BIO of Florian Kongoli

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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc., (www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries.
Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers.
Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries.
Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has worked with more than 60 well-known chemical and metallurgical companies and several well-known universities around the world.
Dr. Kongoli is has published 77 books and about 190 scientific articles in the last 10 years and has delivered in numerous countries about 200plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations.
Dr. Kongoli is an Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) and member of the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2017 he was Awarded “The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017” by CEO-Monthly magazine in UK and in 2019 was given the official title of Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro by a special Legislative Decree voted unanimously by the Rio de Janeiro City Council. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals. He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Minister and other government officials.
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BIO of Elias Aifantis

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Elias C. Aifantis graduated with a Diploma from National Technical University of Athens in 1973 and with a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign in 1976, a visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1980 and a full Professor at the Michigan Technological University in 1982. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Michigan Technological University/USA, as well as Mercator fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University/Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture/China. Formerly, he has also been a Distinguished Faculty Advisor at King Abdulaziz University/Saudi Arabia, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/Russia and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as MegaGrant Director at Togliatti State University/Russia. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has coined the terms dislocation patterning, material instabilities, gradient plasticity/elasticity, chemo/nanomechanics, and pioneered internal length gradient (ILG) theories in these fields. Currently, he is extending the ILG framework to revisit electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations, as well as gravitation and Newton’s Law. He has published over 339 articles and received about 12,609 citations with 55 h-index (Scopus); 11,730 citations with 54 h-index (Web of Science); 17,860 citations with 66 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering.

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BIO of Raj Das

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Biography - Dr Raj Das
Biography: Dr Raj Das, RMIT University
Dr Raj Das leads the ‘Advanced Mechanics and Materials’ group in the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation discipline of the School of Engineering of RMIT University in Australia. He is also an honorary academic in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Das is a principal investigator of the ‘Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre’ of RMIT University, and also an adjunct academic of the University of Quebec, Canada. He serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ of Engineers Australia.
Dr Raj Das has more than 15 years of experience in design, analysis and optimisation of aerospace materials and structures with a focus on computational simulation, composite structures, failure analysis, and damage tolerance optimisation for civil and defence applications. Dr Das has a PhD from Monash University, Australia in Structural Optimisation and Failure Analysis. Dr Das has previously worked in the University of Auckland, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the University of Manchester.
Dr Das has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries. Dr Das has been granted several national and international awards and fellowships.

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BIO of Victor Eremeyev

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Prof. Eremeyev graduated from Rostov State University (Rostov on Don, Russia) in 1985 (diploma in Mechanics with summa cum laude grade) and defended his PhD in Rostov State University in 1990 (title: The stability of two-phase nonlinear thermo-elastic bodies). He was awarded Dr. hab. (Doctor of science of Physics & Mathematics) at Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Science, Saint-Petersburg (title: Mechanics of two-phase bodies with microstructure under finite deformations).
Prof. Eremeyev has been appointed several professorship positions. He was an Assistant Professor, then an Associate Professor, then a Professor of Divisions of Computer Science, Elasticity and Mathematical Modeling of Department of Mechanics & Mathematics of Rostov State University/South Federal University. He also headed the laboratory of smart materials in Southern Scientific center of Russian Academy of Science. Then went on to hold Researcher positions at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. He was also a Professor at Rzeszów University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland.
Prof. Eremeyev has more than 190 publications indexed by Scopus, 14 written or edited books in English, Russian and Spanish. H-index: 32 (Web of Science), 33 (Scopus), 41 (Google Scholar).
Citations: >2500 (Web of Science); > 3000 citations (Scopus); >5000 (Google Scholar). His research interests focus on general theory of elastic and inelastic shells with applications, theory of continuum media with microstructures, generalized media, cosserat continua, surface stresses, nonlinear elasticity, phase transformations, and nano- and micromechanics.

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BIO of Nicholas Fantuzzi

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Nicholas Fantuzzi was born in Bologna, June 16, 1984.
Bachelor and Master degrees in Civil Engineering obtained at the University of Bologna in
2006 and 2009 both with grade 110/110 cum laude.
First position obtained in the competition for admission to the PhD in Structural Engineering
and Hydraulics at the University of Bologna in December 2009.
PhD in Structural Engineering and Hydraulics at the University of Bologna in 2013. PhD
Thesis title: “Generalized differential quadrature finite element method applied to advanced
structural mechanics”.
From 2010 to 2015 Adjunct Professor (Tutor Contract) for activities to support the teaching
of Second Level Master in “Design of Oil & Gas plants”, for ENI Corporate University, at
University of Bologna.
From Jun 2013 to Jun 2017 owner a research grant entitled: “About shell structures made
of anisotropic materials. Unified formulation and numerical analysis”, at the University of
Bologna.
From Jun 2017 to Oct 2018 Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna.
From Nov 2018 Senior Assistant Professor (tenue-track) at the University of Bologna.
Since 2017 Teacher of the course “Modelling of Offshore Structures” and of the course
“Advanced Structural Mechanics” in the International Master degree in Offshore Engineering
(former Civil Engineering-Offshore Curriculum).
His research interests are: mechanics of solids and structures, fracture mechanics,
implementation of numerical methods for the design of structures, application of composite
materials in offshore engineering, design and strengthening of offshore components with
numerical simulations. Finite element method, differential quadrature method and mesh-free
element methods.
Winner of 3 international awards:
- The “ICCS17 Ian Marshall's Award for Best Student Paper” in 2013.
- The “Best Student Paper Award – MIMS16” in 2016.
- The “ICCM Young Investigator Award” in 2018.
He participated in the organization or co-chaired 11 International Conferences on composite
structures and mechanics of solids and structures. Latest event is:
- 23rd International Conference on Composite Structures and 6th International
Conference on Mechanics of Composites (ICCS23 & MECHCOMP6), Porto,
Portugal. 15-18 June 2020.
Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Mesh-Free and Finite Element-Based Methods for
Structural Mechanics Applications” of Mathematical and Computational Applications, MDPI
Publishing.
Section Editor-in-Chief of “Mathematical and Computational Applications”, MDPI Publishing.
Co-Editor of the Special Issue “Multiscale Mechanical Modelling of 'Complex' Materials and
Engineering Applications” of International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
(IJMCE).
Reviewer activity on more than 80 international journals. Author of more than 90
international peer reviewed journal papers, 7 books (in Italian and English) and more than
60 abstracts in national and international conferences.

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