Prof. Dr. Yarub Al-Douri is a Fellow of European Academy of Sciences. Al-Douri is winner of the prestigious Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation 2024. He has initiated Nanotechnology Engineering MSc Program and Nano Computing Laboratory. He has received numerous accolades including winner of IAAM Scientist Award by International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden 2022, World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 & 2020, World’s Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation Impact by Stanford University, USA 2020, OeAD Award, Austria 2020, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award 2019, Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) Award 2019, the total is 76 awards. Al-Douri is Associate Editor of Nano-Micro Letters (Q1,IF=31.6,Springer), Editor-in-Chief of Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY (Scopus-indexed). His research field focuses on nanotechnology, renewable energy, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, modelling and simulation, semiconductors, optical studies. Finally, Al-Douri is a public figure at international media in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar and UAE. Al-Douri has more than 880 publications including Citations < 14200, h-index = 65, i10-index = 260 and US$ 5.1M research grants. Finally, Al-Douri is one of the Middle-East, North of Africa, Malaysia and Southeast Asia’s most renowned scientists known for his contributions in Nanotechnology and renewable energy, and a public figure at international media in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar and UAE.

Guohua Xie obtained his Ph.D. degree in Microelectronis and Solid-State Electronics from Jilin University in 2011. Sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he carried out his postdoctoral research simultaneously at TU Dresden and Fraunhofer IPMS/COMEDD, Germany (2011-2012). Later, he joined the University of St Andrews as a research fellow, UK (2013-2015). Since 2015, he has been serving as associate professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University, China. In 2020, Dr. Xie was admitted as FRSC, and he is now working on the interdisciplinary field of organic and hybrid optoelectronic materials and devices.