Professor Lan-Hong Dai obtained his PhD degree in solid mechanics in 1996 from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Prior to join CAS, he spent two years in Peking University as postdoctoral research fellow. From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a visiting professor at Harvard university. His research areas include impact dynamics and mechanical behavior of advanced materials, especially for shear banding in metallic materials. He served as Vice Present of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from 2014 to 2025. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of International Journal of Impact Engineering, Associate Editor of Damage, and Editor-in-Chief of New Domain Navigation. He obtained Second Prize of National Nature Science Award in 2020 and 4th National Award for Excellence in Innovation.

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Beijing Institute of Technology. B.Sc. (1989), Peking University; M.Sc. (1999), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Ph.D. (2003), Nanyang Technological University. Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2012); one of the first‑batch leading talents in scientific and technological innovation under the National High‑Level Talent Program (2014). He worked at the Institute of Systems Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics from December 1989 to December 2016, and joined Beijing Institute of Technology in January 2017. His long‑term research covers mechanics of complex structures, structural impact dynamics, armor‑penetration dynamics, and conventional weapon warhead design. His current research interests include hypervelocity impact, armor penetration and penetration, damage assessment, etc. He has won 9 ministerial‑level Science and Technology Progress Awards (including 5 second‑class prizes). He has published more than 250 journal papers at home and abroad (over 150 indexed by SCI), and authored three monographs: Theoretical Modeling and Analysis of Armor‑Penetration/Penetration Mechanics (Volume I & II), and Long‑Rod High‑Velocity/Hypervelocity Penetration: Theoretical Models and Numerical Simulations. His honors include the First‑batch Distinguished Expert of China Academy of Engineering Physics (2012), Deng Jiaxian Youth Science and Technology Award (2010), Yu Min Prize for Mathematical‑Physical Sciences (2010), and the Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Practical Engineering Award from the China Association for Science and Technology (2012). He serves as Associate Editor of Defence Technology and Chinese Journal of Energetic Materials, and editorial board member for more than ten domestic and international journals including IJIE, IJPS and EMF. He holds adjunct professorships at multiple universities, and has been consecutively listed as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in Ordnance Science and Technology and Mechanics.

Jianguo Zhang is a professor in School of Mechatronical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in applied chemistry at BIT and has been a faculty number at BIT since 2000. His research interests include the energetic materials and energy storage device. He has co-authored over 300 research papers and filed more than 60 patents.

Prof. Valery Sinditskii is a dean of Chemical Engineering Department, head of chair “Chemistry and technology of organic nitrogen  compounds”, and professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia. Prof. Sinditskii graduated Moscow State University, Chemistry Department in 1976, received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1981 and Dr. of Science in Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in 2003. The research interests of Prof. Sinditskii are synthesis, thermal decomposition, combustion and application of energetic materials. Prof. Sinditskii published over 350 publications including 29 patents, and he is a member of editorial boards of  “Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves”, “Central European Journal of Energetic Materials”, “Energetic Materials Frontiers” and Associate Editor of “International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion”. Vice-chairman of Special commission of experts at the Higher Certifying Commission in Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. Honorary Foreign Member of the High-energy material Society of India (2013). Visiting professor of Beijing Institute of Technology (2012).  

Title：Thermal decomposition and combustion behavior of 1,1 - diamino - 2,2 - dinitroethylene

Marcilio Alves graduated in Mechanical Engineering, Federal Uni-versity of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 1983, where he also obtained hisMaster Degree. His Doctoral Degree is from The University of LiverpoolImpact Research Centre in 1996 under the guidance of Prof. N. Jones.Back in Brazil, he established at the University of Sao Paulo the Groupof Solid Mechanics and Structural Impact. He obtained various grants,which supported his research activities in the areas of structural impact,material characterization and non-linear finite elements. He published many articles in scientific journals and conferences, covering theoretical,experimental and numerical aspects of non-linear dynamics. He editedfour books on Structural Impact and Solid Mechanics and established abiennial cycles of conferences in Solid Mechanics and in Impact Load-ing of Lightweight Structures. He is the Editor-in-Chief and Founderof the Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures and AssociateEditor of the International Journal of Impact Engineering. He has beenpublishing with authors from different universities of Brazil, UK, Ger-many, Bulgaria, China, South Africa, Belgium, Australia and Norway.He is Professor at University of Sao Paulo and Executive Director of itsFoundation, FUSP.

Dr. Andreas Schiffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Khalifa University (KU) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He obtained his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 2009 and his DPhil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (UK) in 2013. He also held a post-doctoral position in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London (UK), prior to joining KU in 2014.

Dr. Schiffer’s research interests cover multiple themes in the broad area of Mechanics of Materials and are currently focused on multifunctional composites and architected materials processed via additive manufacturing. In addition, he has a long-standing interest in studying the response of materials and structures subjected to blast, shock, and impact loading, and he conducts research in solitary wave-based non-destructive testing. Dr. Schiffer’s research has led to several publications in prestigious international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has spent several research visits at the Imperial College in London and delivered invited presentations and seminars at highly-ranked universities, including the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and RMIT Melbourne. Dr. Schiffer is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) and serves on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Materials, Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, and Damage (Elsevier).

Professor Mustafa Güden got his PhD from Materials Science and Engineering Department of University of Delaware in 1998.   He is a Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.  His research focusses on the experimental and numerical analysis of the high strain rate deformation behavior of monolithic metals, polymers and ceramics and their composites and metallic cellular/lattice structures. He has co-authored 125 peer reviewed journal articles (more than 5000 citations in Google Scholar, h-index=41) and 95 conference proceedings.  Dr. Güden has also been awarded with Professor Mustafa Parlar Master Thesis Award, Husamettin Tugac Foundation Technology Research Award, TUBITAK Motivation Award and Elginkan Foundation Technology Award.

Dr. Adnan Kefal is an Associate Professor at Sabancı University, Türkiye, where he leads the Computational Mechanics & Engineering Optimization (CMEO) research group. He received his PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has also conducted research at NASA Langley Research Center in the United States.

His research focuses on structural health monitoring, digital twins, inverse methods, computational and experimental mechanics, composite structures, peridynamics, multiscale modelling, and topology optimisation. A major theme of his work is the development of physics-based digital-twin technologies capable of reconstructing the full-field displacement, strain, stress, and damage response of complex engineering structures from sparse sensor measurements. His research has led to developments in the inverse finite element method, particle inverse methods, structural damage assessment, and computational design optimisation.

Dr. Kefal has authored more than 75 journal publications and has led numerous national and international research projects involving academia and industry. He is also the founder and CEO of Mechanima Engineering and Software Inc., where advanced research in structural sensing and digital twins is translated into engineering technologies and software.

His distinctions include the 2026 Science Academy Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award of the Council of Higher Education of Türkiye, and the 2022 METU Mustafa N. Parlar Research Encouragement Award.