FRANK MUECKLICH Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Saarland University AFFILIATION: Saarland University, Campus, Building D33, D-66123 Saarbrücken, mail: muecke@matsci.uni-sb.de phone: +49 681 / 302-70500, fax: -70502, mobile +49 172 68 444 13 BORN: 08/17/1959, Dresden, Germany FAMILY STATUS: married to Ute Muecklich (consultant), children: Marc (1990), Sina (1992), Anna (1993) PROFESSIONAL STATUS since 2009 Founding Director, Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS), Research Center of the Steinbeis Foundation, Saarbruecken, Germany since 1995 Head, Institute for Functional Materials at Saarland University, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, Saarbruecken, Germany since 2008 Founder and Chairman, European School of Materials (EUSMAT), Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany since 2014 Editor, Practical Metallography - Preparation, Imaging and Analysis of Microstructures, Hanser Publisher, Munich, Germany PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1991–1995 Max-Planck group leader “Materials Characterization and Microstructure Design”, MPI for Metals Research (Prof. G. Petzow), Stuttgart 1990–1991 MPost D ax Planck Institute oc at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgar for Metals Researcht (Prof. G. Petzow, Prof. A. Seeger), Stuttgart 1988–1990 Head of the Lab “Microscopic Microstructure Characterization”, Department Physical Metallurgy, Freiberg Mining Academy, Freiberg 1985-1987 Graduation and Freiberg University of Doctorate (Dr. Mining and Technology (Freiberg Mining Academy) -Ing.): “X-ray Diffraction on point defects in GaAs single crystals”, Department Physical Metallurgy, Freiberg Mining Academy, Freiberg 1980–1985 Degree (Dipl.-Ing.): Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science & Engineering, Department Physical Metallurgy, Freiberg Mining Academy, Freiberg Freiberg Mining Academy FIELDS OF WORK AND MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:  3D microstructure research in the micro, nano and atomic scale to understand quantitative correlations between microstructural features and processing as well as properties  New theoretical and experimental methods for image analysis, visualization and classification.  Microstructure design by Laser interference structuring and functionalization using Direct Laser Interference Patterning (DLIP).  Advanced microstructure morphologies for high performing functional metallic materials. PUBLICATIONS - total number: >400 >280 peer reviewed, >100 non peer reviewed, 11 patents, 12 book chapters, 1 textbook 2 TEXTBOOK: J. Ohser and F. Mücklich „Statistical Analysis of Micro Structures in Materials Science“ John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, 2000, 381 pages, 303 Refs., 115 Figs., 52 Tabs., 64 Program codes AWARDS and HONORS  Full member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech),  Henry Clifton Sorby Award 2016 for the lifetime achievement in microstructure research, IMS in the American Society for Materials, ASM International (USA)  Berthold Leibinger Innovation Award 2016, best innovation in applied Laser technology (2nd award), Berthold Leibinger Foundation, Germany, shared with coworkers: A. Lasagni, C. Gachot, A. Rosenkranz, M. Hans, K. Trinh,  German Copper Prize 2013, best industrial copper innovation of the year, German Copper Institute, Düsseldorf, shared with coworkers: D. Britz and C. Selzner  Löhn-Prize 2012, for the most innovative transfer project of a Steinbeis Institute, SteinbeisFoundation, Germany, shared with coworkers: D. Britz, C. Selzner  Fellow Member of the Honor Society for Materials Science and Engineering (ASMu, USA, 2010)  Werner Köster Prize 2010, for “Quantitative 3D Characterization of Graphite Morphologies in Cast Iron” German Materials Society, DGM, shared with coworker: A. Velichko  Honda Initiation Grant 2010, Honda R&D Europe, innovative scientific idea with high potential for automotive industry, Honda Foundation, Japan, shared with coworker: C. Gachot  Morton Antler Memorial Lecture 2009, honored at the International World Conference on Electrical Contacts ICEC Vancouver, IEEE (USA)  Roland Mitsche Prize 2008, awarded for lifetime achievements in the field of microscopic microstructure research, German Materials Society, DGM (Germany) and Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials ASMET (Austria),  Werner Köster Prize 2007, for “Laser Interference Metallurgy – using as a tool for micro/nano Structuring”, German Materials Society, DGM, shared with coworkers: C. Daniel, A. Lasagni  Alfried Krupp Prize 1997, annual prize for Germany’s most promising younger University Professor (first Materials Scientist), Alfried Krupp Foundation,  Georg Masing Memorial Prize 1995, annual prize for the most promising junior materials scientist, German Materials Society, DGM  Student Excellence Award of TU Freiberg Mining Academy, for the best student of the year 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISION of DISSERTATIONS  >40 supervised and successfully completed doctoral dissertations  Out of them: 5 full professorships: Germany (Dresden), Austria (Vienna), USA (Tennessee), China (Dalian), Chile (Santiago d.C.) and further leading positions in national and international companies LEADERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS Since 2017 since 2016 2015-2016 2006-2015 since 2010 Board of Directors, International Metallographic Society in the American Society of Materials (ASM International) Selection Board for Fellows of the Foundation of German Business sdw (Responsible Professor for Universities in Southwest Germany – Trier, Saarbruecken, Kaiserslautern), Berlin “Fachkollegiat” of the German Science Foundation (DFG) Selection Board of the Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen Program) EU-Coordinator of the European Graduate School DocMASE (Erasmus Mundus Doctorate) “Advanced Materials Science and Engineering”, Saarbrücken-Linköping-Barcelona-NancyLulea 3 since 2005 EU-Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Program AMASE (Advanced Materials Science and Engineering) Saarbrücken-Lulea-Barcelona-Nancy 2008-2013 Supervisory Board of the German Society for Materials, DGM, Germany 2006–2008 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Materials, DGM, Germany 2002-2006 Member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Materials, DGM, Germany 2006-2008 Visiting Professor at Dalian University, Dalian, China (several visits) since 2006 Appointment “Foreign Advisor for the Korean Society for Metallography”, KSM, Korea 1998-2002 Chairman of the Expert Committee on Metallography, DGM, Germany since 1995 Reviewer mainly for German Science Foundation, Humboldt-Foundation, VolkswagenFoundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Science Fond Austria, Ministries of Science and Technology for the Federal Government of Germany and for EU LEADERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (only conference chair activities shown)  Conference Chair: MSE2018- Germany’s most comprehensive international conference on Materials Science and Engineering, Darmstadt, September 2018  Conference Chair: EUROMAT 2013, Sevilla, Spain (largest conference in Materials Science and Engineering in Europe, 2500 participants, 54 symposia, organized by fems (EU)  Conference Chair: MSE2008 – Germany’s most comprehensive international conference on Materials Science and Engineering) Nuremberg, Germany, 1200 participants, 23 symposia, organized by DGM  Conference Chair: INTERNATIONAL 3D MICROSTRUCTURE MEETING 2011 Saarbrücken, organized by Saarland University and Fraunhofer Society, Germany  Conference Chair: GERMAN COPPER CONFERENCE 2010 Saarbrücken, organized together with the German Copper Institute, Düsseldorf  Conference Chair: EUROMET2000 – 3 rd European Congress on Metallography Saarbrücken, organized by DGM, Germany  Conference Chair: GAFOS 1999 – German-American Frontiers of Science Potsdam, Germany, organized by NAS (USA) and Humboldt Foundation (Germany) EDITORIAL BOARDS AND REVIEW ACTIVITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS Editor of “Practical Metallography – Preparation, Imaging and Analysis of Microstructures” Carl Hanser Publ., www.practical-metallography.com , (editor in chief since 1998) Editorial Boards: Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis (MMA, Springer and ASM), International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR, Hanser), Materials Science and Technology (MST, Maney), Reviewer for scientific journals: for many appropriate journals, most frequently for: Scientific Reports (Nature), Adv. Mat., Adv.Eng.Mat., Intermet., Acta Mat., IJMR, MMA, Wear, Appl. Surface Science, phys.stat.sol., Materials (MDPI) and others NON SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES Since 2015 Board member, Commercial Council of the Saarland State Bank (Saarländische Landesbank) Since 2010 Advisory Board member, Saarland Venture Capital Society (SWG - Saarländische Wagniskapital Gesellschaft) 4 HONOURARY ACTIVITY Since 2015: Board and Managing Director of the University Society of Saarland (Universitätsgesellschaft des Saarlandes)

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 400+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. This year he received the 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, Honorary Doctor of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, Gomel, Belarus in 2000, University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011, and University of Tyumen, Russia in 2019. He is a registered professional engineer. He is an Academy Professor (San Jose, CA), and has served as an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2),and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He has served as Expert Investigator on IP related issues in the U.S. and International Courts. His research interests are in Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of Bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics, Nanomaterials Characterization, Scanning Probe Techniques, Magnetic Storage, Bio/nanotechnology, Nanomanufacturing, Bioinspired Liquid Repellency, Self-cleaning, Anti-icing, Anti-fouling, and Water Harvesting, Science and Technology Policy.He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy,and biomimetics. He is considered by some one of thepioneers of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices, nanotribology, green tribology, and biomimetics. He had introduced the word nanotribology in a title of a Nature paper in 1995 and in a title of a first book on green tribology in 2010. He is one of the most prolific authors. He has authored 10scientific books, 100+handbook chapters, and 900+scientific papers (Google Scholar’s one of 1248 Highly Cited Researchers in All Fields, h-index - 140+with 90k+ citations;Scopus’sone of 401Scientists for Career-long Citation ImpactAcross All Fieldsout of over 8 million scientists from around world, and Fourth Highly Cited Researcher in Mechanical Eng.;ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Scienceand in Cross-field Category. His research was listed as the Top Ten Science Stories of 2015. He has also edited more than 60 books and holds more than 25 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies. He has given more than 400invited presentations including 300+ keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences on six continents.He delivered a TEDx 2019 lectureon Lessons from Nature. His biography has been listed in over two dozen Who's Who books including Who's Who in the World. He has received more than two dozen awards for his contributions to science and technology from professional societies, industry, and U.S. government agencies including International Tribology Gold Medal and Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) Global Award for bioinspired surfaces. He received NASA’s Certificate of Appreciation to recognize the critical tasks performed in support of President Reagan’s Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. He is also the recipient of various international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. He is foreign member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia), Byelorussian Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy ofTriboengineering of Ukraine, honorary member of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus and STLE, fellow of ASME, IEEE,and the New York Academy of Sciences, and member of ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. He is an accomplished organizer. He organized the Ist Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and the Ist Int. Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990, both of which are now held annually. He organized two international NATO institutes in Europe. He is founder of an ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Division founded in 1992 and served as founding chair during 1993-1998. He has previously worked for Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; IBM, Tucson, AZ; andIBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA.He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Dr. SABU THOMAS is currently , the Director, School of Chemical Sciences and Hon. Director,and also the Hon. Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarshini Hills P. O. Kottayam, Kerala, India. He did his Ph.D from Indian institute of Technology (IIT),Kharagpur. Prof.Thomas has a h Index of 106 and has published 1090 international papers with 55000 total citations. He has 15 patents and 150 books to his credit. In 2008, Prof Thomas was cited in the list of most productive researchers in India.(5th Position).In 2018 he received the faculty Research award by Careers 360 for the most cited researcher in India in Material Science. He is a visiting professor in several foreign Universities including France, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia,Poland etc.In 2017 Prof.Thomas was awarded the Full bright fellowship Our research group consists of PhD students, Post-doctoral associates, Visiting students and Project students. Almost 80 Ph D students have graduated from the group and are located in various parts of the world. Prof. Sabu Thomas has many research collaborations all around the world.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 60 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak in two year of his retirement, 2020 and 2021. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Nick Quirke is Professor of Chemical Physics. His research group conducts fundamental research in key areas of nanoscience with strong support from EPSRC, the EU and industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Editor-in-Chief of the international interdisciplinary computational journal, Molecular Simulation, as well as the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience and Nanoscience Methods. He was Principal, Science and Engineering, and Vice President, University College Dublin (2006-2011) on leave from Imperial. Prior to UCD he was Head of the Computational, Theoretical and Structural Chemistry group, Imperial College, Director, Masters Programme in Nanomaterials, Imperial College and Visiting Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory (1998- 2006) . He received the 1998 Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Statistical Mechanics and was Royal Society/Kan Tong Po Professor at the University of Hong Kong for the session 2003/2004. He was awarded the 2006 NSTI Fellow Award