Pedro Alpuim (INL, Portugal)

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Pedro Alpuim is group leader in 2D Materials and Devices at INL. He works in CVD and 2D materials device fabrication, with emphasis in biosensors. In particular, he develops graphene devices to detect biomarkers for medicine and for environmental monitoring. Optoelectronic devices based on transition-metal di-chalcogenides for light detection and solar energy conversion are also within his research interests. P. Alpuim is a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Minho (UM), where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the physics of electronic devices, nanotechnology, and clean-room fabrication.
He received a PhD degree in Materials Engineering from IST Lisbon in 2003, working in amorphous silicon thin film devices for flexible electronics, and a Master degree in Physics from the UM. He installed a thin-film laboratory at UM where he focused on fabrication of thin-film silicon solar cells, piezoresistive sensor arrays for health care, and thermoelectric junctions of telluride compounds for micro-cooling and energy scavenging. He published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has h-index=22.

Jordi Arbiol (ICREA-ICN2, Spain)

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Prof. Jordi Arbiol was born in Molins de Rei (Catalonia) in 1975. Having graduated in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, he went on to obtain his PhD (European Doctorate and PhD Extraordinary Award) in 2001 from this same institution in the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) applied to nanostructured materials. He was assistant professor at the UB. From 2009 to 2015 he was a group leader at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), as well as the scientific supervisor of its electron microscopy facilities. He is President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME) since 2017 and held the position of vice-president from 2013 to 2017, having been a member of its Executive Board since 2009. In 2018 he was elected as Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) (2019-2026). Since 2015 he has been the leader of the ICN2 Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group. He was awarded the 2014 EU40 Materials Prize by the E-MRS, the 2014 EMS Outstanding Paper Award and was listed in the Top 40 under 40 Power List (2014) by The Analytical Scientist. He has more than 320 peer-reviewed publications and more than 12200 citations with h-index: 63 WoS (72 GoS).

Paola Ayala (University of Vienna, Austria)

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Paola Ayala is at the Physics Department of the University of Vienna and leads there the group Tailored Hybrid Structures. From 2011 to 2015 she held the Berta Karlik Professorship at this University where she moved in 2009 with the prestigious EU-Marie-Curie-Fellowship. Before carrying out a two year Postdoc at Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, she was awarded in 2006 a grant from the German DAAD and the Brazilian CNPq to carry out research at the IFW-Dresden. Ayala obtained her Laurea at the National Polytechnic School in Quito and her PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2007. She was one of the 10 Future Leaders in 2012 at the Science and Technology Society Forum in Kyoto and was awarded the Matilde Hidalgo Scientific Prize 2017 from the National Secretary off Innovation and Technology in Ecuador. She served as inaugural Sean of the School of Physics and Nanotechnology of the new research University Yachay Tech from 2015 to 2017. Her research is focused on functional carbon molecular nanostructures from the fundamental point of view as well as applications in semiconductor technology. Paola was the first female Ecuadorian physicist awarded a PhD degree in this area of science. In this context, she has represented Austria and Ecuador for several years at the Working group of Women in Physics of the IUPAP as team leader. She serves as Associate Editor of the Journal Materials Express and the German Humboldt Foundation as Specialist Committee Member in the area of Physics for the allocation of the Georg Foster Awards and Fellowships.

Carlos Barata (IDAEA-CSIC, Spain)

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Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Spain)

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Giuseppe Battaglia is Professor of Molecular Bionics. His research is focused on the investigation of the specific design rules behind inter/intramolecular interactions and self-assembly of soft matter systems combining synthetic and supramolecular chemistry. In analogy to medical Bionics, where engineering and physical science converge to the design of replacement and/or enhancement of malfunctioning body parts, Prof Battaglia and his team apply molecular engineering and nanotechnology tools to copy and/or improve biological structures such as viruses for several applications including biotechnology, drug and gene delivery, diagnostic tools and cell engineering scaffolds. He has worked at UCL since 2013. Before this, he held positions as Lecturer -2006, Senior Lecturer -2009 and Professor -2011 in the Departments of Materials Sci. Eng. (2006-2009) and Biomedical Science (2009-2013) at the University of Sheffield. Prof Battaglia holds a Laurea in Chemical Engineering from University of Palermo (Italy) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sheffield.

Blanca Biel (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

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Dr. Blanca Biel obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2006, with a thesis on the electronic and transport properties of defected carbon nanotubes. After a postdoctoral stay at CEA-LETI (Grenoble, France) studying transport properties of doped graphene-based materials she joined the University of Granada (Spain), where she is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics.
Her research focuses on the electronic and quantum transport properties of one-and two- dimensional materials by means of Density Functional Theory based methods, in particular the impact of disorder at the atomic scale, and the first-principles Scanning Probe Microscopy characterization of such materials.

Paolo Bondavalli (Thales Research & Technology, France)

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Dr Paolo Bondavalli, male, is in charge of the transvers topic on nanomaterials at Thales Research and Technology (the central research lab of Thales group). He graduated in Physics in 1995 at the University of Parma, obtained his PhD in 2000 at INSA de Lyon and his HdR in 2011 on a work on carbon nanotubes based networks. He has a strong experience in leading and participating in European and French Research project (20 years). He is presently in charge of the task on supercapacitors of the Graphene Flagship initiative. He is the author of more than 60 papers and he has around 60 invited and keynote talks in international conferences. He is the author of the book “Graphene and related materials: properties and applications” edited by Elsevier in Octovber 2017. He is expert for H2020, Eurostars, Euripides, Flag-Era and National French Research Agency member of the Committee ‘Sensors and instrumentations’. He reviewer for IOP, Springer, Elsevier…

Miren Cajaraville (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)

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Professor of Cell Biology since 2002 & Principal Researcher in the CBET CRG). PhD at the University of the Basque Country (1991), she has carried out research at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth, UK, 1988), University of Heidelberg (Germany, 1992), King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry (London, UK, 1993), the University of California at San Diego (USA, 2000) & University of Hong Kong (China, 2013). She collaborates with a wide web of professors & researchers all around the world. She is author of 2 text books & 6 dissemination articles. Editor of 1 book & 3 special issues, & has published 15 book chapters & more than 140 research articles & reviews in peer-reviewed international journals, in addition to several reports for the administration. She was highly cited author award 2005-2009 in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin & 2007-2010 in Environmental Pollution. 2013/2014 top cited article & top downloaded article in the journal Ecotoxicology. She has presented invited conferences at the University College of Wales (1988), King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry of London (1993), Universidade dos Açores (1994), University of Thessaloniki (1999), University of Maryl& (2000), Universidade di Padova (2004), Universidade do Algarve (2005), IRIS Akvamiljo Marine Research Center, Stavanger, Norway (2006), Centro de Recursos Medioambientales, Donostia/San Sebastian (2009), University of Hong Kong & SKLMPMEL Academic Committee, Shenzhen (2013). She is member of the Academic Commission of the Master ECT & Coordinator of the PhD programme in ECT. She has supervised 17 Licenciature Thesis, 9 master Thesis & 11 PhD Thesis of which 9 were European or International Thesis.

Eugenio Coronado (ICMol / University of Valencia, Spain)

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Eugenio Coronado is professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Valencia University, Director of the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) and the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism (EIMM). His research career has been devoted to Molecular Magnetism. In particular, he has produced new hybrid multifunctional materials (including molecular magnetic conductors and superconductors, and stimuli-responsive magnetic materials) and new molecular nanomagnets. . At present his interest is focused on Molecular Nanoscience, specially on the chemical design and use of magnetic molecules and molecular materials in Molecular Spintronics, Quantum Computing and 2D materials. This recent work has been developed in the frame of two ERC Advanced Grants (SPINMOL and Mol-2D) and a European COST Action on Molecular Spintronics that he coordinates.

Tal Dvir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

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Prof. Dvir obtained a B.Sc. (2003) and a Ph.D (2008) degrees in Biotechnology Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His Ph.D research was supervised by Prof. Smadar Cohen and focused on cardiac tissue engineering and regeneration. Prof. Dvir continued his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His postdoc research focused on nanotechnological strategies for engineering complex tissues. On October 2011 Prof. Dvir was recruited by the Department of Biotechnology and the center for Nanotechnology at Tel Aviv University to establish the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. On 2013, Prof. Dvir has also joined the newly established Department of Materials Science and Engineering at TAU. Since November 2015, Tal is an Associate Prof. at the Department of Biotechnology.

Dmitri Efetov (ICFO, Spain)

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Prof. Dmitri K. Efetov is a professor and group leader at ICFO, whose research program concentrates on the development of novel composite materials known as “van der Waals (vdW) hetero-structures”, which consist of graphene and other 2D materials. His group aims to use the enhanced quantum effects in these materials to enable applications for quantum technologies and provide new types of quantum systems with which to encode, sense and control quantum information. Prior to joining ICFO in 2017, he had worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) in the Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE). During this time he initiated a collaboration with BBN Raytheon Technologies to work out a single photon detector device which is based on graphene’s unique hot electron properties, which allowed to extend single photon detection to THz and even GHz frequencies. Dmitri received a Diploma (M.Sc.) in Physics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2007. He then earned a M.A., M. Ph. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University (USA) in 2014, working under the supervision of one of the pioneers of Graphene Prof. Philip Kim. Dmitri received the Charles H. Towns Award for his outstanding research achievements during his PhD.

María José Esplandiu (ICN2, Spain)

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Maria J. Esplandiu received her PhD in the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) and was postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Dresden and Ulm (Germany), UCLA and CALTECH. She is currently a CSIC tenured scientist at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Her research focuses on surface (electro)chemistry, surface nanoengineering and interfacial phenomena for applications in carbon based nanoelectronics, sensors and motors.​

Xinliang Feng (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)

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Prof. Feng is a full professor and the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. He has published more than 440 research articles which have attracted more than 46000 citations with H-index of 105 (Google Scholar). He has been awarded several prestigious prizes such as IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014), Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014-2018), Small Young Innovator Award (2017), Hamburg Science Award (2017), EU-40 Materials Prize (2018), ERC Consolidator Grant Award (2018), and member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemNanoMat, Energy Storage Materials, Small Methods, Chemistry -An Asian Journal, Trends in Chemistry, etc. He is the Head of ESF Young Research Group "Graphene Center Dresden", and Working Package Leader of WP Functional Foams & Coatings for European Commission’s pilot project “Graphene Flagship”.

Josep Ferré Borrull (URV, Spain)

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Josep Ferré-Borrull obtained his Physics degree in 1994, his B. Sc. in 1996 and his Ph.D in 1998, all of them at the Universitat de Barcelona. His doctoral thesis was in the field of Optical Image Processing. His postdoctoral experience was focused on the characterization of nanoroughness of surfaces in high-quality optical components in the Fraunhofer Institute in Jena, Germany and in the ENEA in Rome, Italy. Since he joined the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2004 he has been involved in research on the framework of the activities of the Nano-electronic and Photonics group: development of technologies for the fabrication of nanoporous materials and their applications to energy, health and environment, and specially in the numerical modeling of the interaction of light with such materials and devices.

Roman Gorbachev (The University of Manchester, UK)

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My research area is experimental condensed matter physics, with an emphasis on fabrication of nanoscale low-dimensional devices. The recent availability of novel nanoscale materials, such as atomically thin 2-dimensional crystals and nanowires has enabled the assembly and study of composite electronics and mechanical devices, as well as the exploration of fundamental physics in these low-dimensional systems. The use of modern state-of-the-art semiconductor device fabrication techniques and the development of new methods of material synthesis/manipulation are essential parts of this research, which gives an ample space to explore the new physical phenomena and can bring an impact to future technologies.
To date I have more than 70 publications in high impact factor peer-reviewed journals, 5 of which are in Science and 2 Nature. My h-index is 39 and 10 of these publications already have more than 500 citations each. I have delivered invited talks at more than 40 international conferences of which 7 were plenary and filed 3 patents.
PROFFESIONAL CAREER
2015 - present Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor eq.), School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
2014 - present Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
2009 - 2014 Research Associate, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
2005 - 2009 Ph.D. in Physics, School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK
2000 - 2005 MSc, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

Oliver Gröning (Empa, Switzerland)

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Dr. Oliver Gröning graduated in experimental physics from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1994. In 1999 he received his PhD for the investigation of the field emission properties of carbon nanostructures in the group of Prof. Louis Schlapbach also in Fribourg. In 2001 Dr. Gröning joined Empa, where he was involved in building up of the nanotech@surafces laboratory for which he is the deputy laboratory head since 2011. His research interest spans from the investigation of chemical reactions on intermetallic surfaces to the synthesis of novel graphene derived nanostructures for electronic applications.

Ernesto Joselevich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

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Ernesto Joselevich is a Professor at the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude, 1991) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard (1998-2000) before joining the Weizmann Institute in 2001. His research focuses on the organization of nanotubes and nanowires, their integration into functional nanosystems, and their characterization by mechanical, electrical and optical measurements at the nanometer scale. Prof. Joselevich pioneered the "guided growth" approach for the generation of ordered nanotubes and nanowires directed by surfaces. He has also studied the torsional behavior of carbon and inorganic nanotubes, which could be the basis for useful nanoelectromechanical systems. He has published more than 50 papers in prestigious journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Nanotechnology and PNAS, with over 4,000 citations. He enjoys extensive international collaborations with Germany, USA, Japan and Brazil, and has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize. In 2014, he was awarded a Europian Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.

Ian Kinloch (University of Manchester, UK)

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I hold the Morgan Advanced Materials/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Carbon Materials. Together with Dr. Bissett and Prof. Young, I lead the Advanced Nanostructures Group within the School of Materials and the National Graphene Institute. I have held an EPSRC Challenging Engineering Fellowship and EPSRC/RAEng Research Fellowship. I moved to Manchester in 2006, having previously worked as a PDRA and studied for my PhD in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and getting my BSc(Hons) in Physics at the University of Durham. I am currently Director of Materials for the School of Materials, Deputy Theme Leader for the 2D Theme in the Henry Royce Institute and Deputy Workpackage Leader of the Composites Theme in the Graphene Flagship.

Anna Laromaine (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)

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PhD in Chemistry from the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona with extensive international scientific experience. My PhD focused on the molecular synthesis of carboranes for catalysis and medical therapy. As postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London (UK) in the group of Prof. Molly M. Stevens, I developed a colorimetric sensor for the detection of proteases based on gold nanoparticles and peptides. I studied the replication of surfaces with DNA and peptides using supramolecular interactions at MIT (USA) in the group of Prof. Francesco Stellacci. We developed new methodologies for the production of cell cultures in three-dimensional structures on paper and the combination of the use of C. elegans and microfluidic chips for innovative biological assays at Harvard University (USA) in the group of Prof. George Whitesides.
I am currently Investigadora Distinguida at the ICMAB where I combine materials science, chemistry and biology for biological applications. I focus on the use of cellulose materials and nanoparticles to create multifunctional composites and responsive material. The interaction of those novel materials is evaluated in cells within 2D and 3D cell cultures and using the animal C. elegans. We optimize the physico-chemical properties of the novel multifunctional materials using biocompatible approaches that are economical and have low environmental impact.
I actively participate and have experience in scientific divulgation activities and technology transfer.

Jordi Llop (CIC BiomaGUNE, Spain)

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Jordi Llop got his degree in (Analytical) Chemistry at the Ramon Llull University (Barcelona) in 1996 and his degree in Chemical Engineering at Institut Químic de Sarrià (Barcelona) in 1997. Between 1998 and 2002 he worked on his PhD Thesis at Barcelona Material Sciences Institute (ICMAB-CSIC) under the supervision of Lluís Victori and Francesc Teixidor, getting a PhD in Chemistry at Ramon Llull University in 2002. in 2002, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at Navarra University Hospital and in 2003 at Uppsala University PET Center. In 2004 he went back to Spain to work as Production Manager of the Radiopharmaceutical Laboratory at Institut d’Alta Tecnologia (IAT-PRBB, Barcelona). Since October 2007, he leads the Radiochemistry and Nuclear Imaging Group at CICbiomaGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain).

Shlomo Magdassi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

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Shlomo Magdassi is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research focuses on formation, formulation and applications of micro and nanomaterials in various fields, including 2D, 3D and 4D printing. The results of some of his research led to industrial activities such as worldwide sales and establishing new companies. Currently he is the Head of the Institute of Chemistry, and of the Functional and 3D Printing Center at The Hebrew University.

Jose Angel Martin Gago (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)

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Research Professor at the “Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid-CSIC”. Leader of the ESISNA group. Currently, president of the Spanish Vacuum Society (ASEVA)

Cesar Moreno (ICN2, Spain)

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César Moreno, PhD
Senior Researcher
Atomic Manipulation and Spectroscopy group
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
César Moreno received his degree in Fundamental Physics at the University of Cantabria in 2005 and was an internship student at the Atomic Research Council in Grenoble. He earned his Ph.D in Material Science at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) in 2010 and he moved as postdoctoral researcher at the Nano-engineering research center at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CRNE-UPC). After two years, he was awarded with a tenure track position (ICYS) at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, and he was also promoted as permanent researcher. After nearly 3 years living in Japan, he then moved back to Barcelona under a Marie Curie fellowship at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), where he presently works as a senior researcher. There, his work focuses in the atomically precise manufacturing of low-dimensional organic materials with potential applications in nanoelectronics, sensors and advanced filtration.

Enrique Navarro (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología - CSIC, Spain)

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Dr. Navarro graduated and obtained a PhD in Biology at the University of Barcelona focusing on the impact of chemicals on aquatic ecosystems. Later he occupied different positions at the University of Barcelona and at the Swiss Federal Centre for Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG, in Zurich), studying the impact of human activities on freshwater ecosystems, and developing pioneer approaches to assess the environmental impacts of silver nanoparticles. These works received international acknowledgments, which have led him to be one of the most cited scientists in this field, during 2013-2014. From 2008 he develops his studies at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology –CSIC- in Zaragoza.

Frank Nouvertne (Raith GmbH, Germany)

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Frank Nouvertné received his PhD in Physics in 1998 at Technical University in Aachen. Since then, he is working for Raith, currently as a Senior Product Manager Electron Beam Lithography (EBL). Managing the Gemini-based EBL system portfolio, he has collected considerable experience with all kinds of applications in fundamental and applied nanoresearch and complemented his knowhow by leading several research projects in conjunction with universities and other research institutions.

Yossi Paltiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

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Professor Yossi Paltiel is now in the Applied Physics Department chair in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel. Prof. Paltiel has worked for both leading high-tech industry groups and in the academic world. Since July 2009, He is the leading the Quantum Nano Engineering group at the Hebrew University, Israel. Paltiel's group’s goal is to establish a way to incorporate quantum mechanics into room temperature "classical" computation and reading schemes. This will provide quantum coherence control at nanometer scale distances, while maintaining the physical characteristics of currently available computer input-output devices. Professor Paltiel has published more than 80 papers in leading journals as well as issued 11 patents.

Tania Patiño (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

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Dr. Tania Patiño obtained her PhD with International Mention in November 2015, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she received the “Extraordinary PhD Prize” award. She worked as a research associate at the University of Greifswald (Germany) for almost a year and in 2016 she joined the Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group at IBEC where she was awarded with the Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral fellowship. During this period, she was also a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Her work has been focused on the development of bio-hybrid nano-, micro and milli-robotic devices for healthcare applications. She has been recently awarded with the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and is currently working on DNA-based robotic devices at Dr. Francesco Ricci’s group, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Francesc Perez-Murano (IMB-CNM-CSIC, Spain)

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2007 - present Research Professor (Profesor de Investigación,. CNM-CSIC) 2001 - 2007 Senior research scientist (Investigador Científico, CNM-CSIC) 1997 – 2002 (Several visits) Visiting scientist at NIST in Gaithersburg, USA and at the Institute of Nanotechnology at AIST in Tsukuba, Japan. 1994 - 2001 Tenure track at the Electronics Engineering Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Profesor Titular de Universidad, UAB) 1994 Visitor Scientist at Mikroelektronik Centret in Lyngby, Denmark 1989 – 1994 Ph.D Student and assistant professor at the Physics Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Co-author of more than 100 articles in international refereed journal Member of the Steering Committee of Micro and Nano Engineering Conference and Chairman of MNE-2006 Supervisor of 6 PhD students (completed) Award of Catalan Government to young researcher (2001) Coordinator of one FP6 EU Strep project (NOVOPOLY) and CNM responsible for 3 FP6 EU projects and 1 FP7 EU Projects (Global funding: more than 1.5 Million Euro for 2004-2009 period) Responsible for 5 national coordinated projects (involving a total of 10 different partners) and a global funding of more than 1.5 million euro for 2001-2009 period Responsible for Nanofabrication facilities at CNM-CSIC (2001-2006) 3 granted patents Coordinating the Nanofabrication and Functional Properties of Nanostructures research group at CNM, which involves the work of 20 full-time researchers. Responsible of one sub-research line at CNM.

Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

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Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science

Víctor Puntes (ICREA / ICN2, Spain)

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ICREA Research Prof. Víctor F. Puntes’ work spans the full breadth of nanoparticle research: synthesis, conjugation and characterisation of inorganic nanoparticles; study of their physicochemical properties; nanotoxicology and nanosafety; and myriad applications for sectors including energy harvesting, catalysis, medicine and the environment. Prof. Puntes completed his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering and materials science at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (France) and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 1998, he earned his PhD in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), working with Prof. Xavier Batlle and Prof. Amilcar Labarta on giant magnetoresistance in granular alloys. He then spent over three years at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, USA) in the groups led by Prof. Paul Alivisatos and Prof. Kannan Krishnan, working on the synthesis and control of nanostructures. In 2003 he returned to Catalonia with a Ramón y Cajal research position at the UB. In 2005 he obtained an ICREA Professorship at the then ICN (now ICN2) to create the Inorganic Nanoparticles Group, which he currently leads. By the end of 2017, Víctor Puntes had 195 peer-reviewed publications and over 12,500 citations. He is also well-known for his work in science communication to the general public, his industrial and commercial efforts, and for his endeavours linking science and art.

Paolo Samori (Université de Strasbourg, France)

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Prof. Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg, Director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is also Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Art (KVAB), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Member of the Academia Europaea and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He obtained a Laurea (master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000 he received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof. J. P. Rabe). He was permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna from 2001 to 2008 and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 to 2008. He has published >300 papers on nanochemistry, supramolecular sciences, materials chemistry, and Scanning Probe Microscopies with a specific focus on graphene and other 2D materials as well as functional organic/polymeric and hybrid nanomaterials for application in opto-electronics, energy and sensing. His work has been awarded various prizes, including the E-MRS Young Scientist Award (1998), the MRS Young Scientist Award (2000), the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2001), the “Vincenzo Caglioti” Award (2006), the “Nicolò Copernico” Award (2009), the “Guy Ourisson” Prize (2010), the ERC Starting Grant (2010), the CNRS Silver Medal (2012), the Spanish-French “Catalán-Sabatier” Prize (2017), the German-French “Georg Wittig - Victor Grignard” Prize (2017), the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award (2018), the EURASC's Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (2018), the Grand Prix Pierre Süe awarded by the French Chemical Society (2018) and the ERC Advanced Grant (2019). He is Associate Editor of Nanoscale and of Nanoscale Advances (RSC) and Member of the Advisory Boards of Advanced Materials, Small, ChemPhysChem, ChemNanoMat, ChemPlusChem and ChemSystemsChem (Wiley-VCH), Chemical Society Reviews, Chemical Communications, Nanoscale Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC), ACS Nano and ACS Omega (ACS).

Samuel Sánchez (IBEC, Spain)

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Samuel is a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart (2010-2015); IFW Dresden (2010-2013), Germany, MANA-NIMS in Japan (2007, 2009-2010), UAB in Barcelona (2003-2009) and TU Twente in the Netherlands (2002-2003).
His work spans from fundamental aspects of catalytic and biocatalytic nano-micromotors, 3D Bioprinted BioBOTS, electrochemical biosensors to applications in biomedical and environmental fields. He received several awards and recognitions such as the MIT TR35 as Top Innovator Under 35 in the Spanish edition, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Foundation of Research. He received the ERC-Starting Grant in 2013, and two ERC-Proof-of-concept in 2016 and 2017. He has published about 120 papers with h-index of 42 and 7300 citations, and he filed 6 patents.

Daniel Sanchez Portal (CFM-CSIC, UPV/EHU & DIPC, Spain)

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Head of the Modelisation and Simulation group at Centro de Física de Materiales CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 1998 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, research associate in 1999-2001 at the Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Ramón y Cajal Fellow in 2002-2005 at Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM) CSIC-UPV/EHU in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. In 2005 he became a Tenured Researcher at CFM CSIC-UPV/EHU where he has developed his career ever since, becoming a Research Professor in 2018. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his contribution to the development of methodologies for electronic structure calculations in 2016.
His expertise and research interest cover the methodology of DFT based first-principles electronic structure calculations and their application to the study of nanostructures and surfaces. He is currently focused on the study of the electronic properties of covalent molecular networks, graphene nanostructures and other low-dimensional structures on surfaces in collaboration with several experimental groups, as well as the application of TDDFT and other first-principles techniques to problems in nanoplasmonics and ultrafast electron dynamics at surfaces. He has published over 160 scientific papers with a significant impact.
Research ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-5858-2010
Web:  http://cfm.ehu.es/team/daniel-sanchez-portal/

Yoram Selzer (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Keynote

Yoram Selzer is working as Professor, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Postdoc from Penn State University, USA, 2001-2004. PhD from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1995-1999. His Field of interests are Plasmon controlled molecular junctions, Time resolved conductance measurements of molecular and quantum-dot junctions, Whole carbon and semiconductor single molecule junctions, Transport properties of bismuth nano-structures, Thermal radiation energy harvesting, Thermophysical properties of nano-scale junctions.

David Soriano (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Invited

Dr. David Soriano is Marie-Curie fellow in the group of Mikhail Katsnelson (Radboud University - the Netherlands) since 2018. Before he has been working as postdocotoral researcher in the groups of Prof. Joaqín Fernández Rossier at INL (Braga - Portugal) and Prof. Stephan Roche at ICN2 (Barcelona - Spain). He has 10 years experience in first-principles calculations and electronic transport properties of 2D materials. During the last years, his work has focused on different condensed matter topics ranging from graphene spintronics to the magnetic and optical properties of 2D materials (TMDCs and Chromium Halides). In the group of Prof. Katsnelson, he is developing new methods to study spin-orbit torques in 2D van der Waals heterostructures in collaboration with Prof. Mikhail Titov. He is also applying new methods to study correlation effects in 2D magnetic materials. Dr. David Soriano has co-authored more than 20 publications in peer-review journals. His publications have reached +200 citations in the last 2 years.

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (ICN2, Spain)

Invited

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij joined the ICN2 in October 2018, starting the ICN2 Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems Group. In July 2018, he was awarded a visiting professorship at the Graduate School of Excellence “Material Science in Mainz” (Germany). Before coming to the ICN2, he was a research fellow at fellow-BIST institute ICFO in Barcelona. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in December 2010. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2018.

Niek van Hulst (ICREA / ICFO, Spain)

Keynote

Following study in Astronomy and Physics, I obtained my PhD (1986) in Molecular & Laser-Physics at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands), on microwave-laser double resonance molecular-beam spectroscopy. After research in non-linear optics of organic materials, integrated optics, atomic force and near-field optical microscopy, since 1997 full Professor at MESA+ Institute for NanoTechnology, University of Twente (the Netherlands) with focus on single molecule detection and scanning probe technology. In 2005, attracted by the Catalan quality-based science policy, I started as ICREA Research Professor and senior group leader at ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences, within The Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology; also I am Head Academic Programs and NanoFabrication Lab at ICFO. Recipient of 2003 Körber European Science Award, 2010 City of Barcelona Prize; ERC Advanced Grants in 2010 and 2015, PoC in 2017; 2017 European Physical Society Prize.