Plenary Speakers
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Prof. Jochen Lauterbach
University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States Title: "Faster discovery and better understanding of heterogeneous catalysts through Artificial Intelligence" Professor Lauterbach received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in the group of the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Prof. G. Ertl. After a post-doc at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at Purdue University in 1996 and moved to the University of Delaware in 2002. He joined the University of South Carolina in July 2010 as Smartstate Endowed Chair and Director of the South Carolina SmartState Center for Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity. Professor Lauterbach's research interests are in the area of heterogeneous catalysis and functional nanomaterials synthesis, as applied to environmental processes improving power generation from fossil fuels, generation of synthetic fuels from methane and carbon dioxide, upstream fuel generation from ammonia for fuel cells, and biomass torrefaction. |
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Prof. Kevin Sivula
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Title: "Nanostructured semiconductors for direct solar-to-fuel energy conversion" Originally from the United States, Prof. Sivula studied chemical engineering at the Universities of Minnesota (Twin Cities), and California (Berkeley), completing a doctorate under the direction of Prof. Jean Fréchet . After a postdoc with Prof. Michael Grätzel, he began an independent research program in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL, where he was promoted to Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in 2018. He directs the Laboratory for molecular engineering of optoelectronic nanomaterials (LIMNO), and teaches courses in transport phenomena, chemical product design, and solar energy conversion. His research interests include using nanostructured semiconductors for direct solar-to-fuel energy conversion. |
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Prof. Vito Di Noto
University of Padova, Padua, Italy Prof. Vito Di Noto was born in Piana degli Albanesi (PA) on February 6th, 1960, and was awarded a degree in Chemistry by the University of Padova in the Academic Year 1985/86 with full marks. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Padova in October 1992. From 1992 to 2002 he was a researcher at the Department of Inorganic, Metallorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Padova. Since October 2002 he is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (SS CHIM03) at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padova. |
Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Dominik Eder
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Prof. Dr. Dominik Eder received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2003 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He then joined the University of Cambridge, UK in 2005 as Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In 2006, he was awarded an APART Advanced Research fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science, which he used to start his group at Cambridge. In 2011 he accepted a position as a Junior-Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany. In 2015 he became Full Professor for Materials Chemistry in the Institute of Materials Chemistry (IMC) at TU Wien. He is currently head of the “Molecular Materials Chemistry” division at IMC at TU Wien. |
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Prof. Alla Zak
Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel Title: "WS2 & MoS2 nanotubes for Hydrogen evolution reaction and Artificial Intelligence" Alla Zak is a Head of the Laboratory for Synthesis and Investigation of Nanomaterials (since 2012) and Associate Professor (since 2016) in the Faculty of Science in the Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. She is also a Scientific Adviser in the Department of Materials and Interfaces in Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel. Alla Zak is involved in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology since 1996. Her experience in the synthesis and investigation of inorganic nanoparticles with fullerene-like structures (IF) and nanotubes (INT) includes 6 years of Ph.D. study (1996-2002) and almost 10 years as chief scientist (CSO) in NanoMaterials, Ltd. (NML) company (2002-2011). Alla Zak received her Ph.D. from the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, in 2002, and received her M.Sc. in physics (1985) from Kishinev University, Moldova. With M.Sc. degree Alla Zak worked for five years as an engineer in the Microelectronics lab of Thin Film Department at the Electrical Device Engineering Institute of Science in Kishinev. Directly prior to her studies at the Weizmann Institute, Alla Zak taught physics at scientific and technical high-schools in Israel. After completing her Ph.D. studies in 2002, Alla Zak joined NanoMaterials, Ltd. for 10 years in the position of Chief scientist, and at 2012 established her laboratory in HIT. |
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Prof. Pawel Kulesza
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Title: "Microelectrode Based Diagnosis of Charge Propagation in Semi-Solid Redox-Conducting Charge Relays and Electrolytes" Pawel J. Kulesza is a professor of chemistry at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests concern various aspects of nanostructured electrochemistry, materials and analytical chemistry, and fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, energy conversion, and storage. He is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of Electrocatalysis (Springer), Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Springer), and he is editor of Electrochimica Acta (Elsevier). At present, he acts as a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Physical Analytical Division of the Electrochemical Society (USA). Author of over 200 scientific publications. |
Invited Speakers
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Prof. Adam Pron
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Title: "Toxic metals -free ternary and quaternary semiconductor nanocrystals: synthesis, characterization and application in visible light photocatalysis" Adam Pron was born (1951) and educated in Poland. In 1980 he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Prize laureate of 2000. In the same year he returned to his native country (Poland) and started working at the Warsaw University of Technology where he was promoted to full professor position in 1993. In the period of 1991-1993 1989 he shared his time between Poland and USA working in an industrial company “UNIAX” Corporation in Santa Barbara California, where he closely collaborated with Alan J. Heeger, another Nobel Prize laureate. In 1998 he moved to the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Grenoble in France. In March 2012 he retired from CEA and became full-time professor at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. In 2002 professor Pron obtained the Prize of Polish Foundation for Research – the most prestigious scientific award in Poland. In 2011 he got the Zawidzki Medal - the highest distinction in Poland in physical chemistry. In 2019 he was awarded the Sniadecki Medal – the highest distinction given to a Polish chemist by the Polish Chemical Society. From 2008 Professor Proń is the editor of Synthetic Metals – an Elsevier journal devoted to organic and carbon-based electroactive materials. His research interests involve organic electronics and optoelectronics, materials chemistry and physical chemistry and more precisely elaboration of new organic semiconductors and functionalized inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals. Professor Proń published over 340 papers, many of them in very prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nanoscale, Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Inorganic Chemistry and many others. He is also co-author of several international patents on new functional materials. In the past he succeeded in obtaining several important grants from governmental grant agencies as well as purely industrial grants from such companies as Hitachi, Hutchinson and others. So far he supervised 18 PhD students in Poland and France. Among his former students there are university professors in Poland, France and Brazil as well as researchers in governmental laboratories and industrial R&D centers in France, Germany and USA. |
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Prof. Ioan-Cezar Marcu
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Title: "Copper-based mixed oxides obtained from layered double hydroxide precursors, efective catalysts for complete methane oxidation" Born in 1971, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Prof. Marcu got his BSc in Chemistry & Physics in 1995, and his MSc in Heterogeneous Catalysis in 1996 at the University of Bucharest (UB). In 2002 he received his PhD in Catalysis at the Institute of Catalysis – University Lyon 1, France. From October 2006 to September 2007, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Charles Gerhardt of Montpellier, France, then, starting from 2007, he became a Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Catalysts and Catalytic Processes of UB. He obtained his Habilitation in Catalysis in 2013, and was appointed Full Professor at UB in February 2020, in charge of Chemical Technology and Catalytic Materials disciplines. His research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides. He co-authored more than 70 research papers, three book chapters and four encyclopedia articles. |
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Prof. Paul Bohn
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States Title: "Electrochemical Zero-Mode Waveguides - Bifunctional Nanostructures for Spectroelectrochemical Investigations of Single Entities from Molecules to Cells" Paul Bohn received B.S. (University of Notre Dame, 1977) and Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981) degrees in Chemistry. He served 1981-83 at Bell Laboratories, Muray Hill, NJ as a Member of Technical Staff, after which he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2006, he has been the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Bohn is the Founding Director of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health at Notre Dame, Founding Member of the Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science and Engineering, Director of the Center for Bioanalytic Metrology, an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, and Director of the Analytical Sciences & Engineering at Notre Dame faculty hiring initiative. Bohn’s research interests include: molecular approaches to, and uses of, nanotechnology, integrated nanofluidic and microfluidic chemical measurement strategies for personal monitoring, and correlated chemical imaging, especially of microbial communities. He has received a number of recognitions for his work, including most recently the Charles N. Reilley Award of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (2022). |
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Prof. Gil Lee
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin Prof. Gil U. Lee is Stokes Professor of Physical Chemistry at UCD. Using the atomic force microscope and magnetic tweezers techniques, his group has gained new insights into the important role that forces play in mechanotransduction and cellular behaviour. His group is also developing novel techniques for sensing and separating multiple pathogens from complex samples, e.g., blood, using magnetic separation. He authored over 65 peer reviewed publications and ten patents. His work has been recognized by Alan Berman Basic Research Award, Edison Applied Research Award, U.S. National Research Laboratory Consortium Award for Commercialization, ETS Walton Fellowship, and SFI Research Professorship. |
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Prof. Silvio Dutz
Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany Title: "Functionalized magnetic multicore nanoparticles for drug targeting to the eye" Prof. Dutz received his Diploma Engineer (Dipl.-Ing) in Biomedical Engineering from University of Applied Sciences in Jena/Germany in 2002 and his PhD (Dr.-Ing) from University of Freiberg/Germany in 2007. Prof Dutz is the Chair of Magnetic Nanoparticles Group at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics at Technische Universität Ilmenau in Germany. With a background in Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronics his current research interests focus on synthesis, characterization, and application of magnetic nanoparticles for medical applications as well as instrumentation for these techniques, especially magnetic hyperthermia, magnetic drug targeting, and magnetic particle imaging. |
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Prof. David Carroll
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, United States Title: "2D chalcogenide topological insulators as the platform for a dissipative time crystal" Prof. Carroll. received his PhD. in physics from Wesleyan University in CT. His postdoctoral work was at the University of Pennsylvania and the Max-Planck Institut fur Metallforschung in Stuttgart DE. Dr. Carroll's research explores the fundamental roles that dimension, topology, and symmetry play in the emergent properties of condensed matter systems. Of particular interest is how these new "quantum materials" might yield opportunities for the development of new technologies such as in quantum computing and quantum sensing. Dr. Carroll is currently a professor of physics at Wake Forest University and the director of the University's Nanotechnology Center. He is a fellow of the American Physical Socieity. |
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Prof. Bodo Fiedler
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany Title: "Tailored CNTs for energy conversion and chemical processes" After studying mechanical engineering with a specialization in material science and completing his doctorate, Bodo Fiedler spent two years as a post-doc Kyoto University, Japan. After leading the group as a chief engineer at the Technology Centre Hamburg Finkenwerder (THF), Bodo Fiedler spent seven years at RUAG Aerospace, Emmen, Switzerland in aerostructures, most recently as general manager of the centres "Production Composites" and "Engineering" with the four departments: "Design", "Analysis", "Materials & Process" and "Manufacturing Engineering". In 2012, Bodo Fiedler moved to Bionic Composite Technologies AG (Biontec) in St. Gallen. As a member of the Executive Board, co-responsible for the economic result. Responsible for the industrial series production of high-performance carbon components in large quantities for measurement technology, the machine industry and the sports & leisure sector. Since 2013, he is a chair holder at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and heads the Institute for Polymers and Composites. His research findings were published and brought forward in more than 170 articles, national and international journals, and conferences. |
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Prof. Hans-Jörg Fecht
Ulm University, Ulm, Germany Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Fecht is a Director EUREKA Cluster Office Metallurgy Europe, Ulm - Brussels. He has been a Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Institute for Nanotechnology.He was a Chaired Professor of Materials Science (C-4) Director Institute of Metals Research Technical University Berlin, Germany during 1993 – 1997.He served as a Professor of Metal Physics (C 3) Augsburg University, Germany He worked as a Senior Research Associate, Department of Materials Science California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A during 1987 – 1990.He was a Post doctoral Research Associate Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. from 1984 – 1987. |
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Prof. Antonio Di Bartolomeo
University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy Title: "Electric transport and photoresponse of 2D materials in back-gate field effect transistors" Antonio DI BARTOLOMEO is a full professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Salerno, Italy where he teaches semiconductor device physics and nanoelectronics. His present research interests include optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures and Schottky junctions, field-effect transistors, non-volatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, field emission devices, supercapacitors, and fuel cells. He has been invited speaker in over 100 international conferences and has authored about 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two physics textbooks, and two patents. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of IOP Nano Express and IET Micro & Nano Letters, the section editor-in-chief of MDPI Nanomaterials and is an Editorial Board member of several journals. |
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Dr. Larysa Baraban
Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany Title: "Electronic nanobiosensors" Dr. Larysa Baraban is an ERC Consolidator grantee, and a head of the department at Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany. In 2019 Larysa Baraban was appointed a group leader at the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research at HZDR. Main research activities are related to the development of the electronic nanobiosensors for cancer detection and treatment, as well as to the design of diverse microfluidic platforms. |
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Prof. Han Young Woo
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea Title: "Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells as A Green Energy Source" Han Young Woo received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea, in 1999. After postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in USA, he joined the Pusan National University as an assistant professor. In 2015, he moved to Korea University and he is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Korea University. His current researches focus on conjugated polymers and polyelectrolytes for applications in organic optoelectronic devices, fluorescence chemo- and biosensors. |
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Prof. Witold Lojkowski
Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Title: "Natural like synthetic nano hydroxyapatite produced by combined microwave and high pressure methods and its application for accelerating bone regrowth in veterinary orthopaedics" Witold Łojkowski received his professor title in 2012. His main competence is application of nanoparticles, recently for scaffolds and implants. Synthesis and characterization of biocompatible nanoparticles, coating of polymers with nano- hydroxyapatite. As well as safety of nanoparticles handling in the laboratory space, their impact on the environment, life-cycle and fate. Regulatory and commercialization issues. |
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Prof. Abrahim Abdulhalim
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel Title: "Tunable metamaterial devices with nano-micro liquid crystals and vanadium oxide for smart windows and energy saving" Ibrahim Abdulhalim is a professor at the Department of Electrooptics and Photonics Engineering at BGU since 2005. He has worked in academic institutions and companies such as the OCSC in UC at Boulder, the ORC at Southampton University, University of Western Scotland, in KLA-Tencor, Nova and GWS Photonics, His current research involve: LC devices for photonics, nanophotonics, plasmonics for biosensing, biomedical optics. Published over 280 articles, two books, 12 chapters and over 20 patents. He is a fellow of IoP and SPIE, senior member of OSA and an associate editor for the Journals of NanoPhotonics, Journal of Sensors and Journal of Biosensors. |
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Prof. Martin Kalbac
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czechia Title: "High performance devices based on 2D materials" Prof. Martin Kalbac graduated in inorganic chemistry from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (1998), where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 and has been habilitated in the field of inorganic chemistry (2019). Since 2001 he has worked at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Currently, he is a vice-director of the institute and the head of the Department of Low dimensional Systems. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, 2D materials, Raman spectroscopy and spectroelectrochemistry, isotope engineering of carbon nanostructures and sensorics. |
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Assoc. Prof. Filippo Pierini
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Title: "Light-activable nanostructured platforms for biomedical applications" Filippo Pierini is a Professor and the head of the Pierini Research Group at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN). He received his M.Sc. in Advanced Chemical Methodologies with the highest grades and honors (110/110 summa cum laude) in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2013. He obtained his Habilitation in Material Engineering and was appointed Professor at IPPT PAN in 2020. His research interests span a broad area of nanotechnology disciplines, including biomaterials, drug delivery, light-matter interaction, and the development of functional fibrous nanomaterials for different biomedical and technological-oriented applications. |
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Prof. Wiktor Lewandowski
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Title: "Chiral nanomaterials templated by liquid crystals - from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence" Wiktor Lewandowski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Chemistry UW (2008), where here he also defended his doctorate with distinction (2013). He gained experience during stays at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and at CICbiomaGUNE in Spain. He is a laureate of several competitive programs of the Foundation for Polish Science and the stipends from the Polish Ministry of Science. Wiktor Lewandowski leads a thriving research team working on the development of organic and inorganic chiral nanomaterials. His latest works on using liquid crystals as templates in chiral plasmonic and circularly polarized luminescence fields were recognized by reviewers of prestigious journals (ACS Nano, Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun.). |
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Dr. Radoslaw Mrowczynski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Radoslaw Mrowczynski obtained his Ph.D. in organic and bioorganic chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin under prof. Jürgen Liebscher supervision. His Ph.D. thesis was dedicated to the application of nanomaterials in organocatalysis and their functionalization with biomimetic polymers. Next, he moved to NanoBioMedicla Centre at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where he worked on drug delivery systems based on nanomaterials. He got his habilitation (postdoctoral degree) at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow in biomedical engineering. In 2021, he moved to the Faculty of Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University. His main research areas included the application of biomimetic nanoparticles in nanomedicine, the synthesis and application of catechol-based coatings and polymers, and their structural investigation. |
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Prof. Christoffer Aberg
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Title: "Kinetics of Nanoparticle Uptake into and Distribution in Human Cells" Christoffer Aberg holds an MSc in theoretical physics (2005) and a PhD in chemistry (2009), both from Lund University, Sweden. He went on to post-doctoral work at the Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin, Ireland (2009–2014). Since 2014, he has been at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2017. His research is focused on understanding the kinetics of how nano-sized objects, such as nanomedicines, are taken up by cells, as well as their subsequent intracellular distribution. |
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Prof. Fumiaki Amano
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo Title: "Proton exchange membrane photoelectrochemical cell and gas-diffusion photoanodes for vapor-fed water splitting" Fumiaki AMANO received Ph.D. in 2006 from Kyoto University. Then, he joined the Catalysis Research Center at Hokkaido University as an assistant professor. He moved to the University of Kitakyushu as a lecturer in 2011 and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. Since 2022, he has been a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment at Tokyo Metropolitan University. His main research areas include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, and electrocatalysis. |
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Prof. Georg Garnweitner
Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Title: "Nanocomposite materials for lithium-sulfur batteries" Georg Garnweitner received a Diploma in Technical Chemistry at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2003. He then moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Colloids Chemistry in 2005. He was appointed as Professor for Nanomaterials at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, in 2007. His research is centered on the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles and hybrid materials, surface modification and functionalization, as well as diverse application fields of nanostructured materials. In the last years, one focus was on composite polymer-based materials for solid-state and lithium-sulfur batteries. |
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Prof. Benoit Piro
ITODYS Laboratory, Paris Cite University, Paris, France Title: "Printed Electrolyte-Gated Graphene Transistors for Logic Gates" Benoît PIRO is Full Professor in Chemistry at Université Paris Cité in France, Laboratory ITODYS, CNRS. Soon after being hired Assistant professor in 1998, he participated to the development of electrochemical biosensors directed to various target molecules (DNA, miRNA, proteins, peptides, antibodies, organic pollutants). Since 2010, he moved to organic electronic devices for sensing, e.g. organic field effect transistors (OFETs) and electrolyte-gated ones (EGOFETs and graphene FETs), compatible with aqueous media, which opens toward applications in the medical or environmental fields. Since 2016, he is developing printing technologies, not only for chemical but also for physical sensing. |
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Prof. Jaromir Hubalek
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czechia Title: "The synthesis of 1D inorganic nanostructures and the characterization of their properties" Jaromir Hubálek received his Ph.D. in 2008 at the Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. He is a professor at the Dept. of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication. Since 2013, he has been a senior researcher at the CEITEC-BUT research center. From 2013 to 2020, he led the Smart Nanodevices group. His research focuses on sensors and technologies for sensing. He has been studying nanotechnology in sensing since 2004. He has experience with MEMS devices with the integration of nanostructures to promote sensing properties such as electrochemical electrodes, microbolometers, and gas sensors. Current research is focused on 1D nanosensors. |
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Prof. Pawel Stelmachowski
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Title: "Electrocatalytic activity in the oxygen evolution reaction of carbon-supported cobalt oxide nanoparticles" Pawel Stelmachowski received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Catalysis and Spectrochemistry Laboratory in Cean, France, in 2010-2011. In 2016-2017, he worked as a visiting professor at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. Since 2010 he has been working at the Faculty of Chemistry of Jagiellonian University, currently as an associate professor. His research interests include various aspects of environmental catalysis, such as N2O decomposition, methane combustion, and soot oxidation. Recently, his research focus is on the functionalization of carbon materials toward electrocatalytic applications such as the oxygen evolution reaction. |
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Prof. Michael Hirtz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Title: "Scanning Probe Lithography for Biomedical Applications" Michael Hirtz is leader of the group for "Scanning Probe Lithography for Biomaterials and Bioelectronics," situated in the research unit of Prof. Aghassi-Hagmann at the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He holds a PhD in physics and in medical sciences from the University of Münster. After doing research on self-organization phenomena in phospholipid films generated by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique during his PhD, he is now focusing on advancing Dip-Pen Nanolithography and other Scanning Probe Lithography methods for applications at the interface of physics, surface chemistry, and biomedical applications. In 2018, he received the "High-End Foreign Talent" of Shanxi Province, China, and recently became an honorary faculty member at the Centre for Nanotechnology at IIT Guwahati, India (2021). |
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Dr. Jolanta Swiatowska
CNRS – Chimie ParisTech – PSL, Paris, France Title: “Surface spectroscopic characterization and three-dimensional chemical mapping of altered alloys” Jolanta Światowska is a Research Director at CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Chimie ParisTech - PSL in France. She received her PhD in 2003 from AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland. She was working as a post-doc at CNRS, Chimie ParisTech from 2005 to 2008. She obtained her habilitation in chemical science from Sorbonne University, Paris in 2016. Her research interests include surface reactivity, modifications or treatments at solid/liquid, solid/solid or solid/gaseous interfaces applied in diverse fields (e.g. corrosion, corrosion protection, energy storage and conversion such as Li-ion or Me-air batteries…). |
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Prof. Viera Skakalova
Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia Title: "Simple chemical approach to two-dimensional metal iodides/graphene heterostructures and properties" Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viera Skákalová (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7016-8584) received her PhD in the field of conducting polymers from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, where she became Associate Professor. In 1999 she joined the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Israel for 18 months; since 2001 she worked in the field of electronic transport in low-dimensional materials at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2012 she has been employed at the University of Vienna. Awarded a 10-month fellowship at the Cergy-Paris University since Oct 2019, it resulted in a strong cooperation on the topic of diamond graphitization. She joined the Slovak academy of sciences in Bratislava started since Sept 2020. Her expertise acquired at various research institutions has covered growth of low-dimensional structures (graphene, carbon nanotubes, 2D-MIx), electronic transport and magnetotransport, spectroscopy and high-resolution microscopy of low-dimensional materials. Viera Skákalová is a co-author of about 112 publications, mostly in fields of low-dimensional carbon structures with about 4400 citations (h-index: 30 (Scopus)), co-author of seven pedagogical publications and a book: Graphene: Properties, Preparation, Characterisation and Applications (2nd ed). She has coordinated several national and EC scientific projects, organized scientific conferences (E-MRS 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016 and others). In 2004 she cofounded a private research enterprise Danubia NanoTech, located in Bratislava. |
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Prof. Wojciech Grochala
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Title: A “Chemical Capacitor” – a novel nanodevice Professor Wojciech Grochala’s (ur. 1972) career has been linked to the University of Warsaw (M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 1998, D.Sc. 2005, prof. extraord. UW 2011, prof. titular 2014, prof. ord. UW 2016). Since 2004, he has led the Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials. He spent postdoctoral stays in the USA (with Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize winner, at Cornell Univ.) and in the UK (with Prof. Peter P. Edwards at Univ. of Birmingham). He was a visiting professor at the Geophysical Lab, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Cornell University. Prof. Grochala coauthored over 200 papers and book chapters, as well as 3 international patents. He has promoted twelve Ph.D. and lectured one hundred times at scientific institutes worldwide; he coauthored over two hundred forty conference contributions. His scientific interests are in materials, inorganic, physical, and computational chemistry (particularly for solids), and more recently, organic chemistry. He explores new materials for hydrogen storage, atypical compounds of divalent silver, magnetic materials, and compounds of noble gases (particularly the lightest ones). For several years he has been teaching the students of humanities at Artes Liberales College. Growing exotic plants is his hobby, and so is prose and poetry writing. |
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Prof. Katsuaki Konishi
Hokkaido University, Japan Title: "Nanocrystallization of molecular gold clusters promoting aggregation-induced emission" Katsuaki Konishi acquired a background in organic/coordination/supramolecular chemistry under the direction of Professor Shohei Inoue at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his Ph.D. in synthetic chemistry from the University of Tokyo. After working at the University of Tokyo with Professor Takuzo Aida on porphyrin and supramolecular chemistry, he joined the environmental faculty of Hokkaido University as an associate professor, where he started the study on metal clusters. He was appointed a full professor in 2008. His current interests focus on the precise synthesis of functional metal clusters and the design of smart multicluster-based materials. |
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Prof. Janusz Lewinski
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Janusz Lewinski received his Ph.D. from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989 under Professor Stanislaw Pasynkiewicz. In 2001, he obtained habilitation, and in 2007, he was nominated as a full professor at WUT. His work has been recognized with the Scientific Secretary Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1989), the Kemula Prize of the Polish Society of Chemistry (2000), the Warsaw University of Technology Rector’s Individual (1990, 2002) and Team (1999, 2004, 2011) Prize, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Scientific Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008), the Medal of the CNRS-Université de Rennes for the achievements in main group metal chemistry (2008), and the Minister of Science Team Award for outstanding academic achievements (2010). |
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Prof. Jacek Ryl
Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland Title: "Specific impedimetric fingerprints of macromolecular interactions by self-organizing Au nanocubic patterns" Jacek Ryl (born 1982) completed the PhD (2010) and habilitation (2018) in chemical technology at the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT). Currently he is the Head of the Division of Electrochemistry and Surface Physical Chemistry at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Materials Engineering, Gdańsk Tech. His research interests span a broad area of applied electrochemistry, including electrochemical biosensors, electrocatalysis, additive manufacturing, corrosion processes and wastewater treatment. He is co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers in JCR journals, and PI/WP-leader for 8 projects from international and national funding agencies. The most notable awards include scientific scholarship by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland (2017) and the IV Division (Engineering Sciences) of the Polish Academy of Sciences award for scientific achievements (2019). |
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Assoc. Prof. Theerapong Puangmali
Khon Kaen University, Thailand Title: "Tailored gold nanoparticles for rapid detection of cancer DNA in human blood" Theerapong Puangmali is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He obtained his first degree in physics with first-class honors (a gold medal) from the Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University. Then, he was awarded a Thai government scholarship to continue his master's degree in nanoelectronics at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 2011. Currently, he is working in the field of computational nanomedicine. His research interest is in the computational simulation of functionalized nanoparticles for applications in bionanotechnology. He is the head of the Smart Nanoparticle for Nanomedicine Research Group at Khon Kaen University. Presently, there are six Ph.D. students and two M.Sc. students in their research group. If you are interested in the world of computational simulation, especially in the field of computational nanomedicine, please contact Asst. Prof. Theerapong Puangmali. |
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Prof. Michael Giersig
Free University of Berlin, Germany Michael Giersig (*1954) studied at the A. Mickiewicz University of Poland. He carried out his diploma research work at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin and received his diploma in physics at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1984. He continued to work at the Fritz-Haber-Institute. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the Freie University of Berlin in 1988. Subsequently he continued with his postdoctoral work at the Institute for Molecular Genetics of the Max-Planck–Institute in Berlin. At the end of 1989 he took up a post at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin, Dept. of Physical Chemistry. In 1995 he received an international accolade in the form of a 2-year stay at the University of Melbourne, Dept. of Physical Chemistry. After his return he habilitated at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Physical Chemistry in 1999. In 2000 he was appointed professor at the Technological University, department of physics in Poznan, Poland. In the period April 2003 - March 2008 he worked at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR) in Bonn. His Nanoparticle Technology Group focused on the creation of 2D and 3D nanostructures, based on single nanoparticles as well as the fabrication of nanostructured surfaces with a size of a number of square centimeters. A further focal point was the optical, structural as well as magnetic characterization of nanostructures. Since 2005 he acted also as a Professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Dept. of Physics. In May 2009 he came back to Freie University Berlin as a full professor and head of the Nanoparticle Technology Group. He has established a first-class research program in nanomaterials science and their applications in electronics and biomedicine. |
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Prof. Henrique E. Toma
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Title: "Magnetic Nanohydrometallurgy: recent advances on a green nanotechnology for processing and recovering strategic metals" Henrique E. Toma is Professor of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo. After his PhD in 1974, under the supervision of Profs. John M. Malin and Henry Taube (Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1983), he started a research group at the University of São Paulo, focusing on the chemistry of clusters, porphyrins and transition metal complexes, moving later into bioinorganic chemistry, self-assembled supramolecular structures, and molecular nanotechnology. He is currently working on the design of new functional gold, silver, quantum dots, superparamagnetic nanoparticles incorporating suitable complexing agents and metal complexes, to allow the nanotechnological exploitation of their chemical, photochemical, catalytic or electrochemical properties. Such nanotechnological approach encompasses the immobilization of enzymes onto superparamagnetic nanoparticles and their catalytical performance; the exploration of plasmonics and SERS effects in analytical chemistry, and the development of magnetic nanohydrometallurgy for capturing and processing strategic elements. Along his career, Toma has published about 450 articles in international journals, receiving more than 13,000 citations, with a h index of 54.. He is author of 16 books and 30 patents, and has received about 20 national and international awards, including the TWAS Chemistry Prize, Guggenheim, and the Grã-Cruz Medal of the Brazilian Government. |
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Prof. Kirill Monakhov
Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering, Germany Title: "Chemically programmable polyoxometalates for computing technologies" Kirill Monakhov is the head of the Laboratory for Switchable Molecularly Functionalized Surfaces at the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM) in Leipzig since 2018. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Heidelberg University in 2010 and spent several years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Universities of Strasbourg (with Pierre Braunstein) and RWTH Aachen (with Paul Kögerler). Kirill Monakhov is the recipient of the Academia Europaea Burgen Scholarship in 2011 and of the DFG Emmy Noether Fellowship in 2015. His research is focused on the inorganic synthesis of electron transport compounds and their application in computer memory and processing technologies. Many of his research group's studies on solution-processable polyoxometalate compounds containing redox-switchable vanadium centers have been featured on the covers of high-impact journals (Acc. Chem. Res., Inorg. Chem., Chem. Sci., Dalton Trans., Adv. Mater. Interf.). |
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Dr. Iwona Rutkowska
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Iwona Rutkowska is a faculty member at the Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw. Her current research focuses on materials chemistry and electrochemistry, metal oxides, electrocatalytic nanostructures including noble metal nanoparticles and functionalized carbons, mechanisms of ion and electron transfer processes in mixed-valence inorganic films. She is a member of the Electrochemical Society (Pennington, USA) and International Society of Electrochemistry(Lausanne, Switzerland). |
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Assoc. Prof. Solenne Fleutot
University of Lorraine, France Dr. Solenne Fleutot is an Associate Professor in Team Nano-bio-materials in the University of Lorraine in France. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 in Chemistry of Materials from the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour in France, followed by a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Strasbourg in France from 2010-2012. Dr. Fleutot has developed expertise in the field of materials chemistry synthesis and characterization by developing expertise nanostructures / properties correlations with a specialization in structural and surface state characterization and magnetic properties. |
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Assoc. Prof. Hrvoje Kusic
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Title: "Tailoring of solar-active materials for water purification and green energy conversion" Prof. Hrvoje Kušić is born in Zagreb, Croatia. He is employed at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology since 2001, currently as Professor, while since 2021 he is also employed at the University North, Koprivnica, Croatia. He received a BSc and PhD diplomas in 2001 and 2006, respectively, from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology. He is head of research group on advanced oxidation technologies and solar-active materials, while his research interests include: (i) advanced water treatments, particularly advanced oxidation technologies; (ii) nanotechnology, particularly design and development of solar-active materials for water treatment and energy conversion; (iii) process simulation and optimization including mechanistic/phenomenological modeling; (iv) fate and behavior of contaminants of emerging concern using QSA/PR modeling; (v) waste management, particularly thermal treatment technologies; and from recently, (vi) microplastics. Prof. Kušić is recipient of National Annual Science Award for 2011 from Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia for his outstanding scientific research performance. He teaches courses on water quality and treatment, and waste management. Besides pedagogic work, he is/was involved in >20 national and international research projects, 7 as a principal investigator. He is (co)author of >100 publications (>90 papers in peer-review journals) and holds >3000 citations (h-index 29), and participated at >100 national and international conferences, including several plenary and invited lectures. Prof. Kusic is/was also editor in several journals, including one of the leading journals in the field of interest: Chemical Engineering Journal. |
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Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Karlicky
University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic 2004 – 2009 Ph.D. study at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology (specialization: Physical Chemistry, Ph.D. thesis Methods for solving the Schrödinger equation for many-body bosonic systems) 1999 – 2004 M.Sc. study at the University of Ostrava (specialization: Mathematics and Physics, diploma thesis Rare gas solids) Research specialization Quantum chemical calculations: transition metal complexes, carbon nanostructures, interactions in atomic clusters. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Rovibrational spectroscopy of small molecules. |