The University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Debra Bernhardt is internationally recognised for her contributions to the development of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics including far-from-equilibrium fluids and confined fluids. She is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow. Professor Bernhardt’s 30 years of research experience includes appointments at the University of Basel, Switzerland; the Australian National University; and Griffith University, where she was founding director of the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre. Professor Bernhardt's research interests focus on the use of a range of theoretical and computational approaches to develop a fundamental understanding of the behaviour of matter, and application of these approaches to a wide range of problems including transport in nanopores, fluctuation phenomena, design of materials, gas separation, energy storage and conversion. 

Australian National University, Australia

Dr. Jagadish received the B.Sc. (Nagarjuna), M.Sc(Tech) (Andhra),  M.Phil. and Ph.D. (Delhi) degrees in 19977, 1980, 1982 and 1986. He was a Lecturer in Physics and Electronics at S.V. College, University of Delhi, during 1985-88 and worked at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, during 1988-90 as a post-doctoral research fellow. He moved to ANU in 1990 and is currently Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Department of EME, RSPE, the ANU. He is also serving as Director of ANFF, ACT node and Convenor of the Australian Nanotechnology Network.   He has served as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences of the Australian Academy of Science and current serving as President of the IEEE Photonics Society and Australian MRS.   His research interests include compound semiconductor optoelectronics, neuroscience and nanotechnology.

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Zhiqun Lin is currently Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BS degree in Materials Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1995, Master degree in Macromolecular Science from Fudan University in 1998, and PhD degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. He did his postdoctoral research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. He moved to Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011, and become a Professor in 2014. He relocated to National University of Singapore in 2022. His research interests include block copolymers, conjugated polymers, functional nanocrystals, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries, solar cells, hierarchically structured and assembled materials, and surface and interfacial properties.

The University of New South Wales, Australia

Prof Xiaojing Hao obtained her PhD in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering of UNSW in 2010, and currently the full Professor (tenured), ARC future Fellow at UNSW. Prof Hao has focused her research on low-cost, high-efficiency thin film solar cells and tandem solar cells for more than ten years, researching on various energy materials, initially using Si, and then earth-abundant compound semiconductor materials such as chalcogenides for both solar photovoltaic and solar fuel applications. Prof Hao now leads a strong group in the above areas, achieving a number of efficiency records on emerging thin film solar cells. Prof Hao has published 166 peer-reviewed journal papers, including publications in Nature Energy, Energy and Environmental Science, with several awards for her research excellence. She was the recipient of Inaugural Australian Renewable Energy Agency Postdoc Fellow, previous ARC DECRA, inaugural Sciential Fellow at UNSW. 

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Professor Qunfeng Cheng is a professor in the School of Nano Science and Technology of Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC in China. Dr. Cheng's research has discovered and experimentally confirmed for the first time the void defects in the two-dimensional nanocomposites induced by capillary contraction. Dr. Cheng has developed a new strategy of sequential bridging and nanoconfinement assembly to cure the void defects. Dr. Cheng has achieved dense and high alignment of two-dimensional nanosheets assembly, created two-dimensional nanocomposites with excellent mechanical and electrical properties, which surpass carbon fiber composites. Dr. Cheng also explored their applications in aerospace, flexible electronic devices, biomedical engineering, and other fields. Dr. Cheng has published more than 100 papers including 3 papers in Science, 1 paper in Nature, 1 paper in Nat. Mater., 4 papers in Nat. Commun., 2 papers Sci. Adv., 5 papers in PNAS with over 12,000 citations, and a Google Scholar h-index of 63.  

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry CAS, China

Dr. Tierui Zhang is a full Professor in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research activity focuses on catalyst nanomaterials for energy conversion such as photocatalytic solar fuels and value-added chemicals. He has published more than 380 peer reviewed SCI journal articles in international famous journals such as Nat. Catal. These publications have earned him to date over 48000 citations with H-index 122. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2024 List by Clarivate Analytics. He was granted 60 national invention patents in China. Dr. Zhang is the associate editor of Science Bulletin, Industrial Chemistry & Materials, Nano Research Energy and Transactions of Tianjin University, and also serves as an editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals including Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, Chemical Science. He is the recipient of a number of awards including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship.

University of New South Wales, Australia

Prof. Martina Stenzel is an expert in the design of polymer nanoparticles and their interaction with the biological system.

Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She then started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, before being appointed as lecture in 2002 at the same University.

In 2012 she was promoted to full Professor and is now UNSW Scientia Professor and ARC (Australian Research Council) Laureate Fellow. In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

She is now a Scientia Professor in the School of Chemistry, as well as an ARC Laureate Fellow. She has more than 400 publications on the design of functional polymer nanoparticles for drug delivery applications.