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Global Fellowship in collaboration with the MIT to develop hybrid photovoltaic-thermoelectric generators. He is currently the president of the Italian Thermoelectric Society and served as the treasurer of the European Thermoelectric Society. Author of more than one hundred publications, Narducci also wrote books on nanotechnology and on hybrid thermoelectric-photovoltaic solar harvesters, and filed fifteen patents as well.



Michihiro Ohta received his Ph.D from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Muroran Institute of Technology before joining the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2006. He has been a senior researcher at AIST since 2013. He was a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University from 2011 to 2012. He is a board member of the Thermoelectrics Society of Japan. Ohta is also a technical advisor at the startup company, Mottainai Energy, founded in 2016. His research focuses on the exploration of sulfides and nanostructured materials for thermoelectrics.



Kanishka Biswas obtained his MS and Ph.D degree from the Solid State Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (2009) under supervision of Prof. C. N. R. Rao and did postdoctoral research with Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis at the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University (2009-2012). He is an Associate Professor in the New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. He is pursuing research in solid state chemistry, thermoelectrics, topological materials, 2D materials, perovskite halides and water purification. He has published 95 research papers, 1 book and 5 book chapters. He is a Young Affiliate of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and an Associate of Indian Academy of Science (IASc), Bangalore, India. He is also recipient of Young Scientist Medal-2016 from Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi, India and Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2015 from The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad, India. He is recipient of IUMRS-MRS Singapore Young Researcher Merit Awards in 2016. He is recipient of Materials Research Society of India Medal in 2017. He has also received Young Scientist Wiley Award from IUMRS 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. He is selected as Emerging Investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2017) and Chem. Commun (2018), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).



Professor J.R. Morante is, since 1985, full professor of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Since 2009 he has been the director of the advanced materials for energy area of the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia, IREC, and since the end of 2015 he has been appointed as director of this institute. Previously he has been Vice Dean and dean of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona, director of the Department of Electronics of this university, head of studies in Electronic Engineering and co-coordinator of the interuniversity master between the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia of the master on Engineering in Energy. His activities have been centered in electronic materials and devices; the assessment of their related technologies and produc^ 50), organized various international technological scientific conferences in the field of sensors / microsystems and "nano-energy" and has been distinguished with the medal Narcís Monturiol of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has also served as vice president of the European Materials Society and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.



Dr. Shrikant Saini is a researcher at deprtment of Mechanical engineering at Kyushu Inst. Tech, Kitakyushu, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Jeju National University, South Korea in 2011. He has worked in various institutes as a researcher such as the Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India; Jeju National University, South Korea; Hiroshima University, Japan; University of Utah, USA, and Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Saini has to date published more than 30 peer reviewed research articles in international journals and 2 US patents (applied). His current research interest is energy harvesting/conversion materials specially thermoelectric and superconducting materials



Tamio Endo holds Ph.D. (Kyoto University, Japan) and MsD (Gifu University, Japan) degrees. He is Emeritus Professor at Mie University (Japan), Gifu University Special Researcher (Japan), Honorary Professor of Southwest Jiaotong University (China), Visiting Researcher at University of California- San Diego 1995 (USA). He is currently Special Adviser of Japan Advanced Chemicals in Atsugi, Japan. His research interests include oxide thin films, heterostructures, plasma effects and bonding of polymer films. He has been part of many international academic projects such as Japan-India Cooperative Science Program. He has been organizer and plenary speaker of many of international conferences and has given many foreign university guest talks and a Representative of Team Harmonized Oxides.