Committee & Speakers
Plenary speakers

Pulickel M. Ajayan
Winner of the 2024 Materials Today Innovation Award
Rice University, USA

Zhenan Bao
Stanford University, USA

Huajian Gao
Tsinghua University, China

Keynote speakers - Materials for Electronics and Quantum



Keynote speakers - Materials for Energy and Sustainability

Husam N. Alshareef
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
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Bin Liu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China




Keynote speakers - Structural Materials

Irene Beyerlein
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Lei Lu
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China



Keynote speakers - Materials for Health


Zaida Álvarez Pinto
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain
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Riccardo Levato
University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), The Netherlands
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Materials Today Award Recipients
We are also pleased to welcome the previous recipients of the Materials Today Rising Star and Agents of Change Awards who will give invited talks at the conference.
Rising Star Awardees
Babak Anasori, Purdue University, USA
Wubin Bai, University of North Carolina, USA
Kai Exner, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Seonki Hong, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Yuanyue Liu, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Caio Otoni, University of Campinas, Brazil
Jijian Xu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ruquan Ye, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Agents of Change Awardee
Vishal Chaudhary, Centre for Theoretical Physics & Natural Philosophy, Mahidol University, Thailand.
Kelley Oh, BioProducts Institute (BPI), University of British Columbia, Canada
Conference Chairs


M. Rosa Palacín
Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, Spain
Scientific Committee

Pei Dong
George Mason University, USA

Junhao Chu
Fudan University, China - EiC of Materials Today Electronics

Hongjin Fan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - EiC of Materials Today Energy
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Adam Lee
Griffith University, Australia

Jian Liu
Inner Mongolia University, China - EiC of Materials Today Sustainability
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Yang Lu
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


Tomas Martin
University of Bristol, UK - EiC of Materials Today Communications
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Jing Xia
University of California Irvine, USA - EiC of Materials Today Quantum
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