Prof. Masahiro YOSHIMURA was graduated for B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970,Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. He was the Director of Center for Materials Design for 1996-2002. He retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus,from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After experienced several Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, Shenyang, China, etc. he has been in National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Chair Prof. then now Distinguished Chair Prof. and Director of Promotion Center for Global Materials Research , NCKU, since July 2011. He received ,Academic Award (1993) from The Ceramic Soc. Japan, 10 th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) and Fellow(1995) from The Amer. Ceram. Soc., International Award(2001) from European Ceramic Soc., IUMRS Somiya Award for International Collaborative Work, IUMRS(2002), Honorary Members in MRS –India (2003), Research Award, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Japan(2007), Lee Hsun Award, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, Shenyang, China(2008) and Honorable Permanent Resident Visa,Taiwan(2012), Honorary Fellow of European Ceramic Society(2017),Distinguished Life Member from Amer. Ceram. Soc.(2017)　.etc. He is nominated form Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001). Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,3 Books (44 Book Chapters) and 30 Patents, and >17,000 International. Citations with h-index >65. He has served as 18 Organizing Chairs, i.e IUMRS-ICA, Chiba, 1997, IUMRS-ICAM, Yokohama, 2003, and International Conference in Hydrothermal Reactions,Sendai, 2006 , 6 th ISHA, 2016, Tainan, Taiwan. Mater Sci 2017, Valencia, Spain, etc. joined as 64 International Advisory/Organizing Committees, 23 Prenary Lectures, i.e. MS and T, San Francisco(2000), ICMAT, Singapore (2003) ,Hydrothermal/Solvothermal Symposia, Kochi, Japan(2000) Mysore, India (2004),Sendai,Japan (2006), Nottingham, UK (2008), Beijing, China (2010), etc. and gave >200 Invited/Keynote Lectures in International Meetings. He is the Editor in Chief of Mater Sci Letters(Sci Fed), one of Editors in Solid State Science(since 1988), J. Nanomaterials(since 2004), Nano Letters(2002-2005),etc. and Guest Editors in MRS Bull,Oct.1994 and Sept.2000, Euro. J.Solid State and Inorg. Chem. 1995, Solid State Ionics, 152/154,2002, J.Mater.Sci.2006 and 2007,etc. He is Founding President(2006-2008), International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA), President of the Advisory Board(2010-2014),. Chairman of the Nomination Committee,2002,2004 and 2006 in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), An Advisory Officer, IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007-2008, Former President of MRS-Japan), He has cooperated with 24 visiting Professors(12 from abroad), 38 Postdoctoral Researchers, (27 from abroad),12 visiting Researchers from abroad, Supervised 56 Ph.D( 16 foreigners) Students and candidates, >70 Master Students, 30 Research Students during his professorship in Tokyo Institute of Technology,. In NCKU many cooperations have been going mostly based upon MOU with global academicians.i.e. Profs. Yury Gogotsi(Drexel Univ.,USA), Takayoshi Sasaki(NIMS,Japan),Jin-Ho Choy(Ewha Univ.,Korea),K. Byrappa(Mysore Univ.,India),Shu-Hong Yu(Univ. Sci. Tech. China,China)

Professor Der-Jang LIAW, Polymer Science Doctor (Ph.D. Polymer), is currently a Chair professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). He holds his Master and Ph.D. degrees in polymer science at Osaka University (Japan) and published about 360 SCI papers (h-index = 44 from ISI Web of Knowledge), 180 conference papers and 60 patents. In 2009, he was a recipient of the International Award from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan along with Prof. J. M. J. Frechet (USA) and Prof. K. Muellen (Germany). He received the Outstanding Polymer Academic Research Prize in 2012 and Lifetime Achievement Prize from The Polymer Society of Taiwan in 2013. He has been a fellow of The Polymer Society of Taiwan since 2014 and has been Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering since 2011. Prof. LIAW is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Polymer (UK), Polymer Journal (Japan), Polymer International (UK), Journal of Polymer Research (1994~2001), High Performance Polymers (UK) (NASA Editor-in-Chief), Materials (Switzerland) and Soft Nanoscience Letters (USA). He has also served on the International Advisory Board for Polycondensation 2014 (Tokyo) and Polycondensation 2016 (Moscow), IUPAC Macro2008 (Polymer Synthesis, Session Chairman), International Advisory Board of European Polymer Congress 2009 (Graz, Austria), International Advisory Committee of Pacific Polymer Federation (PPF), International Advisory Board of International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis (ISOM 19 [France], ISOM20 [Japan] and ISOM21 [Austria]). He was an honorable guest at Nanotechnology-2015 (Dubai, UAE), Federation of Asian Polymer Societies Polymer Congress, 4FAPS-IPC 2015 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), member of Asia Polymer Association, APA-2015 (India) and on the Organizing Committee of Nanotechnology and Material Science, Nanotechnology-2016 (Dubai, UAE). Currently, Prof. LIAW�s research includes the 1) synthesis of conjugated polymers used for carrier transporting materials of solar cells, 2) nanographenes-containing polymers, 3) selective dispersion of carbon nanotubes by conjugated polymer wrapping, and 4) synthesis and characterization of high performance polyimides (PIs) and polyamides (PAs) with organo-soluble, thermal stable and favorable optoelectronic properties. He studies the synthesis of all possible functional polymers via precision polymerization techniques including free radical polymerization, ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), UV curing and moisture curing polymerizations for adhesives and coatings, and polycondensation or polymer reaction for optoelectronic devices, biomaterials, next-generation semiconductor materials and solar energy applications.

Takashi Matsuoka has been a Professor, the division of physics of electronic materials in Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University since February 2005. He received the B.E., M.E., and D.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan in 1976, 1978, and 1988, respectively. He started his career at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Photonics Laboratories in 1978, took the position as a Senior Research Engineer in 1989, and transferred to Basic Research Laboratories in 1997. The contributions of his research cover a broad spectrum of topics in opto-electronic materials and devices; including nitride semiconductors devices, distributed feedback (DFB) lasers which are now used worldwide as light sources in optical communications systems, II-VI materials and their light- emitting devices. His scientific papers with respect to DFB lasers and nitride semiconductors have been cited more than 500 and 2000 times, respectively. He has more than 50 patents including U.S. and EPC Patents. He also has experience in the fabrication of Si-on-Sapphire MOSFETs. It is worthy of special mention that he succeeded in the first CW operation of InGaAsP DFB lasers in the world, and proposed the InGaAlN system, and successfully grew InGaN for the light-emitting layer. DFB lasers have been widely used for high-bit rate and long-haul optical communication systems all over the world and have realized highly networked information society. In nitride semiconductors, blue LEDs based on his proposal of InGaAlN have been constructed and the emission layer of InGaN has grown by his technology. These blue LEDs bring white LEDs enabling solid state lighting. Recently, he has found that the band-gap energy of wurtzite InN is about 0.8 eV. This result opens the door to the application of nitride semiconductors to optical communications devices. A laser diode using a quantum-well structure consisting of InN may achieve high-frequency modulation, high output power, and wavelength stability at operation temperature. He received Best Paper Award of 10th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in 1984, President Award of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation in 1988, Fellow Award of The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)in 2014, APEX/JJAP Editorial Contribution Award of JSAP in 2014, Achievement Award of The Japanese Association for Crystal Growth (JACG) in 2016, Award for Science and Technology of “The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology” in 2017, Electronics Society Award of “Department of Optical Semiconductors and Photonics” of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2017, Kahoku Cultural Award in 2018, and Compound Semiconductor Electronics Achievement Award of JSAP in 2018. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and the Japanese Association for Crystal Growth (JACG).

Prof. Ajayan Vinu is a Professor of Nanomaterials at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia since October 2015. Before moving to University of South Australia, he was working as a full professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (Level 3, Professorial Level) at the University of Queensland from September 2011 to September 2015. Prior coming to Australia, he had been working as a senior researcher and research group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan since 2006 after he successfully completed two years of the ICYS fellowship at the same institute and a few years of research at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), Germany. During these 15 years of research, Prof. Vinu has made a tremendous contribution in the field of nanoporous materials and their application in sensing, energy storage, fuel cells, adsorption and separation, and catalysis. Important Awards and Honors: The quality of his research has been recognised with several international awards including Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award by the Humboldt Society (2010), JSPS Senior Invitational Fellow for the year 2014, Australian Future Fellowship (Professorial Level) for the year 2010, Indian Society for Chemists and Biologists award for excellence for the year 2010, Catalysis Society of India Young Scientist award for the year 2010, Chemical Society of Japan Award for the Young Scientist for the year 2008, Laureate of Khwarizmi International Award 2008, Asian Excellent Lectureship Award, and ICYS fellowship. Prof. Vinu is honoured with the fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute, RACI, Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (UK) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, FFMAS. Because of his outstanding performance and collaboration activities, he was offered honorary/adjunct/visiting professor position from leading universities including EWHA Womans University, South Korea, Hokkaido University, Japan, Yonsei University, South Korea, Kyungpook National University, South Korea, Fudan University, China, Jilin University, China, Mangalore University, India, and Anna University, India, and Adjunct Principal Researcher from Korean Research Institute for Chemical technology, Daejeon, South Korea. He was also appointed as the NIMS ambassador to India (2006-2010). Publications including Patents and Funding: Prof. Ajayan Vinu's contribution in the field of nanoporous materials is also clearly reflected by his international ranking by Science Watch as one of the top 15 researchers in the field and has led to more than 325 original research papers in high impact factor journals with ca. 14,200 google scholar citations and a H-index of 62. His research has been published in top journals like Angew. Chemie, Nano Letters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater, Adv. Funct., Mater. Chem., Eur. J., Chem. Mater., etc. with an average of 750 citations per year. At least 40 of his papers have been cited more than 100 times (17 papers have been cited more than 200 times) and 70 papers have been cited more than 50 times. The innovative nature and commercial potential of his research is evidenced in the 28 national and international patents he has been awarded for novel mesoporous carbon, silica and carbon nitride materials. Prof. Vinu has received more than $8.0 million AUD from both industry and government funding agencies. He has also been invited to write several chapters by respected publishers including Wiley, Elsevier and American Scientific. This numerical data reveals the high quality of his research, innovative ideas and creativity. International Scientific Network He has a network of collaborations with researchers in 15 countries. He has a strong collaborative links with the researchers from National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. One of the active collaborations he has is with Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga and Toshiyuki Mori from NIMS, Japan, mainly on the development of novel porous nanostructures for the fuel cells and sensing. He has also developed a strong collaboration with the professors from top Korean Universities including Yonsei University, Pusan National University, EWHA Womans University, Kyungpook National University and KRICT. He also established a strong collaborative network with top universities around the world: Prof. Dongyuan Zhao (Fudan University, China), Prof. Jin-Ho Choy (EWHA Womans University), Prof. Mietek Jaroniec (Kent State University, USA), Prof. Martin Hartmann (University of Erlangen, Germany), Prof. Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany), Prof. A.K. Tyagi (BARC, India), Prof. R. Jayavel (Anna University, India) and Prof. S. Sampath (IISC, India). He has also organized numerous international conferences and workshops. In 2012, he organized an International Conference on Emerging advanced Materials (ICEAN-2012) in Brisbane Australia that attracted more than 650 participants from ca. 25 different countries including 550 researchers from abroad. Memberships, Editorials and Lectures: Prof. Ajayan Vinu is the Editor of Science of Advanced Materials and Australian Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and recently, was invited and appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Porous Materials by the American Scientific Publishers for a period of five years. He has been recently appointed as the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group and Chemical Record, a Wiley Journal for three years and Heliyon, an Elsevier Journal. Professor Vinu is also in the Editorial board of several journals namely Journal of Nano Science and Nanotechnology, Current Science, Journal of Nanomaterials, etc.

Helmut Cölfen studied chemistry at Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg and got his B.S. in 1991. He then continued his research on “Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Gels” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. W. Borchard and obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the same university. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Center for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics, University of Nottingham, UK, focusing on the characterization of complex biopolymers and their interactions and superstructures with Prof. Dr. S.E. Harding. After that, he started his career as a scientist in the Colloid Chemistry Department of the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and subsequently as a head of the ultracentrifuge laboratory and several projects. Since May 2010, He was appointed as a full professor and Chair of Physical Chemistry, University of Konstanz after declining a call for full professorship in Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg - Essen and full professorship for Materials Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014-) and Member of the German Chemical Society (2000-). His research interests lie in the fields of high-resolution particle size distribution analysis, nucleation and crystallization, bio- and bioinspired mineralization, non-classical crystallization and functional polymers. He serves as an editor-in-chief for Crystals (2015-) and co-editor for Current Nanoscience (2012-). He also serves as editorial/advisory board member of more than 12 scientific journals. In 2011, He was listed among the Top 100 Chemists worldwide from 2000-2010 by Thomson Reuters/ISI Web of Knowledge and Times Higher Education Index. Moreover, he has won several prestigious awards including the ECIS-Solvay Award of the European Colloid and Interface Society (2014) and the Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2013).

Dr. hab. eng. Mirosław Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Energy and Fuels at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Poland), and in 2018 D.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Wrocław University of Technology (Poland) in the discipline: chemical technology. In addition, he obtained a certificate of completion of postgraduate studies: Professional Research and Development Project Manager at the Krakow University of Agriculture (Poland), Research and Development Project Manager at the University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin (Poland), and Electrical Energy Markets from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Poland). Currently Dr. Mirosław Kwiatkowski is working an assistant professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels. His published work includes more than 45 papers in reputable international journals and 80 conference proceedings.
He is the editor in chief of The International Journal of System Modeling and Simulation (United Arab Emirates), an associate editor of Micro & Nano Letters Journal (United Kingdom) and a member of the many editorial board of internationals journals as well as a member of the organizing and scientific committees many international conferences in Europe, Asia and United States of America. Dr. Mirosław Kwiatkowski is also a regular reviewer in a most reputable scientific journals.
Dr. hab. eng. Mirosław Kwiatkowski has wide experience in the area of chemical technology, chemistry and physical chemistry, material science and engineering, numerical analysis, mathematical modelling of the adsorption process, description of the porous structure, practical aspects of adsorption, analysis of the carbonaceous adsorbents production, energy efficiency, renewable energies as well as economics and management. He was also a supervisor of 64 master’s theses and 56 engineer’s theses and is a tutor of a student scientific society called “Green Energy”.