Prof. Daesu Lee received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Seoul National University in 2006 and completed his Ph.D. at the same institution in 2012. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2012 to 2017. He then returned to Seoul National University as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he joined Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022, a position he currently holds.
Prof. Lee specializes in the fabrication of thin films and heterostructures of transition metal oxides. His research focuses on ferroelectricity, flexoelectricity, spin-orbitronics, and superconductivity. Through his work, Prof. Lee aims to advance the understanding and application of these phenomena in condensed matter physics.

Dong-Myeong Shin is currently Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was inspired to work in nanoscience as an undergraduate researcher with Prof. Yoon-Hwae Hwang and Prof. Hyung Kook Kim at Pusan National University (BS, 2009), where his work focused on the bioprotection effect of sugar glass on living cell. He obtained his M.S (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in nanomaterials at PNU, continuously working with his two mentors. At PNU, Dong-Myeong's research focused on the glassy dynamics of sugar in nanoconfinement, capacitive biosensor, piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators. In 2016, he joined the Research Center for Energy Convergence Technology (RCECT) at PNU, where his research centered on the bioinspired sensor, to work with Prof. Kyujung Kim as a postdoctoral researcher. Following his Ph.D. and Postdoctoral research at PNU, in 2017, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Jeffrey R. Long. His research is dedicated to developing the single ion conducting network polymer for battery applications. Upon completion of his postdoctoral studies in the summer of 2019, Dong-Myeong traveled back to Asia to assume his current position of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at HKU, where his group has devoted to developing the self-powered nanoelectronics, with an emphasis on important components such as energy harvesting/storage devices and bioinspired electronics.

Dongguen Shin received his doctorate in physics in 2019 from Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. After four years as a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, he is currently working as an assistant professor and independent research group leader at the Department of Physics, Chonnam National University. His current research interests are focused on interfacial science in perovskite, 2D semiconductors, and organic semiconductors.

Hui-Seon Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Inha University. She received both B.Eng. and Ph.D. at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea in 2011 and 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Nam-Gyu Park. She worked at the laboratory of Prof. Anders Hagfeldt at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland from 2016 to 2019. She joined Inha University in 2019 and established Nanomaterials and Energy Device Laboratory. She has been mainly working on the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and has published articles with over 19900 citations since the first paper about the solid-state PSC in 2012.

Education
1. BS: Korea University, Metallurgical Engineering (1995)
2. MS: Korea University, Processing Metallurgical Engineering (1997)
3. PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, Materials Science and Engineering (2003)

Experience
1. Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI: Principal Researcher (2004~)
2. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC): Assistant secretary (2023~)
3. University of Science and Technology: Professor (2013~)
4. Max-Planck-Institute: Post-doctoral fellow (2003~2004)
5. Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST): Researcher (1995~1998)

Research Interest
1. Oxide semiconductor device technology
2. OLED display and quantum light emitting materials
3. Neuromorphic devices

Education
1. BS: Korea University, Metallurgical Engineering (1995)
2. MS: Korea University, Processing Metallurgical Engineering (1997)
3. PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, Materials Science and Engineering (2003)

Experience
1. Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI: Principal Researcher (2004~)
2. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC): Assistant secretary (2023~)
3. University of Science and Technology: Professor (2013~)
4. Max-Planck-Institute: Post-doctoral fellow (2003~2004)
5. Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST): Researcher (1995~1998)

Research Interest
1. Oxide semiconductor device technology
2. OLED display and quantum light emitting materials
3. Neuromorphic devices

Tianxiang Nan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, USA, in 2015. His research interest is on Beyond-CMOS technology including microsystems and spintronics. He was named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in China. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles. He is currently an Associate Professor in School of Integrated Circuits at Tsinghua University. Prior to joining Tsinghua University, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2015 to 2018, and with the Cornell University, from 2018 to 2019.

Ambrose Seo, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kentucky, is an expert in physical vapor deposition techniques such as pulsed laser deposition, magnetron sputtering, and thermal evaporation. His research group has pioneered advanced spectroscopic tools for studying the atomic-scale multilayers and heterostructures of various oxides. He has been the PI of projects for quantum materials with strongly correlated, spin-orbit-coupled electrons.

Lianfeng Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. He received his B.E. from Xidian University in 2012, M.S. from Tsinghua University in 2014, and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2019. His research focuses on emerging electronic, photonic, and energy materials and devices.

Lingfei Wang is a professor at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, China. He received his Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013. From 2013 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at tKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University. In 2020, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China as a full professor. His research interests are focused on exploring emergent interfacial phenomena at the interfaces of correlated oxide heterostructures and developing oxide-based functional devices.

Shun Watanabe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Science at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in materials science from Nagoya University in 2011, then carried out postdoctoral research on charge and spin transport physics in organic semiconductors at the University of Cambridge. In 2016, he started his independent research career at the University of Tokyo as principal investigator. His research focuses on materials science in solution-processable organic semiconductors and condensed matter physics, with the goal of potential applications in printable optoelectronic devices.

Tae-Hee Han is an associate professor in Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea. He received his B.S. (February 2010) and Ph.D. (February 2015) in Materials Science and Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Yang Yang`s group in University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (2017-2019). His research focuses on organic and organic/ inorganic hybrid materials for optoelectronic applications, such as photovoltaic cells, and light-emitting diodes.

She is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where she is the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials.

She is an expert in the development of theoretical and computational methods to predict and engineer material and molecular properties using quantum simulations.

She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society (APS).

Her recognitions include the MRS Theory Award, the David Adler Award and Aneesur Rahman Prize from the APS, the Feynman Nanotechnology Prize in Theory, and the Tomassoni-Chisesi award from La Sapienza University in Italy.

Bagneux from 1995 to 2001, head of the Nanophysics and Semiconductors CEA-CNRS team in Grenoble from 2001 to 2005, and Head of SP2M then PHELIQS laboratories of CEA and University Grenoble Alpes from 2005 to 2019. From 1997 to 2009, he has also been Physics Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau. He has given pioneering contributions to the development of the synthesis of self-assembled InAs/GaAs QD by molecular beam epitaxy and to nanophotonics (single QD spectroscopy, cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments with QDs, QD single photon sources). His present research aims at developing advanced optoelectronic devices for quantum photonics including widely tunable III-V QD single photon sources, and devices for integrated quantum photonics on SOI, such as waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and single photon sources based on isolated color centers in Si. He has published around 370 papers indexed on the Web of Science (>15000 citations, H=61), presented more than 150 invited talks at international conferences and schools, and has registered 18 patents. He has been awarded the “Great Prize founded by the State” from French Academy of Sciences in 2005, the “Quantum Device Award” founded by Eudyna Corp (Japan) in 2008, and the Leon Brillouin great Prize from the French Optical Society in 2016.

Dongyeon Daniel Kang earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University in Japan and later completed his Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Engineering in 2018. His academic journey led him through diverse roles in Prof. Susumu Noda's laboratory, from an undergraduate to a graduate student and then a postdoctoral researcher. His focus was on developing photonic crystal optical/optoelectronic devices for thermal emission control and optical cavity enhancement. Following his postdoctoral work at the Institute for Quantum Computing and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, he joined Samsung Electronics, contributing to the development of nano-scale CMOS image sensors. Presently, as a senior researcher at the Center for Quantum Information in Korea Institute of Science and Technology, he delves into the study of spin-photon interfaces with NV centers in diamond.

Je-Hyung Kim received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, in 2014. He was a postdoc researcher at the University of Maryland from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017, he has joined the Department of Physics at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and is now an associate professor at UNIST and a visiting fellow in JILA at CU Boulder. Major research topics of his group are fundamental studies of quantum light-matter interactions based on solid-state quantum emitters and their applications to quantum information technologies.

Wonjin Jang is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Hybrid Quantum Circuits laboratory (HQC, Prof. Pasquale Scarlino) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2017 and 2023, respectively. During his Ph.D., he focused on the coherent manipulation of multi-electron and nuclear spins in semiconductor quantum dot (QD) systems at the Integrated Quantum Systems Laboratory (IQSL, Prof. Dohun Kim). As a postdoctoral researcher in HQC, Wonjin is now focusing on demonstrating coherent QD–photon interfaces in superconductor–semiconductor hybrid architectures for quantum information and quantum optics applications

CAREER

2023 - Current
Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Korea, Republic of
Assistant Professor

2019 - 2023
Mokpo National University, Department of Semiconductor & Applied Physics, Korea, Republic of
Assistant Professor

2015 - 2019
National Graphene Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, UK
Research associate

EDUCATION

2008 - 2014
University of Cambridge, UK
Ph.D. in Physics (admitted to the degree of PhD on 24 JANUARY 2015) Thesis: “Electron transport by Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) in an undoped system”: A potential single-photon source with a GHz range

1999 - 2006
Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
B.S. in Physics
(Course of study was prolonged to accommodate two years of military service)

RESEARCH

2023 - Current
Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Korea, Republic of

Project: Quantum Acoustics
• Quantum transducer for generation of single photon source
• Application of single photon source: quantum cryptography
• Producing piezoelectric single crystals of 2D materials

2019 - 2023
Mokpo National University, Department of Physics, Korea, Republic of

Project: Nanoelectronics with 2D materials
• Optoelectronics for light emission semiconductor devices
• Device development based on ABC graphite for a band gap engineering
• Advanced nanofabrication with 2D materials and III-V compound semiconductor

2015 - 2019
National Graphene Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, UK
Research associate (Advisor: Dr. Artem Mishchenko and Prof. Kostantin Novoselov, Novel Prize winner in 2010)

Project: Electrical and optical characterisation of 2D crystals and van der Waals materials.
• Optoelectronics for ultrafast light emission devices (graphene light bulb)
• Device optimization for basic properties of ABC graphite films

2014 - 2015
Research associate (Advisor: Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi and Prof. Kostantin Novoselov, Novel Prize winner in 2010)

Project: Raman spectroscopy for graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) heterostructures.
• Black phosphorus field-effect transistor devices
• Emergence of Superlattice Dirac points in graphene aligned with h-BN
• Monitoring dopants by Raman spectroscopy in an electrostatically back- gated graphene/h-BN transistor
• Bio compatible 2D crystal Ink-jet printed heterostructures

2008 - 2014
Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
PhD candidate (Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Chris Ford)

Project: Surface acoustic wave (SAW)-driven luminescence from a lateral n-p junction in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well
• Optimization of piezoelectric property for enhanced SAW pumping
• Fabrication of SAW-driven single-electron devices comprising quasi-one-d imensional channels and n-p junctions
• Electrical measurement of SAW devices at 4K and 300mK

Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI received his B.S., M.S. in physics and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Osaka University in 1984, 1986, and 1993, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1986 and has been engaged in the study of compound semiconductor surfaces using electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy. His current interests are micro/nanomechanical devices using semiconductor heterostructures. He was a visiting research fellow in Imperial College, University of London, U.K. during 1995-1996 and a visiting research staff in Paul Drude Institute, Germany in 2003. He is a guest professor in Tohoku University from 2006 and a director of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) in 2008 and 2009. He served as more than 40 committee members of academic societies and international conferences. He was appointed as Senior Distinguished Scientist of NTT since 2011. He is currently an executive manager of Quantum and Nano Device Research. He received the Paper Awards of Japan Society of Applied Physics in 1989, 2004, and 2010, MNC2008 Outstanding Paper Award in 2009, SSDM2009 Paper Award in 2010, Inoue Prize for Science in 2012, Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT in 2013, and ISCS Quantum Device Award in 2018. He was made a Fellowship of Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2011 and JSAP in 2013.He is a member of JSAP, the Physical Society of Japan, Institute of Physics (IOP), American Physical Society (APS), and IEEE.

Jin-Shi Xu received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2009 and won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is currently a full professor and doctoral supervisor at USTC. His research focuses on experimental studies in quantum information and quantum physics based on optical and solid-state spin systems. He has been supported by the National Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Youth. His work has been published in international renowned journals such as Nature Materials, Science Advances, and Physical Review Letters. Jin-Shi Xu’s research has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award. He also serves as Secretary-General of the Optical Quantum Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Optical Society, editorial board member of Journal of 《Science China：Information Sciences》and Quantum Frontiers.

June 86- Feb. 89 Ph. D. student at Max-Planck-Institut for solid state research, Stuttgart, Germany

March 89 - March 91 Postdoc at the University of California in Santa Barbara

April 91 -Sept. 95 University Assistant at the Physics Department of the University of Munich, Germany

since October 1995 Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2011-2022 Director of National Center for Competence in Research on “Quantum Science and Technology”

Pasquale Scarlino earned his master’s degree in physics from the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy) in February 2011. Subsequently, he completed his Ph.D. in February 2016 at the Quantum Transport Group at TU Delft, working under the supervision of Prof. L.M.K. Vandersypen. During this time, he led the Si/SiGe spin qubits project in collaboration with the M. Eriksson Group at the University of Wisconsin. After completing his Ph.D., Pasquale Scarlino pursued post-doctoral research in Prof. A. Wallraff's Quantum Device Lab at ETH Zurich. During this period, he collaborated with the groups of Prof. K. Ensslin and Prof. T. Ihn, focusing on the integration of semiconductor and superconductor technologies. From June 2019 to September 2020, he held the position of Senior Researcher at Microsoft Station Q Copenhagen and the Center for Quantum Devices in Copenhagen. Since November 2020, Pasquale Scarlino has been serving as a tenure track Assistant Professor of Physics in the School of Basic Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In this role, he established the Hybrid Quantum Circuit (HQC) laboratory. His research endeavors at HQC are dedicated to advancing the field of superconducting-semiconducting hybrid quantum technology.

Hermann Sellier graduated from the Ecole Nomale Supérieure in Lyon (France) in 1999 and completed his PhD in 2002 on mesoscopic superconductivity and in particular on ferromagnetic Josephson pi-junctions. He then went to the Kavli Institute of Nanosciences at the University of Delft (The Netherlands) for a postdoctoral research work on quantum dots in silicon nanowires and in particular on single-electron transport through individual dopant atoms. In 2005 he got a permanent position as assistant professor at the University of Grenoble and researcher at the Néel Institute in the team Quantum NanoElectronics and Spectroscopy where he is still working today. Hermann Sellier is an expert of quantum transport in semiconductor and graphene devices, using both electronic transport and scanning gate microscopy at very low temperature. Since 2021 he also participates to a research project on electron flying qubits and gained expertise on the ultra-fast control of quantum devices using pulses and surface acoustic waves.

Dr Trong Toan Tran is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and a Fellow at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, UTS. He is a physicist and engineer with a background in Material Science and Chemical Engineering. He leads the Nanoscale Electro-Thermo-Optical laboratory (NETO) at UTS Tech Lab (www.tttranlab.com). His research interest includes quantum optics, nanophotonics, solid-state physics, thermometry and nanofabrication. Currently, Dr. Tran actively researches novel quantum light sources and their integration into optical architectures to form high-performance and robust on-chip platforms, as well as their applications in thermal distribution in electronic circuits, nanoscale sensing, and advanced photonic technologies. His research has been followed by hundreds of international research groups world wide. His work has opened up an avenue towards the fabrication of ultra-thin quantum optical devices that can be employed for a range of advanced quantum technologies and metrologies. He has also been focusing on nanoscale sensing recently and has published several breakthroughs in this field of research. In recognition of his work, Dr. Tran has been given several prestigious prizes and awards, including the 2022 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018), UTS Chancellor's Award for best thesis (2018), AIP Award for Postgraduate Excellence in Physics (2017), Best Poster Award at ICONN (2016), etc. As of Oct 2023, Dr Tran's track record features an h-index of 29 and a total citations of over 4700. He has also attracted close to $1.5M in research income, thanks to his DECRA and CPDRF fellowship as well as other small fundings.

Andrey Chaves is currently Professor at the Department of Physics of Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in Brazil. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees at UFC, and his PhD degree in a joint program involving UFC and University of Antwerp, in Belgium. He was Visiting Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry of Columbia University (2015-2016) and is currently Visiting Scholar at University of Antwerp. He was an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021) and is currently member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Applied Physics. His research interests include theory for electronic transport and light-matter interactions in two-dimensional semiconductors and low dimensional structures, as well as for superconductivity and collective phenomena in strongly correlated systems.

EL HADJ DOGHECHE is Professor of Microelectronics & Nanotechnology Engineering, he has been awarded BSc degree (Electronics Engineering) in 1988 from University of Lille. He received the MSc degree in Microelectronics and Microwave Engineering from the University of Lille and the PhD in 1993 from University of Lille @ Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN CNRS). He is specializing in micro & nanotechnology including Physics and Materials @ IEMN, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes, France. His research activities are focused on functional materials for technologies and nanotechnology-based sensors. He is currently developing a new generation of technologies dedicated to IoT based systems for transportation and healthcare including LiFi lighting and energy harvesting in collaboration with several foreign partners in Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, China, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. He is Adjunct Professor at Institute of Technology Bandung, Montreal (2021-2025). In addition, he is passionate about the sustainable development, mainly the investigation of future technologies dedicated to electronic wastes recycling and valorization in society.

Dr. E. H. Yang is a Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Yang received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ajou University in Korea. After postdoctoral work at the University of Tokyo and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he began his tenure as a Senior Member of the Engineering Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Yang led several projects funded by NASA, DARPA, and NRO before joining Stevens in 2006. At JPL, he managed and monitored several NASA SBIR projects and participated in the review committee for developing NASA's Multi-Object Spectrometer for James Webb Space Telescope. He secured over forty federal grants and contracts totaling approximately $11M, including the NSF, AFOSR, NRO, and US Army funding. He is an AE/EB of Scientific Reports, Micromachines, and IEEE Sensors Journal. Dr. Yang has published over three hundred fifty journal and conference papers and has been invited to give over a hundred keynote/invited talks at conferences, workshops, and university seminars. He was a featured Track Plenary Speaker at ASME IMECE in 2018. He was awarded, among other honors, the Lew Allen Award for Excellence at JPL in 2003, the Award for Research Excellence at Stevens in 2019 and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (Advanced Career) from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2020. He is IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2025) and IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Chapter Chair (North Jersey Section). Dr. Yang is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received Master of Engineering, Honoris Causa, from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2023.

JaeDong Lee is a professor in the department of Physics and Chemistry of DGIST. He has received B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. degrees in the department of physics of POSTECH. Currently, his main research interests are in the theoretical description of electron dynamics in the low-dimensional materials and other correlated materials

Dr. Jeongwoo Kim received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from POSTECH. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Irvine and joined UNIST as a research professor. He is now working as an assistant professor at Incheon National University. His research focuses on the theoretical study of topological materials and emergent quantum phenomena using state-of-the-art first principles calculations. Recently, Dr. Kim has been working on the Berry curvature physics and its related photovoltaic responses.

Major Activities
1994 Ph.D., Department of Physics, Ohio State University, OH., U.S.A.
1994 – 1995 Postdoc, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, OH., U.S.A.
1995 – present Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University
2001, 2012 Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, OH., U.S.A.
2007 – 2012 Director of National Research Lab (NRL) for Hybrid Nanostructures
2008 – 2016 Regional Editor of Synthetic Metals
2015-present Fellow, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

Honors or Awards
2006 Hyundai-KIA Chaired Professor in Natural Science
2008 National R&D 100 Excellent Research Award (KISTEP)
2008 National Research Award (Korea Research Foundation)

Research Interests
- Nanoscale optical and electrical properties of organic hybrid nanostructures
- Photoresponsive nano-devices using organic hybrid nanostructures
- Plasmonics and nanophotonics of hybrid nanostructures
- Charge transport of conducting polymers
- Electromagnetic interference shielding

Professor Kyung-Hwan Jin is an assistant professor in department of Physics at Jeonbuk National University from 2024. He received his B.S. degree in department of Physics at Chung-Ang University in 2008; and the Ph.D. in department of Physics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2014. After the postdoctoral research associate in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah, USA, Kyung-Hwan joined as a Young Scientist Fellow in Institute for Basic Science (Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Pohang) until 2024. Feb. His research interests include exploring the topological properties of low-dimensional materials and their computational applications using density functional theory.

Soyeun Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry in DGIST, South Korea (2024~). She got her Ph. D. in Department of Physics and Astronomy in Seoul National University in 2019 on optical spectroscopy in strongly correlated materials. She stayed at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral researcher (2020-2022) working on time-resolved ARPES and THz spectroscopy, and at SLAC Natl. lab (2022-2024) working on time-resolved x-ray diffraction. Her current research focuses on the ultrafast spectroscopy in the strongly correlated materials.

SangWook Lee is a professor in the Department of Physics at Ewha Womans University, conducting research in the fields of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems. He obtained his doctoral degree at Seoul National University in 2005 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden until 2007. From 2008 to August 2016, he served as an assistant professor and associate professor in the Department of Physics at Konkuk University, and since September 2016, he has been serving as a professor in the Department of Physics at Ewha Womans University.
He has received several awards, including the POSCO Cheong-am Science Fellowship in 2010, recognition as a frontier scientist in Korea by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) in 2012, the Applied Physics Achievement Award from the Korean Physical Society (KPS) in 2016, recognition as a YKAST member of the KAST in 2017, and commendation from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2022.
SangWook Lee has served as the Editor of Current Applied Physics (2013-2016) and Executive Editor (2019-2020), vice-secretary of the KPS (2015-2016) and as the chair of the Korean NEMS society (2015-2017).

Seokjoon Yun received B.S. (2012) in Material Science and Engineering and Ph.D. (2018) in Department of Energy Science from Sungkyunkwan University under guidance of professor Young Hee Lee. He was a postdoctoral researcher at IBS Center for integrated nanostructure physics (2018~2022) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2022~2023). He is currently assistant professor in department of semiconductor at Ulsan university. He has been mainly working on the large-area synthesis and property engineering of two-dimensional semiconductor materials using chemical vapor deposition technique

Prof. Thuc Hue Ly (李淑惠) obtained her Ph.D. degree in the department of Energy Science from Sungkyunkwan University under the supervision of Prof. Young Hee Lee, where she was working on 2D materials in 2015. In 2015 -2017, she worked as a research fellow in Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science. She joined City University of Hong Kong in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Her main research area is two-dimensional (2D) materials. She has synthesized a variety of 2D materials through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods, studied the grain boundary (GB) structures, their electrical property, the interfacial strains between 2D materials and substrates which are critical to applications. Recently, her group has proposed a contamination-free method for transferring 2D materials to and from different substrates. Our ice-aided transfer/stamping method fundamentally solves the contamination issue that has perplexed the scientific community for over a decade. These previous relevant research works have been published in renowned journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature communications, Science Advances, Chemical Reviews, JACS, etc., with Prof. Ly as the first/corresponding authors. She received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Award and was nominated as Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials in 2022.

Heesuk Rho has been a faculty member at Jeonbuk National University since 2002. His academic journey includes obtaining a PhD in Physics from the University of Cincinnati, followed by a two-year postdoctoral position in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge, his research efforts aim to explore the optical properties of two-dimensional layered materials and electronic devices. Currently, his primary focus lies in unraveling the intricacies of light-matter interaction in two-dimensional structures, spanning both micro and nanoscales. To achieve this, he employs cutting-edge techniques such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and in operando transport-optical imaging spectroscopy.

Woojoo Lee received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021 and later he moved to the University of Chicago for his postdoc position. Currently He is a staff scientist at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) since 2023. He utilizes advanced experimental techniques like ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy, molecular beam epitaxy and 2D materials fabrication methods to explore and manipulate novel quantum materials in a desired way.

Yara Galvão Gobato obtained her undergraduate and master degree at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She went to École Normale Supérieure (Paris-France) and was awarded the PhD degree in 1993. She is associate professor at Physics Department at Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR). She has over 30 years of experience in electrical, optical and magneto-optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures. In the last years, performed several studies in optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures under high magnetic fields. Recently, she focused her projects on the impact of strain, doping and magnetic proximity effects on valley and exciton properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Her particular speciality is the physics of semiconductor materials/heterostructures for possible applications in optoelectronics, spintronics and quantum technology.

• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2023~)
• MRS Fellow (2009~)
• University Distinguished Professor (2023~)
• Research Leadership Award (2021)
• MRS Medal Award (2006)
• The Best Patent of the year, SAMUNG SAIT (2002)

Young-Gui Yoon is a Full Professor of Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Yoon received his Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley, USA in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Steven G. Louie. After one and half-years postdoctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Roberto Car at Princeton University, USA, he joined the current position in 2003. Dr. Yoon’s current research interests include first-principles structural/transport properties of 2D materials and molecular dynamics simulations.

Daewoong Kwon received Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 2017. He had designed nand flash memory devices from 2005 to 2014 at Samsung Electronics, Korea. He was with University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 2017, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow/research scientist and with Intel, USA, as a senior engineer in 2019. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electric Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electric Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

Akihito Sawa received B.E., M.E. degrees, and PhD from University of Tsukuba in 1989, 1991, and 2001, respectively. In 1991, he joined Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) as a research scientist. In 2001, ETL became National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) due to organizational change. At present, he is a director of Research Institute of Advanced Electronics and Photonics and Device Technology Research Institute, AIST. His current research focuses on oxide electronics and photonics, including resistive switching memories and neuromorphic devices.

Jen-Sue Chen received her Ph. D. in Materials Science from California Institute of Technology, USA, in 1995, and joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 1996. Her research interest focuses on the exploration of electronic/photonic operation mechanisms in microelectronic devices, including memristors, thin film phototransistors, synaptic and neuronal devices for neuromorphic computation application. Her career profile is included in the book “Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles” authored by Lynnette D. Madsen (The American Ceramic Society and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., January 2016).

J. Joshua Yang is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interest is Post-CMOS hardware for neuromorphic computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, where he published several pioneering papers and holds 120 US Patents. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Neuromorphic Computing Technical Committee and the director of Air Force Center of Excellence on Neuromorphic Computing Under Extreme Environments. He serves on the Advisory Boards of a number of prime international journals and conferences, including serving as an associate editor of Science Advances. Dr. Yang is a Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field and the Top Best Scientists in the Research.com list in the Electronics and Electrical Engineering category. He was elected to the IEEE Fellow and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow for his contributions to resistive switching materials and devices for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing.

Dr. Kah-Wee ANG is a tenured Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Director of Microelectronic Technologies & Devices at the National University of Singapore. Concurrently, he is also a Deputy Director of E6 Nanofab, and holds a joint appointment as Principal Scientist with the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR. He serves as an Associate Editor of Nano Select (WILEY) and Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal of Nature Research. His research interests focus on nano-electronics and nano-photonics technologies. He has authored over 200 journal and conference papers, including 45 invited/keynote talks, 10 US patents, and 4 book chapters. He was conferred the President's Technology Award, the highest national honor bestowed on exceptional research scientists and engineers for their excellent achievements in science and technology. He received the IEEE Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and the Best Demo Paper at the 2019 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits. He is also a recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Fellowship Award and the inaugural TSMC Outstanding Research Gold Award.

Seungmo Yang is a Senior Researcher at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). In 2019, he received his Ph. D. in Physics from Hanyang University in 2019. His research interests are topological spin textures and their dynamics, spintronics devices for neuromorphic computing, and quantum magnetic materials.

Tae-Sik Yoon, Ph.D. is a professor and department head of Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering & Department of Semiconductor Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. Before joining UNIST, he was a professor in Myongji University from 2007 to 2020. After he received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Korea, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Seoul National University and UCLA. Then, he worked for Samsung Electronics as a senior research to develop NAND flash memory. He has published around 130 journal papers and 15 patents. He was awarded a ministerial commendation from Ministry of Science and ICT for the contribution to semiconductor technology development at 2020. His major research interests include non-volatile memory and neuromorphic devices.

Gabriele Grosso is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Advanced Science Research Center and at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
He received his BS and MS in Physics from the University of Padova in 2007 and 2010, respectively. During his Master, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California San Diego. In 2014, he completed his Ph.D. in physics for his work on polariton quantum fluids at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He then joined the Quantum Photonics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoc. Gabriele was a fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2017, and the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2021. His current research focuses on quantum technologies based on light-matter interactions in two-dimensional van der Waals materials and other quantum confined systems.

Prof. Run HU works at School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. He received Bachelor degree and Ph.D. degree from HUST in 2010 and 2015, respectively. From Nov. 2014 to Apr. 2015, he visited Purdue University as a Visiting Scholar. From Nov. 2016 to Nov. 2017, he was a JSPS postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo. In December 2023, he became a professor in HUST. He has published 90 SCI journal papers including Nature Communications、Science Advances、Advanced Materials、Advanced Energy Materials、Physical Reivew X、Nano Energy、ACS Nano, and co-authored 2 book chapters and 10 granted Chinese patents. He won the Second Prize of Natural Science and Technology in Hubei Province, Outstanding Young Scholar Founding in Hubei Province, Top 10 Young Scholar in HUST. His major interests include thermal metamaterials and devices, high-power LED packaging, thermal management for electronics, etc.

Hyeon-Ho Jeong has been an Assistant Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), in the Republic of Korea since 2020. He received his BEng (2010) and MEng (2011) in Electrical Engineering from Dankook University, Republic of Korea. Then, he moved to Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany with a fully-funded Ph.D. fellowship and received his Ph.D. (2017) from the joint program, Max-Planck-EPFL Centre for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology. Starting in 2018, he spent about 1.5 years as a Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. His broad research interests include 3D nanofabrication, micro and nanorobotics, chirality, plasmonics, and metamaterials.

I. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- 2022.03–current: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
- 2020.12–2022.02: Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea
- 2020.09–2020.12: Post-doctor, Center for Subwavelength Nanowire Photonic Devices, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

* Advisor: Prof. Hong-Gyu Park
- 2018.08–2020.08: Post-doctor, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, SUPA, Heriot- Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

* Advisor: Prof. B. D. Gerardot
- 2016.09–2018.07: Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics
- 2008.02–2016.08: Ph. D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

* Advisor: Prof. Gyu-Chul Yi (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
- 2004.03–2008.02: B.S., Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Prof. Evan S. Hyunkoo Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Chungbuk National University in Korea. He obtained his BSc (2007) and PhD (2014) in Physics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research positions at KAIST (2014-2015), Technical University Darmstadt in Germany (2015-2016), and the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) at Linköping University in Sweden (2016-2020). His current research group is dedicated to exploring hybrid organic electronics and nanophotonics, covering a wide spectrum from strong light-matter coupling to organic nanoantennas and metasurfaces

Hyowon Moon received his B.S. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and M.S. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2021. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Opto-Electronic Materials and Devices in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and an Assistant Professor at the Division of Nanoscience and Technology in University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul, Korea. His research interests include the optical fiber sensors, quantum photonics with two-dimensional materials, and optoelectronic devices.

Hyowon Moon received his B.S. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and M.S. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2021. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Opto-Electronic Materials and Devices in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and an Assistant Professor at the Division of Nanoscience and Technology in University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul, Korea. His research interests include the optical fiber sensors, quantum photonics with two-dimensional materials, and optoelectronic devices.

Jun Nishida is an assistant professor at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado Boulder as a JSPS overseas fellow, before he joined the IMS as a faculty. His research has focused on elucidating the roles of spatial confinements in nanomaterials, applying highly sensitive infrared spectroscopy at the ultrafast time scale and the nanoscale length scale.

Junghoon Jahng received his Ph. D in Physics and Astronomy from University of California, Irvine. Currently, he works as a Principal Research Scientist at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science. His research focuses on nano-femto scale physics via force detection technique.

Sangyoon Han is an assistant professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Seoul National University in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the physics department, KAIST, Korea. His research interests include silicon photonics, non-linear optics, MEMS, heterogeneous integration, and LiDAR. He has authored and co-authored over 30 papers in leading technical journals and conferences including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Optica, and Physical Review Letters.

Satoshi Ishii obtained his PhD degree at Purdue University in the USA in 2012. Since 2014, he has been working at National Institute for Materials Science as a tenured staff, and in 2023 he was promoted to Team Leader. His research fields are nanophotonics, photonic materials and thermal radiation. His recent research topics include hot carrier engineering with transition metal nitrides and daytime radiative cooling.

Satoshi Iwamoto is a professor at the Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) and the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is serving as Deputy Director of RCAST, and Deputy Director General of the Division of University Corporate Relations in the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in 2002 in applied physics from the University of Tokyo. In his PhD work, he studied photorefractive effects in semiconductor quantum wells. After he joined the University of Tokyo as a research associate in 2002, he started research on photonic nanostructures. His current research interests include topological photonics, singular optics, light-matter interaction in photonic nanostructures, wide-gap-material nanophotonics, and fabrication of photonic nanostructures. He received the Young Scientist Presentation Award from the Japanese Society of Applied Physics (2000), the Young Scientists’ Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (2012), the 45th Laser Society of Japan/Distinguished Paper Award (Review Paper Section) (2021), DoCoMo Mobile Science Award (2022), and Electronics Society Award (2023). He also won the Best Paper Awards in several international conferences. He is a Fellow of OPTICA.

Vasily Kravtsov has graduated from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and received a PhD degree in Physics from University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) in 2017. He has worked as a research assistant at the Physics Department of CU Boulder and Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), focusing on experimental research in near-field optics, nanotechnology, and femtosecond laser pulses. In 2018 Vasily joined ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) as a leading research fellow. Currently, Vasily is an assistant professor and group leader at the School of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University. His research interests include two-dimensional quantum materials, ultrafast spectroscopy, and nonlinear nano-optics.

Professional Experience
Mar. 2021 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University
Mar. 2017 – Feb. 2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University

Academic Training
Mar. 2014 – Feb.2017 Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Advisor: Prof. Charles M. Lieber
Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2014 M. S. & Ph. D., Department of Physics, Korea University
Advisor: Prof. Hong-Gyu Park
Mar. 2001 – Feb. 2008 B. S., Department of Physics, Korea University

Research Interest
■ Low-dimensional optical nanomaterials and nanostructures.
■ Optical phenomena based on light-matter interaction at nanoscale
■ Nanoscale light sources and heterogeneous/hybrid integration

Akinori Saeki is currently a professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (2019–present). He received BS and MS degrees in nuclear engineering from Osaka University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received Dr of engineering in applied chemistry from Osaka University in 2007. He had been an assistant professor at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University in 2003-2009, an assistant professor (tenure-track) in 2010–2014, and an associate professor in 2014-2019 at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He had joined in JST-PRESTO research programs of “Photoenergy conversion systems and materials for the next generation solar cells” in 2009–2013 and “Materials Informatics” in 2015–2019. His research interest is in nanometer-scale dynamics of chemical intermediates in condensed matters such as organic semiconductors, organic liquids, and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.

Atsushi Wakamiya is Professor at Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2003. He began his academic career at Nagoya University as Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2010, he moved to Kyoto University and was promoted to Professor in 2018. He also works as Assistant Executive Director of Kyoto University since 2023. He received many awards: The Nozoe Memorial Award for Young Organic Chemists in 2015, the Innovative PV Award (2016), The KCS Award in Chemical Technology (2018), The 4Th Yoshida Prize Symposium, Distinguished Lecturer (2019), The 19th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award (GSC Award) by MEXT Japan (2020), 53rd Ichimura Prize in Science against Global Warming for Distinguished Achievement (2021), The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2020), Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT Japan: Award for Science and Technology Research Category (2022), etc. He is a project leader of the Green Innovation Program (NEDO) and JST-Mirai Project. He is a co-founder and a director (as Chief Scientific Officer, CSO) of “EneCoat Technologies, Co. Ltd.”, a startup company for perovskite solar modules. He published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 60 patent applications. He received H-index of 60. His research interests include physical organic chemistry and materials chemistry.

Byungha Shin is Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and Director of Global Leadership Center at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea. Prof. Shin received B.S. in MSE from Seoul National University in 2000, M.S. in MSE from the University of Michigan in July 2002, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2007. From May 2007 to March 2010, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of MSE at Stanford University. From May 2010 until he joined KAIST in Feb 2014, he worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a post-doctoral researcher and a Research Staff Member. He also spent seven months from Aug 2018 to Feb 2019 as a visiting Professor at Columbia University.

His past research experience includes the study of thin film growth kinetics and high-k dielectric materials for microelectronic applications. His current primary research interest is developing novel materials for energy applications with the current emphasis on hybrid perovskite optoelectronic devices (PV, LED, and radiation-detector), chalcogenide thin film solar cells, and photoelectrochemical water splitting and electrochemical nitrogen reduction.

He has published over 110 SCI journal papers, including Science (2020) and Nature (2019), and he has given over 100 invited talks at various academic institutes and international conferences. He was a recipient of “Scientist of the Month” and “100 Outstanding Research Achievements”, both by Ministry of Science and ICT of Korean Government in 2021, “The 2020 KASTian of the Year Award” by KAIST in 2020, and “KAIST’s Top 10 Research Achievements of 2019” by KAIST in 2019.

Hanul Min is an Assistant Professor at the KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology and Department of Integrative Energy Engineering, Korea University. He completed his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Sang Il Seok, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Prof. Min served as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, USA, from 2021 to 2022, and a senior researcher at Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), from 2022 to 2023. His research focuses on highly efficient perovskite solar cells and perovskite semiconductor materials. He has received various awards, including the Fung Global Fellowship at Princeton University (2021), the UNIST Yebong Award (2022), and the MIT TR35 Asia Pacific (2023), in recognition of his contributions to the field of perovskite solar cells.

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Jianfeng Lu is a full professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology working on porphyrin synthesis and dye sensitized solar cells. Subsequently he worked 4 years as postdoc at Monash University, Australia. In 2019, he returned to Wuhan University of Technology to establish his own research group. He has published 90 peer-reviewed papers. Prof. Lu has a strong background in the area of emerging photovoltaics and organic material synthesis. He is involved in fundamental and applied research in the area of perovskite solar cells and electrochromic devices.

Jin-Wook Lee is a SKKU Fellowship Professor at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) and Department of Nanoengineering at SKKU. He received his B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Energy Science from SKKU in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) before joining SKKU as an Assistant Professor in 2019. His research focuses on optoelectronic devices based on inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid crystals. He is author and co-author of 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers including Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Joule, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications. He received Young Scientist Award (2013) from E-MRS, 2021 POSCO Science Fellowship from POSCO TJ Park Foundation, 2022 top 10 Nanotechnologies from Korean government, 2022 Gyeonggi-do Young Scientist Award by Governor of Gyeonggi Province. He was selected as highly cited researchers (HCR, top 1% citation index) in 2021 and 2022 by Clarivate Analytics. He currently serves as an editorial advisory board member of ACS Energy Letters, J Phys Energy, Nano Research Energy.

Prof. Jingbi You, he got his PhD degree from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. And then he worked as postdoc at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He moved back to Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a full professor, now his research interests mainly in perovskite optoelectronic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes. He hold 3 world record efficiencies in perovskite solar cells, and he has published over than 100 papers including about 15 Science/Nature Series papers.

Tong Jinhui is a professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States. In the past 5 years, he has conducted scientific research on all-perovskite tandem solar cells and achieved a series of important results. (1) He has reported tin-lead narrow-bandgap perovskite with carrier lifetimes exceeding 1 microsecond and 9 microseconds (Science 2019, 364, 475-479; Nature Energy 2022, 7642-651), breaking through the bottleneck problem that restricts the performance improvement of tin-lead single-junction and all-perovskite tandem solar cells; (2) He has developed a new method for grain oriented growth of wide-bandgap perovskite, which significantly inhibits the phase segregation and achieved a 2-terminal all-perovskite tandem solar cell with an open circuit voltage of 2.2 V (Science 2022, 378, 1295-1300); (3) He reported a method to make over 25% efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells (Nature 2022, 611, 278-283). In the past 5 years, he has published 2 Science, 1 Nature, 1 Nature Energy and 1 Nature Photonics papers as the first or corresponding author.

Affiliation
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea

Education
1997 – 2004 B.S. POSTECH
2004 – 2006 M.S. POSTECH
2007 – 2012 Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Professional Career
2012. 09. – 2013. 08. Post-doctoral Scholar, UW-Madison
2013. 09. – 2018. 02. Assistant Professor, GIST
2018. 03. – 2021. 08. Associate Professor, GIST
2021. 09. – present Professor, GIST
2020. 07. – 2022.08. Review Board, National Research Foundation of Korea
2023. 07. – present Director, Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies, GIST

Seigo Ito received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (Japan) at 2000, with a thesis that was the first to discuss Grätzel-type dye-sensitized solar cells in Japan. He worked in the Laboratory of Professor Shozo Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan) for two years, and in the Laboratory of Professor Michael Grätzel, at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne as a postdoctoral scientist for over three years, where his efforts focused on the progress of high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. After his working in a Japanese industrial company (KYOCERA), he shifted to University of Hyogo as an Associate Professor. He is currently full professor at University of Hyogo from 2017, making new printable cost-effective solar cells (perovskite solar cells) and new catalysts for the hydrogen-fuel cells.

Yi Hou holds the position of Presidential Young Professor within the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In September 2020, he was appointed as the Head of the Perovskite-based Multijunction Solar Cell Group at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). His academic journey includes the completion of a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Following that, he pursued postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Throughout his career, Yi has enriched his knowledge and expertise through various visiting scholar experiences at renowned universities worldwide. These include the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, the Australian National University (ANU) in Australia, and Stanford University in the United States. Recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field, Yi was honored as one of the Innovators Under 35 (Asia Pacific) by MIT Tech Review. His notable achievements lie in the development of record-efficient perovskite-based tandem solar cells. In fact, the world record efficiency of a perovskite/organic tandem solar cell was acknowledged in the "Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 60/61)" in 2022. In addition, Yi’s research impact has been acknowledged by Clarivate Analytics, earning him a place in the list of Highly Cited Researchers in the Cross-Field category for 2022.

Céline Nayral is currently head of the “Nanostructures and Organometallic Chemistry” group (co-head LM. Lacroix) in the Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Nano-Objects – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (LPCNO-INSA) at the University of Toulouse. She develops projects at the interface between molecular chemistry and nano-objects science, to understand mechanisms involved in the nanocrystals synthesis, to control them and to move towards non toxic and performant materials in more durable processes. Relevant applications of her work cover different topics from gas sensing, catalysis, energy, astrophysics and biology. She published 3 patents and over 45 articles ranging from oxide nanoparticles used as gas sensor, to silicate nanomaterials for astrophysics and finally, with a focus these last years, on the synthesis of novel metal phosphide quantum dots.

Fabien Delpech is Director of the Institute of Chemistry of Toulouse and Professor in the Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Nano-Objects – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (LPCNO-INSA) at the University of Toulouse. His research interests focus on the development and the applications of more sustainable chemistry of colloidal nanocrystals. This includes the synthesis in soft conditions of nanomaterials incorporating non-toxic elements with a particular emphasis on the organometallic approach and the surface chemistry control. He published more than 70 papers dealing from topics ranging from the design of high energy organometallic complexes to the study of the optical of properties of quantum dots

Jaehoon Lim is a professor in the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He obtained his M.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in chemical engineering from Seoul National University, under the guidance of Prof. Kookheon Char and Prof. Seonghoon Lee. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center at Seoul National University (2013–2014) under the supervision of Prof. Changhee Lee, and later at the Chemistry Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (2014–2018) under the mentorship of Dr. Victor I. Klimov. From 2018 to 2020, he held the position of assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ajou University. His research primarily focuses on the development of nanomaterials, spectroscopic characterization, and their applications in groundbreaking optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and more.

Jooyoung Sung is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST (Korea, republic of). She received Ph.D. Degree in Physical Chemistry from Yonsei University (Republic of Korea) in 2016. After the first post-doctoral research experience at University of Oxford (2016–2017), she carried out second post-doctoral research at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (2017–2021). She joined DGIST from July, 2021 as an assistant professor. Her research interests are focused on revealing the hidden spatial dynamics of complex nanostructured semiconductors by utilizing various range of time and space-resolved spectroscopy techniques.

Dr. Kaifeng Wu obtained his B.S. degree in materials physics from University of Science and Technology of China (2010) and his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Emory University (2015). After his postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he moved to China to start his independent research in 2017. His current work focuses on the ultrafast spectroscopy of carrier and spin dynamics in low-dimensional optoelectronic materials, as well as relevant applications in quantum information and energy conversion technologies. He is the winner of the 2023 Xplorer Prize, 2022 Distinguished Lectureship Award by the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 Future of Chemical Physics Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society, 2020 Chinese Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists, 2019 Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award by the Chemical Physics journal, and 2018 Victor K. LaMer Award by the American Chemical Society. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of J. Phys. Chem. Lett. and ACS Energy Lett..

Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of Functional Inorganic Materials at ETH Zurich. He had completed doctoral studies at the University of Linz (Austria, 2004-2007) and postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011), he then joined ETH Zurich as a tenure-track professor and was tenured in 2017. The research activities of M. Kovalenko and his group focus on chemistry, physics and applications of inorganic solid-state materials and nanostructures. In particular, present research efforts concern: (i) the precision synthesis of highly luminescent perovskite nanocrystals; (ii) nanocrystal surface chemistry; (iii) nanocrystal self-assembly; (iv) exploration of novel semiconductor materials by solution- and solid-state synthesis; (iv) novel semiconductors for hard radiation detection; (iv) electrochemical energy storage. Many of these activities are strongly linked to industrial partners. He is also affiliated with Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology). To date, Maksym Kovalenko has published over 380 scientific articles, co-authored 3 book chapters, and is listed as an inventor on 14 patents. His h-index is 101 and he is Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. He has been the recipient of highly prestigious awards including an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018), ERC Starting Grant (2012), Ruzicka Preis (2013), Werner Prize (2016), Rössler Prize (2019) and Dan Maydan Prize (2021). He also serves as an associate editor of the Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Au.

Donghan Lee is the CEO of Bright Quantum Inc. in Korea. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the Department of Physics, Seoul National University. After receiving his doctorate in physics from Brown University, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories for three and a half years. For the next 31 years, he served as an assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor in the Department of Physics at Chungnam National University. His areas of interest include single photon sources, semiconductor physics, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensors.

Marco Califano did his undergraduate studies at the University of Trento (Italy) and obtained his PhD. from the University of Leeds, U.K. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Alex Zunger's Solid State Theory group, at the National Renewable Energy Lab. (Golden, CO, U.S.A.), and in the Nanoscale Theory Group, led by Prof. Tapash Chakraborty, at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada). In 2006 he was awarded a prestigious University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society, which he held at the University of Leeds, where he established his research group that specializes in computational modelling of semiconductor nanomaterials.

Prof. Nuri Oh is a scholar in Materials Science & Engineering, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Hanyang University in 2009 and 2007, respectively. Serving as an Assistant Professor at Hanyang University since March 2018, Prof. Oh previously held the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2018.

Fengjiao Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, and joined the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019 after the postdoctoral research in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include the fabrication, performance optimization and application innovation of organic bioelectronic devices.

Dr. Ki Jun Yu is an Associate Professor of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University. He obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, 2012, and 2015 respectively under the guidance of Prof. John A. Rogers. Subsequently, he pursued a postdoctoral training in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also under the guidance of Professor John A. Rogers. His research primarily focuses on developing soft electronics for biomedical applications. He has published 73 journal papers with an h-index of 43 and has accumulated more than 13,500 citations to date. In recognition of his research accomplishments, he received the Outstanding Achievement Professor Award (Research Category) from Yonsei University in 2023. Since 2019, he has held the position of Hwalchun Distinguished Professor and currently serves in that capacity. Also, he received Distinguished Teaching Awards for five consecutive years (2018~2022) in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as the Best Teaching Awards in the entire Engineering Departments for three consecutive years (2018~2020) at Yonsei University.

Naoji Matsuhisa is an Associate Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) in the University of Tokyo. His research interest is in stretchable electronic materials and devices for the application in next-generation wearable devices, and human-computer interfaces. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems in the University of Tokyo in 2017, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Stanford University in the U.S. In 2020, he joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Keio University as an Assistant Professor. In 2022, he became an Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) in the University of Tokyo. He is the recipient of >10 awards including MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in 2022 and PMI Future 50 in 2023.

Hea-Lim Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea. She received her B.S. in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea, in 2012, and her Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2018. Her research interests include bioinspired neuromorphic devices, organic transistors, and sensors.

Education and Training: PhD Material Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2015. Research and Professional Experience: Postdoc. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), 2015-2016; Postdoc. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2016-2017; Postdoc. Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), Stanford University/SLAC, 2017-2019; Scientific associate, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, BNL, 2019-present

Sunghoon Lee is a research scientist at RIKEN. He received the B.S. degree from the Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronic engineering, University of Tokyo, in 2011 and in 2017, respectively. He was a project assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Tokyo from 2020 to 2023. His research interests include organic electronics, soft electronics, and flexible electronics.

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Xiang Chen is currently a full Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He also serves as the Assistant Dean of the school and Deputy Director of the Institute of Nano-Optoelectronic Materials. Additionally, he leads a group on two-dimensional (2D) electronic materials and devices. His research areas include 2D semiconductor bioelectronic devices and high-mobility 2D P-type semiconductor materials. Prof. Chen has successfully presided over 7 major research projects funded by NSFC and so on, with a total research fund amounting to 4.3 million yuan. He has also participated in 6 national major research projects, securing a total research funding of 49.42 million yuan. Furthermore, he has published more than 40 SCI papers in renowned journals such as Nat. Commun., Adv Mater., accumulating over 2800 citations with an H-factor of 26. He has applied for 20 national invention patents in both China and South Korea, out of which 12 have been authorized so far. In addition to his academic achievements, Prof. Chen holds various social positions including Deputy Secretary-General of Jiangsu Provincial Materials Society, member of the Technical Committee at Beijing Branch of the International Information Display Society (SID), senior member of the Chinese Society for Micron and Nanotechnology, and senior consultant at Shandong Hanqi Technology Co., LTD.

Yeonsik Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea. Prior to joining Yonsei in 2022, he was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K99 Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–2022) in the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University. He obtained his BS (2009) and MS (2011) degrees from Yonsei University in materials science and engineering. He spent 2011–2015 as a senior researcher on the Advanced Materials Development Team at LG Chem. Ltd., South Korea. In 2019, he received a PhD degree in materials science and metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, UK, with support from the Cambridge Trust Scholarship.

Prof. Choi's Research Group (Bioelectronic Materials Lab) specializes in the development of bioresorbable materials and electronic devices for medical implants.

Dr. Sungjune Jung is an associate professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He received his PhD degree in Manufacturing Engineering from University of Cambridge in 2007 and subsequently joined the Cavendish Laboratory of University of Cambridge. Before his PhD, he worked for Samsung Electronics, Digital Printing Division for 3 years. He has been leading the bio-printing and printed electronics laboratory since he joined POSTECH in 2013. His research focuses on 3D bioprinting and biofabrication as well as flexible printed electronics and circuits

Hyunjoo Jenny Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and the KAIST Endowed Chair Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She received the B.S. degree and M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2012. Her research focuses on MEMS sensors and actuators for biomedical applications including neural interfaces, ultrasound transducers, epidermal electronics, and biosensors. She is the author of over 50 journal and conference papers and is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Korean Government's Minister of Science and ICT Award (2022), S-Oil Next-Generation Scientist Awards (2022), KAIST Technology Innovation Award (2021), and WEF Young Scientist Award (2017).

Dr. Hyungju Ahn is a team leader of Industry support team of the Industrial Science Support Center (ISSC) in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Korea. He received his B.S (2007), M.S (2009) and Ph. D. (2015) degree from Yonsei University, Korea. Since 2014, he has joined PAL as an beamline scientist for the 9A U-SAXS beamline. His research focuses on the structural analysis of organic material using X-ray scattering & diffraction technique.

Professor Do Kyoon Kim is currently leading the R&D in the field of digital twin, augmented reality, and virtual reality in the medical field at the AI Research Center at Samsung Seoul Hospital. Before joining Samsung Seoul Hospital, at Samsung electronics he led the R&D of 3D video creation and compression from 1995 to 1997, 3D graphics compression and realistic rendering from 1998 to 2002, the world first 3D (Color image + Depth image) image sensing technology and the adoption of digital 3D image international standard technology (MPEG) from 2003 to 2012, realistic virtual cloth fitting, real-time fluid simulation technology from 2013 to 2015, and the glasses-type AR HW, real-time/low-power AR SW technology, ultra-thin VR HMD, 360-degree video recording HW, and 360-degree VR video creation technology from 2016 to 2020.

During this period, he developed a total of 150 core technologies, registered a total of 390 patents, and established a total of 57 international standard technologies through international technology standardization activities (MPEG). In addition, a total of 88 technologies have been commercialized, including “Bixby Vision” in Samsung Galaxy phone and Samsung GearVR 360 camera. In recognition of these contributions, he won the 2019, 2018 Samsung Electronics Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 Samsung Electronics Paper Award, the 2012 Ministry of Knowledge Economy Korea Achievement Award, 2012 SID Society Distinguished Paper Award, and the 2005 Samsung Electronics Technology CEO Award. And he was designated as a 2009 Samsung Electronics Top Expert (Research Master) in AR/VR, Computer Vision, and 3D Graphics, a 2010 honorary doctorate from Samsung Electronics and a 2015 vice president and research executive.

Solution Lead, AI and Machine Learning, APAC,
Quantum AI Practice Specialist, APAC,
Quantum AI Practice Lead, Korea,
Google Cloud

Dr. Jincheol Kim is currently working as Solution Lead, AI and Machine Learning in APAC providing advanced technical consulting and advisory services on cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies of Google for customers in various industries in APAC. Dr. Kim is also working as Quantum AI Practice Specialist, APAC, specializing in quantum computing and quantum machine learning technologies of Google and providing consulting and advisory on how to leverage quantum computing and quantum AI for solving business problems. Dr. Kim is also leading the Korea Market of Quantum Computing and AI technologies of Google as Quantum AI Practice Lead, Korea.

Dr. Kim had been working for the CMS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which is the top-class particle physics research institute that discovered the Higgs boson. Dr. Kim contributed to the development of large-scale distributed computing systems (High-Level Trigger for the CMS detector and the WLCG grid computing infrastructure) for the Big Data of the LHC accelerator. With his unique experiences in the LHC experiments, he started his career as a data scientist and a cloud architect at Samsung SDS in 2011. After his career at Samsung SDS, Dr. Kim contributed to new businesses of SK Telecom as Principal Research Scientist, also as a data scientist and a cloud architect, such as public and private cloud services, the conversational AI service NUGU, C-V2X-based autonomous driving and ITS service, and public identity service (T-ID).
Dr. Kim joined Google Cloud in 2021 as Solution Lead, AI and Machine Learning in APAC after he spent 8 years in SK Telecom. Dr. Kim has been working as a renowned expert in data science, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, and cyber-physical systems with mobile communication and providing advanced advisory and consulting for various customers over 15 years.

Dr. Kim is also an information physicist who is actively pursuing answers to the problem of physical meaning of information and applications of information as a real physical entity. Dr. Kim is also working as an expert in autonomous cognitive cyber-physical systems with his experiences in C-V2X-based autonomous driving service. As a professional expert in AI and autonomous systems, Dr. Kim has been trying to provide useful insights and advisory for the customers about how to use AI and autonomous agent technologies for business innovation and productivity enhancement. He has been engaged in various activities to share correct and useful information and knowledge about AI and autonomous agent technologies with the public to help them use the technologies in appropriate and socially beneficial ways.

“Myoung-Kuy Lee”, has been Business development field marketing manager at ASML Korea since 2015 with responsibility of mid/longer term business development.

Prior to joining ASML, Lee was regional marketing director for ONTO innovation (x Nanometrics) for 2.5 years, before that had worked at Samsung semiconductor litho area for 18 years.

Lee studied Mechanical engineering at Inha University, Incheon, Korea.

Dr. Sejeong Park is currently employed at Rigaku Americas Corporation as the application scientist of the semiconductor metrology division, a position she has held since 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Nano Technology, focusing on compound semiconductor material physics, in 2012. Prior to joining Rigaku Americas Corporation, Dr. Park worked at Korea I.T.S. Co. Ltd., as an X-ray Application Scientist, where she provided technical consulting and field engineering services in semiconductor process development and metrology inspection for semiconductor companies. Over the course of ten years in this role, she also offered a variety of non-destructive solutions for national labs, universities, and industry companies. In addition to her consultancy work, Dr. Park served as a field engineer and manager, collaborating on numerous joint evaluation projects with semiconductor companies. These projects aimed to develop new materials, processes, and methodologies to enhance the yield of photolithography and etching processes in DRAM and 3D NAND Flash lines.

Role: Chief Executive Officer

Simon is the CEO of Paragraf, the Cambridge based spin out he launched in 2018. Simon has a diverse background in physics, engineering and materials science and has spent the last 20 years operating in the field of compound semiconductor materials, devices, electronics, and applications. Working in multiple scientific and technology fields led him to the inspiration of a new idea for graphene fabrication, resulting in a novel manufacturing technique and eventually resulting in the company Paragraf. Today Paragraf is the only company in the world capable of producing graphene-based electronics at scale, the company’s products are transforming the worlds of magnetic sensing and biosensing in application spaces ranging across electrification of vehicles, quantum computing, medical diagnostics and renewable energy to name a few. In the next 5 years the company will make graphene a standard material in the semiconductor world, enabling everyone to reap the high performance, low power consumption benefits of this extraordinary material. Simon is passionate about developing technologies that can solve today’s enduring challenges and beneficially affect global society. He believes that new materials, such as graphene, hold the key to transformational products that will deliver a greener, brighter more sustainable future.

Position/Title: Director
Department: R&D Division
Organization: ISAC Research
E-mail: sj.jeong@isacresearch.com
Education: Ph.D. MSE, KAIST, Korea
Research Assistant, MSE, UC Berkeley, USA

Dr Bo Hou is a senior lecturer and associate professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. He received his PhD degree from the University of Bristol (2010–2014) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (2014–2018, Wolfson College) and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (2018-2020, St Edmund's College). He is heading a research group at Cardiff mainly focused on growing colloidal quantum dots for PV, active lighting, sensing and electron microscopy studies of these fascinating semiconductor nanocrystals. Since 2020, he has received several awards, fellowship, and grants, including EPSRC, Royal Society, UKRI, Leverhulme, Royal Society of Chemistry and HEFCW (total grant portfolio>£3m).

Prof. Bongjun Kim is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sookmyung Women’s University, Republic of Korea. He received his B.S. (2008), M.S. (2010), and Ph.D. (2015) from Yonsei University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and The University of Texas at Austin, respectively. Prior to joining Sookmyung Women’s University in 2018, he was a Research Associate at University of Cambridge. His current research interests include various thin-film-based devices.

Guanglu Ge, professor at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) and Director of CAS Key Lab of Measurement and Standardization for Nanotechnology, obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Louis Brus from Columbia University in 2001, and postdoctoral training at UCLA and Caltech. He joined NCNST in 2005 and since then has focused the research efforts on standardized testing methods and reference materials for nanomaterial characterization, and nanoscale interface properties. He has published over 80 papers in journals including Advanced Materials and Small. He received IEC 1906 award in 2018.

Prof. Ge is actively involved in nanotechnology standardization. He is now the convenor of ISO/TC229/WG4 (Nanomaterial specification), and the deputy director of Technical Committee on Nanotechnology of Standardization Administration of China (SAC/TC279). Prof. Ge has led or co-led the drafting of seven ISO/IEC international standards and 16 national standards. Specifically, by collaborating with domestic industry, his team developed series of physicochemical testing standards for electrode nanomaterials and optical characterization of quantum dots.

Taishi Nishihara received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Koichiro Tanaka. After working as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at Kyoto University (Yoshihiko Kanemitsu) and Nagoya University (Kenichiro Itami), he moved to the Institute of Advanced Energy at Kyoto University, where he has been a junior associate professor since February 2024 (Yuhei Miyauchi's group). His research interests include nanoscience, such as optical properties of low-dimensional materials and their interdisciplinary applications to photonics, especially at high temperature.

Hiroshi Ueno received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 from Osaka University under the supervision of Professors T. Oshima and K. Kokubo. After working as a postdoctoral fellow and an assistant professor at Nagoya University, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at Northeast Normal University, as an associate professor in 2017 (Prof. Yutaka Matsuo's group). In 2019, he joined the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Tohoku University, as an assistant professor, where he currently serves as a principal investigator. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including organic semiconductors, physical organic chemistry, nanocarbons science, electrochemistry, and the interdisciplinary applications of novel materials.

I (John Hong) am an Assistant Professor at Kookmin University, South Korea. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, USA, and a D.Phil. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, UK. My research focuses on diverse synthetic methods, especially solution-based processes for the design and fabrication of structured and non-structured organic/inorganic materials. Those materials can be applied to various energy-related applications for high energy conversion and storage performance.

Naoki Fukata is Dupty Director and Field Director of Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He is also a Group Leader of Nanostructured Semiconducting Materials Group in MANA. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from University of Tsukuba. He worked at Tohoku University as an Assistant Professor and then a Lecturer at University of Tsukuba. He is working at NIMS from 2005. He is also a Professor at University of Tsukuba.

His research group is focused on the functionalization of semiconducting nanomaterials such as zero-dimentional nanocrystals, one-dimentional nanowires and two dimentional nanosheets for the applications of next-generation high speed transistors, high efficiency solar cells and quantum technology.

Sangyeon Pak is an assistant Professor in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Hongik University, Korea. Prior to joining Hongik University, he was a postdoctoral researcher (2019-2022) in the department of physics at Sungkyunkwan University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Oxford and B.S. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research involves development of next generation semiconductor devices based on 2D nanomaterials.

Professor Won Jong Yoo received his BS and MS degrees from Seoul National University in Korea. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in USA in the area of the device processing of semiconductor materials. Before joining Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in 2006, he has been an associate professor with National University of Singapore (NUS) where he conducted his research on silicon devices and plasma processes. His main industrial experience was research and development in the areas of semiconductor material/device processes at Samsung Semiconductor Research Center, Korea. He had initiated and led collaboration research between Samsung and SKKU for developing future graphene and 2D devices as the Director of Samsung-SKKU Graphene Center. He is currently working for global Standardization of Nanoscale Materials under IEC (International Electrotechnical Committee). The areas of his current research interests are mainly focused on Fermi-Level Pinning at Metallic Contacts of Nanoscale Materials and Devices, Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices Using Multi-Dimensional Cutting Edge Materials, and Plasma Surface Treatment of 2 Dimensional Semiconductor Materials.

Yuljae Cho is an associate professor at UM-SJTU Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD degree at University of Oxford and was a research associate at University of Cambridge. His research focuses on emerging energy materials and their applications to energy harvesting and optoelectronic devices.

Experiences:
2023. 09 - present Associate Professor, University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2022. 07 – present Member of Future Photovoltaics Research Center, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2020. 03 – 2023. 08 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2019. 04 – 2020. 02 Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2018. 06 – 2019. 04 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford