Munkhtsetseg Tsednee is a scientific researcher at Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS), in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She earned a PhD in biotechnology from the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2013); and a MSc (2005) and a BSc (2003) in chemistry, both from the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. She worked at Academia Sinica (Taipei), the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Tokyo, as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-19), before returning back to MAS. She is a plant expert, interested in understanding the molecular basis of abiotic stress-adapted plants. Her research focuses on plant response to nutrient stresses and plant metal hyperaccumulation under soil heavy metal pollution. She has expertise in developing mass spectrometry based approaches for metabolomics and metal speciation. She received awards from Academia Sinica, Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences; and served as a member of professional associations including Association for Women in Science (2015-present), Japan Society of Plant Physiologists (2017-2019), Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (2012-2015).

Tonjock Rosemary Kinge is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Bamenda, in Bamenda, Cameroon, where she teaches mycology, plant pathology and botany. She earned a Master of Science in Botany and a PhD in Botany (Mycology) from the University of Buea, in Buea, Cameroon. Her scientific interests include: mycobiome analysis, fungi diversity, mushroom domestication and conservation, plant pathogenic fungi assessment and control, ethnomycological studies and multidisciplinary research. Tonjock is a member of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists. In 2019, she was named Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2020, she became an affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. She won a TWAS-Chinese Academy of Sciences postgraduate fellowship (2008–2009), China; a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Free State, South Africa (2016–2017); and a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Florida (2017–2018), in Gainesville, Florida. Currently, she is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Jigme Tenzin has been working with the Department of Forests and Park Services since 2009, starting programmes that can be considered a pioneer contribution to science in Bhutan. He holds a PhD (2016) in forest management from the University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He also has a MSc in Forest Management from the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun, India (2008) and a BSc in botany, zoology and chemistry from the Sherubtse College, Kanglung, Bhutan (2005). He has received awards and honours such as the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship (2011) and the Netherland Fellowship Program Awards (NUFFIC), in 2013. In 2014 he was promoted to senior forestry officer and in 2018 to Deputy Chief Forestry Officer with the Watershed Management Division (DoFPS). He has also trained local leaders on the concept of watershed management. Bhutan has a rich biodiversity of forests, which makes it difficult to develop management models for every tree species. Tenzin has grouped local species easing their ecological management, providing a framework that allows the assessment of the forest structure, between "natural" and "semi-disturbed" areas.

Leslie Karina Tejeda Perez earned her PhD in food engineering (2013) from the University of Lund, in Sweden. She also earned a degree in chemistry (2007) from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), in La Paz, Bolivia. During the doctoral studies, she investigated the chemical composition, the antioxidant activity of Andean grains (quinoa and cañihua) and the polyphenolic content in isolated items and processed food (lunches). She is a member of the spin-off company Swebol Biotech, dedicated to formulating functional foods based on Bolivian crops. At UMSA she coordinates the Innovation Management project, aimed at building up innovative programme management to support science, technology, and innovation based on the quadruple helix model (university, government, industry, and society). The project is receiving five-year support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. With the Math-AmSud network, she also coordinated a project aimed to establish a collaborative network among Latin-American countries and France. The research topic of the proposal is Chemical Graph Theory, an important and modern area of discrete mathematics and chemical science.

Prof Dr. Ramesh T Subramaniam is a material scientist experienced in preparation, development and characterization of polymer and polymer electrolytes as a source of energy for use in various electrochemical devices. He was selected as a 'TWAS Young Affiliate Fellow' in 2009. In 2010, he received the Pacifichem Young Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society and in 2011, the Young Scientist Award from IUPAC. In 2012, he received the IAP Young Scientist Award. In 2013, he was selected as a Young Scientist of the Global Young Academy. In 2014 he was selected as one of the Top Research Scientists Malaysia. In 2016 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and received the "International Association of Advanced Materials Scientist Medal" from the International Association of Advanced Materials. In 2017, he was conferred the "Established Scientist Award" by Royal Society and also elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship 2017 with a tenure at the Princeton University, USA as a Visiting Fellow and a recipient of the International Senior Research Fellowship at Durham University, UK in 2018.

Suhair Sunoqrot is an Associate Professor of Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan’s (ZUJ) Faculty of Pharmacy. She holds a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Jordan in 2007, and a PhD in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013. Her research focuses on the development of nanoscale solutions to tackle delivery challenges of poorly water-soluble drug candidates, with special interest in the valorization of plant polyphenols both as therapeutic agents and as nanomaterial building blocks. She has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in reputable journals and currently holds the highest number of citations across ZUJ and the highest H-index at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Notably, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Daniel Turnberg Fellow at King’s College London. She received the PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC Green Chemistry for Life Award and the TWAS Prize for Young Scientists from Jordan in 2018. She is currently the only Jordanian member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) (2019-) and a TWAS Young Affiliate (2021-).

Sasitorn Srisawadi is a senior researcher at the National Metal and Materials Technology Centre (MTEC), one of the research centers of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand. She earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She won a scholarship from the Thai Government to further her education and received her Master of Science and PhD from North Carolina State University, US, working on additive manufacturing and rapid tooling. In 2011, she joined MTEC where she works at additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional (3D) printing, production process optimization, and composite material fabrication. Her excellent track records include several high profile peer-reviewed publications and patent applications in the areas of her expertise, which encompass the new process of 3D printing for natural rubber and metal matrix composites. In recognition of her contribution in promoting the role of young scientists, she was appointed as a co-Chair of the Thai Young Scientists Academy (2019–2021) and was selected as a Young Leader Fellow at the Annual Meeting, Science and Technology in Society forum (2019).

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.