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Antonio Agresti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Antonio Agresti received his master degree in Electronic Engineer (with honors) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) in 2011 and his Ph.D. degree with distinction and European label at the same University in 2015 with a period of six month spent at IMEC (Leuven, Belgium). He got a post-doctoral research fellow till 2016 from C.H.O.S.E. (Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), in the international context of graphene flagship. He is currently a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Currently, his research activity mainly concerns the realization, optimization and spectral characterization of organic and hybrid photovoltaic devices and in particular Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSCs), small molecule based solar cells and perovskite based devices. Moreover, he is involved in the development of perovskite-graphene based photovoltaic technology by focusing the attention on the scaling-up towards large modules and panels. In the context of graphene flagship, he gained experience in graphene-based and 2-dimensional materials, perovskite-graphene interface optimization related to device’s efficiency and stability. At the same time concerning the device’s long-term stability, his skills include Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy characterizations. He has been co-authoring more than 20 papers, besides a number of other publications (1 book chapters, several conference proceedings, etc.) and several invited talks.
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Adrian Bachtold (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
Adrian Bachtold is a professor at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona. He obtained his PhD from the university of Basel. The activities of his group focus on mechanical resonators based on carbon nanotubes, graphene, and semiconductor monolayers. The aim of the group is to take advantage of the exceptional sensing capabilities of these resonators to study physical phenomena in extreme regimes that have not been explored thus far, because conventional measurement methods lack sensitivity. The work is highly interdisciplinary with possible implications in quantum science, optomechanics, nanoscience, condensed matter, and low-temperature physics. Adrian Bachtold is fellow of the American Physical Society. He is running an ERC advanced grant.
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Giuseppe Battaglia (University College London, UK)
Giuseppe Battaglia is Professor of Molecular Bionics. His research is focused on the investigation of the specific design rules behind inter/intramolecular interactions and self-assembly of soft matter systems combining synthetic and supramolecular chemistry. In analogy to medical Bionics, where engineering and physical science converge to the design of replacement and/or enhancement of malfunctioning body parts, Prof Battaglia and his team apply molecular engineering and nanotechnology tools to copy and/or improve biological structures such as viruses for several applications including biotechnology, drug and gene delivery, diagnostic tools and cell engineering scaffolds. He has worked at UCL since 2013. Before this, he held positions as Lecturer -2006, Senior Lecturer -2009 and Professor -2011 in the Departments of Materials Sci. Eng. (2006-2009) and Biomedical Science (2009-2013) at the University of Sheffield. Prof Battaglia holds a Laurea in Chemical Engineering from University of Palermo (Italy) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sheffield.
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Paolo Biagioni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Paolo Biagioni received his Degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 2007 from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), working on linear and non-linear near-field microscopy and on the near-field properties of metal nanoparticles. During the Ph.D., he also worked in Basel (Switzerland) by the group of Prof. Dieter Pohl, working on resonant optical antennas. After a one-year Post Doc in Milano, in 2008 he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, which he spent working in the group of Prof. Bert Hecht in Würzburg (Germany), focusing on near-field polarization engineering with optical cross antennas and on the impedance description of plasmonic antenna circuits. He has been Assistant Professor since 2010 and Associate Professor since 2014 at the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
His research interests are in nano-optics and plasmonics. At present his main activities are focused on:
- Polarization control and chirality at the nanoscale
- Linear and nonlinear properties of Au nanoantennas
- Mid-infrared plasmonics and sensing with heavily-doped Ge materials
He has been the coordinator of the FET-Open EU project GEMINI ("GErmanium Mid-Infrared plasmoNIcs for sensing") and is currently the coordinator of the PRIN project "Plasmon enhanced vibrational circular dichroism".
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Anja Boisen (DTU NANOTECH, Denmark)
Anja Boisen is a professor and Head of the Centre of Excellence at the department of Micro- and Nanotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark. Anja has thorough knowledge on micromechanics and nanotechnology. Her research group focuses on the development and application of micro- and nanosensors as well as microsystems for oral drug delivery and has spun out several companies including Cantion, Silmeco, and BluSense Diagnostics.
Anja is member of the board of the Danish Innovation Foundation, the board of the Villum Foundation, the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.
In 2008, she was awarded the largest research prize in Denmark, the Villum Kann Rasmussen award, followed by the EliteForsk Award from the Danish Ministry of Research, Innovation and Higher Education in 2012. Anja also received the ‘Sapere Aude – top researcher award’ from the Danish Council for Independent Research in 2013.
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Francesco Bonaccorso (IIT-Graphene Labs / BeDimensional, Italy)
Francesco Bonaccorso gained a PhD from the Department of Physics, University of Messina in Italy after working at the Italian National Research Council, the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (UK) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Vanderbilt University (USA). In June 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge. In April 2014 He joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the graphene flagship programme. His research interests encompass solution processing of carbon nanomaterials (such as graphene, nanotubes and nanodiamonds) and inorganic layered materials, their spectroscopic characterization, incorporation into polymer composites and application in solar cells, light emitting devices, lithium-ion batteries and ultrafast lasers.
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Peter Bøggild (DTU Nanotech, Denmark)
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Mads Brandbyge (DTU Nanotech, Denmark)
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Choon-Gi Choi (ETRI, Korea)
Choon-Gi CHOI is currently a head of the Graphene Research Lab. in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea and a full professor in School of ETRI (major: ICT-Advanced Device Technology) of University of Science and Technology (UST), South Korea. He received the doctorate in Physics from Université d’Orléans, France in 1996. Since 1996, he is working for ETRI, where he has developed micro- and nano-photonic and optoelectronic devices and graphene and 2D materials-based electronic and photonic devices. He was an associate editor of the Nano Convergence journal with Springer Nature publishing from 2013 to 2017. He was also a Review Board Member of National Research Foundation of South Korea from 2010 to 2012. He is author and co-author on over 120 international scientific publications and holds 30 U.S. patents as well as more than 80 Korea patents. His research interests include Graphene and 2D materials-based electronic and photonic devices (pressure and strain sensors, temp. and humidity sensors, image sensor, chemical gas sensor, transparent electrode, electrochromic device, and EMI shielding), Metamaterial-based devices (hologram meta-surfaces, spatial light modulator, nano-imaging lens), Nano-structured photonic and optoelectronic devices (anti-reflection, perfect absorber, photonic crystals, optical waveguide), and nano imprint lithography (NIL).
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Stefano Corni (University of Padova, Italy)
Born in Vignola (Italy)
Education
1994-1999: Undergraduate fellowship from the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy
Nov 1999: Laurea (MSc) in Chemistry from the University of Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. J. Tomasi.
Sept 2003: PhD in Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. J. Tomasi. Title of the thesis: “Continuum models for optical properties of molecules close to metal surfaces”.
Professional experience
Jan 2003-Aug 2004: Post-doc research fellowship at the CNR-INFM S3 (now CNR-NANO S3), Modena, Italy. Supervisors: Elisa Molinari and Rosa Di Felice
Sept 2004-Jan 2009: Tenure track research scientist at CNR-INFM S3, Modena, Italy
Since Jan 2009: Tenured research scientist at CNR-NANO (ex INFM) S3, Modena, Italy
Since 2011: Teacher of "Physical Chemistry of Biomolecules", Master degree in Physics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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Gianaurelio Cuniberti (TU Dresden, Germany)
Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti holds since 2007 the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Dresden University of Technology. He leads the Nanobiomaterials Department of the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden and is the founding director of the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCCMS). He studied Physics at the University of Genoa and at the University of Hamburg and was visiting scientist at MIT and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden. From 2003 to 2007 he was at the head of a Volkswagen Foundation Junior Research Group at the University of Regensburg. Prof. Cuniberti has made lasting contributions to a wide range of areas from quantum dots, nanowires and nanotubes to biosystems, addressing transport phenomena, structural stability with important contributions to the theory and modeling of the electronic and structural properties of bottom up nanoscale materials. His activity addresses four main lines: (i) molecular and organic electronics, (ii) bionanotechnology, (iii) nanostructures, (iv) methods development. His research activity is internationally recognized in more than 300 scientific papers to date. He initiated and organized numerous workshops, and school-conferences and took part in international research training networks, offering extensive opportunities for young scientists. He has given plenary and invited talks at numerous international meetings. He received several talent scholarships and in 2001 the Max Planck Society Schloeßmann award fellowship.
He is distinguished visiting Distinguished Professor at the Division of IT Convergence Engineering of POSTECH, the Pohang University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor for the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alabama.
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Francesco De Angelis (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
He is currently Senior Scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology and Supervisor of Nanostructure Facility (clean room). He leads the Plasmon technology Unit (about 25 members) and his main expertise relies on micro and nano-optical devices for biomedical applications. He held an IDEAS-ERC Consolidator grant whose aim is to develop radically new interfaces between electrical/optical devices and neuronal networks. He published more than 100 papers on peer-review impacted journals; total impact factor >1000; H index = 40, citations>6000.
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Lucia Gemma Delogu (Institute for Pediatric Research, Italy)
Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu served the University of Sassari, Italy, as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (2012-2017). She has worked at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2007-2009), and was visiting researcher at the Sanford-Burnham Institute of San Diego, CA, USA in 2008 and at the Department of Health and Human Services at the NIH in Bethesda, MD in 2013. Dr. Delogu has been appointed as Senior Visiting Professor under the “Program Excellence in Science” at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany (2016, 2017). In 2011, she was selected as one of the “200 Best Young Talents of Italy” from the Italian Ministry of Youth (Rome, Italy). She has received several awards including the Marie S. Curie Individual Fellow under Horizon 2020 by the European Commission, the “Medicine, Biology e Nanotechnology Award” in 2012 from the Association of GianFranco Del Prete and the “Bedside to bench & Back Lecture Series Achievement Award” from the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA (2013). She served the European Commission as invited expert for review panels of FP7 FET Flagships. Beyond different National Grants she has been the scientific coordinator of two interdisciplinary European Projects on Nanomedicine involving 10 leading Institutions in EU and extra EU Countries including China, USA and Qatar. Dr. Delogu in 2018 joined the Institute of Pediatric Research in Padua, Italy where she is currently leading the ImmuneNano-lab.
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Vladimir Falko (National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, UK)
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Andrea Ferrari (University of Cambridge / CGC, UK)
Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship.
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Dario Gerace (University of Pavia, Italy)
D. Gerace obtained his PhD degree in Physics in 2005 from the University of Pavia, with a dissertation on radiation-matter interaction in photonic crystals. After a 2 years post-doc at ETH Zurich in the A. Imamoglu's Quantum Photonics group, in 2008 he obtained a tenure position as assistant professor in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Pavia, where he was appointed associate professor in 2015. His research interests span very diverse areas, from manybody theory to quantum photonics, and more recently quantum computation on hybrid platforms and bio-inspired quantum technologies. He is leading expert in the theoretical modelling of complex nanophotonic systems, such as photonic crystal waveguides and cavities, as well as open quantum systems, such as driven-dissipative cavity arrays. He has published more than 100 scientific contributions in international research journals and book chapters, and he has given several invited talks and seminars worldwide.
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Giuseppe Iannaccone (University of Pisa, Italy)
Giuseppe Iannaccone is Professor of electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Fellow of the American Physical Society. His interests include the fundamentals of transport and noise in nanoelectronic and mesoscopic devices, the development of device modeling and TCAD tools, and the design of extremely low-power circuits and systems for RFID and ambient intelligence scenarios. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 130 papers in proceedings of international conferences. Giuseppe Iannaccone has coordinated a few European and National Projects involving multiple partners and has acted as the Principal Investigator in several research projects funded by European and National public agencies and by private organizations.
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Marco Liscidini (University of Pavia, Italy)
Marco Liscidini received the Ph.D degree in physics from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. J. E. Sipe at the Department of Physics of the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia. His research activity is focused on the theoretical study and modeling of the light-matter interaction in micro- and nanostructures. He works in several areas of photonics, including classical and quantum nonlinear optics, spontaneous emission, plasmon and QW-exciton polaritons, optical sensing and bio-sensing, and photovoltaic effects.
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Liberato Manna (IIT, Italy)
Liberato Manna received his MSc in Chemistry from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1996 and his PhD in Chemical Sciences from the same University in 2001. During his PhD studies, and later as postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the University of California Berkeley (USA). In 2003 he moved back to Italy, as staff scientist at the National Nanotechnology Lab in Lecce, (Italy) where he became later responsible for the Nanochemistry Division in 2006. In 2009 he moved to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova as head of the Nanochemistry Department. Since 2010 he is also professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft (Netherlands). His research interests are the advanced synthesis, structural characterization and assembly of inorganic nanostructures for applications in energy and photonics.
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Lluis F. Marsal (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Lluís F. Marsal is a Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Between 1998 and 1999, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
In 2012, he received the URV's RQR Award for quality in research and in 2014, he received a 2014 UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of South Australia (UniSA) and the ICREA Academia Award from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2013, he is the Chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and also an active member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Dr. Marsal serves as a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the Electron Devices Society (EDS-IEEE) He has been member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions (CINVESTAV - Instituto Politécnico Nacional, McMaster University, University of South Australia, CIC biomaGUNE, CSIC, etc. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, two books, five book chapters and holds three patents. He has presented over 30 invited lectures in international conferences and has participated in over than 80 national and international projects.
His current research interests mainly focus on low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous silicon and nanoporous alumina for biomedical applications and optical biosensing platforms. He is also interested in organic and hybrid nanostructured materials to enhance light-matter interactions for optoelectronic devices.
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Vittorio Morandi (CNR-IMM, Italy)
Vittorio Morandi is Senior Scientist at CNR-IMM and Head of the Bologna Section of CNR-IMM. His research activities concern the development of advanced electron microscopy characterization techniques, with a particular focus on SEM and STEM at low and at high energy, the structural characterization of nano-scale materials, in particular low-dimensional carbon allotropes, and synthesis, characterization and technological processing and integration of graphene and graphene-based materials. He is author of more than 100 papers in high impact international journals, with more than 3000 citations and H-index 26 (source Google Scholar). He has participated to about 40 international conferences with oral presentations, with talks on SEM, STEM, graphene characterization and exploitation. He is presently Coordinator of the Graphene Technology Group at IMM-CNR in Bologna, and member of the team of the Beyond Nano Electron Microscopy Lab (http://www.beyondnano.it), one of the largest facilities on Transmission Electron Microscopy in Italy, coordinator of It-fab, the Italian network of research infrastructures in the field of nanofabrication, and member of the Steering Committee of EuroNanoLab (http://euronanolab.net/).
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Ilkwon Oh (KAIST, Korea)
Prof. Il-Kwon Oh is the director of Active Materials and Dynamic Systems Lab and is working as a full professor in the department of mechanical engineering at KAIST. He received his Ph. D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST and joined LG Digital Appliance Research Laboratory as a Senior Researcher in 2001. And then he became an Assistant Professor at Chonnam National University in 2004 and was promoted as an Associate Professor in 2008. Also, he was a visiting scholar in Stanford University at 2007. In 2010, he moved to KAIST as an associate professor and was promoted to a full Professor in the department of mechanical engineering in 2015. Currently, he is a director of the Creative Research Initiative Center for Functionally Antagonistic Nano-Engineering. He is an Editorial Board member in Scientific Reports, Actuators, Graphene and an Associate Editor in International Journal of Smart and Nano-Materials and Frontiers in Materials, Smart Materials Section. Also, he served as a congress chair of the 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio, which was held in Jeju Island, in 2013.
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Annalisa Palange (IIT, Italy)
Anna Lisa Palange is a Post Doc in the Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine research line at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia since July 2015.
Her research activities focus on synthesis, physical chemical characterization and biological in vitro and in vivo application of Dyscoidal Polymeric Nanoconstructs (DPNs) and hierarchical drug delivery systems for cancer imaging and therapy.
In May 2010, Dr Palange achieved a MSc Degree in Biological Sciences cum laude at the University of Calabria, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences. She presented an experimental thesis titled “Molecular analysis of TARDBP gene in south Italian patients affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”, carrying out the necessary training and experiments at the Istituto di Scienze Neurologiche - CNR – with the supervision of Dr. Luisa Conforti and Prof. Giuseppe Passarino.
In 2011, Dr Palange started a PhD in Medical Biotechnologies at University of Magna Graecia. During the first year of the PhD program, she performed the research activities and training at the Master Domini laboratory, Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Catanzaro under the supervision of Prof Agostino Gnasso.
In February 2012 she moved in Houston to join the laboratory of Professor Paolo Decuzzi in the Dept. of Translational Imaging at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. During the 3 years and half spent in the USA, she developed her PhD thesis focused on polymeric drug delivery systems for Therapy and Imaging.
In February 2015, she defended her PhD thesis and four months later, she joined IIT.
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Teresa Pellegrino (IIT, Italy)
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Ferruccio Pisanello (CBN-IIT, Italy)
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Professor of Chemistry and Nanotechnology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research Interests
DNA-based and SP1-based nanoelectronics
Specific research topics related to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology:
Investigation of the morphology, electrical properties and energy spectra of DNA, G4-DNA, and metalized DNA by atomic force microscopy and related methods, by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) and by direct electrical transport measurements.
Development and investigation of new DNA-based nanowires and nanodevices using the above methods and above candidates in collaboration with other groups.
Development of ultra dense memory arrays and nanoelectronic wires and networks made of SP1-nanoparticles hybrids in collaboration with other groups.
Investigation of DNA translocation in solid-state nanopores towards DNA sequencing and other, also bio-oriented, applications.
Investigation of medical relevant DNA-proteins interactions at the single molecule level with AFM.
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Nicola Pugno (University of Trento, Italy)
Born in 1972; Master degrees in Engineering and Physics, PhD degrees in Engineering and Biology; Full Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento since 2012 and of Materials Science at the Queen Mary University of London since 2013 (part-time), Task leader of graphene nanocomposites within the Graphene Flagship and 1/7 member of the scientific and technical committee of the Italian Space Agency; about 350 papers published in international journals (including Science, Nature, Nature Materials and Nature Communications) and a similar number published in conferences proceedings and book chapters; plenary lecturer in several international conferences (including Falling Walls), long term collaboration with MIT and Cambridge University. Academic Editor of PlosOne and of Scientific Reports among others and first Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Materials. Winner of 4 ERC (European Research Council) Grants (1 StG and 3 PoC) and of the Griffith Medal and Prize 2017.
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Uri Raviv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Uri Raviv did his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1997) and then moved to the Weizmann institute and completed his Ph.D. in 2002. His postdoctoral studies as an EMBO and HFSP fellow were done at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2006 he joined the institute of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an Alon scholar, and in 2013 he was appointed as an associate professor. Raviv’s research focuses on the self-assembly of biomolecules, studying both the equilibrium structures and dynamic aspects associated with the process of self-assembly. His lab is following, in real-time, the association of biomolecules into large structures with the aim to reveal the intermolecular forces between the bio-molecules that dictate their assembly pathways. The lab is investigating lipid bilayers, viruses, and microtubules. By combining solution X-ray scattering, electron microscopy, osmotic stress, sophisticated analysis tools (developed in Raviv’s lab), and our gained knowledge in soft matter physics, the lab is developing new ways to reveal the dynamic structures and intermolecular interactions that govern involved self-assembled architectures.
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Marco Romagnoli (CNIT, Italy)
Marco Romagnoli (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni - CNIT, Italy) Head of Advanced Technologies for Photonic Integration at CNIT in Pisa, contract professor at Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, and former Director in R&D dept. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of research, especially in the area of photonic technologies for TLC. After a Laurea Degree in Physics at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), in 1983 he started his activity at IBM Research Center in San Jose. In 1984 he joined Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in the Optical Communications Department working on optical components and transmission systems. In 1998 he joined Pirelli. In Pirelli R&D Photonics served as director of Design and Characterization and Chief Scientist. In 2001 he pioneered the activity on Si Photonics within the framework of a 5 year long sponsored contract with MIT Microphotonics Center and started internally in Pirelli the development platform for optical components, specifically silica based PLC’s and Si based nanophotonics. In this period he contributed to the development of several products based on Ge:SiO2 (DWDM filters for ROADM, AWG, Tunable Dispersion compensator) in SiON (DWDM wavelength interleaver), SiN (4 chs OADM), Si (4 chs polarization independent tunable ROADM, tunable mirror for external cavity laser). All platforms (Ge:SiO2, SiON, SiN, SOI) were developed in Pirelli and completely characterized, the design kits of the basic building blocks were tested and qualified. In Oct 2010 he joined PhotonIC Corp, a Si-Photonics company, as Director of Boston Operations and program manager at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the development of an optically interconnected multiprocessor Si chip. In this period he demonstrated for the first time electrically injected Ge laser. In this period SOI based based fabrications were processed at the advanced CMOS 65 nm line at CNSE (Albany) on 300mm SOI wafer size. Marco Romagnoli is author of more than 170 journal papers and conference contributions, he is also inventor in more than 45 patents. He is in the technical committee of the major conferences in photonics (CLEO/QELS, CLEO Europe, ECOC, MNE, Group IV Photonics), he served as expert evaluator for EC in the 6th Framework Programme and since 2001 till 2006 coordinated a framework programme between Pirelli and MIT in which he pioneered the development of Silicon Photonics. Marco Romagnoli was awarded of the ‘Phillips Morris’ prize for the optical innovation in 1994 and in Pirelli he also got the title of Chief Scientist.
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Michael Roukes (Caltech, USA)
Roukes was founding Director of Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute from 2003-2006, Co-Director from 2008-2013, and has recently stepped down to focus full-time, on collaborative research in neuroscience, nanoscience, and biotechnology.
Professor Roukes completed undergraduate majors in both physics and chemistry at the University of California Santa Cruz, and thereafter earned a Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University, focusing upon electron transport in microstructures at ultralow temperatures. Subsequently, he joined Bell Communications Research as a Member of Technical Staff / Principal Investigator in the (then-new) Quantum Structures Research Group, where he carried out some of the earliest explorations of the physics of nanoelectronic devices. In 1992 he joined the tenured faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he built nanofabrication facilities and has established a large nanoscience research group, now heavily involved in cross-disciplinary collaborations. Roukes' scientific interests range from fundamental science to applied biotechnology —with a unifying theme centered upon development, application, and very-large-scale-integration of complex nanostructures. He has published and written extensively on nanoscience and nanotechnology, has lectured at most major research centers world-wide, and is active on many national and international committees that promote this field.
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Saverio Russo (University of Exeter, UK)
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Mark Schvartzman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Mark Schvartman is a faculty member in the department of Materials Engineering, and the Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Scale Nanofabrication and Complex Nanosystems in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, Ph.D. in Columbia University, and did his postdoc at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. His research interests lay in the field of ultra-high resolution nanolithography and nanofabrication, with the emphasis on the patterning of functional nanostructures on unconventional and curved substrates. Additionally, he harnesses his nanofabrication expertise to develop molecular-scale platforms for controlled assembly of nanostructures from the bottom up into complex nano-architectures. Finally, in his research he interfaces between cutting-edge nanotechnology and life science. In particular, he has been developing novel nanolithographic devices for the control and study of molecular assembly and mechanotransduction in immunological synapse. This study produces fundamental insights onto the mechanism of immune signaling, which are essential for the rational design of the future immunotherapies.
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Roy Shenhar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Roy Shenhar received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Computer Science in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After 3 years as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, he returned to Israel in 2005 and spent a year as a Zeff Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion. In 2006 he joined the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. His research centers on the study of self-assembly processes in block copolymer-based nanomaterials.
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John Sipe (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Amit Sitt (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Amit Sitt is a faculty member in the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. He obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, an M.Sc. at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel and a Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerualem, Jerusalem, Israel. Amit spent 3 years at Columbia University, New York, as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, followed by a year as a research associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2016 Amit joined the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University as a faculty member. His research interests lay in the field of active, interactive, and programmable materials, and he focuses on synthesis and fabrication of active matter based on stimuli-responsive polymeric nano and microparticles and fibers.
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Damien Voiry (IEM/Université de Montpellier, France)
Damien Voiry received his MS degree in materials science from the University of Bordeaux in 2007. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Alain Pénicaud from the University of Bordeaux in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Manish Chhowalla at Rutgers University from 2011 until 2016 working on phase engineering of 2D materials. In 2016, he accepted a permanent researcher position at CNRS at the European Institute of Membranes at the University of Montpellier. His research focuses on developing strategies of engineering of exfoliated 2D materials for electrocatalysis and molecular sieving.
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