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Prof. Jürgen Popp is a scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and a SPIE Fellow. His research focuses on the application of spectroscopic technology for medical diagnostics. He received the Robert Kellner Lecture Award in 2013. In 2018, Popp was awarded both the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize and the Kaiser Friedrich Research Prize, and in 2019 the Thuringian Research Prize. In 2023, he received the Charles Mann Award from the American Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies for outstanding contributions in the field of spectroscopy.

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Prof. Rho is a Yeon-San Endowed Chair Professor and Mu-Eun-Jae Endowed Chair Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (2013), M.S. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008) and B.S. at Seoul National University, Korea (2007). Prior joining POSTECH, he conducted postdoctoral research in Materials Sciences Division & Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and also worked as a principal investigator (Ugo Fano Fellow) in Nanoscience and Technology Division & the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Prof. Rho has authored and co-authored more than 450 high-impact journal papers including Science and Nature. He is also the recipients of several notable honors and awards such as US Department of Energy Argonne Named fellowship (2014), Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) (2020), Associate Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) (2022), Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship (2022), Northwestern Simpson Fellowship (2022), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2023, 2024), Elsevier/Stanford World Top 2% Scientist (2021-2025), ACS Nano Lectureship (2024).

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Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is a preeminent physicist and materials scientist whose groundbreaking work has revolutionized the fields of nanotechnology, energy harvesting, and self-powered systems. He currently serves as the Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems and holds the distinguished titles of Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair (Emeritus) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang is widely recognized as the pioneer of the nanogenerators field, which has enabled advancements in distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. Additionally, he coined and developed the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics, which have significant implications for third-generation semiconductors.
Dr. Wang's scientific impact is unparalleled. Among 230,000 scientists across all fields worldwide （Top 2%）as ranked by Elsevier and Stanford, he is ranked #1 simultaneously for career-long scientific impact and single-year scientific impact consecutively from 2019-2024. He is also ranked #1 respectively in Materials Science and nanotechnology. His research has garnered over 510,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an extraordinary h-index of 340, underscoring his immense influence and contributions to science.
Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Wang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Global Energy Prize (2023), the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019), the ENI Award in Energy Frontiers (2018), the James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from the American Physical Society (2014), and the MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society (2011). His groundbreaking work has earned him memberships and fellowships in some of the world’s most esteemed scientific academies, including the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Inventors, the European Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Engineering, the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (as a foreign member), the Academia Sinica, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (as an International Fellow).
Wang's pioneering contributions to nanogenerators, piezotronics, and self-powered systems have not only advanced fundamental science but also paved the way for transformative technologies in energy harvesting, sensing, and semiconductor development. His exceptional scientific impact, numerous accolades, and leadership in the global scientific community underscore his status as one of the most influential materials scientists of our time.