Technology. Now he is the president of World-Lab Co. (Nagoya, Japan). He also held the positions of executive scientist at SCHOTT AG, invited professor at Pierre Marie Curie University, Shanghai Institute etc. In 1995, he succeeded in fabricating Nd: YAG laser ceramic for the first time in the world. This resulted in an intensive research and development activities that culminated in new ceramic techniques and widespread applications for the materials that were produced using this advanced ceramic process. His achievements are listed in ACerS(Am. Ceram. Soc.) "Ceramic Innovations". He also developed other important optical ceramics such as sesquioxides lasers, scintillators, isolator and IR-windows etc. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Fulrath Award and fellow from ACerS and Photonic and Quantum Electronics Award, Otto-Schott Research Award and Kato Memorial Award.

Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. He received his PhD at Department of Industrial Chemistry, Kyoto University in 1993. After working as an assistant professor, he became an associate professor in 2001 and was promoted to a full Professor in 2008 in Kyoto University. He is the author of >300 original papers, ~30 book chapters, and ~50 review papers on luminescent glass and ceramic materials for upconversion lasers, optical fiber amplifier, LED phosphors and persistent phosphors. He has served as a plenary, keynote or invited speaker at more than 140 international conferences. He was the Chair of Technical Committee on Photonic Glasses (TC20) of International Commission on Glass, ICG during 2003- 2011 and was a member of its Steering Committee during 2013~2020. He is a main Editor of Journal of Luminescence since 2020 after serving as an Associate Editor during 2014~2020. He is a Fellow of SPIE and ACerS.

Technology University (SZTU), China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Hanover University, Germany in 1993, and then worked as a scientific employee at the Physikalisch-Technische Budesanstalt (PTB), Germany, as a university Postdoctoral Research Fellow, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at the University of Queensland, Australia, and as a Research Fellow in the Optical Fiber Technology Center (OFTC), the University of Sydney, Australia. From 2000 to 2019 he was an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and was promoted as a full Professor in 2019. He moved to SZTU in Oct. 2022. From 2017-2022 he was awarded as the world top 1% highly cited researcher in Physics.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has published 360+ international journal papers. He has received "Natural Science Award by MoE", “TechConnect Global Innovation Award”, “Special Merit Award and Gold Medal of Geneva”, President’s Award in PolyU. He serves as an Associate Editor of InfoMat (IF~24.798) and InfoScience. He is conferred as Hong Kong RGC Senior Research Fellow, Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor. He is elected as Fellow of Optica (formerly known as OSA), FRSC, and FInstP. His research interests include metal-ion-doped luminescent materials and devices, functional thin-films and heterostructures (http://ap.polyu.edu.hk/apjhhao/).

Transparent Ceramics, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS (SICCAS). He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from SICCAS in 2005, and then worked as a research associate over there. From 2007 to 2012, he worked as postdoc in University of Leeds in UK and then Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His current research interests focused on processing science and technology for transparent ceramics, and exploring their optical and photonic applications such as laser gain media, optical windows, transparent armors, scintillators and etc. In the above area, he and his team has published ~220 journal papers, 1 book and delivered ~50 invited/oral presentations for international and domestic conferences. He co-chaired the 7th (Singapore, 2011) and 11th (China, 2015) Laser Ceramics Symposium.

Department Head in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He earned a BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University in 1984 and a MS in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He earned a PhD in Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990. Dr. Reimanis spent a year under a Max Planck Institute postdoctoral fellowship in Stuttgart, Germany. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory prior to joining Colorado School of Mines. He spent a sabbatical at the University of Western Australia in Perth in 2002 as a Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow and in 2007 was awarded a United States Fulbright award to spend a semester at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Dr. Reimanis is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and he has served on ACerS Board of Directors and has volunteered in numerous other activities within ACerS. He is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics. Dr. Reimanis' research is largely in the area of ceramics, with a focus on mechanical behavior. He has also worked extensively in the area of ceramic processing.