David Laroze is a Full Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Tarapacá (Chile), where he holds the Chair of Mathematical Modeling and previously served as Director. He has held visiting and research positions at the University of Navarra (Spain), the University of Glasgow (UK), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany), and the University of Chile. He was also an Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Federico Santa Maria Technical University. Since joining the CMS collaboration in 2022, Laroze was among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He has authored over 420 Web of Science-indexed papers in leading journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters, Macromolecules, and the Journal of High Energy Physics. In 2024, he was named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier. He has supervised numerous undergraduate and Ph.D. students and mentored postdoctoral researchers, while also serving on scientific and organizing committees and as a reviewer for international journals. His current research interests encompass nonlinear phenomena, magnetism, hydrodynamic instabilities, radiation physics, thermal and electronic transport in quantum systems, and high energy physics.

James Freericks is passionate about research and education in quantum mechanics. He works in areas that include nonequilibrium many-body physics, quantum computing, quantum chemistry, and pedagogy development in quantum mechanics. He is currently the McDevitt Chair at Georgetown University, where he has been since 1994. He was educated at Princeton University (1985), the University of California, Berkeley (1991), and did postdocs at the Santa Barbara and Davis campuses of the University of California. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is currently the Treasurer of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is also on the editorial board of Symmetry.

Dr. Sándor Frey is a senior research fellow and scientific secretary at Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his PhD degree in 2001 and authored more than 300 scientific publications so far. His main field of research is radio astronomy, more specifically, the applications of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), a technique that provides the highest angular resolution in astronomy by means of coordinated observations by global networks of radio telescope distributed all over the Earth and even beyond. His primary scientific interests include the highest-redshift quasars, dual and binary active galactic nuclei, but he also works on VLBI astrometry to help refining the celestial reference frame and navigating interplanetary spacecraft.

Zhang Yufeng, male, PhD, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Mathematics, China University of Mining and Technology. He completed postdoctoral research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhengzhou University. Research Interests 1. Mathematical Physics: symbolic computation in mathematics, integrable systems, Lie group analysis theory 2. Mathematics Education: mathematical methodology He has co-authored more than 100 research papers published in academic journals including Nonlinearity, Letters in Mathematical Physics, Physica D, Journal of Differential Equations, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physics Letters B, and Acta Mathematica Sinica-English Series. He has co-authored three monographs: 1. Algebraic Methods for Extended Integrable Equation Hierarchies, Science Press, 2014 2. Soliton Theory and Integrable Systems, University of Science and Technology of China Press, 2006 3. Discussions on Mathematics Education and Teaching, China University of Mining and Technology Press, 2017

Quanxin Zhu, Ph.D., is a Second-Level Professor, Xiaoxiang Distinguished Professor, and a doctoral supervisor at Hunan Normal University. He holds the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, major provincial academic honours, and a Humboldt Fellowship. He is vice director of the Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics and director of a key laboratory at a Hunan provincial university. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Chinese Automation Society. His research covers Markov processes and stochastic nonlinear system control. He has published over 200 SCI papers in leading control journals, including Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). He has won multiple first-class provincial natural science awards and has been repeatedly named a Highly Cited Researcher and a top global scientist. He has overseen six NSFC projects and ten provincial research programmes. He is an Executive Director of the Chinese Society for Engineering Probability and Statistics, and holds key positions in multiple national academic societies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Complex Systems, Stability and Control, and sits on the editorial board of six SCI journals.