• B.Sc. McGill University
• Ph.D. McGill University
• NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow Columbia University under Professor Nick Turro
• Full Professor, York University 1969-present
• Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada
• Research Interests in Photochemistry, Mechanisms and Organic Synthesis
• Over 120 publications and 2 patents
• Consultant for patent attorneys in drug litigation cases
• Involved in outreach public presentations on brand name vs generic pharmaceutical products

Distinguished Professor Suresh Bhargava is a world-renowned interdisciplinary scientist who has achieved excellence in five disciplines and is recognised for delivering research excellence that underpins significant industrial applications. He published more than 445 journal articles and more than 200 industrial reports. His research has been cited more than 11,850 times amounting to over 6+ citations per day with a h-index of 53 and i10-index of 274. Out of his seven patents, five have gone to industries or licensed to commerclisation. As a passionate supporter of technological science and engineering for innovation, he provides consultancy and advisory services to many government and industrial bodies around the world, including BHP Billiton, Alcoa World Alumina, Rio Tinto and Mobil Exxon. Professor Bhargava has also been on the Board of Directors of one of the Aditya Birla Group of industries for over seven years.

He has been recognised through many prestigious national and international awards including the 2017 TIMES Network NRI of the Year Award, the 2016 Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) by the Government of Iran, the 2015 CHEMECA medal, the most prestigious Indian National Science Academy’s P. C. Ray Chair (distinguished lecture series 2014) and RMIT University Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (2006 and 2014). He is also an elected fellow of six learned academies around the world. Most recently he has been offered Distinguished Visiting Professorship at IITB, India. He also bears the Academic Icon Visiting Professorship at University of Malaya, Malaysia and JSPS Invitational Fellowship 2018 at University of Tokyo. 

Philippe Geubelle is the Bliss Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He received his B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1988, and his Ph.D. in aeronautics at Caltech in 1993. His research interests pertain to the theoretical and numerical treatment of problems in solid mechanics and materials, and, in particular, the multi-scale and multi-disciplinary analysis and design of multi-functional biomimetic materials, composite manufacturing, fracture mechanics, and thin films for MEMS and microelectronics applications.