Department of Physics E. R. Caianiello, Università di Salerno, Italy;Dr. Antonio DI BARTOLOMEO is full professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and president of the Physics Education Committee at the University of Salerno, Italy, where he teaches semiconductor device physics and nanoelectronics. His present research interests include: optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials; van der Waals heterostructures and Schottky junctions; field-effect transistors, non-volatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, and field emission devices. He completed his PhD in Physics in 1997 at Salerno University, where he held the position of researcher in Experimental Physics before the appointment as a professor. His scientific career started at CERN (CH) with the collaboration of experiments on neutrino oscillations and heavy-ion collisions. He spent several years in the industry as a semiconductor device engineer (ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technologies, and Intel Corporation) and was a guest scientist at IHP-Microelectronics (Germany) and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He has authored over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two physics textbooks, and two patents. He currently serves as an Editorial Board member for several journals, including MDPI’s Nanomaterials, Sensors and Electronics.

Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium;Dr. Andre Skirtach is a Professor and Head of the Nano-Biotechnology Group at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. He has an MSc in Physics from Moscow State University of Lomonosov, Russia, and a PhD in Chemistry from McGill University, Montréal, Canada. Immediately after graduation, in 1997, he joined the National Research Council/Conceil national de recherches Canada (NRC) in Ottawa as a post-doctoral fellow and researcher. In 2000, Dr. Skirtach and colleagues were involved in establishing a prominent startup—Trillium Phot., Inc. In 2003, he then moved to the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, working initially as a researcher and then as a Group Leader in the Department of Interfaces (headed by Prof. H. Möhwald). Since 2011, Dr. Skirtach is working at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium, leading a Nano-Biotechnology group. He is also a member of Cancer Research Institute of Ghent (CRIG), Advanced Microscopy Center and Nano-Biophotonics center of excellence. Scientific research interests include nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology, nanoparticles and their interactions, polymeric capsules, hydrogel and polymeric planar interfaces, and self-assembly processes, as well as the application and development of microscopic approaches for these and other phenomena. He is a member of the board of several journals, including Nanomaterials (MDPI), and has published over 190 papers (according to Web of Science databases).

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China;Dr. Guanying Chen has been a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), since 2013. He also serves as a research faculty at the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB), SUNY Buffalo, since 2011. His research interests focus on lanthanide-doped materials, upconversion, nanocrystals and crystals, biophotonics, and nanostructured solar cells. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, etc. He has an H index of 47 and more than 11,000 total citations. He received the Top-Notch Young Investigator Award from the Department of the Central Committee of China in 2015, Young Changjiang Professor from Ministry of Education China in 2019, Top 100 National Excellent PhD Dissertation Nomination Award of China in 2011, and the Distinguished Young Investigator Career Award of HIT in 2015. He sits on editorial boards for 6 SCI journals, including Scientific Reports, Nanomaterials, Crystals, Journal of Rare Earths, etc.