Plenary Speakers
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Prof. Jochen Lauterbach
University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States 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. |
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. 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" |
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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" |
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