Dennis G. Drescher is Professor and Director of Molecular Research in the Department of Otolaryngology and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He obtained his Ph.D., M.M. and B.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and pursued postgraduate studies in biochemistry at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has served as Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland and Research Associate at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His interests include interactions of synaptic-complex and mechanotransduction proteins of the inner ear as analyzed by surface plasmon resonance.
Paulo César De Morais
University of Brasilia
Brazil
Professor Paulo César De Morais, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013. Appointed as UnB’s (Brazil) Emeritus Professor (2014); Visiting Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015); Distinguished Professor at the Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019); Full Professor at the Catholic University of Brasília (CUB) – Brazil (2018); CNPq-1A Research Fellow since 2010; 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research, New Jersey – USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) – Brazil. With more than 12,000 citations, He has published about 500 papers (Web of Science) and more than 16 patents.
José L. Ocaña
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
Prof. Dr. José L. Ocaña is MSc. (1979) and PhD. (1982) in Industrial Engineering (Energy) at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain).
Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the ETSII-UPM School of Engineering and Founder Director of the UPM Laser Centre at this University.
He has actively promoted and participated in national (Spain) and worldwide R&D initiatives in the field of scientific and industrial applications of high power lasers, especially in high intensity laser-matter interaction, laser surface treatments, laser micromachining and on-line monitoring and control of industrial laser applications. As a result, he is author/coauthor of more than 250 scientific papers and more than 300 communications in the field of laser technology and applications.
He is member of multiple scientific committees and editorial boards in the field of laser technology and applications. Former Chairman of EULASNET II (Eureka Umbrella Network for Laser Technology and Applications) and Vice-President of the Executive Board of the European Laser Institute (ELI).
He has received several prizes related to his research activity.
