Mohammed Almahfali from Yemen is currently a researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD (2014) in modern Arabic literature, Arabic Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Art, Cairo University (Egypt). From 2017 to 2019 he worked as a researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, thanks to a fellowship received from the Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund SRF-IIE. In 2015 he served as the head of the Arabic Language Department, with the College of Education, Hadhramout University, Socotra Island, and was an assistant professor of modern literature and criticism. Almahfali authored and co-authored four books and more than 10 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His research interests include discourse analysis, capacity-building in higher education, and sustainable post-conflict recovery strategies to address the challenges in Yemen for the coming years. Particularly noteworthy is his dissemination activity: he is a regular contributor to the Arabi Website, where he deals with socio-political themes, human rights issues and war-related problems.

Elías Peraza has been the Educational Technological Prospective Manager of the Directorate of Educational Technology, Salvadoran Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, since 2022. He conducts studies in science, technology and innovation (STI), prioritizing those of interest to the education system, including emerging technologies. He graduated in business administration from the University of El Salvador in 2010 and earned a master’s degree in business management for innovation and internationalization from the University of Basque Country, Spain, in 2011. In 2019, Peraza received a PhD in economics with cum laude distinction from Universities of Burgos, Valladolid and Salamanca, Spain. He studied both his master’s and doctorate thanks to scholarships from the European Union. Peraza has published academic and diffusion articles about systems of innovation, STI policies, business innovation behaviour, and economic policy. Regarding awards, he got the Ruben Dario Central American Award for Academic Excellence in 2009, and participated in the 22nd TWAS-LACREP Young Scientist Conference at Rio de Janeiro.

Amer Ahmed Al-Qaaod is a collaborative physicist with more than eight years of international experience, who is researching in reactor physics, nuclear systems design, particle transport simulations, application in low energy neutron physics, dosimetry and radiation shielding-detection modelling. He completed his doctoral and post-doctoral training in nuclear physics in Cairo, Egypt, and then moved to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he started a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in 2018. During his fellowship, he worked as a consultant in shielding design in the Nuclear Science and Instrumentation Laboratory, part of the Physical and Chemical Science Division at the International Atomic Energy Agency, before moving to the German National Metrology Institute (PTB), in September 2020. He is an expert in Monte Carlo simulation tools for modelling nuclear processes, Python programming language, and has a solid knowledge of radiation measurements equipment. He published more than 10 peer-reviewed publications and one scientific book in particle physics, and delivered oral and poster presentations at several international conferences.

Alexandre Reily Rocha is an assistant professor at the Insituto de Física Teórica (IFT), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil. In 2007 he obtained a PhD in physics from the Trinity College Dublin, TCD, Dublin, Ireland. At TCD he developed one of the most important computational codes for simulating electronic transport in nanoscopic systems. In 2012 he moved to UNESP, which hosts a branch of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR). Since 2014 he has been an affiliate member of ICTP-SAIFR and also a Simons Associate of ICTP-Trieste. In 2016, Reily Rocha spent one year at the Deparment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society, and of the American Physical Society. In addition, he was elected as an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), a Simons Associate of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, and an affiliate member of the Academy of Science for the State of São Paulo.

Hassan Shokry Hassan Ahmed is an associate professor in the Environmental Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt. His interests cover nanotechnology, sensors applications, design of environmental controlling systems.
He started his career working first as an assistant researcher, assistant professor then as an associate professor (2004 - 2019) in the Electronic Materials Researches Department, City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Alexandria, Egypt.
Ahmed is the recipient of numerous awards: the ALECSO award for young researchers in the Arab World (field nanotechnology), in 2015; the State Encouragement Award in the field of Basic Sciences (field physical science), in 2017. He is serving as a member in the National Committee for New Materials Technology (2018-2021), and is a referee in many scientific journals.