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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jun 20, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Feng Chen
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Title: Femtosecond laser flexible electronics manufacturing
Feng Chen is a full professor of Electronic Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, where he has severed as the director of Shaanxi key laboratory of Photonics Technology of Information (PTI), deputy director of the International Joint Research Center for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technologies. He joined Chinese Academy of Science in 1991, where he was promoted to a full professor in 1999. In 2002, Dr. Chen joined the Xi'an Jiaotong University as a professor and a group leader. His current research interests are Femtosecond laser microfabrication, Bionic microfabrication and Ultrafast photonics. Dr. Chen took charge in over 30 research projects including the National Key Research and Development Program, key projects of NSFC, the National key scientific instruments and equipment development of China, etc, gave over 100 Plenary, Keynote and invited talks at academic conferences, and has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.
Prof. Antonina Pirrotta
University of Palermo, Italy
Title: To be confirmed
Antonina Pirrotta is a Full Professor in Structural Mechanics at the University of Palermo, Italy. She, graduated in Civil Engineering from Palermo University in 1987. Firstly for 6 years she worked as freelance structural engineer, then has done PhD in Structural Engineering in 1996 and as Post-doctoral studies in 1998. In 2000, she became a Researcher, in 2001 Associate Professor and in 2016 Full Professor in Engineering department at the University of Palermo, Italy.

-HEAD of PhD School of University of Palermo from 2023.
-HEAD of CIDIS from 2021.
-Board of Governors of ASCE (EMI) 2021-2024 (exceptionally renewed every year).

Her achievements resulted in many scientific recognitions, which include the appointment as Chair of the Stochastic Mechanics Group of AIMETA and of IDEA Innovative Dynamics Experiments Association (2022), several fellowships, memberships on scientific committees of various key international conferences, a membership on the Advisory Board of the MSCA COFUND Doctoral Programme at the University of Innsbruck, and many invitations as plenary speaker at several international conferences.
Prof. Pirrotta has organized and co-organized an exceptionally large number of international conferences, the last EMI2023International Conference organized at University of Palermo and for what she received the appreciation award, minisymposia, and summer schools in Italy and all over the world. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), (first professor with Italian affiliation) and of Meccanica, which are two absolute top journals in the field. Additionally, she is a member of the Editorial Board of various international scientific journals. She was a Visiting Professor at many universities all over the world such as Tongji University, Columbia University, Liverpool University, TU Wien, etc. With over 180 published papers, she is a leading researcher in the field of structural mechanics and collaborates with renowned institutions worldwide.

Prof. Antonina Pirrotta 's contributions and leadership have made her a notable figure in Structural Mechanics and a role model for women in science.

AWARDS
-2024 Global WIIN (Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network) Exemplary Special Recognition Award October 2024, for tenacity and Innovative Achievements.
-2024 Certificate of Appreciation for dedication and service as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute 2021-2024.
-2023 ITWIIN : the Higher Education Award for the notable commitment to higher education activities, in the national and international academic context, and for having shown a high capacity for disseminating scientific knowledge in dissemination and collaboration initiatives.
-2023 Appreciation award for outstanding service and dedication as Chair of the EMI2023International Conference at the University of Palermo, Italy August 27-30, 2023.
-2020 First EASD SENIOR RESEARCH PRIZE in the area of DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGIES FOR STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, for her important contributions in the fields of passive control, multi-body systems, continuum mechanics, stochastic mechanics, health monitoring, (first European woman).
-2020 Research Prize "Francesco Carbone Experimenta".

FELLOWSHIPS
• American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE Fellow from 2024,(First Italian Woman Professor with Italian affiliation). • Fellowship (2020-2024) University of Liege, Belgium, (selected every year).
• International Excellence Fellowship of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), funded within the Framework of the University of Excellence Concept, “The Research University in the Helmholtz Association I Living the Change” (2021).
• Engineering Mechanics Institute EMI Fellow from 2020,(First Italian Professor with Italian affiliation).
• HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOW in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of University of Liverpool, ( 2014-2019).
Dr. Hai-Feng Li
IAPME, University of Macau, China
Title: To be confirmed
Dr. Hai-Feng Li is an accomplished physicist specializing in condensed matter physics, single crystal growth, and neutron scattering. He earned his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University and the Jülich Research Center in Germany, where he received Auszeichnung (Distinction) and the prestigious Borchersplakette 2009. Dr. Li has held notable positions at leading institutions worldwide, including postdoctoral roles at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany) and the Ames Laboratory (USA), as well as a long-term visiting researcher position at the Institute Laue-Langevin (France). Before joining the University of Macau, he served as a Marie Curie-COFUND CONEX Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Li's research focuses on developing advanced materials with macroscopic functionalities, exploring their properties using cutting-edge neutron and X-ray scattering techniques. His work has practical applications in ferroelectric and superconducting materials, thermoelectrics, energy storage, and semiconductors. He has authored over 130 papers in top-tier journals, published a book and a book chapter, and his research has garnered more than 3,000 citations with an h-index of 31. In addition, Dr. Li holds 11 patents, has reviewed over 220 articles, and was honored with the Outstanding Youth Neutron Paper Award in 2016. Currently, Dr. Li leads the Functional Quantum Materials Lab at the University of Macau. He teaches two university courses, mentors Ph.D. students, and actively contributes to the scientific community. He was the primary organizer of the 2018 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Physics Society Joint Annual Meeting, where he independently established the conference website, and has participated in organizing 10 international conferences.”
Prof. Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri
Foundation of Physics Research Center - (FoPRC) - Italy
Title: Will Update
Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri, graduated Magna cum Laude in Physics in 1995, from 2001 is full professor of Physics and, from 2013 also the director of Foundation of Physics Research Center (FoPRC), an independent research organization devoted to advanced research in Physics. From 2014 to 2016 he has been Executive Director of the Scientific Projects Divisions at International Society for Space Science (ISSS). He is expert member of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) and of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). From 2019 he belongs to European Quantum Flagship and is invited member of CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on Quantum Technology. From 2020 he belongs to SAI “Science and Information Organization”. Currently, he is also visiting professor at “International Institute of Invincible Rhythms” of India. He has published over one hundred papers in peer-reviewed international journals of physics and engineering and is editorial board member of many international journals in the fields of theoretical and applied physics. From 2019 he is “Bentham Science Open Ambassador” for Italy. His latest books as author are “Frontiers in Quantum Computing”, published by NOVA Science Publisher in 2020. He has received several international achievements and awards for its scientific and research activity. His most recent interests include, in particular, the development of coherent quantum field theory and its application to different fields (including fundamental physics, cosmology, biophysics, quantum computation, quantum information and artificial intelligence) and the physics of tachyons. He is considered a world expert in Quantum Hypercomputing and Coherent Quantum Field Theory.
Prof. Jianxin Tang
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China
Title: Will Update
Jianxin Tang received his B.Sc. degree in physics from Zhejiang University in 2002, and Ph.D. degree in Physics and Materials Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2006. In 2008, he was appointed professor at Soochow University. In 2021, he was appointed professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. His current research areas/interests span device physics and surface science on organic and perovskite light-emitting diodes technology for flat panel display and solid-state lighting, and organic/perovskite photovoltaic cells for renewable energy. He has published over 300 papers in internationally refereed journals in the field of device physics and optoelectronics. He has also served as a chairman/organizing committee member of over 30 international/domestic conferences.
Prof. Lei Xu
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: The role of drop shape in impact force and dynamics
Professor Lei Xu currently serves as a professor in the Department of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He pursued his undergraduate degree in the Department of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1995 to 2000 and obtained his doctorate in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago from 2000 to 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2009, he joined the Department of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he has been teaching ever since. Professor Xu Lei's research group mainly focuses on the experimental physics of soft matter, paying particular attention to physical phenomena closely related to everyday life. These include the impact of droplets on solid surfaces, the development of metamaterials, flow fields in porous materials (such as soil and sand piles), and fundamental physical processes like phase transitions from liquids to solids (e.g., crystallization and glass transitions).
Prof. Louis M. Pecora
USA
Title: Will Update
Dr. Pecora is currently a research professor at the University of Maryland in the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP). He is currently working on dynamics of AI systems built on the use of reservoir computing structures. He was formerly a research physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory where he headed the section for Magnetic Materials and Nonlinear Dynamics. He received his B.S. degree in physics from Wilkes College in 1969. After two years of graduate work at Purdue University he graduated from the Syracuse University Solid State Science program from which he received a Ph.D. in 1977. In 1977 he was awarded an NRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratory that led to a permanent position at NRL in 1979. In the mid-1980's Dr. Pecora moved into the field of nonlinear dynamics. Early work led to the discovery and characterization of chaotic transients in spin-wave behavior in yttrium iron garnets. Subsequent work focused on the synchronization of chaotic systems, control and tracking, and dynamics of many coupled, nonlinear systems. His research interests have also involved quantum chaos and wave function tunneling in and between “chaotic cavities”. Dr. Pecora has published over 160 scientific papers and has five patents for the applications of chaos. His original paper on the synchronization of chaotic systems has over 8000 (ISI) citations and is the 13th most cited paper ever in Physical Review Letters and was celebrated by the APS as the most cited paper from 1990. In 2020 he received the Clarivate award in the physics area for highly cited work on dynamics of coupled chaotic systems. He is also a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical Society.
Prof. Keyu Xia
China
Title: Will Update
Dr. Keyu Xia is currently a professor working at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Nanjing University. Professor Xia concentrates on the field of chiral quantum optics and quantum measurement. He has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications in the renowned journals, including Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, PRL, PRX, eLight, and Nature Communications. His research has been cited by more than 2800 times, including important review papers and news/perspective published in Science, Nature, Nature Photonics and Reviews of Modern Physics. Many works were reported by media such as Physics World and Phys.Org. His group proposed three mechanisms for conducting chiral quantum optical systems and optical nonreciprocity. His group also experimentally demonstrated the sensitivity enhancement of non-Hermitian sensors with respect to Hermitian counterparts.
Prof. Limei Xu
Peking University, China
Title: Will Update

Limei Xu is a Professor and Boya Distinguished Professor at the School of Physics, Peking University, where she also serves as Associate Dean. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University in 2007. From 2007 to 2011, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, and subsequently held a faculty position as Assistant Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. Since 2011, she has been a faculty member at Peking University, where she was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor.

Her research focuses on statistical physics and soft condensed matter physics, with particular emphasis on phase transitions and critical phenomena, nonequilibrium transitions, and the anomalous properties of water. She has published over 80 papers in leading journals such as Science, Nature and its sub-journals, and Physical Review Letters. Her work was selected as one of the “Top Ten Scientific Advances in China” in 2018, and she has received several major honors, including the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award (2019) and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2015). She currently serves on the editorial boards of Chinese Physics Letters and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
Dr. Tamer Elkhatib
Cairo University, Egypt
Title: Will Update
Tamer Elkhatib–received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and communication and the M.Sc. degree in engineering mathematics and physics (both with honors) from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2002 and 2006, respectively, and he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2010. Currently, he is an assistant professor of Engineering Physics at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University from August 2019 till now. Dr Elkhatib was a chief scientist from November 2022 till November 2024 in Juyou Smart Intelligence Technology CO., LTD. “Chinese start-up OPNOUS”, Shanghai, China, He was developing novel Time-Of Flight (TOF) image sensor technology (Lidar) to be used in the famous civil drones by DJI and other consumer electronics Chinese products. Dr Elkhatib was an adjunct assistant professor in the Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering program at University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science, Technology, and Innovation from 2018 till 2020. He also served as the coordinator of the Intellectual Property (IP) management unit in the Technology Pyramid at Zewail City of Science, Technology, and Innovation. From 2010 till 2017, Dr Elkhatib was a (Senior) Scientist at the silicon development department within Microsoft, Mountain View (Silicon Valley), CA, USA. He was developing the state-of-the-art Time Of-Flight (TOF) image sensor technology (Lidar). His role includes semiconductor device physics analysis and modeling, device simulations, pixel architecture and development, and foundry process analysis. Dr Elkhatib has developed three TOF pixel generations used in commercial mass production TOF sensor chips that were fabricated in TSMC fab in Taiwan in 130nm and in 65/45nm silicon nodes. These state-of-the art TOF sensor chips were used in the following commercial products: Kinect One sensor for XBOX, Azure Kinect Devoplment Kit (DK), and HoloLens/HoloLens 2. From 2008 till 2010, Dr Elkhatib was a Research Scientist at the center of Terahertz Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. He was developing a novel millimeter wave (mm wave) and Terahertz (THz) electronics. Dr Elkhatib discovered (both theoretically and experimentally) a new regime of THz detection at room temperature by field effect transistors operating in the deep saturation regime that boosted their responsivity by up to an order of magnitude. Dr Elkhatib was also the first to observe that the coupling of incident terahertz radiation to field effect transistors varies dramatically when transistors operate in the deep saturation regime beyond their cutoff frequency. This coupling mechanism allows transistors to image incident terahertz radiation at room temperature with sub-wavelength resolution. Dr Elkhatib demonstrated this coupling effect by imaging of 1.63 THz laser beam profile with single and multiple transistors. Dr. Elkhatib has widely presented and published his research results with number of citations, reached 959 with h-index of 14. He is the author and co-author of about 20 scientific articles published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is also the inventor of 12 issued US/International patents and 3 under review Chinese patents in the field of TOF pixel sensors. Dr Elkhatib is also the co winner of International Image Sensor Society Walter Kosonocky Best Paper Award for the best Solid-State Image Sensor Worldwide in May 2017. Dr Elkhatib is also the winner of the Short Talent Program Award, Suzhou City, Wuzhong District, China.
Dr. Vittorio Cecconi
Loughborough University, UK
Title: To be confirmed
Vittorio completed his PhD in 2022 at the Emergent Photonics (EPic) Laboratory at the University of Sussex. Thesis title “Spatiotemporal Control of Terahertz Waves in Random Media via Nonlinear Ghost Imaging”.
His PhD - funded by the ERC-Consolidator project “TIMING” (PI: Prof. Marco Peccianti) - was initially focused on investigating the Nonlinear Ghost Imaging methodology and then focused on studying terahertz field propagation in random scattering media, which represents the continuation of the ERC-Consolidator project “TIMING”.
Moreover, Vittorio worked on ultrafast nonlinear interaction for terahertz generation and field manipulation in complex photonic systems and surfaces. For instance, in 2020, he joined the research project to develop random terahertz emitters “THink”, a random terahertz-emitting-ink. He is an inventor of the core patent developed in the ERC-Proof-of-Concept project “THink” (PI: Prof. Marco Peccianti), aiming to identify the best route to commercialisation.
In September 2022, he joined Loughborough University with the Emergent Photonics Research Centre as a Research Fellow in Photonics.

In 2024 he was awarded one of ten Vice Chancellor Independent Research Fellowships at Loughborough University.
Prof. Leonid Chernyak
University of Central Florida, USA
Title: Impact of radiation and electron injection on minority carrier transport in n- and p-type Gallium Oxide
Dr. Chernyak received his PhD in Physics of Semiconductor Materials from Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) in 1996. He spent several years as a Research Associate in the Departments of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) and Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas, USA) (1996-1997) and at Intel Corporation (1997-1999) as a member of technical staff. He joined UCF in 1999 where he is a professor.
Prof. Leonardo Abbene
University of Palermo, Italy
Title: Room temperature X-ray and gamma ray detection with CdZnTe detectors
Leonardo Abbene is Associate Professor in Applied Physics in the Department of Physics and Chemistry Emilio Segrè at University of Palermo, Italy. He earned a Master’s degree from University of Palermo and a doctorate in Experimental Physics from the University of Bari, Italy. His research activities are mainly focused on the development and characterization of room temperature semiconductor radiation detectors (CdTe, CZT) and digital electronics for X-ray and gamma ray spectroscopy and imaging. He was the principal investigator (PI) of several research projects, where innovative instrumentation has been developed for medical (mammography, computed tomography, BNCT, nuclear medicine), astrophysical (focal plane detectors for X-ray telescopes), food and nuclear (kaonic atom physics) applications. He is author or co-author of over 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He is a frequent invited speaker and served as chairman for international conferences. Prof. Abbene is reviewer and editorial board member for several international journals.
Prof. Alexandre Zagoskin
Loughborough University, UK
Title: To be Confirmed
A. M. Zagoskin is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at Loughborough University, UK. His research interests include theory of quantum information processing in solid state devices, mesoscopic superconductivity, mesoscopic transport, quantum statistical physics and thermodynamics.