Thomas Justel is a German chemist and professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Münster University of Applied Sciences. Dr. Thomas Jüstel was born in Witten, Germany in 1968. He studied chemistry and biology at the Ruhr-University of Bochum from 1987 to 1992. He received his Ph.D. in coordination chemistry in spring 1995 in the group of Prof. Dr. Karl Wieghardt. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry, Mülheim (since 2012 – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion). He was hired by the Philips Research Laboratories Aachen in summer 1995 as a Research Scientist, where he started to work on luminescent materials. Some years later he became a Senior Scientist and then he was promoted to a Principal Scientist in 2003. In spring 2004 he became a professor for Inorganic Chemistry and Material Sciences at the Muenster University of Applied Sciences. His research group deals with photochemistry, nanoscale and m-scale luminescent materials for LEDs, UV radiation sources and x-ray detectors. He also consults several chemical and lighting companies. Thomas Jüstel is the dean of the department Chemical Engineering at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, Münster, Germany. His research interests focus on various aspects of optical materials and spectroscopy. He holds almost 100 US patents, (co-)authored about 180 original research publications, and edited several book chapters. He also consults companies active in the field of functional materials and light sources. Professor Thomas Jüstel Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences since 2014 He is Vice President at the German Academy of Photobiology and Phototechnology (DAfP) for the Department of Photochemistry and Phototechnology. He also holds regular seminars on the subject of inorganic phosphors for the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh).

Lai Tao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the College of Intelligent Science, National University of Defense Technology. His primary research focuses on the development of high-precision measurement systems and machine tools, nanoscale coordinate metrology, the design and fabrication of core components and key elements, and the manufacturing of metal optical systems. He has authored over 40 papers indexed by SCI/EI, including more than 20 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author. He has pioneered novel methodologies such as standard-independent separation of perpendicularity errors and the development of long-range, high-precision optical material guides. His work has been published in several leading international and domestic journals, including the Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Measurement, and Precision Engineering, with 7 papers appearing in these top publications. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals like ISA Transactions.

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration, and as a Topical Associate Editor of Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and renewable energy, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published 396 archival journal papers in these areas and has 12 issued U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and the 2024 ASME Rayleigh Lecture Award.