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Aleandro Antidormi (ICN2, Spain)
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Jordi Arbiol (ICREA-ICN2, Spain)
Prof. Jordi Arbiol was born in Molins de Rei, Catalonia, in 1975. Having graduated in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, he went on to obtain his PhD in transmission electron microscopy applied to nanostructured materials from this same university in 2001, earning the “European Doctorate” label in recognition of the project’s European dimension, as well as the university's extraordinary doctorate award.
He then held the position of assistant professor at the UB, before becoming a, ICREA Professor and group leader at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in 2009, as well as the scientific supervisor of this institute’s electron microscopy facility. It was here that Prof. Arbiol began his personal and professional mission to improve Barcelona’s baseline electron microscopy infrastructure, a goal he has continued to pursue at the ICN2, which he joined in 2015 as ICREA Professor and leader of the ICN2 Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group. Since 2017 he is President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME), was Vice-President from 2013 to 2017 and since 2009 he is Member of its Executive Board. In 2018 he was elected as Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) (2019-2026). In 2014 he was awarded with the EU40 Materials Prize 2014 (E-MRS).
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Larysa Baraban (Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf, Germany)
Larysa obtained her PhD in the area of soft condensed matter systems with colloidal particles at the University of Konstanz (Germany). Afterwards, she worked at the University of Pierre at Marie Curie in Paris (France) as a Post Doc, dealing with the development of an innovative millifluidic platform for microbiological assays. She moved to Dresden in 2011, where she worked at the integration of miniaturized sensors into microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems in the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden and at TU Dresden. Her research activities include multiple aspects in materials science and bio nanoelectronics, e.g. novel artificially designed micro-machines and ultra-sensitive nanosensors integrated in microfluidic systems. Currently, she is leading the group "Nano-microsystems for life-sciences" at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf working in the interdisciplinary field of nano biosensorics and electronics
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Francesco Bonaccorso (BeDimensional, Italy)
Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and Visiting Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina after working at the Italian National Research Council, the University of Cambridge and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J.Mater.Chem.A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 120 publications and 12 patents.
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Paolo Bondavalli (Thales Research & Technology, France)
Dr. Paolo Bondavalli is in charge of the transverse topic on nanomaterials at Thales Research and Technology. Presently his work is focused on the development of new materials (e.g. graphene, CNTs, nanowires, Topological Insulators) for the new generation of electronics devices, for energy storage applications, memristor, electromagnetic shielding. Dr Bondavalli has received his Hdr in 2011, at Paris-Sud on a work on "devices based on random network of carbon nanotubes". During the last 20 years, he has participated, also as coordinator, in several EU projects (concerning CNTs, graphene, spintronics, energy…) and ANR projects. He is involved in the Graphene Flagship initiative. He recently issued a book on Graphene ("Graphene and Related Materials: Properties and Applications" Ed Elsevier, pp 192, 2017) and he is publishing another one the exotic properties of 2d materials. He published around 60 papers and participated to 60 international conferences as Invited or Keynote speaker. He is the first author of around 15 patents on nanomaterials. He is the president of the French Evaluation Committee on sensors and instrumentation, member of the High Council of Research Evaluation and H2020 EU expert in different panels.
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John Brennan (McMaster University, Canada)
Professor John Brennan holds the Canada Research Chair in Point-of-Care Diagnostics (Tier 1) and is Director of the Biointerfaces Institute and the Fraunhofer Project Center for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing at McMaster University. He is an expert in the development of biosensors and point-of-care diagnostics, with specific expertise in bioactive paper, high-throughput development of printable biomaterials, and development of solid-phase assays for diagnostics and small molecule screening. Dr. Brennan leads a research team of over 20 HQP and has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers, given over 120 invited presentations, and has been awarded several patents in the areas of POC diagnostics.
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Cinzia Casiraghi (University of Manchester, UK)
Cinzia received her BSc and MSc in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2005, she was awarded with an Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by the Humboldt Research Fellowship and the prestigious Kovalevskaja Award (1.5M Euro). She joined the department of chemistry at the University of Manchester in 2010. Since 2016 she holds a Chair in Nanoscience. Her current research work is focused on the development of 2D-material based inks and their use in printed electronics and biomedical applications. She is also leading expert on Raman spectroscopy, which she has used to characterize a wide range of carbon-based nanomaterials. She is recipient of the Leverhulme Award in Engineering (2016), the Marlow Award (2014), given by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of her work on Raman spectroscopy, and an ERC Consolidator grant (2015).
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Gustau Catalan (ICREA/ICN2, Spain)
Prof. Gustau Catalán earned his degree in physics at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1997 and his PhD in physics at Queen’s University of Belfast in 2001. He then took research positions at the Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (2002-2004), the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (University of Groningen, 2004-2005) and the University of Cambridge (2005-2009).
In 2009 he became an ICREA Research Professor, joining the former Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Centre (CIN2, now the ICN2) as leader of the Oxide Nanophysics Group. In 2012 he earned an ERC Starting Grant to set up the world’s first laboratory devoted to nanoscale flexoelectricity.
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Costas A. Charitidis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Costas Charitidis is Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and Director of the Laboratory of Advanced, Composite, Nano Materials & Nanotechnology. He is member of the General Assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and since 2018 President of the Body. He has been elected in the Deanship of the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA since 2017. From 2010 to 2016 he has been Director of Section III: Materials Science & Engineering of the School, while from 2011 he is Director of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate (MSc) Program: Materials Science & Technology (NTUA). He has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of Materials Science & Nanotechnology, Carbon-based materials and Safety impacts of Nanotechnology. He has extensive R&D experience through collaborations with international research centers since he has participated in more than 60 European and National funded projects, in many of them as Scientific Coordinator (most recent are: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, Resource Efficient Economy with a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials NMP FP7, Horizon 2020). He is a referee in International scientific journals, evaluator & scientific advisor of R&D projects. He is the author of several scientific books, chapters in international text books and more than 300 scientific publications in peer reviewed international journals and conference proceedings and cited ~4200 by other researchers (h-index 36). He has been supervisor of 15 PhD Theses and member of the examining committee of more than 60 PhD theses.
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Gianni Ciofani (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
Gianni Ciofani (born in La Spezia, Italy, on August 14th, 1982) is Senior Researcher Tenured at the Italian Institute of Technology -IIT-, where he is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Line (Pontedera, Italy), a group of about 20 people including Researchers, Post-Docs, Ph.D. students, and M.Sc. students.
He received his Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering (with honors) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in July 2006, and, in the same year, his Diploma in Engineering (with honors) from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy. In January 2010, he obtained his Ph.D. in Innovative Technologies (with honors) from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. From January 2010 to August 2013 he was Post-Doc at the IIT, Center for Micro-BioRobotics @SSSA, where, from September 2013 to October 2015, he was Researcher in the framework of the Smart Materials Platform. From October 2015 to October 2019 he was Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Italy), maintaining at the same time his research activity in IIT, where he is Senior Research Tenured since November 2019.
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Lucia Curri (University of Bari "A. Moro" / CNR, Italy)
M. Lucia Curri is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). She received her PhD in Chemistry from University of Bari (Italy) in 1997. Before joining University of Bari, in 2018, she was at Italian National Research Council (CNR). Currently she is also associated research scientist at CNR IPCF Bari. She is active in material chemistry research, aiming to design, fabricate and process inorganic solids at the nanoscale to obtain multifunctional nanostructured materials both for fundamental investigation and for applications in biomedical field, energy conversion and environmental technologies for optoelectronic, photocatalytic and life science applications. She has coordinated a European FP7 project and has been responsible for CNR IPCF Bari of numerous FP6, FP7 and H2020 European and National projects in the field of nanomaterials. She has co-authored over 220 publications, including more than 170 JCR papers, 10 book chapters and has contributed to many conferences with invited talks.
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Cecília de Carvalho Castro e Silva (Mackenzie, Brazil)
Cecília de Carvalho Castro e Silva graduated in Chemistry from Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) in 2008 and her master (2011) and PhD (2015) degree in Chemistry was at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. Since January 2016, she has been assistant professor at MackGraphe - Graphene and Nanomaterials Research Center, São Paulo, Brazil. Currently, she is a visiting professor in the Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain. Cecilia was included by Forbes-Brazil in the list “30 Under 30”, of the 30 most talented youngsters under 30 years in 2016. She has expertise in synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials and the development of miniaturized devices for biosensing applications. The research interests and goals of Cecilia are in the employment of 2D materials in the development of flexible and portable devices for biosensing and energy conversion
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Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz holds a PhD in Chemistry (2006) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Most of his post-doctoral career has been spent at Prof. Merkoçi’s group at ICN2 (Barcelona, Spain), where he specialized in Nanobiosensors. He has participated in +20 national and international projects and is the coauthor of over 70 scientific publications (+2000 citations; h-index: 28) and four patents. As of June 2018 he holds a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellowship in the Nanobioanalysis Group, Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, where he is also a Lecturer in Chemistry. His research interests focus on the development of biosensing systems based on nanoparticles and nanochannels for point-of-care diagnostic applications. For further details please visit http://nba.grupos.uniovi.es/en/-/escosura-muniz-alfredo-de-la.
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Fabio Di Francesco (Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy)
Fabio Di Francesco, graduated in physics and received a PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Pisa in 2000. He is assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa since 2006, and qualified this year for associate professor. His research activity is mainly focused on the development of chemical and physical sensors, wearable sensor systems, and the identification of chemical markers in breath, saliva and sweat for the diagnosis of disease and the monitoring of health conditions. He published 60 papers on international peer-review journals, 4 book chapters, 131 contributions to congress and conference, 6 patents, and he is member of the Editorial Board of Microchemical Journal and Journal of Breath Research. In the sensor field, he contributed to five European ICT projects under the 5th, 6th, 7th Framework programmes and Horizon 2020. He was the coordinator of the UNIPI research unit involved in the SWAN-iCare project, which aimed at developing a telemedicine device combined to negative pressure treatment for chronic wounds, and of FUNDUS, a bilateral project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Overall, he attracted more than 2 M€ of research funds in the last five years.
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Vito Di Noto (University of Padova, Italy)
Prof. Vito Di Noto, Ph.D. is Full Professor of Electrochemistry for Energy and Solid-State Chemistry in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova, where he heads the Section of Chemistry for Technology and leads the “Chemistry of Materials for the Metamorphosis and the Storage of Energy group (CheMaMSE)”. He is “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society”, “Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow”, and President of the Electrochemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society. He is an electrochemist with more than 30 years of experience in the research and development activities of advanced functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices, including primary and secondary batteries running on alkaline and alkaline-earth elements, fuel cells and redox flow batteries. In the late ‘90s Di Noto pioneered the secondary magnesium ion battery and devised breakthrough approaches for the synthesis of electrolytes and electrode materials. He also provided seminal contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of ion conduction in condensed phases. Currently, his research activity is focused on the synthesis and the studies of the structure, relaxation phenomena and electrochemistry of ion-conducting, dielectric and electrode materials. He authored/co-authored over 295 papers: 250 are peer-reviewed papers (ISI+SCOPUS), 10 are book chapters, 28 are patents (11 international and 17 national) and 8 are papers on proceedings. h-index = 45 (Google Scholar), more than 6800 citations (May 2020). h-index = 42 (Scopus), more than 6500 citations (May 2020).
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Can Dincer (University of Freiburg – IMTEK, Germany)
Dr.-Ing. Can Dincer is currently junior research group leader at the Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT) and the head of Disposable Microsystems group at the Laboratory for Sensors at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg. The main research interest of his working group is the development of bioanalytical microsystems for various applications including diagnostics, food and environmental monitoring.
Having completed his studies in microsystems engineering, Dr. Dincer graduated from the Technical Faculty of the University of Freiburg. He received his PhD degree with summa cum laude in 2016 through his work on the topic "Electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed biosensor platform for point-of-care testing”. In early 2017, he has been awarded by the second place in Gips-Schüle Young Scientist Award for his dissertation.
Between June 2017 – June 2019, Dr. Dincer also worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Bioengineering at the Imperial College London. During this time, his focus was on the paper-based analytical devices and their different applications. In September 2019, Dr. Dincer joined the editorial team of the journal “Biosensors and Bioelectronics” as an Associate Editor. In late 2019, he received the Adolf Martens Prize 2018 in the category "Analytical Chemistry" for his research on the optimization of electrochemical biosensors for the point-of-care diagnostics.
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Yasuaki Einaga (Keio University, Japan)
Yasuaki Einaga received his BS (1994), MS (1996), and PhD (1999) from the University of Tokyo. After 2 years as a research associate at the University of Tokyo, he started a faculty career as an assistant professor in Keio University in 2001, where he was promoted to full professor in 2011. He has been also a research director of JST-CREST (2011-2014), and JST-ACCEL (2014-2020). He was awarded "The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work" in 2016 for his pioneering work in diamond electrodes. His research interests include functional materials science, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Arzum Erdem Gursan (Ege University
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Arzum Erdem has been working as a Professor at the Analytical Chemistry Department in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Ege University in Turkey since 2009. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Ege University in 2000. Prof. Erdem was awarded by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) as the one of highly skilled young scientists of Turkey selected in 2001, and she also received Juniour Science Award in 2006 and Science Award in 2015 given by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). She was elected as Associate member of TÜBA in 2007, and elected as Principal member of TÜBA in 2016. Prof. Erdem has been Special Committee member of Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA)- Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) since she was elected in August, 2017. Prof. Erdem is fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
Prof. Arzum Erdem has initiated many international collaborative research on development and applications of electrochemical (bio)sensors based on drug, enzyme and nucleic acids, that are resulting with more than 150 papers in refereed SCI journals and received more than 5200 citations according to the WoS records ( (April 2020) with h-index: 40.
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Jesús Alberto Escarpa Miguel (Universidad de Alcala, Spain)
Dr. Alberto Escarpa is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Alcalá. He is the leader and founder of the research group “Analytical Miniaturization and Nanotechnology” since 2003. His main research interests are analytical miniaturization and nanotechnologies, the exploration of new nanomaterials for optical and electrochemical (bio)-sensing, electrochemical microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip technology and self-propelled micromotors. He is currently Editor in Chief for Microchimica Acta.
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Vladimir Falko (The University of Manchester / NGI, UK)
Vladimir Falko is condensed matter theorist responsible for many advances in understanding of electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, post-transition metal chalcogenides) and for various aspects of theory of quantum transport and fundamentals of nanoelectronics (ORCID 0000-0003-0828-0310). Humboldt Fellowship, EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, ERC Synergy Grant, and Royal Society Wolfson Foundation Research Merit Award have marked his career; Clarivate Analytics identified him as Highly Cited Researcher in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. Falko was the initiator of ‘Graphene Week’ conference series and a Chair-organiser more than 30 other international meetings; he is founding Editor-in-Chief of the IoP Journal ‘2D Materials’, and he serves as Division Head and Workpackage leaders in the European Graphene Flagship Project. Currently, Falko is Director of National Graphene Institute and Professor of Condensed Matter Theory (Head of Theory Division in the School of Physics & Astronomy) at the University of Manchester
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César Fernández Sánchez (IMB-CNM (CSIC), Spain)
César Fernández-Sánchez received a BSc in Analytical Chemistry in 1993 and a PhD in Electrochemistry in 1999, both from the University of Oviedo (Spain). After doing a post-doctoral stay as a Marie-Curie fellow at Newcastle University (UK), he moved to the Barcelona Institute for Microelectronics (IMB-CNM (CSIC)), where he currently holds a permanent position as Scientific Researcher and is head of the Chemical Transducers Group (gtq.imb-cnm.csic.es). His research interests are on the development of analytical microsystems including lab-on-chip devices, integrating electrochemical sensors based on different transduction modes and (bio)chemical receptors as well as on the application of nanomaterials and organic-inorganic polymeric materials to the development of chemical sensors.
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Andrea Ferrari (Cambridge University/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 Professorial Fellow of Pembroke College. He founded and directs the Cambridge Graphene Centre and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He chairs the management panel and is the Science and Technology Officer of the European Graphene Flagship. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Optical Society and he has been recipient of numerous awards, such as the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize. He also received 4 European Research Council Grants.
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Paolo Fornasiero (University of Trieste, Italy)
Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degree in Chemistry (cum laude) and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the University of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post-doctoral fellow at the Catalysis Research Center of the University of Reading (U.K.), in 1998 he was appointed assistant professor. In 2006, he became associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste and in 2016 he was nominated full professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste.
Professor Fornasiero is Associate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 he is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste - Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Since December 2013 until July 2014 he was visiting Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
Professor Fornasiero is a member of the Italian Chemical Society, of the American Chemical Society, of the European Rare-Earth and Actinide Society - ERES, as well as of the INSTM Consortium. He is also associate editor of ACS Catalysis.
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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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Firat Guder (Imperial College London, UK)
Firat Güder received his BSc (first division) from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in Computer Engineering. He studied Microsystems Engineering (MSc) at Furtwangen University, Germany and KU Leuven / IMEC, Belgium. Firat completed his PhD with summa cum laude at the University of Freiburg, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Margit Zacharias. His research primarily involved investigation of nanostructural transformations by atomic layer deposition, unconventional methods for photolithography and patterning, synthesis of nanomaterials and design and fabrication of sensors and actuators. In 2013, Firat was awarded the prestigious German Research Foundation’s International Research Fellowship to carry out research in the group of Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. In 2016 Firat joined Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering as a member of faculty (Lecturer – US equivalent Assistant Professor).
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Samo Hocevar (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)
1996: BSc, pure chemistry; 2000: MSc, analytical chemistry; 2002: PhD, analytical chemistry; all at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997 - 1998: Patent examiner, Slovenian Intellectual Property Office, Ljubljana
1998 - : MSc/PhD student, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, from 2016 Research Professor, Department of Analytical Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana
2010 - 2013: Acting Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry
2013 - : Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry
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Ioanis Katakis (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
He has been working as teacher assistant on Texas Univerity since 1988 to 1993. He has been the founder and vicepresident of Turtle Diagnostics, Inc since 1993 to 1994 and during 1994 he was working as postdoctoral researcher at Texas University.During 1995 he was a visiting teacher on Rovira i Virgili University and during 2000 he was a senior researcher at Bayer Diagnostics, USA.
Today he is the manager of DINAMIC and of the Bioengineering and Biolectrochemistry Group. He works also as a teacher and the secreteer of PhD courses at the Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria Química.
His research lines are biosensors, inmunosensors, nanobiotechnology, biochips, multisensors, biocatalisi, electrochemical detection, nanocoloids, biocells fuel, environmental sensors,...
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Emmanuel Kymakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)
Emmanuel Kymakis is a Full Professor of Advanced Electronic Materials & Devices and Director of the Center of Materials Technology & Photonics at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (where he also head of the Nano@HMU (Emerging Nanomaterials & Devices Laboratory). He currently serves as the Director of the interinstitutional Post-Graduate Program “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications”. He received the B.Eng. (First Class Honours) degree in Electrical Engineering & Electronics from Liverpool University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University in 2003. He and Prof. Gehan Amaratunga are the inventors of the polymer-nanotube solar cell. Before joining HMU, he was a technical consultant offering engineering and consultancy services in the realization of photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants.
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Yuehe Lin (Washington State University, USA)
Dr. Yuehe Lin is a professor of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. He also holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Laboratory Fellow, conducts research in nanotechnology and nanosensors for biomedical, energy, and environmental applications. Dr. Lin has more than 500 peer-reviewed publications with a total citation about 55,000 and h-index 118. He has been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers every year from 2014 to 2019 by the Web of Science Group. He holds more than 20 patents, some of which have been licensed to industrial partners for commercialization. He obtained three PNNL Key Contributor Awards for successful technology commercialization. He is a fellow of AAAS, Royal Society of Chemistry, National Academy of Inventors, and American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Electrochemical Society as well as a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He serves as editor or editorial board member for approximately 20 international journals, including Advance Materials Technologies; Analytica Chimica Acta; Biosensors and Bioelectronics; Electroanalysis; International Journal of Nanomedicine; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Research-A Science Partner Journal; and Sensors and Actuators B.
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Lluis F. Marsal (URV, 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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Elena Martinez (IBEC, Spain)
Elena Martínez, PhD (female), PhD in the characterization of mechanical properties at the nanoscale (2001, UB). During her PhD, she was visiting student at the University of California in Berkeley (USA) and at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). Afterwards, she did a postdoctoral stage at the EPFL (Lausanne) about the fabrication and characterization of nanocomposite thin films. In 2009, she was visiting researcher at the Imperial College of London (supervisor: Prof. Molly Stevens), working on the development of nanostructured surfaces for stem cell differentiation. In 2003, she received a Ramon y Cajal grant to develop micro and nanostructuring techniques on polymeric materials. Since 2018 she is leading the Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonica (IBEC). From October 2019, she is also Professor at the University of Barcelona. As a research output, she has published 109 SCI-indexed journal papers (79% published in Q1), has an h-index of 36 (according to Scopus database), has filed 2 patent applications, and has supervised 9 PhD thesis. Dr. Martinez is the PI of a national project, an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ERC-PoC. and coordinates a FET-OPEN consortium.
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Mariana Medina Sánchez (IFW Dresden, Germany)
Leader, Micro- and Nanobiomedical Engineering Group
Institute for Integrative Nanosciences
IFW Leibniz Institute, Dresden
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Maria Emanuela Minunni (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry, School of Science Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” University of Florence, Italy.
She received her BSc in Biology from the University of Pisa and the PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Mascini at Department of Chemistry.
She spent a few years abroad, working at Nestlé Research Centre (Lausanne-CH) in the Genetic Toxicology section, then at Pharmacia Biosensor AB (Uppsala–SE), at the new Biacore™ instrumentation based on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR); at the Technical University of Munich - TUM (DE), Institute of Life Sciences with Prof. B. Hock, developing SPR based approches for recombinant antibodies screening, at University College UCC-Cork (IE) Dep. of Chemistry with Prof. G. G. Guilbault on piezoelectric sensing.
She returned to Florence working the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and then at Department of Chemistry in 1999.
Her activity has been mainly focused on the development of bioanalytical assays, mainly on sensor and biosensing based approaches.
In 2000 she was tenured at Firenze University. In 2011 she bacame Associate Professor and in 2017 Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry.
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Kazuya Nakata (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Kazuya Nakata is currently an associate professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. He received his PhD (2005) from Tokyo Metropolitan University. In 2005, he joined Tohoku University as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 as a JSPS research fellow. He has been a full-time researcher at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) since 2007, and then associate professor at the Tokyo University of Science since 2013. In April 2019, he has been an current position. He received a Sano award for young scientists from the electrochemical society of Japan in 2012, The Japanese Photochemistry Association Prize for Young Scientist in 2013, green sustainable chemistry award for young scientist in 2016. His research interest is photo-functional materials.
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Yuta Nishina (Okayama University, Japan)
Yuta Nishina is an associate professor at Okayama University, Japan. He started his research on organic chemistry at Okayama University. During his Ph.D. course, he joined in the research groups in MIT and Kobe University. He obtained Ph. D. on 2010, and started his academic carrier as assistant professor at Okayama University, and promoted to associate professor on 2014. On 2012, he started to use nanocarbons, especially graphene oxide, from a view point of organic chemistry. He is involved in projects toward industrial production and practical application of graphene oxide and its composite materials. He established his venture company (NiSiNa Materials, Co. Ltd.) in 2012 to distribute graphene oxide for practical application.
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Ciara O´Sullivan (ICREA / Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Ciara K. O’ Sullivan (Female) Graduated in Analytical Science at Dublin City University in 1992 and completed PhD in Biotechnology in 1996. From 1996-99, senior postdoctoral researcher at National University of Ireland at Cork, before undertaking an industrial postdoc at Bayer (USA). In 2000, she was awarded Marie Curie Fellowship and in 2002 became a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow, before becoming an ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) Research Professor in 2003, when she established the Interfibio Group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Her research interests lie in the development of electrochemical and optical biosensors exploiting advances in tailored biocomponents. Presently, her work focuses on reducing to practise cost-effective molecular diagnostics for screening and monitoring of disease, as well as on the development of aptamers for application in optical and electrochemical molecular aptamer beacons. The approaches for molecular diagnostics being developed include parallelised real-time electrochemical next generation sequencing, electrochemical array based primer extension and elongation for multiplexed SNP detection, multiplexed electrochemical miRNA detection and quantitative paper diagnostics as companion tools for the future paradigm of pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine.
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Yuya Oaki (Keio University, Japan)
Associate professor Yuya Oaki received his Ph. D. in 2006 from Keio University. Then, he joined the group of Prof. Takashi Kato at The University of Tokyo as a postdoctoral fellow for two years to study polymer and soft materials. In 2009, he moved back to Keio University as an assistant professor, then promoted to associate professor in 2017. He was awarded by The Chemical Society of Japan Award For Young Chemists for 2015, The Young Scientists’ Prize of The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for 2017, and SPSJ Award for the Outstanding Paper in Polymer Journal 2019 sponsored by ZEON. He also works as a Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO project researcher from 2016 to study application of materials informatics to materials chemistry. His current research interest is two-dimentional (2D) materials including layered materials and nanosheets, conjugated polymers, and stimuli-responsive layered materials.
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Michal Otyepka (Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Republic)
Prof. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D. (*1975) is currently the Deputy Director of the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials in Olomouc. Since 2009 he has been the Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc. His research interests cover physical-chemical properties and reactivity of graphene derivatives and 2D materials, non-covalent interactions to 2D materials. He has been developing chemistry of fluorographene (2D chemistry) toward graphene derivatives, which can be applied in (bio)sensing, catalysis and energy storage. He specializes also in molecular dynamics of biomolecules, nanomaterials, and complex molecular systems, force field development and multiscale methods and their applications. He is principal investigator of ERC – Consolidator, 2D-Chemistry (2016-2021) and ERC Proof of Concept UP2DChem (2020-2021). He is the author or co-author of more than 240 papers in international journals, three book chapters and one book.
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Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA, USA)
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he was appointed as a research faculty at Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine in 2006. Dr. Ozcan joined UCLA in 2007 and he is currently the Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory at UCLA Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Departments, and is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.
Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and holds 41 issued patents and more than 20 pending patent applications for his inventions in telemedicine, mobile health, nanoscopy, wide-field imaging, lensless imaging, nonlinear optics, fiber optics, and optical coherence tomography. Dr. Ozcan gave more than 65 plenary/keynote talks and 350+ invited talks and is also the author of one book, the co-author of more than 700 peer reviewed publications in major scientific journals and conferences. In addition, Dr. Ozcan is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Lucendi Inc. and Holomic/Cellmic LLC., which was named a Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum in 2015. Mobile diagnostics product lines and related assets of Cellmic were acquired by NOW Diagnostics Inc. in 2018.
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Sibel A. Ozkan (Ankara University, Turkey)
Sibel A. Ozkan is presently working as a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She has become full professor in 2003. She has been involved in several analytical chemistry projects related to electroanalytical chemistry and separation techniques on drug active compounds and DNA–Drug interactions.
Her research interests included analysis of pharmaceuticals with using separation techniques especially on liquid chromatography, method development and their validation, electroanalytical techniques, novel electrode materials, nano-structured materials, surface–modified electrodes, fabrication of biosensors and nano-sensors, analysis of pharmaceuticals from their dosage forms and biological samples.
She has published more than 200 original and review papers, more than 20 chapters in varied books and two scientific books namely ‘Electroanalytical methods in pharmaceutical analysis and their validation’, HNB Publishing, in 2012 and ‘Electroanalysis in biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences’, Springer, in 2015.
She received Ankara University Scientific Support Award in 2003 and Academy of Pharmacy Science Award of Turkish Pharmaceutical Association in 2008.
She is the Editorial Board Member of the many journals like Talanta, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Chromatographia, Current Drug Therapy, Journal of Turkish Pharmaceutical Sciences, etc. She is also Regional Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (2015).
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Emilio Palomares (ICIQ, Spain)
Professor Palomares joined ICIQ in 2006 to become Group Leader of a research group devoted to Molecular Solar Cells.
In 2009, he was awarded with an ICREA research Professorship through a competitive procedure. Prof. Palomares has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers in molecular solar cells including Dye Solar Cells, Organic Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells. His research group has expertise in the synthesis of materials and molecules with optical and electrical properties, as well as the characterization of interfacial charge transfer reactions in complete devices. Nowadays, of particular interest for the group is to study the interfacial charge transfer reactions versus device efficiency in perovskite solar cells and LED’s and the film morphology versus device efficiency in organic solar cells.
Prof. Palomares has been PI (Principal Investigator) in several National research projects and 1 EU project. In 2009 Prof. Palomares was awarded by the European Research Council with an ERC Starting Grant (PolyDot).
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Teresa Pellegrino (IIT, Italy)
Dr. Teresa Pellegrino, since 2014, is a senior team leader of the group of “Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications” at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy. She has received her master degree in Chemistry in 2000 and her PhD title in Chemical Synthesis and Nanoscience in 2005 from the University of Bari, Italy. During her doctoral studies, she has spent two years in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos at the University of Berkeley (California) approaching the nanoscience field and about 18 months in the group of Prof. Wolfgang Parak at the Center for Nanoscience in Munich (Germany) and working on approaches to functionalize inorganic nanoparticles. For her Post-Doctoral studies, she then moved to Lecce (Italy) at the Center for Nanoscience focusing on synthesis of inorganic hetero-structures. From 2010 to beginning of 2014, she has served as permanent researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
Her current research interests focus on the development of inorganic nanostructures for stimuli-responsive drug delivery, magnetic hyperthermia, photo-thermal treatment and radiotherapy applications. She is coauthor of more than 120 publications in the field of nanoscience, nanomedicine and drug delivery systems.
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Ronen Polsky (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Bachelor's Degree: Chemistry, New Mexico State University (1991-1996)
Master's Degree: Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University (1996-1998)
Doctoral Degree: Chemistry, New Mexico State University (1999-2005)
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005-2006)
During Polsky's my master’s studies, he worked in a laboratory exclusively devoted to the sonochemical preparation of nanoparticles. His thesis emphasis was the preparation of II-VI, III-V inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals. His Ph.D. and postdoctoral work focused on nanomaterial-based electronic detection of biomolecules. This includes the electrochemical detection of DNA and proteins using metal nanoparticle labels.
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Beatriz Prieto Simon (Monash University, Australia)
Beatriz’s research in the multidisciplinary domain of bio-inspired nanotechnologies covers the design, micro- and nanofabrication, and chemical modification of emerging nanostructures, with the aim to integrate them into fit-for-purpose diagnostic devices. She is conducting research on Si-based nanotechnologies, such as the fabrication of arrays of multi-layered nanochannels with site-specifically displayed receptors, and tunable electrochemical features. Her key research interest lies in building smart platforms based on principles found in nature to strengthen the scientific and societal impact of their medical and environmental applications.
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Mamas Prodromidis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Prof. Mamas I. Prodromidis is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the University of Ioannina, Greece and Editor-in-Chief in Microchimica Acta. His research interest focused on the development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, the generation of nanoparticles with spark discharge, the development of low-cost analytical devices for point-of-care analysis, the design & fabrication of integrated electrochemical cells and bipolar electrochemistry. He has published more than 100 research articles, review articles, book chapters, and he also holds one patent. He has given several invited talks in seminars and international conferences.
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Jelena Radjenovic (ICRA, Spain)
Prof Jelena Radjenovic is an ICREA Research Professor working at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) in Girona, Spain. She is a water research scientist with ample expertise in advanced water and wastewater treatment, analysis and study of persistent pollutants, high resolution mass spectrometry and electrochemical water and wastewater treatment systems. Jelena holds a Biochemical Engineering degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Doctoral degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She spent five years working as a researcher at the Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prof Radjenovic has supervised 11 PhD theses, has >50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and an H-index of 27, and has given various keynote lectures and mass media communications. She is currently leading an ERC Starting grant project ELECTRON4WATER and participating in several other EU and national projects. Her research group is dedicated to developing tailored nanostructured electrode materials for the degradation and removal of persistent organic, inorganic and microbial pollutants from water, and to developing nano-engineered, advanced biological treatment processes.
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Francesco Ricci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Francesco Ricci is a full professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. His research interests lie in the fields of DNA functional nanotechnology, DNA-based sensors, aptamers, conformational switching probes, smart drug-release and electrochemical sensors. After the PhD in chemistry earned in 2005 at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Francesco Ricci spent 2 years as a visiting post-doc researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Francesco Ricci has been awarded an International Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship (2010), the ERC Starting Grant (2013) and the ERC Consolidator Grant (2019). He is also the recipient of the 2017 ACS “Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship” Award and the 2017 “Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award on Analytical Science”. Francesco Ricci is author of more than 100 papers in ISI peer-reviewed journals (such as JACS, Angewandte Chemie, PNAS, Nano Letters, etc.) that received more than 5000 citations (H-index=45).
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Anna Roig (ICMAB, Spain)
Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group Leader. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: I define myself as an applied materials scientist interested in the controlled and rational synthesis of inorganic and hybrid nanoparticles and nanocomposites (with a soft spot for magnetic materials) and the understanding of their structural-functional properties including problems related to nanobiointerfaces. Specifically: I. Fabrication of colloids and nanocomposites for applications in nanomedicine, smart electronics and environmental sensors II. Use of non-traditional methods for the synthesis of nanomaterials (microwaves, supercritical fluids, bacterial production) III. Understanding magnetic phenomena in nanomaterials.
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Neus Sabaté Vizcarra (ICREA / CSIC-IMB-CNM, Spain)
I obtained my Degree in Physics in 1998 at the University of Barcelona (UB). After that, I joined UB Electronics Dep. to develop ionizing radiation detectors. After that I stayed at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, where I discovered my passion for silicon-based microsystems (MEMS) technologies. In 1999, I started my PhD at the Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (CSIC) where I developed silicon-based flow and gas sensors for industrial applications. After the obtaining of my PhD, in 2004 I joined the IZM Fraunhofer in Berlin where I played a key role in the development of a new technique for stress measurements in thin films for the microelectronics industry. In 2006 I started a research line in silicon microfabricated fuel cells at IMB-CSIC that has evolved until the biodegradable electrochemical power sources I develop today. In 2015 I founded the spin-off Fuelium, aimed to commercialize disposable paper batteries for single use applications, and became ICREA Professor.
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Samuel Sanchez (IBEC, Spain)
Samuel is since 2015 a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he acts as Deputy Director for the Internationalization of IBEC. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, IFW Dresden, Germany, MANA-NIMS in Japan. His work spans from fundamental aspects of catalytic and biocatalytic nano-micromotors, 3D Bioprinted BioBOTS, electrochemical biosensors to applications in biomedical and environmental fields. He received several awards and recognitions such as the MIT TR35 as Top Innovator Under 35 in the Spanish edition, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Foundation of Research among others. He received the ERC-Starting Grant in 2013, and two ERC-Proof-of-concept in 2016 and 2017. He has published about 130 papers with h-index of 48 and he has filed 6 patents.
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Arpiainen Sanna (VTT, Finland)
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Oliver G. Schmidt (IFW Dresden, Germany)
Oliver G. Schmidt is the Director of the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at the Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany and member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). His professional activities range from nanomaterials design and nanoelectronics to microfluidics, microrobotics and biomedical applications. He has received several high-profile awards: the Otto-Hahn Medal from the Max-Planck-Society in 2000, the Philip-Morris Research Award in 2002, the Carus-Medal from the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 2005, the International Dresden Barkhausen Award in 2013, the Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2018, and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2019. He has published more than 800 papers in peer reviewed journals and has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and 2019.
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Dritan Siliqi (Institute of Crystallography- CNR, Italy)
Dritan Siliqi is staff scientist at Institute of Crystallography, National Council for Research (IC-CNR) Bari, Italy. Currently as the head of the Bio-crystallization Lab@IC-CNR, he is involved in several projects related to the studies, combining different techniques as macromolecular crystallography (MX), Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), and Dynamic Simulations (DM), devoted to structural insights of proteins involved at: ribosomopathy diseases (f.es. Shwachman Diamond Syndrome) and intracellular region of the human magnesium transport mediator CNNM4, Interdomain conformational flexibility of UGGT (the eukaryotic glycoprotein secretion checkpoint. His works is focused as well as on structural/morphological characterization of nanostructured bio- materials, in particular by means of small and wide angle x-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS). During his carrier, he was researcher visitor on several laboratories/Institutions and his research activity is presented in about 130 scientific publications and several communications in national end international meetings/conferences/congresses
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Carsten Sönnichsen (JGU, Germany)
Carsten Sönnichsen, born 1973 in Hamburg (Germany), studied physics in Hamburg and Cambridge. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany (working for Jochen Feldmann). Following his experience in an international management consulting in Munich, Germany, he joined the Paul Alivisatos group in Berkeley as a postdoc. In 2005, he started his own group at the University of Mainz where he now holds a chair in physical chemistry. The group emphasizes on the production and application of nanoparticles as markers and sensors for biological molecules, optical single particle spectroscopy and electron microscopy. The work is funded among others by an ERC starting grant.
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Peter Steeneken (TUDelft, The Netherlands)
Peter Steeneken received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in experimental solid state physics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2002, he joined Philips Research and NXP Research in Eindhoven, as an industrial scientist focusing on the modeling, characterization and reliability of CMOS MEMS devices for sensors, actuators and RF applications.
Since 2013, he is professor of Applied Nanophysics at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft and since 2017 he is full professor at TU Delft’s Precision and Microsystems Engineering Department, chairing the section Dynamics of Micro and Nanosystems.
Prof. Steeneken currently leads the sensors workpackage of the Graphene Flagship and the large national project Plantenna on plant-based sensor technology. He has authored more than 100 journal and conference publication and holds 44 granted US patents. His research focuses on bridging the gap between fundamental physics and applications, with a focus on high frequency nanomechanical sensor devices
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Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (ICN2, Spain)
Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is Junior Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Spain) since October 2018, heading the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group. He is also Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Excellence Material Science in Mainz (Germany). Before joining the ICN2, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) in December 2010 with a thesis that was awarded the FOM Physics Thesis Prize 2011. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2018, and a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship in 2019. Dr. Tielrooij has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, 13 of which in Nature and Science and family, and over 5,000 citations. His H-index is currently 28 (scholar). His current research focuses on understanding and exploiting ultrafast phenomena that take place at the nanoscale. These phenomena have far-reaching implications in terms of material and system properties, as well as technological applications in fields such as thermal management, light harvesting, photodetection, data communication and quantum technologies.
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Suna Timur (Ege University, Turkey)
Suna Timur has received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry at Ege University in 2001. She is currently a full-time Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Ege University. Her current research focuses on electrochemical sensors and biosensors, nanobiomaterials, nanomedicine, and drug delivery.
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Felice Torrisi (Imperial College London, UK)
Felice Torrisi is a Lecturer in 2D materials and Wearable Bioelectronics in the Department of Chemistry and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He previously held a University Lectureship in Graphene Technology in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he jointly managed the Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology and the Cambridge Graphene Centre. He graduated at the University of Catania, Italy, after a research period at the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems of the Italian National Research Council. Before moving to Imperial College, he worked in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as a PhD student, then as a Research Fellow and finally as a Lecturer. His research interests span from printed and flexible electronics to photonics with graphene and 2D materials, with particular focus on energy, sensing, wearable electronics and bioelectronics.
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Sergio O. Valenzuela (ICREA/ICN2, Spain)
Prof. Sergio Valenzuela obtained his PhD in physics in 2001 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and held research positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since July 2008 Prof. Valenzuela has been an ICREA research professor and leader of the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanoelectronic Devices Group.
His research is focused on the unique properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions, motivated by both their intrinsic scientific interest and their potential for advanced electronic applications. His work encompasses spintronics, quantum computation with superconducting circuits and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Together with his collaborators, he has pioneered the use of non-local devices to study the spin Hall effect of thermopiles to isolate the magnon drag in ferromagnetic materials, and implemented novel qubit control and spectroscopy methods.
Prof. Valenzuela was awarded the 2001 Giambiagi prize and the 2009 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Magnetism for his contributions to the field of spintronics, as well as an ERC Starting Grant in 2012. He has authored over 50 articles (Nature, Science, Reviews of Modern Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, among others), three patents, and five books or book chapters.
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Chiara Zanardi (UNIMORE, Italy)
Chiara Zanardi is associated professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and associated at the Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). She graduated in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna in 1998 and obtained the PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2002 the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her scientific interests deal with the development of new materials as sensing element of electrochemical sensors and biosensors for the quantification of meaningful analytes in biological fluids, foodstuffs, and environmental matrices. She was involved in many Italian and international projects and she coordinated national projects dealing with the development of electrochemical sensors. She is the co-author of more than 80 papers printed on peer-review journals, two patents, one book and three book chapters dealing with modified electrodes in electroanalysis.
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Ondřej Zítka (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Associated Professor Ondrej Zitka is Deputy Head of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (DCB), Mendel University in Brno and he leads Research Group of Biomarkers in DCB. He is also senior scientist in the Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. He is CEO in technology startup NANTEO. Main research interests are in biochemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, electrochemistry, biosensors, nanotechnology (especially magnetic particles) and prototyping. He is author or co-author of 197 original papers or reviews in ISI indexed journals with total 3173 citations and H-index = 31.
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Erhan Zor (Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey)
Dr. Erhan Zor is an Associate Professor at Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Selçuk University in the topic of electrochemical chiral discrimination based on graphene-related materials. During his Masters and Ph.D., he had worked as visiting researcher at European research centers in the field of nano(bio)sensors; at Nanotechnas-Nanotechnology and Material Research Center at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Zor has published more than 30 SCI papers, book chapters and, review articles relevant to his scientific research field. His current research interest is focused on graphene, nanocellulose, chiral sensors, (nano)biosensors, optical sensors, electrochemical sensors, paper-based diagnostics, biomedical diagnostics.
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