Dietmar Homberg,  Past President and Board member of European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI). Researcher at the Weierstrass Institute  Berlin, Germany.

Carlos Mota is an assistant professor in the Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration at MERLN Institute for Technology-inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University. In 2013, he was a postdoc at the department of Tissue Regeneration, University of Twente, the Netherlands where he developed, in partnership with Screvo B.V., a multiwell array platform for high content screening, targeting the effect of small molecules and biopharmaceutical in cancer therapeutics in vitro and in vivo.

Carlos received his PhD in Biomaterials from the BIOS research doctorate school in Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Pisa, in March 2012. His doctoral studies were focused on the development of new approaches for the fabrication of polymeric scaffolds for Tissue Engineering applications. Furthermore, he was a researcher at the department of Neurosciences, University of Pisa, where he developed scaffolds for otology surgery applications.

Currently, his main research interests are focused on biofabrication, bioprinting and additive manufacturing techniques for the development of tissue engineered constructs.

Adérito Araújo received his PhD at the University of Coimbra, in 1998, with the thesis entitled “Additive Symplectic Integrators”, prepared under the supervision of J.M. Sanz-Serna, from the University of Valladolid, Spain, and M.F. Patrício, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Since that date, he is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra. He is an active member of the Numerical Analysis and Optimization group of the Centre of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra and, since 2011, is the director of its Laboratory for Computational Mathematics.

Originally from South of France, Dr. Alexis Maurel first began his studies at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse III (2-years diploma in Chemical Engineering – and Bachelor degree in Chemistry). After a first end-of-studies internship in León Guanajuato, Mexico, his taste for materials chemistry, research and human exchanges, has continued to grow. Alongside 20 students from all over the world (16 different nationalities), he pursued his Erasmus Mundus Master studies (Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - 2015/2017) between France, Poland and Spain. In September 2020, he obtained the title of Doctor in Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Solids after defending his thesis on “Lithium-Ion Battery 3D Printing” at the Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides and the Laboratoire des Technologies Innovantes (UPJV Amiens, Hauts-de-France region, France). Laureate of the prestigious 2021 Fulbright “French Researcher” Prize, Dr. Alexis Maurel is visiting the University of Texas at El Paso as a postdoctoral researcher (until the end of the year) to continue his research on 3D printing of lithiumion batteries. He will work closely with the team of Prof. Eric MacDonald.

Prof. Vedamurthy completed  his M.Sc., M.B.Tech and Ph.D  from Gulbarga  He has 16 years of teaching and administrative experience has held many positions as Reader, Professor, Director and Principal at The Oxford College of Science, Bangalore from 2000 to 2013. Presently he is the Professor and Chairman, at the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Karnatak University, Dharwad. He is also the Coordinator of new established Innovation and Incubation Centre at Karatak University, Dharwad. Currently he is guiding 8 Ph.D. students at the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Karnatak University, Dharwad. He has vast research experience in the field of Plant Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, Secondary Metabolites form Fungi etc. He has published more than 60 research articles in reputed national and international journals and he also has published a book for under graduate students- Biotechnology IV. He is recipient of Best Research paper Award instituted by Karnatak University, Dharwad for the year 2015. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards such as Elected Fellow Member of National Environmentalists Association (FNEA), Fellow Member of International Society of Biotechnology (FISBT) and as a co-author in many oral presentations at national and international conferences. He is also reviewer of several scientific Journals such as Elsevier, Springer, Willey etc.   He visited several oversees counties for scientific meetings such as Austria, Germanay, Czek Repulic, Malasia, Srilanka, Thailand and Omen. He is the main source behind getting research funding of Rs. 1.8 Crores at the Department of Biotechnology to BT finishing School from Govt. of Karnataka at The Oxford College of Science, Bangalore. Presently he is  investigator in DST and VGST funded projects at the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Karnatak University, Dharwad. He also a member of many scientific communities such as Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association , Kolkata . Life Member, National Environmentalists Association , Life Member, International Society of Biotechnology, Life Member, Association of  Biotechnology and Pharmacy , Treasurer (Elected),  Indian Science Congress Association, Bangalore Chapter, Member, Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India (founded in 1965). He is also contributing as research consultant at various institutions such as Reva Institute for Science & Technology Studies, Bangalore, Bio-nymph Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Institute of Bioscience & Molecular Biology, , Bangalore, Narayana Hrudayalaya College of Science, Bangalore.

Jules Harings is associate professor and group leader Macromolecular Physics & Technology at the Aachen Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials at Maastricht University. He received his PhD in Polymer Technology from Eindhoven Technical University under supervision of Prof. S. Rastogi and Prof. P.J. Lemstra (2009). After a four year’s period as research Scientist and project leader fiber physics and new product development at Teijin Aramid, where he received the Teijin global best R&D award in 2011, he returned to academics at Maastricht University in 2013. Currently he chairs the board of examiners of the Masters Systems Biology and BioBased Materials and coordinates several BioBased Master courses. His focus as principle investigator in the Aachen Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials is studying, understanding and technically exploiting the intrinsic functionality of biobased (macro)molecules like polarity and chirality in steering bio-inspired processing-structure-function relationships in (i) additive manufacturing and fiber spinning in e.g. regenerative medicine, and (ii) water actuated structural refinement, functionalization and biodegradability for timed polyamide performance.