Professor Meifang Zhu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS Fellow. Currently, she is the director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Fiber Materials at Donghua University. She also serves as the President for the Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS), for the Chinese Association of Women Scientific Workers, as well as the Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Fiber Materials.
Prof. Zhu has long been engaged in the research of functional fibers, nanofibers and intelligent fiber materials, organic/inorganic hybrid materials. She published 10 books (chapters) and more than 600 SCI papers in peer-reviewed journals. She holds over 300 National Invention Patents, and many of which have been successfully transferred and applied through collaboration with enterprises. Her honors and awards include Second Prize of National Award for Technological Inventions, Second Prize of National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, National Innovation Competition Award, First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, etc. She is a leading talent in scientific and technological innovation under China’s “Ten Thousand Talents Program”. The team she leads has been selected as one of the first “Huang Danian-style Faculty Teams” in Chinese universities.

Dr. Zhiqun Lin is currently Provost’s Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include solar cells, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries, block copolymers, conjugated polymers, functional nanocrystals, hierarchically structured and assembled materials, and surface and interfacial properties.
He has published more than 450 peer reviewed journal articles with an h-index of 123, 9 books, and 19 book chapters. He is a RSC Fellow, JSPS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACS Fellow, and MRS Fellow. Currently, he serves as a co-Editor-in-Chief of Nano Energy.

Professor Yoshinobu Tsujii is the President of The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan, and serves as the Director of the Tsujii Laboratory at Kyoto University. He is a leading researcher in the fields of engineering and materials science, with particular expertise in polymer science and surface engineering.
His research encompasses a broad range of interdisciplinary areas, including mechanics of materials, surface science, coatings and thin films, mechanical engineering, biomaterials, and organic chemistry. A central focus of his work is polymer surface interaction, particularly adhesion, friction, and interfacial phenomena.
In addition, Professor Tsujii has made significant contributions to tribology and lubrication engineering, lubricants and their additives, wear analysis, electrospun nanofibers for biomedical applications, and advanced polymer synthesis and characterization.
He has authored over 254 peer-reviewed publications, which have received more than 12,800 citations worldwide, and holds a D-index of 56, reflecting his sustained impact in the field.

Dr. Yong-Sul Song is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and CTO/Vice President of Amogreentech Co., Ltd.. Amogreentech is a global materials and components company that develops and produces core components and solutions for the textile, IT, electric vehicle, and renewable energy industries using nanotechnology. Since receiving his doctorate from Seoul National University, he has been developing and commercializing nanomaterials and components for over 35 years and is recognized as a technology commercialization expert. Main development areas include nanofiber membranes for outdoor, mobile phones and the environment/energy industries, high-efficiency nanomagnetic components for electric vehicles, flexible batteries, electromagnetic wave shielding/absorbers, and heat dissipation films. As Vice President of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials and Chairman of the Machinery and Materials Committee of the National Science and Technology Council, he has worked to build an ecosystem for technology commercialization. As a result, he has received commendations from the President of the Republic of Korea, the Minister of Science and ICT, and the Minister of Trade, Industry and Resources.