Organization: University of Rochester, United States

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Professor Sobolewski has over 30 years of experience in applied superconductivity, condensed matter physics, and ultrafast electronics and opto-electronics. He has also an extensive knowledge of femtosecond lasers, electro-optic and magneto-optic materials, and quantum electronics. His current research interests include: ultrafast quantum phenomena, Nanoscience, including ballistic transport in semiconductors and magnetic nanostructures, information technology, and single-photon detection and counting for telecom optical communications, and quantum cryptography. He also works on femtosecond, time-resolved optical properties of materials, terahertz spectroscopy and imaging, and characterization of novel solid-state devices, and on the physics of high-temperature superconductivity.

Organization: University of Bradford, United Kingdom

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Ashraf (ORCID:0002-4800-6060) is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Bradford, received his PhD from Cambridge University, was the Head of Civil Engineering Department between 2007-2012 and the Director of Research at the School of Engineering between 2014-2018. Prof. Ashour has worked in many research projects sponsored by national and international research organizations; including British Council, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Newton fund and EU Horizon 2020. He has extensive research experience in the development of new construction materials and their use in sustainable infrastructure as well as techniques to extend the life of concrete structures. He has successfully supervised 16 post-doctoral research fellows and 20 PhD students. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 journal and conference papers. His publication citations may be found at:

- Scopus (Id:7005633555): https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005633555

- Publons (Id:H-9523-2013): https://publons.com/researcher/2624307/ashraf-f-ashour/

- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NBNbe5AAAAAJ&hl=en

- AD scientific index https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist.php?id=1365963

Prof. Ashour is ranked amongst the top 2% scientists in Civil Engineering in accordance to the Global Database produced by Stanford University (2021 and 2022) and was recently awarded Newton Prize -2020. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Structures and Buildings Journal (ICE) and is currently a member of many other journal and conference editorial boards and professional committees. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers (FIStructE) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Prof Ashour has been the external examiner for more than 40 PhD students and 6 undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses in UK and overseas Universities.  

Organization: National Research Council Canada, Canada

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Experienced Electrochemist and Material Scientist.

Over 30 years R & D experiences in private and public sectors

Expert in (i) laser materials processing; (ii) pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; (iii) new materials development for energy devices such as fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors; (iv) chemical, optical and temperature and mechanical sensors development; (v) electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer.

Over 80 Publications including 5 books, 5 book chapters, 4 patents and 66 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals or conference proceedings.

Publication list: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dongfang_Yang2/?ev=hdr_xprf

World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. IAAM Scientist Award and Medal 2021, Vebleo Fellow in 2022.

Editor and Member of Editorial Board for 10 scientific journals including “The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistry”, “Current Chemical Research” and journal “Sensors & Transducers”.

Organization: Universitat de Girona, Spain

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Organization: National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

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Shen-Ming Chen(陳生明) received his PhD degrees in chemistry from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1997. He joined Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan in 1985.  He had been an associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan from 1991 to 1997. Since August 1997, he has been a full professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.   He has been the Dean(Curator) of library, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 2000 to 2006 and the Director of Extracurricular Activity, office of student affairs, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 1995 to 2000. He received three time Distinguish Professor awards from 2010-2018. He also received Lifetime Distinguish Professor award from 2019. He received two times of Distinguished Academic Award from Association of Chemical Sensors in Taiwan (2010 & 2020).  He received three times of Distinguished Research Academic Award from National Taipei University of Technology.  Professor Lai Tsai-Teh Research Award, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Taiwan.  He has published over 1200 research and review papers in international SCI journals. Two of our papers have been selected as the most cited papers in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry during the years 2005-2009. He have edited or attended two books for NOVA publications titled “Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Biosensors” and “Biosensors: Properties, Materials and Applications”, contributed four book chapters and many Journal’s special issues or conference’s special issues.  His research interest includes bioelectrochemistry, nanomaterials, electroanalytical Chemistry, biosensors, chemical sensors, electrocatalysis and electroanalysis, photoelectrochemistry, energy nanomaterials, metalloproteins, metalloporphyrins, nanotechnology, spectroscopic techniques, scanning probe techniques, quartz crystal microbalance, materials research, fuel cells, solar cell and photovoltaic cells.  We have edited or attended two books for NOVA publications titled “Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Biosensors” and “Biosensors: Properties, Materials and Applications” and contributed four book chapters. 

Organization: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Igor Emri was born on 22 May 1952 in Murska Sobota. He studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, graduated in 1975, was elected Teaching Assistant, successfully defended his DrSc  thesis in 1981, was elected Assistant Professor in 1983, Associate Professor in 1988 and Full Professor of the University of Ljubljana in 1996.

In 1993, together with Professor W.G. Knauss from the California Institute of Technology, Emri opened a new research area "Mechanics of time dependent materials - MTDM" as a division of American Scientific Association, The Society of Experimental Mechanics SEM. That same year, Emri became the first Head of this department and the initiator of international conferences in this field. Emri was elected President of the American Scientific Association as the first non-US national in 2000.

In 1997, Springer Publishing first issued the journal Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials," today ranking among the top third of journals in the field of mechanics and rheology. Professor Emri has been the journal’s Editor in Chief since its first publication.

Emri’s research focuses on the mechanics of dissipative systems with an emphasis on the study of impact of the speed of change of thermo-mechanical boundary conditions on the formation process of polymeric materials structure and their macro-, micro-and nano-composites. He developed the first non-linear viscoelastic model, known in literature as the Knauss-Emri model, which enables the inventory of non-linear behaviour of polymers exposed to complex time-dependent thermo-mechanical stress. The model is cited in the Web-of-Science base 207 times.

For this achievement, Emri was awarded the Kaptisa Medal by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (the highest RANS award. Based on these achievements, he was also made Full Member of the afore-mentioned Academy, Full Member of the Russian Engineering Academy and Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Mechanics, AAM. In 2000, Emri was listed among the world's leading experts in the design of polymeric materials in the book Who's Who and Polymers and Plastics, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), USA.

In the Knauss-Emri model, the structure reorganisation process of dissipative systems is described by relative "internal time," which is used to measure the speed of the reorganization process and the material structure formation. The complexity and kinetics of material structure reorganization is reflected in the degree of temporal dependence of its mechanical and other physical characteristics. The relaxation spectrum is used to describe the temporal dependence of mechanical properties. Mechanical spectrum determination requires the inverse solution of Fredholm integral equations of the first or second order, which is numerically unstable (ill-posed). One of the most successful numerical algorithms for calculating the mechanical spectres is the Emri-Tschoeg algorithm. It is cited 231 times in the Web-of-Science base.

With colleagues, Emri  developed an entirely original measuring system for the purposes of experimental study of the influence of thermomechanical boundary conditions on the process of forming the material structure, named "CEM Measuring System" (abbreviation of: Centre for Experimental Mechanics, headed by Emri at the University of Ljubljana) appears in the handbook Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics, Springer, 2008.

Emri used the Emri-Knauss model, the Emri-Tschoegl algorithm and the newly developed measuring system as a new innovative theoretical and experimental approach to exploring the processes of forming the structure of dissipative systems - in this case - polyamides, under the influence of complex thermomechanical boundary conditions.

In collaboration with the BASF Corporation and using this approach, Emri developed a new generation of "multimodal" polyamides, which go beyond the mechanical properties of materials are now known for several orders of magnitude, while characterized by properties that conventional materials do not. This technological breakthrough has been protected by a series of global and separate American patents.

In 1997, Emri established the Chair of the Mechanics of Polymers and Composites at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in which the objects introduced in the field of time-dependent materials and nano-related technologies. He lectured as Visiting Professor lectured at several universities in Europe, Japan and the USA. Since 200, Emri is Visiting Professor in the Department of Aeronautics at the prestigious California Institute of Technology in the USA (Caltech).

Emri became a member of professional associations Borda Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis der Universitäts-Professor der Kunststofftechnik, which brings together 25 institutes (24 EU and 1 U.S.) in the field of polymer technology in 2002. He is also an expert of the European Commission FP4, FP5, FP6 and FP7. Since 2000, Emri has been a member of the Presidency of the European Society of Rheology.

Multimodal materials exhibit highly nonlinear behaviour and are capable of forming structures which demonstrate the ability to grow into the surrounding tissue, i.e. osteointegration and / or controlled degradation in the pre-defined period of time if subjected to minute changes in extreme thermo-mechanical boundary conditions. This property facilitates the possibility of application of these materials for medical purposes mainly in dental and orthopaedic surgery. The world's first implants to display the ability to grow in with the surrounding tissue completely have already been developed and represent a technological breakthrough in the field of implantology.

Motivated by this achievement, Emri established the Institute for Sustainable Innovative Technologies (ISIT, 2008), which is the first Slovenian non-profit institution organized in accordance with EU legislation and the EEIG. With its 4500 m2 of research and production space, the Institute provides suitable conditions for integrative cooperation of researchers to achieve a synergy of advanced scientific knowledge required for the transfer of cutting-edge basic skills to an industrial environment. Since October 2008, ISIT provides excellent conditions for the implementation and post-graduate studies to candidates from the University of Ljubljana and foreign students who are involved in the European graduate school EURHEO, which joins 15 elite European universities in this area, including the University of Ljubljana. Professor Igor Emri is one of the founders of the EURHEO graduate school.

Igor Emri’s bibliography in the COBISS database lists 830 bibliographic units, of which more than are 100 scientific papers, 27 invited lectures at conferences, 218 published papers at conferences and 10 book chapters. The Web-of-Science database lists 591Emri’s citations.

Igor Emri is the recipient of several awards and recognitions, including the Boris Kidrič Fund Award, the 2001 Science Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia, the "Kapitsa Medal" (1997), which is the highest prize of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the "Outstanding Engineer of the Russian Federation " Award (2001), awarded by the Russian Engineering Academy, and the 2010 " B. J. Lazan " Award, awarded by the American Association of The Society of Experimental Mechanics.

Emri was elected Associate Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2005. He is also Full Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (1996), Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1997), Slovenian Academy of Engineering (1998), the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the European Academy of Sciences (2010)

Organization: Tianjin University, China

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Yakai Feng received his BSc degree in Chemistry and MSc degree in Polymer Chemistry from Nankai University, obtained his EngD in Organic Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University in 1997, and a PhD at RWTH Aachen University in 2000. He worked as a chemist in ADIAM life science AG and followed in GKSS Research Center. Now he is a professor at Tianjin University. He is the director of Tianjin University-HZG Joint Laboratory for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine. His current research interests focus on functional polymers, biomaterials, multifunctional nanomaterials for gene/drug delivery.

Organization: University of West Attica, Greece

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Georgios Priniotakis is full Professor in the lab of Innovative Textile Technologies for Multifunctional Garments in UNIWA and head of Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering of University of West Attica in Athens GREECE. He holds a PhD in Textiles Sensors, (Simulation of human body behaviour during sweat production measured at textile electrodes). He is the representative of UNIWA in AUTEX and IAF. Ex. National Representative of Greece to boards and committees in the activities of the European Research Area and its cooperation with intergovernmental organizations in imbedded systems. Referee in many Scientific Journals and Scientific committee in Conferences.

Organization: Concordia University, Canada

Title: New Energy-Related Nanostructured Materials and Some High-Resolution Characterization Tools for their Study

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Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, United States

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Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Title: Heterojunction Nanostructured Materials for Photothermal Catalysis

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Ghim Wei Ho is currently the Vice Dean of Student Life and a professor of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).  She leads the Sustainable Smart Solar System research group working on fundamental and applied research on nanosystems with emerging low dimensional nanomaterials, interfacial interactions and hybridized functionalities for energy, environment, electronics and healthcare.

She has co-authored more than 200 papers in the international refereed journals. She was an elected Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and is a Cambridge Commonwealth Society Fellow since 2006. She is also a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2014, she was awarded the L’OREAL UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship. In 2015, she was the honoree winner of the JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) Award in the Science and/or Technological Development category. In 2016, she was honoured as the Science & Technology winner for the Great Women of Our Time as well as the ASEAN-US Science Prize for women. She is serving as Associate Editors of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Materials Advances and EcoEnergy as well as Editorial Advisory Boards of Advanced Sustainable Systems, ChemPlusChem, Advanced Materials Technologies, ChemNanoMat and Next Energy.

Organization: University of Wollongong, Australia

Title: Atomic-doping-engineering strategy for metal-ion-battery electrodes

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Dr. Pang was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and is currently a principal research fellow with a research focus on tuning the mechanistic behavior of metal-ion-battery electrodes for better performance, via constructing structure-function relations using in-operando methodologies. His career citation count is ~10200 and H-index is 55.

Organization: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States

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During my entire scientific career, I had worked in the field of basic and translational research. Cancer treatment has always been my major interest from small molecular drugs to treat ovarian cancer to macromolecular nano chemistry to treat brain, breast cancers and lymphoma.

During more than 30 years at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, and Regensburg University in Germany I supervised more than 50 PhD theses & diplomas (MS) and contributed over 230 research publications (180 peer-reviewed). During the last 16 years I have been working in the field of nanomedicine with important contributions in nano drug engineering, synthesis and delivery for cancer imaging and treatment. I developed for the first time a biopolymer nanoplatform based on polymalic acid, which was used extensively for the design and synthesis of targeted drugs for various cancers and delivery across biological barriers including blood-brain barrier (BBB). My expertise in immunochemistry covers production and chemical modification of a wide variety of antibodies and their replacement by peptides. I was the first to propose the importance of replacing antibodies by peptides to use for targeted delivery of synthetic drugs, antisense and peptide drugs. As a NIH grantee, I am well aware of the importance of efficient communication among project members/collaborators and of my role in offering solid research plan, timeline and budget. I continue to design novel nanomedicines, e.g., mini nano drugs, for preclinical stages and eventually for clinic, and open new modalities and routes for nanodrug production and systemic delivery to breast, brain, and lymphoma recipient cells. Nano imaging with targeted delivery of NIR fluorescent and MRI agents was also developed under my supervision, such as nano scale infrared compounds for intraoperative imaging that facilitates radical tumor resection.

Organization: Pittsburg State University, United States

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Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Vice President for Research and Support and a Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has mentored 10 PhD./Postdoc scholars, 76 MS students, and 58 undergraduate/high school students. Dr. Gupta has published over 290 peer-reviewed journal articles (9600+ citations, 57 h-index, 207 i10-index), made over 420 national/international/regional presentations, chaired/organized many sessions at national/international meetings, wrote several book chapters (100+), worked as Editor for many books (50+) for American Chemical Society, CRC, Springer, Elsevier, etc. and received several million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies.  He is also serving as Editor, Associate Editor, Guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals. 

Organization: USTOMB University, Algeria

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Organization: Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil

Title: Exploring graphene quantum dots for photodynamic therapy

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Organization: The State University of New Jersey, United States

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Dr. Tamara Minko is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, a member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Dr. Minko’s current research interests include nanoscale-based targeted delivery of drugs, peptides, siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides in order to enhance the efficiency of treatment and imaging; nanoparticle formulation, characterization and testing; preclinical in vitro and in vivo evaluation of anticancer therapeutics; orthotopic and ectopic animal models of cancer, lung diseases and fibrosis; personalized medicine; hypoxia; mechanisms of multidrug resistance and their suppression; intracellular fate and molecular mechanisms of action of drugs; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

She is an author and co-author of more than 400 publications (peer-reviewed papers, books and textbook chapters, conference proceedings/abstracts, and patents). Many of her papers are well cited and published in prestigious journals with high impact factors including PNAS, Nature Nanotechnology, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Review, Journal of Controlled Release, Small, ACS Nano, etc. Dr. Minko is a President of Controlled Release Society (2016-2917), Fellow of AAPS, CRS and AIMBE, recipient of numerous awards, Executive Editor of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Editor of Pharmaceutical Research, member of editorial board of ten scientific journals and a member of Study Sections at NIH, DOD, American Heart Association and other national and international review panels. Her research is supported by grants from NIH, NSF, DOD and other national and international sources.

Organization: University of Houston, United States

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My teaching and research activities and interests are in the frontiers of renewable energy sources. My research primarily focuses in the areas of integrated fuel cell technology, energy storage materials, ion conducting membranes, thin-film coating. In the area of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, our focus is primarily to produce cost effective and durable fuel cells by addressing three major challenges: (1) reduce catalyst cost, (2) mitigate water flooding, and (3) produce oxidation resistant supporting materials. To reduce the cost of catalysts in fuel cells, my laboratory is developing new nano-catalysts by reducing the amounts of platinum. We have successfully developed thin-film catalyst which is being incorporated in the proton exchange membrane fuel cells. To mitigate water flooding, we have also reengineered membrane electrode assembly (MEA) by incorporating siloxane polymers to make durable fuel cells. These reengineered MEAs showed exception promise to alleviate water flooding. To prolong the life-time of fuel cells, we have also developed oxidation resistive new supporting materials, boron-carbon meso-spheres that exhibit higher electrical conductivity than carbon nanotubes. For Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cells, we are developing new electrolytes and catalysts.

My laboratory has also designed power distribution sources for hybrid vehicles by using fuel cells, batteries, and ultracapacitors. Our design indicates that mid-size hybrid vehicle can be driven over 200 miles without recharging battery or using gasoline. Finally, we are developing coating technology to coat super conducting wires and cables.

All these work have appeared in various journals of international reputation such as Journal of Power Sources and Journal of the American Chemical Society. Intellectual properties produced from my laboratory deal with (1) hydrogen sensor, (2) nano-catalyst, (3) re-engineered MEA, (4) supporting materials for battery and fuel cells, and (5) power sources for hybrid vehicle.

Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States

Title: Stability of Wetting Films by Control of Surface Forces

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Roe-Hoan Yoon, a University Distinguished Professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering and director of the Center of Advanced Separation Technologies, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Organization: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Title: Remote Field Assisted Nanocomposites and Their Fabrication

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Organization: University of the Free State, South Africa

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Organization: Northeastern University, United States

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Organization: The University of British Columbia, Canada

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Organization: University of Miskolc, Hungary

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Peter Baumli, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metalforming, and Nanotechnology at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. His research activities included the development of nanocomposites, nanoparticles, and investigation of the wettability, grain boundary wetting.

Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Kah-Wee ANG received the B.Eng. (1st class honors) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2002, the S.M. degree in advanced materials under the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) program in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2008.

He was a manager for the non-planar CMOS scaling project at SEMATECH, USA, where he led a team in developing advanced CMOS manufacturing technology for sub-22nm node and beyond. In 2012, he led the development of silicon photonics technology at GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Technology Development Department). He was the Head of Research Office at the Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, prior to his move to the National University of Singapore where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group. His research interests are in nano-electronics and nano-photonics technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 journal and conference papers, including 33 invited papers/talks, 4 US patents, and a book chapter.

He was conferred the President’s Technology Award in 2010, the highest national honors bestowed on exceptional research scientists and engineers for their excellent achievements in science and technology. In 2008, he received the IEEE Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. In 2007, he won the IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Fellowship Award and the inaugural TSMC Outstanding Student Research Gold Award in electronic device and process technologies category. He is also a recipient of the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship Award, the Japan Marubun Research Foundation Travel Grant Award, the Singapore-MIT Alliance Scholarship Award, the University Engineering Scholarship Award, the Chartered Skills Pipeline Program Scholarship Award, and the Mobil Scholarship Award. He received the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award in 2012, the A*STAR IME Excellence Award thrice in 2008, 2009 & 2010, and the Chartered Recognition Award in 2002. He is also a recipient of 5 gold medals and book prizes.

Organization: Wroclaw Medical University, Poland

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Dr Jerzy Leszek is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice-Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Head of Alzheimer’s Disease Lab at the Medical University in Wroclaw , and Scientific Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa near Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated at Medical University of Wroclaw in 1980, was awarded a doctorate in Wroclaw in 1981 and in 1999- examination for the degree of associate professor of psychiatry and since 2005 he is working as full professor of psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University. He is author and co-author more than 540 papers (especially from old age psychiatry), some chapters to the books published in reputed Polish and international journals and serving as an editorial board member of several journals .He is Editor –in-Chief of Journal of Yoga and Physical Activity. He is Scientific Editor and co-author of first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease and ten another academic handbooks from old age psychiatry(Polish and internationals) , member a lot of scientific associations e .g founder and president of Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer’s Families, first of its kind in Poland ,President of the Scientific Council of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa, near Wroclaw , Former President and founder of Polish Psychogeriatric Association, Former Secretary(now member) of European Old Age Psychiatry and Former Member of Board of Directions of International Psychogeriatric Association.

Organization: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Organization: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

Title: Graphene’s potential as transparent conductive film in solar cells

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Organization: University of New South Wales, Australia

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My field of research is high temperature metallurgical processes and iron-steel making where I have used my interdisciplinary skill and knowledge (Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical Engineering) to develop new science and technology for the  recycling of waste and producing a new generation of green materials, products and resources made entirely, or primarily, from waste.

In 2019, I used my experience and knowledge in the area of sustainability to fully design two new elective courses of MATS6006 (Recycling of waste) and MATS6007 (Sustainable Materials Engineering) for postgraduate students in School of Materials Science and Engineering, based on an entirely new teaching pedagogy which I developed.

Organization: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Organization: McMaster University, Canada

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Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Title: Extracellular vesicles and their biomimetics: new exciting nanomedicines or another academic exercise?

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Giorgia Pastorin received her MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 2000 and her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Trieste (Italy). She spent two years of her postDoc at the CNRS in Strasbourg (France), where she specialized in drug delivery. She joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June 2006, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy-Faculty of Science. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011, Assistant Head in 2014 and Deputy Head in 2016; she is currently Assistant Dean (Research & Development) at the Faculty of Science and Director of the Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Center in NUS. Her research interest is focused on drug delivery, with the purpose of enhancing the pharmacological effects of bioactive agents (such as Pt-based anticancer complexes) while minimizing undesirable side effects. Recently, her BioNanoTechnology (BNT) group developed cell-derived nanovesicles (CDNs) and biohybrids as novel biocompatible Extracellular Vesicle mimetics for targeted drug delivery. Her approach of using unconventional yet efficacious cell-derived nanocarriers has become her signature program, resulting in new invention disclosures, industry engagements and even an international BioDrone award in 2021. She is the sole and co-Editor, respectively, of two books related to drug delivery and author in more than 160 articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Angewandte etc. For the work performed by her BNT group in NUS, she received the Young Scientist Award (2015) in NUS and she has been invited at prestigious international conferences as plenary or keynote speaker. So far, she has supervised about 30 PhD & Master students

Organization: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Title: Nano-constructs for Probing Multivalent Lectin-Glycan Interactions and Targeting Virus Infection

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Yuan Guo is an associate professor at the School of Food Science and Nutrition,  University of Leeds, UK. She leads research on constructing nanostructures and exploiting their properties to elucidate multivalent protein-glycan interaction mechanism and develop novel antivirals.  Her researches have been highlighted as cover articles by high impact journals including Angewandte Chemie, Journal of American Chemical Society and attracted media attentions. She has also been awarded several prestigious fellowships including those from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

Organization: University of Strasbourg, France

Title: Bacterial biofilm control with materials and nanomaterials: new approaches to limit the risk of bacterial resistance

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 Dr Lydie Ploux is a “Research Director” at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She holds a PhD degree in Biomedical engineering in 1997 from University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC, France). She conducted her research at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPN, Orsay, France), Forschungszentrum of Jülich (FZ Jülich, Germany), the Laboratoire de Neurotransmission In Vivo (URA CNRS/CEA) – Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ, Orsay, France) and Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M, France) before joining the INSERM Biomaterials and Bioengineering laboratory in 2018. She studied physics, biomedical engineering and physiotherapy. Her research focuses on the development of new strategies for antimicrobial surfaces and on bacterium-material or biofilm-material biointerfaces (role of the material and microbiological mechanisms).

Organization: The University of Pavia, Italy

Title: Frequency encoding in quantum photonics: a flexible tool for quantum communication and simulation

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 Prof. Daniele Bajoni obtained his PhD degree in 2004 from the University of Pavia with a dissertation on optical spectroscopy of photonic crystals and microcavities. After holding a post-doc position at LPN-CNRS (FR), he obtained a tenure position as assistant professor in experimental solid-state physics at the University of Pavia, where he was appointed associate professor in 2014. His research interests include strong light-matter interaction and experimental quantum photonics. He has demonstrated several devices for quantum optics integrated in silicon chips, including a micrometric source of entangled photon pairs and an controllable integrated source of frequency bin qudits. 

Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Title: An investigation on the effect of thickness ratio on residual stress of Cu/W and Cu/Cr double-layer thin films produced by HiPIMS

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Terry Yuan-Fang Chen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is the Editor of “Selected Papers on Photoelasticity,” SPIE Milestone Series, 1999. He was an Adjunct Professor in Department of Material Sciences and Mechanics, Michigan State University in 2000. He was the Director of Research and Education Division in 2010, and distinguished Research Fellow in 2012, Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University. He served as the Chair of Photoelasticity Division of Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). And received Zandman Award in 2009. He has published more than one hundred papers, chapter contribution in more than ten books. His current research is focused on automated inspection and nondestructive testing, micro materials∕structures measurement and evaluation.

Organization: North Carolina A&T State University, United States

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Organization: The Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies Polish Ac, Poland

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Organization: Wrocław University, Poland

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Organization: Nagoya University, Japan

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Organization: Georgia Southern University, Georgia

Title: Global Realism with Bipolar Strings: From Bell Test to Real-World Causal-Logical Quantum Gravity and Brain-Universe Similarity for Entangled Machine Thinking and Imagination

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Obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina – Columbia in 1986. He is now a retired professor and independent researcher in Georgia, USA. Dr. Zhang pioneered research in multiagent brain modeling, bipolar crisp/fuzzy sets, bipolar dynamic logic, bipolar dynamic fuzzy logic, bipolar quantum linear algebra, bipolar quantum cellular automata, bipolar quantum geometry, information conservational computing/cryptography, bipolar dynamic organizational modeling, the geometry of light, the logic of photon, analytical quantum computing, and global realism with bipolar strings. His representative works include YinYang Bipolar Relativity, logically definable causality, bipolar universal modus ponens (BUMP) that have led to Ground-0 Axioms and Global Realisms. His current research is on quantum nanoscience, brain-universe similarity for entangled machine thinking and imagination, and mind-light-matter unity AI/QI machinery. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers or books. Prof. Zhang’s awards and honors include Researcher of the Year, Georgia Southern University, 2011; Researcher of the Year, College of Information Technology (Merged into College of Engineering and Computing), Georgia Southern University, 2008. His hobby is fishing and hiking; his motto consists of the four sentences of Heng Qu.

Organization: Toronto Metropolitan University Research & Innovation , Canada

Title: The design and creation of nanoparticle-based viral mimetics for COVID-19 applications

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Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Strong education professional skilled in Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanoparticles, Physics, and Nanomaterials.

Organization: University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

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Organization: The University of Adelaide, Australia

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Dr Katharina Richter is a biomedical researcher with global work stints in Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Australia. A trained pharmacist she completed her PhD in medicine/applied microbiology in 2017 and founded her own research group in 2019 at the University of Adelaide.

Katharina has won numerous awards for excellence in science, innovation and science communication, including Innovator Under 35 Asia-Pacific, SA Science Excellence Award for PhD Researcher of the Year, SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Women in Innovation Award and many more.

Superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, pose one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide, causing over 1.3 million deaths every year. Bacteria naturally reside in biofilms as complex communities encased in a self-assembled slime. This lifestyle protects bacteria from medical therapies and promotes resistance contributing to therapeutic failure and exacerbation. The rise of superbugs stresses the need for novel treatments.

The Richter Lab is dedicated to improve medical therapies, changing the lives of patients suffering from superbug infections, such as surgical site infections, non-healing wounds and implant infections.

We furthermore collaborate with veterinary scientists to innovate industry decontamination processes for better animal wellbeing and safer, more sustainable food production.

Our research focus is on i) developing effective treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and translating them from the lab to real-life applications, and ii) improving health literacy of the society by effective science communication through public speaking, science outreach activities and STEM workshops at schools.

We collaborate widely in multidisciplinary teams of scientists, clinicians and industry partners to ensure a real-world impact of our work.

Organization: Kochi University of Technology, Japan

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Organization: Peking University, China

Title: Engineering Electronic Effect to Switch Reactivity: An Adaptable Approach in Operable Bioorthogonal Reaction

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 Ronghua Yang, professor of Hunan Normal University(HUNNU), China. He earned his Ph.D. at Hunan University in 2000. He served as an associate professor at Peking University(China) in 2003 and as a visiting professor at the University of Florida(USA) in 2006. Currently, he acts as a dean of school of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of HUNNU. His research interests concern fluorescent chemosensors and their applications in bioanalysis. He has published over 140 papers in journals of Acc. Chem. Res., JACS, Angew Chem., Anal. Chem., et al.

Organization: Université de Montréal, Canada

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Organization: Temple University, United States

Title: Improving Efficiency of Light Sensitized Voltaic and Catalytic Nanocomposites – Perspectives on Photoexcited Electron Lifetime and Solvent Effects

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Organization: Ulster University, Ireland

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Dr Nikhilkumar Shah is a Lecturer in Energy and Building Services at Centre for Sustainable Technologies in School of the Built Environment. Dr Shah holds B.Eng (Mechanical) from Gujarat University, India and M.Sc. (Energy System) from FH-Aachen, Germany.

He received PhD from Ulster University in 2015. He has ten years of research experience in the energy field. His research interest includes heat pump, thermal and electrical energy storage, energy efficiency, waste heat recovery, engine testing, demand side management and biofuels.

Dr Shah is an active participant of IEA Annexes on Industrial and domestic hot water heat pump. Dr Shah has secured research collaboration funding for "Diesel engine emission and performance testing with biofuel with Nano-particles" with IIT Guwahati, India as a co-applicant from UKIERI. He has also worked in the field of engine testing, fuel cell material and solar thermal system in the past. 

Organization: Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Title: Synthesis of Zn doped CrV spinel oxide nanostructures for flexible supercapacitor and hydrogen evolution reaction

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  I have graduated in Dec 2018 from KAUST with a PhD in chemical science (from inorganic synthesis lab) before joining the institute for research and medical consultation at nanomedicine research department. I am working in developing nanomaterial from industrial and biomedical application in both nanoparticles (0D) and nanofibers (1D) morphologies.    

Organization: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Title: NOVEL DESIGN OF DEEP EUTECTIC SOLVENTS-FUNCTIONALIZED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR EXTRACTING NON-STEROIDAL ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS

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Organization: University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia

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Organization: University of Chile, Chile

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Organization: University of Turin, Italy

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Organization: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Organization: West University of Timisoara, Romania

Title: Stability of a static liquid bridge appearing in shaped crystal growth from the melt by pulling down method.

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Organization: All Nations University, Ghana

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Organization: Shenzhen University, China

Title: High-sensitive Ultraviolet Sensors Based on FIB Irradiation-induced In-situ Growth of ZnO Nanowires

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Organization: Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Title: Green loading of Pdo nanoparticles onto activated carbon and its antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

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Aisha Al Musharrafi is a PhD student in analytical/environment Chemistry at Sultan Qaboos University. She has been a teacher since 2012. Her project interests include the preparation and modification of activated carbon from black cumin seeds and utilized as an adsorbent and reducing agent for metal particles for water and air treatment.  

Organization: Harare Institute Of Technology, Zimbabwe

Title: Development and evaluation of praziquantel-loaded nanolipid carrier system for enhanced treatment of schistosomiasis: a step towards sustainable healthcare

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Since  starting his Bachelor Of Pharmacy Honors Studies Ryan has had a strong passion for Nanotechnology and Tropical Diseases spearheading his University Campus Millennium Campus Project in Awareness for Neglected Tropical diseases which led to him choosing to undertake his undergraduate studies for development of a Novel Carrier for  tackling the Poorly Solubility issues with  Praziquantel the only drug available for treatment of Schistosomiasis in Sub Saharan Africa.

Organization: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil

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