The international steering committee of the conference is composed of the following doctors and researchers :

• Prof Lech Pawlowski, University of Limoges, France
• Prof. Chung Tai-shung Neal, Singapore university, Singapore
• Prof. Reinhart Poprawe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Dr. Peter Panjan, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Dr. Arnold Gillner, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, Germany
• Dr. Ralf Bandorf, Head of Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films, Germany
• Prof Michel Fillon, CNRS - Poitiers University, France
• Prof. J. Paulo Davim, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Dr. Nazlim Bagcivan, Schaeffler Technologies, Germany
• Dr. Jörg Vetter, Oerlikon Balzers Coating, Germany
• Prof. Petri M.J. Vuoristo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Prof. Albano Cavaleiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Prof Dongfeng Diao, Institute of Nanosurface Science and Engineering- Shenzhen University, China
• Prof. Dae-Soon Lim, Nano-Materials and Surface Engineering Lab, Korea University-Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Dr. Maria Dinescu, National Institute for Lasers Plasma Radiation Physics, Romania
• Prof. Toshio Ogino, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan
• Prof. Jordi Fraxedas, CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
• Prof. Marcela Bilek, Head of the Applied and Plasma Physics Research Group,  University of Sydney, Australia
• Prof. Abraham Atta Ogwu, West of Scotland University, UK
• Prof. Jang-Hsing Hsieh, College of Environment and Resources, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
• Prof. Jean-Francois Berret, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes UMR 7057 Université Paris-Diderot/CNRS, France
• Dr Krasimir Vasilev, ITEE, University of South Australia, Australia
• Dr. Ana Ferraria, Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa,  Portugal
• Dr. Daniel Lundin, Senior Researcher CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France