Dr. Vitaly A. Kuzkin received his Ph.D. in 2011 and Doctor of Science degree in 2020 from the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering RAS. Dr. Kuzkin holds a position of leading researcher at IPME RAS and professor at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University. His research interests include thermomechanics, ballistic heat transport, thermoelasticity, transient thermal processes, equations of state, thermal expansion, and molecular dynamics.

The main goal of his research is to bridge the gap between discrete and continuum descriptions of thermomechanical processes in solids. V.A. Kuzkin was awarded the St. Petersburg Government Prize in the field of integration of education, science, and industry (2022), the Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for young scientists (2020), and J.I. Alferov scholarship for young scientists (2020). Prof.

Dr. Holm Altenbach is a member of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS), Italy. He has held positions at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, both in Germany. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1980 (diploma in Dynamics and Strength of Machines) and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1983 and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in 1987 at the same Institute. He is currently a full professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mechanics (since 2011), where he has been an acting director since 2015. Since October 1, 2022, he is retired.