M.F. Montemor is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Chemical Engineering. Her scientific activity focusses on new functional coatings for surface protection and forenergy storage. She is co-author of 20 book chapters and above 350 scientific papers. Her h index is 76.She has been awarded with the EFC medal and has received a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by University of Mons. Leading a scientific team of approximately 20 researchers, including PhD students, pos-docs and young researchers, she fosters a creative research environment conducive to cutting-edge research and innovation that addresses synergies between materials engineering research and industry needs.She is co-founder of the company “Charge2C-NewCap” that fabricates supercapacitors.

Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, security and economics of multi-energy systems. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry, governments and regulatory bodies about the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon energy future. He is currently Director of the joint Imperial-Tsinghua Research Centre on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, Member of OFGEM Climate Resilience Expert Panel, Member of the UK Smart System Forum, Member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition, and Member of the Joint EU Programme in Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance. He co-authored 4 books and published over 500 technical papers.

Dr. Weidong Zhu is currently working as a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He has completed his Dual B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1986 and completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University, 1988 and completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, at University of California at Berkeley, 1994. He has received many awards like the CAREER Award, National Science Foundation in the year of 2004, and Bayer Teaching Excellence Award, International Symposium on Multi-/Inter-Disciplinary Engineering in the year of 2006. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, structural health monitoring, and wind energy, and integrates analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. Much of the current research can be divided into three areas: 1) vibration and stability of distributed structural systems; 2) finite element modeling, modal testing, model updating, and structural damage detection; and 3) infinitely variable transmission and wind energy. In the first area.

Professor Adrian David Cheok AM FRSA FIET FIES FIEAust FZS FRAS Member of the Order of Australia, Professor NUIST, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers in Scotland, Fellow of Engineers Australia, Fellow of Sigma Xi (USA), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK), Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (UK), Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London