Dr John S. McCloy is Professor and current Director of the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Lindholm Endowed Chair in Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, WA. His professional career includes stints in industry (10 y), national laboratory (5 y), and academia (10+ y) sectors. He retains a joint appointment as Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

I obtained in 2020 a PhD in Materials Engineering at Clausthal University of Technology with a thesis investigating the crystallization sequence of lithium magnesium aluminosilicate glasses, performed in cooperation with the glass-producing company Schott AG. In the following years, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Clausthal University of Technology (DE) and, as recipient of the DFG Walter Benjamin fellowship, at CNRS CEMHTI in Orléans (FR) and FAU University in Erlangen (DE).

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.