peer-reviewed scientific papers and 14 licensed US and international patents. His laboratory has developed 915 MHz Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization (MATS) technology for commercial production of shelf-stable meals, with acceptance from US FDA and non-objection from USDA FSIS. He directed the Center of Excellence for Food Safety supported by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, leading to the development of 915 MHz microwave assisted pasteurization systems (MAPS) for control of bacterial and viral pathogens in frozen and chilled ready-to-eat meals. He is a member of Washington State Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of International Microwave Power Institute (IMPI), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Institute of Food Technologists, and US National Academy of Inventors. He has been an active member of IMPI since 1996, served as its president in 2009. Dr. Tang received B.S. from Central South University in China, M.S. from the University of Guelph, and Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.

Assistant Professor in 2006, and then moved to Tokyo University of Science as Associate Professor in 2008, after which he returned to Sophia University as Associate Professor in 2011 and was made Professor in 2020. Currently he is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, Molecules and three other international journals. His research interests involve new functional materials, nanomaterial synthesis, molecular biology, formation of sustainable energy, rubber and plastic recycling, in-liquid plasma chemical synthesis and environmental protection using microwave- and/or photo-energy. He has co-authored over 210 scientific publications and has contributed to and edited or co-authored 37 books. He frequently explains the role of microwaves on television and in newspapers.

He was also a postdoctoral fellow at DuPont in the United States during 1992 to 1994. Since January 1995, he has been a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1997 to 2009, he served as the Deputy Director, Executive Deputy Director, and Director of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2009 to 2017, he served as the Deputy Director of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 2012 and 2018, he was a Distinguished Professor and served as the Executive Director of the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University. Starting from 2017, Dr. Jiang has served as the Director of Chinese Academy of Sciences Innovation Cooperation Center (Bangkok). He is currently the Executive Director of the World Laureates Association. He served as the Co-Chair of the Chemical Technical Options Committee of the Ozone Layer Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme between 2015 and 2019. In 2009, he was elected as a member of the International Committee (RAC) of RIKEN.
He was also used to be a member of the Academic Degree Evaluation Group of Chemistry of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, member of the Shanghai Academic Degrees Committee, member of the Evaluation Committee of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Group of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Organic Chemistry Department of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Dr. Jiang has published over 300 academic papers in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Plant Cell, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Adv., Chem. Commun., Org. Lett. He has been granted 200 patents, including over 10 patents granted by IP offices in the Europe, USA, and Japan. Nearly 140 patented technologies were transferred or licensed to enterprises for commercialization. He was the Associate Editor of the "Encyclopedia of Natural Products of Traditional Chinese Medicine"(12 volumes), " that systematically studied and comprehensively collected Chinese Medicine Natural Products and their active effects on a large scale. The encyclopedia covers more than 8,900 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, nearly 30,000 compounds, and about 30 million words. It is by far the most authoritative work on natural products of traditional Chinese medicine at home and abroad.

worked as visiting scholar in Hong Kong and United States. Currently, he is a full professor in College of Chemistry at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His research interests included synthetic methodologies, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, unnatural amino acids and peptides, interaction of microwave and organic compounds and microwave-assisted organic reactions.

Philadelphia, and the subject of triggered vacuum gaps became the topic of his S.M. thesis, while laser interferometric measurement of electron and vapor densities in a vacuum arc became the topic of his Ph.D. thesis.Boxman worked as a Senior Research Engineer at GE where he investigated the behavior of vacuum arcs in high current switches from 1973 to 1975, at which time he took up a position on the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Boxman co-founded of the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory at TAU. During the last decade Boxman focused his research work on the application of arc plasma to material processing, including deposition of thin films, surface treatments, and water treatment. In 1984 Boxman and his colleagues were awarded the Joffee Foundation Award by the International Union of Surface Finishing for their breakthrough work on pulsed vacuum arc deposition. In 1989 Boxman was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contribution to vacuum arc theory and applications. In 2000, Boxman was presented with the Walter Dyke Award by the Permanent International Scientific Committee of the International Symposia on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, for "his outstanding body of work in the field of electrical discharges in vacuum, in particular for his contributions to the physics, technology, and applications of vacuum arc plasmas". Boxman was named as a Fellow of the International Microwave Power Institue in 2018.
Boxman was Chairman of the International Conference on Superhard Coatings in 2006. He served as Secretary of the Permanent International Scientific Committee of the International Symposia on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, and as a member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman for the Hard Coatings and PVD Symposium of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films. He founded and was the first chairman of the Israel Plasma Science and Technology Association. Boxman served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, served as its guest editor for special issues on vacuum discharge plasmas, and on plasma deposition, and was a member of the Editorial Board for Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. He currently serves on the editorial board of Plasma Sources Science and Technology. He organized and edited the text "Handbook of Vacuum Arc Science and Technology" which involved the coordinated efforts of 24 authors in seven countries. In addition, he has presented more than 500 scientific papers at conferences or in technical journals, as well as 12 patents. At Tel Aviv University, Prof. Boxman was the incumbant of the Kranzberg Chair of Plasma Engineering, and has served as Coordinator for the Materials Engineering Program, Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering. Boxman retired from TAU after 40 years of service in 2015.
For 16 years, Boxman taught a course on Technical Writing in English which was required for all engineering PhD students at Tel Aviv University. During much of his academic career, Boxman taught courses on electromagnetic fields. Boxman developed a transparent window for microwave ovens using transparent conducting coatings instead of the conventional metal grid, and founded Clear Wave Ltd. for commercializing it. He served as Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for the International Microwave Power Institute Symposium in 2014 and 2015 and is currently on IMPI's Board of Governors.
Boxman is married to Edith, a retired economist and manager at Bank Leumi, with whom he has four grown children and ten grandchildren. Together they have written a text book and present short courses on scientific writing, and in their spare time they enjoy hiking, swimming, tennis, folk-dancing and gardening.

Electroheat and electromagnetic processing + Equipment for electric welding' and of TC 26-27 'Electroheat and electric welding' of IEC-CENELEC as well as of the 'Powder metallurgy and additive techniques' committee of AIM (Italy). He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy and of Technologies.
He is author of more than 250 publications, either international or national (180 are indexed by SCOPUS), prepared in collaboration with 130 different co-authors. He is author or co-author of 9 patents involving microwave applications to materials processing and sterilization and microwave applicators design. He has presented his research activity in a large number of national and international congresses, as invited speaker, in the field of microwave applicator design and of microwave applications to powder metallurgy.
His research activity is mainly focused in the metallurgy field, and in particular in the study and development of new materials and processes, preferably involving thermal applications of microwaves. In parallel, this activity involved the characterization of the microwave-synthesized materials and the comparison of results with conventional heating techniques, as well as the assessment of energy consumption of the investigated dielectric heating processes. Recently the main research activities are in the metallurgy field, and in particular in the synthesis of intermetallic compounds, magnetocaloric materials and high entropy alloys, as well as in the heat treatment of steels and powder metallurgy in general.

the author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 30 patents, and worked in more than 20 research projects as Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI. He is the member of Editorial Board for Separation and Purification Technology, Results in Engineering, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics. He won the Te-Pan Hou Chemical Engineering Award for Young Scientist, RINENG Young Investigator Award et al. His research focuses on application of microwave energy in the process intensification of chemical reaction and separation processes, process intensification and energy saving of advanced distillation/reactive distillation technology.

Design of industrial microwave processing systems; design of microwave sensor systems; design and construction of overhead and underground electrical distribution networks (Up to 66 kV); design of on-farm animal waste management systems; development of sensor technologies; application of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing technologies in agriculture; and on-farm renewable energy production. During the last decade, he has particularly focused on applying microwave energy to: killing weeds and their seed banks in the soil; microwave treatment of soil to improve plant establishment and growth, recover biochar, bio-oil and syngas from organic waste; and for remote sensing of termites and decay in wood. These studies have led to several published articles, many media and speaking engagements hear in Australia and overseas. During the past decade, Dr Brodie has published 71 refereed papers, 4 research books, 13 book chapters, 13 invited and keynote presentations, and 50 non-refereed articles. He also has 3 patents.

crystals. Since 1993, he has been working at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) in the field of high power microwave and millimeter-wave processing of materials as a team leader at the Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology. His research interest includes dielectric measurements, design and simulation of microwave systems and processes, microwave assisted sintering, curing of polymer composites, additive manufacturing, plasma chemistry.

Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University. Since 2012, he has been an Associate Professor with the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University. His current research interests include the experimental study of magnetrons, microwave power transmission systems, and applied microwave engineering. Dr. Mitani is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and the Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications (JEMEA). He has been a board member of JEMEA since 2015. He was the treasurer of IEEE MTT-S Kansai Chapter from 2014 to 2021, and has been the technical committee chair of IEEE MTT-S Kansai Chapter since 2022.

in 2010. He became an Assistant Professor at Kochi University (2011-2014) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015-2020), then he moved to Osaka University in 2021. His expertise is biomass conversion and heterogeneous catalysis under microwave irradiation.