Professor Raman Singh’s primary research interests are in the relationship of Nano-/microstructure and Environment-assisted degradation and fracture of metallic and composite materials, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Mitigation of such Degradations. He has also worked extensively on use of advanced materials (e.g., graphene) for corrosion mitigation, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion and corrosion-mitigation of magnesium alloys (including for the use of magnesium alloys for aerospace, energy, defence and bioimplant applications). On magnesium alloys, he has been collaborating extensively on fracture of magnesium alloys with Professor JörgLöffler of ETH Zurich (where Raman is a guest professor), and also with Nobel Laureate Professor Dan Shechtman (with whom he has a publication on Mg alloys). Prof Singhis a senior professor at Monash University, Australia. He is/was a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020, 2023, 2024, 2026), US Naval Research Lab, Indian Institute of Science, University of Connecticut, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He worked as a scientist at Indian Atomic Energy and as a post-doc fellow at University of New South Wales, Australia. Prof Singh’s professional distinctions and recognitions include: Guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Corrosion Communications (IF: 9.5) and Editor-in-Chief of Corrosion and Materials Degradation (IF: 2.5), Lead Editor of a book on Non-destructive Evaluation of Corrosion (Wiley), and aEditor of a book on Cracking of Welds (CRC Press), leader/chairperson of a few international conferences and >60 plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, >300 peer-reviewed international journal publications and 15 book chapter, and several competitive research grants (that includes 4 Discovery, 7 Linkage and one ITRH grants of Australian Research Council). Prof Singh has supervised 64 PhD students. His vibrant research group at Monash University comprises of PhD students from different disciplines (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials and Mining Engineering, and Science) as well as from different cultural backgrounds (Australian, Middle-eastern, Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, African, North American and Israeli).

Masahiro YOSHIMURA was graduated for B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970, Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. His researches started High-Temp. Mater. like Zirconia, Rare Earth Oxides, then moved Solution Processes including Hydrothermal/Solvothermal areas. After retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus, Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, China, . then National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Distinguished Chair Prof.,as the Director of PCGMR,Hi-Gem member and NCKU90 and Beyond projects. Now he is joinig to KISTEC,Kanagawa,Japan.. He received Several Academic Awards from the Ceramic Soc. of Japan 1986-2011, the 10th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) Fellow(1995),Distinguished Life Award(2017) from The Amer.Ceram. Soc., and Honorary Fellow(2017) from European Ceramic Soc., He has been nominated from Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001).Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,7 Books (49 Book Chapters) & 30 Patents, Ctation >42,000 with >97 by Google Scholar. Which are #2 in Solution Processing, #9 in Ceramics in the World Ranking. He has organized 25 Internl Confs.: IUMRS-ICA,Chiba,1997, IUMRS-ICAM,Yokohama,2003, and , 6th ISHA,2016, Tainan,Taiwan. etc. & >60 Plenary/Keynote & >270 invited Lectures in Intnl Meetings. He is Founding President(2006-2008) of ISHA, President of the Advisory Board (2010-2014) in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), An Advisory Officer of IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007,Former President of MRS-Japan). Advisory Board CIMTEC,2022,Italy,keynote and Advisory in ICMAT2023 & ISHA2023, Nanomaterials 2025,and NanoTech 2035,etc. He has committed to about 60 Ph. D Grdutes, hired 30 pos-docs,who might include 2-3 ISI Highlycited, 2-3 Vice-Presidents, >28 Professors around the world

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Kazuko Matsumoto is Professor of Chemistry, and spent most of her career in Waseda University in Tokyo.. She got her BS, MS, and Ph D from the University of Tokyo. Her specialty is luminescent rare-earthcoordination chemistry and its application to biomedical analysis. Besides the scientific research activity, she was asked to serve asadvisor to several MEXT meetings. In 2002 she was appointed to the member of the council of science and technology policy, Japan, and contributed to establish and launch of “The 3rd Science and Technology Basic Plan”. In 2010, she joined Honda Foundation, where she has been participating in awarding world famous researchers in science and eco-technology with Honda Prize. She also participates in the support ofAsian university students to come to study in Japanese universities and companies..

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Yang Ding is currently an associate professor at College of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI), University of Namur, Belgium, in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Bao-Lian Su.His research interest includes but is notlimited to solar photocatalysis, optoelectronic materials, inorganic phosphors andporous material design.