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Dr. Kyung Tae Kim is a distinguished researcher and scientific leader in advanced functional and structural materials based on powder metallurgy. His research expertise encompasses thermoelectric materials, metal additive manufacturing, energetic aluminum particles, and metal matrix nanocomposites, with significant contributions to materials innovation and energy conversion technologies.

Dr. Kim currently serves as Director of the Thermoelectric Research Laboratory for Metaverse Applications, where he develops next-generation energy solutions for emerging virtual and digital environments. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Powder Materials, leading scholarly dissemination in powder metallurgy and advanced materials science. In addition, he is a Principal Researcher at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), directing research programs in energy conversion and advanced material systems. He was recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2025) by Elsevier and Stanford University.

Previously, he served as Director of the Thermoelectric Research Center for Waste Heat Recovery (2021–2025) and Head of the Department of 3D Printing Materials (2020–2024), advancing research in waste heat utilization and functional additive manufacturing. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Hanyang University (ERICA) from 2016 to 2024.

Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from KAIST in 2006. He subsequently worked as a Senior Researcher at Samsung Electronics (Flexible Device Lab) and conducted postdoctoral research at Leibniz-IFW Dresden, Germany. Through his interdisciplinary leadership in powder metallurgy, metal 3D printing, and thermoelectric systems, Dr. Kim continues to bridge fundamental materials science with industrial innovation.

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Professor Moataz Attallah holds a chair in advanced materials processing at the School of Metallurgy and Materials University of Birmingham. His research focuses on developing a metallurgical understanding of the material-process interaction in additive manufacturing of metallic materials focusing on the process impact on the microstructure and structural integrity development. His research is conducted through research partnerships with various companies in the aerospace, defence, medical, space, and nuclear energy sectors. He co-authored over 200 journal and conference papers, 3 book chapters, and is a co-inventor on 5 patents.

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Dr. Hyunjoo Choi is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kookmin University (KMU). She earned her Ph.D. from the Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering at Yonsei University (2010). Before she came to KMU, Dr. Choi was a postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. (2005) from the Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering at Yonsei University. She is developing high strength lightweight metallic materials, including aluminum matrix composites, high-entropy alloys, nano-structured metals, and additive-manufactured metals. She is also keen on studying the process-structure-properties (PSP) linkage, particularly focusing on deformation mechanics of metallic materials.

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Jungshin Kang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Seoul National University. His research focuses on developing environmentally friendly extraction processes for rare metals such as titanium, magnesium, lithium, nickel, rare earth elements, and iron from both primary ores and secondary resources. Using thermodynamic analysis, he designs novel chlorination, molten salt electrolysis, metallothermic reduction, and electrorefining routes to enable the production of high-purity metals and efficient recycling. Prof. Kang also leads the Integrated Major in Resource Recovery–Circular Economy for Energy Storage Systems, a convergent graduate program that cultivates practice-oriented professionals who can tackle field-level resource-recovery challenges.

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Seungkyun Yim, Ph.D., is a specially appointed assistant professor at the Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center, Tohoku University. He earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Chonbuk National University in 2017 and 2019, respectively. In 2022, he completed his Ph.D. in Materials Processing at Tohoku University. Following his Ph.D., Prof. Yim served as a specially appointed assistant professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, until 2023. His research focuses on developing a digital twin framework for additive manufacturing, leveraging in-situ observation and multi-scale simulations. In the field of additive manufacturing, his research focuses on physical metallurgy and site-specific microstructure and mechanical property control for a wide range of engineering materials through process optimization. Additionally, he leverages machine learning techniques to further enhance additive manufacturing processes.

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Dong-Ha Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2022 to 2024. His research focuses on tuning the surface activity of nanomaterials to achieve sensitive and selective detection of chemical species, with an emphasis on gaining fundamental insights into sensing mechanisms. He has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a co-inventor on more than 25 patents.

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Dr. J.H. Kim has been serving as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Hanbat National University since 2014. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Korea University (www.korea.ac.kr) before pursuing both his Master's and Ph.D. degrees at POSTECH (www.postech.ac.kr).

His career began in the 'Special Alloys Group' at the Korea Institute of Materials Science, where he remained from 2005 to 2014. During his tenure, he expanded his expertise through roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA and as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Kim's research focuses on the bonding and joining of dissimilar materials, such as metals, polymers, and ceramics. Additionally, he is interested in microstructure design and tuning of structural metallic materials, including titanium and nickel alloys, for applications in power generators, aerospace, and bioengineering. He is also involved in research on nano-oxide particles in oxide dispersion strengthened steels, owing to their exceptional thermal stability and irradiation resistance. Dr. Kim confronts the inherent complexities of material processing, where defects are prevalent and interface effects play a crucial role, particularly as structural dimensions extend up to meter length scales. These challenges serve as a driving force in his work.

Dr. Kim is an active member of various professional organizations, including the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, The Korean Society For Technology of Plasticity, the Korean Nuclear Society, the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute, and TMS (Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society). He has authored over 140 publications, led approximately 50 research projects, and contributed to the filing of over 30 patents.

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Jongun Moon is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Advanced Materials Engineering at Kongju National University. Prof. Moon explores how to control microstructure and enhance the performance of structural materials through additive manufacturing, laser-based surface engineering, and multi-component alloy design. His research aims to address reliability issues in extreme environments, including cryogenic temperatures, corrosive environments, and severe mechanical loading. His recent work focuses on multi-component alloy systems for cryogenic applications, functionally graded and surface-modified structures using additive manufacturing, and laser-textured mechanical interlocking strategies for dissimilar-metal joining. He actively collaborates with academic and industrial partners to translate advanced metallic materials and processing technologies into high-performance applications in future mobility, energy systems, and extreme-environment engineering.

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Hyunseok Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). Prior to joining UW, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea. During his Ph.D. studies, he was also a visiting student in the Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design Department at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany. Hyunseok was recently honored with the US-Department of Energy Early Career Research Award and US-National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023.

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Dr Sing Swee Leong is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, after receiving the prestigious fellowship in 2020. His research interests are enabling material development while creating strategic and sustainable values for Industry 4.0 and beyond through the use and integration of advanced manufacturing. Swee Leong was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2023 and 2022. In 2022, he was also awarded the Young Professional Award by ASTM International for his work in additive manufacturing and contribution in standard development for the field. Swee Leong received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (with topic in Additive Manufacturing) from NTU, Singapore in 2016.

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Prof. Thomas Weißgärber is a leading expert in powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing, currently serving as a Member of the Institute Management of Fraunhofer IFAM and Head of the Dresden site, as well as Professor of Powder Metallurgy at Technische Universität Dresden. He has held key leadership roles at Fraunhofer IFAM since 1997, including Interim Director (2019–2022), Deputy Director (2010–2019), and Head of the departments for Sintered and Composite Materials. He earned his Dr.-Ing. in 1998 for research on dispersion-strengthened copper alloys, following studies in mechanical and materials engineering at TU Dresden. Since 2004, he has been an active member of the Joint Committee on Powder Metallurgy across major German materials societies and has led its Additive Manufacturing expert group since 2018. He also serves on the steering committee of the Fraunhofer Cluster Nanoanalytics.

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Prof. MinHo Yang is a professor in the Department of Energy Engineering at Dankook University (DKU). He received his Ph.D. from Graduate school of Nanoscience and Technology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Before he came to DKU, he was a postdoctoral researcher in National NanoFab Center at KAIST from 2015 to 2016 and in Department of Materials Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2016 to 2017. His research interests lie in the area of materials for energy storage and development of post Li-ion batteries.

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Prof. Pawel Zieba - (born 1956) is the former head of the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2019). His PhD and DSc he obtained at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1987 and 1997, respectively. He received full professor scientific title in 2003. In 1991-92 he was British Council Fellow at Manchester Materials Science Centre and then in 1997-2001 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Max-Planck Institute für Metallforschung and Institut für Metallkunde der Stuttgart Universität. In the years 2011-2015 he served as the Executive Committee member for the Federation of European Materials Societies

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Seok-Jae Lee is a Professor of the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering at Jeonbuk National University, He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from Yonsei University in 2007. From 2008 to 2010 he worked at the Advanced Steel Processing & Products Research Center as a Research Associate. Before joining Joenbuk National University in 2012, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at POSTECH. He has interests in intelligent design of various materials and processes through modeling prediction and experimental verification. He has been the director of the Intelligent Materials Design Laboratory (http://imdl.jbnu.ac.kr) since 2012 and made over 150 peer-reviewed research papers.