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Yoshi Hirooka received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from Osaka University in 1981. After various research positions he designed and built PISCES-B at the University of California at San Diego from 1995 to 1998. Until 2018, Dr Hirooka was with the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Toki, Japan where he built another linear plasma facility, VEHICLE-1. Since then he has been at Chubu University conducting plasma-wall interactions research for both magnetic and inertial fusion reactors. He has published more than 50 lead author papers and co-authored more than 100 papers, all published in international journals.

Masayuki Ono received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Princeton University in 1978, joining the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as research staff. Since then, he has led a number of research teams including the Advanced Concept Torus, the Current Drive Experiment and the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). Dr Ono was appointed Laboratory Distinguished Research Fellow in 1995 and is an APS Fellow since 1992. In 1999, he received Kaul Foundation Prize for his work on the NSTX facility. He is currently serving as the head of PPPL RF Physics Division. Dr. Ono is the author of more than 300 refereed scientific papers.

Francisco Tabarés is full professor at the Fusion National Laboratory, CIEMAT, Spain. He received his PhD in chemical physics from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1983, followed by a Fulbright postdoctoral scholarship at the UC, Santa Barbara, USA. He joined the Fusion National Laboratory in 1987, where he has been the leader of the Plasma Wall Interaction team for 35 years. He currently leads the OLMAT project. Dr.Tabarés has published two books and more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, pioneering research in edge plasma diagnostics, wall coatings and plasma-based techniques for the cleaning and control of fusion devices.

Jiansheng HU received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in 2008, and has worked in the institute for 28 years on the plasma and wall interaction, plasma fueling, plasma facing components and vacuum system for HT-7 and EAST superconducting tokamak devices. He was named deputy head of Physics Division in 2009, and became in 2020 Deputy Director of ASIPP, responsible for the tokamak experiment and operation, talent nurturing and international cooperation. Prof. Hu has published more than 180 SCI papers and has been honored with a number of awards for his academic achievement.