Tae-Woo Lee is an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the KAIST, Korea in 2002. He joined Bell Laboratories, USA as a postdoctoral researcher and worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as (2003-2008). He was an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea until August 2016. His research focuses on printed flexible electronics based on organic, carbon, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials for displays, solar cells, and bio-inspired neuromorphic electronics.

Andrey L. Rogach is a Chair Professor of Photonics Materials at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (1995) from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, and worked as a staff scientist at the University of Hamburg (Germany) from 1995 to 2002. From 2002–2009 he was a lead staff scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), where he completed his habilitation in experimental physics. His research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals and their hybrid structures, and their use for energy transfer, light harvesting and light emission. His name is on the list of Top 100 Materials Scientists and on the list of Top 20 Authors publishing on nanocrystals in the past decade by Thomson Reuters, ISI Essential Science Indicators. Andrey Rogach is an Associate Editor of ACS Nano, and holds honorary appointments at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Xi’An Jiaotong University, Jilin University and Peking University (China).

Dr. Liyuan Han is a director of photovoltaic materials unit, National Institute for Materials Science. He received a doctor’s degree from the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1988. During 1990-1993, he worked in Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc. on organic photoconductor materials. He then moved to SHARP Corporation. He had been investigating dye-sensitized solar cells, especially, improving the conversion efficiency of cells and sub-modules, and developing new sensitized dyes, since 1996. He moved to current position from June 2008 and developed large area of perovskite solar cells with certificated efficiency 18.2% in NIMS. He is inventor in about 100 patents and author in 140 scientific publications in the field of thin film solar cells. His current research interests involve perovskite solar cells and dye sensitized solar cells.

Dr Mingkui Wang received his PhD degree in physical chemistry in 2004 from the Chinese Academy of Science. In 2005 he joined the group of Prof. Ulrich Stimming as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technische University at Munich. He then joined Prof. Michael Gr鋞zel抯 group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne as a post-doctoral fellow. Since 2010 he has been a professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include the development of next-generation solar cells and the application of electrochemistry to the elucidation of fundamental phenomena in photonics. His work has obtained over 6500 citations so far with an h-index of 37.

Furong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Director for Research Centre of Excellence for Organic Electronics, and Associate Director for Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He received his BSc and MSc in Physics from Fudan University, Shanghai China, in 1983 and 1987. He completed his Ph.D in Applied Physics at Charles Darwin University in Australia from 1990-1993. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Kyoto University in Japan from 1993-1995, and was a Research Fellow with the Department of Physics at Murdoch University in Australia from 1995-1997 working on silicon thin films derived from plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for device application. He joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore in 1997. Prior to HKBU, he was a Senior Scientist and a Program Manager leading the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and organic photovoltaic R&D activities at IMRE. His research interests include device physics, surface science, nanostructures and semiconducting materials-oriented research for application in organic semiconductor devices. He has graduated 15 PhD students. Currently there are 5 PhD students in his group. He has published over 190 refereed journal publications and also filed 10 patents in low processing temperature indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes for organic semiconductor devices. In 2019, he established a start-up company, Crimson Vision Technology Limited in Hong Kong. Crimson Vision Technology Limited develops organic near infrared photodetector technologies for fast and portable detection.