Dr. Daniel GAUDE-FUGAROLAS was born in Barcelona (Spain). After studying at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and Lulea University (Sweden), obtained both M.Eng. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Materials Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cambridge University (UK) in 2002 under the supervision of Sir Professor H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia. He also holds a Degree in Egyptology awarded by the Fundació Clos (Spain).

His research experience is extensive and ranges varied subjects, both in industrial and academic research, on topics like composites, physical and computational metallurgy (mainly on steel), and applied to the automotive, aerospace, welding, defense and nuclear industries. He has a number of scientific publications and several patents in those fields. Most of his work has been performed in prestigious organisations like Cambridge University (UK), Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), the Commissariat de Energie Atomique (CEA Saclay -France) and Lulea University (Sweden).

He directs his own Independent Research, Science-based Innovation and Advanced Engineering company in Barcelona, dgaude Prime Innovation SLU, while he teaches as Professor Associat (Invited Lecturer) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and in collaboration with the KIC InnoEnergy M.Eng. Program.

He is Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (and alumnus of Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)) and member of TMS, as well as of the Catalan Engineer Association (Col.legi Enginers Industrials de Catalunya). Similarly, he is a full member of the Egypt Exploration Society (UK). He participates in International Conferences FIMPART and CMEME as member of their Scientific Committees.

Noriyoshi MATSUMI received a B. S. degree from Kyoto University in 1995 and obtained Dr. of engineering in polymer chemistry from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2000 under the guidance by Professor Yoshiki Chujo. During 1999-2000, he received a Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship. Then he became assistant professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, working with Professor Hiroyuki Ohno. In 2006, he joined the group of Professor Keigo Aoi at Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University as associate professor. From 2010, he has been Professor at School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His current research interest is design of organoboron functional materials, polymer electrolytes, ionic liquids, conjugated polymers and their applications for energy devices.

Dr. Carlos Capdevila earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science at Complutense University of Madrid in 1999. Actual position as Tenured scientist at the Physical Metallurgy Department of the Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), one of the research institutes of the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Previously (1998-2000), he was Research Associate in the Phase Transformation Research Group leaded by Prof. Bhadeshia at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge-UK. His research topics include phase transformations in steels, characterisation of the microstructure and optimisation of the mechanical properties of steels and iron-based alloys, thermodynamics and kinetics modelling of isothermal and anisothermal phase transformations in steels, and design of steels for industrial applications with high requirements.He has published more than 100 papers included in the Science Citation Report. He supervises PhD and undergraduate students.