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Prof. Eckehard Schöll

Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Title: Control of Complex Dynamical Systems and Networks

Eckehard Schöll is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at TU Berlin (Berlin Institute of Technology), and Principal Investigator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. He holds PhD degrees in mathematics from the University of Southampton (UK, 1978) and in physics from RWTH Aachen (Germany, 1981), and an Honorary Doctorate from Saratov State University (Russia, 2017). In 2018 he received the Badge of Honor from the German Physical Society (DPG). He held a Visiting Professorship of the London Mathematical Society, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award at Duke University, USA. He is President of the International Physics and Control Society (IPACS), a member of the German Physical Society (DPG), a member of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC), and a Board member of the Network Science Society. He is Speciality Chief Editor of the open access Journal Frontiers in Network Physiology: Networks of Dynamical Systems. He has authored about 600 publications in peer-reviewed journals (Hirsch index h=78, google scholar) and 3 books, and is editor of 5 books (among these the Handbook of Chaos Control) and 14 topical journal issues. He is an expert in the field of nonlinear dynamical systems and complex networks. His work pertains to a wide area of research in the fields of mathematics and physics, particularly semiconductor physics, laser physics, computational neuroscience, synchronization of complex systems and networks, time-delayed feedback control, and bifurcation theory. His latest research is also related to topics in biology and technology, e.g. simulation of the dynamics in physiological or neuronal networks and power grids. He is one of the forerunners into the research of chimera states.

Prof. Jose Fernando Mendes

University of Aveiro, Portugal

Title: Unraveling Complexity: How simple rules shape our world

José Fernando Mendes is a distinguished Portuguese physicist and professor of physics, renowned for his groundbreaking work in network theory and complex systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Porto and currently holds a Full Professorship at the University of Aveiro. Professor Mendes has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions worldwide, including NTU, ETH-Risk Center, and EPFL. He served as President of the Complex Systems Society (2021-2024) and currently directs the Institute i3N-Aveiro. His research focuses on the evolution and dynamics of complex networks, applying these principles to understand real-world systems. Professor Mendes is a prolific author , co-authoring numerous books and review articles, including the highly influential "Evolution of Networks" (2002). His exceptional contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Science Prize, the Senior Award of the Complex Systems Society, and Fellowships from the Network Science Society, the Americam Physical Society and the Academia Europaea. Professor Mendes has held key academic leadership positions and is a prominent figure in the complex systems science community. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, garnering over 25,000 citations, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals.

Prof. Jean-Pierre Leburton

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Title: Electro-Nanofluidics in Solid State Nanopores and Nanochannels

Jean-Pierre Leburton is currently the Gregory Stillman Emeritus Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Illinois in 1981 from Germany, where he worked as a Research Scientist with the Siemens A.G. Research Laboratory, Munich. In 1992, he held the Hitachi Ltd., Chair on quantum materials at the University of Tokyo. He was a Visiting Professor with the Federal Polytechnic Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2000. He is involved with research in nanostructures modeling and in quantum device simulation. He is the author and the coauthor of more than 400 technical articles in international journals and books ,as well as of several patents in device electronics. His present research interests encompass non-linear transport in quantum wires and carbon nanotubes, spintronics and molecular, and bio-nanoelectronics.

Prof. Leburton is a Fellow of the IEEE (Life Fellow), APS, OSA, AAAS, ECS, and IOP. He is also a member of the New York Academy of Science. In 2011, he was elected as an Associate Member to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium. He served as the Chairperson, an advisory, and program committees for numerous international conferences. In 1993, he was awarded the title of “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques” by the French Government. In 2004, he was a recipient of the ISCS Quantum Device Award and the Gold Medal for scientific achievement by the Alumnus Association of the University of Liége, Belgium. In 2019, he was a recipient of the CCMR Serendipity Award, Seoul, South Korea. In 2020, he received the IEEE-NTC Nanotechnology Pioneer Award for his pioneering contribution to the simulation of semiconductor nanostructures and low dimensional nanoscale devices.

Prof. Zhigang Chen

Nankai University, China

Title: Will be update soon

Zhigang Chen is currently a Chair Professor at Nankai University, a National Overseas High-Level Talent Program Expert and a Project Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program in China. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, optical trapping and manipulation. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of Optica and a Fellow of APS. He has served as an Editor/EBM for several journals including Science Bulletin, Light Sci. & Appl., Laser Photon. Rev., Optics Letters, and Advances in Physics X, and as a Chair for numerous conferences including the Program/General Co-Chair for 2016/2018 CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Prof. Gershon Kurizki

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Title: Quantum Technologies Using Nonlinear Optics

Gershon Kurizki holds the G.W. Dunne Professorial Chair in Quantum Optics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is a theoretical pioneer of the fields of quantum open-system control, thermodynamics and quantum measurements. He discovered the universal Anti-Zeno Effect (decay speedup) in open quantum systems, found the connection between quantum thermodynamics and the Quantum Zeno (decay slowdown) and Anti-Zeno effects and introduced fundamental models of quantum heat machines. He has also made numerous contributions to the theory of quantum measurements and quantum optics. He won the Lamb Medal (USA) in 2008 and the Humboldt-Meitner Award (Germany) in 2009 for his discovery of the Anti-Zeno Effect and his pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum measurements and decoherence control in open quantum systems. Kurizki is Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America and the British Institute of Physics. He is the author of circa 470 publications and two books: “The Quantum Matrix” (Oxford University Press, 2020) and “Thermodynamics and Control of Open Quantum Systems” (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Prof. Maria Asensio

Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) – CSIC, Spain

Title: Will Update

Prof. Maria Asensio is a research professor at the Institute of Material Sciences of Madrid (CSIC). She completed her doctorate in Physical Chemistry at the National University of La Plata in Argentina. Prof. Asensio has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and she has held academic positions at the University of Warwick in England and the Institute Fritz Haber of Max-Planck in Berlin, Germany. She has also been a research leader scientist for over twenty years at the LURE and SOLEIL Synchrotrons in France. Prof. Asensio's research focuses on the electronic, chemical, and electrochemical properties of complex, advanced, and low-dimensional materials using a wide range of conventional lab techniques and those based on Large European Facilities as sources of synchrotron radiation and neutrons. She has developed a proof of concept for a novel and powerful optical spectroscopy technique known as Nano-ARPES. This technique enables the precise revelation of the Fermi surface and electronic states of the valence band in nanomaterials and other small-scale systems. Nano-ARPES represents a significant advancement in materials science, as it provides unparalleled insight into the electronic properties of materials at the nanoscale, crucial for understanding and designing new materials with specific electronic characteristics. Recently, she developed various artificial intelligence tools with her group to discover and optimize materials for renewable energies. She has more than 266 scientific articles published in international journals, two book chapters, and 150 invited lectures in national and international congresses, with an i10 Index Factor of 177 and more than 14000 citations. For more details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-ARPES.

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