Lu ZHANG, male, is a Professor (Level II) and Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He also serves as President of the Inner Mongolia Youth Science and Technology Association. He has received numerous prestigious honors, including the National High-Level Talent Special Support Program (Young Top-notch Talent), the China Youth May Fourth Medal and New Era Youth Pioneer Award, Top Ten Annual Figures in National Business Education, Youth Innovation Talent of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Leading Talent of the Twelfth Batch of the Grassland Talent Program of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Outstanding Educator of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, First-Tier Talent of the New Century 321 Talent Project, Outstanding Party Affairs Worker in Higher Education Institutions of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Outstanding Young Scholar of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, among others. He has published a total of 97 high-quality academic papers indexed in CSSCI, SSCI, and SCI journals. These include 2 papers in Management World, 5 SSCI/SCI papers in journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics (ABS 3*), 36 papers in FMST Category 1 journals such as Nankai Business Review, 9 papers in FMST Category 2 journals such as the Journal of Management, and 29 other CSSCI-indexed papers. He has led 6 national-level research projects and 18 major or key provincial- and ministerial-level projects. In addition, he has published 8 articles in Economic Daily and Guangming Daily, and has led the preparation of more than 50 research reports and policy advisory reports. He has also served as chief editor of 4 academic monographs.

Dokuz Eylul University (DEU), Masoud Taghavi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Grant Fellowship at Dokuz Eylul University (DEU), Türkiye, as part of the prestigious Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program, under the supervision of Prof. Can Ozgur Colpan and Prof. Ibrahim Dincer. He previously held a postdoctoral research position at the PSSE Laboratory, Chung-Ang University (CAU) in Seoul, South Korea (Mar 2023 – Jan 2025), under the supervision of Prof. Chul-Jin Lee. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Energy Conversion in July 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Bahram Ghorbani. From Sep 2018 to Feb 2023, he served as the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Faculty of Noshahr, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Iran. His research focuses on hydrogen and fuel cells, LNG, CCUS, and renewable and sustainable energy systems. With over a decade of experience in HVAC engineering, academic research, and university-level teaching, he was honored as “Top Researcher” (2020) and “Top Lecturer” (2021 & 2022) at TVU, Iran.

Aristide Mounchili Njifon is a third-year PhD candidate in Medical Microbiology (Molecular Virology) at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, and a Research Intern at the Virology Department of the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun. With over five years of experience in viral diagnostics, he specializes in next-generation sequencing (NGS) using Oxford Nanopore Technology, viral RNA extraction, bioinformatics pipelines (Minimap2, Kraken2, IQ-TREE), phylogenetic analysis, and molecular detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genetic diversity, resistance mutations (NS5B and Core regions), and recombinant strains. He has authored publications in journals such as IJID Regions, Virus Research, and Archives of Virology, focusing on HCV epidemiology in Cameroon. A member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), Cameroon Microbiology Society (SOCAMI), and Afroscreen network, Aristide has presented at international conferences including COLDA (Ghana/Egypt), IPSN (South Africa), and workshops in Algeria, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. His work bridges genomic data with precision diagnostics for infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.

Dr. Ang-Yang Yu studied physics at Dalian University of Technology (China) and obtained his B.Sc. in 2003. He received his M.Sc. in 2006 after conducting his master thesis on molecular reaction dynamics in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree at Jilin University in China, he was awarded a Postdoctor's Fellowship to study titanium alloys' oxidation at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include calculations of molecular spectra, chemical kinetics, molecular excited states, molecular reaction dynamics and engineering alloy design.