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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc.,(www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute
incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries.

Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers.

Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries.

Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has managed, involved, or actively participated in about 200 projects, 40 types of reactors, 10 industries, in 45 countries and in 6 continents. Dr. Kongoli has published 113 books and more than 200 scientific articles. He has delivered in numerous countries around the world about 220 plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations and in many Professional Award Councils such as the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals.

He is an elected Honorary Member of the Lorraine Academy of Sciences and Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded in 2017 the title "The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017" by CEO-Monthly UK magazine. He was awarded Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his contribution toward sustainable development through FLOGEN Sustainability Framework by Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic)/Faculty of Applied Informatics. He is honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro and Laureate of Gold Medal of the City of Nancy, France. In 2022 he was honored by the Congressman elect of Rio de Janeiro State, Alan Lopes, who will propose to the State Congress to adopt FLOGEN Sustainability Framework developed by Dr. Florian Kongoli in the state law for evaluating any proposed public or private project in the state. Also, in 2022 he was invited to give the Opening Sustainability Plenary Lecture at the United Nation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 February 2022 about FLOGEN Sustainability Framework at the International Year of Glass 2022.

He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Ministers and other government officials.
A more detailed biography can be found at: http://www.flogen.com/elt/pdf/Kongoli_Short-CV.pdf

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Eugene Caldona is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials at North Dakota State University (NDSU). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and an Affiliate Faculty of the Materials and Nanotechnology, and the Biomedical Engineering graduate programs at NDSU. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Saint Louis University (Philippines), MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and PhD in Chemistry from Mississippi State University. Prior to joining NDSU, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests include corrosion science, surface chemistry, adhesion science, additive manufacturing, polymers, elastomer-modified materials, and stimuli-responsive and super liquid-repellent coatings.

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Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In 1994, he discovered Cu-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, which was commercialized in 2004 in the USA, Japan, and Europe to prepare various advanced materials. His research is focused on the synthesis of well-defined macromolecules and hybrid materials via living and controlled polymerizations using radical and ionic mechanisms to prepare advanced materials for optoelectronic, biomedical, environmental, and energy-related applications. He has authored 25 books, >100 book chapters, and >1350 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and holds 72 US patents. His work has been cited in the scientific literature >210,000 times (h-index: 218, Google Scholar). He has mentored >300 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral trainees while at CMU. Past Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Polymer Science, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Inventors as well as European, Australian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish and Russian Academies of Sciences.

Dr. Matyjaszewski’s achievements have been honored by many distinctions. He received the 2023 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, the 2021 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, the 2017 Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the 2015 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards in: Chemistry of Materials (2019), Applied Polymer Science (2011) and Polymer Chemistry (2002). He is the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees.

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Prof. Tang received his B.S. and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at The University of Toronto from 1989 to 1994. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 1994 and was promoted to Chair Professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in 2020. In 2021, he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as Dean of School of Science and Engineering, with a concurrent appointment of X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor.

Prof. Tang has published >2,000 scientific papers, which have been cited >218,000 times. His h-index is 204. He has delivered >500 invited talks at international conferences and has been granted >100 patents. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Aggregate published by Wiley, and is sitting in the editorial boards of >20 scientific journals.

Prof. Tang is mainly engaged in the study of materials science, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical theranostics. He coined the concept of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), and his labs are spearheading the AIE research in the world.

Prof. Tang has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in both areas of Chemistry and Materials Science since 2014. He received a series of awards, scholarships and honors, e.g., Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award in 2007, Honorary Citizen of Guangzhou City in 2015, National Natural Science Award (1st Class) in 2017, Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation) in 2017, Nano Today Award in 2021, Biomaterials Global Impact Award in 2023, and CCS–SINOPEC Award (the Chinese Chemical Society) in 2024.

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Professor Sabu Thomas is currently Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and the Founder Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is an outstanding leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Thomas’s ground breaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnological and nano-biomedical sciences, have made transformative differences in the development of new materials for automotive, space, housing and biomedical fields. In collaboration with India’s premier tyre company, Apollo Tyres, Professor Thomas’s group invented new high performance barrier rubber nanocomposite membranes for inner tubes and inner liners for tyres.

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Prof. Dr. Marek W. Urban is the J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry (courtesy) Departments at Clemson University. Prior to joining Clemson University, he was a professor, department chair, and director of polymer science programs at NDSU and USM, where he also directed the Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC) and Industry/University Cooperative Research (I/U CRC) Centers, both funded by the National Science Foundation. He is the author of over 500 research publications and 13 patents, and the author of four books and the editor of seven. His research on self-healing polymers and antimicrobial polymer surfaces has been featured by numerous media. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society (ACS) PMSE Division, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the American Institute of Chemists (AIC). His research group's current efforts focus on the development of polymeric materials with living-like functions, self-healing polymers, poly(ionic liquids) capable of energy storage, and spectroscopic imaging methods enabling molecular detection of dipolar interactions.

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