Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics and was for 21 years the chair of the department ofSolid-State Physics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa (twice), U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018.In 2018 he was appointed asexecutive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a position he is still holding. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,the EU Academy of Sciences, aForeignMember of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), Fellow/Member of the Academic Committee of the CORE Academy and Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE, Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Associationand a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award of IEEE, the Oyo Buturiand MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award),to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg AlferovUniversity of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited is72,000+ and his Hirsch factor is 118(@ Google Scholar). His research interests include nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, like edge and surface emitting lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers,energy efficient data communication, andphysics and technology of nanostructures.

Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover, Germany He graduated with honors and received PhD in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1981. He started his scientific carrier at P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and later worked in many research centers worldwide. At present, he is Professor of Physics at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics and Chair of Nanoengineering. In 2024 he received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. Scientific areas: laser physics and laser applications, nanoengineering, additive manufacturing technologies, quantum and nonlinear optics, nano- and biophotonics, biomedical implants and devices, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Karsten König is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Biophotonics and Laser Technologies at the Saarland University. He gained the PhD degree in physics and habilitation degree in cell biology from the University Jena. Karsten Koenig is also founder and president of the companies JenLab GmbH in Berlin/Germany and Multiphoton Laser Technologies Inc. in California. Prof. Karsten Koenig published about 500 scientific papers (e.g. in Nature) in the field of biophotonics and laser material machining. He pioneered fluorescence lifetime imaging, femtosecond laser nanoprocessing including laser transfection, as well as clinical multiphoton tomography and high-resolution optical skin biopsies.

Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman is ASML/Cymer Chair and Distinguished Professor in ECE at UCSD. He received the M. Sc and Ph. D degrees from Technion- in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to nanophotonics, silicon photonics, and semiconductor nanolasers. He is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, SPIE Gabor Award, OSA Emmett N. Leith Medal, OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize and OPTICA (former OSA) Nick Holonyak Jr Award.