Herbert Gleiter

Founder Director, Institute of Nanotechnology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Dr. Herbert Gleiter received his Ph.D. in Physics. In 1973, Gleiter became Chair Professor of Materials Science and founded in 1988 today’s Leibniz Institute of New Materials at Saarbruecken, Germany. In 1994, he was appointed Member of the Executive Board of the Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany, and 4 years later he became the Founding Director of the Center’s Institute of Nanotechnology. In 2012 the University of Nanjing founded the “Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience” and appointed him as the Institute’s Founding Director.

Prof. Gleiter’s received more than 40 prizes, seven universities awarded him honorary doctorates. He is a Member of 11 Science Academies.

In the late 70’s he opened the way to a new kind of materials, called today nano-crystalline materials and more recently, he initiated the new field of nano-glasses. It is the attractive perspective of these nano-glasses that they have the potential to provide the basis for a new world of glass based technologies.

Peter X Ma

Professor, Engineering and Medicine
University of Michigan, USA

Peter X Ma is the Richard H Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor of Biologic and Materials Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and the Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research is in the areas of biomaterials, biomedical polymers, controlled release, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He pioneers biomimetic scaffold development to design microenvironment for cells and tissue regeneration. He also develops controlled delivery systems for non-viral nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, and small molecules in sustained, pulsatile, and targeted fashions.

Dr. Ma received a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Young Investigator Award, a DuPont Young Professor Award, a Distinguished Scientist Award (Isaac Schour Memorial Award) from International Association of Dental Research, and a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials. He was named one of the Top 100 materials scientists in the world by Thomson Reuters. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Daniel Choi

Associate Professor, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology , UAE

Dr. Daniel Choi received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Seoul National University (South Korea) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Dr. Choi was a staff member for three years at the Aerospace Corporation anda task manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA for nine years, leading a number of space-related projects such as Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory project. He was an associate professor and director of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) program at University of Idaho (USA). Currently, he is Founding Department Head of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering in the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also a Science Team for UAE Emirates Mars Mission Program.

ALESSANDRA FERLINI

Director of Medical Genetics Unit, University of Ferrara, Italy

Alessandra Ferlini specialized in Neurology (1988) and Medical Genetics (1993) at the Universities of Bologna and Ferrara. In 2002 she achieved a PhD in Genetics at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London (UK). She is Director of both Unit (Hospital) and Section (University) of Medical Genetics. As part of her professional career she has accomplished profound research experience at the Universities of Bologna, Padova, Milan and Modena. In 1995 she moved to London where she worked as Senior Research Officer at the Hammersmith Hospital, Neuromuscular Unit, Department of Paediatrics, under the supervision of Prof. F. Muntoni. In June 1999 she returned to Italy.

She acts as Reviewer for more than 60 JCR referenced scientific Journals and Funding Agencies. She participated to several National and International meetings as a speaker.

Andronico Neira Carrillo

Associate Professor, University of Chile, Chile

Dr. Neira-Carrillo received an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (1996) and a Ph.D. degree (2003) from the University of Concepción (Chile)/Sponsor by Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research of Mainz (MPI-P), working on “Synthesis and characterization of derived Polisiloxane - Polisilazane by Cationic Method. Precursors of Ceramic Materials and Dispertion-Mineralization Agents”. Through a DAAD fellowship he spent 3 years at the MPI-P, where he worked with Prof. Gerhard Wegner. Currently, he have two Postdoc at the CIMAT (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials) of the University of Chile and Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interface Science and honorary research fellow at DAAD, Germany. He is the author of 33 articles (31 ISI) and 9 Book´s chapter and have participated in over 90 (33 national and 60 international) conferences with more than 130 presentations and  have received invitation to give 15 lectures.

Alexander Seifalian

Director, Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine Commercialisation Centre, UK

Alexander Seifalian, Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine worked at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London for over 26 years, during this time he spent a year at Harvard Medical School looking at caused of cardiovascular diseases and a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School looking at treatment of liver. He published more than 647 peer-reviewed research papers, and registered 14 UK and International patents. He is currently CEO of NanoRegMed Ltd, working on the commercialisation of his research. During his career Prof Seifalian has led and managed many large projects with successful outcomes in terms of commercialisation and translation to patients. In 2007 he was awarded the top prize in the field for the development of nanomaterials and technologies for cardiovascular implants by Medical Future Innovation, and in 2009 he received a Business Innovation Award from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). He was the European Life Science Awards’ Winner of Most Innovative New Product 2012 for the “synthetic trachea”. Prof Seifalian won the Nanosmat Prize in 2013 and in 2016 he received the Distinguish Research Award in recognition of his outstanding work in regenerative medicine from Heals Healthy Life Extension Society. His achievements include development of the world first synthetic trachea, lacrimal drainage conduit, and vascular bypass graft using nanocomposite materials, bioactive molecules and stem cell technology. He has over 15,000 media report from his achievement,include BBC, ITV, WSJ, CNN, and many more.Currently he is working on development and commercialisation of human organs using graphene based nanocomposite materials and stem cells technology.

Ali Nabipour Chakoli

Scientific Board Member, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Iran

Dr. Ali Nabipour Chakoli is the Scientifc board member of NSTRI, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Tehran, Iran. Also, he is the lecturer in Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. He has completed his PhD in Materials Physics and Chemistry. He have China Scholarship Council award. He was the Scientific commettee member and scientific secretary of some international and national conferences. He has worked for over ten years on research and development of advanced composite materials and structures, smart materials and multifunctional materials. He presented more than 20 workshops in the field of nanomaterials, Carbon nanotubes. He has published more than 21 papers in reputed journals and conferences. Also, He is the reviewer of some reputed journals such as RSC Advances and Journal of applied polymer Science.

Jeongwon Park

Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

Jeongwon Park joined the University of Ottawa, as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in July 2016. His expertise is in the areas of nanotechnology-enabled flexible hybrid electronics, nano-photonics, emerging nano-electronics, III-V semiconductor, device fabrication, and ‘beyond-CMOS’ devices with low-dimensional nano-materials including CNT and graphene.Prior to that, Jeongwon was a scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. For six years, he served as a senior technologist to support the corporate Chief Technology Officer and business units at Applied Materials, US. He has been a guest researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBL, NCEM), a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara since 2009. Dr. Park received his Ph.D. (2008) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Andronico Neira Carrillo

Associate Professor, University of Chile, Chile

Dr. Neira-Carrillo received an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (1996) and a Ph.D. degree (2003) from the University of Concepción (Chile)/Sponsor by Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research of Mainz (MPI-P), working on “Synthesis and characterization of derived Polisiloxane - Polisilazane by Cationic Method. Precursors of Ceramic Materials and Dispertion-Mineralization Agents”. Through a DAAD fellowship he spent 3 years at the MPI-P, where he worked with Prof. Gerhard Wegner. Currently, he have two Postdoc at the CIMAT (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials) of the University of Chile and Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interface Science and honorary research fellow at DAAD, Germany. He is the author of 33 articles (31 ISI) and 9 Book´s chapter and have participated in over 90 (33 national and 60 international) conferences with more than 130 presentations and  have received invitation to give 15 lectures.

Q. Jane Wang

Professor, Northwestern University, USA

Q. Jane Wang received her PhD from Northwestern University, USA, 1993. She taught for five years at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, and is now a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northwestern University, USA. She received the 2015 Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) International Award.  She was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2009 and STLE in 2007. She was one of the Editors of Encyclopedia of Tribology, published by Springe; she served the professional communities as a Board of Director of STLE during 2008-2009, Chair of the 2011 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, Chair of the STLE Annual Meeting Program Committee during 2007-2008, Secretary of the 2005 Word Tribology Congress Technical Program Committee, and Member of the Organization Committee of the 2007 International Symposium of Computational Mechanics.     

Bilgin Kaftanoglu

Professor, Atilim University, Turkey

Professor Bilgin Kaftanoglu is the Chairman of the  Center of Competence for Boron Coatings  at ATILIM University in Ankara, TURKEY. He recieved his B.Sc. degree in M.E. in 1960 from Middle East Technical University (METU) and the DIC and Ph.D. degrees during 1960-66 from Imperial College of Science and Technology-University of London in UK.  He served as faculty member, Chairman of ME and Vice President of METU from 1969-2006. He held research position at International Computers Ltd.-London, Bell Labs.-Ottawa  and   Professorial positions at Ottawa and Oklahoma State Universities(OSU).He established the CAD/CAM/Robotics Centers at METU and OSU. He is a CIRP Fellow and has 288 publications and refereed many journals. He has organized 8 DIE/MOLD Conferences and the CIRP General Assembly. He has been Members of ASME, I.Mech.E., Institute of Metals and MMO. He is chairing the Mechanical Design and Production Society ( MATIM) of TURKEY. He supervised 78 graduate students. His research interests include Fastener Production, CAD/CAM, Wire-Rod Drawing / Forward Rod Extrusion, Forging, Extrusion, Strech Forming, Rolling, Computational Mechanics, Manufacturing Tribology, Solid Mechanics, Bulk Metal Forming, Machine Design, Material Models, Mechanical Characterization, Friction In Metal Forming Process, Metal Forming Theory And Technology, Robotics, Sheet Metal Forming, Manufacturing Methods, Coating and Characterization, Lubricants.

Chiara Maccato

Associate Professor, Padova University, Italy

Chiara Maccato obtained her MSc degree in Chemistry with full marks in 1995; PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1999. After a Post-Doc grant, in 2000 she became Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences of Padova University, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Her main scientific interests are focused on inorganic/hybrid nanoarchitectures for sustainable energy production, environmental remediation, and gas sensing and accordingly, she has been responsible of several research projects/industrial contracts. Since 2005 she is the coordinator of a morphological characterization laboratory and responsible of a research group on multi-functional inorganic nanosystems. She is referee for many international journals/projects and has authored more than 180 papers on international journals.

Ariela Donval

Director, Advanced Optical Filters (AOF), Engineering – Aerospace Division, Elbit Systems Ltd., Israel

Dr. Ariela Donval carries more than 20 years’ experience in the fields of material and optic sciences. Dr. Ariela Donval is specialized in R&D of nanotechnology-based passive and active optical power control devices, nano-micro technologies, electrooptic devices for telecommunication and nonlinear optics. She held several positions in KiloLambda (2001-2017), last as VP R&D, where she was managing the R&D team and responsible for smart optical devices R&D and production.Since January 2018, KiloLambda’s assets were acquired by Elbit, and R&D group by the head of Dr. Ariela Donval is now a part of Elbit by the name of: Advanced Optical Filters (AOF).

Dr. Ariela Donval received her PhD in optic and photonic, CNET - France Telecom, France (1999), specialized in electro-optic devices for telecommunication and MSc in Material Science in the field of nonlinear optics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1995). She held an R&D position in the field of nano-micro technology ENS-Cachan, France (1999-2001).

Ejembi John Onah

Professor of Chemistry, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(USEACANN), Ithaca, New York

Ejembi John Onah started his career at the early age of 22 years with a year of mandatory national youth corps service at Biu, Borno State after graduating from the University of Jos, Jos Nigeria in 1985 with a bachelor of science in chemistry with honors and a Master of Science in Applied Organic Chemistry in 1993. He further took Chemistry teaching positions at Federal Government Colleges Sokoto and Jos in Nigeria and Benue State Universities as a professor with tenure from 1987-1997. In 1996 he was awarded a prestigious German international scholarship; Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst-KAAD to further his career in chemistry at the ivy league institute, the Max Institute for Plant Physiology Golm, Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Würzburg from 1997-1998. In 1998 he became a scientist at Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research and a doctoral student at the University of Technology, TU Dresden where he obtained his doctorate in Chemistry summa cum laude in examination in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, he joined Virginia Tech and ivy league Cornell University faculties in Chemistry in the USA. As from 2005, Ejembi founded Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc where he is currently the President/CEO. He is also currently the founding Chairman of the US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Nanotechnology Initiative (USEACANI) and the US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (USEACANN) as a professor, pioneering the causes of Nano covering 189 countries. He is also the founding Editor-In-Chief of peer review journal; Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI) with several Nobel Laureates as editors. Ejembi founded Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc where he is currently the President/CEO. He is also currently the founding Chairman of the US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Nanotechnology Initiative (USEACANI) and US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (USEACANN) as a professor, pioneering the causes of Nano covering 189 countries. He is the chancellor of Ejembi John Onah Nano-Academy being built to offer only Ph.D. in Nano globally. He is also the founding Editor-In-Chief of peer review journal; Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI) with several Nobel Laureates as editors and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and co-edited in other scientific journals among others. He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS); a pastor and married with 4 children; one of them, Ijeyikowoicho just won a bronze medal representing the USA in the PanAmerica under 20 recently held in Costa Rica and in management studies in the university for her bachelor.

Zhongfu Zhou

Professor, Abyerstwyth University, UK and Shanghai University, China

Zhongfu Zhou is a graduate of the University of Science & Technology Beijing, China (B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry of Metallurgy and Materials (Rare-Earth Engineering), 1992; Ph.D in Physical Chemistry of Metallurgy and Materials, 1998). He obtained his D.Phil. in Materials Science from the University of Oxford in 2005. Before moving to the UK, he worked as a lecturer at the university he graduated from, and technology director and production manager in a company in China for short periods. In 2002, he started his D.Phil. study in Oxford. After finishing his D.Phil. study in Oxford in 2005, he joined Prof. Kenneth Harris' research group at the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University as a research associate, and then he was appointed as a permanent research fellow in Cardiff University since 2008. Zhongfu Zhou moved to Aberystwyth in 2010 to work for IMAPS and CAFMaD. He is also a visiting fellow to the Department of Materials, University of Oxford since 2006, and is a distinguished professor of Shanghai University, China since 2011.

Pier Paolo Pompa

Senior Scientist, Head of the Nanobiointeractions & Nanodiagnostics group, IIT Central Research Labs Genova, Italy

Pier Paolo Pompa is a tenured Senior Scientist and Director of the Nanobiointeractions&Nanodiagnostics Laboratory of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). After his degree in Physics, in2005 he took a PhD in Nanoscience at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) in Lecce. PPP subsequently joined NNL as a junior researcher and, since 2008, as a staff scientist. In2009 he moved to the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (CBN) of IIT, where he was first appointed Coordinator of the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Research Platform and in 2011 Director of CBN. In 2015 he moved to the Central Research Labs of IIT in Genova, where he leads a group of ca. 20 researchers. He is also Contract Professor at the University of Genova (Department of Biotechnology), Member of the University Board for PhD School (Department of Chemistry), and Editorial Board Member of several international journals in the field of nanoscience.

His scientific activities are highly interdisciplinary, ranging from nanotechnology to biophysics, nanodiagnostics, nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology and nanochemistry, and are intensively focused on the understanding of the interaction between nanomaterials and living systems. His current research interests deal with three main topics: the identification of the response of biological systems upon interaction with nanoscale materials and investigation of the underlying mechanisms; the development of low-cost hybrid sensing strategies, based on nanoparticles, for point-of-care diagnostics; the development of nanomaterials-based systems for nanomedicine, nanoimaging, and biomedical applications.

PPP has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications in International Journals (including Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, ACS Nano, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Chem. Soc. Rev., receiving >6000 citations), several book chapters, and many invited and oral contributions to International Conferences. He is also author of >25 International Patents. He leads various national and international projects in the field of nanoscience and nanobiotechnology (he has been granted more than 5.5 M€ of external funds). He is also reviewer of major scientific journals (Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, etc.) and international funding agencies (Israel Science Foundation, American Chemical Society, Human Frontier Science Program). PPP is also very active in applied research and technology transfer (First prize - Start Cup Liguria 2016; Special Jury Prize - Start Cup Puglia 2013). He is co-founder and partner of HiQ-Nano, a start-up company specialized in the green production of high quality nanoparticles, reference nanomaterials, and point-of-care diagnostics.

Aloysius F. Hepp

Chief Technologist, Nanotech Innovations LLC

Dr. Aloysius F. Hepp graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Chemistry and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry in 1983. He is Chief Technologist of Nanotech Innovations LLC, Oberlin, OH and Consulting Editor for Elsevier Science and Technology Books. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Materials Science and Engineering B and Heliyon. He was Editor-in- Chief of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (2010-2015) and is currently Chair of the International Editorial Advisory Board. He was senior research scientist at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH until his retirement in 2016. He has 200 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, technical publications, and book chapters in the areas of energy conversion and storage, precursors for spray pyrolysis of metal sulfides and carbon nanotubes, thin film and nanomaterials for photovoltaics and batteries, materials processing of local resources for space exploration and flight experiments for Mars and small satellites. He has held multiple academic appointments and has served on advisory boards at: Harvard University, Kent State University, University of Tulsa, University of Texas, Arlington, University at Albany, and Cleveland State University.

Bharati Neelamraju

Conference Chair, University of Arizona

Bharati Neelamraju is currently a process engineer at Applied Materials working on a carbon-based PECVD process for the next generation of memory applications. She has previously worked at Micron Technologies Inc as a postdoc in their pathfinding team for high aspect ratio cryo etch processes. Her background is in physics with a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Arizona

Kumar Vanga

Conference Chair, IMS Nanofabrication

Dr. Kumar Vanga received his Ph.D. degree from Michigan Technological University, MI USA in 2012 (Advisor: Prof. Paul Bergstrom) with a research focus on the implementation of porous silicon and silica materials for optical sensing technologies. Following that, he took up a research position with the University of Tours, France with interests in novel nano and macro materials that include porous semiconductors and their applications to RF devices and energy storage. He worked at LNF, the University of Michigan, and at the Marvel Nanolab, the University of California, Berkeley, CA in new MEMS process and applications development. His industrial expertise includes fields such as electronic vacuum packaging, assembly and integration of MEMS sensors, laser micro-machining of semiconductors, and photo-voltaic and glass substrates. Currently, he works in the applications engineering division of IMS Nanofabrication mainly in the development of electron-based multi-beam technology for lithography mask writing. In addition, he serves as a reviewer for journals in micro and nanotechnologies and related fields.

Jiri Janata

Professor Emeritus , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Jiri Janata, Ph.D., is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Professor Emeritus at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Science and Technology. Between 1991 and 1997 he was an Associate Director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, Washington. Prior to that appointment, he was a Professor of Materials Science and a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah for 17 years. He was born in Czechoslovakia where he received his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from Charles University (Prague) in 1965. His current interests include interfacial chemistry, chemical sensors, and electroanalytical chemistry with particular emphasis on the development of materials for catalysis.