Prof. Jianrong Qiu is Chair Professor of Zhejiang University, China. He is Associate Editor of the J. Chin. Ceram. Soc. and Int. J. Appl. Glass Sci.,  etc. He has published more than 500 papers in Science, Nat. Photon., Adv. Mater. etc. His paper has been cited more than 37500 times (h factor is 90). He received Otto-Schott Research Award from the Ernst Abbe Fund (2005), Germany,  Academic Award from the Ceramics Society of Japan (2007) and G. W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society (2016).

Researcher of the Ceramics and Glass Institute (CSIC, Spain). Main research topics are glasses and glass-ceramics for sealing, transparent glass-ceramics for photonic applications, phase separation and crystallization in glasses, sintering/crystallization, and glass recycling.

Graduate in Materials Engineering (1992), M.Sc (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in Materials Science and Engineering, and Post-doc on glass sintering (2001-2003) at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, UNESP Guaratinguetá, Brazil (2007-2010). Associate Professor in Materials Engineering Department, Engineering School of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil, since 2010.

Dr Tu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Conor Evans’ lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. from the Biomedical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University in 2021. During her doctoral research, she specialized in using Raman spectroscopy to detect biomarkers in biological fluids.

Xiang-Hua Zhang is Research director of the CNRS (National centre for scientific research) and the director of the laboratory of glasses and ceramics in the Institute of chemical science at Rennes, France. He got his bachelor in Zhejiang University, China in 1983 and PhD degree in University of Rennes I, France in 1988. He worked in the laboratory of glasses and ceramics until 1996 when he left to found the Umicore IR glass company, for producing chalcogenide glass optics. He came back to the CNRS in 2002.

Hichem KICHOU holds a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Tours, France. His doctoral research focused on developing comprehensive multi-method analytical approaches to study the interaction and diffusion of active ingredients, both cosmetic and pharmaceutical, within human skin. His work involved using advanced chromatography techniques to investigate the penetration kinetics of molecules across different skin layers. Additionally, he used Raman spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis to explore skin penetration profiles.

Kenji Shinozaki received a Ph.D. in Engineering at Nagaoka University of Technology in 2013. He was an Assistant Professor at Nagaoka University of Technology from 2013 to 2016. Since 2016, he has worked at National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST) as a senior researcher. He is also associate professor as principal investigator in Osaka University since 2022. His current research interest includes development of new functional glasses and glass-ceramics for optical and mechanical properties.

I am an Earth scientist by education, an experimental volcanologist, and a materials scientist by profession. I received my PhD from the University of Roma Tre in 2012, focusing on magma degassing. In 2013, I joined Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich until 2016, studying silicate melts and volcanic processes. I worked as a Research Associate at the University of Bristol until 2018, then at Clausthal University of Technology until 2020. I was a Senior Scientist at Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics, University of Bayreuth until 2021.