Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef is currently a Professor at Chemical Engineering Department Universiti Teknologi Petronas. He also served as a professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), and Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Centre of Hydrogen Energy for the past 15 years. Dr. Nasef obtained his Master and PhD in Chemical Engineering from UTM, in 1996 and 1999 respectively.
Dr. Nasef is a registered expert in the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the field of radiation processing of polymers and he conducted a number of IAEA expert missions in Turkey, China, Brazil, Egypt and Thailand. He was also a chief investigator of the coordinated research projects (CRP) awarded by IAEA to Malaysia (2008-2010 and 2020-till now).
Dr. Nasef has vast experience in planning and execution of R&D in the field of functional polymeric materials for energy, environmental bio medical applications and related separation applications. His research interests include but not limited to development of polymer electrolyte membranes, ion exchange resins, adsorbents, nanofibrous scaffolds, polymer catalysts and permeation membranes in addition to their uses in relevant applications such as fuel cells, PEM water electrolyzers, lithium & vanadium redox flow batteries and membrane separation processes. He is also specialized in polymer modifications with high energy radiation techniques.
Dr. Nasef published more than 150 articles in renowned international journals together with 12 book chapters, 12 reviews and 4 edited books with more than 5000 citations and H-Index of 39.
Dr. Nasef is an active member of various international scientific associations such as the Electrochemical Society, American Chemical Society, European Membrane Society, Institute of Chemical Engineers, and Material Research Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of Journal of Applied Membrane Science, Journal of Technology and electronic Journal of applied electrochemistry

Ramzi Khiari is a senior lecturer at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies in Ksar-Hellal (Monastir, Tunisia) in the department of Textile Engineering. He is a permanent member of Applied Chemistry and Environment research group in the Faculty of Sciences of Monastir of University of Monastir in Tunisia. He was graduated in 2005 at the National Engineering School of in the specialty of Textile Chemistry, before getting a Master degree (2007) from the same institution. Then he performed a sandwich PhD thesis (2010) between University of Monastir in Tunisia and Grenoble INP in France. Finally, in 2017, he has got the diploma of “Habilitation Universitaires” from University of Monastir and 2020 he has got the diploma “Habilitation à diriger des Recherches” in Grenoble INP. His research interests focuses on the valorization of biomass at multi-scale levels namely: fibers, nanocellulose, lignin, hemicelluloses and their used as potential raw materialin several industrial applications (Textile, papermaking, polymeric materials, composites and nanocomposites). A particular focus is given for vegetal biomass from annual plants, and particularly agricultural residues and industrial wastes

He was born in Ankara in 1986. He graduated from Sakarya University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2008. He received his master's degree in 2010 and his doctorate in 2015 from Sakarya University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He completed his master studies at the Center of Nanotechnology at Ostrava Technical University, and his postdoctoral studies at the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester. Starting from his doctoral studies, he carried out material-based scientific studies on improving the performance of electrochemical energy storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries, solid state batteries, lithium sulfur batteries, lithium air batteries, Al-Ion batteries and supercapacitors. In this context, he took part in many national and international projects as a coordinator and researcher. He worked and continues to work as a researcher in the FP7-NMP-Green Car-STABLE and HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-06, FREE4LIB projects. He took place as the founding partner of NESSTEC Energy and Surface Technologies Inc., which was established with the TUBITAK BIGG project in 2020. He was awarded the Sakarya University Haşim Gürdamar Young Scientist First Prize in 2019, and the Science Heroes Association Young Scientist of the Year award in 2021. He has participated in many national and international scientific events as a speaker or invited speaker on nanomaterials and electrochemical energy storage and has published more than 70 SCI indexed articles in this context. There are 2 patent protections about lithium based batteries.