Current Physics

Professor Jiangfeng Gong received his PhD degree from Nanjing University in 2008. He worked as a lecturer in the College of Science, Hohai University in the same year. Then he worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney under the support of "Endeavor Award" from 2012 to 2013. He had published more than 50 scientific papers with citations exceeding 1100. He is now a professor in the College of Science at the Hohai University.

Prof. Ming Zheng obtained his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. After working at National University of Singapore, The University of Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr. Zheng has been awarded Japan Society for The Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship and joined Nagoya University, Japan, in 2018. In 2019, he was invited to join China University of Mining and Technology as a full professor. His current research interests include functional (multiferroic, ferroelectric, magnetic and luminescent) thin-film materials and device physics. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers published in international reputed journals including NPG Asia Mater. (2), Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2), Appl. Phys. Lett. (9), Phys. Rev. Applied (3), Phys. Rev. B. He also served as Guest Editor for Special Issue of the journal Coatings entitled "Functional Ferroic Materials, Films and Devices", and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Advanced Ceramics. In 2021, he was honored with the IAAM Young Scientist Medal in recognition for his contribution to "Hybrid Electronic, Magnetic & Optical Materials".

Luciano Mescia is an associate professor of electromagnetic fields at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari. His research activities focus on electromagnetic fields theory and applications, antennas, optical fibers as well as on evolutionary computation for solving electromagnetic optimization problems (artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm, swarm intelligence). He cooperates with many national and international research institutions, and has collaborated in research projects with academic and industrial partners. He achieved the Honorable Mention by IEEE MTT-S Central-Southern Italy Award 2014. Prof. Mescia is a member of Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEm).

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1995. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 2001 and is now a Senior Research Officer. His current research interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy storage devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board for 9 scientific journals. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1995. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 2001 and is now a Senior Research Officer. His current research interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy storage devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board for 9 scientific journals. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Prof. Wang is now working as a full professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include laser material processing technology, additive manufacturing technology (3D printing), interactions of laser with materials, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, and laser preparation of new materials. Prof. Wang has achieved 5 Chinese government awards for scientific and technological progress. He also has published more than 120 papers and has authorized 45 invention patents.

Prof. Alajerami is a renowned physicist and researcher in the field of medical imaging and radiation protection and advanced materials. The academic journey of Prof. Alajerami began with a (B.Sc.) in medical imaging from Al Azhar University-Gaza, where he graduated with honors and earned recognition for his outstanding academic achievements. He continued his education and obtained M.Sc. in radioactive material and environmental pollution. Following master's degree, he was awarded with a highly competitive research scholarship to pursue Ph.D. in radiation physics from a leading research institute (UTM-Malaysia). Throughout his academic career, he actively collaborated with renowned physicists and researchers from around the world, participating in international conferences and workshops. His research contributions led to several prestigious awards and honors, including the Young Scientist Award from the International Physics Society and the Quantum Physics Research Fellowship.

Professor Rajan Jose is a senior Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Main Editor of the journal of Springer Nature “Materials Circular Economy” and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & Technology. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received PhD degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, materials for molecular electronics, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 275 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals which are cited over 15000 times with an h-index of 65 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 24 Doctoral, and 10 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him at 2161/285311 Materials Scientists in the list of Lifetime achievers (2021) in the world – representing top 0.76%. He is also ranked top #5 Materials Scientists in Malaysia by Research.com. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research areas are on the structure – property relationship in materials for a desired device functionality.

Dr. Surjit Sahoo is currently working as a National Post-doctoral Fellow (N-PDF) at School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea. He joined as a Ph.D. scholar in the Nanomaterials System lab in 2016 under the "Brain Korea Fellowship" scheme. His thesis work was focused on the electrochemical energy storage devices (supercapacitors), energy harvesting systems (nanogenerator), and the fabrication of self-powered devices for both energy conversion and storage using nanomaterials (transition metal oxides (TMOs), transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs), and 2D materials.

Dr. Xavier ThankappanSuryabai, currently working as assistant professor & research guide at theCentre for Advanced Materials Research, Department of Physics, Governmentcollege for women, affiliated to the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.He graduated with a master's degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University,Tamil Nadu, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kerala,Thiruvananthapuram. His research interests include Density Functional studiesof materials, spectroscopy, Development of functionalised nanomaterials andcomposites for energy storage applications, drug design, sensors and physicseducation.

Jin Jia received his Ph.D. degree from South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2018. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, University of Jinan (UJN), China. His current research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.

Dr. Mehdi Mehrpooya currently works at the Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, University of Tehran. Dr. Mehdi is involved in the research of Electrochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. His current project is electrocatalysts used for supercapacitors and HER, OER, ORR reactions. He is head of the hydrogen and fuel cell laboratory, where he worked on the fabrication of advanced materials used as nanostructured catalysts.

Huijin Xu is an Associate Professor with a prestigious record of publications in porous media, heat /mass transfer, carbon capture, thermal storage and seawater desalination. He also has a record in educating undergraduate and postgraduate students with approved achievements. He has a number of papers published in the important journals in the relevant areas, such as International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy, Chemical Engineering Science, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, and so on. He is now serving as the associate editor or editorial board member in some international journals.

DR received his Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and later the highest degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Institute of General Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by the decision of the Scientific Council led by the Nobel Prize winner, academician A.M. Prokhorov. According to the Statute of the Doctor of Sciences degree, this highest degree is awarded only to the most outstanding Ph.D. scientists who founded a new research field of a great interest. Oks worked in Moscow (USSR) as the head of a research unit at the Center for Studying Surfaces and Vacuum, then – at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) as an invited professor, and for the last 30 years – at the Physics Department of the Auburn University (USA) as Professor. He conducted different research studies in the areas of atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, laser physics, and nonlinear dynamics. He founded/co-founded and developed new research fields, such as intra-Stark spectroscopy (new class of nonlinear optical phenomena in plasmas), masing without inversion (advanced schemes for generating/amplifying coherent microwave radiation), and quantum chaos (nonlinear dynamics in the microscopic world). He also developed a large number of advanced spectroscopic methods for diagnosing various laboratory and astrophysical plasmas – the methods that were then used and are used by many experimental groups around the world.

DRreceived his Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and later the highest degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Institute of General Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by the decision of the Scientific Council led by the Nobel Prize winner, academician A.M. Prokhorov. According to the Statute of the Doctor of Sciences degree, this highest degree is awarded only to the most outstanding Ph.D. scientists who founded a new research field of a great interest. Oks worked in Moscow (USSR) as the head of a research unit at the Center for Studying Surfaces and Vacuum, then – at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) as an invited professor, and for the last 30 years – at the Physics Department of the Auburn University (USA) as Professor. He conducted different research studies in the areas of atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, laser physics, and nonlinear dynamics. He founded/co-founded and developed new research fields, such as intra-Stark spectroscopy (new class of nonlinear optical phenomena in plasmas), masing without inversion (advanced schemes for generating/amplifying coherent microwave radiation), and quantum chaos (nonlinear dynamics in the microscopic world). He also developed a large number of advanced spectroscopic methods for diagnosing various laboratory and astrophysical plasmas – the methods that were then used and are used by many experimental groups around the world.

Tianyu Ye, received his PhD from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in the year of 2010, and now is a professor in Zhejiang Gongshang University. His area of interest is quantum information, secure multiparty quantum computation, quantum and semiquantum cryptography, etc. He has published 80 papers, and has been awarded 'Top 2% of World Ranking of Scientist (the years 2020 and 2021)' by Stanford University and Elsevier.

Daniele Mestriner received the M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Genoa in 2016 and the PhD in 2019. He is currently a Post-Doc Researcher. He has taken part in the Technical Committee of many international conferences and he works as Editor for some academic journals. His main interests include lightning protection, power system modelling and studies on the interference caused by HVDC electrodes. He is author or co-author of many scientific papers published in reviewed journals or presented in international conferences.

Francesco Freddi is an associate professor of Solid and structural mechanics in the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma. His research activities focus on fracture, damage mechanics, cohesive interface, delamination, chemomechanical models and structural health monitoring. He coordinates with a number of national and international research institutions, and has collaborated in research projects with academic and industrial partners.

Luigi Gentile received his Ph.D. in Mesophases and Mesomorphic materials from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2011. He was a senior researcher at Lund University, Sweden, until 2018 when he joined the University of Bari, Italy, and is now an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry. He is also a permanent member of the Center for Colloid and Surface Science (CSGI). His current research interests include SAOS and LAOS shear rheology; lyotropic liquid crystals and surfactants; cellulose dissolution and regeneration; colloidal features of soil organic matter; shear-induced phase transitions; self-assembled structures as delivery carriers; active packaging and nanostructures.

Dr. Cong Wang is the Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Central South University. His research activities are focused on ultrafast laser micro-/nanofabrication. Dr. Wang has authored 69 papers in international journals and 10 patents. The papers have been cited more than 1000 times. Up to now, the ultrafast laser manufacturing system for functional micro/nanostructures is preliminarily established, which are already applied in many fields.

Mario D'Acunto is a permanent researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy. During the course of his scientific career, he has made pioneering contributions in the areas of Nanotribology, Nano-optics and Nanophotonics and Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Quantum Biology. In 1999, he received a PhD on Nanotribology, first in Italy, from the University of Pisa. Dr. D'Acunto's scientific achievements include a new model for Onset Wear on atomic scale; Near-Field Plasmonic behaviour of metal nanoparticles interacting with biological systems, Super-Resolution methods for Image Analysis in Microscopy and contribution of Quantum Physics biology and to the emergence of life. Dr. D'Acunto has given about 10 invited plenary talks at international conferences. He is author and co-author of more than 120 indexed papers, cited ca. 1300 with index h=18, (6 papers cited > 50 times), 1 book titled Nature-inspired Computation, where, among various natural systems, nanophotonic paradigms stimulating and leading to computation skills are deeply described, and 10 monographic papers (book chapters).

Zhu Kai obtained a Ph.D from Wuhan University, China in 2006. Now he is working at the Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China as an associate professor. The main studies include BESIII experimental analysis and related phenomenological physics, which is involved with non-perturbative QCD. His current interest focuses on charmonium decays and XYZ states.

Prof. Kui-Yong Liu received his B.A and M.A in theoretical physics in Liaoning University and earned his Ph.D. in Beijing University, in 2004. He is currently the dean of the School of Physics at the Liaoning University. His main focus of research is Heavy Flavor Physics, especially in heavy quarkonia production. Recently, he has also focused on the interaction of light and materials.

Dr. Cristina Mazzotta is the Researcher at ENEA Research Center of Frascati, Rome, Italy, in the Fusion and Technologies for Nuclear Safety and Security Department. She got a Master's Degree in Physics in diagnostics for Astroparticle Physics from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. She received her PhD in Energetics from the University of Rome. Her research activity was devoted to Plasma Physics: magnetic confinement Fusion with the tokamak reactor. She became a scientific coordinator and leader of the Diagnostic Coordinator group. She was involved in EU collaborations (e.g. Joint European Torus, UK). She deals with applications of Bragg Fiber gratings as photosensitivity devices. She taught Applied Physics at the University of Brescia. She is the co-author or first author of 180 publications or proceedings.

Andrei V. Savilov received the M.S. in Physics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University in 1992. In March 1996, he got the Ph.D. degree in Physics, and in January 2005, he got Dr.Sci. degree in Physics, Inst. Appl. Phys. RAS. In 1999, he was awarded the Medal of the Russian Academy of sciences. Now he is the head of the Laboratory of high-frequency microwave oscillators, High-Frequency Relativistic Electronics Department, Institute of Applied Physics RAS. Simultaneously, he has a position of Professor of physics at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Scientific interests: gyrotrons, cyclotron masers and free-electron masers (electron-wave interaction optimization, mode competition, novel schemes).

Dr. Meenal Gupta received her PhD degree in Physics from University of Allahabad, India. She is currently working on a project in Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, via Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy. She has published more than 40 journal papers. Her research interests include advanced energy conversion and storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and fuel cells.

Narinder Singh obtained his postgraduate degree in 2005 from Panjab University in India. In the same year, he passed the University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with a 93.43 percentile score and a 233rd All India Rank. He spent fifteen years as Assistant Professor in eight different higher education institutions. He recently received his Ph. D. in Synthesis and Characterizations of CuS & CuO Nanoparticles and their Nanocomposites with Polypyrrole from Indus International University (India) between 2017 and 2021. At the moment, he is investigating the structural, optical and electrical properties of inorganic nanomaterials, conducting polymers, and hybrid nanocomposites.

Dr. Xiao-Qing Luo completed his PhD in Quantum Physics and Quantum Information divisions from the Beijing Computational Science Research Center in 2018. His research is focused on cavity QED, light-matter interactions in the semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots systems, plasmonics in the subwavelength nanostructures. Dr. Luo has published over 20 internationally refereed journal publications including Nature Communications, NPJ Quantum Information, Nanophotonics, Physical Review Applied/A/B, and Optics Express.

Huai-Yi Xie received his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics from the National Taiwan University in 2009. His current research areas include topological magneto-electric (TME) effect in plasmonics; optical characteristics of molecules near metamaterial or plasmonic composite structures; mathematical physics in dyadic Green's functions of electromagnetic (EM) waves; fundamental physics in optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics; and computational physics in optical metrology applied to nanotechnology, biomedical engineering. He is currently employed in the Division of Physics, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taoyuan County, Taiwan.

Wenchao Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Changchun Institute of Optics, fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China in 2014. Now he is an associate professor in State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, CIOMP. His research interests include optical nanostructure design, label-free optical superresolution bio-imaging and bio-sensing.