Dr. Miguel Morales is associate director at Laser Centre Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Full Professor at Department of Applied Physics and Material Engineering of ETSI Industriales at same institution. 

Its research activity has been focused in modelling of laser-matter interaction, including the experimental validation, and in industrial laser applications, from an applied point of view. 

Principal Research Efforts include: Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT); Laser ablation; Laser applications PV Industry; Laser microfabrication; Laser Shock Processing (LSP); Additive Manufacturing. 

He has co-authored more than 25 invited talks, more than 100 contributions to international conferences and 52 JCR publications, including 22 high impact articles (JCR Q1) with more than 1467 citations and an H-index of 19.

Principal researcher in more than 20 projects (public and private funding).

He is Member of SPIE/LASE/LAMON committee.

Miroslav Štěpánek completed his Ph.D. in 2001 at the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science at Charles University, where he is currently an associate professor. 

His research is focused on physical chemistry of block copolymers, polyelectrolytes and block copolymer self-assembled systems in solution.

 (research group page: http:// http://physchem.cz/ru/research/soft-matter/). Miroslav Štěpánek is an author of more than 60 publications in international impacted journals (ResearcherID D-3831-2013, ORCID 0000-0002-7636-7234 ) with about 1100 citations, H-index 22.

Dr. Yuji Sano is a professor at SANKEN, Osaka University, and Program Manager (PM) at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS). He is also PM of the Mirai Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). 

He was Program Officer of the Photon Frontier Network supported by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) from 2008 to 2014, and as PM of the ImPACT (Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies) program under the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Cabinet Office from 2014 to 2017. 

His team has developed technologies for laser plasma electron acceleration for FELs, ion acceleration for cancer therapy, and high-power compact lasers for particle acceleration. At the same time, he is actively involved in laser materials processing, particularly laser peening, and has recently developed a portable laser peening system using thumb-sized high-power lasers. 

His international volunteer activities include on ICLPRP (Int. Conf. on Laser Peening and Related Phenomena), LAC (Laser Applications Conference) of Optica, Advanced Laser Processing and Manufacturing of Photonics ASIA, Q-BASIS (Quantum Beam Applications for Science and Industries). 

His current interests are in high-power laser applications, quantum beam science and technology, materials processing and nuclear science and technology.

Lixia Zhao, Professor in Institute of Semiconductors in Chinese Academy of Sciences. She got her Ph. D degree in physics from University of Nottingham, UK, in 2005.

 Afterwards, she worked at the GaN research Center of University of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2009, she worked in the Forge Europa, UK and was responsible for the development and quality of semiconductor lighting.

 In 2009, she joined the Institute of semiconductor, CAS with the “Import Outstanding Technical Talent Program” from CAS and was elected as youth innovation member of CAS in 2011, and honored the Excellent Science and Technology Researcher Award from Chinese Institute of Electronics CIE in 2020. 

She has authored or co-authored over 100 papers with more than 2300 citations, and issued over 20 invent patents. Currently her research interests are mainly focused on the physical properties of III-Nitride semiconductor optoelectronic devices.

Profesor Titular de Universidad en el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Química y Diseño Industrial de la Escuela Técnica de Ingeniería y Diseño Industrial (ETSIDI) de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). 

Sus líneas de investigación actuales se centran en el desarrollo y optimización de procesos de escritura directa por láser pulsado para microfabricación; en estudios fundamentales de la física del proceso de transferencia de material por láser mediante sistemas de visión ultrarrápidos y simulación por métodos numéricos; y en la aplicación de esta técnica en electrónica, manufactura aditiva o bio-impresión. 

Es miembro del grupo de investigación del Centro Láser UPM desde 2012. Es co-autor de 1 patente, más de 70 contribuciones a congresos y 41 publicaciones científicas, incluyendo 13 de alto impacto (JCR Q1), con más de 400 citas. Ha participado en 16 proyectos públicos financiados en convocatorias competitivas y en 15 contratos de transferencia tecnológica a empresas. 

Como profesor imparte docencia teórica y práctica en el área de la Ingeniería Mecánica a titulaciones oficiales de Grado y Máster Universitario, en asignaturas relacionadas con la teoría de máquinas, el diseño de elementos mecánicos y la ingeniería asistida por ordenador mediante programas de cálculo por elementos finito. Desde 2022 es Adjunto a la Dirección para Planificación y Transformación Digital en la ETSIDI.

Licenciado en Fı́sica Facultad de Fı́sico-Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Monterrey. N.L.

Maestrı́a en Fı́sica de Materiales CICESE, Ensenada, B.C., México. Tesis: “Influencia de la Microestructura en las propiedades dieléctricas del sistema cerámico complejo LSBNT”. CICESE-CCMC, UNAM.

Doctorado en Fı́sica de Materiales CICESE, Ensenada, B.C, México. Tesis: “Pelı́culas delgadas y policristales del sistema Pbx Sr1−x TiO3 ”, CICESE-CCMC, UNAM.

La actividad profesional docente la he desempeñado como profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), en el Instituto Tecnológico de Ensenada (ITE), en el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM, Campus Monterrey).