Lidong Sun is a professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, China. Dr. Sun received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at National University of Singapore. His research interests include electrochemistry for surface science under confined space, with a particular focus on surface modification and functionalization for metal wires/tubes/microchannels by electrochemical approaches. Dr. Sun is the Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, UK and the Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials.

Rafael Comesaña Piñeiro is a researcher in the field of materials engineering and manufacturing at the University of Vigo, Spain. His research primarily focuses on advanced manufacturing technologies, materials processing, and laser-assisted processing.

Professor James Tsoi is an Assistant Dean (Innovation), Director of Global Hub for Future Dentistry and Associate Professor in Dental Materials Science at HKU Faculty of Dentistry. He received BSc in Applied and Analytical Chemistry and PhD in Dental Materials Science, from the University of Hong Kong. He also holds the Memberships of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and British Computer Society (MBCS), and Fellow in Advanced HE (FHEA). James is actively engaged in a number of research areas including: Dental materials science (mechanical behaviours, surface/bonding and ceramics), AI+ in dentistry (smart manufacturing, digital dentistry, CAD/CAM and 3D printing) and dental education (basic science and e-learning). He has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles, published and granted 10 patents, graduated 44 MSc and 14 PhDs, and been awarded 8 times internationally since he joined HKU Dentistry as a faculty member in 2012. He is currently serving several SCI journals’ editorial board (including Dental Materials), being President in IADR-Dental Materials Group, Member-at-large in the Academy of Dental Materials, Committee Member of Guangdong Province Medical Device Standardization Technical Committee (GD/TC 16), and Hong Kong head-of-delegate in ISO/TC 106 (Dentistry).

Dr. Camila Barreneche has an Associate Professor position at Universitat de Barcelona. Within the EIC Pathfinder ThermoDust project, she collaborated as the Industrial Stakeholders Group manager to provide the main results and achievements of the ThermoDust project to the board, as well as to ask for feedback about the proof of concept that we have developed during this 5-year project.

Professor and doctoral supervisor, with primary research interests in cultural heritage conservation, biological deterioration of cultural relics, and the application of biotechnology in heritage preservation. Research focuses on biological damage to both organic and inorganic cultural artifacts, mechanisms of biological corrosion, and ultimately aims to achieve effective conservation and preventive protection of significant cultural relics.

Miguel Laguna is a Tenured Scientist at INMA (CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza), Zaragoza, Spain. He received his PhD from the University of Zaragoza in 2005 and conducted research at Imperial College London. His expertise includes ceramic processing, coating technologies, laser-assisted manufacturing, and ceramic machining, with a focus on energy applications such as solid oxide fuel cells, hydrogen technologies, solid-state batteries, membranes, and photocatalysis. He has participated in numerous research and industrial projects, authored around 80 indexed publications, supervised BSc, MSc, and PhD students, and served as an invited speaker at more than 20 conferences. He is also an Editorial Board member of several journals, including Coatings.