Invited Speaker

Full Professor and director of the Institute of Chemistry of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Araraquara-SP, Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo. Member of the European Academy of Sciences. Researcher CNPq 1A (Brazilian agency- highest level). Vice-coordinator of the National Institute of Photonics, Brazil (http://inct.info/en/). Associate Editor of the Journal “Frontiers in Chemistry- Inorganic Chemistry”. Co-editor the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. Member of the international board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. Main interests are in Inorganic Chemistry and its implications in Materials Science, Spectroscopy and Education in Chemistry. On-going research projects deal with natural polymers (bacterial cellulose and silk fibroin), organic-inorganic hybrids, waveguides, porous materials and lanthanide basedluminescent markers (down-shifting and upconversion) for Medicine.

Professor Seol Jae Bok of the School of Materials Science & Engineering, College of Creative Engineering, Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul) has been named on the ‘2025 World's Top 2% Scientists’ list, jointly announced by Stanford University and Elsevier, for the second consecutive year. This globally authoritative list selects the top 2% of scientists in each field by comprehensively evaluating citation metrics and academic influence of researchers worldwide, based on Elsevier's Scopus database.

Dr. Suk-Ho Choi is a distinguished Fellow Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, where he previously served as the Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences from 2001 to 2011. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Seoul National University and completed both his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Over his highly decorated career, Dr. Choi has been a visiting scholar at world-renowned institutions, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States and the Australian National University (ANU). His cutting-edge research focuses heavily on low-dimensional nanostructures, graphene, quantum dots, and next-generation optoelectronic devices like advanced solar cells and nonvolatile memories. A prolific researcher, he has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and actively develops custom Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) technologies for advanced material fabrication.

Dr. Arkady Alekseevich Zolotovsky is a distinguished physicist and researcher with a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics from Kazan State University, Russia, and a Candidate of Physics and Mathematics Sciences degree from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Ukraine. With over four decades of academic and research experience, he has served as an Associate Professor at leading Ukrainian universities and has been a Researcher at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1990. His expertise spans luminescence, lasers, high-temperature superconductivity, nonlinear optics, semiconductor physics, superionic materials, and rare-earth-doped crystals and glasses. His current research focuses on low-dimensional structures, spin-doped multinary compounds, heterostructures, and the optical properties of doped materials. A member of SPIE, he has supervised three PhD students and authored 25 peer-reviewed journal publications and 11 conference communications, contributing significantly to the advancement of modern condensed matter and optical physics.