Prof. Dafiné Ravelosona is a research doctor at CNRS with 15 years of experience in spintronics and magnetic materials. He is presently the head of the Nanoelectronics department at Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale within University Paris Sud in Orsay. He has co-authored over 100 papers and filed 4 patents. He has worked in academic as well as industrial environments (visiting scientist at Hitachi GST in 2004-2005). He is presently coordinator of a collaborative European FP7 project (MAGWIRE) in charge of developing with 2 major companies ultra high density solid state memories based on magnetic domain walls. He also coordinates two US-French projects on emerging spintronics devices with a strong emphasis on education and training activities. He was recently awarded the prize 2010 of innovation at the University of Paris Sud, the prize 2011 and 2012 from the french ministry of research (OSEO) to launch the startup company SILTENE.
Prof. James M. Hill has received two five year fellowships from the Australian Research Council; an ARC Senior Research Fellowship in 1997 to work on Granular Materials, and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship in 2004 to work on Nanomechanics. Since 1983 he has received 13 major research awards, including ARC Large Grants, ARC Discovery Projects, National Research Fellowship, National Teaching Company Scheme. He has published five books, and almost 300 research publications in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics. He is the recipient of the 2008 ANZIAM medal for contributions to research and the Applied Mathematics discipline.
Prof. James M. Hill is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He has been an Associate Editor since 1982 of the ANZIAM Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which is published by the Australian Mathematical Society. His work has received international recognition through his appointment to the Editorial Boards of four international journals: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Journal of Applied Mathematics and the Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, both published by Oxford University Press, Journal of Engineering Mathematics published by Kluwer Academic Press and Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids published by Sage Science Press.
Dr. Bingqing Wei (B. Q. Wei) received his Bachelor’s degree (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
He is currently a Tenured Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Dr. Fabrice Charra conducts researche in the emerging field of nanophotonics, in the surface physics laboratory of CEA/Saclay. The emphasis of his work is on light emission and absorption form single nanoscale molecular systems. His area of expertise also extends to nonlinear optics, a domain to which he contributed several advances in the applications of organic materials.
PhD Nicklas Raun Jacobsen is a senior researcher at the National Research Center for the Working Environment, Denmark. He has worked with toxicology of nanoparticles since 2004 where he began his PhD at NRCWE. He has since been a participant in several Danish (E.g. NanoChem and NanoPlast) as well as EU research projects (E.g. Particle Risk, ENPRA, Nanogenotox, NanoSustain and NanoValid). Main areas of focus are: Toxicity of nanoparticles, biodistribution, genotoxicity/mutations/cancer and cardiovascular decease.
He obtained his Master of Science degree in biology from the University of Copenhagen. The topic was molecular biological methods to determine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in human DNA repair genes and through large cohort studies determine how these SNPs affected risk of developing cancer. After his masters studies he moved to the Danish Food and Veterinary Institute where he worked on developing molecular biological techniques for the fast detection of food pathogenes (Thermotolerant Campylobacter and Brucella abortus/Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:9).
François Berger, MD,PhD had a dual scientific and clinical education in the field of neurology, oncology and molecular and cell biology. He continues to have a dual clinical and research activity has professor of cell biology and neuro-oncology. He develops a translational research activity, trying to validate innovative technologies at the preclinical/clinical level in close collaboration with CEA-LETI micro-nanotechnology center. He coordinated the Brain Nanomedicine Goup in INSERM U 836.
At the interface between technology and medicine, he is now the director of Clinatec Translational Technology Lab U 1205 research unit associating INSERM-Grenoble University and Grenoble university hospital. The objectives of this group are to develop innovative technologies for a better understanding and therapy of Brain diseases and cancer. It is also to accelerate the transfer of technology innovation at the bedside implementing innovating translational methodologies from cellular, preclinical to human proof of concept trials.
Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is the Head of the Hybrid, Biohybrid and Porous Nanostructured Materials team (http://www.icmm.csic.es/phbhmg/) at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). He is a Research Professor Scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (National Research Council of Spain), Graduate in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid in 1970; Docteur ès Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 1974, and Doctor en Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense, (Madrid) in 1979. Founder and First Director of several Departments at the CSIC including the last one, “New Architectures in Materials Chemistry Department”, created in 2010 at the ICMM-CSIC.
Professor Ruiz-Hitzky, chemist and nanotechnologist is currently working on a strong interdisciplinary approach, at the interface of fundamental research and industrial, environmental and biomedical applications. He is author or co-author of more than 200 publications and 25 patents (some of them transferred to industry for commercialization), mainly related to the following research topics: Nanostructured Functional Materials; Hybrid, Biohybrid, Intercalation Compounds & Nanocomposites; Layered and Porous Inorganic Solids. His contribution is reflected by his international ranking by WOS (June 30th, 2015) with an H-index of 43.
He was in 2011 Invited Professor at the Collège de France, Paris (France) and in 2015 CAPES Senior Fellow at the National Laboratory of Nanotechnology (LNNano), Campinas (Brazil). He has been Member of the Direction Committee of the Inorganic Chemistry Specialized Group (GEQI) at the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), President of the Spanish Clay Society, Member of the Direction Committee of the ICMM-CSIC, and General Chair and Organizer of several international conferences (e.g., 5th MATERIALS DISCUSSION on Porous Materials and Molecular Intercalation, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, September 2002, Madrid, and 4th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, ELSEVIER, Sitges, March 2015).Editor-in-Chief of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology (I.F. > 2,5) and Associated Editor of Current Nanoscience (2010-). Member of the Editorial Board of various SCI journals. The quality of his research has been recognized with several international awards including the STAS Prize (Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Belgium), the BRUYLANTS award (Association des Chimistes de l’Université de Louvain, Belgium), the ICIDCA award (The Ministry of Sugar, Cuba), the AIPEA Medal (Tokyo, 2005), the Guillaume Budé Medal (Collège de France, Paris 2011), the Josep Lleal Medal (Expoquimia, Barcelona 2011) and various distinctions at the CSIC.
Dr. Bingqing Wei (B. Q. Wei) received his Bachelor’s degree (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
He is currently a Tenured Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Prof Roland Wiesendanger studied physics at the University of Basel, where he received his Ph.D. in 1987 and his Habilitation degree in 1990, working in the field of scanning tunnelling microscopy. In 1992 he received an offer for a full professor position from the University of Hamburg related with the launch of the Microstructure Advanced Research Center Hamburg (MARCH). In Hamburg, Roland Wiesendanger has initiated the Center of Competence in Nano-scale Analysis "HanseNanoTec", the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center Hamburg (INCH), the Collaborative Research Center 668 of the German Research Foundation entitled "Magnetism from the single atom to the nanostructure", and the Cluster of Excellence "Nanospintronics" of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Since end of the eighties, Roland Wiesendanger pioneered the technique of Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy which allowed the first real-space observation of magnetic structures at the atomic level. Roland Wiesendanger also contributed significantly to the development of Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) and Magnetic Exchange Force Microscopy. Roland Wiesendanger is author or co-author of 450 scientific publications and 2 textbooks, and editor or co-editor of 7 monographs and 7 conference proceedings. He presented more than 430 talks worldwide. For his outstanding research contributions, Roland Wiesendanger has been awarded with the Gaede-Prize of the German Vacuum Society in 1992, the Max Auwärter Prize in 1992, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 1999, the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2003, the ERC Advanced Grant Award in 2008, and the Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the American Vacuum Society in 2010. He is an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina" (since 2000), the Hamburg Academy of Sciences (since 2005), and the German Academy of Technical Sciences (since 2008). Since 2012, he is Honorary Professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology (China).
Ulla Vogel is professor at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark and at the Technical University of Denmark. She is European Registered Toxicologist and Honorary Doctor at Lund University, Sweden. Her research is focused on nanoparticle toxicity with focus on cancer and cardiovascular disease. She was PI of Danish Centre for Nanosafety 1 and 2 and currently PI of FFIKA and FFIKA2. She acts as advisor to the Danish Working Environment Authority and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Prof Danail Hristozov is a senior research scientist at the Venice Research Consortium and the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of University Ca’ Foscari Venice in Italy, where he also obtained his PhD degree. He is currently performing integrative research across the fields of risk assessment and governance of engineered nanomaterials as a principal investigator of the large-scale SUN (Sustainable Nanotechnologies) project (http://www.sun-fp7.eu) and a partner in various EU Nanosafety Cluster projects, including MARINA, NANOforART, ENPRA, ITS-NANO. Prior to his current positions, Danail worked at Malsch Techno Valuation, a consultancy firm in the Netherlands, where he specialized in Technological Assessment of emerging technologies (mainly nanotechnologies). There he worked on e.g. Observatory Nano and ICPC NanoNet projects. He completed with excellence his M.Sc. degree across both the Schools of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) in Germany, where he focused on studying the benefits and risks of engineered nanomaterials for the environment and the human health.
Professor Stuart Parkin was born on December 9, 1955 in Watford, England. Studied Physics at the University of Cambridge (BA, 1977, MA, Ph.D. 1980). Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1979). Royal Society European Exchange Fellow, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud (1980-1981). IBM World Trade Fellow, IBM San Jose Research Laboratory (1982). Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California (since 1982). IBM Fellow (since 1999). Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2007); Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2007); Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliou, Taiwan (2007); Distinguished Visiting Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2008); Distinguished Visiting Professor, World Class University Program, KAIST (2009); Honorary Professor, University College London, United Kingdom (2009). Honorary Doctorates: RWTH Aachen University (2007); Eindhoven University of Technology (2008); University of Regensburg (2011); Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (2013). Elected Fellow, The Royal Society, London (2000); Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA) (2008); Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA) (2009); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009). Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2012); Fellow, TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences (2012). Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, since April 2014. Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics since April 2014.
Stuart Parkin has received several awards including: American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (1994); Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics (1997); 1999-2000 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize for Industrial Application of Physics; IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (2008); Dresden Barkhausen Award (2009); IUPAP Magnetism Prize and Neel Medal (2009); David Adler Lectureship Award, American Physical Society (2012); Von Hippel Award, Materials Research Society (2012); Swan Medal, Institute of Physics (London) (2013); and the Millennium Technology Prize, Technology Academy Finland (2014).
Prof. Dafiné Ravelosona is a research doctor at CNRS with 15 years of experience in spintronics and magnetic materials. He is presently the head of the Nanoelectronics department at Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale within University Paris Sud in Orsay. He has co-authored over 100 papers and filed 4 patents. He has worked in academic as well as industrial environments (visiting scientist at Hitachi GST in 2004-2005). He is presently coordinator of a collaborative European FP7 project (MAGWIRE) in charge of developing with 2 major companies ultra high density solid state memories based on magnetic domain walls. He also coordinates two US-French projects on emerging spintronics devices with a strong emphasis on education and training activities. He was recently awarded the prize 2010 of innovation at the University of Paris Sud, the prize 2011 and 2012 from the french ministry of research (OSEO) to launch the startup company SILTENE.
Prof. Jin-Ho Choy received his B.S. (1970) and M.S. degrees (1972) in chemical engineering from Yonsei University, his Ph.D. degree (1979) in inorganic chemistry from University of Muenchen (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München). He was a professor in the department of chemistry at Seoul National University (1981-2004), and is currently a distinguished professor and director of the Center for Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials (CINBM) at Ewha Womans University. He’s Honorary Professor, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland- Australia. He’s also a Chair and Fellow of the Natural Sciences Division- Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He was also a visiting professor of Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide du CNRS, Universite de Bordeaux I, France (1985-1986), department of materials engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.(2003), and Kumamoto University, Japan (2008) He was a member of the international editorial board (IEB) or an associate editor of the Journal of Material Chemistry, Materials Research Bulletine and Chemistry of Materials, and is currently involved in various journals such as, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Solid State Sciences, Chemistry –An Asian Journal, and etc., as a IEB member. He also received academic award from the Korean Chemical Society (2000), national science award in chemistry from the Korean Government (2003), a Distinguished Service Knight Medal from the French Government (Palmes Academiques ; Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques :2003), a 1st Class National Science Medal(2006), Korean Best Scientist Award from the President of Korea (2007), award of Role Models in Science from the Korean Government, award of Fellow from the Royal Society of Chemistry , UK (2008), a culture award in science from Seoul City (2010). His research interests include nano drug delivery system, 2-D heterostructured nanomaterials, such as inorganic-inorganic, organic-inorganic, and bio-inorganic hybrids with multiple functions and various intercalation compounds, and he has published more than 500 papers and 50 patents.
Prof Sylvie ROUSSET is currently a Senior Scientist (Research Director) at CNRS (National Scientific Research Center) heading the Centre of Competences in Nanosciences in Paris Region CNano IdF in Paris, France. She obtained her PhD in Physics from the University of Paris Diderot after which she did postdoctoral research at IBM Almaden laboratory, USA. Her area of research is in materials and nanosciences. The main technique used in her group is Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Spectroscopy including Spin-Polarized STM. Linking structural and physical properties of nano-objects down to the atomic level is the main motivation in order to functionalize nanomaterials. She has been collaborating with the group of Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan through an Indo-French grant from CEFIPRA. She chaired the International Conference on Nanoscience + Technology, ICN+T 2012, held in Paris, (900 participants). She is an expert for the National Research Agency (ANR) and the European Community (FP7). She belongs to the Council of National Research Agency for Assessment (AERES). From 2007 to 2010, she headed the laboratory MPQ, Materials and Quantum Phenomena, which is a shared laboratory between CNRS and the University of Paris Diderot, UMR 7162.
Prof. Andrea C. Ferrari is the director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge- UK.
Prof. Andrea is Professor of Nanotechnology and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. He is the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department and Nanoscience Centre. He is Professorial Fellow of Pembroke College.
Kwang S. Kim is currently a Professor of chemistry, an Adjunct Professor in physics, and the Director of the Center for Superfunctional Materials of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied chemistry from Seoul National University and another M.S. degree in physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He spent a few years as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow and as a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He joined POSTECH in 1988 (until Feb. 2014, Professor, POSTECH Fellow). He is a Fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology. He has been an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (A, B, C), Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, Journal of Computational Chemistry, and Chemistry An Asian Journal. He has been a Conference Board Member of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemistry and the Asian Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. His fields of research include investigations of density functional theory, ab initio calculations, nonequilibrium Green function theory, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, first principles ground and excited-state molecular dynamics simulations, intermolecular interactions, clusters, molecular recognition, receptors, drug design, bioinformatics, biomolecules, nanomaterials, molecular devices, spintronics, and quantum computing.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Nowack holds a MSc. (1992) and a PhD (1995) in environmental sciences from ETH Zürich. He is leading the "Environmental Risk Assessment and Management" group at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and is adjunct professor at ETH Zurich. His current research deals with the chances and risks of engineered nanomaterials, comprising a wide spectrum of different approaches: development and application of methods for material flow modeling, exposure modeling, environmental risk assessment and life cycle assessment; experimental studies about release of nanomaterials from products and investigations about their behavior and effects in the environment. He has also previous experience in soil science and behavior and remediation of metals in soils. Bernd Nowack has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications which receive >1400 citations/year. He acted as co-advisor of 15 PhD projects. He is listed in “The World’s most influential scientific minds 2014” from the Web of Science in the category “Environmental Sciences/Ecology”.
Professor Sirirurg Songsivilai was trained in clinical medicine with M.D. (first-class honors with gold medal) from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, and in molecular biology with Ph.D. degree from University of Cambridge, UK. He was post-doctoral fellow at University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, USA. In management, he received postgraduate certificates in law and public administration from King Prajadipok Institute, and in science, technology and innovation policy from Harvard University.
Professor Songsivilai is an Anandhamahidol Foundation Scholar awarded by H.M. the King of Thailand. He returned to Mahidol University in 1992 and, since 2000, became full Professor at Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok. His main research interest is on molecular biology and genomics of infectious diseases; especially viral hepatitis, melioidosis and avian influenza; focusing on understanding clinical characteristics from the genomics variations. Professor Songsivilai published extensively in international journals, authored 2 books and 5 patent applications. He received several international awards and honors, including Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Fellowship, ASEAN Young Scientist and Technologist Award, Taguchi Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Biotechnology in 2002, and National Outstanding Technologist Award in 2003.
In 2004, he joined the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) as senior executive overseeing the development of bio-industry under the National Biotechnology Policy Committee. In 2005, Professor Songsivilai became assistant president of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and has been appointed the executive director of the National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) since 2008.
Professor Songsivilai is also well known for his entrepreneurial activities, having found spin-off biotechnology companies specializing in development and manufacturing of diagnostics and therapeutics for tropical infectious diseases.