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Featuring many Nobel Laureates and other Distinguished Guests

Symposia Committees

Florian Kongoli
Dr. Florian Kongoli
CEO/President
FLOGEN Technologies
Canada

Koji Abe
Dr. Koji Abe
Professor
Okayama U.
Japan

Osman ADIGUZEL
Dr. Osman ADIGUZEL
Professor
Firat U.
Turkey

Rigoberto Castillo Advincula
Dr. Rigoberto Castillo Advincula
Professor
U. of Tennessee
USA

Farman Ahmed
Dr. Farman Ahmed
Senior Scientific Officer
FMRRC/P.C.S.I.R.
Pakistan

Katerina Aifantis
Dr. Katerina Aifantis
Associate Professor
U. of Florida
USA

Miguel A. Alario Franco
Dr. Miguel A. Alario Franco
(Passed away on 26 Aug, 2024)
Complutense U. of Madrid
Spain

Rodrigo Alvarenga Vilela
Mr. Rodrigo Alvarenga Vilela
CEO
Samarco
Brazil

Matteo Alvaro
Dr. Matteo Alvaro
Professor
U. of Pavia
Italy

Georgios N. Anastassakis
Dr. Georgios N. Anastassakis
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece

Ljubisa Andric
Dr. Ljubisa Andric
Professor
Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia
Serbia

Juergen Antrekowitsch
Dr. Juergen Antrekowitsch
Professor
Christian Doppler Laboratory
Austria

Konstantinos Aravossis
Dr. Konstantinos Aravossis
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece

Gilberto Artioli
Dr. Gilberto Artioli
Professor
U. of Padova
Italy

Paulo Assis
Dr. Paulo Assis
Professor
U.e Federal de Ouro Preto
Brazil

Mark Asta
Dr. Mark Asta
Professor
U. of California, Berkeley
USA

Samson Mekbib Atnaw
Dr. Samson Mekbib Atnaw
Professor
Addis Ababa Science and Technology U.
Ethiopia

Jerry Atwood
Dr. Jerry Atwood
Professor Emeritus
U. of Missouri-Columbia
USA

Zhumabay Bakenov
Dr. Zhumabay Bakenov
Professor, Director
Nazarbayev U.
Kazakhstan

Douglas Bammann
Dr. Douglas Bammann
Professor
Mississippi State U.
USA

Michaela Barinova
Dr. Michaela Barinova
Researcher
Tomas Bata U. in Zlin
Czech Republic

Burak Büyükfırat
Mr. Burak Büyükfırat
Chief Research, Development and Quality Officer
Şişecam
Turkey

Anastassios Bountis
Dr. Anastassios Bountis
Emeritus Professor
U. of Patras
Greece

Stephan Buchmann
Dr. Stephan Buchmann
Director
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals
Switzerland

Martin Bultmann
Dr. Martin Bultmann
Director, Research Fellow
U. of Heidelberg
Germany

Mariana Calin
Dr. Mariana Calin
Professor
IFW Dresden
Germany

Claudio Capiglia
Dr. Claudio Capiglia
Senior Vice President
Reliance Industries Limited
India

Hunter Carter
Mr. Hunter Carter
Partner
ArentFox Schiff LLP
USA

Valentin Chanturiya
Dr. Valentin Chanturiya
Professor
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

Alexandros Charitos
Dr. Alexandros Charitos
Professor
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Germany

Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou
Dr. Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece

Nikoloz Chikhradze
Dr. Nikoloz Chikhradze
Professor
G. Tsulukidze Mining Inst.
Georgia

In Chung
Dr. In Chung
Associate Professor
Seoul National U.
South Korea

Raj Das
Dr. Raj Das
Principal Investigator
RMIT U. in Australia
Australia

Marcos de Campos
Dr. Marcos de Campos
Professor
Federal Fluminense U.
Brazil

Jose Adilson de Castro
Dr. Jose Adilson de Castro
Metallurgical Engineer
Federal Fluminense U.
Brazil

BRAHMA DEO
Dr. BRAHMA DEO
MGM Chair Professor
IIT BHUBANESWAR
India

Susana Diaz
Dr. Susana Diaz
Researcher
U.e Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Andrey Dmitriev
Dr. Andrey Dmitriev
Professor, Chief Research Officer
Inst. of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

Harold Dodds
Dr. Harold Dodds
Professor
U. of Tennessee
USA

Jean-Marie Dubois
Dr. Jean-Marie Dubois
Professor
Jožef Stefan Inst.
Slovenia

Gheorghe Duca
Dr. Gheorghe Duca
Professor
Moldova State U.
Moldova

Marcelo Esteves Campos
Dr. Marcelo Esteves Campos
Professor
UFMG
Brazil

Rasmus Fehrmann
Dr. Rasmus Fehrmann
Emeritus Professor
DTU
Denmark

Wilson Ferreira Santos Jr.
Dr. Wilson Ferreira Santos Jr.
Lawyer, Accountant, Independent Auditor and Business Consultant
Independent Auditor and Business Consultant
Brazil

Douglas Fuerstenau
Dr. Douglas Fuerstenau
Professor
U. of California, Berkeley
USA

Koji Fukui
Dr. Koji Fukui
Professor
Shibaura Inst. of Technology
Japan

Carmen Gaidau
Dr. Carmen Gaidau
Professor
R&D National Inst.
Romania

Mauro Giorcelli
Dr. Mauro Giorcelli
Department of Applied Science &Technologies
Politecnico di Torino
Italy

Mery-Cecilia Gomez Marroquin
Dr. Mery-Cecilia Gomez Marroquin
Professor
National U. of Engineering
Peru

Yakov Gordon
Dr. Yakov Gordon
Technical Director
Hatch
Canada

Lijie Guo
Dr. Lijie Guo
Professor
U. of Toronto
China

Xueyi Guo
Xueyi Guo
Central South U.
China

Rajeev Gupta
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
Associate Professor
NC State U.
USA

Maros Halama
Dr. Maros Halama
M.Sc. PhD.
Technical U. of Kosice
Slovakia

Gustav Hanke
Dr. Gustav Hanke
Project Management
Montanuniversität Leoben
Austria

Yoshihisa Hayakawa
Dr. Yoshihisa Hayakawa
Professor
Rikkyo U.
Japan

Shmulik Hayun
Dr. Shmulik Hayun
Professor
Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev
Israel

Shigeru Hirano
Dr. Shigeru Hirano
Medical Doctor, Professor
Kyoto Prefectural U. of Medicine
Japan

Haruhiko Inufusa
Dr. Haruhiko Inufusa
Med Doctor, CEO & Professor
TIMA Japan & Gifu U.
Japan

Barbora Jedlickova
Dr. Barbora Jedlickova
Senior Lecturer
TC Beirne School of Law, The U. of Queensland
Australia

Mark Johnson
Dr. Mark Johnson
Professor
U. of Manchester
UK

J. Brian Jordon
Dr. J. Brian Jordon
Professor
The U. of Alabama
USA

Davis Joseph
Davis Joseph
Researcher
McGill U.
Canada

Hiroshi Kageyama
Dr. Hiroshi Kageyama
Professor
Kyoto U.
Japan

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Dr. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Professor
Northwestern U.
USA

Vinit Kapur
Mr. Vinit Kapur
Secretary
The All India Glass Manufacturers' Federation (AIGMF)
India

Sabah Karam
Dr. Sabah Karam
Chief Research Officer
Duality Science Academy
USA

Ibrahim Karim
Dr. Ibrahim Karim
CEO, President, Engineer
BioGeometry Energy Systems
Egypt

Go Kimura
Dr. Go Kimura
Senior Director
Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
Japan

Georges Kipouros
Dr. Georges Kipouros
Professor
Dalhousie U.
Canada

Gregory Knipp
Dr. Gregory Knipp
Professor
Purdue U.
USA

Spomenka Kobe
Dr. Spomenka Kobe
Professor
Jožef Stefan Inst.
Slovenia

Karel Kolomaznik
Dr. Karel Kolomaznik
Professor
Tomas Bata U. in Zlin
Czech Republic

Vasant Kumar
Dr. Vasant Kumar
Professor
U. of Cambridge
UK

Reiko Kuroda
Dr. Reiko Kuroda
Professor
U. of Tokyo
Japan

Andrzej Legocki
Dr. Andrzej Legocki
Professor
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland

Sergio Leite de Andrade
Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade
Vice-President
Usiminas
Brazil

Hans Leuenberger
Dr. Hans Leuenberger
Professor
U. of Florida
USA

Janusz Lipkowski
Dr. Janusz Lipkowski
Retired Professor
Ningbo U. of Technology
China

Lang Liu
Dr. Lang Liu
Professor
Xi'an U.
China

Henry Alonso Colorado Lopera
Dr. Henry Alonso Colorado Lopera
Professor
U. de Antioquia
Colombia

Digby Macdonald
Dr. Digby Macdonald
Professor
U. of California at Berkeley
USA

GS Mahobia
Dr. GS Mahobia
Associate Professor
Indian Inst. of Technology (Banaras Hindu U.)
India

Michael Makanga
Dr. Michael Makanga
Executive Director
Global Health EDCTP3
Belgium

Pinchas Mandell
Dr. Pinchas Mandell
Chairman & Professor
Family of Israel Foundation
Israel

Yizhak Marcus
Dr. Yizhak Marcus
Professor
Hebrew U.
Israel

Fernand Marquis
Dr. Fernand Marquis
Professor
Materials Technologies & Systems
USA

Manfred Mauntz
Dr. Manfred Mauntz
(Passed away July 2024)
cmc Instruments GmbH
Germany

Malcolm McNeil
Dr. Malcolm McNeil
Attorney at Law
ArentFox Schiff LLP
USA

Natalia Menshutina
Dr. Natalia Menshutina
Professor
Mendeleev U. of Chemical Technology of Russia
Russian Federation

Mike Mikalajunas
Mr. Mike Mikalajunas
CIME
Canada

William Miller
Dr. William Miller
Professor
Bioverse Foundation
USA

Madali Naimanbayev
Др. Madali Naimanbayev
Leading Researcher
Satbayev U., Inst. of Metallurgy
Kazakhstan

Alexandra Navrotsky
Dr. Alexandra Navrotsky
Professor
Arizona State U.
USA

Sergio Neves Monteiro
Dr. Sergio Neves Monteiro
Professor
Military Inst. of Engineering
Brazil

Matthew Nolan
Mr. Matthew Nolan
Attorney at Law
ArentFox Schiff LLP
USA

Mohamed Sanad Noufal
Dr. Mohamed Sanad Noufal
Assistant Professor
Hampton U.
USA

Sener Oktik
Dr. Sener Oktik
Professor, Sisecam Board Member
Sisecam
Turkey

Claudia Oosterhof
Dr. Claudia Oosterhof
Director
Aperam
Germany

Garnet Ord
Dr. Garnet Ord
Professor
Toronto Metropolitan U.
Canada

Hasan Ozgunay
Dr. Hasan Ozgunay
Researcher and Lecturer
Ege U.
Turkey

Edna Selloriquez Pana
Dr. Edna Selloriquez Pana
Attorney at Law, President and CEO
Tat Filipinas Golf Club
Philippines

Vladko Panayotov
Dr. Vladko Panayotov
Professor
Bulgarian Academy of Science
Bulgaria

Avinash Chandra Pandey
Dr. Avinash Chandra Pandey
Professor
Inter U. Centre
India

Ioannis Paspaliaris
Dr. Ioannis Paspaliaris
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece

Alexey A. Popov
Dr. Alexey A. Popov
Group leader (Fullerenes)
Leibniz Inst.
Germany

Raj Prabhu
Dr. Raj Prabhu
Professor
Mississippi State U.
USA

Swatantra Prakash
Prof. Dr. Swatantra Prakash
Chief Scientist
National Metallurgical Laboratory/CSIR
India

Tetiana Prikhna
Dr. Tetiana Prikhna
Professor
V. Bakul Inst. NASU
Ukraine

Alain Rafael Puente Santiago
Dr. Alain Rafael Puente Santiago
Goodenough's group
The U. of Texas at Austin
USA

Robert Pullar
Dr. Robert Pullar
Professor
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Italy

Fedora Quattrocchi
Dr. Fedora Quattrocchi
Chief Scientist
U. Rome 2 Tor Vergata
Italy

Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi
Prof. Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi
Associate Professor
Khalifa U.
United Arab Emirates

Arunachalam Rajendran
Dr. Arunachalam Rajendran
Chair and Professor
U. of Mississippi
USA

Bernard Raveau
Dr. Bernard Raveau
Professor
U. of Caen
France

Joao Ricardo Ribas
Dr. Joao Ricardo Ribas
Medical Doctor and Politician
Hospital Miguel Couto
Brazil

Ralf Riedel
Dr. Ralf Riedel
Professor
Technical U. of Darmstadt
Germany

Nancy Ross
Dr. Nancy Ross
Professor
Virginia Tech
USA

Peter Rowlands
Dr. Peter Rowlands
Research Fellow
U. of Liverpool
UK

Julius Rubinstein
Dr. Julius Rubinstein
Professor
Russian Academy of Mining Science
USA, Russian Federation

Gudrun Saevarsdottir
Dr. Gudrun Saevarsdottir
Professor
Reykjavik U.
Iceland

Gurtej Sandhu
Dr. Gurtej Sandhu
Vice President & Senior Fellow
Micron Technology
USA

Ruggero Maria Santilli
Sir Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli
Chief Scientist
Hadronic Technologies Corporation
USA

Verônica Scarpini Candido
Dr. Verônica Scarpini Candido
Professor
Federal U. of Pará
Brazil

Ludwig Schultz
Dr. Ludwig Schultz
Professor Emeritus
TU Dresden
Germany

Daniel Shanley
Mr. Daniel Shanley
Partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
USA

Dan Shechtman
Dr. Dan Shechtman
Professor, SIPS Honorary President
Technion
Israel

Raman Singh
Dr. Raman Singh
Professor
Monash U.
Australia

Sukhmander Singh
Dr. Sukhmander Singh
Professor
Santa Clara U.
USA

Michael Stelter
Dr. Michael Stelter
Professor
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Germany

Steven Stevenson
Dr. Steven Stevenson
Professor of Chemistry
Purdue U. (Fort Wayne)
USA

Ephraim Suhir
Dr. Ephraim Suhir
Professor
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
USA

Peter Swaan
Dr. Peter Swaan
Professor
U. of Florida
USA

Setsuhisa Tanabe
Dr. Setsuhisa Tanabe
Professor
Kyoto U.
Japan

Ben Zhong Tang
Dr. Ben Zhong Tang
Professor
The Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
China

Keyong Tang
Dr. Keyong Tang
Professor
Zhengzhou U.
China

Hassan Tarabishi
Dr. Hassan Tarabishi
Executive President
Somicon Industrial
United Arab Emirates

Nektarios Tavernarakis
Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis
Professor
Chair, EIT Governing Board (European Inst. of Innovation & Technology)
Greece

Nguyen Nhu Thanh
Dr. Nguyen Nhu Thanh
Director
Leather&Shoes Research Inst.
Vietnam

Sabu Thomas
Dr. Sabu Thomas
Professor
Mahatma Gandhi U.
India

Tomas Torres
Dr. Tomas Torres
Emeritus Professor
U. Autonoma de Madrid
Spain

Nguyen Tran
Dr. Nguyen Tran
Professor
Directeur de l'Ecole de Chirurgie - HVL
France

Erik Trell
Dr. Erik Trell
Professor
Linkoping U.
Sweden

Alain Tressaud
Dr. Alain Tressaud
Professor
ICMCB-CNRS, U. Bordeaux
France

Patrizia Trovalusci
Dr. Patrizia Trovalusci
Professor
U. di Roma La Sapienza
Italy

Vladimir Tsepelev
Dr. Vladimir Tsepelev
Professor
Boris Yeltsin Ural Federal U.
Russian Federation

Basilios Tsikouras
Dr. Basilios Tsikouras
Professor
U. of Patras
Greece

Tamer Turna
Dr. Tamer Turna
Board Advisor & Vice President
Bloom Energy Corporation
USA

Tateo Usui
Dr. Tateo Usui
Emeritus Professor
Osaka U.
Japan

Thomas Vougiouklis
Dr. Thomas Vougiouklis
Emeritus Professor
Democritus U. of Thrace
Greece

Fuhui Wang
Dr. Fuhui Wang
Professor
Northeastern U.
China

Zhi Wang
Dr. Zhi Wang
Vice General Manager
Dongying Fangyuan
China

Sharon Webb
Dr. Sharon Webb
Professor
U. of Göttingen
Germany

Yan Yang
Dr. Yan Yang
Professor
Chongqing U.
China

Rachid Yazami
Dr. Rachid Yazami
Professor
KVI PTE LTD
Singapore

Julietta Yedoyan
Dr. Julietta Yedoyan
COOP Researcher
FLOGEN Technologies
Germany

Svetlana Yefremova
Dr. Svetlana Yefremova
Head Scientific Secretary
National Center on Complex Processing of Mineral Raw Materials
Kazakhstan

Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Dr. Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Professor
Louis Pasteur Center
Japan

Michael Zaworotko
Dr. Michael Zaworotko
Chair of Crystal Engineering
U. of Limerick
Ireland

Abdurassul Zharmenov
Dr. Abdurassul Zharmenov
General Director
National Center on Complex Processing of Mineral Raw Materials
Kazakhstan