Peter Bøggild is professor and group leader at DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark. He obtained his PhD in low temperature solid state physics at the Copenhagen University in 1998, and became a full professor in 2013 at DTU. He has worked across numerous areas, including nanomechatronics/robotics, topology optimization, nanometrology, nanotubes/nanowires, surface science, material synthesis and microfabrication, mesoscopic physics and simulations, but is today is leading a group entirely focusing on graphene and other 2D materials, with emphasis on large scale fabrication/applications, electronics, terahertz physics/metrology and material science. He has published more than 200 papers, mostly on 2D materials, and is committed to push fundamental research in two-dimensional materials towards real and viable technologies and applications.

Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In particular, his group studies the optical and electronic properties of different phases of 2D TMDs. He has demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilize phases with disparate properties for field effect transistors, catalysis, and energy storage. Prof Chhowalla is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Churchill College. He was the founding Editor in Chief of Applied Materials Today and is now the Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2016. Prior to Cambridge, Prof. Chhowalla was a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He was also the Director of the Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices & Nanotechnology at Rutgers. Before that, he was a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge and Churchill College. After his doctorate and Royal Academy of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Professor Chhowalla briefly worked in industry where he developed applications for “amorphous diamond”.

Dr. Ludovic (ludo) DUMEE joined Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) as an Assistant Professor in 2020. His team is focused on the development of advanced separation materials stemming from the properties of nanoscale structures tackling environmental challenges towards desalination, resource recovery and valorisation. He investigates routes to generate efficient separation membranes and catalysts from 1D and 2D nanomaterials towards the design of isoporous membranes for ultra-selective separation of cells, proteins, ions and pollutants. He is actively engaged on the development of cost-effective alternative water production strategies in the MENA region leading activities on atmospheric water generation and desalination brine valorisation. He graduated his PhD in 2012 from Victoria University (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).

Prof. Feng is a full professor and the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. He has published more than 510 research articles which have attracted more than 62700 citations with H-index of 119 (Google Scholar). He has been awarded several prestigious prizes such as IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014), Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014-2019), Small Young Innovator Award (2017), Hamburg Science Award (2017), EU-40 Materials Prize (2018), ERC Consolidator Grant Award (2018). He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019) and member of the Academia Europaea (2019). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemNanoMat, Energy Storage Materials, Small Methods, Chemistry -An Asian Journal, Trends in Chemistry, etc. He is the Head of ESF Young Research Group "Graphene Center Dresden", Working Package Leader of WP Functional Foams & Coatings for European Commission’s pilot project “Graphene Flagship”, and spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center for the Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials.

Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship

Costas Galiotis is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced – Tailoring Graphene project. He is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) and former Director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) which is one of the 7 academic research institutions of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH). In its over 26 years of operation FORTH/ ICE-HT has developed into a world-leading centre for the advancement of high quality scientific knowledge in the fields of material science and in the computer aided design and simulation of new materials and processes. It comprises of approximately 150 personnel and has a running yearly budget of 5 M€. Prof. Galiotis is also a member of the Board of Directors of FORTH (since July 2007). FORTH has been ranked as the first Research Centre in the field domain in Greece in 3 successive evaluations. Prof. Galiotis had an auspicious term of office as Director of the Institute in the years 2009-2014. Being also the coordinator of the Hellenic participation and national representative of “Graphene” he contributed in establishing the Graphene Center by joining the research forces of three FORTH institutes, ICE-HT, IESL and ICAM. Despite the Country's intense economic situation he expanded the Institute by literally setting the foundations to the Institute's new modern building that will house research laboratories.

Sir Andre Geim is Regius Professor at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on graphene. He has also received numerous international awards and distinctions, including medals from the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, and holds honorary doctorates and professorships from many countries and universities. Thomson-Reuters repeatedly named him among the world’s most active scientists and attributed to him three new research fronts – diamagnetic levitation, gecko tape and graphene. More than thirty of his papers have been cited >1,000 times with six of them >10,000 times. He was awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel prize for his work on levitation, becoming the first and only recipient of both Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes.

Dr. Yury Gogotsi is Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He also serves as Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) from Kiev Polytechnic and a DSc degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1995. His research group works on 2D carbides and nitrides (MXenes), nanostructured carbons, and other nanomaterials for energy, water and biomedical applications. He published more than 800 papers, which have been cited more than 170,000 times. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in Chemistry and Materials Science, and a Citations Laureate in Physics by Clarivate Analytics. He has received numerous awards for his research including a Chemistry of Materials Award from ACS, MRS Medal, S. Somiya Award from IUMRS, European Carbon Association Award, Materials Innovation Award from Materials Today, International Nanotechnology Prize (RUSNANOPrize), R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine and many other distinctions. He has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, World Academy of Ceramics, AAAS, MRS, ACerS, ECS, RSC and ISE. He holds honorary doctorates from several European universities

Ian holds the Royal Academy of Engineering/Morgan Advanced Materials Chair in Carbon Materials at the University of Manchester. His group sits across the Department of Materials, National Graphene Institute and Henry Royce Institute. His research covers the production, processing and use of nanomaterials with a focus on the energy transition (power materials and energy storage) and composite applications. He has previously held R.A.Eng/EPSRC Research and EPSRC Challenging Engineering Fellowships

Rahul R. Nair is a Carlsberg/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair and Professor of Materials Physics at the National Graphene Institute (NGI), and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on molecular transport through sub-nanometer two-dimensional (2D) capillaries and developing 2D materials-based membranes for sustainable separation technologies. He has published over 60 highly cited peer-reviewed research articles, including several in Science, Nature, and more than a dozen in the Nature series publications during the last twelve years. He has also received several prestigious awards, such as the Moseley Medal and Prize, ERC grant, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, etc., for his innovative and groundbreaking research. He also has research partnerships with leading industries such as Carlsberg, the US Army, AstraZeneca, ICON Life Saver, etc.

Professor Barbaros Özyilmaz is best known for his work on developing new device applications based on 2D materials such as graphene, black phosphorus, and monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC). He graduated in 1999 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, with his Diplomarbeit in Physics at the European High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Institute in Grenoble, France. He undertook his PhD studies (1999-2004) with Prof Andrew Kent at New York University in collaboration with IBM pioneering spin transfer torque. He did his postdoctoral work (2004-2007) at Columbia University in Prof Philip Kim’s group pioneering graphene research in the USA. He joined the Physics Department at NUS in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was instrumental in establishing Graphene Research in Singapore. He is currently the Deputy Director of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D material (CA2DM) and has greatly contributed to establishing NUS as one of the globally leading Centre’s for 2D material research. Since 2019 he is also the Department Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at NUS. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NRF Fellowship and the NRF Investigator Award, NUS Young Investigator Award and the Institute of Physics Award, Singapore.

Vincenzo Palermo is the director of the CNR Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF) in Bologna, Italy, and associated professor of Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). He uses nanotechnology and supramolecular chemistry to create new materials for electronics, aerospace and biomedical applications. He published >200 scientific articles on international journals in chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science (>11 000 citations, h-index 53), collaborating with key industrial partners in Europe (Airbus, FCA, Leonardo, BASF, Nokia, STMicroelectronics etc.). He has been awarded the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) and the Science dissemination awards of the Italian Book Association.

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.

Associate Professor Dr. Burcu Saner Okan earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2005. She then went on to complete her Master's degree in 2007 and her Ph.D. in 2011 in the Materials Science and Engineering program at Sabancı University. Since March 2022, Dr. Saner Okan has held the position of academic director at the Sabancı University Composite Research Center. She is also a research faculty member in the Departments of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, as well as Manufacturing Technologies, at Sabancı University. In addition, Dr. Saner Okan is co-founder of NANOGRAFEN Nano Technological Products Company and she is among the first entrepreneurs to successfully complete the TUBITAK 1512 program. Dr. Saner Okan develops cost-effective and lightweight automotive composites parts reinforced by waste tire-derived Graphene NanoPlatelet with part producers and leading OEM partners. Additionally, she is involved in sustainable advanced materials research, creating compound solutions using recycled and natural sources for thermoplastic processing. As a co-founder of Euronova Next-Generation Sustainable Plastic Materials Company, she contributes to producing sustainable compounds with recycled additives for various plastic applications. Throughout her career, Dr. Saner Okan has secured funding totaling $5.0 million for national and international projects at Sabancı University. Her areas of expertise include graphene, polymer nanocomposites, compounding, surface chemistry, electrospinning, recycling, upcycling, and circular economy practices. She has more than 50 articles published in international journals, 8 book chapters, 2 patents and presented over 50 conference papers in these fields.

Prof. Rehan Umer is a full professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KUST), Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Center for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM), The University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2008. He then worked as Research Engineer at the newly established Airbus helicopter site in Brisbane, Australia. He then moved to the USA and worked as a Post Doc. Research Fellow at the Composite Vehicle Research Center (CVRC), Michigan State University, USA on polymer composites processing for vehicle applications. In 2012, he started his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, KUST, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is the co-founder of the Aerospace Engineering department and the Advanced Research and Innovation Center (ARIC) at KUST. Prof. Umer has also been the acting chair of the department in 2021. Prof. Umer’s research has been focused on advanced composites manufacturing covering both experimental and modelling studies. Dr. Umer has worked very closely with several academic institutes, research centers and industries around the globe. Prof. Umer has four US patents, authored and co-authored books, book chapters, research papers in refereed journals, and presented at a number of international conferences. Prof. Umer’s research interest is in composites manufacturing including, thermoset and thermoplastic composites, smart manufacturing, graphene and 2D materials, liquid composites molding, automated fiber placement, pultrusion, process modelling and simulations, multifunctional nano-composites, 3D printing and additive manufacturing, lightweight lattice and sandwich structures.

Dr. Lourdes F. Vega is a Full Professor in Chemical Engineering, the Director and Founder of the Research and Innovation Center on CO2 and Hydrogen (RICH Center), and the Theme Lead on Energy and Hydrogen at the Research and Innovation Center on Graphene and 2D Materials (RIC2D) at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She has developed her career between academia and industry, with relevant positions in the USA, Europe, and the UAE. With more than 230 publications in top journals, 10 commercialized products and 6 patents under exploitation, she is internationally recognized for moving fundamental science to the applied world in the areas of clean energy and sustainable products, focused clean hydrogen, CO2 capture and utilization, sustainable fuels, sustainable cooling systems, and water treatment. She has successfully led several large industrial-academic consortia related to these areas. Among other recognitions, in 2024 she was selected a V60, one of the 60 impactful Women in the Middle East driving sustainability, and one of the TOP100 Women Leaders in Spain, in the category of TOP10 Exterior. In 2020 she received the Mohammed Bin Rashid Medal of Scientific Distinguishment for her contributions in clean energy and sustainable products, and in 2013 the award in Physics, Innovation and Technology by the BBVA Foundation and Spanish Royal Society of Physics. She is an elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Science of Spain (Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales), Elected Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Gadea Foundation for Science, member of the MBR Academy of Scientists, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Mathematics, Physical Chemistry and Natural Sciences of Granada, and an Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She serves as a member of the Emirate Scientist Council, led by HE Sarah Al Amiri. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of several international institutions and a member of the board of directors of two companies

Professor Rachid Yazami is the recipient of the 2014 Draper Prize of the National academy of Engineering, considered as the Nobel Prize of Engineering for the invention of the graphite anode for lithium-ion batteries back to 1980. In December 2023 he was the recipient of the Grand Prize of the VinFuture Prize in Hanoi, Vietnam. Yazami served the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor in Energy at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He also was appointed the Program Director in the Energy Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the TUM‐Create Centre of Electromobility in Singapore. Prior to Singapore, Professor Rachid Yazami a retired Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) a position he held for over 35 years. In 2000-2010 and since 2021 he served Visiting Associate & Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Yazami enjoys an international reputation. He was decorated by the King of Morocco in 2014 during the Throne Day. In 2016’ he received the French Legion of Honour medal, the highest distinction of the French Republic. In 2018 Yazami was awarded the Arab Scientist of the year by the Takreem Foundation in Kuwait City. In 2019 he received the Arab Investor Award in UNESCO, Paris and in 2020 he received the Mohammed bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Excellence and Life Achievement in the UAE. In 2022 he was appointed the Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.

Professor Linda Zou’s research interests are in the areas of developing 2D materials incorporated membranes, adsorbent and electrodes for more efficient water purification and desalination technologies and cloud seeding materials. She has published numerous journal articles and in the Stanford University’s List of World’s Top 2% of Scientists with the career long greatest citation impact.