Prof. Ernst Wagner is Chair of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department Pharmacy, LMU Munich, Germany (2001-2026). He was Director Cancer Vaccines, BoehringerIngelheim 1992-2001 (world-wide first polymer-based gene therapy in 1994), 1987-1995 Group Leader at IMP Vienna and Vienna University Biocenter, 1985-1987 postdoc at ETH Zurich, 1985 PhD (TU Vienna, Austria). He is Academician of European Academy of Sciences, Controlled Release Society (CRS) College of Fellows, Honorary Professor at U of Sichuan. He authored ≥ 533 publications, with ≥ 56 700 citations, h-index 120 (GS).

Amar Mohanty is a Full Professor & Distinguished Research Excellence Chair in Sustainable Materials and the Director of the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a former Michigan State University Professor. He currently holds a Adjunct Professor position at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, USA and a Visiting Professor status at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Prof. Mohanty is an international leader in the field of sustainable materials, bioplastics, biocomposites and advanced biorefinery. His research focuses on engineering value-added uses of biomass wastes, waste plastics and industrial co-products from agro-food and biofuel industries. Circular bioeconomy, environmental sustainability, waste plastic valorization, biodegradable plastics as single-use plastic alternatives, biocarbon based composites and 3D printing of sustainable materials are other areas of his expertise. Prof. Mohanty is the Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Composites, Composites Part C -Open Access; an ELSEVIER journal. He is a highly cited researcher with more than 850 publications to his credit, including 501 peer-reviewed journal papers, 71 patents (awarded/applied), 6 edited books, over 500 conference presentations, 30 book chapters. Link to Prof. Mohanty's Google Scholar. Prof. Mohanty is a Fellow of: (i) the Royal Society of Canada, (ii) the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, (iii) the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), (iv) the Society of Plastic Engineers. Prof. Mohanty has received many awards, including the (i) Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), (ii) JL White Innovation Award from the international Polymer Processing Society (PPS), (iii) Synergy Award for Innovation from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), (iv) Andrew Chase Forest Products Division Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and (v) the Lifetime Achievement Award from the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS), USA.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 137) 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 45,000 patients. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, HebeiUniversity of Technology, UFPI, University of the Basque Country, 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.

Hae-Won Kim received his Ph.D from Seoul National University in 2002. Following his graduation, he was a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College London (UCL) Eastman Dental in 2003-2004. He was appointed as a professor in the College of Dentistry at Dankook University in 2005. Currently, he is a full-time professor, director of the Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering (ITREN), and leader of Global Research Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mechanobiology Dental Medicine Research Center. In addition, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tissue Engineering(IF: 7.813), associate editor of Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology, and Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers with more than 29,821 citations (h index = 88). His research interests are nanotherapeutics, stem cell engineering and biomaterials for regenerative medicine.

Prof. Kung-Hwa Wei is a Life-time Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Prof. Wei is a highly distinguished researcher in the field of nanocomposites and advanced materials, consistently recognized as a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS (2022, 2024, 2025). His numerous accolades include the Academic Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (2023), Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (2023), Lifetime Achievement Award from The Polymer Society, Taipei (2022), and the prestigious Lu CH Award by the Materials Research Society-Taiwan (2019). He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of several leading materials organizations, reflecting his significant global impact on materials science research and innovation.

Karsten König is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Biophotonics and Laser Technologies at the Saarland University. He is also founder and president of the company JenLab GmbH. He gained the PhD degree in physics and habilitation degree in cell biology from the University Jena. Prof. König published about 500 scientific papers in the field of biophotonics and laser material processing and pioneered fluorescence lifetime imaging, femtosecond laser nanoprocessing including laser transfection, as well as clinical multiphoton tomography.