Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 930+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with citations 64300+ times and h-index of 127(google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 160+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 170+ Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2023 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2023. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley) and Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier).

Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 930+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with citations 64300+ times and h-index of 127(google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 160+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 170+ Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2023 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2023. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley) and Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier).

Elza Bontempi has a permanent position at the University of Brescia where she is currently a Full Professor teaching courses in Fundamentals of Chemistry for the Technologies. She is responsible for the research line concerning eco-materials at the Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory. She has been responsible for several national and international research projects, developing new technologies and new sustainable materials, coming from waste and by-products. In recent years, his scientific activity has focused on the recovery of critical raw materials in the field of circular economy, such as lithium and cobalt, from exhausted batteries. She is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and several patents in the field of material recovery. She is included in the list of Unstoppable Women (the 1000 women that are changing Italy) and the Top Italian Scientists in the field of natural and environmental sciences and in the 100 experts list.

Professor Alicja Krella is the Head of the Centre of Hydrodynamics and the Erosion Processes Department at the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Science, Gdansk, Poland. She has published 89 papers on the subject of cavitation erosionand solid particle erosion.From the beginning of her professional career, her scientific interests were related to materials and mechanics engineering. Her doctoral dissertation concerned the relationship between the cavitation erosion process of solid materials and the intensity of cavitation. Starting from 2005, research interests were related to PVD coatings, i.e. the influence of deposition parameters and mechanical properties of the coatings on erosion resistance, and destruction processes. Then,research has also focused on other coatings, and new materials such as nanobainitic steel and magnesium-based composites and alloys.Lately, she extended her research interests to hydrogen-induced material degradation and the methods to prevent it.In 2019, she was an Invited Professor in the UniversitéPolytechniqueHauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France. That year she started cooperation with scientists from the National University of Singapore. Since 2020, she has been in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list compiled by Stanford University.