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Guillermo Acuna (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Since 2018 Guillermo Pedro Acuna is a Full Professor at the Physics department of the University of Fribourg where he leads the Photonic Nanosystems group. He has pioneered the use of the DNA origami technique for nanophotonics focusing on the fabrication of optical antennas for enhanced spectroscopies. Prof. Acuna obtained his Physics diploma at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2005) and his PhD degree at the LMU München (2010) under the supervision of Prof. Roland Kersting. He has done a Post-Doc at Prof. Hermann Gaub´s chair for Bio-physics at the LMU München (2010). From 2011 till 2017 he was group leader at Prof. Philip Tinnefeld´s chair at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 2018, Prof. Acuna obtained a Full Professor (W3) position at the University of Rostock. His main interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, DNA nanotechnology, nanoscopy, single molecule techniques and sensing.
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Javier Aizpurua (CSIC-UPV/EHU and DIPC, Spain)
Javier Aizpurua achieved his Ph. D. at the University of the Basque Country on the theory of Plasmon excitation by fast electron beams. After research positions at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and NIST (USA), he worked at the Donostia International Physics Center DIPC as a research Fellow. He currently holds a position as a senior scientific researcher of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the Materials Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain where he leads the research line on theory of Nanophotonics.
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Peter Bøggild (DTU Nanotech, Denmark)
After finishing a Ph.D. at the Copenhagen University I was hired at DTU to work on micro four-point probes in 1998. In 2001 I was appointed Associate Professor, with a focus on tools for manipulation of nanostructures, four point measurement technology, metrology and nanorobotics. During the 00's myresearch shifted more and more towards carbon nanomaterials and back towards electronics. I am working almost exclusively with graphene and other 2D materials now. Since 2013 I was appointed professor at DTU. Today, after DTU Nanotech closed, I moved with our center to DTU Physics (we are home :)
Key interests: graphene synthesis, characterisation and applications. Electronics: Quantum transport properties, optoelectronics. Structure, mechanics and surface properties. Defects and how to use these to our advantage. I am particularly interested in the vast range of possibilities offered by combining 2D materials into heterostructures.
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Jean-Christophe Charlier (UCLouvain, Belgium)
Jean-Christophe Charlieris Full Professor at the Universityof Louvain(UCL) in Belgium. He is Physics Engineer and Bachelor in Philosophy and got his PhD thesis in Applied Physics in 1994 at UCL.Prof. J.-C. Charlier is in charge of several lectures at UCL (Statistical Physics, Quantum Physics, Materials Science, Physics of Nanostructures, Atomistic Simulations, Quantum Transport in Nano-materials). The main scientific interests of Prof. J.-C. Charlier are centered on theoretical condensed matter physics and nanosciences,covering the areas of: electronic and structural properties of crystalsand reduced-dimensional solids; nanotubes, graphene and related carbon-based nanostructures; quantum transport through single molecules and other nanosystems. The objective is to explain and predict the properties of materials using first-principles theories and computational physics. He is author (or co-author) of about 150 scientific publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. In collaboration with two other colleagues, he wrote a book entitled “Introducing Graphene-based nanomaterials : from electronic structure to quantum transport” that was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
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Eugene Chulkov (CFM, UPV/EHU & DIPC, Spain)
Professor Eugene V. Chulkov (Ryazan region, Russia, 1950), Professor of the Department of Materials Physics at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (2003), and researcher at the Materials Physics Center (MPC) and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), has made valuable contributions in the field of condensed matter physics, especially in solid state physics and surface physics.Professor Chulkov’s work has given rise to numerous experiments to investigate the decay mechanisms and half-life times of quasi-particle excitations, tunnel spectroscopy and angle resolved photoemission.
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Dimas G. de Oteyza (CFM, UPV/EHU & DIPC, Spain)
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Carole Fauquet (CINAM, France)
Carole FAUQUET was born in 1967. She is PhD from Sorbonne Universités (Paris 6,France, 1992). She studied the interaction between monoethanolamine and aluminium as model interface for epoxy resin/aluminium joints used in aerospace applications, with an ADEME/Aerospatiale contract. Then, she joined Prof. W. R. Salaneck in the Surface Physics and Chemistry group (Linköping University, Sweden). She there studied conjugated polymer and oligomer interfaces with metals as well as aluminium deposition by trimethylamine alane decomposition under laser irradiation. The study was involved in a Science European project with ICI (UK), which aim was to understand the physico-chemistry of the metal/polymer interfaces involved in OLEDs devices. In 1994 she obtained a permanent position in CINaM, at Aix-Marseille University (France) as Assistant Professor, where she worked on Cr deposited on polyphenylquinoxaline, considered as a good dielectric candidate for multichip modules for microelectronics, in collaboration with CNET Meylan (France). Later, she initiated research in CINaM about alkanethiol SAMs on gold substrates. She joined Prof. Tonneau’s group in 2008. There, she worked on the coupling of Scanning Probe Microscopy and X-Ray Spectroscopy in order to get simultaneously the topography of a surface and its in-depth chemical mapping with the same instrument. She participated in an European EUREKA-EUROSTARS project entitled LUMIX, consisting in a collaboration between CINaM and IFG GMbH (Berlin, Germany). She was invited for 6 months at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, USA) in 2018 by Pr. V. Rose to collaborate on this thematic. She presently works on development of new X-Ray sensors for medical applications. She is co-author of 30 publications (24 in reviewed journals), 2 patents, and she participated to 23 conferences (4 invited).
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Joaquin Fernández-Rossier (INL, Portugal)
J. Fernández Rossier is a condensed matter physicist. He holds both a Diploma (1994) and a Phd (1999) on Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He stayed 2 years (99-01) as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of California San Diego and 18 months (01-03) at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2003 He obtained a "Ramon y Cajal" assistant professor position in the Universidad de Alicante (UA). he was promoted to a permanent position in 2008 and to associate professor (professor titular) in 2009. Since 2011 he is on leave from the UA and I hold a tenured research staff position at the INL (Braga, Portugal). He has coauthored more than 130 indexed publications, including Science (3), Nature, Nature Materials (2), Nature Nanotechnology (2), Science Advances, Physical Review Letters (20), Nano Letters (3), 2D Materials (4), Physical Review X, and Physical Review B (53). He has graduated 4 PhD students and he has supervised 10 postdoctoral researchers.
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Elvira Fortunato (CENIMAT - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
Elvira Fortunato is Vice-Rector at NOVA University and Director of the Associated Laboratory i3N (Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling and Nanofabrication).
Since 2016 she integrates the group of Chief Scientific Advisors of the European Commission.
She is an elected member of Academy of Engineering (2008), European Academy of Sciences (2016), Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2017) and since last year from the Academia Europaea. She belongs to the Board of Trustees of the Luso-American Development Foundation (2014).
In 2008 and 2018 she was warded with two ERC Advanced Grants in the area of oxide electronics.
She received the Czochralski Medal (Science of Materials) assigned by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Blaise Pascal Medal conferred by the European Academy of Sciences. She has been distinguished with several National and International Prizes, among those it is worth mentioning the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, in 2009, by University of Galati, and the denomination of Grand Officer of Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, acknowledged by the President of the Republic of Portugal in 2010.
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Luis Froufe (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Luis Froufe obtained his Ph. D. at the Autonomous University of Madrid on the theory of coherent electron transport in disordered materials. After holding research positions at Ecole Central Paris, ESPCI (France) and CSIC (Spain), he joined the group of soft matter physics and photonics at the physics department of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His current research is focused on the theory and simulation of large scale strongly correlated amorphous photonic materials.
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Pedro David García (ICN2, Spain)
I obtained my Master on solid-state and theoretical physics at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Then, I got my PhD on complex Photonics at CSIC – Madrid – at the colloidal photonics group led by Prof. Cefe López in close collaboration with the group of Prof. Diederik Wiersma at LENS, Italy. I spent many years at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying disorder-induced mesoscopic phenomena in cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments. I am back to Spain, Barcelona, to incorporate the effect of phonons to this picture.
My primary scientific goal is to understand how thermodynamical fluctuations and entropy ultimately lead to complexity in Nanotechology and how this complexity can be used as a resource to obtain a given functionality. Entropy leads to imperfections, disorder and multiple scattering which is in general detrimental for any technology at the nanoscale, both in the classical or the quantum regime. However, disorder and randomness are ubiquitous in nature. In particular, I have focused my attention on light emission and propagation through complex – disordered – dielectric structures and very recently, I have been triggered by how mechanical vibrations of matter affect and are affected by complexity in Nanotechnological devices. This rather fundamental research topic has important applications in many relevant fields such as energy harvesting, imaging, lasing, quantum optics or information processing.
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Javier García de Abajo (ICREA - ICFO, Spain)
Javier García de Abajo received his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in 1993 and then visited Berkeley National Lab for three years. He was a Research Professor at the Spanish CSIC and in 2013 moved to ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (Barcelona) as an ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader. He is Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and has recently been awarded the Science of Light Prize by the European Physical Society. García de Abajo has co-authored 380+ articles cited 26,000+ times with a h index of 79 (Sept 2019 WoK data), including contributions on different aspects of surface science, nanophotonics, and electron microscope spectroscopies.
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Aran Garcia-Lekue (UPV/EHU & DIPC, Spain)
Aran Garcia-Lekue is an Ikerbasque Researcher at Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). She received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Spain). After finishing her Ph.D, she held postdoctoral positions at the Surface Science Research Center (SSRC) of the University of Liverpool (UK) and at the Berkeley National Laboratory (US). She joined DIPC as a Gipuzkoa Research Fellow Gipuzkoa in 2007, and became an Ikerbasque Researcher in 2012. Her research line is focused on the simulation of electron transport at the nanoscale, and on the theoretical investigation of electron processes at nanostructured surfaces. In the last years, she has been very active in the study of electronic and transport properties of graphene-based materials.
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Antonio Garcia-Martin (IMN-CNM-CSIC, Spain)
Born in 1971, I graduated in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 1996. From then I have been involved in the development of a number of theoretical tools and numerical codes in the framework of wave propagation in complex systems. We could say that the skills acquired along the years have put me in a good position to work in the theoretical analysis of optical properties of resonant nanoscale systems (plasmonics, photonic crystals, magnetoplasmonics, radiative heat transfer).
The starting point was in the period 1996-2000, where I realized the PhD in Physics at the Condensed Matter Department of the same University. In that period we analyzed the properties of metallic systems all the way from the very small to the very long. In particular we focused on the statistics of the transport properties, making important contributions in the field of wave localization, such as A.G.M. and J.J. Sáenz (Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 116603 (2001) ) that has become a reference paper in transport properties in the transition from the diffusive to the localization regimes. The PhD Thesis entitled "Theory of wave transport in complex systems: from ballistic transport to localization induced by rough surfaces" got the highest mark, unanimous Sobresaliente Cum Laude, and received the Outstanding PhD Thesis award.
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Géza Giedke (DIPC, Spain)
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Julio Gomez-Herrero (UAM, Spain)
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Marek Grzelczak (DIPC, Spain)
Marek Grzelczak is an Ikerbasque Research Associate at Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian where he leads the Colloidal Systems Chemistry Group. His current research interests cover the synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles for artificial photosynthesis and biosensing. He was awarded with Young Researchers Award of Real Sociedad Española de Química in 2017.
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Stephan Hofmann (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephan Hofmann is Professor of Nanotechnology at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge, where he leads research on the application driven exploration of new device materials, bridging from fundamental discovery and characterisation of properties to functional device integration and manufacturing pathways. He graduated in Physics at the Technische Universität München and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. Prior to his faculty position, he held a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society (U.K.) and a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he is currently a Fellow.
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Bergoi Ibarlucea (TU Dresden, Germany)
Bergoi Ibarlucea studied Biology at the Universidad del Pa’s Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV-EHU, Leioa, Spain) from 2000 to 2005. He received a two-year scholarship (2007-2008) at Inasmet-Tecnalia Foundation (San Sebastian, Spain) for the specialization on functionalization of materials. In 2009 he moved to the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) to obtain his PhD in Chemistry, developing biofunctionalized lab-on-a-chip systems with optical and electrochemical detection. In December 2013, after defending his PhD thesis, he joined the group of Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti as a postdoctoral researcher in Dresden, where he works now on label-free electrical biosensors.
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Javier Junquera (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Javier Junquera got his BS. degree in physics at the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) in 1996, and his PhD degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2001. After a two years as postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Liège, where he collaborated with Philippe Ghosez, and a further year at Rutgers University in Karin M. Rabe's group, he joined the Universidad de Cantabria as a Ramón y Cajal fellow. He was promoted to tenure in 2010. His most important methodological work is his contribution to the SIESTA project (http://www.icmab.es/siesta). SIESTA is both, a Density-functional Numerical Atomic Orbital (NAO) method and
its computer program implementation. The outstanding feature of this method is its capability of limiting computer time and memory scale to increase only linearly with the number of atoms (order-N scaling). He contributed with an automatically optimized quality of the basis set, and to the design and implementation interoperability with other first-principles programs. He has highly contributed to the teaching and dissemination of the method by organizing international workshops and preparing a full set of self-explanatory, openly accessible exercises.
He has specialized in the study of ferroelectric size effects in nanostructures, highlighting the role of the often neglegted depolarizing field in ferroelectric thin films. He has also set the standards for the computation of band offsets and Schottky barriers from first-principles.
Always trying to collaborate hand-by-hand with experimental groups, he predicted the formation of domains of closure in ferroelectric ultrathin films and superlattices (confirmed experimentally three years later), and the sequence of growth of Ruddlesden-Popper series (confirmed experimentally ten years later). As invited researcher at University of California Berkeley, he recently predicted the formation of polar skyrmions and complex topological polar textures in ferroelectric superlattices. Currently, he is involved in the development of “second-principles” methods. The goal is to achieve simulations of tens of thousands of atoms at operating conditions (finite temperature), describing the coupled dynamics of ions and relevant electronic degrees of freedom, and accessing scales and physical phenomena that have never been investigated so far with atomistic details and first-principles
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Marek A. Kolmer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Marek Kolmer received PhD in physics from the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Krakow, Poland in 2014 under supervision of Prof. Marek Szymonski. After his postdoctoral experiences at CEMES/CNRS in Toulouse, France (group of Dr. Christian Joachim) and back at JU, in summer 2018 Dr. Kolmer was appointed as a research associate in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Kolmer’s research interests are related to design, fabrication and characterization of single-molecules and atomic structures with particular focus on atomic-scale transport properties determined by multiprobe STM experiments.
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Philippe Lalanne (LP2N-CNRS, France)
Dr. Philippe Lalanne is a CNRS researcher. He is expert in subwavelength-scale electrodynamics. He has launched performant numerical tools, has provided deep insight into the physics of key nanoscale optical phenomena and devices, e.g., confinement in photonic-crystal cavities and the extraordinary optical transmission. He has designed and demonstrated novel nanostructures with record or completely novel performance in their time, e.g., diffractive optical elements known as metalenses nowadays, integrated optical cavities, non-classical light source devices. He is presently heading the group “light in complex nanostructures” at the Institut d’Optique in Bordeaux. He is also deputy-director of GDR ondes that gathers the French community on electromagnetic waves (~300 researchers and 20 industrial companies).
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Peining Li (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
Peining Li received his PhD in 2016 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. After that, he obtained the Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work with Prof. Rainer Hillenbrand at the CIC nanoGUNE, Spain. He will move back to China and join Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a professor in the end of 2019. Dr. Li´s research interests included mid-infrared nanophotonics, plasmonics and near-field optics. He has published more than 20 refereed papers in journals including Science, Nature and its family journals. Dr. Li has received the outstanding Chinese youth-talent recruitment grant (2018), the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (2015) and the award for outstanding Chinese self-financed students abroad (2014).
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Luis Liz-Marzán (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
Ph. D. from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992. Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Van't Hoff Laboratory (Utrech University, The Netherlands, 1993-1995). Professor at the University of Vigo from 1995 until 2012. Currently Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director at CIC biomaGUNE
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Jorge Lobo Checa (ICMA-CSIC-UZ, Spain)
Dr. J. Lobo-Checa is a Tenured Reseacher of the Spanish Reseach Council (CSIC) and currently works in the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (Zaragoza). He received his PhD in 2004 at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and did two postdocs in Switzerland (Paul Scherrer Institut and University of Basel). He returned to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship contract (ICN2)in 2009 and became permanent at the Material Physics Center (CFM) in San Sebastian before moving to Zaragoza in 2015. His research activity relates to the study of the electronic structure and the physico-chemical properties of low dimensional systems grown in-situ under UHV conditions. He has hand-on expertise in Surface Science techniques, such as Angle Resolved Photoemission (ARPES), low electron diffraction (LEED) and Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and is a frequent user of synchrotron facilities.
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Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena (CIC Biomagune, Spain)
Dr. Aitziber L. Cortajarena earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Universidad del País Vasco in 2002 working with Dr. Helena Ostolaza and Dr. Félix M. Goñi. Then, she joined the group of Dr. Lynne Regan at Yale University, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She worked on protein design, structure, and function. In 2006, she was Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, with Dr. Gilad Haran working on single molecule spectroscopy. Then, continued her work at Yale University, as an Associate Research Scientist with Dr. Regan. She joined IMDEA Nanociencia in 2010 and started her independent research group on bionanotechnology. In 2016, she joined CIC biomaGUNE as Ikerbasque Research Professor.
Her research focuses on protein engineering toward the generation of functional hybrid nanostructures and bioinspired materials for applications in nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.
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Nicolas Lorente (CFM/CSIC - UPV/EHU, Spain)
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Miguel M. Ugeda (CSIC-UPV/EHU and DIPC, Spain)
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Manuel Marques (UAM, Spain)
Manuel Marqués obtained his B.A in physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995 and was awarded with an extraordinary Ph.D. prize in physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Julio Gonzalo. Fullbright fellow at Boston University from 2001 to 2003 where he performed a postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Gene Stanley. In 2003 he was awarded with a Ramón y Cajal appointment at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Manuel Marqués is now Associate Professor in the Material Physics Department and member of the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics (IFIMAC). His research interests are mainly focused on phase transitions and light matter interactions.
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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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Gabriel Molina-Terriza (CFM, DIPC, Spain)
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María del Puerto Morales (ICMM/CSIC, Spain)
María del Puerto Morales is Professor at the Institute of Material Science in Madrid (ICMM/CSIC), Spain since 2018. She got her degree in Chemistry by the University of Salamanca in 1989 and her PhD in Material Science from the Madrid Autonomous University in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems in the University of Wales (UK) and got her permanent position at the ICMM/CSIC in 2000. She has authored several book chapters, patents and more than 220 articles (h=53, >11.500 citations) and has been the principal investigator from the CSIC in two European-funded research projects in the 7FP (Multifun and NanoMag) and now, she is participating in one FET-OPEN, HOTZYMES 2019-2021. Her research activities are focused on the area of nanotechnology, in particular in the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles, including the mechanism of particle formation, surface modification and its performance in biomedical applications such as biomolecule separation, NMR imaging, drug delivery and hyperthermia, and also in catalysis and environmental remediation.
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Daniel Neumaier (AMO GmbH, Germany)
Daniel Neumaier is head of the Graphene-Group at AMO GmbH since 2009. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg and received his Dipl. phys. degree in 2006. In 2009, he received the PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Regensburg. He has managed several national research projects on graphene, has been the coordinative manager of the EU project GRAND and is currently work package leader in the Flagship Project Graphene for Electronic Devices.
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Pablo Ordejón (ICN2, Spain)
Prof. Ordejón earned his degree in physics (1987) and PhD in science (1992) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) from 1992 to 1995, and as assistant professor at the Universidad de Oviedo from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, he obtained a research staff position at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In 2007 he moved to the former CIN2 (now ICN2) as the leader of the Theory and Simulation Group, where he is currently a CSIC Research Professor. Since July 2012 he has served as director of the ICN2.
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Jose Ignacio Pascual (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
Jose Ignacio Pascual is Ikerbasque Research Professor in nanoGUNE since 2012. He leads the Nanoimaging group, fundamentally interested in resolving atomic scale quantum phenomena with probe microscopies. He is Doctor in Sciences by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1998), and was appointed Professor in Physics by the Free University in Berlin in 2004. He also was Marie Curie Fellow at the Max-Planck-Gesselschaft (2000), Ramon y Cajal at the ICMAB-CSIC (2002), and guest professor at INA, in Zaragoza (2010).
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Alain Pénicaud (CNRS / Université Bordeaux-I, France)
Alain Pénicaud is a CNRS material scientist specializing in carbon. He started research working on organic conductors that led him to crystallize fullerenes to later dissolve insoluble forms of carbons such as carbon nanotubes, then graphite. Recently, his team showed that single layer graphene and individualized nanotubes could be stabilized in water without surfactants nor sonication, by hydroxide adsorption. Based on this work, A. Pénicaud is co-founder and shareholder of carbon Waters, a start-up company created in Dec. 2017 producing graphene dispersions and coatings (https://www.carbon-waters.com/). Within a European project, Plascarb, his team has also showed that high-performance graphene based electrocatalysts, supercapacitors and conducting inks and rubbers could be obtained from food waste, opening perspectives for carbon material contributions to a more sustainable world. A. Pénicaud has also a keen interest into divulgation and has published a few articles and two books on the history of crystallography (Editions Ellipses).
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Diego Peña (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Diego Peña Gil was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1974. He obtained his PhD degree in 2001 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, under supervision of D. Pérez and E. Guitián. He was PhD visitor at Harvard University (1999, Jacobsen group), LMU Munich (2000, Knochel group) and UAM Madrid (2001, Echavarren group). During 2002 and 2003 he joined the group of B. L. Feringa (Nobel Laureate 2016, Groningen University, The Netherlands) as a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow. He was research visitor at DSM Research (Geleen, The Netherlands) and CRANN, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). In 2004 he obtained a Ramón y Cajal researcher grant. Since 2008 he is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2015 he obtained the Full Professor Accreditation by the Spanish Government. In 2018 he was awarded with the Ignacio Ribas Medal by the Specialized Group on Organic Chemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science.
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Celia Rogero (CFM, UPV/EHU & DIPC, Spain)
Celia Rogero obtained the PhD in Physical Sciences in 2003 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After this period, she did a first postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at the Newcastle upon Tyne University where she did a first postdoc and a second one at the Astrobiology Center in Madrid, CAB. Since October 2009, she is Tenured Scientist at the Spanish Research Council CSIC, working at the CFM-MPC Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV / EHU) in San Sebastian. Her research expertise is in the field of experimental Surface Science Physics in Ultra High Vacuum conditions performing structural and electronic characterization of metal-semiconductor (insulator). Her work has evolved from pure inorganic metal-semiconductor interfaces toward the characterization of organic molecules on metallic and, more recently, semiconductor and insulating substrates.
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Josep Samitier (IBEC, Spain)
Josep Samitier Martí is professor of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona (UB), director of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), group leader of the Nanobioengineering group at IBEC and group leader in the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBERBBN). He is coordinator of the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanomedSpain), president of the Catalan Association of Research Entities (ACER) and full member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. In 2003 he was awarded with the City of Barcelona Prize in the category of Technological Innovation.
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Shiue-Yuan Shiau (DIPC, Spain)
I have been postdocs and research fellows in many places, including SPSMS-CEA in Grenoble; Academia Sinica, Taipei; National Cheng Kung University; National University of Singapore. I am currently assistant research scholar in Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan. My current interests are cold atomic gases, composite particle many-body theory, exciton theory, open quantum systems, and quantum dots.
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Ullrich Steiner (Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland)
Ullrich (Ulli) Steiner studied physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He gained his Ph.D. in 1993, working with Prof. J. Klein and Prof. G. Schatz at the Weizmann Institute, Israel. After post-doc positions at the Weizmann Institute and the Institute Charles Sadron, France, he returned to Konstanz where he finished his Habilitation in 1998. He joined the faculty of the University of Groningen as full professor in 1999 and became the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Physics of Materials at the University of Cambridge in 2004. Since 2014, he holds the chair of Soft Matter Physics at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Switzerland.
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Maia Vergniory (DIPC, Spain)
Maia Vergniory is an Ikerbasque research fellow since 2018. She obtained the PhD in Physical Sciences in 2007 from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. After this period, she did a first postdoc in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at Berkeley, USA and a second one at Max Planck Institute of Mircrostructure Physics in Halle, Germany. She got the L'Oreal award for Women in Science in 2017 and the Ikerbasque award for main contribution in 2019. Her research expertise is in the field of topological materials, from pure theoretical predictions to real simulations.
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Amaia Zurutuza (Graphenea, Spain)
She received her Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in 2002. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in two European projects related to molecularly imprinted polymers. In 2004, she joined Ferring Pharmaceuticals (previously Controlled Therapeutics) where she worked in the research of new controlled drug delivery systems as a Senior Polymer Scientist. Her contribution led to the granting of three patents in novel biodegradable and biostable polymers for the controlled release of active compounds. In 2010, she became the Scientific Director of Graphenea. At Graphenea, she leads the research and development activities on graphene-based materials. Since joining Graphenea, she has so far filed for nine patents and published more than 64 publications in peer reviewed journals, including Nature and Science. Principal Investigator in 12 EU FP7/H2020 funded research projects, 10 collaborative projects including the Graphene Flagship and 2 people training network projects. In addition, she has also given more than 45 invited talks in international conferences. Her research interests include the synthesis, characterization, and future industrial applications of graphene.
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