Abhishek Gaur

Canada

An Associate Research Officer in the Construction Research Centre of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) where responsible for developing climate data, maps, and tools to support the design and research of buildings in Canada. And also leading NRC’s efforts on the mapping of wildfires in the wildland urban interface (WUI) areas of Canada.

Lorena De Medina-Salas

Mexico

Doctor in Environmental Management Projects and Doctor of Science with a major in
Inorganic Chemistry, Master in Business Administration, Specialized in Quality Control and
Bachelor’s in Pharmaceutical Biological Chemistry at Universidad Veracruzana. She is a full
time professor and researcher in the waste management area of the Environmental
Engineering Program at Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, with 19 years of experience.
She has published more than 40 papers and has been serving as a scientific reviewer for
reputed journals. She also belongs to the National System of Researchers in Mexico.

C H Raymond Ooi

Malaysia

Prof Raymond Ooi is a quantum physicist, has 25 years of research experience, produced more than 120 publications in WoS (mainly Q1 journals) on a range of topics in quantum optics, nonlinear optics, plasmonics and laser interactions. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM). In 2013, he won the Malaysian Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) Science & Technology Award. Raymond Ooi obtained his Dr.rer.nat (PhD) from Universitaet Konstanz, Germany. He spent 3 years as a postdoc at Texas A&M University and was a regular Visiting Scientist at Princeton University and Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik. He conducted research at KAIST and taught at Korea University before joining Universiti Malaya, and initiated "Quantum and Laser Science" research lab equipped with femtosecond laser optics facility under the High Impact Research grant.

Raymond is the Principal Investigator for quantum communication research programme funded by MOHE, has 2 patents and has been invited/plenary speaker at more than 30 international conferences. In 2018 he initiated and chaired the first international conference on Quantum and Nonlinear Optics(QNO2018) that was attended by pioneers in the field and secured three international funds to run the conference. He served as a Judge for MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific”. Currently he is the Editorial Board member for the prestigious journals; the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A and the New Journal of Physics, and has written several articles in the media, connecting science to recent topics like green energy and climate change.

Antonio Coletta

Italy

Antonio Coletta holds a master degree in Agronomy  and, currently, he is Senior Scientist at the Centre of Viticulture and Enology of CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - (Italy), where he has matured twenty-three years of experience in the fields of Viticulture, Enology, Water, Energy, Food Energy and Ecosystems (WEFE). His knowledge and technical expertise are derived from the roles he has had the pleasure of covering at CREA, which include:

- 2017 to present: 'Expert' for the 'Apulian Wine Committee'.

- 2017 to present: 'Rapporteur' for the 'Selection Committee' of MIUR-CINECA, where he provided ESRs (Evaluation Summary Reports) for PRIN projects (Relevant National Interest Projects).

- 2009 to present: Expert for the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) in the 'Grape' sub-committee for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture.

- 2004-2005 Fellow of the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine.

Along with his professional experience, he has matured a strong academic profile through research activities and publications related to new vine varieties and field test on them in the table grape sector as reported in the list of the paper published a the following link: (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25229848800).  These have allowed him to acquire expertise in viticulture related topics.

He has a good command of written and spoken English, gained through living and working as a visiting researcher at Cambridge University (UK).