Dr. Zhengxuan Liu works as a Marie Curie Research Fellow, Course Lecturer, and Experienced Researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on sustainable urban energy transition, zero-carbon building technologies, smart buildings and intelligent communities, innovative systems for high-quality green construction, hydrogen energy storage and thermal management of hydrogen fuel cells. He was listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2024. Dr. Liu is currently Associate Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (a Nature Portfolio journal, SSCI, Q2 in CAS, Q1 in JCR), Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (SSCI, Q3 in CAS, Q2 in JCR), and Energy Exploration & Exploitation (SCI, Q4 in CAS and JCR). He also serves as a Youth Editor for the international journals of Building Simulation (SCI, Q1 in both CAS and JCR), Exploration (SCI), and The Innovation Energy. Dr. Liu has published over 50 SCI-indexed papers, with 35 as first or corresponding author (30 of them in JCR Q1 journals, including 2 ESI Highly Cited Papers), accumulating more than 2,720 citations with an H-index of 29. He has authored one Elsevier book and contributed core chapters to seven Elsevier books as first author. He holds over 35 patents, with more than 20 granted (including 8 invention patents). He co-supervises 4 PhD students and over 20 master’s students. Dr. Liu is a peer reviewer and expert for the International Science Council (ISC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Open Research Europe, and the national and serval provincial Natural Science Foundation projects. He previously served as Assistant Dean at the Institute for Urban and Building Innovation at Hunan University. He is currently a Vebleo Fellow, and the Executive Chair/Vice Chair of the China Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), an official EU-supported network.

Prof. Blaž Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the programme “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 / 50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >400 articles, was cited >10000 times, having a h-index of 61. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards.

Prof. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an emeritus prof. of environmental sociology at Jeju National University in South Korea. He received BA and MA degree in sociology from Korea University (South Korea), and PhD in environmental sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a prof. of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a teaching professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the president of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD environmental meeting, and a member of Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development Republic of Korea, etc. He has published 60 environment-related research papers in domestic and international journals and 13 books including Environmental Sociology. He has conducted 100 unpublished environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

Dr. Simeng Li is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Eng both from the Florida State University. His academic and research interests are firmly rooted in the fields of environmental and water resources engineering, driven by a profound commitment to sustainability and environmental enhancement. His work focuses on developing innovative strategies to enhance water system resilience, pioneering new approaches to convert waste into valuable resources, and addressing environmental challenges by remediating both legacy and emerging contaminants. During his tenure at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Li has had the privilege of instructing a wide array of courses catering to both undergraduate and graduate students. He is passionate about fostering academic growth by consistently providing valuable experiential learning opportunities to aspiring students.

Dr Asim Faoorq is working as the Head of Department, at Centre of Excellence in Transportation/Railway Engineering (COETRE), Department of Transportation Engineering, at Pak Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, KPK, Pakistan. completed his PhD in Transportation Planning Engineering from the University of Sciences and Technology, Beijing, China, in 2019. He works as an assistant researcher at Virginia Tech US, and he also works with BMW, Germany, and Autobahn Südbayern, Germany. He earned his Master in Transportation Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. His research is mainly focused on transportation planning and design to increase connection and connectivity, reduce travel time, analyse travel delay, transfer time, travel reliability, safety, and comfort for the passenger. During his career, he published many research articles. Dr. Asim supervises over 50 researchers at the master level and two at the PhD level.

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Anastasios MOURATIDIS is a Professor Emeritus of Highway Engineering in the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the author of 100 scientific papers published in Congress Proceedings and Scientific Journals. During his academic career, he has managed more than 40 research projects in construction, assessment and maintenance of road structures and assets. He has been Consultant of Construction Management in the Egnatia Motorway Project (1996-2004), Head of Construction Management (2005-2006), Technical Consultant of the Thessaloniki Metro Project (2008-2010), Chairman and CEO of Egnatia Odos S.A. (2010-2012). Consultant in the Ionia Motorway construction project (2014-2017). Geotechnical Consultant in the E65 Motorway Construction Project (2014-2023) - National Delegate of the SPRINT research project , E.U. DG XIII, (1990-1997), - Member of Expert Groups IR2, IR5, IR7 of OECD/Transport Research (1992-1997), - National Delegate of PIARC Technical Committees 4.5 and D4 (2004-2010) - Member of the ESF/COST research Action 356, Towards the definition of a Sustainable Transport (2007-2009). - Collaborating expert of the Hellenic Institute of Transport in the EU Horizon/ i4Df, Infrastructure for the Future research project (2018-2020). -Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Seminar on Roads, Bridges and Tunnels (2016-2019). -Author of two Highway Engineering Handbooks: Highway Construction (Univ. Studio Press, 2007), Road Asset Management (Univ. Studio Press, 2023). - Engineering Consultant in the PATHE Motorway Rehabilitation Projects (2023) - Engineering Consultant in Motorway Construction Projects.