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.