Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 128; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society For Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 53,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024).

Sergey Suchkov was graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University with MD in the year 1980. From 1980 through 1983 has been working as Res Associate, and from 1983 through 1985 as Senior Res Associate at the Inst of Medicical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1985, maintained his PhD at the Sechenov University. From 1986 through 1989, has been working as Senior Res Associate at the Koltzov Institute of Dev Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1989 through 1994, was a Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology &Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Res Institute in Moscow.

Karsten Koenig, Full Professor at Saarland University, Founder and CEO of JenLab GmbH. PhD degree in physics, habilitation degree in cell biology from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. About 500 scientific papers in the field of biophotonics and laser material processing. Pioneer of FLIM in life sciences, femtosecond laser nanoprocessing, femtosecond laser transfection, clinical two-photon microendoscopy, and clinical MPT. Awards include the Research Award of the State of Thuringia, the Feulgen Award, the Technology Award of the Fraunhofer Society, the Leibinger Innovation Award, the SPIE-Prism-Award, the IAIR award Man of the Year, the IAIR award Best Company for Innovation & Leadership Biomedicine, the CFI Award, and the AI Award Most Innovative Femtosecond Laser Technology Provider.

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Dr. Haishan Zeng is a professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Physics at the University of British Columbia and a distinguished scientist with the Imaging Unit, Integrative Oncology Department, BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada. For over 30 years, Dr. Zeng’s research has been focused on the optical properties of biological tissues and light-tissue interaction, as well as their applications in medical diagnosis and therapy. His group has pioneered the multiphoton-absorption based laser therapy and is at leading position in endoscopy/microscopy imaging and Raman spectroscopy forearly cancer detection.He has published over 190 refereed journal papers, 1 book, 18 book chapters, and has 30 granted patents related to optical diagnosis and therapy. Three medical devices derived from these patents, have passed regulatory approvals, and are currently in clinical uses around the world. The latest device, Verisante Aura™ using Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive skin cancer detection, was awarded the Prism Award in the Life Sciences and Biophotonics category in February, 2013 by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. Since 2018 until 2020 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

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He is a researcher in Physics at Technion, Israel. His current research focuses on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atomic gases, and solids driven by conventional Gaussian beam, and spatially structured light beams such as Laguerre-Gauss (LG), Bessel-Gauss (BG), and perfect optical vortex (POV) beams. He investigates both micro and macroscopic aspects of HHG, and the utilization of optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) to control and manipulate the light-matter interaction at microscopic scale. He also works on the generation, and propagation of spatially structured beams for their use in novel applications such as in cryptography, free-space optical communication, to name a few.

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