Dr. Laszlo SAJTI, graduated as a physicist in 2004 from the University of Szeged in Hungary, received PhD in 2007 in material sciences from the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille in France, post-doctoral fellow between 2008-2009 with the excellence initiative of the Australian Federal Government in the Australian National University in Canberra. Later, he worked in Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. in Germany between 2009-2011 as a scientific employee then from 2011 to 2017 as head of the research group Nanomaterials. Additionally, between 2011-2017 he headed the research unit Nanoparticles in the German cluster of excellence REBIRTH - From Regenerative Medicine to Reconstructive Therapy in the Hannover Medical School. Between 2015-2017 he was responsible of the research module “Laser-based methods - switchable implant coatings with drug-releasing nanoparticles” within the interdisciplinary research cluster Biofabrication for NIFE in Germany. At present, he is head of the research group Advanced Implant Solutions at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Development of laser-based multifunctional nanomaterials and nanocomposites, bioactive biodegradable and non-degradable implant materials and coatings, complex nanoparticles for local drug-release systems and the synthesis of ultrapure nanoparticles and nanoconjugates.

Professor Dehghani is a full time employee in the school of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney. She is the director of ARC Food Processing Training Centre, the Director of Centre of Advanced Food Enginomics, an Associate member of IChemE and a member of ARC College of expert. She has been selected by Engineers Australia as one of the top 50 Engineers for innovation in research in 2016. She has been instrumental in building an interdisciplinary research environment that stimulates the interface and intersect of engineering, science, medicine, pharmacy, and agriculture. As a result of her achievement she has received the 2017 Award of Excellence in Chemical Engineering from Australia New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineering. Her research team in collaboration with industry partners have worked together to provide pragmatic, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable solutions to a diverse range of issues, with the aim of improving lives

Her research is highly regarded, not only in academia but by industry. She has established long-term collaborations with the food and biotech private sectors and acquired substantive funding from national and international competitive grant applications. She is an inventor on 16 patents, including nine with potential end users. She has mentored more than 45 postgraduates and more than 100 honours and master researchers. She mentors several successful entrepreneurs. As a result the outcomes of her research led to establishment of a start-up Company, Trimph Pty Ltd, in 2015 by receiving over than $2 M fund from a private investor and government. This product has recently received approval from TGA for the clinical application.

Jacques DESBRIÈRES is Professor at University of Pau and Pays Adour (UPPA), Engineer from ENSC Paris and Doctor-Engineer from Grenoble University. After a position as the research engineer with Dowell Schlumberger related to the application of polymers in oil well operations, he joined Grenoble University in 1990 and then UPPA in 2004. He authored around 200 publications and 10 patents.

His research domain is concentrated on chemical modification of natural polymers and relations between their chemical structure, functional properties, and their applications. In the last years his research activities were dedicated to physico-chemistry (interfacial properties) of amphiphilic polysaccharide solutions and polysaccharide-surfactant interactions, hydrogels and particularly their characterization and their specific applications (biomedical or cosmetics applications, wastewater treatments) and new “green processes” applied to bio-sourced materials (microwave irradiation as an example). He is the member of Editorial board of Carbohydrate Polymers, Cellulose Chemistry and Technology and has teaching activities in physico-chemistry and polymer science. Finally, he is Doctor Honoris Causa of Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” in Iasi (Romania) for his outstanding input in Polysaccharide science.

Dr Joaquin Rams is full professor of the Rey Juan Carlos University, currently being the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering and Electronics Technology. Before he has conducted research at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the Autonoma University of Madrid. He has made several research stays at the Stanford University and the University of Sussex in Brighton. He has also collaborated with other universities such as Sheffield University (UK), Queensland University (Au) and KIT (Ge), among others. He is evaluator of European Projects, as well as from other countries, and he is also Assessor of the Australian Research Council. He has been also Coordinator of the Materials Technology in the Spanish Evaluation and Prospective Agency

He has published a hundred papers in JRC journals and many invited lectures. He is PI of the Materials Science and Engineering Group at his university which has an active role in national and international projects. In the last years he has focused on the use of Magnesium alloys as biomaterials and in its modification for the optimization of its behavior.

Prof Ivan Chodák (PhD, DSc) is a senior scientist at Polymer Institute SAS in Bratislava. His scientific interests cover crosslinking of polyolefins (patented extremely efficient system for polypropylene crosslinking), multiphase systems, i.e. polymer blends and composites with polymeric matrices including nanocomposites. Investigation of biodegradable polymers belong to his most successful topics (patented material based on PHB and PLA with very high toughness, the production is under preparation). He is the author of over 150 scientific publications, 15 patents (4 of them applied in industry) HI = 24 (according to Scopus). Frequent and long-term cooperation with industry (DSM, BASF, Biomer, National Power, GE Plastics etc.)

Crosslinking of polyolefins (patented extremely efficient system for polypropylene crosslinking), multiphase systems, i.e. polymer blends and composites with polymeric matrices including nanocomposites. Investigation of biodegradable polymers belong to his most successful topics (patented material based on PHB and PLA with very high toughness, the production is under preparation).

Prof Yu-Long Yin was born on 23/01/1956 in Hunan, China. Prof. Yin attended Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, where he obtained a Bachelor degree in Biology in 1978. He attended Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China from 1979 to 1982 and Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK from 1994 to 1997, from which he obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Animal Nutrition, respectively. Prof. Yin is married to Ms. Lihua Tao and they have a son. Prof. Yin began his academic career as an assistant professor at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Changsha in 1986 and rose to the rank of professor in 1994. During this period, Prof. Yin was privileged to work with top scientists in advanced laboratories in the US, Germany and Canada, where he researched extensively into the subject of ideal digestibility and made notable contribution to knowledge on the subject of development and standardization of ideal digestibility in pigs. Back home in China, Prof. Yin has researched extensively and characterized virtually all the common Chinese feed ingredients used for pig feeding for their nutritive value and ileal digestibility contents. This has led to the development of up-to-date feed database used extensively in the Chinese feed industry. Apart from enhancing growth rate and profit margin in the pork industry, the development of the ileal digestibility methods and the use of ileal digestible values in feed formulation has the added advantage of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus emission to the environment, when used for feed formulation. Prof. Yin has won many international and national awards amongst which are the prestigious German Max-planck Gesellschaft Scholarship, 1985 and 1995, National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China in 1996, 1997 and 2008 amongst others. He has published a total of 364 scientific papers (131 papers in English and in Chinese), which have greatly advanced the field of animal nutrition worldwide.

Animal Production, Animal Feed, Nutrition and Physiology of Amino Acids and Protein, Gene Expression and Gene Therapy. Comparative Animal Nutrition; Growth and Development of Animals, Biology and Pathobiology of Nitric Oxide and Polyamines, Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Complications, Fetal Nutrition and Metabolism, Animal Models of Human Diseases, Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology.

Anand Ramamurthi is an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic with adjunct appointments at the University of Akron (Integrated Biosciences Program), and Case Western Reserve University (BME). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering, from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK in 1999 and subsequently was an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic (1999-2001), where he developed novel, glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-based biomaterials for biomimetic tissue engineering of aortic heart valve replacements. Prior to his appointment at the Cleveland Clinic in 2010, Dr. Ramamurthi was a tenured faculty in the Departments of Bioengineering at Clemson University and Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. His research program focuses on enabling biomimetic regeneration and repair of extracellular matrix structures, specifically the poorly regenerated elastic matrix component, both in vitro, and in situ at sites of chronic matrix disruption (e.g., abdominal aortic aneurysms and pelvic organ prolapse). His research projects span cardiovascular tissue engineering, biomimetic vascular matrix assembly, GAG-based biomaterials for vascular endothelialization and matrix regenerative repair, mechanisms of matrix degeneration in abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), directed matrix regenerative therapies for AAAs, vascular nanomedicine, stem cell -based matrix regenerative therapies, in vivo bioreactor systems for vascular tissue engineering. He is a member of several international professional societies in the cardiovascular sciences, biomaterials, and tissue engineering fields, and is a Professional Member of the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. He serves on several national committees such as that of the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO), on the editorial broad of several scientific journals in the field of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, and Vascular Biomedicine, and actively reviews for the NIH, NSF, AHA, and nearly 30 journals including Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, and Acta Biomaterialia. He serves on the external advisory board of the NIH-supported Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration (CBTR) in South Carolina, and on the Inventions Peer Review Committee of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialization wing of the Cleveland Clinic. Anand has been an invited presenter at several national conferences and has chaired past conference symposia on the topic of directed elastic matrix regenerative repair. He has 50 peer-reviewed publications to date, numerous abstracts, proceedings, several book chapters, and approved and filed patents. His research has been funded by the NIH, AHA national and affiliate centers, NSF, and industry.

Vascular Tissue Engineering, Cardiovascular degenerative Medicine, Biomimetic Matrix Assembly, Elastin Pathology and Elastic Matrix Regenerative Repair, Therapies for Aortic Aneurysms, Blood-Material Compatibility, Glycosaminoglycan-Based Biomaterials, Stem Cells for Vascular Therapies

Dr Abbas Amini is an associate lecturer, a registered member of Western Sydney University graduate supervisory board at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, and the member of Work Health and Safety Committee of the same university, Penrith Campus. Before joining the Western Sydney University, he conducted research with other Australian universities and CSIRO, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University and Deakin University, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas started his teaching, industrial and scientific journey from obtaining an associate’s degree in mathematics, and BSc, MSc, and PhD (from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) in mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. Since then, he has updated himself with several Australian and Canadian nationally recognized professional certificates and diplomas, e.g., FULT (Foundations of University Learning and Teaching form Western Sydney University), TAE, WHS, CNC etc. With his intense schedule, he has been extensively involved in teaching for many years in different sectors (including Western Sydney University), and worked in industry, e.g., Magna Powertrain, Toronto, Canada, as an engineer and industrial designer. Dr Amini is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an editor of more than ten journals, and a committee member of 14 international conferences to-date. In academic supervisory assignments, Abbas is supervising four PhD and two MSc graduate students, at present.

indentation methods, shape memory alloys, water treatment, drug delivery systems, piezoelectric materials, biomedical materials, graphene, graphane, CNTs, biodegradable polymeric nano-composites, TiO2, ZnO, environmental sustainability and water efficiency, experimental analysis, multi-scale (nano to macro) modelling of multi-physics phenomena, phase transition, mechanics of materials, fabrication of modern composites, manufacturing, offshore naval structures, and ship design.

Ajay Kumar Mishra is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa. He received his B. Sc, M. Sc., degrees in 1997 and 2001 respectively from Purvanchal University Jaunpur, India and M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from The University of Delhi, India. From March 2006 to September 2009, he was postdoctoral fellows at various South African Institutes/Universities. In addition, he was appointed as “Senior Lecturer” in October 2009 at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa where he was promoted to “Associate Professor” in November 2011 until December 2014. Recently, he was appointed by University of South Africa as “Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research. He has authored over 100 scientific papers. He has hosted several visiting researchers/scientists/postdocs in his group. He has also developed a number of collaborations worldwide. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of international awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers and also reviewer of many international journals. He is serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops.

synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research

Since Sept 1, 2014, Lars Montelius is Director General for INL, The International Iberian nanotechnology Laboratory located in Braga, Portugal. INL is the only by legal status International nanotechnology RTO worldwide. Lars Montelius is also Professor in Nanotechnology at Lund University, Sweden. During his 30 years of nanotechnology activities he has held several leading positions within academia, networks and EU-and professional societies. LM has published more than 144 articles, given more than 70 invited talks and has filed 24 patents. LM is also the founder of several nanotech companies. Currently he is the President for IUVSTA: The International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications comprising 34 national societies with more than 100 000 scientists, researchers and practitioners in the field and he is Working Group Chair of the two European Technology.

Nanomedicine, Environment monitoring, security and food quality control, Nanoelectronics, Nanomachines & Nanomanipulation

-MSc. José Manuel Baena, research associate "Advanced therapies: differentiation, regeneration and cancer" IBIMER,CIBM, Universidad de Granada Founder of BRECA Health Care, pioneer in 3D printed custom made implants for orthopedic surgery, and REGEMAT 3D, the first Spanish bioprinting company. Expert in innovation, business development and internationalization, lecturer in some business schools, he is passionate about biomedicine and technology. In his free time he is also researcher at the Biopathology and Regenerative Medicine Institute (IBIMER). -MSc. José Manuel Baena, Global biotech entrepreneur, research associate at the Advanced therapies: differentiation, regeneration and cancer group of the UGR. Holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a Postgraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Braunschweig (Germany). Jose Manuel is working in biomedical engineering since 2008, after attending a postgraduate course on Biomechanical Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is also MSc in Motorsport Engineering from Oxford Brookes University, UK and a PhD candidate in Biomedicine (expected 2016). His career in R&D project management and Executive Management will provide the knowledge necessary for proper implementation and development. es.linkedin.com/in/jmbaena/

Stem cells based therapies and regenerative medicine. Scaffolds for tissue engineering. Differentiation, dedifferentiation and transdifferentiation of stem cells. Invitro tumoral models.Implants.

Graduated with honors and received PhD in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Started his scientific carrier at P.N. Lebedev Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and later worked in many research centers worldwide. At present, he is Professor of Physics at Leibniz University Hannover and Head of Nanotechnology Department at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.

Laser physics and laser applications, quantum and nonlinear optics, nano- and biophotonics, nanoengineering, biomedical implants and devices, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences.

Bionanotribology, Bionanomechanics and Bionanomaterials

Dr Joaquin Rams is full professor of the Rey Juan Carlos University, currently being the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering and Electronics Technolgy. Before he has conducted research at the Complutense University of Madrid and he obtained his PhD at the Autonoma University of Madrid. He has made several research stays at the Stanford University and the University of Sussex in Brighton. He has also collaborated with other universities such as Sheffield University (UK), Queensland University (Au) and KIT (Ge), among others. He is evaluator of European Projects, as well as from other countries, and he is also Assessor of the Australian Research Council. He has been also Coordinator of the Materials Technology in the Spanish Evaluation and Prospective Agency. He has published a hundred papers in JRC journals and many invited lectures. He is PI of the Materials Science and Engineering Group at his university which has an active role in national and international projects. In the last years he has focused on the use of Magnesium alloys as biomaterials and in its modification for the optimization of its behavior.

Biomaterials, Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering and Electronics Technolgy

Lorenzo Pastrana is Professor of Food Science at UVIGO where he was the Director of the Centre of Research transference and Innovation (CITI) and Head of Knowledge Transfer Office (2009-2010). He founded the Galician Agri-Food Technology Platform (2006) join academic institutions and companies paving the clustering of the sector. Since 2015 he is Head of the Department of Life Sciences at INL that include three Research Units, namely Food, Environment and Health. At INL his research, leading the Food Processing Group, is marked oriented with a multidisciplinary approach integrating methods and concepts of the biotechnology, nanotechnology and mathematical modelling. Currently he is working in three main research lines: Food Structure with emphasis in 3D printing materials, encapsulation technologies for improving functional foods and active and intelligent food packaging. He is author of more than 120 scientific contributions and 4 licenced patents relating the development of new food products and process. He was the PI of more than 30 National and European research projects and contracts arising funds around 2000K€.

Food Structure with emphasis in 3D printing materials, encapsulation technologies for improving functional foods and active and intelligent food packaging.

Dr. Fenniri received all his degrees from the Université de Strasbourg, France. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA, he moved to Purdue University, IN, USA, where he initiated his independent academic career, and established the Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology (1999). In 2003, He joined the National Research Council as a founding member of the National Institute for Nanotechnology and as professor of chemistry and bioengineering at the University of Alberta (Canada, 2003-2013). Dr. Fenniri is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Fenniri’s contributions appeared in over 220 publications, 20 patents and patent applications, and over 500 contributed national and international conference papers. Dr. Fenniri has also lectured extensively around the globe and has been an invited professor at several institutes and universities.

Nanotechnology for biomedical applications, nanoscale materials for drug delivery, and cell therapeutics and regenerative medicine.

Yongmei Zheng, PhD, is a professor at School of Chemistry, Beihang University. Research interests are focused on bioinspired surfaces with gradient micro- and nanostructures to control dynamic wettability, which develop the surfaces with characteristics of water repellency, anti-icing, anti-frosting, or tiny droplet transport, fog-harvesting and so on. Publications are more than 90 SCI papers included in Nature, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Chem. Mater., J. Mater. Chem. A, etc., with 12 Cover stories, and a book “bioinspired wettability surfaces: Development in micro- and nanostructures” by Pan Standard Publishing, USA. Her work was highlight as scientist on News of Royal Society of Chemistry, ChemistryWorld in 2014. She is a senior member of Chinese Composite Materials Society (CSCM), member of Chinese Chemistry Society (CCS), American Chemistry Society (ACS), Fellow member of NANOSMAT Society, International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE), and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Editorial board member of Scientific Report in nature. She won an ISBE outstanding contribution award in 2016 by ISBE, in Ningbo of China, and also an IAAM award Medal in 2016 by IAAM, in Sweden, due to the notable and outstanding contribution in field of "Advanced Materials Science and Technology".

Bioinspired wettability, bioinspired micro-/nanostructure, gradient wettable surface, water repellency, droplet driving/transport, fog-harvesting, etc.

Prof. Ch. Sanjay had joined GITAM University, Hyderabad as a Founder Campus Director in June 2009 till July 2014. At present, he is Dean and Principal, School of Technology, GITAM University and has been a member of Board of Management and Academic Council since 2009. He is a certified Corporate Director of World Council for Corporate Governance, UK and visited most of the South Asian Countries for Research and presenting papers in various International Conferences. He has more than 24 years of experience in Industry, Research & Teaching and had worked four years as a Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Management at Government Universities in Malaysia and Singapore. He was a key note speaker for more than 40 international and national conferences and a member of advisory and technical committee for more than 60 international conferences and had successfully organized 65 international and national conferences / workshops. He is member, Editorial Board and Reviewer for more than 20 international journals and evaluated 16 doctorial theses in mechanical / manufacturing / management / information technology of various universities and he is currently guiding 5 research scholars for their doctoral work. He has to his credit 4 books published by reputed publishers and authored more than 60 research papers and published in peer reviewed and indexed journals and conference proceedings. He is a Member of Academic council / Board of Studies / Research & Development Cell / Recruitment and Selection/purchasing/curriculum Design/ university inspections for various International / State / Deemed Universities since 2001.He is in recipient of many International and National award such as Academic Excellence, Research Excellence , Best Engineer, Best Principal award, Best Academic Administrator, Education leadership and Engineers Educator award.

IT applications in Manufacturing Engineering, Machine Tools & Cutting Tools, Materials Engineering, Artificial Intelligent Systems, Smart Materials & Composites, Industrial Engineering & Management, Product Design & Development, CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics & Automation, Non-conventional Energy & Energy Management and Human Resource Management.

Dr. Laszlo SAJTI, graduated as a physicist in 2004 from the University of Szeged in Hungary, received PhD in 2007 in material sciences from the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille in France, post-doctoral fellow between 2008-2009 with the excellence initiative of the Australian Federal Government in the Australian National University in Canberra. Later, he worked in Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. in Germany between 2009-2011 as a scientific employee then from 2011 to 2017 as head of the research group Nanomaterials. Additionally, between 2011-2017 he headed the research unit Nanoparticles in the German cluster of excellence REBIRTH - From Regenerative Medicine to Reconstructive Therapy in the Hannover Medical School. Between 2015-2017 he was responsible of the research module “Laser-based methods - switchable implant coatings with drug-releasing nanoparticles” within the interdisciplinary research cluster Biofabrication for NIFE in Germany. At present, he is head of the research group Advanced Implant Solutions at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Development of laser-based multifunctional nanomaterials and nanocomposites, bioactive biodegradable and non-degradable implant materials and coatings, complex nanoparticles for local drug-release systems and the synthesis of ultrapure nanoparticles and nanoconjugates.

Dr. Murugan Ramalingam is Professor at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (a unit of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine-Bengaluru), Christian Medical College Campus, India. Concurrently he is Adjunct Professor at the Tohoku University, Japan. Prior to joining the CSCR, he was Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg, France. He has worked at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Japan, as an Assistant Professor. He has also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the U.S. National Academies Associateship program. He received his Ph.D. in Biomaterials from the University of Madras. He has also undergone training in Ethical and Policy issues on Stem Cells from Harvard University, USA, and in Operations Management from the University of Illinois-Chicago. His current research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery. He is the author of ~300 publications, including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, authored books, edited books, and patents relevant to biomaterials, stem cells, and tissue engineering. His current h-index is 30 with ~7300 citations. He has organized several international conferences and chaired Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering sessions. He also serves as a board member of several international scientific and research committees in various public and private bodies and grant reviewer of various international funding agencies. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple biomaterials and tissue engineering-related journals, including the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and the Journal of Bionanoscience. He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards, including CSIR Fellowship (India), SMF Fellowship (Singapore), NRC National Academies Fellowship (USA), Nationale Professeur des Universités (France), Fellow of Institute of Nanotechnology (UK) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).

His current research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery.

Alexander Seifalian, Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine and Director of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine Company has worked at Royal Free Hospital and University College London over 25 years, published over 647 peer-reviewed research papers, edited 2 books and contributed to 39 book chapter, and 14 UK and International patents. He is currently director of NanoRegMed Ltd, working in commercialisation of his research. During his career he has led and managed many large projects with multidisciplinary teams with very successful outcomes in terms of commercialisation and translation to patients including 1) The development and commercialisation of a bypass graft for vascular access for haemodialysis; 2) The development of bioreactors with fluid dynamic systems; 3) Non-invasive techniques to monitor viscoelastic properties of cardiovascular system and many others. He was awarded the top prize in the field for the development of nanomaterials and technologies for cardiovascular implants in 2007 by Medical Future Innovation, and in 2009 received a Business Innovation Award from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in the Life Sciences and Healthcare category. European Life Science Awards. Winner of most innovative new product 2012 “Synthetic Trachea”. Hamburg, Germany, 29 may 2012. He also was awarded Nanosmat Prize in August 2013 in Spain for his achievements and contributions to Nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2016 in Brussels he received the Heals distinguish research award in recognition for his outstanding work in regenerative medicine from Heals Healthy Life Extension Society. He developed world first synthetic trachea, lacrimal drainage conduit, and vascular bypass graft using nanocomposite materials and bioactive molecules and stem cells technology. He has created a huge amount of media interest for his translational research work to first in man, including; world first synthetic trachea, bypass graft, lacrimal duct, and other surgical implants.

Development of Nanomaterial,cardiovascular implant,nanofluorescence particle including quantum dots for localisation and treatment of cancer,Stem cells for development of organ using tissue engineering. Development of organ using biodegradation nanomaterials and stem cells, including liver, intestine,Hepatic microcirculation and oxygenation using optical technique,Ischemia reperfusion injury and preconditioning.

Professor at Dental Basic Science, College dentistry, Mosul University, Iraq. Have PhD degree in Dental chemistry. He has published more 100 researches papers in national and international academic journals and authored 22 books. His research interests include dental chemistry, medical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. He is editorial member in more than 140 international journals. He Nominated as a member of the organizing committees for a number of international and local conferences.

Dental chemistry, Medical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry

Dr. O.L. Shanmugasundaram is working as Professor in the Department of Textile Technology at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, India. He received his Diploma in Textile Processing in the year 1996 from Erode Institute of Technology, India. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in 2000 from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India. He has qualified in the GATE Examination with 83.21 percentile score in the year 2003. He received his M.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in the year 2005 from Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai and Ph.D. in Medical Textiles from Anna University in the year 2011. He published 26 research papers in peer reviewed Journals with impact factor. He has to his credit 20 papers presented in International Conferences and 5 others in National Conferences. His areas of interest are Application of Nanotechnology in Textiles, Medical Textiles, Textile Chemical Processing Technical Textiles and Fibre Science & Technology. He had 14 years of teaching, research and admin experience in an engineering college. He is acting as an editorial board member and reviewer in many refereed journals including Elsevier and Springer Journals and also organizing committee member and scientific committee member in many International and National Conferences in India and abroad.

Healthcare and Hygiene Textiles, synthesis of nanoparticles/polymers and its applications in wound dressings, development of drug releasing sutures.

Dr. Fenniri was educated at the Université de Strasbourg, France, receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry and biochemistry, and his M.Sc./Ph.D. degrees in supramolecular science and engineering under Nobel Laureate Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. He then joined the Scripps Research Institute in California, USA, where he carried out his postdoctoral training under the supervision of Professor Richard A. Lerner. In 1997 he moved to Purdue University, where he initiated his independent academic career, and established the Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology. In 2003, He joined National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) as a founding member and the University of Alberta where he led the Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly program. Since 2013, Dr. Fenniri has been Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Fenniri has achieved international recognition as a leader in the areas of self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, nanomedicine, and materials sciences. His group works at the forefront of basic and applied nanosciences, in collaboration with various academic institutions, federal laboratories, and with the private sector. Dr. Fenniri’s contributions appeared in over 220 publications, 20 patents and patent applications, and over 450 contributed national and international conference papers. Dr. Fenniri has also presented his work in over 170 invited distinguished lectures, colloquia and seminars around the globe. Dr. Fenniri is the recipient of several academic and professional honours and awards, including the Xerox UAC Award, the 3M Faculty Award, the Showalter Trust Fund Award, the Trask Trust Fund Technology Innovation Award, the Cottrell Teacher Scholar Award, and the US National Science Foundation Career Award. Dr. Fenniri is Member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and serves on several national and international scientific boards, panels, and committees.

Nanotechnology for biomedical applications, nanoscale materials for drug delivery, and cell therapeutics and regenerative medicine.

Esmaiel Jabbari completed his PhD at Purdue University and postdoctoral studies at Monsanto, Rice University, and Mayo Clinic. He is Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at University of South Carolina. He is internationally known for his work on synthesis and processing of cell-responsive polymers and hydrogels for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He received the Berton Rahn Award from the AO Foundation in 2012 and the Stephen Milam Award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation in 2008. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2013. He has published >230 books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings, and presented >260 seminars at national and international conferences on biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. He has mentored >130 visiting scholars, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students, and undergraduate students. He is a member of numerous scientific organizations including BMES, SFB, TERMIS, MRS, EMBS, ACS, AIChE, and AACR.

Bioinspired materials, Skeletal tissue engineering, Multi‐scale composite materials, Self-assembled nanogels for growth factor delivery, Drug targeting to cancer stem cells, Stem cell encapsulation and delivery, Model gels to control cell microenvironment

Julie Allickson, Director of the Regenerative Medicine Clinical Center at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine focuses on the translation of regenerative medicine products including cell therapy, tissue engineering, biomaterials and devices. This process begins at Proof-of-Concept where early discussion with regulators and clinicians are critical in moving the technology from the bench to the bedside. The Translational Team includes Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Regulatory Affairs, Process Development and the GMP-complaint Manufacturing Facility. Prior to joining the institute, she was an Executive Officer of the company and Vice President of Laboratory Operations and R & D at Cryo-Cell International, Inc. As Vice President of the Laboratory Dr. Allickson was responsible for all technical aspects of Laboratory Operations along with Research and Development activities associated with adult stem cells, and the commercialization of a unique stem cell harvested from menstrual blood. Prior to this position, Dr. Allickson worked for the University Of Miami School Of Medicine, Diabetes Research Institute as the Laboratory Director of the cGMP Hematopoietic Cell Processing Facility. She was responsible for the design and implementation of the State Licensed Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory. Dr. Allickson was the lead in Regulatory Affairs for the processing laboratory of Islet and Hematopoietic Cell products which included oversight of all Investigational New Drugs (IND) and external regulations. Prior to working for the University of Miami she worked for the American Red Cross managing the Hematopoietic Cell Processing and Platelet Serology Laboratory. During her tenure at the American Red Cross she served as a member of the National Stem Cell Task Force and participated in the preparation of national protocols developed for Hematopoietic Cell Processing Laboratories. Dr. Allickson was part of the team to perform the very first Bone Marrow Transplant at the University of Miami in 1990. Dr. Allickson has 25 years of experience in Cellular Therapy, Cellular Processing and Regenerative Medicine. She has a Doctorate in Health Sciences along with a Master’s Degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences. She is one of the founding members of the International Society of Cellular Therapy in 1992, has been a member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) for 25 years along with other organizations such as TERMIS. She has presented at meetings related to cellular therapy, tissue engineering and biomaterial clinical translation. Dr. Allickson is on the AABB Standards Committee for Cell Therapy Product Services , Technical Advisory Board for Tissue Engineered Products under ICCBBA, Cord Blood Association on Market Expansion and Vice Chair of the Quality Committee and the ISCT Commercialization Committee.

Cellular Therapy, Cellular Processing and Regenerative Medicine,tissue engineering and biomaterial clinical translation.

Dr. Murugan Ramalingam is Professor at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (a unit of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine-Bengaluru), Christian Medical College Campus, India. Concurrently he is Adjunct Professor at the Tohoku University, Japan. Prior to joining the CSCR, he was Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg, France. He has worked at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Japan, as an Assistant Professor. He has also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the U.S. National Academies Associateship program. He received his Ph.D. in Biomaterials from the University of Madras. He has also undergone training in Ethical and Policy issues on Stem Cells from Harvard University, USA, and in Operations Management from the University of Illinois-Chicago. His current research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery. He is the author of over 250 publications, including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, authored books, edited books, and patents relevant to biomaterials, stem cells, and tissue engineering. His current h-index is 27 with over 5200 citations. He has organized several international conferences and chaired Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering sessions. He also serves as a board member of several international scientific and research committees in various public and private bodies and grant reviewer of various international funding agencies. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple biomaterials and tissue engineering-related journals, including as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, the Journal of Bionanoscience and the American Journal of Stem Cell Research. He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards, including CSIR Fellowship (India), SMF Fellowship (Singapore), NRC National Academies Fellowship (USA), Nationale Professeur des Universités (France), Fellow of Institute of Nanotechnology (UK) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).

His current research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery.

Ajay Kumar Mishra is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa. He received his B. Sc, M. Sc., degrees in 1997 and 2001 respectively from Purvanchal University Jaunpur, India and M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from The University of Delhi, India. From March 2006 to September 2009, he was postdoctoral fellows at various South African Institutes/Universities. In addition, he was appointed as “Senior Lecturer” in October 2009 at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa where he was promoted to “Associate Professor” in November 2011 until December 2014. Recently, he was appointed by University of South Africa as “Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research. He has authored over 100 scientific papers. He has hosted several visiting researchers/scientists/postdocs in his group. He has also developed a number of collaborations worldwide. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of international awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers and also reviewer of many international journals. He is serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops.

synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research

-MSc. José Manuel Baena, research associate "Advanced therapies: differentiation, regeneration and cancer" IBIMER,CIBM, Universidad de Granada Founder of BRECA Health Care, pioneer in 3D printed custom made implants for orthopedic surgery, and REGEMAT 3D, the first Spanish bioprinting company. Expert in innovation, business development and internationalization, lecturer in some business schools, he is passionate about biomedicine and technology. In his free time he is also researcher at the Biopathology and Regenerative Medicine Institute (IBIMER). -MSc. José Manuel Baena, Global biotech entrepreneur, research associate at the Advanced therapies: differentiation, regeneration and cancer group of the UGR. Holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a Postgraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Braunschweig (Germany). Jose Manuel is working in biomedical engineering since 2008, after attending a postgraduate course on Biomechanical Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is also MSc in Motorsport Engineering from Oxford Brookes University, UK and a PhD candidate in Biomedicine (expected 2016). His career in R&D project management and Executive Management will provide the knowledge necessary for proper implementation and development. es.linkedin.com/in/jmbaena/

Stem cells based therapies and regenerative medicine. Scaffolds for tissue engineering. Differentiation, dedifferentiation and transdifferentiation of stem cells. Invitro tumoral models.Implants.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society

Nanomaterials, Carbon Nanostructures, Nanoparticles, Numerical Modeling and Simulation

Dr. Elisabeth Engel, associate professor since 2010, got her Ph.D in 2003, in bone metabolism diseases in medical School. She was awarded with a postdoc fellow from the Ministry of Science at the Technical University of Catalonia in Biomaterials for bone tissue regeneration and she is associate professor since 2010 at this University. She was appointed as PI at the Group of Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies since the September of 2012 at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. Her research interests include the preparation and design of materials and scaffolds for in vitro and in vivo fundamental studies, and a further focus is the provision of useful tools to assess mechanisms that govern cell behavior in regenerative medicine. She has published more than 85 papers in JRC journals and many invited lectures and got an award for technological research (Barcelona City Award). Her group conducts several transference and translational projects with pharma and biomedical device industry and participates actively in European projects.

Her research interests include the preparation and design of materials and scaffolds for in vitro and in vivo fundamental studies, and a further focus is the provision of useful tools to assess mechanisms that govern cell behavior in regenerative medicine.

Since Sept 1, 2014, Lars Montelius is Director General for INL, The International Iberian nanotechnology Laboratory located in Braga, Portugal. INL is the only by legal status International nanotechnology RTO worldwide. Lars Montelius is also Professor in Nanotechnology at Lund University, Sweden. During his 30 years of nanotechnology activities he has held several leading positions within academia, networks and EU-and professional societies. LM has published more than 144 articles, given more than 70 invited talks and has filed 24 patents. LM is also the founder of several nanotech companies. Currently he is the President for IUVSTA: The International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications comprising 34 national societies with more than 100 000 scientists, researchers and practitioners in the field and he is Working Group Chair of the two European Technology.

Nanomedicine Environment monitoring, security and food quality control Nanoelectronics Nanomachines & Nanomanipulation

Prof. Xianfang Zhu is one of the earliest scientists who initialized nanoresearch in China in 1985 with over 30 years of research, teaching, and industrial experience in a wide range of materials (metal, ceramic, semiconductor, biomaterials, and polymer) science and engineering areas. He received PhD in Electronic Materials Engineering on nanostructures and their metastability in silicon induced by ion bombardment at the Australian National University in Canberra. Thereafter, he joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the stability of nanostructures in semiconductors under energetic beams irradiation at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory to extend his concepts and explore nanoinstability under electron beam irradiation as well as to develop inorganic/organic coreshell nanostructure. He once also worked as associate professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; as a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore; as a senior researcher at the ODU Applied Research Centre in the Jefferson Lab; and as an assistant professor at the University of Georgia on fabrication of low dimensional nanostructures for potential nanotechnology and nanodevice applications. His current research interests are focused on structural instabilities of low dimensional nanostructures under external excitations, energetic beam nanoprocessing, controllable fabrication and growth of low dimensional nanostructures, controllable assembling and construction of large scale arrays of zero dimensional nanostructures, organic and inorganic hybrid at nanoscale, and functionalization of nanostructure etc. Prof. Zhu has (co-) authored over 100 publications, filed 8 patents, chaired; co-chaired, or served as committee or advisory board member at, over 30 international or national conferences, and presented over 70 invited lectures and talks at universities; research institutes; and major international conferences worldwide. He is editor-in-chief of Scientific Journal of Physical Science, associate editor of International Journal of Molecular Engineering and on editorial board of several journals such as Chin Sci Bull etc. He is also an active referee for over 10 top international journals such as Appl Phys Lett, J Phys Chem, Cryst Eng Comm, Carbon, Nanoscale, J Mater Chem, Nano Research, Scientific Reports, ACS Omega, and Chin Phys Lett etc. He is presently the Director of the China-Australia Joint Laboratory for Functional Nanomaterials, an adjunct professor at The University of Queensland in Australia, and a full-time professor in the Department of Physics at Xiamen University in China, as well as the chief scientist for the AMAC International Inc., USA.

His current research interests are focused on structural instabilities of low dimensional nanostructures under external excitations, energetic beam nanoprocessing, controllable fabrication and growth of low dimensional nanostructures, controllable assembling and construction of large scale arrays of zero dimensional nanostructures, organic and inorganic hybrid at nanoscale, and functionalization of nanostructure etc.

Dr. Nadia Benkirane is Research director and head of the “ Osteoarticular and Dental regenerative Nanomedicine” laboratory, at INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), UMR 1109, Strasbourg, France. She was leader of “Active Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering” team INSERM 977. She received her Ph.D. from University Louis Pasteur, ULP, Strasbourg, France for the work on Development of pseudopeptides as synthetic vaccines. Dr. Jessel (Benkirane) then held a postdoctoral position in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, working on Immunotherapy HIV, and another postdoctoral position on the application of modified peptides as vaccines against FMDV (Plum Island Animal Disease Center, ARS, USDA, Greenport, NY 11944-0848, USA). She joined the INSERM U595 in 2002 as a post-doc, and received the diploma to direct the research (HDR) in 2004. Dr. Jessel got the permanent position (CR1) in the INSERM 595 laboratory in 2004 and Research Director (DR2) position in the INSERM 977 and head of “active Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering team from 2009 until 2012). Currently Research Director (DR1) in the INSERM UMR 1109 (Osteoarticular and Dental Regenerative Nanomedicine" and heads the team. Dr. Jessel possesses expertise in diverse fields of molecular and cellular biology, immunochemistry, tissue engineering and biomedical engineering. In the last 10 years, she focused her research on the bio-functionalization of multilayered polyelectrolyte architectures with emphasis on the use of these architectures to induce specific cellular responses and gain control over cell proliferation and differentiation. Dr. Benkirane-Jessel have 138 publications (h index: 36) with peer-reviewed publications in high impact factor journals (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA; Adv. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; Small; Nanoletters, Biomaterials, ACS Nano), 5 chapters reviews and 5 international patents, she is a regular referee for a number of scientific journals (Nature nanotechnology, Nature Materials, ACS nano, Biomaterials, Nanoletters…). She is under the contract (Interface INSERM/Clinic 2008-2013) and she got also “Prime d’Excellence Scientifique” from the INSERM, 2010-2014 and the PEDR from the INSERM on 2016 for 4 years. Scientific topics: • Material Science • Nanomedicine • Regenerative Medicine • Tissue Engineering Keywords • Active living Biomaterials • Osteo-Articular Systems • Bone-tooth unit regeneration Most Relevant Publications 1. Briand J.-P, Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Bioactive coatings based on a polyelectrolyte multilayer architecture functionalized by embedded proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1997, 94:12545-12550 (IF-9.809). 2. Benkirane-Jessel N, et al., Bioactive coatings based on a polyelectrolyte multilayer architecture functionalized by embedded proteins. Adv. Mater. 2004, 15:692-695 (IF-15.409). 3. Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Control of monocyte morphology on and response to model surfaces for implants equipped with anti-inflammatory agents. Adv. Materials, 2004, 16, 1507-1511 (IF-15.409). 4. Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Pyridylamino-beta-cyclodextrin as a molecular chaperone for lipopolysaccharide embedded in a multilayered polyelectrolyte architecture. Adv. Materials, 2004, 14, 963-969 (IF-15.409). 5. Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Build-up of polypeptide multilayer coatings with anti-inflammatory properties based on the embedding of piroxicam-cyclodextrin complexes. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2004, 14:174-182 (IF-10.439). 6. Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Short-time tuning of the biological activity of functionalized polyelectrolyte multilayers. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2005, 15:648-654 (IF-10.439). 7. Benkirane-Jessel N et al., Multiple and time-scheduled in situ DNA delivery mediated by beta-cyclodextrin embedded in a polyelectrolyte multilayer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006, 103:8618-8621 (IF-9.809). 8. Gangloff SC, Ladam G, Dupray V, Fukase K, Brandenburg K, Guenounou M, Schaaf P, Voegel J-C, Benkirane-Jessel N: Biologically active lipid A antagonist embedded in a multilayered polyelectrolyte architecture. Biomaterials. 2006, 27:1771-1777 (IF-8.312). 9. Dierich M, Le Guen E, Messadeq N, Netter P & Benkirane-Jessel N. Bone formation mediated by growth factors embedded in a polyelectrolyte multilayer film. Adv Mater 2007, 19: 693-697 (IF-15.409). 10. Nadiri A, Kuchler-Bopp S, Hu B, & Benkirane-Jessel N. Cells apoptosis Control by BMP-4 and Noggin embedded in a polyelectrolyte multilayer film. Small 2007, 3: 1577-1583 (IF-7.514). 11. Zhang X, Sharma KK, Boeglin M, Mainard D, Mély Y, Benkirane-Jessel N. Transfection ability and intracellular DNA pathway of nano-structured gene delivery systems. Nano Letters 2008, 8: 2432-2436 (IF-12.94). 12. Daubiné F, Cortial D, Ladam G, Atmani H, Clézardin P, Benkirane-Jessel N. Nanostructured polyelectrolyte multilayer drug delivery systems for bone metastasis prevention. Biomaterials 2009, 30: 6367-6373 (IF-8.312). 13. Grossin L, Cortial D, Saulnier B, Félix O, Decher G, Netter P, Gillet P, Mainard D, Benkirane-Jessel N. Step-by-step build-up of biologically active cell-containing stratified films aimed at tissue engineering. Adv Mater 2009, 21: 650-655 (IF-15.409). 14. Zhang X, Oulad-Abdelghani M, Zelkin AN, Wang Y, Mainard D, Caruso F, Benkirane-Jessel N. Poly(L-lysine) nanostructured particles for gene delivery and hormone stimulation. Biomaterials 2010, 31: 1699-1706 (IF-8.312). 15. Facca S, Cortez C, Mendoza-Palomares C, Messadeq N, Dierich A, Johnston APR, Mainard D, Voegel JC, Caruso F, Benkirane-Jessel N. Active multilayered capsules for in vivo bone formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 2010, 107, 3406-3411. (IF-9.809). 16. Florence Fioretti; Carlos Mendoza-Palomares; Marie Helms; Denise Al Alam; ludovic Richert; Youri Arntz; Simon Rinckenbach; Fabien Garnier; Youssef Haïkel; Sophie C Gangloff, Benkirane-Jessel N.Nanostructured assemblies for dental application. ACS Nano 2010, 4, 3277-87. (IF-12.033) 17. Facca S, Lahiri D, Fioretti F, Agarwal A, Benkirane-Jessel N, In vivo osseointegration of nano-designed composite coatings on titanium implants. ACS Nano 2011, 5: 4790-4799. (IF-12.033) 18. Mendoza-Palomares C, Ferrand A, Facca S, Fioretti F, Mainard D, Ladam G. Benkirane-Jessel N, Smart Hybrid Materials Equipped by Nanoreservoirs of Therapeutics. ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 483-490. (IF-12.033) 19. Eap S, Ferrand F, Schiavi J, Keller L, Fioretti F, Ladam G, Benkirane-Jessel N. Collagen implants equipped by “fishscale”- like nanoreservoirs of growth factors for bone regeneration. Nanomedicine. 2014, 9, 1253–1261. (IF-5.824) 20. Keller L, Schiavi J, De Isla-Martinez N, Morand D, Mainard D, Schwinté P, Benkirane-Jessel N. (2014). Active and nanostructured collagen implant reinforced with human mesenchymal stem cells microtissues for bone regenerative nanomedicine. Nanomedicine 2015. (In press) Invited talks and plenary sessions at different countries: USA, Venezuela, Italy, Japan, Spain, India, China, Canada, Morocco, Australia, Israel, Website: http://www.regmed.fr/ http://cvscience.aviesan.fr/cv/862/nadia-benkirane-jessel http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nadia-benkirane-jessel/24/39b/345

Molecular and cellular biology, immunochemistry, tissue engineering and biomedical engineering. In the last 10 years, she focused her research on the bio-functionalization of multilayered polyelectrolyte architectures with emphasis on the use of these architectures to induce specific cellular responses and gain control over cell proliferation and differentiation.

Privat Dozent Dr. habil. Yogendra Kumar Mishra is working as Group Leader at Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University, Germany, After Ph. D. in 2008 in Condensed Matter Physics from JNU New Delhi, India, he migrated to work at Functional Nanomaterials group Kiel with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship award (Feb. 2009 to Feb. 2011) where he continued working till today. Recently in 2015, he finished his Habilitation degree (Venia Legendi) in Materials Science from Kiel University and currently leading a sub-group on 3D Nanomaterials at Functional Nanomaterials. In Kiel, he introduced a new fabrication technique known as 'Flame Transport Synthesis-FTS' which offers versatile (1D to 3D) nanostructuring of different metal oxides including their three-dimensional (3D) interconnected ceramic nano-networks. His main research focus is the growth of highly porous and mechanically flexible 3D interconnected materials built from ZnO nano- and microtetrapods by FTS approach which could be used as next generation 3D flexible semiconducting ceramics for advanced technologies or as sacrificial templates for fabrication of new 3D nanomaterials including hybrids. His recent research developments include growth of carbon based ultra-light Aerographite material, Aerographite-GaN hybrid 3D networks, ZnO tetrapods network based devices, ZnO networks as viral traps, SnO2 nanowire based stretchable ceramic materials for UV sensing, alongwith several other applications. He has published more than 80 papers in high rank international magazines. He is referee for many prestigious peer-reviewed magazines and also serves as an Editorial Board Member in Nature-Scientific Reports, as an Academic Editor in PLoS ONE, including Advisory Board Members in several international conferences.

His main research focus is the growth of highly porous and mechanically flexible 3D interconnected materials built from ZnO nano- and microtetrapods by FTS approach which could be used as next generation 3D flexible semiconducting ceramics for advanced technologies or as sacrificial templates for fabrication of new 3D nanomaterials including hybrids. His recent research developments include growth of carbon based ultra-light Aerographite material, Aerographite-GaN hybrid 3D networks, ZnO tetrapods network based devices, ZnO networks as viral traps, SnO2 nanowire based stretchable ceramic materials for UV sensing, alongwith several other applications.

Julio San Roman has completed his Doctor in Chemistry (Polymers Science) in 1975 and currently heads the Group of Biomaterials, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC at Madrid, Spain. He is a Full Professor in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and a Member of the European Society for Biomaterials ESB, since 1987 and of the Council of the Society since 2006. He is the Fellow of the Biomaterials Societies since 2004. He held the president position of Iberian Society for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Polymer Section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and European Polymer Federation. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of ESB meetings in the last 10 years adn the chairman of the European Polymer Congress EPF 2011 organised in Granada, Spain, and chairman of the 2013 congress of the European Society for Biomaterials organised in Madrid, Spain. The Scientific activities are centred in the study and development of polymer systems for biomedical applications, and specifically in Tissue Engineering, Polymer Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems. He has published more than 400 refereed articles in specialised journals of Polymer Science, Biomaterials, and the Biomedical field. He has contributed with more than 40 Chapters in specialised books and is co-editor of two books on biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications and Biomaterials.

Biomaterials, Hydrogels, Biopolymers, Tissue engineering

Dr Abbas Amini is an associate lecturer, a registered member of Western Sydney University graduate supervisory board at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, and the member of Work Health and Safety Committee of the same university, Penrith Campus. Before joining the Western Sydney University, he conducted research with other Australian universities and CSIRO, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University and Deakin University, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas started his teaching, industrial and scientific journey from obtaining an associate’s degree in mathematics, and BSc, MSc, and PhD (from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) in mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. Since then, he has updated himself with several Australian and Canadian nationally recognized professional certificates and diplomas, e.g., FULT (Foundations of University Learning and Teaching form Western Sydney University), TAE, WHS, CNC etc. With his intense schedule, he has been extensively involved in teaching for many years in different sectors (including Western Sydney University), and worked in industry, e.g., Magna Powertrain, Toronto, Canada, as an engineer and industrial designer. Dr Amini is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an editor of more than ten journals, and a committee member of 14 international conferences to-date. In academic supervisory assignments, Abbas is supervising four PhD and two MSc graduate students, at present.

indentation methods, shape memory alloys, water treatment, drug delivery systems, piezoelectric materials, biomedical materials, graphene, graphane, CNTs, biodegradable polymeric nano-composites, TiO2, ZnO, environmental sustainability and water efficiency, experimental analysis, multi-scale (nano to macro) modelling of multi-physics phenomena, phase transition, mechanics of materials, fabrication of modern composites, manufacturing, offshore naval structures, and ship design.

Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Lobnik is since 2009 a Full professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor, where she teaches chemistry, analytical chemistry, and nanomaterials courses. The focus of Aleksandra Lobnik’s research is the development of new optical chemical and bio-sensors for different applications, such as personal protection, security, smart textiles, environmental protection, food, medicine. The emphasis is on the synthesis of new materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials, and sol-gels, which would improve sensory characteristics. In 2006 she co-founded a spin-off company IOS Ltd, where she is also employed. She is currently most involved in applicability of scientific research in the field of sensors, nanomaterials and water treatment. In the meantime, she strongly intensified cooperation with various Slovenian and foreign companies. Aleksandra Lobnik is also active in the promotion of science, because she is regularly invited to various committees and gives a wide range of interviews on the topic of nano-sciences and knowledge transfer in real applications in widely accessible media such as television, daily newspapers and magazines. In 2015 she lectured at TEDx in CERN on the topic of sensors. (http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/video/2015/nanosensors-love-and-other-emotions).

The focus of Aleksandra Lobnik’s research is the development of new optical chemical and bio-sensors for different applications, such as personal protection, security, smart textiles, environmental protection, food, medicine. The emphasis is on the synthesis of new materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials, and sol-gels, which would improve sensory characteristics.

Theodore Eliades graduated from the School of Dentistry, University of Athens, Greece, and completed the Orthodontic postgraduate program of the Ohio State University earning a Master’s as well as a doctorate from the University of Athens, School of Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Manchester,UK; he has also obtained certificates in human resources management (Univ. of Athens), leadership management, cultural integration management (NLP), and management (Swiss management center). His research has generated over 170 papers and 35 book chapters, which have received 4700 citations (H index 38). He has edited 9 textbooks published by major houses, some translated into 5 language. An elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the Royal Society of Medicine, Prof. Eliades is the first dentist who was awarded the Fellowship grade of membership from both the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics. He is affiliated with institutions in the US and Europe (Texas, Marquette, Manchester and Bonn), is currently the editor-in-chief of the J Dent Biomec, Assoc.Editor of the Eur J Orthod, the Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop, and Progress Orthod, Editorial Board member in 6 and reviewer in 40 periodicals. He has served as a member of the task Force for harmonization of worldwide postgraduate orthodontic education of the World Federation of Orthodontists and the revised Erasmus guidelines committee for postgraduate orthodontic education in Europe.

Enamel-adhesive interfacial phenomena and alterations during orthodontic treatment (structure, roughness, color, gloss). In vivo-ageing of orthodontic materials by means of surface analysis (Auger and ESCA, EDX and SEM) as well as mechanical properties of used dental and biomedical materials with associated clinical implications in bonding and mechanotherapy. Clinical trials assessing the efficiency of orthodontic materials. Development and testing of new adhesives based on non-Bis-GMA containing monomer systems (degree of conversion, bond strength monomer leaching). Corrosion potential and ionic release of alloys and leaching of polymeric materials in the oral environment. BPA release and estrogenicity of polymers. Mechanics of materials (strength, fatigue, bond strength) and tissues with reference to PDL properties in health, disease and developmental/ageing status.

José Becerra (J. Becerra) graduated and PhD (1976) in Biological Sciences at the University of Granada, Spain. He is full professor of Cell Biology at the University of Malaga (UMA) since 1989. He has been the dean of the Faculty of Sciences (UMA) (1986-93) and has been the head of the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology (1994-2016). He promoted and directed (2001-03) the Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology (CABD). He has also been part of the Technical Commission of the National Bank of Cell Lines (2006-12), a member of the board of the FIMABIS Foundation (2005-12), part of the Science Commission from the ANECA for the evaluation of full professor candidates (2007-11), and part of the Steering Committee, coordinator of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Branch (2011-15) and deputy director (from 2015) of the Ciber-bbn. He is also Vice-president of the Academy of Science of Malaga. Since March 2014 he is the scientific director of The Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, BIONAND (http://www.bionand.es/). His scientific career includes extended stays in the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB, CSIC) (Madrid, Spain), the Neuropathology Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), the School of Medicine at the Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the Children´s Hospital of the University of Southern California (USC) (Los Angeles, EEUU). Additionally he has also been visiting professor at the USC. His current research interests are focused on the study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of tissue regeneration and the translation of such knowledge to the human clinics through cartilage and bone tissue engineering. In his laboratory, therapeutic tools based on mesenchymal stem cells, recombinant proteins with specific molecular domains (bFGF, BMP-2 and BMP-6), biomimetic peptides and micro- and nanostructured biomaterials for osteo- and chondrogenesis based on collagen, ceramics, polymers and titanium are currently being developed. He is the author 120 scientific articles and inventor of seven registered patents. He is the principal investigator (PI) of several research grants and contracts with private companies, PI of the Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration Lab (LABRET). His research group is a member of the Cell Therapy Network (TerCel) and of the Ciber-bbn (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid).

Cellular and moledcular mechanisms of tissue regeneration,cartilage and bone tissue engineering, mesenchymal stem cells, nanostructured biomaterials for osteo-and chondrogenesis based on polymers, composites,collagen and titanium.

Alexander Seifalian, Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine and Director of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine Company has worked at Royal Free Hospital and University College London over 25 years, published over 647 peer-reviewed research papers, edited 2 books and contributed to 39 book chapter, and 14 UK and International patents. He is currently director of NanoRegMed Ltd, working in commercialisation of his research. During his career he has led and managed many large projects with multidisciplinary teams with very successful outcomes in terms of commercialisation and translation to patients including 1) The development and commercialisation of a bypass graft for vascular access for haemodialysis; 2) The development of bioreactors with fluid dynamic systems; 3) Non-invasive techniques to monitor viscoelastic properties of cardiovascular system and many others. He was awarded the top prize in the field for the development of nanomaterials and technologies for cardiovascular implants in 2007 by Medical Future Innovation, and in 2009 received a Business Innovation Award from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in the Life Sciences and Healthcare category. European Life Science Awards. Winner of most innovative new product 2012 “Synthetic Trachea”. Hamburg, Germany, 29 may 2012. He also was awarded Nanosmat Prize in August 2013 in Spain for his achievements and contributions to Nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2016 in Brussels he received the Heals distinguish research award in recognition for his outstanding work in regenerative medicine from Heals Healthy Life Extension Society. He developed world first synthetic trachea, lacrimal drainage conduit, and vascular bypass graft using nanocomposite materials and bioactive molecules and stem cells technology. He has created a huge amount of media interest for his translational research work to first in man, including; world first synthetic trachea, bypass graft, lacrimal duct, and other surgical implants.

Development of Nanomaterial,cardiovascular implant,nanofluorescence particle including quantum dots for localisation and treatment of cancer,Stem cells for development of organ using tissue engineering. Development of organ using biodegradation nanomaterials and stem cells, including liver, intestine,Hepatic microcirculation and oxygenation using optical technique,Ischemia reperfusion injury and preconditioning.

Piedad N de Aza studied Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and Ceramic at the Santiago de Compostela University where she received her PhD. She did a postdoctoral stage at the IRC in Biomaterials at the Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (U.K.) working on in vitro and in vivo behavior of bioceramics. At this moment, she is the Head of the Materials Science, Optic and Electronic Technology Department, Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and Researcher in the Bioengineering Institute at the Miguel Hernandez de Elche University.

Design and developing new polycrystalline biomaterials (dense and porous) with controlled microstructures making use of appropriated phase equilibrium diagrams and to study, a part of their physical properties, their behaviour in vitro (stem cells) and in vivo (bioactivity in rats and dogs). Actually, main emphasis is putting on the tissue engineering field study of the tissue-ceramic implant interfaces

IVAN CHODAK Affiliation : Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Job status : Senior scientist Department of Composite Materials Full Professor of Macromolecular Science, Slovak Technical University Education and Professional carreer : 1960 - 1965 Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Bratislava 1965 - 1970 Matador, rubber factory, Bratislava 1970 - Polymer Institute, Slovak Acad. Aci., BRATISLAVA 1970 - 1973 PhD Student 1975 PhD 1973 - 1981 Scientist 1982 - 2010 Head of Department of Composite Thermoplastics 1989 – 1990 Deputy Director 1997 DSc 2000 Associated Professor of Macromolecular Science 2005-2009 Member of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2006 Full professor of Macromolecular Science LEAVES OF ABSENCE 1981 - 1982 One-year sabbatical leave at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 1983 - 1997 Several short-term stays (up to two months), e.g. Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, Univ. Quebec Trois Rivieres, ENSAM Paris, CNR Arco Felice, etc. AWARDS 1989 - Slovak National Prize for excellent results in polypropylene modification (member of a team of 5 scientists) 1993 - Silver Medal of Dionýz Štúr for "A Significant Contribution to a Development of Natural Sciences" 2003 – Medal of Slovak Academy of Sciences for Achievements in Science 2012 – Award of the Minister of Education of Slovak Republic as the Scientific Personality of the Year 2014 – Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Scientific interests Multiphase systems with a modified polymeric matrix, synthesis and properties. Crosslinking of polymers, especially polyolefins and rubbers. Nanocomposites with polymeric matrices, special experience with matrices of biodegradable plastics and rubbers. Modification of biodegradable plastics, physical, chemical, blending Electroconductive polymeric composites Papers : More than 150 papers in peer reviewed international scientific journals (mainly CC), 8 chapters in monographies, about 100 lectures in scientific conferences (including about 30 invited key and plenary lectures), 12 slovak patents, 3 European patents Around 1300 citations, Hirsch index 17 International cooperation Extensive international cooperation with universities (Eindhoven, Dresden, Free State University South Africa, Univ Quebec Trois Rivieres, Canada) and with companies on contract basis (Matador-SK, DSM - NL, National Power - UK, GE Plastics - NL, Biomer – Germany, etc., including number of local SMEs) A member of Editorial Board of Plasty a kaucuk (Plastics and Rubber), Czech republic, member of Editorial board of Bentham Open Macromolecular Journal Teaching 15 years teaching the courses on Polymer Physics at Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Chemcial and Food technology, Bratislava as well as at Trencin University, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Puchov

Multiphase systems with a modified polymeric matrix, synthesis and properties. Crosslinking of polymers, especially polyolefins and rubbers. Nanocomposites with polymeric matrices, special experience with matrices of biodegradable plastics and rubbers. Modification of biodegradable plastics, physical, chemical, blending Electroconductive polymeric composites

Professor Nicolas Voelcker. After completing his BSc at the University of Saarland (1993) and his MSc at the RWTH Aachen (1995) in Germany, Nico completed a PhD thesis (1999) in polymer surface chemistry at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials under Professor Hartwig Höcker. He received postdoctoral fellowships to work in the area of bioorganic chemistry under Professor Reza Ghadiri at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. In 2001 he became a Lecturer at Flinders University in Australia, an Associate Professor in 2006 and a full Professor in 2008. From 2008-2011, he was the Associate Head of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Flinders University. Since 2012, he is a Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science at the Mawson Institute of the University of South Australia. From 2013-2015, he was Deputy Director of the Mawson Institute at the University of South Australia and Program Leader of the Cooperate Research Centre for Cell Therapy Manufacturing. Since 2014, he is also Node Leader in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science & Technology. In 2017, he will take up the role of Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication and Professor at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University. His key research interest lies in the fabrication and surface modification of porous semiconductor materials for applications in biosensors, biochips, biomaterials and drug delivery. A core research activity in his laboratory is the study of porous silicon based nanostructures and their surface chemistry. A current focus is the development of new nanostructured materials for biosensors, biochips, biomaterials and drug delivery. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles with over 5600 citations, h-index 41. He has received fellowships from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the CSIRO, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is a recipient of the Tall Poppy Science Award, a finalist for the South Australian Scientist of the Year 2015 and the Australian Innovation Challenge. He is serving on the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council.

His key research interest lies in the fabrication and surface modification of porous semiconductor materials for applications in biosensors, biochips, biomaterials and drug delivery. A core research activity in his laboratory is the study of porous silicon based nanostructures and their surface chemistry. A current focus is the development of new nanostructured materials for biosensors, biochips, biomaterials and drug delivery.

Sergey V. Dorozhkin completed his Ph,D in inorganic chemistry and chemical technology in 1992 and post-doctoral fellowship on the surface nucleation, solid/liquid interface and biomineralization during 1996-1997 at Strasbourg University (France) and on calcium phosphate based biomaterials and bioresorbable organic-inorganic composites during 1997-1998 at Nantes University (France). He has also held industrial positions in many companies. He is the author of more than 160 articles on different areas related to biomaterials, bioceramics etc.

Biomaterials, Bioceramics , Mechanical Properties of Biomaterials, Apatite, Calcium Phosphates, Biomineralization, Inorganic Materials and Surface Chemistry, Bone Cements, Fundamentals of Dental Caries, Dental Erosion and Vascular Calcification, Simulated Body Fluid (SBF), Porous Bioresorbable Scaffolds, Industrial Production of Biomaterials and Bioceramics, Organic-Inorganic Composites and Hybrid Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Phosphoric Acid and Chemical Engineering.

Gordon Blunn is a bio-engineer at the Institute of Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Science at University College London; he is based at the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital. He has been at this Institution for 25 years and during this period of time he has investigated the use of the fixation of implants to the skeleton. He has translated a number of novel treatments and designs into patients, which has enhanced implant fixation. He is currently the president of the British Orthopedic Research Society. Over the last 5 years he has secured in excess of £3.6 million in funding, holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer for Stanmore Implants Worldwide Ltd. and is co-director of the London Implant Retrieval Centre (LIRC). He has extensive research experience in orthopedic medical devices, materials and musculoskeletal tissues. A number of his research projects have been translated into clinical practice. He has worked on the reattachment of tendons to bone and to implant surfaces, the integration of implants with the skeleton, the wear of implant bearing materials and the use of bone graft substitute materials. Recently his research has focused on the design and development of implants, retrieval analysis and reconstruction of bone and joints. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals; holds a number of patents on medical devices as well as being a scientific adviser to a number of SMEs.

Orthopaedic medical devices, Materials and Musculoskeletal tissues

Theodore Eliades graduated from the School of Dentistry, University of Athens, Greece, and completed the Orthodontic postgraduate program of the Ohio State University earning a Master’s as well as a doctorate from the University of Athens, School of Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Manchester,UK; he has also obtained certificates in human resources management (Univ. of Athens), leadership management, cultural integration management (NLP), and management (Swiss management center). His research has generated over 170 papers and 35 book chapters, which have received 4700 citations (H index 38). He has edited 9 textbooks published by major houses, some translated into 5 language. An elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the Royal Society of Medicine, Prof. Eliades is the first dentist who was awarded the Fellowship grade of membership from both the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics. He is affiliated with institutions in the US and Europe (Texas, Marquette, Manchester and Bonn), is currently the editor-in-chief of the J Dent Biomec, Assoc.Editor of the Eur J Orthod, the Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop, and Progress Orthod, Editorial Board member in 6 and reviewer in 40 periodicals. He has served as a member of the task Force for harmonization of worldwide postgraduate orthodontic education of the World Federation of Orthodontists and the revised Erasmus guidelines committee for postgraduate orthodontic education in Europe.

Enamel-adhesive interfacial phenomena and alterations during orthodontic treatment (structure, roughness, color, gloss). In vivo-ageing of orthodontic materials by means of surface analysis (Auger and ESCA, EDX and SEM) as well as mechanical properties of used dental and biomedical materials with associated clinical implications in bonding and mechanotherapy. Clinical trials assessing the efficiency of orthodontic materials. Development and testing of new adhesives based on non-Bis-GMA containing monomer systems (degree of conversion, bond strength monomer leaching). Corrosion potential and ionic release of alloys and leaching of polymeric materials in the oral environment. BPA release and estrogenicity of polymers. Mechanics of materials (strength, fatigue, bond strength) and tissues with reference to PDL properties in health, disease and developmental/ageing status.

Andy Lewis completed his degree and PhD at Aston University. He spent his early career with ICI, working in the area of advanced polymer membranes and subsequently with Johnson & Johnson leading projects in absorbent technologies. Andy Lewis is Research & Technology Director for Biocompatibles UK Ltd, a UK-based SME involved in biomaterials development and medical device manufacture (now part of BTG). He specializes in the development of advanced biomedical polymer systems, for instance, to enhance the biocompatibility of implants or to modulate delivery of active agents in the body. These technologies have been applied to novel drug-device combination products for use in interventional therapies in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancer. He also coordinates the external research programmes with a number of academic collaborators and is named on over 60 scientific publications and patents in the fields of polymers and biomaterials. He has a BSc in Biochemistry & Chemistry, a PhD in Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Polymeric Materials, Biomaterials, Biomaterial Engineering, Combination Products, Drug Delivery, Polymers, Embolisation, Biocompatibility, Cancer Therapy, Encapsulation, Polymer Chemistry, Biomimetics, Hydrogel, Polymerization, Biomaterial Science, Micelles

Dr. Fenniri was educated at the University of Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry and biochemistry (1989, top of his class), and his M.Sc./Ph.D. degrees in supramolecular science and engineering (1990/1994) under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate). He then joined the Scripps Research Institute in California, USA, where he carried out his postdoctoral training under the supervision of Professor Richard A. Lerner (President and CEO). In 1997 he moved to Purdue University, where he initiated his independent academic career, and established the Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology (1999). In 2003, He joined the National Research Council and the University of Alberta to build and lead the Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly program, and contribute to the shaping of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), its research programs and facilities, and the recruitment of highly qualified personnel. NINT has since grown from 4 principal investigators in 2003 to a vibrant research and technology organization of over 350 researchers in 2013.

In addition, Dr. Fenniri held a full professor position with the Department of Chemistry (since 2003-2013) and adjunct full professor positions with the department of biomedical engineering (since 2010) with the faculty of medicine, and with the department if Chemistry (since 2013) at the University of Alberta. Dr. Fenniri is currently Professor Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Dr. Fenniri has achieved international recognition as a leader in the areas of self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, nanomedicine, combinatorial chemistry, and materials sciences. His group works at the forefront of basic and applied nanosciences, in collaboration with various academic institutions, federal laboratories, and with the private sector. Dr. Fenniri’s contributions appeared in over 190 publications, 8 patents, and over 400 contributed national and international conference papers. Dr. Fenniri has also presented his work in over 150 invited distinguished lectures, colloquia and seminars around the globe. His research programs are supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, the US National Institutes of Health, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Alberta, and several private, provincial and federal funding organizations.

Dr. Fenniri is the recipient of several academic and professional honours and awards, including the Xerox UAC Award (2006–2008), the 3M Faculty Award (2000, 2002), the Showalter Trust Fund Award (1999, 2001), the Trask Trust Fund Technology Innovation Award (2000), the Cottrell Teacher Scholar Award (2000–2005), and the US National Science Foundation Career Award (1999–2003). Dr. Fenniri is Member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and serves on several national and international scientific boards, panels, and committees.

Dr. Fenniri has been an invited professor at the Université de Strasbourg and the Collège de France (2010), the National University of Taiwan (2007), and the University of Colorado Boulder, USA (2004). He has also been DAAD Visiting Professor at Regensburg University, Germany (2002, 2003).

Nanotechnology for biomedical applications, nanoscale materials for drug delivery, and cell therapeutics and regenerative medicine.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society

Nanomaterials, Carbon Nanostructures, Nanoparticles, Numerical Modeling and Simulation

Guillaume Saint-Pierre is a self-motivated R&D Program and project management professional and a material science group leader at a Madrid based private research center. He has significant years of experience, in related proficiencies and a background in roadmap development, product innovation and lifecycle leadership. He also has strong expertise (market, technical and legislative) in Medical devices (Class IIB, III), In-vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) and sensor technology for medical and environmental applications.

Medical devices (electrochemical actuators/diagnostic, drug combined combination products, implantable solution for cellular and acellular therapies), drug delivery device, encapsulation technology and material engineering in a broader definition (functional coatings, high performance fibers, smart packaging, biotransformation, air/water treatment solutions)

Julio San Roman has completed his Doctor in Chemistry (Polymers Science) in 1975 and currently heads the Group of Biomaterials, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC at Madrid, Spain. He is a Full Professor in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and a Member of the European Society for Biomaterials ESB, since 1987 and of the Council of the Society since 2006. He is the Fellow of the Biomaterials Societies since 2004. He held the president position of Iberian Society for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Polymer Section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and European Polymer Federation. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of ESB meetings in the last 10 years adn the chairman of the European Polymer Congress EPF 2011 organised in Granada, Spain, and chairman of the 2013 congress of the European Society for Biomaterials organised in Madrid, Spain. The Scientific activities are centred in the study and development of polymer systems for biomedical applications, and specifically in Tissue Engineering, Polymer Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems. He has published more than 400 refereed articles in specialised journals of Polymer Science, Biomaterials, and the Biomedical field. He has contributed with more than 40 Chapters in specialised books and is co-editor of two books on biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications and Biomaterials.

Biomaterials, Hydrogels, Biopolymers, Tissue engineering,

Sandeep K. Vashist is the Head of Immunodiagnostics at Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V. (HSG-IMIT) and Laboratory for MEMS Applications, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at University of Freiburg, Germany. He was the Bioanalytical Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Dublin, Ireland (2006-2009) and the Team Leader at NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, Singapore (2009-2012) after completing his Ph.D. from Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, India (2006). He pioneered and transferred successfully many technologies to industries and healthcare; filed several patents; and, published extensively (>100 manuscripts) in high IF journals and highly prestigious conferences. Based on his research outputs, he has been constantly awarded by renowned institutions for scientific research excellence, innovation and performance; received the topmost international research fellowships; and, awarded the invited memberships of societies such as RCS. He is the international expert reviewer for ~36 scientific journals (IF b/w 2.5-41) and numerous funding agencies; Executive Editor of J Basic Appl Sci and J Pharma Bioanal Sci; and Editorial Board member of J Nanomed Nanotech. His research interests are in the fields of nanotechnology, point-of-care devices, immunodiagnostics and biosensors.

Development of Nanomaterials/Nanotechnology based Biosensors and Diagnostics; Development of rapid immunodiagnostic kits using lab-on-a-chip platforms; Biomolecular immobilization and surface modification strategies; Signal enhancement using nanomaterials/polymers/design of platforms; Development of cost-effective and simple bioanalytical procedures; Bioanalytical sciences; Diabetic monitoring and screening; Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicity.

Mr. Bastianelli started his career in the Pathology Department of the Erasme University Hospital in Belgium. He joined Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in 1996, where he was involved in the marketing of drugs in the field of bone diseases. In 1999, he became a consultant for McKinsey & Co, where he was involved in strategic and organizational missions for major pharmaceutical as well as biotechnology companies. From 2002 until mid-2006, Mr. Bastianelli worked as VP Corporate Development for ProSkelia, focused on bone diseases and hormone disorders. He was responsible for the management of the R&D portfolio, resources allocation and planning, alliances, collaborations and downstream integration. He was one of the main contributors to the merger with Strakan. Enrico Bastianelli has been CEO of Bone Therapeutics since 2006.

Orthopedic materials, Biomaterials, bone diseases and hormone disorders

Sergey V. Dorozhkin completed his Ph,D in inorganic chemistry and chemical technology in 1992 and post-doctoral fellowship on the surface nucleation, solid/liquid interface and biomineralization during 1996-1997 at Strasbourg University (France) and on calcium phosphate based biomaterials and bioresorbable organic-inorganic composites during 1997-1998 at Nantes University (France). He has also held industrial positions in many companies. He is the author of more than 160 articles on different areas related to biomaterials, bioceramics etc.

Biomaterials, Bioceramics , Mechanical Properties of Biomaterials, Apatite, Calcium Phosphates, Biomineralization, Inorganic Materials and Surface Chemistry, Bone Cements, Fundamentals of Dental Caries, Dental Erosion and Vascular Calcification, Simulated Body Fluid (SBF), Porous Bioresorbable Scaffolds, Industrial Production of Biomaterials and Bioceramics, Organic-Inorganic Composites and Hybrid Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Phosphoric Acid and Chemical Engineering.

Esmaiel Jabbari is Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of South Carolina. He is internationally known for his work on synthesis and processing of biomimetic bioinspired materials for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. He has published extensively in the areas of biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. He has edited four books, published one encyclopedia entry, 18 book chapters, over 90 refereed journal papers, over 80 refereed conference proceedings, presented over 30 invited seminars, and more than 200 presentations at National and International conferences.

He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering AIMBE in 2013. He received the Berton Rahn research prize award in Orthopedic Research from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen AO Foundation in 2012. In 2008 he received the Stephen B. Milam Research Award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation for contribution to auto-inductive biomaterials for repair of maxillofacial and cranial tissues. He is the North America Editor of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and serves on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Biomaterials and International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is a member of the Outstanding College Students of America, the New York Academy of Sciences, Who is Who in Engineering Education, and Who's Who in America. He is also a member of honorary engineering society Tau Beta Pi, Chemistry Society Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Research Society Sigma Xi.

Bioinspired materials, Skeletal tissue engineering, Multi‐scale composite materials, Self-assembled nanogels for growth factor delivery, Drug targeting to cancer stem cells, Stem cell encapsulation and delivery, Model gels to control cell microenvironment

Anand Ramamurthi is an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic with adjunct appointments at the University of Akron (Integrated Biosciences Program), and Case Western Reserve University (BME). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering, from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK in 1999 and subsequently was an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic (1999-2001), where he developed novel, glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-based biomaterials for biomimetic tissue engineering of aortic heart valve replacements.

Prior to his appointment at the Cleveland Clinic in 2010, Dr. Ramamurthi was a tenured faculty in the Departments of Bioengineering at Clemson University and Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. His research program focuses on enabling biomimetic regeneration and repair of extracellular matrix structures, specifically the poorly regenerated elastic matrix component, both in vitro, and in situ at sites of chronic matrix disruption (e.g., abdominal aortic aneurysms and pelvic organ prolapse). His research projects span cardiovascular tissue engineering, biomimetic vascular matrix assembly, GAG-based biomaterials for vascular endothelialization and matrix regenerative repair, mechanisms of matrix degeneration in abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), directed matrix regenerative therapies for AAAs, vascular nanomedicine, stem cell -based matrix regenerative therapies, in vivo bioreactor systems for vascular tissue engineering.

He is a member of several international professional societies in the cardiovascular sciences, biomaterials, and tissue engineering fields, and is a Professional Member of the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. He serves on several national committees such as that of the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO), on the editorial broad of several scientific journals in the field of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, and Vascular Biomedicine, and actively reviews for the NIH, NSF, AHA, and nearly 30 journals including Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, and Acta Biomaterialia. He serves on the external advisory board of the NIH-supported Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration (CBTR) in South Carolina, and on the Inventions Peer Review Committee of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialization wing of the Cleveland Clinic.

Anand has been an invited presenter at several national conferences and has chaired past conference symposia on the topic of directed elastic matrix regenerative repair. He has 50 peer-reviewed publications to date, numerous abstracts, proceedings, several book chapters, and approved and filed patents. His research has been funded by the NIH, AHA national and affiliate centers, NSF, and industry.

Vascular Tissue Engineering, Cardiovascular degenerative Medicine, Biomimetic Matrix Assembly, Elastin Pathology and Elastic Matrix Regenerative Repair, Therapies for Aortic Aneurysms, Blood-Material Compatibility, Glycosaminoglycan-Based Biomaterials, Stem Cells for Vascular Therapies

Dr. Murugan Ramalingam is Professor at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (a unit of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine-Bengaluru), Christian Medical College Campus, India. Concurrently he is Adjunct Professor at the Tohoku University, Japan. Prior to joining the CSCR, he was Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg, France. He has worked at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Japan, as an Assistant Professor. He has also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the U.S. National Academies Associateship program. He received his Ph.D. in Biomaterials from the University of Madras. He has also undergone training in Ethical and Policy issues on Stem Cells from Harvard University, USA, and in Operations Management from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

His current research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery.He is the author of over 200 publications, including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, authored books, edited books, and patents relevant to biomaterials, stem cells, and tissue engineering. His current h-index is 24 with over 4400 citations. He has organized several international conferences and chaired Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering sessions. He also serves as a board member of several international scientific and research committees in various public and private bodies and grant reviewer of various international funding agencies.

He serves on the editorial boards of multiple biomaterials and tissue engineering-related journals, including as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, the Journal of Bionanoscience and the American Journal of Stem Cell Research. He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards, including CSIR Fellowship (India), SMF Fellowship (Singapore), NRC National Academies Fellowship (USA), Nationale Professeur des Universités (France), Fellow of Institute of Nanotechnology (UK) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).

Stem cell differentiation, Cell patterning, Interface tissue engineering, Biomaterials, Biomolecular delivery.

Min Sheu has received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Washington at Seattle, WA, USA. Since graduation, he has led several teams in R&D of various companies in the medical device industry, including AST Products, Boston Scientific Corp., Atrium Medical (acquired by Maquet Getinge Group) and Covidien (merged with Metronic). He has skillful experience in the development of medical devices, including drug eluting ureteral stents, drug coated stents, antimicrobial and antithrombogenic dialysis catheters, biocompatible flow diverters and vascular embolization implants. His primary expertise is in the development of Class III biomaterial implants, drug-device combination products and medical coatings, and he has over 12 issued and 16 pending US patents as well as 16 peer-reviewed publications in these areas. Recently, Dr. Sheu founded a new company in Taiwan, InnoCept Biomaterials, Inc., to develop novel biomaterial implants for vascular and cancer therapies. InnoCept was later acquired by Sunmax Biotechnology, Co., Ltd., a collagen-based medical device company in Taiwan. Currently, Dr. Sheu serves as the General Manager of Sunmax Biotechnology.

Biomaterials, medical devices, combination product and drug delivery; Surface coating technologies for medical device, drug delivery and tissue engineering; Wound healing and soft tissue repair; Vascular and tumor embolization

Ipsita Roy is a microbial biotechnologist with special expertise in bacterial-derived biodegradable polymers. She is currently a Reader at the School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK. She was awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship and the Overseas Research Students Award to study for her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. During her time at Cambridge she was awarded the Churchill College Scholarship, the Lundgren Scholarship, Leche Trust Scholarship and the Cambridge University Philosophical Society Fellowship Award. Her postdoctoral work was at the University of Minnesota, USA, at the Bioprocess Technology Institute, where she worked on fatty acid biosynthesis. She taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, India, for four years as an Assistant Professor. During this time she worked actively on the production of biodegradable polymers from Streptomyces. She has been at the University of Westminster since 2000 and leads the Applied Biotechnology Research Group.

Ipsita Roy’s group is currently focused on the production of novel Polyhydroxyalkanoates, PHAs, a family of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers produced by bacteria under nutrient limiting conditions. Her group has pioneered the production of PHAs from Gram positive bacteria such as Bacillus sp., which lack immunogenic properties and hence are highly suitable for medical applications. These include applications in the area of hard tissue engineering, soft tissue engineering, wound healing and drug delivery. She has published over 100 research papers in her area, chaired and organized sessions and presented her work at numerous international conferences. She is an editor of the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (JCTB) and has edited an ‘In Focus’ Journal on Biodegradable Polymers, a special issue of the JCTB.

Currently she is editing another In Focus issue on ‘Drug Delivery’. She regularly reviews manuscripts for many journals including Biomaterials, Bio-macromolecules, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Journal of Applied Physics, Material Science and Engineering, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tissue Engineering, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Biotechnology Journal and Reactive and Functional Polymers. She is on the BBSRC, NSERC, Canada, FWF, Austria and NSFC, China, grant-reviewing panels and is the Vice Chair, Biotechnology section, SCI, London, UK. She has been appointed expert in the field of Materials Science and Engineering by the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research (ANVUR).She has also been appointed by the European Research Council Executive Agency, "ERCEA" to the panel involved in the peer review evaluation of proposals.

Tissue engineering, Drug delivery, Molecular Enzymology, Quorum sensing, Elicitation, Bacterial metabolism, Fungal interactions, Carbohydrate biochemistry and Nanobiotechnology

Frederic Bossard has completed his PhD of Physics in 2001 from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France and a postdoctoral position at the ICEHT-FORTH of Patras, Greece in 2002. He joined the University of Grenoble in 2006 as associate professor and become full proffessor in 2012. Specialized in rheology and polymer processing, he is the secretary general of the French Group of Rheology. Since 2010, his research activity focuses on the development of biopolymer-based nanomaterials dedicated to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications

Biomaterials and Nanotechnology

Lucie Bacakova has graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1984. She has completed her PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and became Associate Professor at the 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University. She is the Head of the Department of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She is a Specialist for studies on cell-material interaction and vascular, bone and skin tissue engineering. She has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals (h-index 26).

Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering etc

Dr. Pascal Janvier is currently assistant-professor at the University of Nantes (France) in the CEISAM laboratory. His research interests focus on phosphonate chemistry and biomaterials. He is the author of nearly 70 scientific articles, 7 patents, and is also co-founder of a company specializing in bone substitutes.

biomaterials applications, properties of biomaterials, advanced materials

Kremena Makasheva is Researcher at CNRS, LAPLACE laboratory, Toulouse, France with a Ph.D. degree on Plasma Physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria, 2002, for her work on surface wave sustained plasmas. Her research activities in LAPLACE are directed to design and study of plasma deposited nanostructured materials for biomedical, optical and electrical engineering applications. She is the author and co-author of over 60 publications in international journals. Recently, she served as General Chair of the 11th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE NMDC 2016) in Toulouse.

Biomaterial

Ph.D. degree, Hematology, 2007, Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Graduate Studies (Sudan). MSc. Degree, Hematology and immunohematology, 2003, Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Graduate Studies (Sudan). B.Sc. Division I (first degree), medical laboratory science, 2000, Sudan University of Science and Technology (Sudan).

Clinical studies of acute intervention in ischemic stroke; hemostasis problems associated with cerebral injury; and vascular and matrix adhesion biology. Research in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and platelet functions under fluid shear stress. - Platelet Immunology and Genomics Laboratory and Research in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, von Willebrand disease, pregnancy-related hemostasis, and clinical trials of treatments for hemophilia. Research in hematopoietic stem cells, erythropoiesis, heme physiology, marrow failure, myelodysplasia (MDS). Research in transfusion safety improvement processes and decision analysis. Clinical research in acute lymphoblastic leukemia and aggressive lymphoma. Research on acute myeloid leukemia, AML, immunotherapy of AML, leukemia stem cells, predictive modeling.

Dr. Yousef M Hawsawi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Al-Faisal University and an associate scientist at department of genetics at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (Gen Org) Riyadh –Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hawsawi is also an associate scientist at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in department of the National Center for genomics Technology, Riyadh –Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hawsawi is a registered scientist by the Royal society of biology (RSci) UK. In 2014, Dr. Hawsawi was awarded the BACR - Hamilton- Fairley Young Investigator Award at the 10th NCRI Cancer Conference held in Liverpool (2-5 Nov 2014). He has been granted a 7 years’ scholarship sponsored by King Faisal specialist hospital & Research Centre and Saudi government. Dr. Hawsawi holds a Bachelor degree of medical technology from King Abdulaziz University, a Master degree with distinction from Bangor University-UK and a PhD degree from Leeds University UK. After being granted a PhD from the University of Leeds, Dr. Hawsawi completed a Postdoctoral Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center, the top prestigious institute in the world, at the department of Breast Medical Oncology with the group of tamoxifen under the supervision of Prof Craig Jordan (The Father of Tamoxifen) (United states). He has published 12 papers in journals, conference proceedings. He has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and associations. He is a member in several professional organizations including, American Association for Chemistry (AACC), Stonebridge associated colleges (S.A.C Dip), Associate Member of Cell Biology (AMSB), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), British Association for Cancer Research (BACR), National Postdoctoral Association (Jan 2016) and Genetics Society of America (Jan 2016).

Characterization of molecular genetics basis of breast and prostate cancer

Sergey Suchkov was born in the City of Astrakhan, Russia, in a family of dynasty medical doctors. In 1980, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University and was awarded with MD. In 1985, maintained his PhD as a PhD student of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Medical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. In 2001, finished the PostDoc Research Fellowship Program and maintained his Doctor Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 1985 through 1987, worked at Inst of Med Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. From 1987 through 1989, was a senior Researcher, Koltzov Inst of Developmental Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1989 through 1995, was being a Head of the Lab of Clinical Immunology and Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Research Inst in Moscow. From 1995 through 2004, was being a Chairman of the Dept for Clinical Immunology, Moscow Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI) and the Immunologist-in-Chief of the Moscow Regional Ministry of Health. In 1993-1996, was an Executice Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Science, an international journal published jointly by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Dr Suchkov is a Co-Supervisor over the Russian-American Agreement on scientific and clinical collab-oration in the field of ocular immunology between Russian Academy of Sciences and National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH); in 1991-1995 – a member of The Reciprocal Exchange Fellowship Program between Russian Immunological Society and British Society for Immunology. Dr Suchkov is a member of the Editorial Boards of many international journals including EPMA Jour-nal (Springer, Brussels) and “Personalized Medicine Universe” (Elsevier, Japan).

Clinical Immunology

Prof. Jhinhwan Lee received his Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University in 1995. After he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University in 2002, he joined Professor J. C. Davis’ Laboratory at Cornell University as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2004 and was appointed Research Associate in 2007. Jhinhwan Lee went to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as Assistant Professor in 2009 and began his life-long investigations on magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. He received Korea Physical Society Bombee Physics Award in 2004 and the Albert Nelson Marquis lifetime achievement award in 2018. His works include bandgap engineering of nanotube published in Nature (2002), phase fluctuating superconductivity in pseudogap state of cuprates published in Science (2009), scanning probe microscope for advanced material research published as a cover paper in Review of Scientific Instruments (2017) and switching iron-based superconductivity using spin current published in Physical Review Letters with Viewpoint (2017).

Scanning Probe Microscopies, Hihg Tc Superconductivity, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Nanoscale and Low Dimensional Electron Systems

Dr.John Spray is awarded PhD from University of Cambridge, UK. He holds a Master Degree from University of wales, at Cardiff, UK. He is a tier 1 Canada research chair for planetary materials and Director at Planetary and Space Science Centre. He expanded his interest in planetary impact to include ballistics R&D in relation to defence, aerospace and space applications, and has been a recipient of many award and grants. Currently, he is working as a Professor for University of New Brunswick, Canada. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests as a Professor reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

My primary area of interest involves high-strain rate deformation processes in natural and synthetic materials. This includes investigating the effects of shock-wave materials interactions and high-speed slip. Natural samples are studied through researching impact cratering processes and products on Earth, the Moon and Mars, including meteoritic material from the terrestrial planets, asteroids and comets. Specific interests are high-strain rate behaviour related to hypervelocity impact, including friction- and shock-induced melting and solid-state shock transformations in rocks and minerals. The evolution of planetary regoliths is also being investigated (especially for the Moon and Mars). The characterization of impact structures involves detailed field studies of terrestrial examples (mapping, sampling and remote sensing), especially at Sudbury (Ontario), as well as other Canadian impact structures (e.g., Charlevoix, Manicouagan) and others abroad. One of my primary aims is to understand the modification stage of impact crater formation, especially through studies of impact-generated radial and concentric fracture and fault systems that facilitate slumping and central uplift formation. Field studies are typically followed by lab-based work involving analytical electron microscopy (microprobe and scanning electron microscopy), major, trace and REE chemistry and radiometric dating (e.g., (U-Th)/He, Ar-Ar and U-Pb collaborative work). More recent research directions include the development of new technologies to facilitate exploration in remote terrains on Earth and for planetary applications (e.g., non-contact analytical techniques for rovers). Since 2009, I have expanded my interest in planetary impact to include ballistics R&D in relation to defence, aerospace and space applications. This is manifest in the establishment of an off-campus ballistics capability, the High-Speed Impact Research and Technology Facility, financed by industrial, federal and provincial contributions, the aim of which is the testing and development of impact-resistant materials for the protection of humans and infrastructure.

In 2013 Dr. Forrest Meggers came to Princeton jointly appointed in the School of Architecture and the new Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment. He was previously in Singapore as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Architecture at the National University of Singapore where he had traveled initially as a senior researcher and research module coordinator in the Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory. He has degrees from Mechanical Engineering (BSE), Environmental Engineering (MS), and Architecture (Dr sc.). His fields of knowledge include building systems design and integration; sustainable systems; renewable energy; optimization of energy systems; exergy analysis; geothermal; seasonal energy storage; low temp hybrid solar; building materials; thermodynamics and heat transfer; and heat pumps. In Singapore he has researched new low exergy building systems for the tropics where as the Low Exergy Module Coordinator he led the research of 5 PhD students and built and transported a novel building laboratory, BubbleZERO from Zurich to Singapore. Previously in Zurich, Switzerland he worked as a Researcher for the Building Systems Group where he received his PhD in the Dept. of Architecture at the ETH Zurich. He also directed research on sustainable systems for the president of the ETH Board. Originally a native of Iowa, Forrest worked on many sustainability projects at the University of Iowa, and worked with Jim Hansen, renowned climatologist at Columbia University and director of NASA GISS, as a Researcher on US Building Stock CO2 emissions. Through all his international and research experiences he always prides himself as an Iowan and a bicycle mechanic.

Building systems thinking - linking operation of energy systems and building operation to architectural processes to facilitate more informed design (3 for 2 project, BubbleZERO, IEA EBC Annex 64) Radiant heating and cooling systems - Activating surfaces and geometries to add/remove heat from spaces through more effective/comfortable radiant heat transfer (Beyond Shading, Thermoheliodome, Radiant Umbrella) Geothermal and heat source/sink optimization - Leveraging thermal gradients in ground and other phenomena to drastically reduce the effort needed to shift heat in and out of buildings (IEA EBC Annex 64, Campus as a Lab) Low exergy air conditioning - Designing and studying air systems that minimize temperature gradients and exergy (utilizable energy) needed to condition air, particularly for dehumidification (Desiccant systems, Campus as a Lab)

Piedad N de Aza studied Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and Ceramic at the Santiago de Compostela University where she received her PhD. She did a postdoctoral stage at the IRC in Biomaterials at the Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (U.K.) working on in vitro and in vivo behavior of bioceramics. At this moment, she is the Head of the Materials Science, Optic and Electronic Technology Department, Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and Researcher in the Bioengineering Institute at the Miguel Hernandez de Elche University.

Design and developing new polycrystalline biomaterials (dense and porous) with controlled microstructures making use of appropriated phase equilibrium diagrams and to study, a part of their physical properties, their behaviour in vitro (stem cells) and in vivo (bioactivity in rats and rabbits). Actually, main emphasis is putting on the tissue engineering field study of the tissue-ceramic implant interfaces.

Dr. K. Bari, Priciple Lecturer in the Engineering Department at University of Wolverhampton and leader of the Material Science and Failure Analysis reserach. His research interest is experimental and numerical simulation of material failure in the automotive and aerospace industry. His fundamental research work has led to better understand of distorsion energy theory in high speed rotating components and their equivalent dynamics stresses under vibration. Recently, Dr. Bari has been appointed a research chair at Renishaw Plc for bone implant lattice structure manufactured using state-of-art 3D printer. Dr. Bari reserach is supported by leading software componies such as Ansys in explicit dynamic simulation and star CCM+ in CFD simulation. Dr. Bari is a reviewer in EPRSC funding panel in the field of high resolution X-ray tomography imaging and recently, he has been peer-reviewed £1.8M EPSRC fund awarded to the University of Southhampton. He has over 25 journal and conference publications in the field of material performance under harsh environment, design and optimization of metallic and polymeric composite, X-ray tomography and multi-scale modelling of composite mechanics.

1.Development of composite materials and production technologies for the implementation of function-integrated lightweight-design solutions 2.Implementation ceramics in aero gas turbine engine (SiC) in economically viable industrial production processes for the aviation and machine tools sectors. 3.Viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity in Polymers and composites

Lidietta Giorno is the director of the Italian Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR). She is an expert in membrane technologies, in particular for applications in biotechnology. She has a background in biological sciences and new materials. Lidietta coordinates research projects at national, European and international level and develops collaborations with China (International Centre of Weihai) and South Korea (Hanyang University in Seoul). She brings to EMH her broad knowledge in the food, biotech and biomedical fields.

Membrane Science and Technology, with specific focus on biocatalytic membrane reactors, membrane emulsification, nanofiltration, forward osmosis, integrated membrane processes, applied to water treatment, food processing, biomedicine, energy

Manijeh Razeghi is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, which she founded in 1991 after a successful 10-year career as the Director of Exploratory Materials at Thomson-CSF, France. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, having pioneered the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices from deep-UV up to terahertz. At Northwestern University she has commercialized aluminum-free pump lasers, developed type-II superlattices for next generation infrared imagers (an area in which she holds key patents), and currently holds most of the quantum cascade lasers records for high power and tunability. She has authored 18 books, 31 books chapters, and more than 1000 journal publications. She is editor, associate, and board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology. Her awards include the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize, the SWE Lifetime Achievement Award, the R.F. Bunshah Award, the IBM faculty award, Jan Czochralski Gold Medal, and many best paper awards. She is a fellow of SWE, SPIE, IEC, OSA, APS, IOP, IEEE, and MRS.

Nano science and Technology, and Quantum cascade lasers

Dr. Barnali Ghosh (Saha), is now working as a Scientist, (Associate Professor) in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences and Head of the department of Technical Research facility programme. She is a member of Indian Physics Association. She got Ph.D degree in Physic award in 1998. She got research Awards in Woman Scientist programme in 2003 and 2008 from “Department of Science and Technology, Government of India”. She along with her research group while focusing on basic physics, is also exploring application oriented and technology driven basic research in Material Sciences as well as Nano-Science and Technology. She works an as activity leader in establishing an application inspired innovation and technology related work which has good impact in the society; health care and food care sector and environment protection through innovative materials design. Her group works with a good number of Ph. D students, post doctoral fellow and young scientists. She and her group have filed number of patents their innovations and publish good number of papers in reputed international journals.

Dr. Ghosh’s research interests are Experimental Condensed matter Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Physics of transition metal oxides: Mainly perovskite oxides, binary oxides, Low temperature physics. Dr. Ghosh is working in the broad area of Condensed Matter physics and Materials Sciences which includes the growth of bulk materials, thin films and nano materials. Crystallographic and magnetic structural study using synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering experiments of bulk functional oxide based materials. Transport measurement on the nano device made of single nanowires to understand the conduction mechanism. Growth of epitaxial thin film and multi-layers and study of microstructure of surface and interface of multi layers by cross sectional TEM. Fabrication of nano scale materials using bottom up and top down approach, fabrication of nano devices using various lithographic techniques like; photo, electron beam, ion beam lithography. Using the lithographic based techniques, making of devices for applications oriented innovative work for healthcare, food care and environmental protection sectors.

He is currently the head of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University- Rabigh (KAU-Rabigh). He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cairo University. A part of his Ph.D. and postdoctoral study were carried out at TU-Clausthal, Germany. He received his master degree in Environmental Engineering from TU-Hamburg Harburg, Germany, He received Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from H.T.I., 10th of Ramadan City.He is also the head of the students’ Industrial Training Unit at KAU - Rabigh. He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Institute of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering. He has experience in the area of polymer composites and applications, with emphasis on nanocomposites, biocomposites, using recyclable materials in favor of environmental sustainability and water treatment. He is the author of more than 50 articles published in international journals and conferences. He is the co-author of three books in the area of polymers and petroleum engineering: (i) Biofiber reinforcement in composite materials (ii) Petroleum Economics and Engineering (iii) Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials: Processing. He serves as a reviewer for the following international journals: Journal of applied polymers Science; Journal of composite materials; Polymer Engineering & Science; Journal Yanbu; International Journal of Eng. & Sciences; Cellulose; International Journal of Hydrogen energy; Environment Progress & Sustainable Energy; Science and Engineering of Composite Materials; Plastics & Rubber and Composites Macromolecular Engineering; Composites Part B:Engineering.

Polymer composites and applications, with emphasis on nanocomposites, biocomposites, using recyclable materials in favor of environmental sustainability and water treatment

Dr. Hao GONG is a Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore. He is also the coordinator of the transmission electron microscopy laboratory at Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research interests include transparent oxide conductors and semiconductors (n-type and p-type), energy storage materials and devices (mainly supercapacitors), energy harvest materials and devices (mainly solar cells), gas sensors, functional thin film and nano-materials, materials characterization (mainly on transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction). Dr. Gong received his B.S. degree in Physics at Yunnan University in 1982. He passed his M.S. courses in Yunnan University, carried out his M.S. thesis research work at Glasgow University, UK, and received M.S. degree of Electron and Ion Physics at Yunnan University in 1987. He then did his PhD at Materials Laboratory at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and obtained PhD degree there in 1992. He joined National University of Singapore in 1992, and is currently full professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has published about 200 refereed papers in major international journals.

Electronic, functional, and sustainable energy materials thin films, nanostructures, heterostructures and devices

Zhenhai Xia received his Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 1990. He served on the faculty of Hebei University of Technology as professor and department chair, and now a full Professor of Materials Sciece and Engineering of University of North Texas, USA. Dr. Xia received Nanoscience Research Leader Award 2015, and China Changjiang Scholar Award 2016, and served as an associate editor of J. Sci. Lett. He have authored and co-authored over 150 papers, and published 4 books/book chapter. The significance of my work is documented by numerous scientific and business presses such as MIT Technology Review, and New York Times.

(1) Nanomaterials for catalysts, battery electrodes, renewable energy conversion and storage (fuel cell, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors and solar cells); (2) Biological and biomimetic materials; (3) Sensors, sensing and damage detection for energy-related applications and (4) Multiscale modeling and simulation, combining quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, mesoscale modeling and finite element for energy-relation modeling and predictions

Prof. Prasad Yarlagadda worked in industry and university over 30 years in number of countries. He is currently Professor in Smart Systems and Project Director: Airports of the Future Research in Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He had number of distinguished appointments in various universities in India, China and Australia. He received more than $12M funding for his research for various national and international collaborators and he published more than 425 papers with number of key note speeches delivered across the world. In 2012 he received a Prestigious Great Honour Award for his outstanding and life time contribution to the discipline of manufacturing in world Arena from Materials Division of Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2016 Professor Yarlagadda was awarded Order of Australia Medal and included in Queens Birthday Honours list in recognition of his outstanding service to Engineering Profession and Indian Community in Queensland, Australia. He is Editor in Chief of Journal of Engineering Technology, Deputy Editor-in-chief, International journal of Achievements in Materials and manufacturing Engineering, International journal of Achieves of Materials Science and Engineering, and also editorial board member of 18 ISI listed Journals. Prof. Prasad had number of community leadership roles as President, Federation of Indian Communities of Queensland Inc., President, The India Australia Society Incl. President, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (Chapter-209). USA, Chair Person, GOPIO International Science and Technology council are among other leadership positions during past decade.

Digital manufacturing in luring 3-d printing, Bio Manufacturing, Tissue Engineering for orthooaefic applications and Computer vision and image processing applications for Biomedical engineering.

Mirosław Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Fuels and Energy, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, in the discipline: technology of chemistry. Currently he is working an assistant professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels. His published work includes more than 40 papers in international journals and 72 conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial board of internationals journals as well as a member of the Organizing Committee international conferences, and a regular reviewer in a reputable scientific scientific journals. Apart from scientific work also does some teaching. Runs classes on computer science, numerical methods, chemistry and is a tutor of a student scientific society called “Green Energy”.

Main field of interests is mathematical modelling of the adsorption process, description of the porous structure, practical aspects of adsorption, an analysis of the influence of the production method on the formation of the porous structure of carbon adsorbents, numerical analysis, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energies and problems connected with municipal waste management.

Ph.D, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005 Since 2001, Research Fellow, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2006-2007, postdoc, Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany. Prof. Dr. Zhu has published more than 90 papers in distinguished international journals such as Science, Scientific Reports, Acta Materialia, Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Mater. Res., Adv Mater Interfaces, Journal of Applied Physics, and Phil. Mag. (Lett). etc.

Ferroelectric domains; Microstructure and microanalysis of low-dimensional functional oxides, and the relationships with the properties. (Scanning)Transmission electron microscopy. Epitaxial Growth of perovskite-based oxide heterointerfaces by PLD technique

Professor Bo Liedberg is professor of Materials Science at the School of Materials Science and Enginering (MSE), NTU. He joined NTU as a full faculty in 2012 after having spent three years as visiting professor at MSE (on leave from Linköping University, LiU, Sweden). Professor Liedberg has been involved in setting up a new, university wide, initiative on Biomimetic Sensor Science jointly with faculties at NTU, and he is currently the director of the Center for Biomimetic Sensor Science (CBSS). Professor Liedberg is also serving as the Dean of Interdisciplinary Graduate School. Liedberg has published more than 280 papers/reviews in peer-reviewed international Journals and Magazines.

Professor Liedberg is a surface physicist/chemist by training, and he has a long experience in structural and function characterization of thin molecular films and self assembled architectures on solid supports. He has also been the Lead-PI for a strong activity in bio- and chemical sensing. Most of his current activities are devoted to biomimetics and the development of new and robust sensor technologies for field testing, e.g. of toxins and biomarkers for infectious diseases.

Prof AK Mishra is currently working as ‘Full Professor’ for University of South Africa and also working as ‘Adjunct Professor’ at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include nanomaterials & water research. Prof. Mishra has edited several books and also serves as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops. He also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals.

Nanomaterials, Waste water research and Materials sceince

Prof. P.S. Robi has completed his PhD inthe year 1995 from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He has around 25 years of teaching and resarch. Presently his is a Professor in the departemnt of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati. He has served as the Head, Departemnt of Mechanical Engineering and later as Dean R&D at IIT Guwahati. Prof. Robi has published more than 40 papers in peer reviewed International journals. Presently he is supervsing 11 doctoral thesis.

Aluminium alloy development, Hot deformation Mechanism Maps, High entropy alloys, Creep deformation of High temperture Materails

Dr. KuiLIU got his PhD from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1999. He is the leader of Materials for Special Engineering research group in the Division of Materials for Special Environment of IMR. He has published more than 40 papers and held more than 25 patents. He awarded high-rank national scientific and technological prizes for 3 times and got the “Innovations in Real Materials Award” on Superalloys with Low Segregation Controlled by Trace Elements in Washington, DC in 1998.

His main research interests lie in special melting and processing high purity reactive materials, the trace and minor element function on material properties. Some of his works like melting Ni base alloy, NiTi shape memory alloy, TiAl alloy have got significant progress with the support from his group and by international cooperation. And the results have got international recognition and award.

Claudio Cazorla obtained his PhD on Computational Physics in 2006 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). As a postdotoral researcher, he worked in University College London (United Kingdom) and the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (Spain). Currently, he is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working in the School of Materials Science and Engineering in The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals, and delivered a number of keynote talks across the world. His research expertise is in the area of Computational Materials Science and Condensed Matter.

Complex oxide materials and heterostructures Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics Fast-ion conductors Thin films and surfaces Computational methods and Theory

Wenjun Zhang received his PhD from Lanzhou University in 1994. He is now a Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science of City University of Hong Kong, and he is also the deputy director of the Center Of Super Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF).

Semiconductor nanomaterials and devices, thin films and super-hard coatings, surface science and modification

Dr Ziqi Sun is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2009 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded with some prestigious awards and fellowships including the TMS Young Leaders Development Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (2015), Discovery Early Career Research Award from Australian Research Council (2014), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from AvH Foundation Germany (2009), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from Australian Research Council (2010), the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship from University of Wollongong (2013), etc. He has been serving for some honorary positions, such as Vice-Chair of Energy Committee within TMS USA, the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Editorial Board member of Journal of Materials Science and Technology (Elsevier Publishing), Guest Professor in Shenzhen Institute, Peking University, and Honorary Fellow in University of Wollongong. Ziqi is the program leader for two ongoing Australian Research Council Projects. He held the roles as symposium organizers and session chairs in some prestigious conferences such as TMS conference, MS&T conference, ACerS conferences, etc. He has published more than 75 papers in reupted journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Energy Materials, NPG Asia Materials, Nano Energy, etc.

Ziqi’s major research interest includes metal oxide nanomaterials and bio-inspired inorganic nanomaterials for sustainable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage.

Shaojun Guo is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment at Department of Energy&Resources Engineering, at College of Engineering, Peking University. He received his Ph. D from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, and J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, he was selected by Thomson Reuters into their prestigious list of World Most Highly Cited Researchers. He has also received numerous prestigious prizes including ISE-Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry and the Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts, etc. He has published more than 190 papers with over 14700 citations (H-index: 66).

Engineering nanocrystals and 2D materials for catalysis, renewable energy, optoelectronics and biosensors.

Nigel Shepherd recieved his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, and performed his postoctoral studies at the US Army Research Laboratory (Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate). He is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas, and has served as Graduate Coordinator, Interim Chair and ABET lead. He has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has served the community at conferences in a variety of roles including as committee chair and session chair/co-chair.

Electronic and optical materials and devices. Thin films. Physical vapor deposition and vacuum technology. Surface and interface phenomena. Physical electronics.

Dr. Chang Liu received his Ph. D.’s degree in materials science in 2000 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now a professor at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest focus on the controlled synthesis, property and application of carbon nanotubes. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited for more than 5900 times. He has authorized more than 40 patents, with 1 transferred and implemented.

Carbon nanotubes

Dong Ha Kim has completed his PhD in 2000 from Seoul National University and postdoctoral studies from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. He is Ewha Fellow and the director of National Leading Research Lab. He has published more than 130 SCI papers and registered 1 US and 26 Korean patents.

1. Multifunctional low-dimension hybrid nanomaterials for applications in energy storage & conversion, environmental remediation, light emission, theragnosis, memory; 2. Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) mediated biomedical diagnosis and therapy, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, enhanced light emission; 3. Nanofabrication, nanolithography, and nano-patterning via self-assembly of block copolymers

Professor Bai obtained his PhD degree from Lab. de la Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Ecole Centrale de Arts et Manufactures de Paris in1993. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University in 2006. His expertise is in the area of thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of particle/fiber filled polymer composites. He has published over 90 papers in journals.

Thermal/electrical/mechanical properties of graphene filled polymer composite. Processing and application of long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT).

Y.G. Ko, Ph.D is professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University. He has received his doctorate from POSTECH and continued his postdoctoral course at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT. He has been leading a research group of Plasticity Control and Mechanical Modeling Laboratory. He has published more than 100 SCI papers in the fields of physical deformation and chemical coating. The representative articles are ‘A Cross-Shear Deformation for Optimizing the Strength and Ductility of AZ31 Magnesium Alloys’ (Scientific Reports, 2016) and ‘Synergistic Influence of Inorganic Oxides (ZrO2 and SiO2) with N2H4 to Protect Composite Coatings Obtained via Plasma Electrolyte Oxidation on Mg Alloy’ (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017).

Prof. Ko and his research group have focused on (i) the development of the nanostructured materials via cutting-edge forming technology and (ii) the modification of the surface structure via plasma-based coating. Since 2003, his researches have combined expertise in controlling plasticity and manipulating microstruture of light metallic materials via asymmetrical rolling. On the other hand, the surface matter with functional performances in a variety of the applied science fields has been investigated by means of plasma electrolytic oxidation in the eletrolyte with organic/inorganic compounds. In addition, his current research activities concentrated on phase transformation and its kinetics through sub-zero and flash processings on ferrous materials in order to improve the combination of strength and ductility at room and high temperatures.

Dr. Zhu is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1998) and Ph.D. degree in Materials Processing Engineering (2003) at Tsinghua University. After Post Doc. studies in Japan and USA, he began his independent career as a faculty member at Tsinghua University (2008~present). His research involves multi-scale synthesis and assembly, characterizations and applications of materials. He has authored 2 books and 6 invited book chapters, received 16 CN patents, 1 US patent and published 200+ papers with a H-index of 50.

Low-dimensional materials

Dr. K. Iyakutti, is now Emeritus Professor in Department of Physics & Nanotechnology, SRM University. After getting the Ph.D., from University of Madras, he was Lecturer there in the Department of Nuclear Physics. He joined as Reader in Madurai Kamaraj University in 1984 and was appointed as Professor in 1987 and as Senior Professor in 1998. He has more than 35 years of Service(22 years as University Professor) in Teaching (PG) and Research. He has guided 24 Ph.D., and 40 M.Phil., Scholars. His area of Research is Computational Science and Physics including Nanotechnology. He has authored more than 330 research papers in International, National Journals and Conferences. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden and he has visited many Research centers abroad including ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, USA and National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Materials Research, Sendai Japan. He has co-authored a book “ Hydrogen storage in Carbon nanotube based materials”, Lambert Academic Publishing , 2016.

Computational design of new Nanomaterials

Jwo-Huei Jou is a professor of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering in National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and the president of the Chinese Organic Electronics Association. He received his Ph. D in Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program from University of Michigan in 1986. He joined IBM-Almaden Research Center USA as a Visiting Scientist from 1986-88. Jwo-Huei Jou has his expertise in high-efficiency organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), polymer, thin film stress, and expert system applications. He is a pioneer of the natural light-style OLEDs, and has received a prestigious “The IDA lighting design award” from the International Dark-Sky Association, USA for his “candle light-style OLED” invention.

Prof. Jou’s research interest includes high-efficiency organic light emitting diodes, natural-light like organic light emitting diodes, polymer, thin film stress, and expert system applications. He has been granted/filed 60 OLED-related patents (US, ROC, Japan, Korea and Canada), and published 96 OLED-related journal papers with an average Impact Factor of 4.5 and over 50 conference proceeding papers. He also published 46 papers on solvent diffusion in polyimide films, thin-film stress and polymer modification techniques. He has written 3 textbooks and 16 book chapters and magazines articles.

Dr. P.R. Soni has post graduation and Ph.D. degree in metallurgical and materials engineering. Presently he is Professor at the department of metallurgical and materials engineering. He has long career in teaching and research during which he has published more than sixty papers in the journals of repute and also has published two international books related to area of mechanical alloying. He has served as Head of the Department and Dean (academics) of the Institute. He is member of American Powder Metallurgy Institute (APMI) International and many other professional bodies.

Powder Metallurgy, Mechanical Alloying, Plasma Coatings, Composites and Nanomaterials.

Jiangwei Wang received his Ph.D. from Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of University of Pittsburgh in 2014. He joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2016. His research interests are in the nanomechanics, in situ characterization of energy-storage materials and in situ TEM technique. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers in these research fields.

Nanomechanics of materials, Energy-storage materials, In situ TEM technique

Dr. Bhattacharyya has completed his PhD PhD degree from Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart and Universität Stuttgart, Germany in the year 2006. He spent three years as post doc in different places of Germany (FZ-Juelich, IOM Leipzig) and USA (Virginia Tech). In the year 2009 he joined as faculty member at TIFR, Mumbai, India and in August 2015 moved at IIT Madras as an Associate Professor Among other scientific merits until now Dr. Bhattacharyya has published 35 papers in reputed international journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Indian Journal of Materials Science.

Development of new methodology related to TEM/STEM to study materials at atomic scale aiming to correlate with materials properties.

Hsu, Shih-Chieh has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from National Central University and postdoctoral studies from RCAS, Sinica. He is the Associate Professor of Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tamkang University. His work focus on optoelectronic devices, semiconductor and light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 23 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Light-emitting diodes 2-D materials Optoelectronics

Dr. Tamer Sebaey received his BS degree in mechanical and industrial Engineering at Zagazig University, in 2002 and MSc degree in mechanical design from the same University, in 2009. Dr. Tamer joined university of Girona in Spain as a PhD student funded from the government of Catalonia and got his degree in 2013. Few months later, he joined Qatar University as a postdoctoral researcher and, sometimes a part time assistant professor. Dr. Sebaey is currently an assistant professor in Qatar University.

Composites, Optimization , Applied Mechanics, Damage Tolerance, Impact resistance, Aeronautical structures, Crashworithness

Dr. Abhijit Pramanick is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He was awarded PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2009 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, for his work on dynamic electric-field-induced structural changes in ferroelectric ceramics. Subsequently, he moved to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he developed different neutron scattering techniques to understand the microscopic origins of functional responses in ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. He has co-authored over 30 publications. He was awarded the prestigious Edward C. Henry Award by the American Ceramic Society in the years 2010 and 2012.

His current research interests include understanding composition-structure-property correlations in different ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials that are used in smart technolgies and energy applications. For his studies, he uses advanced X-ray and neutron scattering techniques and multiscale modeling methods.

Driven by the principles of excellence, honor and responsibility and an unwavering commitment to education as an engine of economic prosperity, Carlo Montemagno, PhD has become a world-renowned expert in nanotechnology and is responsible for creating groundbreaking innovations which solve complex challenges in the areas of informatics, agriculture, chemical refining, transportation, energy, and healthcare. He was Founding Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at University of Cincinnati; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture and Bio Engineering from Cornell University; a Master’s Degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Penn State and a PhD in Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences from Notre Dame. He is now in Alberta as the Director of Ingenuity Lab, professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, AITF Strategic Chair of Bionanotechnology, Program Lead of the Biomaterials Program at the National Institute for Nanotechnology and Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Nanosystems. “Research and education are critical to success because the transfer of knowledge creates economic prosperity.” — C. Montemagno Carlo Montemagno has been recognized with prestigious awards including the Feynman Prize (for creating single molecule biological motors with nano-scale silicon devices); the Earth Award Grand Prize (for cell-free artificial photosynthesis with over 95% efficiency); the CNBC Business Top 10 Green Innovator award (for Aquaporin Membrane water purification and desalination technology); and named a Bill & Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Winner (for a pH sensing active microcapsule oral vaccine delivery system which increased vaccine stability and demonstrated rapid uptake in the lower GI tract.)

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics.

Nanomaterials,Carbon Nanostructures, Nanoparticles, Numerical Modeling and Simulation

Since January 2002, Dr. Matthew E. Edwards has held the position of Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL and served as Dean, of the School of Arts and Sciences, from 2007 to 2011, a period of 4.5 years. Previous academic positions held by Dr. Edwards prior to 2002 include associate professorships at Spelman College, in Atlanta, GA and Fayetteville State University, in Fayetteville, NC, and he was a visiting associate professor and adjunct faculty member for ten years at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, PA, and an assistant professor of physics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, in Pine Bluff, AR. Three summer faculty research positions that he held were at the ROME Air Force Research Lab, ROME NY, in 1996, NASA Langley Research Laboratories, Hampton, VA, in 1983, and the Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, in 1982. Dr. Edwards is a Condensed Matter Physicist with research expertise in (1) materials of electrooptics, (2) pyroelectric/resistivity/dielectric properties of crystals and nano-particles doped organic thin films, (3) the production of large organic thin films, (4) solitons wave theory, and (5) STEM Education research and problem solving. Dr. Edwards has more than 40 publications* (please see the below message). Also, he has guided four students to advanced degrees: three to the Ph.D., and one to the master’s degree, and has served on more than 12 other dissertations and theses committees. Presently, he is guiding two Ph.D. and two master’s degree students. Also, he sits on the Board of Directors of one science journal publication and one for science education. Dr. Edwards (a scholar/researcher in the physical sciences) holds the Ph.D. and Master’s degree in physics from Howard University, received in 1977 and 1975, respectively, and a B.S degree in engineering physics from North Carolina A&T State University, in 1969. His additional formal studies include: (1) physics courses at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1987, (2) certificate course of the American Chemical Society on Surfactants, Micelles, Liposomes, Liquid Crystals, Emulsions and Microemulsions, at Clarkson College, Potsdam, NY, in 1998. (3) Faculty summer certificate course in materials science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL, in 2000, and (4) certificate course in “managing technical professionals and organizations at MIT, Boston, MA, in 2009. Dr. Edwards as principal investigator (PI) has also received several minorities-targeted grants from NIH, and one minorities-targeted grant each from NASA and two from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the one summer faculty-targeted grant from the Air Force Office Of Scientific Research. As PI or Co-PI, Dr. Edwards has had several other grants as well. At AAMU, Dr. Edwards founded the Annual STEM Day, in 2006. Also, he founded in 2009 the IDC-HSHD&M (the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Health Disparities, and Materials), which, as a center, has assisted more than 16 young faculty members and others to develop their research programs.

Dr. Edwards is a Condensed Matter Physicist with research expertise in (1) materials of electrooptics, (2) pyroelectric/resistivity/dielectric properties of crystals and nano-particles doped organic thin films, (3) the production of large organic thin films, (4) solitons wave theory, and (5) STEM Education research and problem solving.

Frimpong is Professor and Robert H. Quenon Endowed Chair at Missouri S&T. He holds PhD (1992) from Univ. of Alberta, MS (1988) from Univ. of Zambia, and Post-Graduate Diploma (1986) and BS (1985) from KN Univ. of Science and Tech. of Ghana. His research areas include machine dynamics, machine and whole-body vibrations, fatigue modeling, augmented visualization, formation excavation, intelligent mining systems, and mine safety, health and hazards engineering. He has and continues to lead research initiatives in these areas with over $34 million funding. His research results include over 30 PhD and MS graduates, 1 book, 3 book chapters, over 200 refereed journal and conference papers and over 200 presentations. Frimpong has been recognized with Missouri S&T Chancellor’s Leadership Award, Robert Quenon Endowed Chair, Canadian Petroleum Institute’s Distinguished Lecturer Award, Award of Distinction by World Mining Congress, University of Alberta/CIDA PhD Scholar, Life Patron of UMaT Alumni Association, Grand Award by NW Mining Association and a UNESCO Research Fellowship. He is a member of the APLU Board on Natural Resources, Vice Chair of the Minerals and Energy Resources Division of NASULGC, and a member of the College of Reviewers for Canada Foundation for Innovation and Canada Research Chairs Program and ASCE-UNESCO Scientific Committee on Emerging Energy Technologies (ASCE-UNESCO SCEET). He served 5 years as a member of CDC-NIOSH Research Advisory Board, 4 years as co-chair of ASCE-UNESCO SCEET and 2 years on Japan’s Global Warming Research Consortium. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Powder Metallurgy and Mining and Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, American Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

His research focuses on Surface Mining, Machine Formation Interactions, Mining Machine Health and Longevity, Oil Sand Extraction, Mine Production Engineering, Bulk Materials Handling, Advanced Stochastic Modelling, Risks and Safety Engineering

Miroslaw Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Fuels and Energy, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, in the discipline: technology of chemistry. Currently he is working an assistant professor at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels, at the AGH University of Science and Technology. His published work includes more than 43 papers in international journals and 72 conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial board of internationals journals as well as a member of the organizing committees international conferences, and a regular reviewer in a reputable scientific journals. Apart from scientific work Miroslaw Kwiatkowski also does some teaching. Runs classes on computer science, numerical methods, chemistry and is a tutor of a student scientific society called “Green Energy

Main field of his interests is physical chemistry, mathematical modelling of the adsorption process, description of the porous structure, practical aspects of adsorption, activated carbons production, an analysis of the influence of the production method on the formation of the porous structure of carbonaceous adsorbents, numerical analysis, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energies and problems connected with municipal waste management.

Dr Jun DING obtained his Diplom Physics from University of Wuppertal in 1986, and PhD degree from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in 1990. He has been working on magnetic and nanostructured materials for more than 25 years. He is currently working as Professor at Department of Materials Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has published over 350 journal papers with a total citation > 9000 and H-Index = 52.

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1995. He joined the National Research Council Canada in London Ontario in 2001 and is now a Senior Research Officer. His current research interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy storage devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He is currently serving as a member of editorial board for 5 scientific journals including “The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistry”, “Current Chemical Research” and journal “Sensors & Transducers”. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at both Lakehead University and Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy storage devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer

Dr. M. Jayachandran (born on 4th February 1954, Sivagangai, Tamilnadu, India) is the Chief Scientist and Head Electrochemical Materials Science (ECMS) Division at the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi. He is also a Professor of the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR, New Delhi and Research Professor in Research Department of Physics, Sri Sevugan Annamalai College, Devakottai. Dr.M.Jayachandran is the Co-ordinator of the 140 kW Solar Energy Power Plant Programme at CECRI. Currently, He is the Editor-In-Chief of the “Open Journal Of Metals”, Scientific Research Publishing Inc., CA, U.S.A., Associate Editor of “Nano technology and Nano science”, Bioinfo Publications, India and Editorial Board Member of “Journal of Powder Metallurgy & Mining”, OMICS Group Inc., NY, U.S.A., “Geo Materials” Hindwai Publishing Inc., Corp., NY, U.S.A. At present, he has been trusted with the Editor-in-Chief assignment for the ensuing Online Journal “Journal of Advanced Functional Materials”.

Dr. O.L. Shanmugasundaram is working as Professor in the Department of Textile Technology at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, India. He received his Diploma in Textile Processing in the year 1996 from Erode Institute of Technology, India. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in 2000 from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India. He has qualified in the GATE Examination with 83.21 percentile score in the year 2003. He received his M.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in the year 2005 from Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai and Ph.D. in Medical Textiles from Anna University in the year 2011. He published 21 research papers in peer reviewed Journals. He has to his credit 14 papers presented in International Conferences and 4 others in National Conferences. His areas of interest are Medical Textiles, Textile Chemical Processing Technical Textiles and Fibre Science & Technology. He had 14 years of teaching, research and admin experience in an engineering college. He is acting as an editorial board member and reviewer in refereed journals, organizing committee member and scientific committee member in International and National Conferences.

Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee now is an Assistant professor of Physics, She was in Physics Department Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University. She got her B.Sc in Physics at Prince of Songkla University, M. Sc. in Chemical Physics at Mahidol University and Ph.D. (Materials Science) at National University of Singapore. Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee got the Thesis Presentation Award, Mahidol University, Thailand, 1999 and Outstanding Research of the Year 2nd Class Award, Office of the National Research Council of Thailand, Thailand, 2003. Currently Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee’s researches focus on the metal doped ZnO for spintronics and gas sensors applications, magnetic nanomaterials, graphene oxide for different applications and activated carbon from agricultural waste

Professor Elias Siores is the Provost and Director of Research and Innovation, Bolton University. Educated in the UK (BSc, MSC, MBA, PhD) and pursued his academic career in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne) and Asia (Hong Kong, Dong Guan) before returning to Europe (UK) as a Marie Curie Fellow. He is also President, Board of Governors, TEI – Athens and Director of Innovation, FibrLec Ltd. His R&D work concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the field of automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. His recent R&D work focuses on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed Electromagnetic, Electrorheological, Photovoltaic and Piezoelectric Smart Materials based Energy Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy, Medical, Health Care and Wearable Devices. He has published over 300 publications including 8 Patents . He has been a member of editorial boards of international journals and a Fellow of IOM, TWI, IEAust, SAE and WTIA. He has served on Board of Directors of a number of research centres worldwide including UK, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, all associated with the Bio-Nano-Materials field. He is a member of the Parliamentary Scientific Committee and has received 15 international awards in his career for R&D and innovation achievements.

R&D work in the past concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the fields of: Non-Traditional Manufacturing Processes including Microwaves Plasmas, Abrasive Ice Jet and Solar Joining; Intelligent Manufacturing Systems including Real-Time Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Networks; and Automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. At the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), his recent R&D work concentrates on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed electromagnetic, electro rheological, and piezoelectric and photovoltaic hybrid smart materials based Micro-power Re-generators and Energy Conversion Systems for Medical and Health Care Devices.

Fellow of the British Royal Academy of Engineering Amr Elnashai is the Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair of Engineering. As dean, Amr is responsible for all aspects of operation and leadership of the College of Engineering, with 11,000 students, 300 professors, 400 staff, $240M total budget, $137M research expenditure, over $210M endowment, 12 departments, 2 institutes and 20 research centers. He is member of the Academic Leadership Council and chairs the university Committee on Inclusive Penn State. Amr served as the chair of one of five Penn State research thrusts development committees, focused on Managing Resources. During his time as dean, Amr initiated a one-year MS and MEng program comprising 16 disciplinary and interdisciplinary degrees that are transforming the profile of the college and significantly expanding its graduate and research student populations. He has targeted biomedical and mechanical engineering for growth and secured 22 new faculty lines between the two departments. He also raised resources to expand the faculty by over 20%. He has reorganized the Engineering fundraising group, office of finance, and HR. He created, with the heads, associate/assistant deans, and directors, a strategy and an implementation plan, a five-year hiring plan for faculty, staff and development of infrastructure, a strategy for inclusion, created a Communications office and two offices of Associate Dean for Research and Associate Dean for Innovation. He also started an office of Global Affairs, an office of Corporate Research and Philanthropy, and an office of Data and Assessment. He hired 45 professors since he joined Penn State, many are joint appointments with life sciences, ethics, agricultural science, medicine, and materials research institutes and colleges. He also hired 4 associate deans, 4 department heads and a center director who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was previously head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 2009 to December 2013) and the Bill and Elaine Hall endowed professor. During his tenure as department head, research expenditure increased by 30% and graduate tuition income increased by more than 500%. He created three interdisciplinary majors, minors, MS and PhD programs that have attracted large percentages of students. He was Director of the NSF multi-institution interdisciplinary Engineering Research Center (ERC), MAE Center (2004-2009). He was also Director of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES) Laboratory at Illinois (2002-2009). His total research expenditure during his 13 years at Illinois was in excess of $20M. He was the professor with the highest research expenditure in this top-ranked department for 4 consecutive years (2006-2009). Amr obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Cairo University (1977), followed by MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College (1980, 1984), University of London. Before joining the University of Illinois in June 2001, Amr was Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Head of Division at Imperial College (1985-2001). He was Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (1997-2014). Other visiting professor appointments include the University of Tokyo, the University of Southern California, and the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, Italy. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis, SCI-expanded) and editorial board member of several other journals, a member of the drafting panel of the European design codes, past chair of the UK earthquake engineering association, UK delegate to and past senior Vice-President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering and a member of the Council of the UK Institution of Structural Engineers (ISE; 2013-2015). He serves the ISE as ‘US Education Ambassador’. He is the winner of the Imperial College Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (1984), the Oscar Faber Medal for best paper in the Institution of Structural Engineers, and two best paper medals from the International Association of Tall Buildings, Los Angeles.

Amr’s research interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis under stress and disruption, large-scale fire ignition and spread modeling, hybrid testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures to earthquakes. He is currently the sole advisor of one PhD student at Penn State and serves on the PhD committee of another student at Illinois. He has produced more than 250 research publications, comprising 146 refereed journal papers and many conference papers, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, 3 books and several book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake investigation reports. His Google-based H-index is 41, with 7760 citations. His highest downloaded publication is his report to FEMA/DHS on impact of earthquakes on the central USA, with 51,813 unique downloads from the Illinois digital database (IDEALS). Amr has supervised 46 Doctoral and over 100 Master of Science theses. Many of his students hold significant positions in industry, academia and government around the world.

David Cardwell is Head of Department and Professor of Superconducting Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD at the age of 26 years at Warwick University in the U.K. and was employed subsequently for 6 years by Plessey Reserach Limited. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has published more than 350 papers in reputed journals and serve sas an editorial board member on a number of international journals, including Superconductor Science and Technology.

Bulk superconductors, flux pinning, magnetic fields, ceramic processing.

PhD in Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino on 1992. Presently he is Professor of Physics of Matter at Polytechnic of Turin. In 1999 he was a co-founder of Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino, from 1999 he is responsible in this framework of a Research Group working in the field of micro- and nano-science, actually composed by 45 researchers. Since 2003 he is Coordinator, for the Polytechnic of Turin, of the International Master Degree in Micro- and nano-technologies for ICT (Master in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems, POLITO, INP Grenoble, EPF Losanne). In 2004 he is appointed representative for the Polytechnic of Turin for “Micro- and Nanotechnologies” in the framework of Cluster Project, a pool of the most prestigious European Polytechnic Schools. Since 1997 to 2002 he was member Executive Board of National Institute for Physics of Matter – Division Semiconductors and Insulators. Since 2004 he is Coordinator of the FIRB Project “LAboratorio di Tecnologie Elettrobiochimiche Miniaturizzate per l'Analisi e la Ricerca (LATEMAR)”, for the realization at the Polytechnic of Turin of a National Center of Excellence for micro- and nanotechnologies applied to genomics, proteomics and biotechnologies. The project has been financed with a grant of 9.868.000 Euro. Since 2004 he was member of “Evaluation Board” for Industrial and Scientific Projects of the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) and Italian Ministry of Industry (MAP). In 2005 he was appointed by MIUR as a member of “Evaluation Board” of “Veneto Nanotech” Technological District. Since 2005 he is consultant of Regione Piemonte Investment Agency for nanotechnological industrial activities. He has been and still is Scientific Responsible of several Research Agreements and Collaborations with industries in the field of materials and micro- and nano-technologies. He is/was national Coordinator of FIRB, FISR and Regional Projects in collaboration with several Italian industries. He is/was unit responsible of EC project with several European industries. His research activity is reported in more than 150 articles published in international journals with referee, more than 100 of them in impact factor journals. From March 2011 to May 2016 he joined to Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia as director of the Center for Space Human Robotics. He is author of 230 articles in international journals, h-index 26 (SCOPUS/ISI) and 2600 citations.

Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies, Bio-nanotechnologies, Biotech Diagnostic devices, Nanoelectronics

Professor Il Kim, polymer chemist, graduated from chemical engineering department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering in 1990. He worked for University of Ulsan 1990-2000, Pusan National University (PNU), 2000 to date. Since 2013, he became the director of the Brain Korea 21 PLUS Center for Advanced Chemical Technology supported by the Ministry of Education and the chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering・Polymer Science and Engineering in PNU. He has published more than 350 SCI papers and got more than 20 items of awards for the science and technology success. He played important roles in organizing lots of international scientific meetings related with polymer science and advanced materials and has been editorial board members of 9 international journals.

In recent year he focused on the designing synthetic polymer bioconjugate hybrid materials for tissue engineering applications, therapeutic delivery, surgical sealants, and antimicrobial polypeptides for treatment against infectious diseases. He is also expanding variety of chemistry based on sustainable feedstocks.

Professor Liew is the Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Chair Professor of Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Liew was appointed Chair Professor of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, a tenured Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the Founding Director of Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization. He was visiting professors of MIT, University of Southern California, University of Toronto and Tsinghua University. His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation. Over his academic career, he has published over 700 SCI journal articles. Professor Liew is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a Highly Cited Researcher in engineering. His publications have been cited over twenty-two thousand times and his current H-index is 75 (Google Scholar). To date, Professor Liew has attracted over US$40 million research and development funds from government funding agencies, industries and higher learning institutions. He has graduated over 50 PhD students and supervised over 60 Post-doctoral fellows. His students are well received by industries and many of them have become faculty members of universities worldwide.

His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation.

Dr. Ming Dao is the Principal Investigator and Director of MIT’s Nanomechanics Laboratory, and a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He published more than 110 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers (averaging more than 50 citations per paper), and delivered more than 90 invited presentations in research conferences, workshops and leading research institutions around the world. He was named Singapore Research Chair/Professor of Bioengineering and Infectious Disease by MIT in 2012, and received twice the best paper award from Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (2006 & 2013). He chaired or co-chaired 11 symposiums/workshops.

His broad interdisciplinary research interests include nanomechanics of advanced materials, mechanics of nanoindentation, cell biomechanics and biophysics, malaria, sickle cell disease, and cancer.

Dr. Genda Chen has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from the State University of New York at Buffalo and continued his postdoctoral study before he joined Steinman Consulting Engineers for bridge design, inspection, and construction support. He is the director of System and Process Assessment Research Laboratory. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals (out of 350 publications total and 3 patents) and has been serving as an editiorial board member of four reputed journals. He will chair the 9th ISHMII International Conference, St. Louis, 2019.

Structural health monitoring (sensors, sensing systems, data analysis, and nondestructive testing/evaluation), structural control (active, semi-active, and passive systems), interface mechanics and deterioration, bridge engineering, and multi-hazard effects on transportation infrastructure.

Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals, given keynote or invited speeches in international conferences more than 60 times. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society (AWS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (NSC), and NSYSU, the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from NSC, the Adams Memorial Membership Award, the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award, and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS. He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.

Thermal and fluid flow processes, and mechanisms for surface patterns such as humping, rippling and undercutting, root spiking and porosity in manufacturing and materials processing.

Prof. Rafal Kozubski academic carrier: 1984 Ph.D., Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 1987 - 1988 post-doctoral position, Strasbourg Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (IPCMS), France, 1988, 1990, academic visitor, Institute for Applied Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1993 - 1995 Lise-Meitner Fellow, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1997 habilitation (DSc), Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 1997 - 2006 associate professor, 2006 - full professor in the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 2006-2008 International Fellow, Queen’s University in Belfast, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Visiting professor L.Pasteur University in Strasbourg/University of Strasbourg. Research output: over 100 publications in international reviewed journals, over 150 communications on international conferences.

Modelling of materials, atomistic simulations, diffusion-controlled processes.

Yongmei Zheng, PhD, is a professor at School of Chemistry and Environment, Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, in Beihang University. Research are focused on bioinspired surfaces with gradient micro- and nanostructures to control wettability. Publications are 90 papers included in Nature, Adv. Matter., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Matter., etc., with 12 Cover stories, and a book with topic of “bioinspired wettability surfaces: Development in micro- and nanostructures”.

Bioinspired wettability,bioinspired micro-/nanostructure, gradient wettable surface, water repellency, droplet driving/transport, etc..

Professor Jacek Przybylski is a specialist in applied mechanics. At the early stages of his work for the Czestochowa University of Technology his scholarly research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory. Over the last thirty years he has been mainly concerned with the stability and vibration of mechanical systems. During that period he has published his doctoral and postdoctoral theses and many technical papers and articles. He has also been conducting research into other subject areas, such as the theoretical and experimental investigations of vibration of the divergence-pseudoflutter systems, computer aided design of mobile cranes and resonance boxes of musical instruments as well as the interaction problems between the supports of truck cranes and the ground of particular rheological properties. In the last ten years his investigation has been focused on the influence of the piezoelectric actuation on the static and dynamic behaviour of mechanical systems, including the geometrically non-linear systems. His work in the above areas has been published in a large number of various Polish and international highly reputable journals. Moreover, he has published as an author or co-author seven research monographs in the field. Professor’s didactic activities cover lectures, classes, workshops, seminars and laboratory classes on mechanics, mechanics of materials, theory of vibrations, and computer aided design. He is the author of curriculum-oriented textbooks, laboratory instructions and concepts of many laboratory and didactic stands for graduate and postgraduate students at various stages of higher education. Other activities include being a supervisor who mentors postgraduate students preparing for their PhD examinations. For his scientific and didactic activities Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has awarded him two individual and three collective prizes. He has also been awarded twelve prizes by the Rector of CUT.

Physics, Materials Engineering

Dr. Kwun Nam HUI is an assistant professor, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China. His current research focuses on synthesis of hierarchical carbon/graphene materials as well as on the development of 3D hierarchical metal oxide materials as advanced electrode materials for energy storage and conversion applications. His research has led to one US patent, 7 Korea patents, four review papers, three book chapters, 86 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers. He has served as guest editor/member of the editorial board of a number of journals.

Applications of nano-porous catalysts/adsorbents/nanowires such as zeolite, MCM-41/SBA-15, MWCNT, graphene composites, Co3O4, etc. in air purification, catalytic combustion, energy production/storage, water treatment, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), ZnO based photovoltaic cell, III-V semiconductors LEDs and solid-state lighting.

Currently Dr. Zhang is the Distinguished Research Professor of mechanics in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her PhD in 2010 from Shanghai University and continued her postdoctoral study in Shanghai University and City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Zhang’s main research trust is focused on computational mechanics, multi-scale modeling, nanocomposite materials and optimization. Her research areas are on theoretical development and application of numerical algorithms and computational methods for problems in mechanics and nano materials. Dr. Zhang has published over 70 SCI journal articles and her publications have been cited over 1,200 (ISI). Her current h-index is 19 (ISI). She is Editor of Journal of Modeling in Mechanics & Materials (De Gruyter), Guest Editor on a Special Issue of Mathematical Problems in Engineering Journal (Hindawi Publishing) on Computational Methods for Engineering Science in 2014, and Editorial board member of Polymer Science (iMedPub).

Computational mechanics, numerical modeling, nanocomposite and ocean engineering.

Dan Cohen is PhD candidate specializing in nuclear physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and an ISU­ SSP14 alum, and Member of MUSE collaboration which trying to solve the 'proton radius puzzle'. Among His achievements he developed a positron particle accelerator for NTD, the first of its kind in Israel. In addition, he is also a researcher at HUJI and PSI; Switzerland. Lately Dan was excepted as a staff member at the International Space University (ISU) at the space sciences department. Dan has vast experience in developing simulations and models of ionized particles propagation. In addition, he is a member of team Space-IL, non-profit organization working towards landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the moon. He is the CSO of Informa-tix, a premier Big-Data service organization and a contractor of the Israeli space agency. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Nuclear physics, Radiation damages, Non-destructive testing, Self-curing materials, Smart materials, Materials science, Space oriented structures, Space oriented materials, Space technologies, Quantum physics and Big-Data.

Dr Alain DEMOURGUES is working at ICMCB-CNRS-UPR9048 since october 1993 as Research Fellow. He became Research Director at CNRS in october 2008. He received IBM-France award in 1993 (Young scientist in Materials Science) and SFC (Société Française de Chimie) award in 2003 (Solid State Chemistry division). He is consulting scientist since 1998 at RHODIA-SOLVAY in the field of Solid State Chemistry, Redox and opto-electronic properties. He contributes to 128 publications (h-index 23) and 9 patents and gave 39 invited conference and 30 in international symposia. He was in charge of 20 industrial contracts and directed 19 PhD students. He is in charge of fluorine chemistry/inorganic fluorides unit (CNRS platform ‘Fluomat’) and cross functional axis related to exploratory solid state chemistry. He organized as chairman, the 14th European Symposium on Solid State Chemistry (14th ECSSC) in Bordeaux. He was invited as a Keynote speaker in July 2016 at the Gordon Research Conference (Solid State Chemistry Division)

His research topics concern Solid State Chemistry: inorganic syntheses and compositions, structural features and UV-Visible-NIR absorption and redox properties

Prof. Tenne received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1976). After a post-doc in Battelle, Geneva (1976-1979) he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot (Israel) where he became a full professor in 1995. The pioneering role of Prof. Tenne in 2D nanostructure research is well recognized. His work is often alongside people like Kroto, Smalley, Iijima, Geim, Novoselov and even Pauling, see for example Inorganics 2, 556 (2014); Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 177 (2015) and Chem. Comm. 50, 12360 (2014). He received numerous awards and recognitions including the MRS Medal (2005), Rothschild Prize (2015) and the Israel Chemical Society Gold Medal (2016). He is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences; Academia Europaea (2011) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Materials Research Society.

Following the discovery of carbon fullerenes and carbon nanotubes Prof. Tenne discovered inorganic nanotubes (INT) and fullerene-like nanoparticles (IF) of WS2 and MoS2 (Nature 1992, 1993; Science 1995). He showed that nanoparticles of layered compounds, like MoS2, suffer fundamental instability akin to graphite nanoparticles, transforming into seamless (closed-cage) nanostructures. Recently numerous new nanotubes, including those from ternary “misfit” compounds, like PbS-TaS2 and CaCoO2-CoO2, covering many elements of the periodic table, were reported by him. Following intensive work he showed that these materials are superior solid lubricants (Nature 1997), which are now used commercially as additives to various lubricants with sales of app. 5,000 tones this year (2016). Furthermore, adding up to 2% IF and more so INT of WS2 (MoS2) to various polymers, metal alloys and concrete led to substantial enhancement in their strength; fracture toughness and thermal stability. Large number of applications is foreseen for these nanocomposites, from aerospace, automotive industry medical technologies to tissue engineering.

Elena Voloshina received her PhD in Chemistry in 2001 (Rostov State University, Russia). She was a postdoctoral research associate at RWTH Aachen University, at the Max Planck Institute for the physics of complex systems in Dresden and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2014 she has been leading a junior research group at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. She has a broad experience in the development and application of theoretical techniques for investigation of the electronic structure of a wide range of systems. She has co-authored more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals. For further details, see: https://voloshinablog.wordpress.com

Computational materials science, Solid-state physics, Quantum chemistry of solids, Surface science; Electronic and magnetic structure of complex materials; Theoretical spectroscopy of solids, surfaces and interfaces; 2D crystals and their heterostructures; Graphene-metal interfaces

Mona Tréguer-Delapierre received a B.S. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Orsay, Paris Sud in 1996, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Orsay, Paris XI, under J.Belloni in 1999. She has received an award from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris for her PhD thesis. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA) with Dan Meisel, she joined the faculty as Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Bordeaux 1, in 2000. Her current interest involves the synthesis of metal nanoparticles, mainly gold and silver, with size and shape control and therefore with desired optical properties. Furthermore, her research is also focused on the surface modification and assembly of the nanoparticles to improve their versatility.

Our research in the group “Chemistry of Nanomaterials” is basically focused on the synthesis, characterization and applications of nanoparticles. The morphology control in the nanostructure is one of our favorite topics because of the spectacular effects that small changes in the shape of nanoparticles have on a variety of physical (optical, magnetic, electronic...) properties of the material. Colloidal synthesis has proven extremely useful to prepare a wide variety of nanoparticles with tight control of size and shape. Still, much of the knowledge in this area is empirical and no general rules can be provided for a rational nanomaterial design. We are particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in nanoparticle growth, which determine the final size and shape. Though eminently fundamental, this research is required for the design of nanoparticle materials with tailored properties that can be used for practical applications. Examples of nanoparticles developed in the group with various morphologies are shown below.

Professor González-Benito received his Ph.D. in Chemical-Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid and got the position at the University Carlos III of Madrid, UC3M, as a professor in 2003. He carried out several pre and postdoctoral research stays in very prestigious centers around the world, Institute of Chemistry and Biology Technology of University Nova de Lisbon (Portugal); Institute of Materials Chemistry of the Tampere University of Technology (Finland); Macromolecular Science Department of Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); Department of the University of California Santa Barbara and The National Institute of Standards and technology (Gaithersburg, Mariland USA) among others. Nowadays he is the head of the Group `Polymer Composite Materials and Interphases, having published more than 70 papers about polymers and polymer composites in reputed journals. He was Director of the Ph.D. program in Materials Science and Engineering of the University Carlos III of Madrid from 2006 to 2013.

Polymer interfaces in multiphase (micro and nanophases) materials using a variety of microscopic imaging methods and fluorescence based methods. Researching lines: i) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with especial electrical properties and ii) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with antibacterial activity. Characterization of polymers and composite materials; use of fluorescent probes and labels to monitor physico-chemical changes at a molecular scale; atomic force microscopy; structural, dynamics and ageing phenomena studies in polymer based materials.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975. He is the author and co-author of over 400 publications. His research interests are in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy Systems, and Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of sixteen professional engineering societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has been the recipient of many honors and awards.

Materials Genome; Nanoparticles and their Synthesis; Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulations of Engineered Materials; Energy Harvesting Materials; Nanomechanics, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics.

Dr. Yuyuan Zhao is Reader in Materials Engineering at the School of Engineering, the University of Liverpool, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He serves on the Editorial Board of Powder Metallurgy, the official journal of the European Powder Metallurgy Association. He obtained his BEng and MSc degrees from Dalian University of Technology, and DPhil from Oxford University. He worked as a Lecturer at Dalian University of Technology and a Research Fellow at Birmingham University before he joined Liverpool University as a Lecturer. He pioneered the Sintering and Dissolution Process (SDP) for manufacturing porous aluminium and further invented the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process, which has been commercialised for mass production of porous metals. He has published over 85 papers in the processing, characterisation and modelling of particulate, porous and composite materials.

Manufacture of porous metals and syntactic foams by powder metallurgy routes and characterisation of their mechanical; Thermal; Acoustic and electrochemical properties.

Vladimir Lee received his MSc degree in chemistry from the Far–Eastern State University (Vladivostok) in 1982, and PhD degree in organic chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) in 1987. After a couple of PD stays at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, Korea) in 1996 and at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1997, he is working at the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) currently holding a Lecturer position. He has been visiting professor at the several universities in Germany, France and Japan. He has authored over 110 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and a monograph. He has about 200 presentations at the international and national conferences.

low-coordinate derivatives of the main group elements: carbene analogues, cations, free radicals, anions, multiply-bonded derivatives, highly strained small rings, as well as their transition metal complexes.