Dr Quanshun Luo's research interests are in broad areas of materials science and engineering with expertise in characterization of materials and surfaces using X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and related X-ray/electron spectroscopic techniques. Most of his research has been in metallurgy, manufacturing industry, surface engineering technologies and tribology, with more than 100 research publications. Recently his research involves metallic materials of medical implants.

Coating,Material Characterization,Materials Processing,Materials Chemistry

Research and clinical interests include molecular imaging (SPECT and PET), artificial intelligence (AI) applications, adaptive radiotherapy, IGRT/SGRT/SBRT, radiosurgery (Gamma Knife), and brachytherapy.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Rio de Janeiro (1989), a Master's Degree in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992) and a PhD in Medicine (Radiology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1998). I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Radiology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. I have been the Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Medicine (Radiology) / UFRJ from November 2005 to September 2014. I am the Founder and the Head of the Labeling of Cells and Molecules Lab (LMCM) / UFRJ, created in 2002, Professor of Postgraduate Program in Medicine (Radiology) / UFRJ and the Graduate Program in Medical Clinic / UFRJ (since 2012). I was a representative of CEPG / UFRJ from December 2010 to February 2014. I have experience in Nuclear Medicine, with emphasis on Radiopharmacy, working mainly on the following topics: cancer, infection, transplants, cell therapies, stem cells, leukocytes and antibodies.

cancer, infection, transplants, cell therapies, stem cells, leukocytes and antibodies

Key words/interests：Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Image Processing; Computer Vision; Digital Cultural Heritage

His research interests include image processing, image hiding, and data mining.

Radiation Therapy,Radiotherapy,Prostate Cancer,Dosimetry,Cancer Diagnostics,Cancer Chemotherapy

My current research activity is study of archaeological finds by different techniques: SEM-EDS, Raman, XRF etc.

Finished post-graduation in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University. Currently working on Rare-earth ions doped Luminescent materials for opto-electronic applications as a part of my doctoral programme in Gandhigram Rural Institute - DU, INDIA. Also, exploring the radiation shielding properties of the glasses along with their structural investigations.

Applied / Experimental Physics,Sample Preparation,Material Characterization,Emission

Professor Lanza was born in Catania (Italy) in 1982. After a 3-years activity as Senior Academic Researcher, he currently serves as Associate Professor and Dean of Applied Medical Sciences Techniques at the University of Catania. After graduation with honours in Medicine, he trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the same University. As visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he further trained at the Department of Neuroscience and at the Clinical Neurophysiology Unit of the Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). In 2013, he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018, he worked as a Consultant Neurologist at the Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization, and where now he currently holds the position of Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. From 2015 to October 2018, he taught Neurology at the University of Enna (Italy), where he has recently come back to continue the teaching activity. He has authored approximately 200 publications in internationally-indexed peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences or Meetings, and he currently serves as Editor and invited Reviewer of several International Journals. More recently, he has obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Research, the qualification as Full Professor (procedure for the Italian University Professor recruiting, based on rigorous scientific qualification criteria), and an international award for translational research in sleep medicine.

"Medical doctor degree: MBBS (1984)LMCC (1996, licenciate of Medical Council of Canada that all Canadian medical doctors must pass)DMRT (1988 UK), FRCR (1991 UK), DABR (1998 US), FRCPC (1998) (specialist qualifications in England, Canada and United States of America) Honorary Clinical Professor, University of Hong Kong (#35 of global top 100 universities); Clinical Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Previous Director (Jan 2004-Oct 2006), Skin Site Leader (Jan 2004 onwards), Principal Investigator of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG, now called NRG) from Jan 2001 to Dec 2006, in the Dept of Radiation Oncology, Allan Blair Cancer Centre (the first cancer center in Canada historically) located in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency (with 20-year long service award, Nov 1998-Oct 2018). Currently President of the International Oncology Cooperative Research Group since 2024 and invited lead author of the online educational resource, UpToDate on 5 skin cancer chapters being an international expert on skin cancer, since its inception in 2000. Having been trained in clinical oncology in Hong Kong (July 1984-1989) following the British system allows me to gain medical and radiation oncology expertise in chest, genitourinary, CNS, sarcoma, pediatric sites. I provided coverage for clinical duties for other cancer sites, hence I keep updating myself on other medical disciplines as well, e.g. geriatrics, palliative care, pediatrics, pediatric oncology, internal medicine, general surgery regarding latest research that will aid in joined medical decision making with patients. In fact my latest publication is on wound healing by photodynamic therapy on 27 Aug 2024. I practiced in Hong Kong for a total of 7.5 years before immigration to Canada in Feb 1992. My further training (July 1994-Oct 1998 ) and subsequent work (Nov 1998-Apr 2020) in North America widen my perspective on cultural sensitivity and understanding of sustainable health care delivery, drug development process and importance of collaboration with pharmaceutical sales managers e.g. Goserelin (AstraZeneca and later TerSera), Enzalutamide (Astellas), Leuprolide (Abbvie), Degarelix (Ferring), radium-223 (Bayer) to promote their products by providing in-services/talks/publications with case reports and review. I am experienced in preparation of consents, safety documents for Institutional Review Board (IRB), writing clinical trial protocols and manuscripts for journal publications, I wrote the first draft for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG, later renamed as NRG ) 0518 randomized phase III trial on zoledronic acid. With a mature personality, superior networking skills (knowing a lot of doctors in Canada and Hong Kong), administrative skills (as the department head and principal investigator before) and research skills (as principal investigators of multiple clincial trials), I am confident that I would become an asset of your organization, building the team to achieve its missions."

Research Interests: developing novel computational methods, including medical image reconstruction/analysis. Also my research interests include computational methods in medical imaging, medical image processing and segmentation, computer aided detection/diagnosis, medical image construction techniques and imaging in diagnostic radiology/echography.

spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in spectra of diatomic molecules (N2,O2, Ge2, SnH+), SOC in OLED mechanisms, SOC effects in enzymes of biooxidation, SOC in ROS.

Engineering Environmental Sciences & Ecology Thermodynamics Optics Physics

He got a PhD degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics in 2020. During the period of PhD study, he was jointly trained by China-US government-sponsored overseas study program. After that, he becomes a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2022-2023. Now, he is a member of the Pearl River Talent Program in Guangdong Province. His main research directions are advanced semiconductor imaging technology, and multifunctional medical imaging chips & systems. to now, he has published nearly 50 academic papers, filed/granted 58/18 Chinese invention patents, and held multiple PCT patents.

Xiaowang Liu is an academic researcher from Northwestern Polytechnical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nanoparticle & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 48 publications. Previous affiliations of Xiaowang Liu include National University of Singapore & Anhui Normal University.

Dr. FAKHR UL HASSAN accomplished his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science & Technology of Chengdu, China in 2020. His research interest includes genetic engineering of bacteriophytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs); application of near-infrared fluorescent proteins (NIR-FPs) as NIR biosensors for heavy metals detection; genome editing of Rice plant by CRISPR-Cas9; and biodegradation of synthetic plastics.

Biodegradation,CRISPR CAS9,Plant Tissue Culture,Protein Engineering,Molecular Dynamics Simulation

My research include spectroscopic assessment of physicochemical properties of polysaccharide polymers and biomaterials

Polymers,Biomaterials,Cell Culture,Raman Spectroscopy

Helena Cristina Vasconcelos is an Assistant Professor of Materials Physics at the University of Azores, at S. Miguel Island, Portugal. She received her doctorate (PhD) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) in 1999 in the field of Materials Engineering. Currently she is responsible for teaching a wide range of subjects including Materials Sciences, Physics, Biophysics and Biomaterials. Aiming to promote the Azores University, she regularly collaborates in exchange programs, open days of science in schools and scientific activities integrated into the National Program for Science and Technology for young people. She is a member of the Portuguese Society of Physics. She chaired several international conferences and develops its research activity in CEFITEC (Center for Physical and Technological Research), Nova University of Lisbon, FCT/UNL, Portugal). Also she developed and organized several scientific events. As a researcher, she has participated in several national and international projects, as a project leader or as a collaborator. She is author (and co-author) of 11 book chapters and published several ISI scientific papers. She is a reviewer in several ISI journals. Her scientific research focuses on the preparation, development and characterization of glass and thin films for optical applications, ceramic materials and/or glasses for biomedical applications and a recent line of research includes natural materials (natural fiber biocomposites). Helena C. Vasconcelos had several academic management positions at the University of the Azores, as Head of the Department of Technological Sciences and Development, Member of the Scientific Council and Director of the Section of Physics.

Li-Gang Wang is a professor of optical physics at Zhejiang University. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Zhejiang University in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and got his Ph. D degree from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2005. Then he served as Associate Professor at Department of Physics till 2014. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also did his postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University from 2013 to 2014. He had also visited Center for Quantum Physics at CIIT, Pakistan and visited the National Center for Applied Physics at KACST, Saudi Arabia. He has published over 100 research papers on topics such as optics in curved space, singular optics, coherence optics, optical imaging & tweezers, light propagations, slow and fast-light propagations, and Goo-Hanchen shifts.

Laser physics,Quantum optics

Mehmet Gencturk currently works at the Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Mehmet does research in Emergency Medical Care, Traumatology and Emergency Medicine. Their current project is 'FDG-Positron Emission Tomography for Assessing the Response to Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Bladder Cancer Patients'.

Neuroimaging,Functional Neuroimaging,Brain Imaging,Magnetic Resonance

"Newly recruited to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an Associate Professor in Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences, with an expertise in radiation biology. Previously a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where she headed a research group focused on understanding how space radiation perturbs the cell and its microenvironment to potentiate cancer risk. Her long-term interests are to understand the mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of radiation-induced mammary carcinogenesis. She has a career-long interest in repair of DNA double-strand breaks, the most damaging lesion induced by radiation. Her work elucidates the proteins, pathways, and networks critical for the damage response. Her undergraduate training was in microbiology at the University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont and completed postdoctoral training at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Stanford. Current Research Areas: 1) Radiation induced DNA damage and repair 2) Kinetics of RIF 3) Radiation induced changes in mammary organ development 4)Radiation-Induced Cancer"

Dr Jim O’ Doherty is a certified principal physicist at Sidra Hospital, Qatar and an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine. He has previously worked at King’s College London as a research PET scientist, and has held other clinical and academic positions in the UK, Ireland and Sweden. His research interests include quantitative multimodality imaging, radionuclide dosimetry, MR spectroscopy, cardiac perfusion in PET and MRI and quality standard in Radiology.

"Dr. Nafiseh Mirzajani: I am Independent researcher in collaboration with the Physics Department, Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), Brazil and the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy in subject (simulation of OSL material) since 2017. I was Postdoc and Volunteer cooperator professor in Medical Physics in the Physics Department of Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), Brazil since January 2016 for one year. I worked as academic visitor (Research Post-Doc Activities) in the subject of application of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Techniques for clinical radiation dosimetry at Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, Portugal in the context of collaboration between Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB), Portugal during October 30, 2013 to December 31. I received a PhD degree on July 5 (2013) in Nuclear and industrial safety Engineering - (Bio Medical), University of Pisa, Italy in the subject “Characterization of the Mixed Radiation Fields for Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)” and is related to Medical Physics, Biomedical engineering, and Patient Dosimetry. Furthermore, I have experience and working mainly on the following topics, especially in the field of radiation protection, thermoluminescence dosimetry, radiation detectors, dosimeters, neutron and gamma spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear medicine, BNCT, and methods for clinical dosimetry and more Monte Carlo simulations for clinical radiotherapy application. I am interested in Radiotherapy, Proton therapy, BNCT, Hadron therapy, radiation protection, nuclear medicine, SPECT and PET, CT (Computed Tomography) and magnetic resonance imaging in diagnostic imaging. Moreover, I am a reviewer of ISI and International journals and International conferences and more editor of book."

Dr. Gaurav Malviya did his PhD and Postdoc in Nuclear Imaging and Molecular Imaging field. He established a new pre-clinical imaging (Mediso nanoScan PET/MRI) facility in the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute. Dr Malviya’s research interests include the development and pre-clinical evaluation of novel PET/SPECT radiotracers for translational imaging in advanced cancer murine models.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil (2004), a Master's Degree in Materials, Minerals and Radiation Sciences from the Development Center of the Nuclear Technology, Brazil (2006), and a PhD in Physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil (2012). Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Nuclear Energy, UFMG, where I have been developing academic researches in the nuclear reactors field, specifically associated with thermal analysis of spent nuclear fuels disposal. I am also a third-year medical student of the Medical School of the UFMG. In the medical area, I have been conducting basic researches in animal models related to the effects of ionizing radiation on the immunological system.

Shuai Zhao (赵帅) holds a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. He received B.Sc in Applied Mathematics from Heze University, China, M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. He currently works as a Member of Technical Staff at Big Switch Networks Inc. He previous worked as a senior engineer at Mediatek USA Inc. He is an IEEE member and serves (or served) as a Technical Committee Member for 40+ IEEE Conferences such as IEEE NFV-SDN, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE NOMS, IEEE NetCom, IEEE ICIIP and etc. He worked with Lenovo, FutureWei,Raytheon BBN and Mediatek Inc USA (2016). He has published over 15 papers. His research interests are Application-Awareness Networking, Software-Defined Networking, network design, big data, deep learning,MPEG-DASH and MPEG-I Standards, and VR/360 video streaming.

Apollonov V.V. is the leading specialist in the area of basic principles of creation and development of high power laser systems and high power laser radiation interaction with matter. He has made an outstanding input into creation and development of new branches of science - physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, creation of high power continuous wave, pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, high intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, high power laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, medical applications for UV lasers. Recent results of his investigations related to the laser diode arrays phase-locking, mechanisms of shock waves merging for a rockets launch by high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser light, super long conductive channel based on the electrical breakdown in a dust plasma produced by mechanism of ablation, high repetition rate optical pulsating discharge applications, space debris elimination by laser, scalable mono-module disk laser and high power laser applications in the Arctic are under very intensive implementation in our country and abroad. He is the author of 1923 research publications (19 books, 546 presentations and 148 patents, 954 articles, inf. from Research Gate). Apollonov V.V. is a high profile scientist and well known around all over the world, for more than 49 years of his international scientific activity, he has participated and organized more than 60 international conferences, symposiums and workshops, prepared 32 candidates and doctors of physics and mathematics. For the last 5 years his scientific group has fulfilled more than 60 R and D contracts with customers from Japan, UK, Germany, France, China, Korea, Singapore and USA. He is the General Director of “Energomashtechnika” Ltd. Apollonov V.V. is the member of European and American Physical Society, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and the member of specialized scientific council of Russia. He is a full member of Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Engineering Sciences, member of the Presidium RANS. He is the laureate of State Prize of USSR (1982), of Russia (2001) and ECOWORLD-2017 International prize.

Dr. Ibrahim Sevki Bayrakdar, graduated doctorate from Ataturk University, Dentistry Faculty, Erzurum-Turkey. He is currently working at Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology as assistant professor. My areas of interest and specialization are Oral Medicine, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology and Oral Pathologies. He is associated with European Academy of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (EADMFR), International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (IADMFR), Turkish Oral Diagnosis and Maxillofacial Radiology Society (ODMFR), International Association of Oral Pathologist (IAOP).

Prof. D. K. Dhawan is presently working as a Professor in the department of Biophysics and has also worked as chairman department of Biophysics, Coordinator of Centre for Nuclear Medicine as well as Centre for Medical Physics at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Professor Dhawan did his Ph.D. from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, in the year 1984. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked in Radiation Medicine Centre of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India and was awarded Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Radioisotopes Techniques. His research areas are radiation medicine, neurodegeneration and cancer. He has published 197 research articles and 158 are listed in Scopus during 33 years of his research career. Prof. Dhawan has supervised 37 Ph.D. and 44 M.Sc. theses of students. He is a Fellow of Union for International Cancer Control, Indian College of Nuclear Medicine and Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists. Recently, he was given Oration award by Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists at its 38th Annual conference held at Chennai.

Medical physicist at Pardis Noor medical imaging centers. Research faculty at PDT department, Medical Laser Research Center, JDTUMS

Medical Physics,Biomedical Photonics,Laser Tissue Interactions,Photodynamic Therapy (PDT),Laser Safety