After receiving his PhD in April 1993 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Fu worked as Assistant Professor in this Institute from May 1993 to December 1994. In 1994, Prof. Fu successfully received the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship from the AvH Foundation, Germany and worked as the Humboldt Fellow and then Visiting Scholar in Leibnitz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) Dresden, Germany from January 1995 to July 1997. Afterwards, he worked in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sydney University, Australia, University of California, Riverside, USA, City University of Hongkong, China and Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China before joining Chongqing University in November 2015. During 2002 to 2015, he also worked for several months as Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor in IPF Dresden with Dr Bernd Lauke, and Institute of Composite Materials, Kaiserslautern Technological University with Prof. Klaus Friedrich as well as in Tohoku University, Japan with Prof. Yasuhide Shindo.
Prof. Fu has published about 380 Scientific Journal papers and has been issued over 70 Patents. Over 350 papers are SCI-included with over 20,000 citations and H-index of 76 (SCOPUS). He also published two Books in English on Short Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites (two editions in 2009 and 2019 respectively by Woodhead and Elsevier) and on Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures in 2013 by Springer. In addition, he published two books in Chinese with the title of Powder Technology together with other Scientists and a few chapters in Books both in English and Chinese. Recently, he published one textbook (two volumes) on Aerospace Composite Materials by China Science Press together with Prof. Yiu-Wing Mai from Sydney University, Australia. In 2023, he was ranked 10,455 among the top scientists (EliteRange) in all subjects in the whole world made by Prof. John P.A. Ioannidis team from Stanford University with Elsevier, and in particular is among the top ranking in composite engineering communities worldwide.
Prof. Fu serves now as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for several International Academic Journals including Composites Science and Technology by Elsevier, Composites Communications by Elsevier, Scientific Reports by Nature Springer, and Nano Materials Science by Elsevier. He was also the lead guest editor for Composites Science and Technology (SCI-included, Elsevier, 2007), Composites Part B Engineering (SCI-included, Elsevier, 2011, 2012), and Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites (SCI-included, Sage, 2011). In addition, he has been serving for many years as Associate Editor for Acta Materiae Composite Sinica and Editorial Board Member for Composites Science and Engineering (Chinese Journals). He is currently a group leader of nine staff, one postdoctoral fellow and around thirty postgraduate students including 12 PhD and 18 Master students.
J. González began his scientific career at the Complutense U. of Madrid in 1992 studying cyclodextrins inclusion complexes. He joined UC3M in 1993 to carry out his PhD thesis on polymer composite materials. He was specialized in characterization of polymers and composites. In 2001, he carried out a research stay with the Polymers + Technologies group at the U. País Vasco and later, for one year, at the Macromolecular Department of Case Western Reserve University studying dissolution processes of polymers. In 2003, he obtained a position as tenured at UC3M and began a new line of research on composite materials seeking new applications in dentistry. In 2022 he gets the Full professor position at the UC3M. Thanks to a stay at the University of California Santa Bárbara in 2005 he was specialized in atomic force microscopy, AFM, being the head of the AFM Laboratory at the UC3M. In 2006 he created the research group "Group of Polymeric Composite Materials and Interphases", with the new line of research, Multifunctional Nanocomposite Materials based on Thermoplastic matrices”. One of its biggest challenges has been to achieve uniform dispersion of nanoparticles within thermoplastic polymers. In order to do this, a new method based on high-energy ball milling was developed, being able to prepare and study new materials with special electrical and antibacterial properties with potential applications in electronics, medicine and food industry. Besides, he has made several basic scientific contributions with high impact. He studied macromolecular dynamics through the use of spectroscopic techniques and he developed nanoscale experimental methods for determining key parameters in the area of materials science, such as the coefficient of thermal expansion. In recent years he has collaborated with the Group of Chemistry of the University of Navarra studying antibacterial nanocomposite materials. At this time, one of his main aims is focused on developing new methods of preparation of nanocomposite materials based on a technique called "Solution Blow Spinning", SBS, which allows preparing polymeric nonwoven nanofiber mats with potential applications in medicine among others. In 2015, J. González joined the Biomaterials Group of the NIST (USA) to increase his knowledge on polymer preparation using SBS and cell adhesion using Single Cell Force Spectroscopy. He collaborates within the framework of a confidentiality agreement with the Foundation of the Health Institute of La Paz on a "Method of application of polymers in the healing process of biological tissues" and also with the Institute of Tropical Health of the U. de Navarra. He is a member of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society and of the Specialized Polymers Group. He has participated in more than 25 national, regional or European research projects, being the IP in 8 of them. His entire scientific career has allowed him to publish 120 articles in SCI journals, several book chapters, 106 communications to congresses and he participates as Editorial Board member of Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites Section of the scientific journal “Polymers” being also guest editor in three special issues.
John Botsis obtained his diplôme in civil engineering at the University of Patras, Greece in 1979. He continued his education at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland Ohio/USA, where he received his MS and Ph.D. 1984. After two years at the research centre for national defence in Athens he was nominated assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, associate in 1991 and full professor in 1995. In 1996, he was nominated professor of solids and structural mechanics at the EPFL. His activities cover experimental mechanics, fracture and fatigue of advanced materials including composites and biomaterials using novel experimental techniques, numerical methods and micromechanics. He has co-authored more than 150 journal papers, several book chapter and two textbooks. His research has been funded from the Swiss National Science Foundation, State Secretariat for Education and Research, Swiss commission for technology and innovation, EU and Swiss industry.
Maria Laura Du Lorenzo is now director research scientist at the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers of the Italian National Research Council (ICTP-CNR, Italy). In 1998 she was a Research Associate at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA). Her main research interests focus on the thermal analysis of homopolymers and multi-component polymeric materials. Major investigations concern structure-property relationships, transition kinetics (crystallization, melting, glass transition), morphology, mechanical, and barrier properties. Dr. Di Lorenzo is Head of the Laboratory of Thermal Analysis at ICTP-CNR. Dr. Di Lorenzo received the “First AIM Award for Young Researchers”, from the Italian Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM) in 2007 and the “A. Lucci Award”, from the Italian Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (AICAT), for “her innovative contribution to the development of calorimetric and thermoanalytical instruments for the characterization of polymer-based materials” in 2002.
Prof Long Yu is currently Chief Scientist, Institute of Chemistry, Henan Academy of Sciences and Professor in South China University and Technology. He received his BE from South China University and Technology and PhD from Monash University. He had been studied and worked in Australia during 1988-2015. Prof L. Yu joints South China University of Technology and works as Team Leader of Guangdong Innovative & Entrepreneurial Research Team Program in 2015. He was pointed as first Director of Sino-Singapore International Joint Research Institute (2016-2022)
He used to work in CSIRO, Australia as Principal Scientist for 18 years. Prof Yu has had more than 190 SCI papers published and citation time is near 20000 (h-index 71). He has been selected as a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2002, and currently been pointed as Editorial Board of 8 SCI journals. Professor Yu has chaired many international conferences and given numerous plenary/keynote/invited talks in various international conferences and symposia.
Dr. Coltelli is an associate professor at the University of Pisa, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering and holds a degree in chemistry and PhD in chemical science from the University of Pisa. She has 20 years of experience in materials science and technology, in particular polymers, biopolymers, blends, and composites, especially related to their interaction with the environment. She is the author and co-author of more than 70 publications in international journals, a book related to the reuse of polymers, and three patents related to added-value polymeric blends obtained from recycled materials.
Professor Young was educated at the University of Cambridge and became Professor of Polymer Science and Technology in Manchester in 1986. He was the founding Head of the School of Materials in the newly-formed University of Manchester in 2004, which is now the largest university materials department in the UK and the focus of major UK materials research initiatives. He is a Fellow of Royal Society (2013), Royal Academy of Engineering (2006) and Academy of Europe (2015). His main research interest is the relationships between structure and properties in polymers and composites. He has introduced of a number of revolutionary techniques that have given a completely new insight into the micromechanics of deformation in fibres and composites. In particular, he has pioneered the use of Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of deformation processes that take place at the molecular level. Over recent years he has extended this approach to the mechanics of deformation of graphene and other 2D materials in nanocomposites. His contribution in research has been recognised through numerous invitations to give Plenary and Keynote lectures at International Conferences and through the awards of the Griffith Medal (2002), Leslie Holliday Prize (2011), Swinburne Medal and Prize (2012) and Platinum Medal (2019) from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.