Materials Science & Nanobiotechnology

Giersig has made significant contributions to the rational synthesis and fundamental investigation of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and functional metallic nanostructures with tuneable electronic structures / interfaces and unique physical properties for advanced energy and biomedical technologies. Some of his most notable research, published to date in Science, Advances in Physics, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Nature Communications, has focused on how nanoscience fundamentally affects several key electronics and energy technologies. Since joining the Faculty of Physics at the FU-Berlin in 2009, Giersig has established a first-class research program in nanomaterials science and their applications in electronics and biomedicine. His research group has published numerous effective contributions to various prestigious journals and magazines and has filed numerous patents. He has published over 290 internationally refereed publications covering physics, chemistry, material science, biochemistry, medicine, nanotechnology and engineering. His work has been cited over 20 100 times, quoted in the ISI Index (without self-citations) at an average of over “76” citations per publication, while his h-index is currently “76”.

Nanomaterials science and their applications in electronics and biomedicine

Dr Li Li is an Advance Queensland Research Fellow (Mid) at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland. She is a materials scientist with extensive experience in nanoparticle synthesis and applications in targeted drug delivery and vaccination. She has developed several functional NPs platforms including layered double hydroxides (LDHs), silica NPs and nanoemulsions, and applied these NPs to efficiently deliver anti-cancer drugs and siRNA for cancer treatment. She has employed LDH-based nanoparticles to co-deliver drugs and gene to improve drug efficiency in cancer treatment. This new strategy provides a promising approach for advance cancer therapy. She established the close relationships with the national and international experts, published high quality research papers in Adv Mater, Biomaterials, Nano Letters, Nano research, Adv Funct Mater.

Nanoparticle synthesis and applications in targeted drug delivery and vaccination.

Professor in Chemistry with twenty-one years of academic experiences at the U.S. Marchant Marine Academy (2011-present) and the University of Pittsburgh (1997-2011). Active member of American Chemical Society (ACS) and leader of various ACS major science outreach programs and 2016 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting.

Research with numerous publications, grants and invited presentations in the areas of developing nanomaterials for marine pollution prevention; nanoscience and technology curriculum materials; and chemistry in maritime industry curriculum materials. Recent ACS recognitions include 2017 Middle Atlantic Regional Partners for Progress and Prosperity Award, 2016 Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award, 2016 National ChemiLuminary Award Finalist, 2015 E. Ann Nalley Middle Atlantic Regional Award, and 2014 New York Section Distinguished Service Award for Leading National Chemistry Week.

Michael F Herman received his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1980. He has been on the Faculty of Tulane University since 1981. His work has focused on the development of semi-classical methods for modeling chemical systems. He also has developed a model for polymer dynamics in the melt and is studying the influence of intermolecular dipolar couplings between molecular vibrations on isotopic fractionation processes.

The first research area involves the development and testing of semiclassical approximations for the quantum evolution of complex systems. Semiclassical methods, which utilize information from classical trajectories to obtain approximate quantum mechanical energies, wavefunctions, transition probabilities, etc., provide computationally very useful procedures for calculations involving the motion of atomic and molecular systems. The second area investigates the manner in which solvents influence the vibrational frequencies and population relaxation in liquids and dense gases. These interactions are important because, for instance, the equilibration of vibrational populations plays a significant role in determining the response of condensed phase systems to external perturbations.

Lavinia Balan obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University Henry Poincaré in Nancy, France, in 2005. Her Ph.D. was devoted to the elaboration of an original material for the anode of Li-ion batteries. After a post doctorate in Orleans and then in Mulhouse, she joined the Department of Photochemistry (DPG) of Mulhouse in 2006 as a CNRS Senior Researcher. She opened a new field of research in this laboratory, viz. the photoassisted synthesis of metal nanoparticles and metal-polymer nanocomposite materials. Since December 2009, L. Balan joined the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse (IS2M) CNRS-UMR 7361

Her lines of research are concerned with the (photo)chemical synthesis of metal/polymer nanocomposites and design, customization and characterization of metal nanoparticles and nanocrystals (quantum dots) suited for advanced applications in the fields of optic, photonics, plasmonics, information storage, imaging or biology.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, and Technical University, Vienna, Austria. He is also CEO of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA. Ephraim is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) . Dr. Suhir has authored about 400 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering (he is the third Russian American, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award); and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products.

Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Engineering; Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering; Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers; Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing; Thermal Stress Analysis, Embedded Systems; “Human-in-the-Loop: Human-Equipment-Environment Interaction;

Dr. Bingqing Wei (B. Q. Wei) received his Ph.D. degree in 1992 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA. Dr. Wei was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Dr. Wei’s research interests lie in nanomaterials and their energy applications. He has published more than 260 scientific papers in refereed international journals and his research work has been intensively cited more than 15000 times by peer scientists with the h-index of 62.

Graduated with honors and received Ph.D. in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Started his scientific career at P.N. Lebedev Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and later worked in many research centers worldwide. At present, he is Professor of Physics at Leibniz University Hannover and Head of Nanotechnology Department at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.v

Laser physics and laser applications, quantum and nonlinear optics, Nano- and bio-photonics, Nano engineering, biomedical implants and devices, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Degree in Engineering and PhD in Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino. Full Professor of Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino. Founder of the Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino. He is Director of the Lab with a Research Staff working in the field of micro-technologies and nano-science (http://www.polito.it/micronanotech ). In 2005 he was founder of 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 2018 he is Director of the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies of Italian Institute of Technology (http://csft.iit.it ). .

Nanotechnologies applied to biological systems (in particular sensors, lab on chip and organ on chip),Graphene and 2D materials for energy, bioenergy and environment (solar cells, supercapacitors, microbial fuel cells),Microfluidic systems for biological applications,Nanomaterials for microelectronics

Nikolai A. Sobolev received PhD with honors (summa cum laude) in 1978 from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Now he is also actively working on composite multiferroics and resistive switching devices. N.A. Sobolev authored 200 research papers, 3 book chapers, 6 USSR patents. He was chair, co-chair or committee member of 30 scientific conferences, co-edited 4 article collections, reviewed hundreds of scientific articles and research projects. He headed a series of national and international research projects. Presently he is the coordinator of the European H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017-778308 SPINMULTIFILM project (2018-2021). N.A. Sobolev was Visiting Professor and Invited Scientist at the Technical University of Berlin, Universities of Jena and Ulm (Germany), National University of Science and Technology "MISiS" (Moscow, Russia). Presently he is at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Ion implantation and defects in semiconductors and quantum size semiconductor structures using predominantly the optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. magnetic nanostructures, such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ), and invented a method of obtaining the easy-cone magnetic anisotropy in perpendicular MTJ. Now he is also actively working on composite multiferroics and resistive switching devices

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. 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 and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He 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. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last four years (2014 - 2018) over 50 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE).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.

: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography