors (NAI); the American Society of Civil Engineers; ASM International; the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM); the International Institute for Fiber-reinforced Polymers in Construction; the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure; ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute, and is an elected member of the European Academy of Science and Arts.

Hebei University of Technology, China
Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 126) 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.

Université Paris Cité, CNRS, ITODYS PRINTUP Institute, France
Prof. Randriamahazaka Hyacinthe had received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1991 from Université François Rabelais at Tours, France. From 1992, he worked as Associate Professor at CY Université (Cergy-Pontoise) in France. In 2005, he moved to Université Paris Cité as full Professor. He was promoted as Distinguished Professor from the national evaluation in September 2022.

Since January 2023, he is Director of Strategic Partnerships and Prospective of PRINTUP Institute which is a new institute of Université Paris Cité dedicated to develop printed electronic for bio-medical devices by using additive manufacturing (https://printupinstitute.fr/en/home-printup-institute/). He was Deputy Director of the Master progamme in Chemistry Department of Université Paris Cité until 2018. He is member of the Excellence Network LABEX SEAM (Science and Engineering of Advance Materials) of Université Paris Cité (http://www.labex-seam.fr).