Professor Paul K L Yu*

Provost of Revelle College and William S C Chang Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

Interests in optoelectronic materials, devices and engineering, modern communication, microwave photonics (e.g. transmission of high frequency optical signals and signal processing).

Professor Hongtao Yu*

Chair Professor and Dean of School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, P.R.C.

Interests in combining cell biological, biochemical, and biophysical methods, to understand cellular mechanisms governing genomic stability at the molecular and atomic levels.

Professor James Fawcett*

Head of Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Interests in repairing the damaged nervous system.

Professor Yibin Kang*

Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, U.S.A.

Interests in functional genomics analysis of mammary gland development, breast cancer initiation, progression and metastasis.

Professor Andrew Lever*

Professor of Infectious Diseases, Head of Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Interests in retroviruses and rotaviruses, pathogen biology and evolution, gene transfer and gene therapy.

Professor Jonas Rosendahl*

Leitender Oberarzt der Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin I, Universitätsklinikum Halle, Germany

Interests in genetic studies in gastroenterology, functional studies of genetic variants (in vitro/in vivo), clinical research in gastroenterology.

Professor Richard Strugnell*

Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Interests in microbiology/immunology interface, and in basic bacterial molecular biology of key microbiological phenomena including bacterial physiology, biofilm development and adaptation to intracellular growth.

Professor Ronaldo Borja*

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor (By Courtesy) of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Interests in theoretical and computational solid mechanics, geomechanics and geosciences.

Professor Yiran Chen*

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, U.S.A.

Interests in emerging memory and storage systems, embedded systems, CPS, edge computing and mobile applications, neuromorphic computing, deep learning and systems security, and low power circuit and system.

Professor Ning Lu*

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A.

Interests in geotechnical engineering, engineering mechanics, geomechanics, landslides.

Professor Honggang Wang*

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, U.S.A.

Interests in internet of things and connected health, Body Area Networks (BAN) and wireless multimedia, multimedia processing and communications, cyber and multimedia security, mobile multimedia and cloud, edge computing, wireless networks and cyber-physical system, big data in mHealth, data engineering and machine learning.

Professor Bill Milne*

Emeritus Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Interests in carbon nanotubes, graphene, ZnO thin films and devices, MEMS and sensors, field emission.

Professor Grant Allen*

Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, U.K.

Interests in atmospheric physics, remote sensing, spectroscopy, greenhouse gases, unmanned airborne sensors, air quality instrumentation.

Professor David Carey*

Professor and Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, U.K.

Interests in graphene and beyond graphene: 2D Layered Materials, band gap engineering, doping and characterization.

Professor Young Hee Lee*

Director, IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Interests in physics, energy science and nanostructure physics.

Professor Yinsheng Wang*

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.

Interests in mass spectrometry-based bioanalytical chemistry, with emphasis on quantitative proteomics, post-translational modifications of proteins, chemical proteomics, and DNA adduct analysis, synthetic chemistry, with emphasis on the synthesis of modified nucleosides and nucleic acids, molecular biology: with interests in understanding the biological consequences and repair of DNA damage, epigenetics: with focus being placed on understanding the biological consequences of post-translational modifications of core histone proteins and post-transcriptional modifications of RNA.