China

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Director of National Innovation Insitute of Additive Manufacturing

Chairman of Xi'an National Institute Corporation of Additive Manufacturing

Professor Lu Bingheng is the Leader of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Committee of the State Council，the Director of National Additive Manufacturing Standardization Technical Committee，the Co-chair of the Scientific Committee of Space Exploration Laboratory，the Qian Xuesen Space Technology Laboratory Academic Committee，the Chairman of the National College of Metal Cutting Machine Tools，the Vice President of China Mechanical Engineering Society，and the Vice President of China Machinery Manufacturing Technology Association. He advocated the development of AM technologies such as additive manufacturing (3D printing), micro-nano manufacturing, biological manufacturing, and high-speed cutting machine tools. He has developed the rapid prototyping machine which is the mechanical, optical and electrical integration equipment and special materials, and formed a set of domestic leading product rapid development system and industrial production, which has been widely used in many fields. In the field of micro nano manufacturing in China, nano imprinting research is advocated for the first time by Professor Lu. And he has made an important breakthrough in the research of personalized matching artificial bone and bioactive artificial bone, and entered into clinical experiments. He has won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of National Technology Invention Award, the National May 1st Labor Medal and the Global Chinese Jiang's Science and Technology Achievement Award.

Title: Additive Manufacturing Technology and Its Applications

Germany

Academician of the European Academy of Sciences

Chair of Computational Mechanics

Bauhaus Universität-Weimar

Professor Timon Rabczuk obtained his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe. He worked at the Fraunhofer-Institute (Ernst Mach) in Freiburg before joining the Computational Mechanics Group of Professor Ted Belytschko at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA, where he was working for 4 years as Post-Doctoral Fellow. Professor Timon Rabczuk was a member of the Computational Mechanics group of Professor W.A. Wall at the Technical University of Munich. In February 2007, he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Canterbury University, Christchurch, NewZealand. In 2009, he joined the Bauhaus University Weimar as Full Professor. He researches focus of Computational Solid Mechanics with emphasis on method development for problems involving fracture and failure of solids and fluid-structure interaction. He is particularly interested in developing multiscale methods and their application to computational materials design. Such as, constitutive modeling, material Instabilities, fracture, strain localization, numerical methods (extended finite element and mesfhree methods), isogeometric analysis, computational fluid-structure interaction, biomechanical engineering.

Title：To be decided

China

Yang Shuxing

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Xi’an Modern Control Technology Research Institute

Professor Yang Shuxing is an expert in the field of guidance and control technology. He graduated in 1991 from Beijing Institute of Technology with a PhD in engineering. He won three State Science and Technology Progress Awards (First Prize), one State Technological Innovation Award (Second Prize), and two National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize). He has published one monograph and more than 180 papers, obtained more than 40 invention patents, and cultivated over 40 PhD students. He was also granted the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.

Title: Trajectory Optimization in Artillery Guided Rocket

Australia

Professor

University of New South Wales

Professor Andrey V. Savkin received Ph.D. degrees from Leningrad State University in 1991, respectively. His major are control engineering, robotics, UAV navigation, control of power systems, wireless sensor networks, and biomedical engineering. He has authored/co-authored 9 research monograph and numerous journal papers in these areas. Professor Andrey V. Savkin served as an Associate Editor/Editor for many international journals.

Title:Autonomous Navigation of UAVs for Surveillance and Communication

Switzerland

Professor

Deputy-Chair of Rilem TC 288-IEC (Impact and Explosion)

Member of the Governing Board of DYMAT

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

Professor Ezio Cadoni received his degree, summa cum laude, in Civil Engineering at the University of Cagliari in July 1990, and his PhD in Structural Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He joined to Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as Post-Doc fellow and subsequently as scientific officer. He developed researches on materials and structures behavior under impact in collaboration with other European laboratories and several industrial partners. At the end of 1997 he started the collaboration with a consult engineering firm and its laboratory of Lugano (Switzerland). He worked for Swiss Expo, in several research projects and in testing services and technical surveys. In 2000，he was appointed lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. He has been Professor since June 2004. In 2006，he founded the DynaMat SUPSI Laboratory, one of the laboratory of national relevance included in the roadmap of the Swiss Confederation. He has been principal investigator of more than hundred research projects supported by institutional and private funds. His teaching covers the fundamentals of structural mechanics and mechanics of materials. In research he concentrates on the dynamic behavior of materials and structures. He chaired several of international conferences and has been member of several technical committees. He is reviewer and member of editorial committees of International Journals. He is author of more than hundred papers in reviewed indexed international journals and conferences.

Title：Behaviour of An Armour Steel Under Combined Extreme Conditions of Temperature and Strain-Rate

Turkey

Professor

Izmir Institute of Technology

Professor Mustafa Güden obtained his Bachelor's degree from the department of Metallurgical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in 1992 and his Master's degree in 1998. He received his PhD from the department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware in 1998. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials and a visiting scholar at Kazakh-British Technical University. Professor Mustafa Güden was awarded with Professor Mustafa Parlar Master Thesis Award, Husamettin Tugac Foundation Technology Research Award, TUBITAK Motivation Award and Elginkan Foundation Technology Award. His main research area is the high strain rate testing and modelling the materials and their structures including metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and cellular structures.

Title：Constitutive Equations and High Strain Rate Deformation Behavior of EBM-Ti64 and SLM-316L Alloys

Malaysia

Academy of Science Malaysia Fellow

Society of Automotive Engineers Fellow

Academy of Science Malaysia Fellow

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Professor Mohd Sapuan Salit is an “A” Grade Professor of composite materials at Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and a Head of Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology, INTROP, UPM. He has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from University of Newcastle, Australia, an MSc in Engineering Design from Loughborough University, UK and PhD in Material Engineering from De Montfort University, UK. He is a Professional Engineer, a Plastic and Rubber and Institute Malaysia Fellow, a Malaysian Scientific Association Fellow, an International Biographical Association Fellow and an Institute of Material Malaysia Fellow. He is an Honorary Member and immediate past Vice President of Asian Polymer Association based in IIT Delhi and Founding Chairman and Honorary Member of Society of Sugar Palm Development and Industry, Malaysia. He is the co-editor-in-chief of Functional Composites and Structures, and member of editorial boards of more than two dozen journals. To date he has produced more than 1800 publications including over 850 journal papers, 46 books, and 160 chapters in book. He has delivered over 40 plenary and keynote lectures, and over 150 invited lectures. He organized 26 journal special issues as a guest editor, presented over 500 technical articles in conferences and seminars, reviewed over 1000 journal papers and has 8 patents. He successfully supervised 91 PhD and 70 MSc students and 15 postdoctoral researchers. His current h-index is 92 and the number of citations is 31,137 (Google Scholar). He received nine Outstanding Researcher Awards from UPM, ISESCO Science Award (Gold Medal) , Plastic and Rubber Institute Malaysia Fellowship Award and Forest Research Institute Malaysia First Prize Publication Award. He also received Khwarizimi International Award, SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair award, Kuala Lumpur Royal Rotary Gold Medal Research Award and two National Book Awards. He received the Endeavour Research Promotion Award by TMU/IEEE India, Citation of Excellence Award, Emerald, UK, Malaysia’s Research Star Award, Elsevier/Ministry of Education Malaysia, Publons Peer Review Award, Publons, USA, Professor of Eminence Award from Aligarh Muslim University, India, Top Research Scientists’ Malaysia Award, Academy of Science Malaysia, Gold in Invention and Innovation Awards, Malaysia Technology Expo and PERINTIS Publication Award, PERINTIS, Malaysia. He was listed among the World Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA. He is the finalist of IET Achievements Award, IET, UK and 2021 SAE Subir Chowdhury Medal of Quality Leadership, SAE, USA.

Title：Applications of Composite Materials in Body Armor and Other Defence Situations

United Kingdom

Professor

Loughborough University

Vadim Silberschmidt was appointed to the Chair of Mechanics of Materials at the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK in 2000. Prior to this he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute A for Mechanics at Technische Universität München in Germany. Educated in the USSR, he worked at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics and Institute for Geosciences (both - the USSR (later - Russian) Academy of Sciences). At Loughborough, he heads the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group and Research Theme “Materials and Measurement”. He is a Charted Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Physics. His research focus is on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage and fracture in advanced engineering and biological materials, including composites and nanocomposites, biopolymers, metals and alloys, biological and biomedical materials, materials for microelectronics, sports materials and non-woven fabrics. Vadim Silberschmidt chairs the Technical Committee 14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” of the European Structural Integrity Society. He is a member of Editorial Boards of international journals “Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing” (Elsevier); “Computers, Materials & Continua” (Tech Science Press); “International Journal of Automotive Composites” (Inderscience), “Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science” (Taylor & Francis), “Reviews on Advanced Materials Science” (De Gruyter), “Defence Technology” (Elsevier) and “Science and Engineering of Composite Materials” (De Gruyter). Vadim Silberschmidt is an Honorary Professor at Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia. He was a visiting professor at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), New Mexico State University (USA), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), University of Texas at Dallas (USA) and Griffith University (Australia). Vadim Silberschmidt has co-authored six research monographs and some 630 peer-reviewed scientific papers (including more than 370 journal papers). He has (co-)supervised more than 80 PhD students.

Title：Dynamic Damage of Composites

China

Professor

Priciple Scientist

Board Member of the International Ballistics Society

Executive Editor-in-Chief of Defence Technology

Director of the State Key Laboratory of Transient Physics

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Professor Li Baoming is now director of the State Key Laboratory of Transient Physics of Nanjing University of Science ＆Technology, Changjiang Scholar and Changjiang Distinguished Professor (prestigious titles awarded by the Ministry of Education), and Chief Scientist of the Ordnance Science and Research Academy of China. He has been devoted to research in the fields of weapon launching theory and technology, electrothermal and electromagnetic launching technology, pulsed power supply system, low-temperature plasma technology etc. for over 20 years. Under his leadership, an innovative research team featuring industry-university-research integration has been built, dozens of key projects at national, provincial and ministerial levels have been undertaken, and outstanding achievements have been made in the research of new concepts and theories and key technologies in launching, as well as system integration and test evaluation.  He has been granted more than 10 provincial-level awards and published over 200 papers in journals. 70 innovation patents in national defense has been applied or authorized. He is now a national expert, a Council Member of China Ordnance Society (COS), Executive Vice Director of the Specialized Committee on Ballistics under COS, and Executive Vice Director of the Specialized Committee on Directed Energy Technology under COS. He is also the Board Member of International Ballistics Society (IBS), IBS Publications Committee Chair, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Defence Technology Journal , Founding Board Member of International Conference on Defence Technology (ICDT) and Chair of the Executive Committee of ICDT. Li enjoys government allowances from the State Council and has cultivated more than 70 graduate and PhD students.

Title: To be decided

Singapore

Professor

National University of Singapore

Ningbo University

Professor Victor P.W. Shim’s research interests include impact mechanics, dynamic material behaviour, cellular materials, 3D-printed lattices, penetration of high-strength fabrics, and impact on protective structures. He established the Impact Mechanics Laboratory at NUS and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and an Editorial Board Member of Defence Technology. He pursued his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Auckland, supported by a scholarship from the New Zealand government. Thereafter, he worked at NUS as a Senior Tutor while pursuing his Master’s degree. He then proceeded to Cambridge University on an NUS scholarship for his PhD in Impact Mechanics, and returned to NUS to continue his academic career. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. He has received awards for Teaching Excellence, Innovative Teaching, and Outstanding Service, and was appointed a Professor in Ningbo University in 2022.

Title: 3D-Printed Polymeric Lattices under Impact

Russia

Principle Scientist

Associate Editor-in-Chief of Defence Technology

Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor Alexey Smolin received his PhD degree in solid state physics at the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPMS), Tomsk, Russia in 1988, after a post-graduate course at Tomsk State University. His research was devoted to modeling deformation and fracture of heterogeneous materials using computational particle mechanics, namely the Movable Cellular Automaton (MCA) method. He received a Full Doctor of Science degree in solid mechanics (ISPMS, 2010) for the numerical study of mechanical properties of ceramics with complex porous structure, friction layer dynamics at the level of the contact patch, sound and noise generation under sliding friction, hip joint implants interaction with bone tissue. His research also made it possible to couple the MCA method with FEM for effective multi-scale modeling heterogeneous materials. Now he is a leading scientist in computer simulation of the mechanical behavior of ceramics, composites, metals, and human bones. He was a supervisor of four Ph.D. students. Co-author of 4 books, 70 papers in reviewed scientific journals, and more than 100 papers in conference proceedings. His research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, and the Russian Ministry of Science. Professor Smolin was an invited researcher at Technical University Berlin (Germany) in 1999, Institute “Jozef Stefan”, (Slovenia) in 2002, Shenyang Institute of Technology (China) in 2007, IMWF Stuttgart University and Technical University Munich in 2010 and CIMNE Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2012.

Title: To be decided

China

Professor 

Northwest Institute Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Professor Qian Linfang is a professor with a doctorate degree in engineering and a supervisor for doctoral students. His research interests are the overall structure optimization of artillery system, performance analysis and efficiency analysis, etc. He received his bachelor's degree in Artillery Design and Manufacturing from East China Engineering Institute in 1982, his master's degree in Artillery Automatic Weapons and Ammunition Engineering from East China Engineering Institute in 1985, and his doctorate degree in Artillery Automatic Weapons and Ammunition Engineering from Nanjing University of Technology in 1999. From February 1985 to January 1988, he taught at Department I of Nanjing University of Technology. He has served as the Dean of Mechanical College and Mechanical Engineering College.

Title: To be decided

China

Professor

Director of THz Imaging Laboratory.

Shenyang Institute of Automation in Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Qi Feng did bachelor study in Zhejiang University and got master and PhD degrees from Katholieke Unversiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2005, 2011 respectively. He joined RIKEN, Japan in 2011. Between 2014 and 2015, he worked in Goethe University, Germany and University of Birmingham, UK. Then, he came back to his hometown and built THz Imaging Laboratory. He is in charge of several national projects, and now he is the head of Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing, Liaoning Province. He is also the committee member of: Key Laboratory of THz Technology, Ministry of Education; Key Laboratory of Opto-Electro Signal Processing, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Key Laboratory of Meta-Materials and Microwave Technology, Guangdong Province. His research interests include microwave，laser and radar. Now the THz Imaging Lab. works both on electronics and photonics and a set of components like THz/IR sources and detectors、high-performance THz lenses and high-gain THz antennas have been developed, several in-house high-resolution THz imaging algorithms, have been realized. He has published over 130 research papers, including 15 invited talks in international and national conferences. He has served TPC and session chairs for a set of international and national conferences, including ICC，IRMMW-THz etc. He got the Best Paper Award in GSMM 2014.

Title：To Brige Microwave and Light: a Solution Based on Frequency Conversion Technique

Singapore

Professor

Vice President of the Association for Computational Mechanics (Singapore)

General Council Member of the International Association of Computational Mechanics

General Council Member of Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics

National University of Singapore

Vincent B.C. Tan is the Deputy Head at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. After obtaining his BEng and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, he pursued his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, USA. Currently, his research interests are in computational homogenization and multiscale modelling, computational modelling, bioinspired composites, failure of composite materials, impact mechanics and ballistics. His research has been funded by both industrial and research agency grants, including US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Defence Science Organization, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defence, Vestas, and Airbus. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Composites Part B, Mechanics of Materials, and International Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Title：Do Mantis Shrimps Offer Lessons on Impact Protection?

Russia

Professor

Associate Editor of Energetic Materials Frontiers

Editorial Board Member of Defence Technology

Russian Academy of Sciences

Leonid L. Fershtat graduated with honors in Chemistry (specialist) from Higher Chemical College of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015, and he received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015. He received the Moscow City Government Young Scientist Award in 2020, and was the recipient of the State Grant of Russian President’s Council for Grants(2017-2018). He has won awards including Best Poster Presentation at the 17th International Seminar “New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials” (2014) and has received the best oral presentation awards including the 19th, 20th and 22nd International Seminar on “New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials”, and the best oral presentation at young scientists competition INEOSOpenCup(2017). He is Guest Editor in journals Molecules, Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Doklady Chemistry. He is member of an Early Career Advisory Board in Mendeleev Communications. He is a member of a State Certification Committee at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry，Organizing Committee of Biannual Youth Conference of N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry，and Organizing Committee of All-Russian Conference on “Chemistry of Nitro Compounds and Related Nitrogen-Oxygen Systems”.He is also a reviewer in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Chem, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Chemistry –An Asian Journal, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure, ChemPlusChem, ChemMedChem, Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Mendeleev Communications, Energetic Materials Frontiers, Defence Technology, Molecules, etc.

Title：Nitrogen-Oxygen Heterocycles in the Synthesis of Advanced Energetic Materials

Croatia

Professor

University of Zagreb

Professor Muhamed Suceska, born in 1954, studied Chemical Technology at the Technical Military Academy and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Zagreb, Croatia and received his PhD in 1991. After graduation he worked as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Technical Military Academy (1982-1991). He was a Principal Research Scientist at Brodarski Institute, Zagreb (1993-2009) and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2009-2016). Since 2016 he works as a professor at the University Zagreb. Prof. Suceska is a full member of Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ) and associate member of International Academy of Science and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina (IANUBIH). Research interests of Professor Suceska covers thermal analysis and characterization of explosives, decomposition kinetics, thermal initiation, combustion and detonation chemistry and physics, with a current focus on numerical modeling of detonation. Professor Suceska was a member of scientific and organizing committees of international conferences (IPS, NTREM, IPO Conference, ESHP, CEEC-TAC, etc.). more than 20 times. He is the Subject Editor of the Central European Journal of Energetic Materials (CEJEM) and an editorial board member of several journals: Defence technology, Defense and security studies, Thermo, and High-Energetic Materials. He has been invited to speak at international conferences and has conducted guest lectures in 12 countries. Professor Suceska has published 4 books and 130 papers in per-review journals and conference proceedings. One of his greatest scientific achievements is the development of thermochemical code EXPLO5, which is now used in 92 research laboratories in 38 countries. He received the Croatian National Science Award (1998).

Title：To be decided