Biography: Nguyen Quang Liem is a Professor of physics. He served as Director of Institute of Materials Science (IMS), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) over the period 2009–2017. He has rich experiences in optoelectronic materials and has published more than 100 papers on international journals, one book and some patents. His research interests are in optoelectronic materials (film and quantum dots/nanocrystals) and devices (luminescent materials for light emitting diode and for biolabeling/sensors, photocatalysts for photo-reactivity and for photoreactor), development of scientific instruments and spectroscopic measuring techniques, especially some related ones like Raman scattering and photoluminescence spectroscopy enhanced with surface plasmon resonance for fast/non-destructive and sensitive analysis/detection of residual pesticides, chemical radicals, characterizations of the ancient art/cultural products. He is the Vice-President of the Vietnam Physical Society (VPS) and a Council Member of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS). He is Editor-in-Chief of Advances Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IOP Publishing), editorial member of Heliyon (Elsevier) and of Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (Elsevier).
Biography: Arunachalam M. “Raj” Rajendran serves as
Chair and professor for the Mechanical Engineering Department at
the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Oxford, MS. He has won
the School of Engineering (SoE) - 2012 Outstanding Teaching
Award, SoE’s 2016 Outstanding Faculty Award, and 2017 Ole Miss’s
Graduate School Exceptional Graduate Advising and Mentoring
Award. Prior to joining Ole Miss in 2008, he served the U.S.
Army Research Office, RTP, NC as Chief Scientist for the
Engineering Sciences Directorate in 2000-2008. He has worked in
the US Army Research Laboratory during 1992-2008. His
professional career has been devoted to the development of
computational damage models for metallic, ceramic, and other
types of functional material systems under shock and high strain
rate loading conditions. Dr. Rajendran is a Fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1994), Fellow of the
Society of Engineering Science (2012), Distinguished Fellow of
ICCES, and Emeritus Fellow of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(2000). He is the receiver of the ICCES’s Eric Reissner Medal
(2007), and Life Time Achievement award (2011). He has published
over 150 articles, edited 10 books and major conference
proceedings, and chaired over 100 international conferences,
symposiums, and scientific panels. Dr. Rajendran obtained his
PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1981.
Biography: Dr Zongjin LI is Chair professor of Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at University of
Macau (UM). He joined UM after his service at The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2016. He
received his B.E. from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in
1982 and obtained both his M.S. and PhD from Northwestern
University, Chicago, U.S.A, in 1990 in 1993, respectively. He is
a fellow of American Concrete Institute and a registered
professional engineer in Hong Kong, China. He is a member of
committees of ISO/TC71, First vice Chair of China Group of RILEM
and Founding President of ACI China Chapter.
He has done extensive researches in the area of cement-based
materials and non-destructive evaluations. As the chief
scientist, he has led a China Key National Basic Research
Project (973), ‘Basic study on environmentally friendly
contemporary concrete’, which has made a great contributions to
advance concrete technology in China. As the founding chair of
Gordon Research Conference, ‘‘Advanced Materials for Sustainable
Infrastructure Development’ in 2014, he has brought the research
conference of building materials into a higher scientific level.
He has published 5 technical books, in which ‘Advanced Concrete
Technology’ published by John Wiley has been collected by many
national libraries and most major university libraries and used
by many universities as text or reference books for civil
engineering. He has also published more than 400 technical
papers with a SCI H-index of 39 and Scopus H-index of 43. In
2016, he has been selected as the one of the 150 most cited
authors in Civil engineering field. He has also been awarded
five US and seven Chinese patents. Three of his patents have
been developed into commercial products.
He received the Arthur R. Anderson Medal from American Concrete
Institute in 2017 and Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award
from British Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Biography: Professor Ildoo Chung joined the faculty of
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at Pusan National
University, Korea in 2005. Prior to that, he completed his
postdoctoral training with Professor Jimmy Mays in Department of
Chemistry at University of Tennessee, and with Professor Dong
Xie in Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of
Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He received his Ph. D. at Pusan
National University in 2000. He is now serving editor-in-chief
of Journal of Adhesion and Interface, and member of board of
directors in the Polymer Society of Korea, the Korea Society of
Adhesion and Interface, Korea Polyurethane Society, and Asian
Cyclodextrin Conference. He had over 70 peer-reviewed
publications and over 150 presentations in national and
international conferences. His research interests are focused on
polymer synthesis such as atom transfer radical polymerization
(ATRP), radical addition-fragmentation transfer (RAFT)
polymerization and advanced polymeric biomaterials such as drug
delivery system, hard/soft tissue compatible polymers,
photocurable 3D printing polymer, biodegradable polymer and
composite system.