R. A. Ilyas is a senior lecturer at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, in the Faculty of Engineering, at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia. He received his Diploma in Forestry at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu Campus (UPMKB), Sarawak, Malaysia, from May 2009 to April 2012. In 2012, he was awarded the Public Service Department (JPA) scholarship to pursue his bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Chemical Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Upon completing his BSc programme in 2016, he was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) by the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to undertake a PhD degree in the field of Biocomposite Technology and Design at Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP) UPM. R.A. Ilyas was the recipient of the MVP Doctor of Philosophy Gold Medal Award UPM 2019, for the Best Ph.D. Thesis and Top Student Award, INTROP, UPM. He was awarded Outstanding Reviewer by Carbohydrate Polymers, Elsevier United Kingdom; Best Paper Award (11th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Energy Engineering); National Book Award 2018, Best Paper Award (Seminar Enau Kebangsaan 2019, Persatuan Pembangunan dan Industri Enau Malaysia); Top Cited Article 2020-2021, Journal Polymer Composite, Wiley, 2022. R.A. Ilyas was also listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Subject-Wise) citation impact during the single calendar year between 2019 and 2020 by Stanford University, US, and awarded the PERINTIS Publication Award 2021 and 2022 by Persatuan Saintis Muslim Malaysia, the Emerging Scholar Award by Automotive and Autonomous Systems 2021, Belgium, Young Scientists Network—Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) 2021, the UTM Young Research Award 2021, UTM Publication Award 2021, and the UTM Highly Cited Researcher Award 2021. His main research interests are: (1) polymer engineering (biodegradable polymers, biopolymers, polymer composites, and polymer gels) and (2) material engineering (natural fibre-reinforced polymer composites, biocomposites, cellulose materials, and nano-composites). To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 404 publications (published/accepted): 164 Journals Indexed in JCR/Scopus, 2 non-index Journal, 15 books, 104 book chapters, 78 conference proceedings/seminars, 4 research bulletins, 10 conference papers (abstract published in book of abstract), 17 Guest Editor of Journal Special Issues and 10 Editor/Co-Editor of Conference/Seminar Proceedings on green materials related subjects.
	S. M. Sapuan is an “A” Grade Professor of composite materials at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and a Head of Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology, INTROP, UPM. He has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, an MSc in Engineering Design from Loughborough University, UK, and a PhD in Material Engineering from De Montfort University, UK. He is a Professional Engineer, a Society of Automotive Engineers Fellow, an Academy of Science Malaysia Fellow, a Plastic and Rubber and Institute Malaysia Fellow, a Malaysian Scientific Association Fellow, an International Biographical Association Fellow, and an Institute of Material Malaysia Fellow. He is an Honorary Member and immediate past Vice President of the Asian Polymer Association based in IIT Delhi and the Founding Chairman and Honorary Member of Society of Sugar Palm Development and Industry, Malaysia. He is the co-editor-in-chief of Functional Composites and Structures, and a member of editorial boards of more than two dozen journals. To date he has produced more than 1800 publications including over 860 journal papers, 50 books, and 175 chapters in book. He has delivered over 50 plenary and keynote lectures, and over 150 invited lectures. He organized 30 journal special issues as a guest editor, presented over 650 technical articles in conferences and seminars, reviewed over 1300 journal papers, and has eight patents. He successfully supervised 91 PhD and 70 MSc students and 15 postdoctoral researchers. His current h-index is 93 and the number of citations is 31,647 (Google Scholar). He received nine Outstanding Researcher Awards from UPM, ISESCO Science Award (Gold Medal), Plastic and Rubber Institute Malaysia Fellowship Award and Forest Research Institute Malaysia First Prize Publication Award. He also received the Khwarizimi International Award, the SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair award, the Kuala Lumpur Royal Rotary Gold Medal Research Award, and two National Book Awards. He received the Endeavour Research Promotion Award by TMU/IEEE India; the Citation of Excellence Award, Emerald, UK; Malaysia’s Research Star Award, Elsevier/Ministry of Education Malaysia; the Publons Peer Review Award, Publons, USA; the Professor of Eminence Award from Aligarh Muslim University, India; the Top Research Scientists’ Malaysia Award, Academy of Science Malaysia; the Gold in Invention and Innovation Awards; the Malaysia Technology Expo; PERINTIS Publication Award, PERINTIS, Malaysia. He was listed among the World Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA. He is the finalist of IET Achievements Award, IET, UK and the 2021 SAE Subir Chowdhury Medal of Quality Leadership, SAE, USA.
	Emin Bayraktar (Prof. Emeritus, Habil., Dr (Ph.D.), DSc—Doctor of Science) is an academic and research staff member in Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering at SUPMECA/Paris, France. His research areas include manufacturing techniques of new materials (basic composites—hybrid), the metal forming of thin sheets (design + test + FEM), static and dynamic behavior and optimization of materials (experimental and FEM—utilization and design of composite-based metallic and non-metallic, powder metallurgy, and energetic material aeronautical applications), metallic-based and non-metallic materials, powder metallurgy and metallurgy of steels, welding, and heat treatment, as well as the processing of new composites, sintering techniques, sinter–forging, thixoforming, etc. He has authored more than 200 publications in the International Journals and International Conference Proceedings and has also authored more than 90 research reports (European = Steel Committee projects, Test + Simulation). He already advised 32 Ph.D. and 120 MSc theses and is currently advising seven. He is a Fellow of WAMME (World Academy of Science in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering), an Editorial Board—Member of JAMME (International Journal of Achievement in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering), an Advisory board member of AMPT—2009 (Advanced Materials Processing technologies), and a member of APCMP—2008 and APCMP—2010. He was a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore in 2012; Xi’an Northwestern Technical University, Aeronautical Engineering, in 2016; University of Campinas, UNICAMP-Brazil in 2013 until 2023. He is a recipient of the Silesian University Prix pour “FREDERIK STAUB Golden Medal-2009” by the Academy of WAMME, “World Academy of Science”—Poland, materials science section, and a recipient of the William Johnson International Gold Medal—2014, AMPT academic association.