Prof. Porfyrakis is an Associate Professor of Materials, an EPSRC Fellow and the Head of the Laboratory for Carbon Nanomaterials at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He is also a visiting Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds an Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1995) and an MSc Degree from UMIST, Manchester, UK (1996). After completing his DPhil at Oxford University in 2000, Prof. Porfyrakis has established a world-leading laboratory for the production and purification of both nitrogen-containing and metal-containing endohedral fullerene molecules. Prof. Porfyrakis has attracted over £2.5 M in funding as a Principal Investigator in the fields of endohedral fullerenes and organic electronics. He has over 100 publications (h-index: 26, i10-index: 51) that have attracted over 2330 citations. He has presented over 40 invited lectures and seminars, including 3 keynote lectures. In 2005 he won the Alan Glanvill Award of IOM3. In 2016 Prof. Porfyrakis has been admitted as a Fellow at the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions to Chemical Sciences. Prof. Porfyrakis is the Academic founder and Director of Designer Carbon Materials Ltd (www.designercarbon.com), a spinout company of the University of Oxford, aiming to commercialise endohedral fullerenes and their derivatives. The company has been featured at several newspapers such as the Sunday Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/12034595/This-is-themost- expensive-material-in-the-world.html) and the Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/most-expensive-thing-in-the-worldendohedral- fullerene-science-oxford-a6763356.html) selling the “most expensive material in the world” for miniaturizing atomic clocks. That story has since been reproduced from dozens of media outlets around the world such as: (http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-world-s-most-expensive-materialvalued- at-145-million-per-gram) and (http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/oxfordcompany- now-selling-endohedral-fullerenes-priced-at-110-million-per-gram/).

Carbon Nanomaterials, Endohedral Fullerenes, Organic Electronics, Quantum Nannoelectronics

Hanshan Dong received his PhD degree in Surface Engineering in 1997 and became a full professor in 2010 at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK. He is Professor of Surface Engineering and Leader of Surface Engineering Research Group at the University of Birmingham. He is the Co-Director of EPSRC Doctor Training Centre in Metal Processing (IMPaCT) and a Fellow of IoM3. He is a leading surface engineering expert in developing novel surface engineering technologies for multi-functional surfaces and in characterisation of surface engineered materials. He won the Harvey Flower Titanium Prize awarded by IoM3 in recognition of his contribution to the science and technology of surface engineering of titanium alloys. He is active in international surface engineering activities including visiting professorships, plenary and invited lectures to major international conferences, organisation of national and international conferences. He is the Deputy Editor of ‘‘Chinese Surface Engineering'', Associate Editor, “International Journal of Surface Engineering and Interdisciplinary Materials Science” and on the editorial board of many other academic journals. In addition to six patents, about 300 papers have been published (including 200 journal papers).

He is a leading surface engineering expert in developing novel surface engineering technologies (including S-phase surface engineering of corrosion resistant alloys, ceramic conversion of Ti- and Zr-based alloys, plasma multi-functionalisation of carbon-based nano-materials, combined surface alloying and patterning for high-efficacy antibacterial surfaces, and low-friction & anti-adhesion coatings); in surface designing and modelling; and in characterising surface engineered materials using environmental nanoindentation, FIB/SEM & XTEM.

APPOINTEMENT 60, Professor at Bordeaux University Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, CNRS, , 33608 Pessac Cedex, FRANCE Member of the Education Academic Council of Bordeaux University Deputy director – Education; Centre of excellence LAPHIA (Lasers&Photonics in Aquitaine) Deputy director – Partnerships; EUR LIGHTST (University Graduate School) Deputy director – Education LIA LUMAQ (U. Bordeaux, U. Laval, INRS) PROFFESSIONNAL PREPARATION 2001-2017 Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Bordeaux, ICMCB, France 1991-2001 Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux, ICMCB, France 1988-1991 Post-doctoral position, LCS, University of Bordeaux, France 1983-1988 Ph D “Thèse d’Etat” “Methodologie de la Recherche Experimentale: contribution de la théorie de l’Information à la construction de Matrices d’Expériences optimales pour des modèles linéaires et non linéaires”, University Saint-Jérôme of Marseille, France INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT on Research and Education program - International Partnership Coordinator of international education programs relevant from EUR LIGHTST - Training Coordinator of international education programs relevant from LabEx LaPHiA: international exchange program for undergraduates, Master and PhD co-tutelles

- Nonlinear optical properties of glasses: Third and Second order nonlinear susceptibility, - Surface Glass structuring by poling, - Heavy glass oxides for fiber applications - Laser-induced defects in glasses and Luminescence properties of flaws. - Multiscale crystallization in amorphous transparent glass materials.

Alain TRESSAUD is Emeritus Research Director at ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux University. He is President of the European Academy of Sciences (Brussels) and member of several European Academies. He founded and chaired until 2008 the French CNRS Network on Fluorine Chemistry. Among the awards he received, the Atomic Centre Agency (CEA) Award of French Academy of Sciences (2008), ACS Fluorine Award (2011) and Moissan Prize (2013) can be quoted. His scientific interest covers synthetic fluorine chemistry, physical-chemical characterizations, applications in materials sciences, solid state chemistry. His works also deal with surface modification of materials and intercalation chemistry. His scientific production includes more than 360 papers in international journals, 20 chapters contributions in books and 12 internationalized patents. In addition, he edited 10 books, including the Editor-in-Chief responsibility of the book series “Advances in Fluorine Science” Elsevier (2006), “Progress in Fluorine Science”, Elsevier (2015 →), ”Progress in Science, Progress in Society”, Springer-Nature, (2017).

Chemistry of fluorine and fluorinated materials / Radiofrequency fluorinated surface treatments / Carbon-fluorine systems / Graphitic intercalation compounds

Olivier JOUBERT (1965) is presently full professor in Chemistry of Materials and is Chair of Fuel Cell group of "Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (CNRS-IMN)". This lab is a Joint Research Unit between CNRS (The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique which is the French national science organization employing a scientific staff of 10 000 people) & Nantes University with approximately 150 people. CNRS-IMN is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in the fields of materials physics and solid state chemistry. The major research interests of professor JOUBERT revolve around development of new materials for technological applications such as high and intermediate temperature ceramic oxide fuel cells (SOFC and PCFC), electrolysers… He is a solid state chemist and his research activities involve development of new oxide materials like, novel perovskite-type ion and proton conductors and anode for SOFC working under natural gas. He is co-author of 95 publications, 20 invited talks and 5 patents. Olivier Joubert is chairing the HySPàC research grouping which assembles all French academic research groups in the field of production and storage of hydrogen and also fuel cell and electrolysers. The total size of HySPàC (www.gdr-hyspac.cnrs.fr) is about 108 laboratories mainly from the CNRS (national center of scientific research, www.cnrs.fr/index.php) and CEA (a French government-funded technological research organization, www.cea.fr/). His group is part of "HySPàC" and is involved in many national and european projects around SOFC technology. He is also the main organizer of the International Discussion on Hydrogen Energy and Applications (IDHEA) held in Nantes in 2014 and 2016. O. Joubert is also in charge of the expertise cell ERIMAT in Capacités SAS, a private subsidiary of the University of Nantes dedicated to the development of research, and provides assessment, advice to industries

His main research interests are in the development of new oxide materials for technological applications, including High Temperature fuel cells (SOFC and PCFC). Particular focus in recent years has been the development of new electrolyte for solid oxide fuel cell materials, with very promising results being observed for novel brownmillerite-type oxide ion and proton conductors. In addition to this work in this area, his group also has ongoing research in the development of anode and cathode and the realization and testing of complete cells. Expertise: High temperature Fuel Cells (SOFC) and electrolysers (SOEC), Solid state and materials chemistry, Synthesis (Solid state and combustion methods) and characterization of ceramic materials (X-ray diffraction, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Thermal analysis…), Fuel cell performance testing

Igor Perepichka is a Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. He obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (1981) and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IPOCC NASU (1987). He started his career at IPOCC NASU in Ukraine as an engineer in 1981 and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1989. He has held several visiting positions, including Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Würzburg University, Germany, 1995–1997), Visiting Scientist (CEA Saclay, France, 1999 and CNRS, Angers, 2000–2001), Invited Professor (Angers University, 2001–2002), Senior Research Associate (Durham University, 2003–2007). In 2007 he moved to the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, UK) as Reader in Chemistry. In 2010 he was appointed as Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. His work is documented in over 100 papers in refereed journals, over 20 patents and several books and book chapters, including “Handbook of Thiophene-Based Materials: Applications in Organic Electronics and Photonics” (I. F. Perepichka, D. F. Perepichka, Two-Volumes Set, Wiley, 2009).

Prof Perepichka’s field of research is organic materials chemistry. The main research activity is focused on design, synthesis and studies of novel organic pi-functional systems, from small molecules to conjugated polymeric materials, toward their applications in organic electronics, optoelectronics and photonics. Current research interests encompass the development of functional pi-conjugated systems with tailored electronic properties in view of applications in solar energy conversion, electronic and photonic devices, and nanoscience: novel conjugated pi-functional systems, reactions and methods of synthesis; conjugated polymers with tailored properties and functions; conductive, semiconductive and photoconductive pi-conjugated materials (from small molecules to oligomers and polymers); charge, electron and energy transfer processes in pi-systems; intermolecular and intramolecular charge transfer processes in pi-conjugated systems; electroactive and photoactive pi-functional systems; organic nanomaterials, supramolecular architectures and self-organized systems; organic molecular and polymeric materials for light-emitting devices, organic photovoltaics, field-effect transistors, electrochromic devices, non-linear optics, nanotechnologies, sensors/biosensors etc.

Dr Shouxun Ji is currently a Lecturer at BCAST. He is focusing on developing lightweight materials and structures for the automotive industry, including purpose developed aluminium and magnesium alloys with improved ductility, strength, modulus, or thermal conductivity, and the hybrid structures using different materials. He is also working on new materials for aerospace application, such as materials for explosive cords and high strength casting materials for aircraft. Meanwhile, he is in charge of all the equipment specification, planning and supply in the AMCC 1 and 2 programmes. Before rejoining Brunel in October 2010, Dr. Ji was a Manager at Arcadia, leading a team working on various projects to develop products and managing supply chains. Prior to that Dr. Ji was the Chief Engineer of BCAST, specializing in semi-solid processing of rheo-die casting, rheo-extrusion and rheo-twin roll casting. Dr. Ji has worked on a number of projects within casting technology including green sand and resin-bonded sand, core-making and moulding process, foundry machinery, lost foam process, gravity casting, low pressure die casting, centrifugal casting and high pressure die casting. He has first-hand experience on cast irons (spheroidal graphite cast iron and austempered ductile iron), aluminium alloys, copper alloys and magnesium alloys. He is also familiar with design of casting equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic system, and plc control system.

Currently, his research projects include (1) light weight materials for automotive industry, especially super ductile aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys, (2) high pressure die casting of thin-wall casting, (3) semi-solid processing of aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys.

He received his PhD in 2010 entitled “Synthesis, characterization, functionalization and biomedical applications of iron-based NPs” under the supervision of Dr. Y. Guari and Pr. D. Gatteschi. Then, he completed two years of post-doctoral research in the group of Dr. F. Gazeau where he studied the physical, magneto-thermal properties and the biotransformation phenomenon of iron oxide NPs. In 2012 he joined the team of Dr. D. Alloyeau and synthesized, characterized and studied the biodegradation of iron oxide@gold nano-assemblies. Since September 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the team of Pr. E. Ishow. He has co-authored 29 scientific articles on peer reviewed international journals of chemistry and physics (h-index ISI WEB of SCIENCE = 14) and he is currently involved in five research projects in the nanomedicine field including one as coordinator.

His present main interest concerns size-controlled functionalized magnetic NPs or gold nanoshell and their incorporation in supramolecular fluorescent nano-assemblies. This multimodal nano-assemblies was tested as (i) mediator for magnetic hyperthermia and photothermial; (ii) contrast agent for fluorescent imaging, MRI and photoacoustic; (iii) real-time monitoring and on-demand drug delivery system.

Oscar K.S. Hui received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008. He was a lecturer in department of systems engineering and engineering management of City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong from Aug 2008 - Feb 2013. In Mar 2013, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University, South Korea. In Sep 2016, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia, UK. As PI, he has demonstrated an excellent independent-funding track record during my appointments (2008-2017), and have been awarded a total funding of GBP 1.1 million (GBP 1.59 million as both PI and Co-I). He has completed supervision of 8 post-doctoral/visiting scholars and 13 research assistants. 3 PhD and 18 master research students successfully graduated under my supervision. Currently, He has been supervising 10 PhD and 8 master research students with my collaborators working in University of Macau, Hanyang University, Pusan National University and Yonsei University. He has been working in a big team with collaborators in USA, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, China, and Hong Kong to secure research funding. Thus far, his research has led to 1 US patent, 9 Korea application patents, 4 pending Korea application patents, >136 journal paper publications (source: Scopus: h-index: 31), 30 invited lectures, and >60 international conference presentations.

Our research is in the interdisciplinary field of heterogeneous catalysis, nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials chemistry and science, transport phenomena, and process modeling and optimization. We focus on preparation of functional nanomaterials for efficient energy harvest/storage/conversion and environmental remediation. Our on-going activities includes 1.Fundamental understanding of catalytic ozonation process over functional nanomaterials for developing advanced air/water pollution control technology/system 2.Development of a multiscale theoretical model to study the coupled mass transfer and reaction kinetics in catalytic ozonation process for reactor-design and operating-condition optimization 3.Development of multi-microchannel microreactors with multi-scale microstructures for enhanced chemical reactions such as hydrogen production by ethanol steam reforming, catalytic combustion of methane, catalytic ozonation of organic compounds 4.Development and reliability study of high-brightness LEDs 5.Synthesis/Development of graphene-based functional materials for applications in Li-ion battery, fuel-cell, solar cell, and LEDs

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 Mirosław 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 fields of his interests are chemical technology, physical chemistry, 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 carbonaceous adsorbents, numerical analysis, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energies and problems connected with waste management.

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.

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.

quantum cascade lasers, Nano science and Technology

Dr. Xiang Zhang, Royal Society Industry Fellow of University of Cambridge, has over 33 years combined academia (17 years) and industrial (16 years) experience in advanced materials science and technology, an expert in polymer and polymeric hybrid materials science and technology. Dr Zhang is also Head of the Lucideon Cambridge School of Advanced Materials and Head of Medical Materials and Devices. He is the author of three books “Inorganic Biomaterials”, “Inorganic Controlled Release Technology” and “Science and Principles of Biodegradable and Bioresorbable Medical Polymers - Materials and Properties” (to be published by Elsevier). As a materials scientist, he is passionate on “Science for Industry “and believes fundamental but applied sciences are the keys to solve industrial problems as well as develop good products that are much-needed by the society. Dr. Zhang undertook his PhD and postdoctoral research at Cranfield University where he studied materials physics and micro-mechanics and micro-fracture mechanics of polymeric hybrid (organic and inorganic) materials. After spending a further four years on research for industrial applications, he was awarded an industrial fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 1995, where he carried out research on polymer ductile to brittle transition employing synchrotron X-ray (SAXS, WAXS) to study in situ deformation and fracture at nanometre scales, the results of which lead to completion of ductile to brittle transition theories in view of nano-mechanics and nano-fracture mechanics. Dr. Zhang’s industry experience was gained in leading international healthcare companies, where, as Principal Scientist, his work covered almost all aspects of medical materials and devices from R&D and manufacturing support to failure analysis and QC. Prior to joining Lucideon, Xiang worked as Director of a technology company, in the field of nano-conductive materials and diagnostic medical devices.

Medical Materials,Polymers, Materials Physics

Piedad N de Aza studied Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and Ceramic at the Santiago de Compostela University where she received her doctoral degree. She did a postdoctoral stage at the IRC in Biomaterials at the Queen Mary & Wetsfield 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.

Materials Science, Optics and Electronic Technology

Dr. Elena Cerro-Prada received her PhD in Physics from the Autónoma University of Madrid. She lectured at the University of Birmingham, UK, and worked at CERN within the Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubia, among other research and academic positions. Dr Cerro-Prada currently serves as the Subdirector of Civil Engineering Department: Construction, Infrastructures and Transportation. at the Technical University of Madrid. Dr. Cerro-Prada has contributed greatly to the understanding of cementitious materials microstructure by applications of nanotechnology and nanomaterials. She is currently involved in the development of cement-based materials with photocatalytic properties as long as agent-based cementitious material modeling.

Develoment Cement Based Materials, Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Detlef Bahnemann (PhD in Chemistry TU Berlin 1981, Habilitation in Technical Chemistry Leibniz University Hannover 2012) is currently Head of the Research Unit „Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology“ at the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany and also Director of the Research Institute Nanocomposite Materials for Photonic Applications at Saint Petersburg State University. His main research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry and photochemistry focussed on synthesis and physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. His more than 300 publications have been cited more than 26,000 times (h-index: 63 according to ISI).

Nanocomposites,Photocatalysis

Prof. Yuyuan Zhao obtained his BEng and MSc degrees from Dalian University of Technology, and PhD degree from Oxford University. He is currently the Head of Centre for Materials and Structures of the School of Engineering, the University of Liverpool. His current research is focused on the manufacture, characterisation and applications of porous metals and metal matrix syntactic foams. Prof. Zhao was awarded the Ivor Jenkins Medal in 2015 for his contribution to powder metallurgy in developing and commercialising innovative powder based technologies for manufacturing metal foams.

Porous metals, metal matrix syntactic foams, thermofluids in porous media

Dmitry Volodkin is Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University and heads the group “Active-Bio-Coatings”. He has studied Chemistry at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. Research stays brought him to France (University of Strasbourg) and Germany (Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Technical University of Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology). His research activities are focused on design of advanced stimuli-responsive biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering, diagnostics, toxicology, drug delivery. His group engineer self-assembled polymer-based 2D and 3D structures with tailor-made properties: multilayer films, microcapsules and beads, liposome-polymer composites, polymeric scaffolds, etc. Dmitry Volodkin has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles/books and received a number of prestigious scientific awards such as Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Richard-Zsigmondy Price of German Colloid Society, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.

focused on design of advanced stimuli-responsive biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering, diagnostics, toxicology, drug delivery

Jiabao Yi has completed his PhD at the age of 38 years from National University of Singapore and postdoctoral studies from National University of Singapore, department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a Senior Lecturer/Future fellow in the school of Materials Science and Enginer, UNSW. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as assocated editors of two journals and editorial board member of four other journals.

Oxide magnetic semiconductor, magnetic materials for green energy, magnetic nanoparticles for bioimaging and ferromagnetism in 2D materials.

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 and serves on several national and international scientific boards, panels, and committees.

Materials Science and Engineeering, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Self-Assembly, Supramolecular Chemistry, Drug Delivery, Tissue 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. Main field of his interests is chemical technology, chemistry and physical chemistry, nanotechnology, material science and engineering, 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 carbonaceous adsorbents, numerical analysis, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energies, electrical energy markets and problems connected with waste management as well as economics and management. 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 Mirosław 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”.

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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.

Materials Engineering, Artificial Intelligent Systems, Smart Materials & Composites, Industrial Engineering & Management, Product Design & Development, CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics & Automation,

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.

Nanotechology, CNT Graphene,Polymer Materials

Professor Brian Yuliarto is serving as an associate Professor at Faculty of Industrial Technology, Engineering Physics Department, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. After graduation of Bachelor at Engineering PhD program at Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science, The University of Tokyo Japan. He also spends several times as a postdoctoral fellow on National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Japan. He focused the research on the synthesis and fabrications of nano structure oxide and their applications on energy and environments. He has developed some nanostructure thin films of ZnO, ZnO-CNT, SnO2, SiO2, TiO2 for applications in gas sensors devices. For energy purposes, the natural dyes as well as TiO2nanoporous has been investigated to improve the light harvesting efficiency of the Dyes Synthesis Solar Cells. He published several papers on Analytical Chemistry, ACS Journal, Advanced Energy Materials, IEEE Sensors, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemicals and other reputation journals. He has presented his research papers in many international conferences at France, Japan, China, Austria, Dubai, Singapore, Korea, Germany and others. Now he is developing the Research Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology in Indonesia.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nano materials, Sensors,DSSC,

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.

Quantum cascade lasers, Nano Science and Technology

Professor Luísa M.D.R.S. Martins got her Chemical Engineering degree (1990), Ph.D. (1996) and Habilitation (2015) from IST, University of Lisbon. She is Researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Group) of IST and member of the Research Core Team and Executive Committee of PhD programme - Catalysis and Sustainability. She is (1996) Adjunct Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of ISEL, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and Vice-President of the said Department. She has authored more than 100 manuscripts, 12 patents and supervised 12 PhD and 14 Master students. She is also President of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society.

Functionalized Materials, Nanocatalysis, Electrochemistry

Reza Ektesabi, honored his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Hiroshima in Japan in 1986. He began his combined academic researches, industrial fabrications and know how generating technology professions in multi-disciplinary Bio-Nano engineering materials innovation field. During a long career that spanned three decades he had a tremendous impact on his research and industrial fabrication teams. He has a successful venture outcome in materials applied researches of high technology industries. His recent researches are linked with titanium foam structure materials applicable in bio-medical sectors as a compatible material fabrication, replacing as artificial human bones and implants which are bringing a paradigm shift for orthopedic clinical surgery. Also he achieved several manufacturing processes of this light weight and high temperature stand material for aerospace parts. In addition, he is CEO of the Canadian Nano Society, a non for profit advanced scientific nano-materials and nano-technology networking information center for providing a supportive growth environment, coaching and mentoring of researchers and entrepreneurs within Canada and beyond.

Multi-disciplinary Bio-Nano engineering materials innovation field

Prof. Dr. Boris Chichkov has completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has made Habilitation in physics in 1997 from the Hannover University. He is Professor at the Institut für Quantenoptik at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Since 2004 he is Head of the Nanotechnology Department at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. - one of the European leading institutes in laser development and laser material processing. He has published more than 400 papers in well reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of “Applied Physics A”; “Biofabrication”; “International Journal of Bioprinting” and “Materials Science and Engineering: C” Materials for Biological Applications.

Applications of lasers in micro- and nanotechnology for photonics, plasmonics and biomedicine, Multiphoton polymerization and development of novel photosensitive, bioactive and biodegradable functional materials as well as nano composites, laser technologies for the production of implants, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Education: Department of Physics, Leningrad University 1953; Department of Metallurgy, The Polytechnic Institute 1953; PhD-1962; Senior Researcher 1966; Res. Prof.- Dr. Sci. (Techn.), 1979; Research and Professional Experience: Central Research Institute of Ships Mechanical Engineering, leading researcher and head of laboratory of strength (1967-1991); The Polzunov Central Boiler and Turbine Institute, Chief researcher (1991-1996, 2003- until now); St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Professor (1997- 2015).

Structure and properties (creep, relaxation of stress, low-cyclic fatigue) of metallic materials at high temperatures,single crystal alloys) The theories of fracture and deforming of materials in complex programs of cyclic loading Corrosion of metallic materials and coatings in gas mediums, Calculations and experiments of construction strength and life estimation of parts, worked at high temperatures,Technological problems of hot treatment of alloys

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Detlef Bahnemann (PhD in Chemistry TU Berlin 1981, Habilitation in Technical Chemistry Leibniz University Hannover 2012) is currently Head of the Research Unit „Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology“ at the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany and also Director of the Research Institute Nanocomposite Materials for Photonic Applications at Saint Petersburg State University. His main research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry and photochemistry focussed on synthesis and physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. His more than 300 publications have been cited more than 26,000 times (h-index: 63 according to ISI).

Nanocomposites, Photocatalysis

Prof. Zulim completed his Ph.D in 1990 in Electical Engineering, Electronics, at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Zagreb, Croatia). Rsearch interests are in semiconductor electronic-devices and circuits, materials for photovoltaic energy conversion, solar cells, nanoelectronics. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals, and 10 of those are related to the field of nanotechnology (modeling and simulation of disordered structures). He has very fruitful collaboration with the Institute of Physics Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia (dr. Branko Pivac), the Walter Schottky Institute, Garching, Germany, the Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (prof. Isaac Balberg), Universidade Nova de Lisboa-CENIMAT, Lisboa, Portugal (prof. Elvira Fortunato) and Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, India.

semiconductor electronic-devices and circuits, materials for photovoltaic energy conversion, solar cells, nanoelectronics.

Ricardo Nuno Madeira Soares Branco is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Mechanical behaviour of materials. Fatigue and Fracture. Multiaxial fatigue life prediction. Low cycle fatigue. Numerical modelling of fatigue crack growth.

N.A. Sobolev published over 140 articles in ISI journals, 3 book chapters and more than 45 papers in refereed proceedings of scientific conferences, he held numerous invited talks at international conferences. He has repeatedly held Visiting Professor and Visiting Researcher positions at universities in Germany (Berlin, Jena – thrice, Ulm – twice) and Russia (National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Moscow – twice). N.A.S. is one of the pioneers of ion implantation and radiation defects studies in quantum-size semiconductor structures.

Magnetic materials, Nanostructures, Multiferroics and Memristive structures

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 Mirosław 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”.

Chemical technology, chemistry and physical chemistry, nanotechnology, material science and engineering, 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 carbonaceous adsorbents, numerical analysis, computer science, energy efficiency, renewable energies, electrical energy markets and problems connected with waste management as well as economics and management.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey in Solid State Physics. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He shifted to Firat University in 1980, and became professor in 1996, and He has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last three years (2014 - 2016) over 20 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), web: http://saise.org/, Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), web: http://www.sciei.org, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, web: http://www.iacsit.org/, The Academic World Education and Research Center (AWER-Center), web: http://www.awer-center.org/, and other institutes and companies. He joined as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair at 10 conferences held in 2017. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Martensitic phase transformations and shape memory effect and applications to copper-based shape memory alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

Dr. Ali Sabea Hammood earned his B.Sc.,M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Technology in Production and Metallurgy Engineering-Metallurgy Engineering. He was Head of Materials Engineering Department from 2007 to 2014.

Advanced Materials- Corrosion Engineering- Casting-Laser Treatment- Composite Materials- Biomaterials

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.

Materials Engineering, Artificial Intelligent Systems, Smart Materials & Composites, Industrial Engineering & Management, Product Design & Development, CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics & Automation

Dr. Rahul Mane is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He has received a doctorate in material science from Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He has published more than 54 research papers in, International Journals and 75 papers in International, National Proceedings of the Conferences. He has awarded with Departmental Research Fellowship (2006), UGC Meritorious Scholarship (2008) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Young Scientist Fellow by DST 2012 (Government of India). At the outset, Ministry of Science and Technology (DST-SERB,India) sanctioning Major research project under Fast Track scheme for Young Scientist. He has also published 01book & 07 book chapters. He is Reviewers of 46 Journals. He is served on the Editorial, Associate Editor & Advisory Board member for 15 journals. He is also served on a Member of Organizing Committee, Technical Programe Committee and Scientific Advisory Board for Several International conferences. He is Member of several material science societies.

Materials science, Nanotechnology, Synthesis and characterization of mixed metal chalcogenide thin films for solar cell application.

Ali Omar has PhD studinet and recived his Bscfrom Fuclty of Science chemistry department Al-Azhar University, Egypt and awarded his MSc from Helwn University. He have a big interest and passion in Materials preparation and applications. He have published many papers in several international journals such as physical chemistry chemical physics, RSC Advances, Materials and Design , materials science materials in electronics, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. Also He have experienced in synthesis of materials with different wet chemicals routes and characterization of the final samples products with different instrumentation. Ali Omar is a member of Electronic Materials Division. He was previously awarded a scientific mission to European Institute of Membranes funded from French Culture Institute and French embassy at Cairo.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Electronic materials ,Optical materials ,Materials for Energy Aplications , Etc…

Dr. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science, Executive Director of the Strathclyde Space Institute and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships at the University of Starthclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prior to his present positions, he was the Executive Dean (Engineering) and Associate Principal and at the University of Strathclyde, (till June 2017) and Head of Aerospace Sciences and Professor of Fluid Mechanics & Computational Science at Cranfield University (2003-2015). His expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research across a diverse spectrum of aerospace and mechanical engineering applications. His work has directly influenced areas as diverse as improved understanding of complex aerodynamic flows, compressible turbulent mixing in inertial confinement fusion, and novel gas filtration nanotechnologies based on carbon nanotubes. He has received: 1) The William Penney Fellowship Award (twice in 2008 and 2011) by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE Plc) in recognition of his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics. 2) The Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the Innovation Institute for a new generation carbon capture technology that uses carbon nanotubes for filtering out carbon dioxide and other gases at low or zero energy cost. 3) The Technical Achievement Award at the International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences. To date, he has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 400 papers/book chapters in the above technical areas.

computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces

Dr Sumsun Naher is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at City University London, London, UK. She graduated with a PhD from Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland where she then took up a Lecturing position in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Her research lies in the area of semi-solid processing, laser processing, simulation and modelling of materials processing technologies and materials characterisation. She has edited five books, co-authored five book chapters and written more than 100 international journal and conference papers. She received DCU Invent Commercialisation Award, 2011, for her innovation and commercialisation of laser peening process for the application of rock drilling hammer. To date she has supervised to completion four PhD students and three post-doctoral researchers. Currently, she is leading a research group of four full-time PhD students. She is an active reviewer of many national and international funding bodies including European Science Foundation and European Commission and also an external PhD examiner for European and Asian Institutes. Dr. Naher is an organizing committee member of many International Conferences and a Chartered Member of IMechE, UK and She was a main participant and management committee member in an EU COST Action Thixosteel project. In 2017, she was the Co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Materials Forming, Esaform2017.

Semi-solid processing, laser processing, simulation and modelling of materials processing technologies and materials characterisation

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 Honoris 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 (One of Goggle Scholar’s 1612 Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) and h-index–110+ with 60k+ citations; Web of Science h-index – 85+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry, 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry, 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds more than 25 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.

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, 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 is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotech

Professor Tong Lin received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1998. After several years of postdoctoral research, he joined Deakin University in 2003, and has served as Professor and Personal Chair since 2013. He has been an active researcher in the field of electrospinning, functional fibers and polymers. He contributes to the development of needleless electrospinning for large-scale nanofiber production and novel applications of nanofibrous materials in diverse areas. He has also been awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK).

Development of needleless electrospinning for large-scale nanofiber production and novel applications of nanofibrous materials

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 biomedical engineering at the University of Alberta (Canada, 2003-2013). Dr. Fenniri is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering , Bioengineering, and Chemistry 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.

Nanomaterials

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1995. He joined the National Research Council of 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 the editorial board for 7 scientific journals including “The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistry”, “Current Chemical Research” and the journal “Sensors & Transducers”. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at both Lakehead University and Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Laser Materials Processing

Dr S. Joseph Antony is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, U.K. He started his research career as an experimentalist in the area of photonic stress analysis and strength measurement of continuum bodies. However, over the past decade, his research focus is on the nano mechanical and micro mechanical modelling of particles and their roles in structural assemblies with particular emphasis on structure-property relations. His current research interests include Particulate Mechanics (MD, DEM,FEM Modelling): Nano, micro and macroscopic properties of powders and grains, Force transmission patterns in particulate materials subjected to mechanical, electrical and combined loading conditions, Strength of nano particulate composites, Developing composites for constructions from municipal wastes, Self-assembly and disassembly behaviour of mineral particulates, Sensing stresses in soft matter including human eye, Industrial productivity, and Equality and diversity issues in engineering research.

Molecular, Nano and Micro Mechanics, Granular Materials and Powder Technology, Space Engineering, Bio stresses, Extracting Resources from Wastes and Inter-disciplinary Research.

Dr Teng leads the Nanoelectronics Research Group in the College of Engineering at Swansea University. His research interest is in the study of nanoscale electronic materials and devices. This involves the application of nanotechnology in electronics, which has major impact in healthcare, computer, photonic and energy technologies. His research includes the investigation of low-dimensional electronic materials, such as graphene, metal-oxide and nitride nanostructures etc., in the development of ultra-sensitive nano-biosensors for the early detection of diseases, short-wavelength lasers for ultra-high density data storage and nano-plasmonics for photovoltaic technology etc. Dr Teng has the expertise in the fabrication and characterisation of nanoscale electronic materials and devices, as well as controlling their properties through surface engineering for novel applications. Other research interests includes dilute magnetic semiconductor for spintronics and the use of scanning probe microscopy and other surface science techniques for the study of semiconductor surface and interface. He has been awarded research funding from NHS-National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), The Royal Society, Welsh Government, HEFCW, Sir Halley Stewart Trust and industries etc. He serves as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances.

Research includes the investigation of low-dimensional electronic materials, such as graphene, metal-oxide and nitride nanostructures etc., in the development of ultra-sensitive nano-biosensors for the early detection of diseases, short-wavelength lasers for ultra-high density data storage and nano-plasmonics for photovoltaic technology etc.

PhD in Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino and Professor of Physics of Matter since 2001 at Politecnico di Torino. In 1999 he was the founder of the Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino. At the present he is Responsible of the Lab with a Research Staff working in the field of micro-technologies and nano-science (http://www.polito.it/micronanotech). Since 2003 he is Coordinator, for the Polytechnic of Turin, of the International Master of Science in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems (POLITO, INP Grenoble, EPF Losanne: http://www.master-nanotech.com/). Since 2005 he is Coordinator of the National MIUR Excellence Laboratory “LATEMAR” funded by FIRB 2003 call (http://www.latemar.polito.it/). From March 2011 to May 2016 he was Director of the Center for Space Human Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (http://shr.iit.it ). From May 2016 he is Senior Scientist and P.I. of “Advanced Materials Lab” at Italian Institute of Technology (https://www.iit.it/lines/advanced-materials )

Micro-technologies and nano-science

Vahid Jabbari area of interest falls in Polymer Chemistry & Engineering, Organic Synthesis, Cosmetics, Coatings, Pigments and Paints, Organometallics, Catalysis, Materials Chemistry. He has over 40 publications including patent, book chapter, conference papers and articles. He is editor and referee of number of prestigious scientific peer-reviewed journals. He also served as committee member of numerous international conferences worldwide in USA, UK, Italy, Spain, France, China, Turkey, India, Greece, UAE, Czech Republic, New Zealand.

Polymer Chemistry & Engineering, Organic Synthesis, Cosmetics, Coatings, Pigments and Paints, Organometallics, Catalysis, Materials Chemistry

Zhidong Zhang completed his PhD from Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. He is the head of magnetism and magnetic materials division of IMR. His research interests are focused on permanent magnetic materials, nanocomposited magnetic materials, electromagnetic and transport properties of low-dimensional materials. He has been working also on topological spin configurations and their contributions to physical properties of materials. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals, He serves on Editorial Boards of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2000-2003), Scientific World Journal, Acta Metallurgica Sinica, and Program Committee for international conferences such as ICM, MMM and IEEE InterMag.

Rare – earth - transition - metal compounds. Magnetic thin films, multilayers, quantum wells, quantum dots. Magnetic nanoparticles and nanocapsules. Permanent magnets. Giant magnetoresistance materials. Giant magnetostrictive materials. Magnetocaloric materials. 3D Ising model; Critical phenomena.

Tseung-Yuen Tseng is now a Lifetime Chair Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University. He was the Dean of College of Engineering and Vice Chancellor of the National Taipei University of Technology. Dr. Tseng’s professional interests are electronic ceramics, nanoceramics, ceramic sensors, high-k dielectric films, energy materials and devices, ferroelectric thin films and their based devices, and resistive switching memory devices. He has published over 370 research papers in refereed international journals, 160 conference papers, 7 books, several book chapters, and held 33 patents. He invented the base metal multilayer ceramic capacitors, which have become large scale commercial product. He has received Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council, IEEE CPMT Exceptional Technical Achievement Award and Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award , Academic Award and National Endowed Chair Professor of Ministry of Education.

Electronic ceramics, nanoceramics, ceramic sensors, high-k dielectric films, energy materials and devices, ferroelectric thin films and their based devices, and resistive switching memory devices.

Has obtained Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 1995. He has been a research fellow and academic at leading institutions, including University of Nottingham (UK), Queen Mary University of London (UK), National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (Tsukuba, Japan), Institute Neel (Grenoble, France). He has Broad expertise in Condensed Matter Physics, Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Energy and Biomedical Field. His main achievements includes over 24 Invited/Plenary Talk, 270 Papers in ISI Journals; 2 Books (indexed by Web of Science. Scopus, IET, etc) and 20 Book Chapters; Editor (20) and Regular Reviewer (40) for International Journals.

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science & Engineering; Renewable Energy; Neutron Diffraction; Biomedical Applications, Environmental Nanotechnology; Materials for Aerospace; Spintronic.

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 33 with more than 7500 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).

Development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery

Research fields: solid state physics and chemistry Conception and characterization of rare earth doped materials for optical applications (laser, imaging, photovoltaic, thermal sensing): nanocomposite glass-ceramics, fluoride glasses, transparent fluoride ceramics, single nano-objects. - 117 references in ISI WoS (of which 51 with impact factor > 2), 6 book chapters, 19 proceedings, 187 communications (of which 25 invited international lectures). - Supervisor of 11 PhD, 7 postdoctoral researchers, Supervisor of 13 research contracts - Referee for more than 30 international journals and National Agencies for research

Conception and characterization of rare earth doped materials for optical applications (laser, imaging, photovoltaic, thermal sensing): nanocomposite glass-ceramics, fluoride glasses, transparent fluoride ceramics, single nano-objects.

Dr. Lukasz Witek is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Department of Biomaterials at New York University (NYU). Dr. Witek is also the Lab Director of the Materials and Testing Laboratory with the Department of Biomaterials. Dr. Witek conducts research on dental and orthopedic materials, especially those composed of ceramics and titanium alloys. Additionally, the majority of the research Dr. Witek focuses on the use of 3D printers to print custom scaffolds for bone regeneration. Dr. Witek obtained his B.Sci. in Biology from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA), M.Sci. in Biomaterials and Biomimetics from New York University (New York, NY), and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a focus on materials science from Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK). In 2014 Dr. Witek received the Jean & Robert Schuetz Distinguished Graduate Fellowship at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Witek has authored and co-authored over 25 publications in biomaterials

Dental and Orthopedic Materials,Ceramics and Titanium alloys

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, 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 is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotechnology

Dr Evangelos Kordatos is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Materials Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is also Course Leader of BEng/MEng Materials Engineering. Dr Kordatos graduated with a MEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2008. He received his MSc in Chemistry and Materials Technology and his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Ioannina in 2013. Upon the completion of his PhD, he became a Postdoctoral research associate at the Texas A&M University, Texas (USA). Dr Kordatos’ research is focused on the study of the mechanical and thermal behaviour of advanced materials, such as Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs), Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs), Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs), Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), smart materials, etc. He has worked extensively on the non-destructive monitoring of materials behaviour developing advanced NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) methodologies based on Infrared Thermography, Acoustic Emission and Ultrasounds.

Research Interest: • Non-destructive methodologies for real-time monitoring of damage • Mechanical behaviour of advanced materials • Life prediction and quantification of damage in materials and structures • Energy efficiency of buildings

Hiroyuki Serizawa is a primal researcher of Japan Atomic Energy Agency. His major is thermodynamics and crystallography. His Resent interest includes a formation and shape control of a cavity named negative crystal that is formed by a precipitation of helium in ceramics. He is a Representation researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research（B）Representation researcher of JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23246174. From 2017, he will investigate the formation mechanism of the negative crystal for three years with his colleagues.

Precipitation of helium in ceramics ,Formation mechanism of the negative crystals

Prof Maligno holds a Laurea Degree in Nuclear Engineering (University of Palermo, Italy). Prof Maligno then completed his PhD in Mechanics of Composite Materials at The University of Nottingham (UK). Prof Maligno has significant experience in the R&D analysis and design of structural components. He has been involved in several multi-disciplinary research and industrial projects aimed to investigate the response of advanced engineering materials and structures to various types of external loading and environmental conditions, using a combination of analytical, numerical and experimental techniques. Prof Maligno has worked in Academic institutions at the University of Palermo (Italy); The University of Nottingham (UK); Loughborough University (UK). Prof Maligno held several positions in Industry and Consultancy sector in the field of aerospace, defence, nuclear engineering. He also worked for Rolls Royce UTC as a Research Engineer in collaboration with the University of Nottingam (UK). Prof Maligno has been appointed Professor of Composite Materials at the Institute of Innovative Sustanable Engineering (IISE) - University of Derby. In this role he leads research related to the mechanics of composite materials, design and analysis of advanced structures with particular emphasis on hybrid structures for harsh environment, high temperature applications in the aerospace, defence, energy industry.

Mechanics of composite materials, design and analysis of advanced materials (including C/C, SiC/SiC, MMC composites) and structures for harsh environment, high temperature applications in the aerospace, defence, energy industry.

Marina Davydova is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Physical Foundation of Strength of Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics Ural Branch Russian Academy of Science. She received a Ph.D. (“Structural-kinetic simulation of the fracture of composite materials”) in 1988 in Mechanics of Solids from the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics (ICMM), Perm, Russia. More than thirty years she works at the ICMM. First her works were devoted to the simulation of fracture of heterogeneous brittle materials, then her researches focused on the application of fractal theory for the characteristic of fracture process. Following research developments included experimental and theoretical study of fragmentation of brittle material such as glass, quartz, ceramic, granite. Her resent researches involve the study of influence of ceramic structure on fragmentation. She is the author and co-author of around 30 publications on materials science in indexed journals.

Brittle fracture, Fragmentation, Glass, Quartz, Ceramics.

Lavinia Curecheriu is Assistant Professor at Departament of Physics from the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. She graduated in Biophysics at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. Afterwards, she completed the Ph.D in Physics in 2010 at the same university. She has 10 years of experience in investigating by a combined experimental and theoretical approach fundamental phenomena in multifunctional oxides with polar order (ferroelectrics and multiferroics) in relationship with their composition and micro/nanostructure. She has published 56 articles in ISI peer-reviewed journals. For her research activity, she was awarded with: Award "IUVENTAS SCIENTIAES" given by UAIC for young researcher for 2014-2015; Young researcher in Science and Engineering in 2015, and “L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Romania for Women and Science Award 2017”.

Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics , multifunctional oxides with polar order ,

Edesia Sousa is a Scientific Researcher at the Nuclear Technology Development Center, CDTN – Brazil and a team leader of the Laboratory of Multifunctional Nanostructured Materials. She completed his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais in the year 1990. In 1993 she received her MSc in Materials Engineering and in 1996 she obtained PhD in Materials Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil. After obtaining PhD, she conducted research at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr Sousa's current research interests include Materials Engineering and Metallurgy, with emphasis on Ceramic Materials, working mainly on the following topics: silica mesoporous materials, hybrid systems, sol-gel process, boron nitride nanotubes, hydroxyapatite nanorods and magnetic nanoparticles for use as biomaterials for diagnosis and therapy.

Silica Mesoporous Materials, Hybrid systems, Sol-Gel Process, Boron Nitride Nano tubes, Hydroxyapatite Nano rods and Magnetic Nano particles for use as bio materials for diagnosis and therapy

Lidija Curkovic has published 150 papers, of which 55 research papers in CC journals. She has written a book and five book chapters. She has presented papers in over 30 international and national conferences. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals: Transactions of FAMENA, Advances in Materials, ISRN Corrosion, The Holistic Approach to Environment. She was the project leader of 6 scientific and technological projects, and worked as an associate at many research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Currently she leads a bilateral Croatian-Serbian project. She is now the leader of the research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation: WECOR Monolithic and Composite Advanced ceramics for Wear and Corrosion Protection.

Material Science and Engineering , Nanomaterials,• Characterization,Advanced Ceramics,Composite Ceramics based on alumina-zirconia,Functional nanostructured ceramics films for advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for water purification.

Dr. Julián J. Reinosa develops his work at Ceramics and Glass Institute of the Spanish Research Council in Madrid (Spain). He received his Chemist Degree by Autonoma University in Madrid in 2006 and his phD at the same university in 2011. In order to obtain multifunctional materials, he achieved ceramic glazes with bright metallic effect, bactericide characteristics and hydrophobic properties thanks to the incorporation of nanotechnology to traditional ceramics. He studied several dispersion methods for nanoparticles and enhanced properties were observed in systems as ZnO/TiO2, where high UV absorption was reached as the disadvantages of nanoparticles decreased. Also he applied the dispersion methods of nanoparticles in compositions made of several raw materials for its sinterization by using microwaves energy. The use of correctly dispersed susceptors supposed higher efficiency systems. J. J. Reinosa is a member of the research spin off AD-Particles whose activity is related to the dispersion of nanoparticles

Ceramics , Nanoparticles

Dr. Rosalía Poyato completed her B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Seville and received her PhD in Applied Physics at the Autonoma University of Madrid. After obtaining PhD, she developed her research at University of Connecticut and Ohio State University (USA), as a postdoctoral research Fulbright fellow. At this moment, she is a Tenured Researcher at the Materials Science Institute of Seville and her current research interests include processing and characterization of ceramic composites including carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes and graphene). She has co-authored over 50 papers in international journals. Dr. Poyato is now co-leader of a research project funded by the Spanish National Science Foundation and the European Feder Funding: Processing and microstructural, mechanical and electrical characterization of ceramic-graphene composites

Processing and microstructural, mechanical and electrical characterization of ceramic composites including carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes and graphene)

Ilaria Cacciotti is Associate Professor of Materials Science & Technology and Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering at the University of Rome "Niccolò Cusano". She graduated in Medical Engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Master of Science Award ‘Fondazione Raeli’). Afterwards, she completed the Ph.D in Materials Engineering (Ph.D Thesis Award ‘Marco Ramoni 2011, Ph.D Thesis Award AIMAT 2012) and she obtained the II Level Master degrees in “Forensic Genetics” and in "Protection against CBRNe events". She is expert in the synthesis, processing and characterisation of materials, particularly for applications in the biomedical, environmental and agro-industrial sectors. She has published more than 70 articles in ISI peer-reviewed journals, is reviewer for more than 50 peer-review journals, is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals and serves on various grant review committees. For her research activity, she was awarded with: 8th CCT Award “Best Oral Presentation for Young Researchers”, 10th International Award "Giuseppe Sciacca" for Young Students, European Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Doctoral Award 2011, "Top Cited Author 2011-2012 ChemEngJ", “Young Researcher Award Elsevier "Materials Science and Engineering C" 2014, Good Energy Award 2016, “L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Italy for Women and Science Award 2011”, “Under 35 Talents in Lazio”.

Bioceramics, Biopolymers, Biocomposites, Agri-food waste materials, Tissue engineering, Biomedical implants, Drug delivery, Biopackaging

Prof. Zdenek Sofer is an Associated Professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague since 2013. He received his PhD also at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. During his PhD he spent one year in Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany) and also one postdoctoral stay at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Research interests of prof. Sofer concerning on Nanomaterials , Graphene based materials and other 2D materials, its chemical modifications and Electrochemistry. He is member of Editorial board of Flatchem. He has published over 250 articles, which received over 3500 citations (h-index of 31)

2D materials synthesis, chemistry, modifications and characterization Wide band-gap semiconductor and thermoelectric materials

Irena Žmak graduated Mechanical Engineering and completed Master’s and PhD studies in Materials Engineering at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, where she currently holds the tenured assistant professor position at the Department of Materials. Her primary research and teaching fields include the artificial neural network modelling of material properties and process parameters, and the analysis of structure and properties of composite materials, modern bio- and biodegradable materials, and materials recycling. She teaches advance materials technologies too. She has published many scientific papers in relevant scientific journals, edited a special issue of a high-impact journal, written a few book chapters, and edited two conference proceedings .

Artificial Neural Network Modelling of Material Properties and Process Parameters,Analysis, Structure and properties of Composite Materials, Modern Bio- and Biodegradable Materials,Materials Recycling

Dr. Xiaojian Mao is an associate professor at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS). Dr. Mao got his PhD degree at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, and then worked as a Postdoc at Risoe DTU in Denmark in 2009-2010. He worked as an associate professor at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics since 2012. He was the winner of Shanghai technological invention award, Shanghai Rising-Star of young scientist. He was a visit researcher at NIMS Japan in 2016 and got the support of “One Hundred Person Project” of SICCAS in 2017. Dr. Mao focuses his research on transparent ceramics and the application for infrared windows and domes. He is the coordinator and participant in about 10 projects in the field of transparent ceramics and infrared windows and domes. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and applied 30 patents on ceramic materials and ceramic processing

Transparent ceramics, Ceramic Processing, Infrared Materials

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.

Professor of “BioChemical Engineering Fundamentals” and“Chemical Engineering for BioMedical Systems”at the Department of Chemical Engineering Materials & Environment of Sapienza University of Rome, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Chemical Engineering

His research activity has been mainly focused on the development of innovative chemical and biotechnological processes for the recovery of high value-added compounds from by-products and agro-industrial residues, such as lycopene from tomato waste and phenolic antioxidants from artichoke and bilberries waste, olive pomace and coffee grounds. He also examined the possibility of including the extracts obtained in consumer food products to get new functional foods with high antioxidant activity.In the field of enzyme technology, he studied the use of multienzyme systems with enhanced activity for the recovery of lipids and bioactive compounds with high added value from microalgae.He is the author of over 60 scientific publications and several industrial patents, ranging from the biochemical extraction of valuable compounds to the fibers recovery for material applications.

Dr Anshuman Srivastava, obtained his Ph.D in the field of Material Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He has worked as a Joint Director (R and D), IIP Mumbai, Government of India. Presently, he is working as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, SIET Allahabad, India. He has published many research papers in journals like Composites Science and Technology, Journal of Power Sources, Material Research Bulletin and many others. He is life member of various professional bodies like Electron Microscopy Society of India, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), IAENG Society of Industrial Engineering, IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering, Material Research Society of India, Indian Society for Technical Education, Asian Polymer Association, Indian Society for Advancement in Material Processing and Engineering. Presently he is guiding several under graduate and post graduate research work.

Polymer matrix composites, Metal matrix composites, Natural fibre reinforced Epoxy based Composites, Biocomposites and Nanocomposites.

Dr.Alessandra Vitale received her M.Sc. degree in Material Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and in Polymers for Advanced Technologies from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, in 2010. She obtained her Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Roberta Bongiovanni. In her laboratory, Alessandra investigated innovative polymers and technologies for the fabrication of microfluidic devices.She has won the AICIng (Italian Association Chemistry for Engineering) Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. In 2014 she was engaged as research associate in the group of Dr. João Cabral at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. In 2016 Dr. Vitale joined Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where she currently works as assistant professor with time contract. She has authored more than 25 research publications in peer-reviewed journals and several international conference proceedings. She is a member of the American Chemical Society. Her research interests include photopolymerization processes and methods for micro- and nano-patterning.

Photopolymerization processes;methods for micro- and nano-patterning; electrospinning; fluoropolymers and polymers surface science.

Alexander Böker is director of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) and holds the Chair for Polymer Materials and Polymer Technology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He received his PhD from Bayreuth University in 2002 working with Prof. G. Krausch and Prof. Axel H.E. Müller. From 2002-2004 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas P. Russell at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2006 he received a Lichtenberg-Professorship funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. Besides being Founding Editor-in-Chief of Polymers, Alexander Böker is Member of the Reimund Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering in Beer Sheva, Israel, Member of the International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics (Wiley-VCH) as well as the Editorial Board of Colloid & Polymer Science (Springer) and Polymer (Elsevier). He published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and received the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2015

Guided self-assembly of block copolymer systems, hierarchical (bio)nanoparticle assemblies and the control of self-assembly processes via external fields.

Lars Montelius defended his thesis in 1987 at Lund University and during 1988-89 he spent a Post-doc year at IBM, Yorktown Heights working with Scanning Probe Microscopy. In 1989 he was appointed as Head of the Nanometer Laboratory at Lund University. His 25+ years of work in nanotechnology has centered around scanning probe microscopy & spectroscopy & luminescence & imaging & manipulation of low-D structures, electron & ion beam and nanoimprint lithography & processing applied to single electron tunneling, quantized conductance and various bio and NEMS-devices. Lars Montelius H-index is 32 and he has given more than 70 personally invited talks, filed 22 patent applications and published more than 170 publications giving rise to 3.639 citations, with ≈250 citations per year over last 5 years. (Data from ISI Web of Knowledge 2014-03-29). Currently he is the President Elect for IUVSTA: The International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications iuvsta-us.org/ and he is Working Group Chair of the two European Technology Platforms NANOFutures: The European initiative for sustainable development by Nanotechnologies www.nanofutures.eu and EuMat: The European Technology Platform for Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies: eumat.eu.

His 25+ years of work in nanotechnology has centered around scanning probe microscopy & spectroscopy & luminescence & imaging & manipulation of low-D structures, electron & ion beam and nanoimprint lithography & processing applied to single electron tunneling, quantized conductance and various bio and NEMS-devices

Alexander M. Seifalian (AMS) who is Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine and Head of Department with a multidisciplinary background from nuclear physics to physiology, nanotechnology, bio-materials, interaction of cells with nano-composite materials as well as working on stem cells. He is Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology (FIoN) and Society of Biology (FSB), and has published over 630 peer-reviewed articles, 41 book chapters and 10 international patents. He is currently serving as a Guest editor for Nano Reviews Journals. His current projects have led to the development of cardiovascular implants using nano-materials and stem cell technology, development of organs using tissue engineering and nano-particles for the detection and treatment of cancer. He was awarded the top prize in the field of nano-materials 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. He received the most innovative new product award in 2012 for the ‘synthetic trachea’ by European Life Science, Hamburg, Germany, and in 2013 was acknowledged by the international community for his outstanding achievements in Nano-science and Nanotechnology with the prestigious Nanosmat prize award in Granada, Spain. AMS has a significant track record with regard to generating impact through the translation of technology from the laboratory directly to the clinic, and has demonstrated that nano composite polymers are core to the next generation of surgical implants with highly successful outcomes in a number of pioneering projects. This led to the development of the world’s first synthetic trachea, nasal and ear reconstruction, lacrimal duct conduit, and small diameter bypass grafts for coronary artery and vascular replacemnet, which has enter clinical trials, all of which have been used as first-in-man. His experience in translational research has led to a number of cutting edge projects at various stages of development. For example, we have developed abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) stent-grafts, cardiac patches and transcatheter heart valves at the pre-clinical stage of development and will be ready for clinical trials in early 2015.

His research team is highly experienced in reaching planned objectives and delivery of projects of this nature. During his career he has led many large projects with multidisciplinary teams composed of scientists, engineers, and clinicians in collaboration with UK industry, all with very successful outcomes in terms of commercialization and translation to benefit patient healthcare including; i) commercialization of bypass grafts for vascular access and dialysis; and ii) development of laser activated vascular sealants, which have been commercialized, and many others medical devices currently in development

Dr. Ivoyl P. Koutsaroff is a Senior Member of Technical Staff working on new metal alloyed electrodes and doped oxide materials targeting improvement of acoustic wave filters’ performances, Technology R&D, Qorvo Inc., Apopka, Florida, USA. Prior to joining Qorvo, since 2005, for a decade, he was working as Principle Research Engineer at New Technology Center, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, responsible for ferroelectric thin film research, new functional oxide and electrode materials development, process integration and performance improvement of various rf-front-end devices (e.g., BST varactors and piezo-MEMS). He was core member of a national join collaborative project supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for development of tunable SAW filters combined with BST varactors monolithically integrated on the same chip. Since 1994, he had held several research and engineering positions at the Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology (ECAN), University of Toronto, Canada; Advanced Power Electronics Research Center at the AIST, Tsukuba, Japan; The GAO Materials Chemistry Research Group, University of Toronto; E&G Optoelectronics (Perkin-Elmer Optoelectronics), Montreal, Quebec and ComDev International Ltd., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. From 1999 to 2005 he has been engaged in manufacturing and development activities at Gennum Corporation (acquired by Semtech and ON Semiconductor) in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, where he was a Senior Technology Development Engineer, involved with development of low dielectric loss high density ferroelectric thin film decoupling and tunable capacitor devices used in RF-front-end communication modules and hearing aids applications. Being a manufacturing engineer from 1998 to 2001, he was actively involved in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and continuous process improvement activities for Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), Reactive Ion etching (RIE), RF sputtering, and Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTA) steps in different semiconductor class thin film devices production lines. His quality control optimization and monitoring methodology led to significant improvement of overall yield and robustness of the above processing steps used for the microdevice fabrication. He was a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in Ontario, Canada. He has authored more than 80 publications in the fields of III-V semiconductors deep levels, optical characterization of GaAs, AlGaAs, InP, GaN; dielectric and microwave properties of BST thin films, novel oxynitride perovskite dielectric thin film materials through combinatorial compositional and stoichiometric ratio libraries, and novel high density thin film capacitor device concept. In 2010 he received Murata Manufacturing’s Vice-President Special Technology Development and Innovation Award for the first industrial scalable fabrication of oxynitride perovskite dielectric thin films with enhanced performances. He has co-organized The Ferroelectric Thin Film Symposium as part of the MRS symposia (2003) and he chaired various international conferences, workshops and symposia. Dr. Koutsaroff founded and organized the First International Symposium on “Advances and Enhanced Functionalities of Anion-controlled New Inorganic Materials (ANIM1)”, as part of E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting which was held in Strasbourg, France, May 27-31, 2013. He was the lead Guest-Editor of the Special Issue on ANIM materials of the ACS Journal of Crystal Growth & Design (2013-2014). He was also founder and organizer of Kyoto Innovation Forum (KIF) seminars for the corporate executives and academia within Japan with lecturers invited from prestigious researcher organizations and private firms within Japan. Dr. Koutsaroff has given invited lectures at ISIF Symposia, MRS Symposia, FMA, ISAF, Ceramics Society of Japan, ICC3, ISSP, WCAM-2013, WCSM-2015, E-MRS 2015, etc. conferences as well various industrial R&C Centers in Japan, USA, Canada, Germany, France and Switzerland, co-edited proceedings in the ferroelectric thin films field, and he holds more than 40 patents. He is a member of the IEEE, the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), ASM International and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He also an Editorial Board Member of AU Journal of Technology, Assumption University, Thailand. Regular referee for JAP, APL and APL Materials, American Physical Society publications. He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from Sofia University in 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in Semiconductor Material Physics from Sun-Yat Sen University and Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1933.

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.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Detlef Bahnemann (PhD in Chemistry TU Berlin 1981, Habilitation in Technical Chemistry Leibniz University Hannover 2012) is currently Head of the Research Unit „Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology“ at the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany and also Director of the Research Institute Nanocomposite Materials for Photonic Applications at Saint Petersburg State University. His main research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry and photochemistry focussed on synthesis and physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. His more than 300 publications have been cited more than 26,000 times (h-index: 63 according to ISI).

Degree in Nuclear Engineering and PhD in Physics of Matter. Presently he is Professor of Physics of Matter at Polytechnic of Turin. Since 2004 he is Coordinator “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. His research activity is reported in more than 200 articles published in international journals. From March 2011 he joined to Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Nano-bio-technologies, Biomaterials, Materials for energy, Physics of nanomaterials

Pr. M.P Pileni is a Distinguished Professor at University P&M Curie, UPMC and Senior Researcher in Nuclear and Environmental Center, CEA, France. She is a member (1999- at present) and chair (2004-2010) of Institut Universitaire de France, IUF, which favors the development of high quality research and interdisciplinary projects among French universities. She has published more 450 articles with 18, 975 citations, 52. 27 average citations per item and h factor of 71. Over her carreer, she received the Langmuir award of the American Chemical Society, the lecture award of the Japanese Chemical Society, the research award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Descartes-Huygens prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts, Science and Emila Valori prize from the French Academy of Sciences, Catalán-Sabatier Lectureship award from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain, Life Achievement award from Journal Colloid Interface Science and Chalmers Lecture award, Prix Pierre Sue from the French Chemical Society. In addition, she received the French citation award laureate from the Institute of Scientific Information for most quoted French scientist between 1981 and 1998. She has developed strong collaboration with Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft in Berlin, the University of Canberra, Australia and Chalmers University in Sweden.

Prof. Pileni research has been highly interdisciplinary over her entire scientific career, starting from biophysics to solar energy and developing nanoreactors to reach nano structures. Thanks to a fundamental understanding of the kinetics and mechanisms in colloidal solutions.

Frank Volke has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from University of Leipzig and postdoctoral studies from Leipzig University (biomembranes, soft matter), Oxford University (Biochemistry). He is the director of NMR-MRI section at Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert, a premier Bio-Soft service organization. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member for various scientific journals.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, and more

Piedad N de Aza studied Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and Ceramic at the Santiago de Compostela University where she received her doctoral degree. She did a postdoctoral stage at the IRC in Biomaterials at the Queen Mary & Wetsfield 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 with controlled microstructures making use of appropriated phase equilibrium diagrams and to study, a part of their physical properties, their behavior in vitro (sterm 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 by using SEM-EDX, TEM and HRTEM with EDS and micro-Raman spectroscopy.

Professor Pankaj Vadgama has completed his medical degree at the age of 23, chemistry degree at the age of 27 and his PhD at the age of 33 at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has worked as a hospital Chemical Pathologist, and has variously been Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Director of the Biomedical Materials IRC at Queen Mary University of London where he holds an appointment within the School of Engineering and Materials Science. He has published more than 200 publications in sensors and biosensors and is Editor in Chief of Bioelectrohmistry.

Biomaterials surfaces, membrane technology, biosensors, microfluidics.

Prof Maligno holds a Laurea Degree in Nuclear Engineering (University of Palermo, Italy). Prof Maligno then completed his PhD in Mechanics of Composite Materials at The University of Nottingham (UK). Prof Maligno has significant experience in the R&D analysis and design of structural components. He has been involved in several multi-disciplinary research and industrial projects aimed to investigate the response of advanced engineering materials and structures to various types of external loading and environmental conditions, using a combination of analytical, numerical and experimental techniques. Prof Maligno has worked in Academic institutions at the University of Palermo (Italy); The University of Nottingham (UK); Loughborough University (UK). Prof Maligno held several positions in Industry and Consultancy sector in the field of aerospace, defence, nuclear engineering. He also worked for Rolls Royce UTC as a Research Engineer in collaboration with the University of Nottingam (UK).

Prof Maligno has been appointed EPM-Technology Chair and Professor of Composite Materials at the Institute of Innovative Sustanable Engineering (IISE) - University of Derby. In this role he leads research related to the mechanics of composite materials, design and analysis of advanced structures with particular emphasis on Nano-Augumented/Nano-Engineered hybrid structures for harsh environment, hight temperature applications in the aeroaspace and motorsport industry. Also, Prof Maligno coordinates the research and development activities in the new state-of-art facitlities at EPM-Technology in Derby.

Dr. Annamaria Cucinotta received the B.Sc. degree (Honors) in Physics from University of Parma, Italy, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Parma, in 1999. Since 2002 A. Cucinotta has been member of the Faculty in the Department of Information Engineering at University of Parma. She is in charge of the “Laboratory of Optical Components” at the same Department. The main research interests of A. Cucinotta include fiber lasers, photonic crystal fibers also called microstructured fiber, biosensors and numerical methods for electromagnetic field analysis. Her research bridges from optical sciences to material engineering. Cucinotta's work is published in over 60 archival journal publications and numerous conference presentations. A. Cucinotta co-authored the books "Photonic Crystal Fiber Properties and Applications” (Spinger, 2007). She is also author of the e-book chapter " Photonic Crystal Fiber: Theory and Fabrication", (Bentham Science Publishers, 2011). Since 2007 she is an independent expert for the European Commission. She is a member of the EU Photonics21 Work Group 7 (Research, Education and training), fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEM). She is Associate Editor of IEEE Photonic Journal. She acts as a technical program committee member for many international conferences. Prof. Cucinotta teaches the Photonic and Photonic Devices courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering, and Electromagnetic Field for the undergraduate level course in Prevention in Environment and Workplaces of the Medical School of the University of Parma. From 2007 to 2012 she was the Socrates Erasmus Programme Coordinator at the Department of Information Engineering. From January 2015 she is in charge of the Alumni Job Placement for her Department.

Prof. Yuyuan Zhao obtained his BEng and MSc degrees from Dalian University of Technology, and PhD degree from Oxford University. He is currently the Head of Centre for Materials and Structures of the School of Engineering, the University of Liverpool. His current research is focused on the manufacture, characterisation and applications of porous metals and metal matrix syntactic foams. Prof. Zhao was awarded the Ivor Jenkins Medal in 2015 for his contribution to powder metallurgy in developing and commercialising innovative powder based technologies for manufacturing metal foams.

Porous metals, metal matrix syntactic foams, thermofluids in porous media

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 and serves on several national and international scientific boards, panels, and committees.

Materials Science and Engineeering, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Self-Assembly, Supramolecular Chemistry, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering

In 1962, Haruo Sugi graduated from Postgraduate School in the University of Tokyo with the degree of Ph.D.He worked in Columbia Uiversity as a research associate, and in National Institutes of Health as a visiting scientist from 1965 to 1967. He was a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University Medical Scool from 1973 to 2004, when he became Emeritus Professor.

Dr. Itai Pelled is a polymer specialist that was involved in biopolymers in both medical devices and more recently, food packaging. He is leading over the past two years the R&D Group in TIPA Corp, a start-up company in the bioplolymers and food packaging that focused on end-of-life solutions for flexible packaging. Prior to TIPA, Dr. Pelled was leading the polymeric material section (textile materials and components, coating and biomedical polymers) in the developing of Trans-catheter Heart Valve Program, in Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California); a global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Dr. Pelled background includes undergraduate degree in Chemistry, a master degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Ph.D. in biodegradable polymers (applied chemistry) from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He is also a co-inventor of ten patents.

Dr Kar Seng (Vincent) Teng is an Associate Professor and leads the Nanoelectronics Research Group in the College of Engineering at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Swansea University, and has extensive research experiences in the study of nanoscale electronic materials and devices. This involves the application of nanotechnology in electronics, which has major impact in healthcare, computer, photonic and energy technologies. His group has the expertise in the fabrication and characterisation of nanoscale electronic materials and devices, as well as controlling their properties through surface engineering for novel applications. His funded research includes the investigation of low-dimensional electronic materials, such as graphene, metal-oxide and nitride nanostructures etc., in the development of ultra-sensitive nano-biosensors for the early detection of diseases, short-wavelength lasers for ultra-high density data storage, nano-plasmonics for photovoltaic technology and fabrication of nanoelectronic devices using printing technology etc. He is also a Journal Editor for Fluorescent Materials.

Dr. Bingkun K. Chen is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of the Neural Component of the Biomaterials Characterization & Histology Core Laboratory, and Supervisor in Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Chen graduated with an M.D. in China, further studied in Germany, later received his Ph.D. in Japan, and recently earned his M.B.A. in the United States. Dr. Chen focus on spinal cord injury and regeneration. He developed and optimized two axonal tracing techniques, i. e. Bidiretional axonal tracing with DiI and DiO, and retrograde axonal tracing with Fast Blue (FB). By using tissue engineered technology with biodegradable polymer scaffolds loaded with growth-promoting cells (schwann cells, SCs) to bridge the transection, it might aim to shift the balance in the injured spinal cord towards healing and functional regeneration. Dr. Chen is currently serving on the Mayo Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Mayo Research Safety Committee. Dr. Chen also serves as the Chair of Chinese Student & Scholar Association at Mayo and Chair of Chinese Mayo Employee Resource Group. Dr. Chen has authored and published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles; in addition he has served as Editor, Associate editor and Editor-in-chief for a numerous books and bulletins, and as Reviewer for a number of journals in neuroscience

Spinal cord injury and regeneration by using tissue engineered technology with biodegradable polymer scaffolds

Dr. Nekane Guarrotxena earned her PhD in chemistry from the University of Complutense, Madrid-Spain in 1994. She held post-doctoral research positions at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d´Arts et Metiers, Paris-France (1994-1995) and the University of ScienceII, Montpellier-France (1995-1997). She was the Vice-Director of the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP)-CSIC (2001-2005). From 2008-2011, she was visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials at University of California, Santa Barbara-USA and the CaSTL at University of California, Irvine-USA. She is currently Research Scientist at the Institute of Polymers Science and Technology, CSIC-Spain. She has been involved for several years on the dissemination of Science and Technology of Polymers-plastics (where she served as a member of Scientific Committee of Escuela de Plasticos y Caucho and FOCITEC or Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology). She is Editorial Board member of several journalsand organizing committee member of several scientific and technological events. Her studies have been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books (also co-editor) and more than 21 book chapters

Synthesis and assembly of hybrid nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, and their uses in nanobiotechnology applications (bioimaging, drug delivery, therapy and biosensing

Dr. Dinesh Amalnerkar started his research career as Research Fellow at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, India & received Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Pune in 1982. He subsequently worked with Elpro International, Pune as Scientist till 1985. From Jan.1986 to April 1987, he had taken up the Visiting Assignment at Gifu, University, Japan & returned to join the post of Pool Scientist at NCL, India. In 1991, he joined Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology(C-MET) as a Scientist. From March 2009-November 2014, he served as the Executive Director (CEO) of C-MET and looked after its 3 centers located at Pune, Hyderabad & Thrissur. While placed at C-MET, he revisited Gifu University, Japan, during September-December 1993 & August-November 2000 as an AIEJ Researcher and worked as a Brain-Pool Visiting Scientist at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejon, Korea during 2006-2007.Besides,he had taken up short-term visiting assignments at universities/institutes in Singapore, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Recently, he has joined Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea as Brain-Pool Invited Scientist. His research contributions include 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals,12 awards for oral/poster presentations in various symposia,20 Indian Patents, 2 US Patents,1Book Chapter as well as 2 Technology Transfers. His current Scholar Google H index is 33. He is the Regional Editor of Current Smart Materials, Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Semiconductor Devices & Circuits, Recent Trends in Sensor Research & Technology. He is a Member of Academic Council, Board of Directors & Board of Studies of various State & National Universities across the India. He is also a council member of prominent professional bodies/societies. He is recipient of the Materials Research Society of India’s prestigious Medal Award for the year 2008 for his significant contributions in Materials Science and Engineering.

Jinn P. Chu is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He was appointed to the Dean of Office of Research and Development by the university in 2015. His research interests focus on sputter-deposited thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) for various applications. He has over 160 articles in refereed journals, 22 patents, 3 review articles, 1 special issue in TFMG. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Elsevier journal Thin Solid Films.

Materials Science, Sputter Deposition, Thin Films and Coatings, Metallic Glass

Dr. Habil. Simona Cavalu is Manager (director) of National and International Research Projects, reviewer for many International Journals. Invited professor (visiting) at Istanbul Technical University, Bezmialem Vakif University, University of Debrecen-Hungary, Meerut College India. She has won Daniel Bunea” Award of SRB for the most relevant contribution in the field of biomaterials, 2014; Excelence Award SRB 2015, Best Conference Chairperson EMN Biomaterials PHUKET 2016. Invited speaker at international conferences (10). She has published more than 100 papers in SCI journals and proceedings.

Acrylic cements for orthopedic and dental applications, bioceramics (alumina/zirconia, alumino-silicate, hydroxyapatite), polymeric composites for controlled drug release, animal model (in vivo biocompatibility tests), in vitro tests (cells culture, cytotoxycity, proliferation), antioxidative agents, nanoparticles green synthesis.

Dr. Meiyong Liao obtained his PhD in Materials Sciences in 2002 from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academicy of Science, China. he became a visiting assosiate professor of Kyoto University, Japan, from 2002-2004. After that he was a postdoctor researcher in National Institute for Materials Sciences (NIMS), Japan, from 2004-2008. Since 2008, Dr. Liao has been employed in NIMS as a Principle Researcher. He had also be a visiting researcher in CNRS, France (2007-2008), and Marie-Curie Fellow (2014-2015) in Aston Unvierstiy, United Kindom. He has published more than 140 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and Journal of Nanomaterials. The research subjects of Dr. Liao are focused on the wide-bandgap semiconductors electronics devices, photoelectrical devices, and MEMS/NEMS.

Wide-bandgap semiconductors, power devices, photoelectrical devices, MEMS/NEMS

Welding Metallurgy , Welding Technology , Welding Engineering , Hardfacing ,NDT

Dr Milica Marčeta Kaninski is Research Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry at VINČA Institute of Nuclear Science in Belgrade, Serbia. Dr Marčeta Kaninski received M.Sc. degree in 2005 and PhD in Physical Chemistry at University of Belgrade in 2009, with thesis Hydrogen Membrane Fuel Cells: Energy, Isotopic and Electrochemical Aspects. She has managed national and international scientific projects and published more than 30 papers in peer - reviewed journals. Dr Marčeta Kaninski is a member of Serbian Chemical Society and International Society of Electrochemistry ISE. She is also the reviewer in many journals, including Energy and Environmental Sciences, Electrochemistry Communications, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.

The main research interests of Dr Milica Marčeta Kaninski are focused on enviromental protection, and include (i) Hydrogen production: alkaline water electrolysis and development of electrocatalytical materials and activators, (ii) Fuel cells: development of PEM and alkaline fuel cells and materials for their construction.

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.

Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in 2006 and 2008 in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan which is ranked among Top 20 universities in the world. Dr. Hussain was ranked as outstanding student and was awarded the best research thesis, prize and medal from the University of Tokyo. He also completed his Ph.D. in a record short period of just two years. He is the editor of several ISI-indexed international journals. He has also served as guest editor for several international ISI-indexed journals. Moreover, he is one of the organizing chairs and member of technical committees for more than 3 dozen international conferences, symposiums and seminars. In addition, he is an active reviewer of many international ISI-indexed journals. Dr. Hussain has received more than 80 medals, awards, prizes and distinctions throughout his research, academic and professional career. Dr. Hussain has authored more than 165 research publications including ISI-indexed journal papers, international conference proceedings, edited books, editorials, expos, invention shows and exhibitions, technical reports etc. He is also an inventor of 6 US & WO international patents. He has secured about 20 national and international research grants worth millions of US Dollars. He is an active member of more than two dozen international societies, organizations, councils & committees.

Steel reinforced concrete technology - materials & structures, especially corrosion.

Sevil Dinçer İşoğlu received her PhD at 2006 in Bioengineering from Hacettepe University. She worked as visiting graduate student in University of Washington, Materials Science and Engineering during her PhD. Then, she worked as Asistant Professor in YTU Bioengineering beginning from 2006, and as research scholar in the University of Michigan between June 2014-May 2015. Dr. Dincer Isoglu has authored more than 25 research publications with about 900 citations and several international conference proceedings. She has been serving as an editorial board member in 3 journals. Her main research focused on biomaterials, polymers and drug delivery. Currently, she is working as Associate Professor and department head in Abdullah Gul University, Bioengineering.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery, Polymeric Carriers, Controlled Polymerization Techniques, Scaffold Fabrication for Tissue Engineering

Dr Ivana Validžić (maiden Mladenović) has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from the Van Hoff Laboratory of the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science of the Utrecht University. She is currently employed as a Research Professor in the Laboratory for the Atomic Physics, in the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University in Belgrade. She has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals. Dr Validžić is a member of European Society for Quantum Solar Energy Conversion, and MC Member of COST Action "Stable Next-Generation Photovoltaics" MP1307 representing Serbia.

Syntheses, application and self-assembly processes of V-VI group of semiconductors for photovoltaic application; Development of new solar cells based on undoped and doped semiconductor Sb2S3; Low light performance of solar cells;

Professor Brian Yuliarto is serving as an associate Professor at Faculty of Industrial Technology, Engineering Physics Department, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. After graduation of Bachelor at Engineering PhD program at Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science, The University of Tokyo Japan. He also spends several times as a postdoctoral fellow on National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Japan. He focused the research on the synthesis and fabrications of nano structure oxide and their applications on energy and environments. He has developed some nanostructure thin films of ZnO, ZnO-CNT, SnO2, SiO2, TiO2 for applications in gas sensors devices. For energy purposes, the natural dyes as well as TiO2nanoporous has been investigated to improve the light harvesting efficiency of the Dyes Synthesis Solar Cells. He published several papers on Analytical Chemistry, ACS Journal, Advanced Energy Materials, IEEE Sensors, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemicals and other reputation journals. He has presented his research papers in many international conferences at France, Japan, China, Austria, Dubai, Singapore, Korea, Germany and others. Now he is developing the Research Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology in Indonesia.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nano materials, Sensors, DSSC,

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

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

Dr. D. Niarchos obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D from National Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece and holds also an MBA in R&D from Loyola University. From 1978 to 1981 he was IAEC Distinguish Post-Doctoral Researcher at Argonne National Lab and from 1981 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, then moved to NCSR “D” in 1985 as Senior Researcher. From 1994-1999 he served as the Director of Institute of Materials Science of the NCSR Demokritos, from 1996-1999 as Vice President and from 2005-2010 as Director and President of the Board of the NCSR “Demokritos”. He is in charge of the group of permanent magnets, magnetic recording and sensors and advanced energy related materials. He is the author and co-author of more than 420 publications with more than 6500 citations with an impact h-factor 37, with funding in excess of 12MEURO. He has also trained 23 PhD students, more than 20 Master and numerous students towards their Diploma Thesis. He had served as advisor for the Greek Government and the EC.

Anton Liopo earned his PhD degree from the Institute of Physiology the National Academy of Science of Belarus (NASB). He later went on to join the Institute of Biochemistry of NASB, where he successfully worked to climb the ladder from a young scientist to a seasoned Senior Scientist, Associate Professor, and eventually the Director of Government Program. After moving to the United States, Dr. Liopo obtained trainings in molecular biology in Department Internal Medicine and nanotechnology in Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE) at the University of Texas, Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. Dr. Liopo was the leading researcher in nanoparticle-cell interaction at the CBE at UTMB. After successful work within academic research groups, he was invited to join TomoWave Laboratories Inc. (Houston, TX) where he was lead Scientist supervising the nanobiotechnology program and investigations of novel nanoparticles to develop molecular probe for improving molecular sensing, and contrast diagnostics and therapy. Now Dr. Liopo continues his investigations in Center for Radiation Oncology Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he is aiming on novel nanocomposites for enhancement of cancer radio-therapy. As Principal Scientist in Pinami LLC, Houston TX, he is focusing on study of light and sound propagation in different tissue. Dr. Liopo is also a visiting scientist in Department of Chemistry of Rice University, where he is responsible for study of nanocomposites for biomedical applications and trainings of post graduate students. Dr. Liopo has served for International Scientific Conference Committees in the USA, China, UAE and other countries. He is a regular reviewer and member of several editorial boards of scientific journals. Dr. Liopo has more than 75 peer-reviewed publications, including monograph, book chapters and patents.

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.

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

Pavle Radovanovic received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. Following his postdoctoral appointment at Harvard University, and started his independent research career at the University of Waterloo in 2006. At Waterloo he initiated a new research program in physical-inorganic chemistry focusing on the design, synthesis, and fundamental physical and chemical properties of multifunctional low-dimensional materials. His work has been recognized by number of honors and awards, including Canada Research Chair (NSERC), Early Researcher Award (Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation), Mobility Award (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and CNC-IUPAC Award.

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 Abbas Amini is an associate lecturer, a registered member of Western Sydney University graduate supervisory board at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics since January 2014, and the member of Work Health and Safety Committee of the same university. Before joining the Western Sydney University, he had conducted research with other Australian universities and CSIRO for five years, 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. Abbas started his teaching, industrial and scientific journey from obtaining an associate’s degree in mathematics from Dastgheib Teacher College, MSc and BSc in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and PhD in both nanotechnology and mechanical engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has also updated himself by 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, since then. With his intense schedule, he has been extensively involved in teaching for many years, and worked in industry, e.g., Magna Powertrain, Toronto, Canada, as a professional engineer and industrial designer for a period of six years. Dr Amini is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an active reviewer for and editor of several ISI journals, and a committee member of 12 international conferences to-date, including the co-chair of 8th International Conference of ICCAE 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Mar. 3-4, 2016.

Dr Amini's research focus in particular covers a wide range of multidisciplinary aspects: 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.

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.

Professor Michael Tausch, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, has been awarded the inaugural Heinz Schmidkunz Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCH, German Chemical Society). The award recognizes outstanding contributions to research into the teaching of chemistry, teacher training, and the development of material for teaching chemistry in schools. It was presented at the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum 2015 in Dresden, Germany, on August 31, 2015. Among other honors, Professor Tausch has received the Friedrich-Stromeyer Preis of the GDCh in 1994 and the Johann-Joachim Becher-Preis of the J. J. Becher-Gesellschaft in 2007.

Professor Tausch's work includes photochemistry in science education, curriculum innovation, and the development of didactic materials on silicones and cyclodextrins. Recently developed experimental kits and teaching materials refer to Photoprocesses in Science Education, Photo-SciEd, especially to: photo-, chemo- and electroluminescence, photogalvanic and photovoltaic cells, photoisomerisation and photocatalytic redox reactions. Experimental approaches to the elementary key steps occurring at molecular level are investigated and transcribed into printed and electronic teaching materials suitable for the communication of Photo-SciEd in close combination with convincing applications from technology and nature, such as: generation of light in energy saving devices (LEDs, OLEDs, fluorescence micro- and nanoscopy etc.), supply of electric energy from sunlight (photogalvanic cells, inorganic, organic and hybrid photovoltaic, fluorescence collectors etc.), sun light conversion and storage in long living chemical systems (the “sustainocene age” behind the capture and conversion of CO2”), thin layer photoreactors in living systems (in green leaves, human eyes, human skin etc.), the “photoreactor atmosphere” as a precondition for life on the planet Earth (stratospheric and tropospheric photochemistry), thin layer smart materials with molecular switches (photochromic and photoluminscent isomers in solid matrices).

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.

I was born in 1967. I get my Ph. D degree at Middle East Technical University at 2001. I have been working for Karadeniz Technical University, since 1993. Following the research assistant position I have worked as a full time faculty member at Mining Engineering Department. I have taught underground mining, mine support, mine ventilation, mine design natural stone processing courses. My research area is underground mining, rock mechanics, rock breakage (cutting, sawing). I especially interested in material properties of rock and their effects in mechanical processes. Additionally, I am working on coal bed methane and CO2 Sequestration. I am currently supervising a project on CO2 sequestration. I have supervised some projects supported by intuitional and national authorities. I took part in scientific and advisory boards of some national and international meetings.

My research area is underground mining, rock mechanics, rock breakage (cutting, sawing). I especially interested in material properties of rock and their effects in mechanical processes. Additionally, I am working on coal bed methane and CO2 Sequestration.

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.

Prof. Biezma studied Chemical Sciences, with Specialty of Materials Science and Metallurgy and obtained the special prize of PhD at University Complutense of Madrid, Spain, 1991, She is currently professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Head of Research Group of Degradation and Corrosion of Materials, at University of Cantabria, Spain from 1988. The main topics of research are devoted to looking for the relationship between microstructure of different metallic systems and corrosion behavior, stress corrosion cracking of rebar’s in concrete in marine environments, corrosion behavior of gas and petrochemistry pipelines, use the nondestructive testing by ultrasound to detect inner corrosion defects, or study wood properties. She usually visits University of Oporto, Portugal, University College of Horsens, Denmark, and University Technology of Wien, Austria, in Professor Erasmus Program. She has visited as research professor TUWIEN, Austria She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journals, attended more than 50 international and national congress and she is reviewer of Journal related to Materials Science, Corrosion and Civil Engineering. She participates at Marie Curie Program, Research Night, pointing out special attention to diffusion science to children. She is member of the Staff of Materials Spanish Society and belongs to European Federation of Corrosion European Society of Adhesion, etc. She has published some papers related to High Education Innovation related to the link Chemistry and Materials Science.

Materials Chemistry, material science, metallurgical engineering

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.

Dr. Yogeshwar Sahai is Emeritus Professor in Materials Science & Engineering Department at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus. He was a regular faculty member at OSU from 1983 to 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, England in 1979. He was a research associate at McGill University, Montreal, Canada before joining the faculty position at OSU in January 1983. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan during 1995-96. His professional interests include design optimization and improvement in materials processing for electrochemical devices. His current research interest is in the area of developing high efficiency and cost-effective Fuel Cells. Dr. Sahai has published over 150 technical papers in peer reviewed journals and refereed proceedings, and has published 4 books and six patents. He received many awards for his teaching, research, and professional service for the past 35 years.

Materials Chemistry; design optimization of materials; electrochemical devices; Fuel Cells

Alexander Gorin is a professor of Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. He is a holder of a conjoint Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and PhD degree in Engineering Science. Due to his achievements he has been awarded as well the Higher post-doctoral Doctor of Science degree and an Academic title of Professor. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK). His research in manufacturing and machining of advanced ceramics, composite materials, fundamental heat and mass transfer studies in porous media and fluid mechanics of separated flows, biofluidmechanics, multiphase systems, transport phenomena in living systems is widely recognized in the scientific and engineering communities. He has served on numerous organising committees for international conferences, has collaborated with various international institutions. He has published more than 200 papers, including books and patents. He is a member of Editorial Boards for International Journal of Energy & Technology, Bioceramics Development and Applications, Journal of Fluid Flow Heat and Mass Transfer and has been invited as a keynote speaker for many conferences, congresses, and symposia. More than 20 PhD students have been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for studies completed under the Prof Alexander Gorin’s supervision.

Manufacturing and machining of advanced ceramics, composite materials, biofluidmechanics, nanofluids, transport phenomena in living systems, transport phenomena in porous media, energy technologies

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.

Norman Dovichi holds the Grace-Rupley Professorship in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He received his BSc with a dual major in Chemistry and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University and his PhD in Physical Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah, where he was Joel Harris’s first PhD student. He spent two years at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Dick Keller. Since then he has held faculty positions at the Universities of Wyoming, Alberta, and Washington before taking his current position at Notre Dame. Dovichi has graduated 58 PhD students, has published over 275 papers, holds seven US patents, and has given over 350 invited talks. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of 16 journals and now serves as Associate Editor for Analytical Chemistry. He holds an honorary professorship with the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

research interests are: bioanalytical chemistry, single cell analysis, capillary electrophoresis, and developmental proteomics.

Jin Seok Hur received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in 2006. After, he joined Novasep in US as a process development scientist and became the R&D manager in 2008. From Sep 2011 to Dec 2013, he was responsible for the R&D and Pilot teams in Novasep at Pompey, France. Since he came back to Novasep US in Jan 2014, he has been responsible for the R&D and Technology.

His research interests have been in the area of downstream separation processes, especially, preparative chromatography and membrane. He has published several technical articles and presented seminars at academic and professional conferences.

Professor Zoltan Takats obtained his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. After returning to Hungary, he served as Director of Cell Screen Research Centre and also as Head of Newborn Screening and Metabolic Diagnostic Laboratory at Semmelweis University, Budapest. Professor Takats was awarded the Starting Grant by the European Research Council in 2008 and he subsequently was appointed to a Junior Research Group Leader at Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2012 and is currently a Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Director of Mass Spectrometry Research within Division of Computational Systems and Medicine, Deputy Head of Division of Computational Systems and Medicine. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of analytical chemistry and translational medicine, with more than 3000 independent citations. Some of these were published in Science, Nature, PNAS and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. He is primary inventor of eight analytical methods including Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry, which are commercially available from Prosolia Inc. and Waters Corporation. He is one of the founders of the field termed ‘Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry’. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Mattauch-Herzog Award of the German Mass Spectrometry Society and the Hungarian Star Award for Outstanding Innovators.

Mass Spectrometry

Graduated with an honour Master of Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. PhD Thesis at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. DSc Thesis (allowed to submit only after political change in 1989) at Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak Technical University Bratislava. Employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS) in Bratislava since 1960. 1992-1995 elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Served as President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and as Member of the Board of the Federation of European Chemical Societies. Corresponding member of the Central European Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Roumania, and member of the Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. Former titular member of IUPAC Polymer division and Chairman of Subcommittee of molecular chararacterization of synthetic polymers. Topics: Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of multicomponent polymer systems; liquid chromatography of synthetic polymers - author of five original methods for separation of complex polymer systems; preparation and application of microporous carbon fibers. Author or co-author of two monographs on liquid chromatography and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals (150+ in the Current Contents covered Journals), and in proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000 times in SCI journals and monographs. Presented over one hundred and ten invited plenary, key and main lectures, as well as over 900 lectures short communications and poster contributions during congresses, symposia and conferences and during lecturing tours to over fourty countries. Elected „Slovak scientist of the year 1999“ and „Slovak innovator of the year 2002“.

Interest in molecular characterization of complex synthetic polymers and complex systems of synthetic polymers

Dr. Adolfo Iulianelli, Degree in Chemical Engineering, is a Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Engineering. Nowadays, he works at the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council. He published more than 50 articles in international scientific ISI journals, more than 20 chapters in international books, author of one patent and a book and of more than 50 papers in proceedings of National and International Conferences. He is reviewer of more than 20 scientific ISI journals, Associate Editor of International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology, Editor of Journal of Membrane Science and Technology, Advances in Chemical Engineering and Process Technology, Journal of Fuels and Scientific World Journal as well as serving as guest editor for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. His H-index is today equal to 22.

1) Hydrogen production technologies. 2) Reforming reactions of both derived of fossil fuels and renewable sources. 3) Membrane reactors. 4) Gas separation via inorganic membranes. 5) Fuel cells.

Professor Petr Mikulášek has completed his PhD at the age of 33 years from University of Pardubice (Czech Republic). He was appointed professor for the field of Chemical Engineering in 2003. Since discharge, he worked at the University of Pardubice, now as the Head of the Institute of Environmental and Chemical Engineering. Prof. Mikulášek is the author of more than 70 scientific articles and chapters in scientific books and author and co-author of more than 120 contributions to international and national conferences. He is concerned with pressure driven membrane processes with a focus on treatment and disposal of waste-water.

pressure driven membrane processes and waste-water management

Dr. H. Nadaroglu has completed her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees at Ataturk University, Graduate Institute of Sciences, Department of Biohemistry (Erzurum, Turkey) on Bioorganic Reactions using purified carbonic anhydrase isoenzymes. She is scientific expert on process development on bioremediation of waste water, some nanobiotechnological applications onto environmental pollution and some industrial enzyme applications onto food technology (clarification of fruit juice, hydrolyzation of phytate ext.). She has published more than 120 papers in the field of biochemistry,food technology and nanobiotechnology journals and conferences.

Biochemistry, Enzymes Purification and Characterization, Biotechnology, Green synthesis nano particules, immobilization of some industrial enzymes, synthesis magnetic nanoparticules, Bioorganic Reactions, Spectroscopic Techniques.

Current position: Assistant Professor at the chair of Chemical Technology and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences

Research interest: Environmental Protection, Chemical Technology, Drinking Water Treatment Drinking water treatment is key scientific interest. Expertise in gas chromatography analysis of environmental samples for wide range of organic pollutants determination using GC/MS, GC/μECD and GC/FID. Experienced working in laboratory and pilot scale investigations, in particular relating to applying various drinking water treatment processes.

Dr. Bahtiyar OZTURK was born in Trabzon, TURKEY, in 1966. He received the B.Sc. and MSc degrees in Environmental Engineering from Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey, in 1987 and in1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Gas Engineering from the University of Salford, Manchester, England, in 1997. In 1997, he joined the Department of Environmental Engineering, Ondokuz Mayis University, as a Lecturer and researcher. He became an assistant professor in 1997, an associate professor in 2008 and a professor in 2013.

His current research interests include membrane technology, membrane gas separation, and renewable energy.

Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus

A/Prof Xiwang Zhang’ researches focus on development of novel functional materials and membrane processes for water and wastewater treatment and disinfection, particularly clean water production, resources recovery and energy generation from wastewater. The specific interests are listed as follow:  Fabrication of 1D, 2D and 3D photocatalysts;  Process design of photocatalytic oxidation for water treatment;  Fabrication of functional membranes, e.g. photocatalytic membranes, hybrid membranes;  Forward osmosis process for energy and resource recovery from wastewater;  Fabrication of Metal-Organic-Frameworks (MOFs) adsorbents;  Electrochemical oxidation process;

Current position: Associate Professor at the chair of Chemical Technology and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences Education: •2010- PhD in Chemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection •2003 - BSc in Chemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Environmental protection, chemical technology, remediation of contaminated water, soil and sediment, bioavailability of inorganic/organic pollutants in sediments/soils investigation, adsorption of inorganic pollutants on nanomaterials. Expertise in analysis of environmental samples for wide range of inorganic pollutants. Head of the Laboratory for the analysis of environmental samples accredited according to ISO 17025 protocols.

Dr. Pongsak Rattanachaikunsopon have earned his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Currently, he working as a Professor in the Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand.

Dr. Pongsak interested fields of research are Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry. My present research focuses on searching for biological agents such as microorganisms and plants to use as alternatives to control animal and human diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria.

Dr. Parichat Phumkhachorn is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand. Her main research of interest is in the field of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. My present research focuses on finding bacteriophages for use as prophylactic and therapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria causing animal and human diseases.

Dr. Parichat Phumkhachorn main research of interest is in the field of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Parichat Phumkhachorn present research focuses on finding bacteriophages for use as prophylactic and therapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria causing animal and human diseases.

Dr. CAGLAR ANDAC is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University. She studied Chemical Engineering, had Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees at Istanbul University, Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry on drug analysis in pharmaceutical formulations and biological fluids by spectrophotometric and liquid chromatographic methods. She conducted post-doctoral research at Medical Center of Munich University, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Laboratory of Bio-Separation with a main focus of hyphenation of mass spectrometry with on-line sample processing between the years 2011-2013. She has researches and publications on drug analysis in biological fluids by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, on-line solid phase extraction coupled liquid chromatography, multidimensional chromatography, spectrophotometry, spectrofluorimetry including validation, degradation and pharmacokinetic studies. She is also serving as reviewer for several reputed journals like Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography B, Luminescence, Journal of Fluorescence, Journal of AOAC International, Analytical Methods, Analytical Letters and some others.

Her recent research interests are on hyphenated systems, fully automated sample processing, on-line sample processing coupled with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, two dimensional and multidimensional chromatography.

Current position: Full Professor at the Chair of Chemical Technology and Environmental Protection. Education: •2005 - PhD in Chemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection •2000 – MSc in Chemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry •1997 - BSc in Chemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Water Analysis and Drinking Water Technology, Water and Sludge Treatment, Environmental Protection, Environmental Risk Assessment. Expertise in gas chromatography analysis of environmental samples for wide range of organic pollutants. Experienced working in laboratory and pilot scale investigations, in particular relating to applying various drinking water treatment processes.

Prof. Pranjal Chandra is currently employed as Assistant Professor and principal investigator in Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University, South Korea and did post-doctoral training at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. He has published over 40 research articles in reputed journals and 1 edited book (IET, United Kingdom). He is also a visiting scientist at IBST, South Korea. His work has been highlighted in the World news of Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge as "A new system for cancer detection” and also featured as a key scientific article in the Global Medical Discovery news Canada. He is recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships such as; Ramanujan fellowship (Gov. of India), BK -21 and NRF fellowship of South Korea, Technion post-doctoral fellowship, Israel, University of Montreal Post-doc fellowship, Canada. He is also editorial board member of a dozen international journals including; World journal of methodology, USA; Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, USA etc.

•Clinical Diagnostics (Cancer cells, DNA, RNA, bio-markers) using electroanalytical methods such as cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, impedance spectroscopy. • Nano-biosensors (Aptamer, antibody, enzyme) based biological phenomenon investigation. •Porous silicon based label free self reporting optical nanosensors. •Microfluidics

Joseph Pesek received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. He did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA before becoming Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northern Illinois University. He moved to San Jose State University becoming Professor of Chemistry and has also served as Department Chair, and Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. He has over 225 publications, 3 books, 4 patents and has made over 200 presentations at a variety of symposia and meetings. He is one of the editors for the Journal of Separation Science.

High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Capillary Electrochromatography

Employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Served as elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for IUPAC. Corresponding member of the Central European Academy of Sciences and member of the Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Author or co-author of two monographs and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals, proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000x. Presented over 110 invited plenary, key and main lectures, as well as over 900 regular lectures and poster contributions on symposia and conferences and during lecturing tours to over fourty countries. Elected „Slovak scientist of the year 1999“ and „Slovak innovator of the year 2001“.

Polymer sciences Separation Sciences HPLC

Dr Kamberi holds a double major in chemical engineering & industrial chemistry. She received her PhD from Oita University in Oita, Japan and completed postdoctoral studies from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Dr Kamberi has over 25 years of pharmaceutical experience with increasing levels of responsibility across functional disciplines including analytical R&D, bioanalytical, pre-clinical research, quality control and stability. She is currently the director of Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytical, Stability at Abbott Vascular in Santa Clara, California, a worldwide premier medical device organization. Marika is author/co-author of more than 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and of 10 US patents.

Analytical Chemistry, Biotechnology, GMP, Pharmaceutical Industry, Clinical Trials and Drug Development

Rudolf Kapeller received his Dr. phil.in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck. He worked as Analytical Chemist at the Bundesstaatliche bakt.-serol. Untersuchungsanstalt and since 8/1985 at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety – Institute for Food Safety in Linz; from 5/1996 to 12/2015 as Head of the institute. He has been the author of various publications in the field of analytical chemistry and food safety.

Analytical Chemistry in the field of Food Safety; Chemometrics, Statistics, Method Validation and Automation (Author of Computer Programs in this field)

Michael John completed his PhD with Horst Kessler at the Technical University of Munich in 2004, and then spent 2 years with Gottfried Otting at the Australian National University, Canberra. Since 2007 he is lecturer and director of the NMR facility at the University of Göttingen. His list of publications includes more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 25 conference contributions

Anisotropic and Slice-Selective NMR

Dr. Farid Menaa (Bsc. Eng., Bsc. Bio., Msc. Genetics, Master Gerontology/Geriatry, PhD Radiation Oncology and Gerontology, EMBA Entrepreneurship and MD candidate), is an inter- and multi-disciplinary professional. Professor, Principal Investigator, Director, Consultant Editor, Reviewer, Event Organizer and Entrepreneur, Dr. Menaa earned his degrees with highest distinctions from prestigious French universities and institutions. Dr. Menaa followed a post-doctoral in Oncology as a NIH-fellow (San Diego, California, USA; 2004-2007). Subsequently, Dr. Menaa pursed his career in Dermatology, and Stem Cells as a DFG-Fellow (Wuerzburg, Germany; 2007–2009). Then, Dr. Menaa was promoted as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President R&D at Fluorotronics, Inc. (CA, USA; 2009-2010), a nanotechnology and fluorine chemical company. Eventually, Dr. Menaa was appointed Principal Investigator in Hematology and Genomics as a FAPESP-Fellow (São Paulo, Brazil; 2010–2012). During his career, Dr. Menaa also followed complementary formations (e.g. Medecine, Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Food Sciences and Technology, Marine Biology, Nano-Biotechnology, Bio-Computation, Bio-Statistics, Business Development and Management, Technological Innovation and Quality). Overall, Dr. Menaa was involved in various R&D projects in multiple areas of medicine/nanomedicine, pharmacy/pharmacology/toxicology, biology, stem cells/tissue engineering, genetics/genomics, fluorine chemistry/biochemistry, biophysics/biophotonics, food science, technology/nanotechnology, and business). His main current focuses are related to preventive, personalized, translational, integrative and nanomedicine, especially in the areas of oncology, regenerative medicine and gerontology, in order to prevent and implement early diagnosis and efficient therapy. Dr. Menaa has a strong experience with teaching, research and development, supervision, edition, leadership, coaching, consulting, event organizations, scientific & medical collaborations in several countries. Dr. Menaa is, among others, the leading organizer of the Target Meeting´s 1st World Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology Online Conference 2013 (http://www.targetmeeting.com), co-organizer of “Nanomaterials Conference” 2013 (Beijing, China) and 2014 (Shenzhen, China), member of the technical committee of the “3rd ScienceOne Conference on Drug Discovery and Development” 2014 (Dubai, UAE). Dr. Menaa is a member of several prestigious organizations (medical and scientific societies), editor, guest editor and reviewer of a large number of esteemed journals worldwide (>50) (e.g. Current Medicinal Chemistry, International Journal of Nanomedicine, Current Organic Chemistry). Among them, he sits on the prestigious editorial boards of Current Drug Therapy (for which is also the lead guest editor of a special issue on nano-pharmaceuticals), Journal of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology (JNMN) (for which he is also a guest editor of a special issue on graphene), Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology (JBNB), and Journal of Nanomedicine and Biotherapeutics Discovery (JNBD). Dr. Menaa authored and co-authored more than 100 publications (including peer-reviewed ISI research and review articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents). Dr. Menaa is often invited as a speaker, keynote/featured speaker and (co-)chairman to reputed world congresses and institutions, where he is offering speeches in various areas of medicine, sciences and technology. During his spare time, Dr. Menaa enjoys family, arts, sports and travelling.

Nanomedicine,Nanobiotechnology,Nanotheranostics; Oncology, Gerontology, Dermatology, Stem Cells, Emerging Green Technologies, Personalized Medicine; Translational Medicine; Integrative Biomedicine; Innovation & Quality, Professorship, Entrepreneurship, Business Development/Management, Marketing.

Professor Jin-Ming Lin received his BA degree at Fuzhou University in 1984 and received a PhD at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1997. He had studied and worked in Showa University and Tokyo Metropolitan University during 1992-2002. He was selected as “100 Talented Researcher Program” for Chinese Academy of Sciences at 2001 and worked in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science during 2002-2004. He is currently a professor of Tsinghua University since 2004. He is a Deputy General-in-Secretary of Chinese Chemical Society, a member of council of Chinese Society for Chromatography Science, and service as Editorial Board for six international journals. He received more than 10 awards for his contributions in chemiluminescence and separation science. He is the author and co-author of 288 original research papers published in international journals, 28 reviews, 4 books and 41 patents.

Microfluidic device for cell analysis, Ultra weak chemiluminescence and chemiluminescent immunoassay, and sample pretreatment.

Bibliography: Prof and Dr Hideharu Shintani has received his PhD in Kyoto University during the period of 1972-1977. 1977-2008, He has been working for Government Official at National Institute of Health Science, Department of Medical Devices, Ministry of Health､Labor, Welfare. 2009-today, he is working as guest professor in Chuo University. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Japan delegate of ISO TC 198　and ICH. His research has included sterilization, analytical chemistry, and safety of medical devices. Based on these research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honors, such as Award of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs & expert Reviewers for journals like Biocontrol Science. He has authored Bioinstrumentation and Biosensors, 1990, Ohio Science Workbook Polymers, 1994, Analytical Applications of Immobilized Enzyme Reactors, 1994, Sterilization Systems 1995, Adsorption and its Application in Industry and Environmental Protection, 1998; Handbook of Analytical Application of Capillary Electrophoresis, 1996. Sterilization and Disinfection by Plasma –Sterilization Mechanisms, Biological and Medical Applications, 2011 research books. He is a member of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs, Society of Antibacterial and Aantifungal Agents, Society of Analytical Chemistry, Society of Pharmaceutical Science.

Sterilization, Solid Phase Extraction, HPLC,
Analytical Chemistry,
Pharmaceutical Science,and Sterilization Validation.

Dr. Paraskevas D. Tzanavaras received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 2003 from the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2003 his is a Lecturer of Analytical Chemistry at the same department. His is Editor of the Analytical Chemistry section of the international journal Central European Journal of Chemistry and Assistant Editor on Flow Injection Techniques of Analytical Letters. He has published more than 60 scientific papers in international refereed journals and he is an active reviewer for more than 40 international journals.

Automated sample preparation by coupling sequential injection SI to separation techniques HPLC, CE, GC Use of monolithic stationary phases in LC and low-pressure setups Development of novel methods for the derivatization and analysis of thiols in various matrices

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ismail Murat Palabiyik graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ankara and obtained PhD from Department of Analytical Chemistry, Facult of Pharmacy, University of Ankara. Currently, he is working in same department. His current researches are synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, DNA – drug interactions, investigating of anticancer effects of natural plant compounds, developing analytical techniques for drug analysis from dosage forms and biological fluids using with capillary electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, spectrofluorimetry and UV spectrophotometry. Beside this, for investigating effects of experimental factors on analysis in HPLC and CE methods, he utilized Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Also, he is specialized in chemometry and worked one year in department of pharmacology and studied diabetes treatment. He is a Visiting Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Analysis and worked with Professor Jos Hoogmartens group in liquid chromatographic column characterization. During his MSc and PhD period, he took a fellowship from TÜBİTAK – BİDEB, The Scientific Research and Technological Council of Turkey. His PhD thesis was awarded by University of Ankara. He is an editorial member of Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta and Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs:Open Access. He is a reviewer for journals like Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Journal of AOAC International, Talanta, Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Techonogies, Spectrochimica Acta Part A.

1. Synthesis and Characteriztion of Nanoparticles, DNA – Drug interactions. 2. Investigation of anticancer effect of natural plant compounds. 3. Drug Analysis in Dosage Forms and Biological Samples: Development and validation of new analysis methods for simultaneous determination of drug mixture using capillary electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry. 4. Chemometry: Simultaneous determination and analysis of drug mixture using chemometric techniques (Classical Least Squares, Inverse Least Squares, Principal Component Regression, Partial Least Squares. 5. Method Optimization: Using statistical and mathematical techniques (Response Surface Methodology, Artifical Neural Network, etc.) for developing, improving and optimizing processes and interpreting the relationship between response and factor effects.

Dr. CAGLAR ANDAC is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University. She studied Chemical Engineering, had Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees at Istanbul University, Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry on drug analysis in pharmaceutical formulations and biological fluids by spectrophotometric and liquid chromatographic methods. She conducted post-doctoral research at Medical Center of Munich University, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Laboratory of Bio-Separation with a main focus of hyphenation of mass spectrometry with on-line sample processing between the years 2011-2013. She has researches and publications on drug analysis in biological fluids by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, on-line solid phase extraction coupled liquid chromatography, multidimensional chromatography, spectrophotometry, spectrofluorimetry including validation, degradation and pharmacokinetic studies. She is also serving as reviewer for several reputed journals like Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography B, Luminescence, Journal of Fluorescence, Journal of AOAC International, Analytical Methods, Analytical Letters and some others.

Dr. CAGLAR ANDAC is eager to expand on knowledge in the field of Omics through both observation and experimentation methodologies. Her recent research interests are on hyphenated systems, fully automated sample processing, on-line sample processing coupled with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, two dimensional and multidimensional chromatography.

Dr Wahajuddin has completed his postdoctoral research in 2014 at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, USA). He is currently working as Scientist at Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism Division, CSIR Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India created by Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is also working as Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and as a Course Coordinator, MS (Pharm) in pharmaceutics, at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Raebareli under the aegis of Dept. of Pharmaceuticals, Govt. of India. He has won many prestigious awards including Young Pharmaceutical Analyst Award 2012 from Indian Drug Manufacturer’s Association, DBT- Cutting-edge Research Enhancement & Scientific Training (DBT-CREST) Award 2011-12 from Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India), SERB-DST Fast Track Young Scientist Proposal Award 2011 from Dept. of Sc. & Tech. Govt. of India.

His areas of research interest include pharmacokinetics and bio-analysis of anti-malarial and anti-osteoporotic drugs and natural products using liquid chromatographic approaches.

Dr. Elena Cerro-Prada received her PhD in Physics from the Autónoma University of Madrid. She lectured at the University of Birmingham, UK, and worked at CERN within the Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubia, among other research and academic positions. Dr Cerro-Prada currently serves as Professor and Head of the Physics Department at the Technical University of Madrid. Dr. Cerro-Prada has contributed greatly to the understanding of cementitious materials microstructure by applications of nanotechnology and nanomaterials. She is currently involved in the development of cement-based materials with photocatalytic properties as long as agent-based cementitious material modeling.

Clara M Gómez studied Chemistry at the University of Valencia where she received her doctoral degree in 1990. She did a postdoctoral stage at Cranfield Institute (UK) working on Curing monitoring of epoxy resins. At this moment, she is the chair of the Physical Chemistry Department, professor of Physical Chemistry and researcher of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Valencia.

The main areas of research are thermodynamics of polymer blends, cure monitoring of thermoset polymers, polyurethane thermoplastics, thermoelectricity, polymers for energy saving, biopolymers.

Piedad N de Aza studied Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and Ceramic at the Santiago de Compostela University where she received her doctoral degree. She did a postdoctoral stage at the IRC in Biomaterials at the Queen Mary & Wetsfield 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.

My line of research is based on designed and developing new polycrystalline biomaterials with controlled microstructures making use of appropriated phase equilibrium diagrams and to study, a part of their physical properties, their behavior in vitro (sterm 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 by using SEM-EDX, TEM and HRTEM with EDS and micro-Raman spectroscopy.

Dr. Alejandro Várez is Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Carlos III University of Madrid. Currently he is the Head of Department of MSE. His main research is focused in the synthesis and processing of different materials such as critical high temperature super conductions, ionic conductors (of lithium, proton and oxygen) with applications in electrochemical devices such as lithium batteries, fuel batteries and electrochemical sensors. He is co-author of more than 100 reviewed scientific publications in journals gathered (or to be incorporated) in ISI Web-of-ScienceTM; with a total number of citations in ISI Web-of-ScienceTM of +1400. He is also author of invention two patents and has participated in several international conferences with more than 150 communications. Furthermore he has supervised 6 doctoral Thesis. He has carried out research at the Universities of California Santa Barbara (Postdoctoral research 1993), Aberdeen (UK) and Milan (Italy) (predoctoral) and recently at Sheffield (UK) and Metz (France) Universities.

Prof. Ignacio Martin-Gullon received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alicante in 1995, involved with adsorbent carbons. He worked thereafter as a Research Postdoc Associate in the University of Kentucky in the carbon fiber topic. In 1998, he moved to industry position as a R&D product development engineer in NORIT NV (now Cabot Corp), in Amersfoort (Netherlands). Finally, he came back to the University Alicante as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department. He has written over 70 scientific papers in high-impact journals, in nanotechnology, material science, environmental and energy engineering. He was de advisor of 8 PhD students. He did a recent sabbatical period in the Pennsylvania State University. He is project evaluator in different programs, related to material science and technology. Very recently, he co-founded the spin-off company Applynano Solutions, to develop customized solutions to specialized SME based on nanomaterials on polymers.

Dr. Nekane Guarrotxena earned her PhD in chemistry from the University of Complutense, Madrid-Spain in 1994. She held post-doctoral research positions at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d´Arts et Metiers, Paris-France (1994-1995) and the University of ScienceII, Montpellier-France (1995-1997). She was the Vice-Director of the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP)-CSIC (2001-2005). From 2008-2011, she was visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials at University of California, Santa Barbara-USA and the CaSTL at University of California, Irvine-USA. She is currently Research Scientist at the Institute of Polymers Science and Technology, CSIC-Spain. She has been involved for several years on the dissemination of Science and Technology of Polymers-plastics (where she served as a member of Scientific Committee of Escuela de Plasticos y Caucho and FOCITEC or Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology). She is Editorial Board member of several journalsand organizing committee member of several scientific and technological events. Her studies have been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books (also co-editor) and more than 21 book chapters. Her research interest focuses on the synthesis and assembly of hybrid nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, and their uses in nanobiotechnology applications (bioimaging, drug delivery, therapy and biosensing).

Prof Maligno holds a Laurea Degree in Nuclear Engineering (University of Palermo, Italy). Prof Maligno then completed his PhD in Mechanics of Composite Materials at The University of Nottingham (UK). Prof Maligno has significant experience in the R&D analysis and design of structural components. He has been involved in several multi-disciplinary research and industrial projects aimed to investigate the response of advanced engineering materials and structures to various types of external loading and environmental conditions, using a combination of analytical, numerical and experimental techniques. Prof Maligno has worked in Academic institutions at the University of Palermo (Italy); The University of Nottingham (UK); Loughborough University (UK). Prof Maligno held several positions in Industry and Consultancy sector in the field of aerospace, defence, nuclear engineering. He also worked for Rolls Royce UTC as a Research Engineer in collaboration with the University of Nottingam (UK).

Prof Maligno has been appointed EPM-Technology Chair and Professor of Composite Materials at the Institute of Innovative Sustanable Engineering (IISE) - University of Derby. In this role he leads research related to the mechanics of composite materials, design and analysis of advanced structures with particular emphasis on Nano-Augumented/Nano-Engineered hybrid structures for harsh environment, hight temperature applications in the aeroaspace and motorsport industry. Also, Prof Maligno coordinates the research and development activities in the new state-of-art facitlities at EPM-Technology in Derby.

Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in 2006 and 2008 in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan which is ranked among Top 20 universities in the world. Dr. Hussain was ranked as outstanding student and was awarded the best research thesis, prize and medal from the University of Tokyo. He also completed his Ph.D. in a record short period of just two years. He is the editor of several ISI-indexed international journals. He has also served as guest editor for several international ISI-indexed journals. Moreover, he is one of the organizing chairs and member of technical committees for more than 3 dozen international conferences, symposiums and seminars. In addition, he is an active reviewer of many international ISI-indexed journals. Dr. Hussain has received more than 80 medals, awards, prizes and distinctions throughout his research, academic and professional career. Dr. Hussain has authored more than 165 research publications including ISI-indexed journal papers, international conference proceedings, edited books, editorials, expos, invention shows and exhibitions, technical reports etc. He is also an inventor of 6 US & WO international patents. He has secured about 20 national and international research grants worth millions of US Dollars. He is an active member of more than two dozen international societies, organizations, councils & committees.

Steel reinforced concrete technology - materials & structures, especially corrosion.

Nicola M. Pugno was born in 1972 in Pavia, Italy and is married and has three babies. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics, as well as a Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biology. He is a Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, Italy and there Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics (previous Associate Professor, Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno”, at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy). He is the Scientific Responsible of Graphene Nanocomposites (within the Graphene Flagship) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy and Full Professor of Materials Science at the Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. He has published about 260 International Journal (Int. J.) papers on Solid-, Structural-, Fracture-, Bio- and Nano-Mechanics in leading international journals (including Nature, Nature Materials and Nature Communications) mainly on nanotubes and graphene and bio-inspired nanomaterials (e.g. mimicking limpet teeth for strength, spider silk for toughness, gecko foot for smart adhesion, lotus leaf for self-cleaning, bone for self-healing, etc.). He is a Reviewer for about 100 Int. J. and is in the Editorial Board of about 40 Int. J., including Academic Editor of PlosOne and Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Bio-Inspired Materials and Frontiers in Materials - Mechanics. NMP has received 4 grants from the European Research Council: the 2011 ERC Starting Grant (at the Consolidator level), in 2013 both the two ERC Proof of Concept assigned to Italy and in 2015 a third ERC Proof of Concept.

Dr Kar Seng (Vincent) Teng is an Associate Professor and leads the Nanoelectronics Research Group in the College of Engineering at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Swansea University, and has extensive research experiences in the study of nanoscale electronic materials and devices. This involves the application of nanotechnology in electronics, which has major impact in healthcare, computer, photonic and energy technologies. His group has the expertise in the fabrication and characterisation of nanoscale electronic materials and devices, as well as controlling their properties through surface engineering for novel applications. His funded research includes the investigation of low-dimensional electronic materials, such as graphene, metal-oxide and nitride nanostructures etc., in the development of ultra-sensitive nano-biosensors for the early detection of diseases, short-wavelength lasers for ultra-high density data storage, nano-plasmonics for photovoltaic technology and fabrication of nanoelectronic devices using printing technology etc. He is also a Journal Editor for Fluorescent Materials.

In 1962, Haruo Sugi graduated from Postgraduate School in the University of Tokyo with the degree of Ph.D.He worked in Columbia Uiversity as a research associate, and in National Institutes of Health as a visiting scientist from 1965 to 1967. He was a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University Medical Scool from 1973 to 2004, when he bacame Emeritus Professor.

Devki N. Talwar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Chair of Department of Physics, conducts research on optical/electronic properties of defects and phonons in semiconductor materials used for various electronic and opto-electronic devices. He has been with Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Department of Physics, for almost 27 years and is the author of more than 120 refereed journal articles, 3 book chapters and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices.

Devki Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used for various electronics and opto-electronics

Dr. Rao obtained his BSc in 1971 from Andhra Christian College, Guntur, at Andhra University and his MSc and PhD degrees in Applied Chemistry from the Faculty of Engineering at Jabalpur University, in 1974 and 1980, respectively. He worked at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad; Government Engineering College, Rewa; Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, before joining the Division of Mineral Processing of Luleå University of Technology in Sweden in 1985. Dr. Rao became Docent and Full Professor in Mineral Processing at the Luleå University of Technology in 1992 and 2003, respectively. He has authored more than 165 scientific papers published in various international peer-reviewed high-impact journals and conference proceedings. He is a visiting professor at i) Laboratorie Environnment et Mineralurgie, Nancy, France, ii) Department of Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, iii) Computational Solid State Chemistry, University of Bath, UK, iv) Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, USA, and v) School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He is a Member of SME/AIME and American Chemical Society, and the recipient of Arthur F. Taggart Award for the year 2000 from the SME/AIME, USA and the Distinguished Foreign Scientist Award in 2009 from the CSIR, India. Dr. Rao is also deputed to the European Commission, Directorate General-Research, Brussels, as Swedish National Expert and worked in the Unit of Industrial Technologies during 2001-2004. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of i) International Journal of Mineral Processing; ii) Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy Review, and iii) Journal of Powder Metallurgy and Mining. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the journals Minerals and Open Chemistry Journal. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of The Open Mineral Processing Journal since its inception in 2008.

Dr. Rao research interests include surface and pulp chemistry of flotation; flotation of sulphide, industrial, silicate and iron minerals; molecular modelling; minerals bioprocessing and coal preparation

Dr. Xiang Zhang, Royal Society Industry Fellow of University of Cambridge, has over 33 years combined academia (17 years) and industrial (16 years) experience in advanced materials science and technology, an expert in polymer and polymeric hybrid materials science and technology. Dr Zhang is also Head of the Lucideon Cambridge School of Advanced Materials and Head of Medical Materials and Devices. He is the author of three books “Inorganic Biomaterials”, “Inorganic Controlled Release Technology” and “Science and Principles of Biodegradable and Bioresorbable Medical Polymers - Materials and Properties” (to be published by Elsevier). As a materials scientist, he is passionate on “Science for Industry “and believes fundamental but applied sciences are the keys to solve industrial problems as well as develop good products that are much-needed by the society. Dr. Zhang undertook his PhD and postdoctoral research at Cranfield University where he studied materials physics and micro-mechanics and micro-fracture mechanics of polymeric hybrid (organic and inorganic) materials. After spending a further four years on research for industrial applications, he was awarded an industrial fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 1995, where he carried out research on polymer ductile to brittle transition employing synchrotron X-ray (SAXS, WAXS) to study in situ deformation and fracture at nanometre scales, the results of which lead to completion of ductile to brittle transition theories in view of nano-mechanics and nano-fracture mechanics. Dr. Zhang’s industry experience was gained in leading international healthcare companies, where, as Principal Scientist, his work covered almost all aspects of medical materials and devices from R&D and manufacturing support to failure analysis and QC. Prior to joining Lucideon, Xiang worked as Director of a technology company, in the field of nano-conductive materials and diagnostic medical devices.

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.

Dr. María Teresa Pérez Prior received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Salamanca. She did a stage at the Fakultät für Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany and a Postdoctoral stage at the Polytechnic School of Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Dr. Pérez-Prior currently serves as Lecturer in the department of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering at the University Carlos III of Madrid. In recent years, her main research is focused in the synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials for Energy applications.

Oras A. Al-Ani received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering from Al-Nahreen University, Iraq, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Mrs Al-Ani was working as a Lecturer at the College of Electrical and Electronic Techniques Engineering, Baghdad, Iraq, since 2005. She is currently studying towards the Ph.D. degree within the Emerging Technologies and Material (ETM) group, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. Oras’ research focuses on computational and theoretical analysis of the point and extended defects in multicrystalline silicon and their impact on photovoltaic devices. She is a student member of IEEE, member of IET and Al-Kindi Society for Engineers; and awarded several awards for the best paper and presentation. Oras recently served as the Event Coordinator for the Annual Research Conference (ARC2016) at Newcastle University and she currently acts as the School Representative of research student’s in Newcastle University. In addition, she is recently appointed as a committee member of The International Conference on Applied Engineering, Newcastle University and the Student Ambassador for Materials Congress 2016.