CURRENT PHYSICS

Prof. Shi-Hai Dong has been a full professor (Titular C) at CIDETEC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional since 2015. He completed a Ph.D. from the Institute of High Energy Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, during 1996-1999. Besides, he was a visiting professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford some time. He then became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, Kansas State University. He became a visiting professor at Yancheng Teacher College, Jiangsu, China. He is the editorial board member in a number of journals, such as Physica Scripta, Physical Science International Journal, Journal of Basic and Applied Research International, etc.

Similarly, Dr. Dong is the referee of a number of international journals, such as IEEE Control Systems Society, and International Journal of Theoretical Physics. He has attended several conferences and seminars and participated in several projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Grant No. LWTZ-1298 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Climbing Program 8507 of the Chinese National Commission of Science and Technology, etc. He has been the supervisor of a Master's and Ph.D. thesis. He has been involved in a number of scientific papers, books, and book chapters. He has more than 9251 citations including self-citations (Google Scholar) with an H-index of 58.

Professor Jiangfeng Gong received his PhD degree from Nanjing University in 2008. He worked as a lecturer in the College of Science, Hohai University in the same year. Then he worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney under the support of “Endeavor Award” from 2012 to 2013. He had published more than 50 scientific papers with citations exceeding 1100. He is now a professor in the College of Science at the Hohai University.

Prof. Ming Zheng obtained his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. After working at National University of Singapore, The University of Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr. Zheng has been awarded Japan Society for The Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship and joined Nagoya University, Japan, in 2018. In 2019, he was invited to join China University of Mining and Technology as a full professor. His current research interests include functional (multiferroic, ferroelectric, magnetic and luminescent) thin-film materials and device physics. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers published in international reputed journals including NPG Asia Mater. (2), Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2), Appl. Phys. Lett. (9), Phys. Rev. Applied (3), Phys. Rev. B. He also served as Guest Editor for Special Issue of the journal Coatings entitled “Functional Ferroic Materials, Films and Devices”, and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Advanced Ceramics. In 2021, he was honored with the IAAM Young Scientist Medal in recognition for his contribution to “Hybrid Electronic, Magnetic & Optical Materials”.

Luciano Mescia is an associate professor of electromagnetic fields at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari. His research activities focus on electromagnetic fields theory and applications, antennas, optical fibers as well as on evolutionary computation for solving electromagnetic optimization problems (artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm, swarm intelligence). He cooperates with many national and international research institutions, and has collaborated in research projects with academic and industrial partners. He achieved the Honorable Mention by IEEE MTT-S Central-Southern Italy Award 2014. Prof. Mescia is a member of Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEm).

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1995. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 2001 and is now a Senior Research Officer. His current research interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy storage devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board for 9 scientific journals. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Professor Rajan Jose is a senior Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Main Editor of the journal of Springer Nature “Materials Circular Economy” and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & Technology. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received PhD degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, materials for molecular electronics, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 275 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals which are cited over 15000 times with an h-index of 65 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 24 Doctoral, and 10 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him at 2161/285311 Materials Scientists in the list of Lifetime achievers (2021) in the world – representing top 0.76%. He is also ranked top #5 Materials Scientists in Malaysia by Research.com. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research areas are on the structure – property relationship in materials for a desired device functionality.

Dr. Surjit Sahoo is currently working as a National Post-doctoral Fellow (N-PDF) at School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea. He joined as a Ph.D. scholar in the Nanomaterials System lab in 2016 under the “Brain Korea Fellowship” scheme. His thesis work was focused on the electrochemical energy storage devices (supercapacitors), energy harvesting systems (nanogenerator), and the fabrication of self-powered devices for both energy conversion and storage using nanomaterials (transition metal oxides (TMOs), transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs), and 2D materials.

Dr. Xavier ThankappanSuryabai, currently working as assistant professor & research guide at theCentre for Advanced Materials Research, Department of Physics, Governmentcollege for women, affiliated to the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.He graduated with a master’s degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University,Tamil Nadu, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kerala,Thiruvananthapuram. His research interests include Density Functional studiesof materials, spectroscopy, Development of functionalised nanomaterials andcomposites for energy storage applications, drug design, sensors and physicseducation.

Mario D'Acunto is a permanent researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy. During the course of his scientific career, he has made pioneering contributions in the areas of Nanotribology, Nano-optics and Nanophotonics and Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Quantum Biology. In 1999, he received a PhD on Nanotribology, first in Italy, from the University of Pisa. Dr. D’Acunto’s scientific achievements include a new model for Onset Wear on atomic scale; Near-Field Plasmonic behaviour of metal nanoparticles interacting with biological systems, Super-Resolution methods for Image Analysis in Microscopy and contribution of Quantum Physics biology and to the emergence of life. Dr. D’Acunto has given about 10 invited plenary talks at international conferences. He is author and co-author of more than 120 indexed papers, cited ca. 1300 with index h=18, (6 papers cited > 50 times), 1 book titled Nature-inspired Computation, where, among various natural systems, nanophotonic paradigms stimulating and leading to computation skills are deeply described, and 10 monographic papers (book chapters).

Zhu Kai obtained a Ph.D from Wuhan University, China in 2006. Now he is working at the Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China as an associate professor. The main studies include BESIII experimental analysis and related phenomenological physics, which is involved with non-perturbative QCD. His current interest focuses on charmonium decays and XYZ states.

Prof. Kui-Yong Liu received his B.A and M.A in theoretical physics in Liaoning University and earned his Ph.D. in Beijing University, in 2004. He is currently the dean of the School of Physics at the Liaoning University. His main focus of research is Heavy Flavor Physics, especially in heavy quarkonia production. Recently, he has also focused on the interaction of light and materials.

Dr. Cristina Mazzotta is the Researcher at ENEA Research Center of Frascati, Rome, Italy, in the Fusion and Technologies for Nuclear Safety and Security Department. She got a Master's Degree in Physics in diagnostics for Astroparticle Physics from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. She received her PhD in Energetics from the University of Rome. Her research activity was devoted to Plasma Physics: magnetic confinement Fusion with the tokamak reactor. She became a scientific coordinator and leader of the Diagnostic Coordinator group. She was involved in EU collaborations (e.g. Joint European Torus, UK). She deals with applications of Bragg Fiber gratings as photosensitivity devices. She taught Applied Physics at the University of Brescia. She is the co-author or first author of 180 publications or proceedings.

Andrei V. Savilov received the M.S. in Physics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University in 1992. In March 1996, he got the Ph.D. degree in Physics, and in January 2005, he got Dr.Sci. degree in Physics, Inst. Appl. Phys. RAS. In 1999, he was awarded the Medal of the Russian Academy of sciences. Now he is the head of the Laboratory of high-frequency microwave oscillators, High-Frequency Relativistic Electronics Department, Institute of Applied Physics RAS. Simultaneously, he has a position of Professor of physics at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Scientific interests: gyrotrons, cyclotron masers and free-electron masers (electron-wave interaction optimization, mode competition, novel schemes).

Dr. Meenal Gupta received her PhD degree in Physics from University of Allahabad, India. She is currently working on a project in Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università del Salento, via Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy. She has published more than 40 journal papers. Her research interests include advanced energy conversion and storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and fuel cells.

Narinder Singh obtained his postgraduate degree in 2005 from Panjab University in India. In the same year, he passed the University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with a 93.43 percentile score and a 233rd All India Rank. He spent fifteen years as Assistant Professor in eight different higher education institutions. He recently received his Ph. D. in Synthesis and Characterizations of CuS & CuO Nanoparticles and their Nanocomposites with Polypyrrole from Indus International University (India) between 2017 and 2021. At the moment, he is investigating the structural, optical and electrical properties of inorganic nanomaterials, conducting polymers, and hybrid nanocomposites.

Wenchao Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Changchun Institute of Optics, fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China in 2014. Now he is an associate professor in State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, CIOMP. His research interests include optical nanostructure design, label-free optical superresolution bio-imaging and bio-sensing.