Keynote Speakers |
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Prof. Yong Zhang
National University of Singapore, Singapore Title: "Fluorescent nanoparticles and nanoclusters for bioimaging and phototherapy" Yong Zhang is a Provost's Chair Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). His current research interests include nanobiophotonics, nanomedicine, and microfluidic devices. Professor Zhang has authored over 300 peer-reviewed research papers in international journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, PNAS, and Chemical Reviews, and has won numerous research awards such as IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award and NUS Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Highly Cited Researcher amongst the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds named by Clarivate Analytics. |
Prof. Eli Sutter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA Title: "New Frontiers in Two Dimensional/Layered Materials" Eli Sutter is a Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). Before joining the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2015 she spent 12 years as Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research focuses on in-situ electron microscopy of materials at variable temperatures and in different environments. She has co-authored more than 185 scientific publications, 50 invited talks and holds 8 US Patents. She received a Scientific American 50 award for Ultra-measurements (2007), the Sapphire Prize (2011) and Battelle Inventor of the Year Award (2015). She served as Chair of the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, Vail (CO) in 2014 and the 2017 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix (AZ) |
Invited Speakers
Prof. Lifeng Liu
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal Title: "High-performance water splitting electrocatalysts" Lifeng Liu received both his Master (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in 2007, first working as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist. He started his independent research career in 2008 and became a Group Leader in 2009. In 2011, he moved to the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and set up a research group there, where his research interest primarily focuses on nanomaterials for use in water electrolysis, photoelectrochemical cells, rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors. |
Prof. Ehrenfried Zschech
deepXscan GmbH, Dresden, Germany, Germany Title: "High-resolution X-ray computed tomography study of the morphology of electrocatalytic systems for water splitting" Ehrenfried Zschech is Department Head for Microelectronic Materials and Nanoanalysis at the Fraunhofer Institute IKTS in Dresden, Germany, which he joined in 2009. His responsibilities include multi-scale materials characterization and reliability engineering. Ehrenfried Zschech received his Dr. rer. nat. degree from Technische Universität Dresden. He managed the Materials Analysis Department at Advanced Micro Devices in Dresden from 1997 to 2009. Ehrenfried Zschech holds an adjunct professorship at Faculty of Chemistry of Warsaw University, Poland, as well as honorary professorships for Nanomaterials at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and for Nanoanalysis at Technische Universität Dresden. Ehrenfried Zschech is Member of the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Member of the Senate of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and Honorary Member of the Federation of the European Materials Societies (FEMS). In 2019, he was awarded with the FEMS European Materials Gold Medal. |
Prof. Benoit Heinrichs
University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Benoît Heinrichs is a chemical engineer from the University of Liège, ULg (1993). During his PhD thesis in engineering at both the University of Liège and the Solvay company (1999), he developed bimetallic sol-gel catalysts for hydrodechlorination of industrial by-products. In 2001, he moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands to develop iron-based catalysts for N2O abatement. He came back to ULg in 2002 where he was appointed as permanent researcher. In 2009, he was appointed as professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences where he teaches chemistry and thermodynamics to students in bachelor in engineering. Within the Nanomaterial Catalysis Electrochemistry group, he is leading the Nanomaterials & Interfaces team which focuses on the design and production of nanostructured materials, on their characterization, and on their applications, especially in environmental catalysis and photocatalysis, in functionalized surface coatings and in microbatteries design. |
Prof. Sixto Gimenez Julia
Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain Sixto Giménez (M. Sc. Physics 1996, Ph. D. Physics 2002) is Full Professor at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His professional career has been focused on the study of micro and nanostructured materials for different applications spanning from structural components to optoelectronic devices. In January 2008, he joined the University Jaume I where he is involved in the development of new concepts for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices based on nanoscaled materials, particularly studying the optoelectronic and electrochemical responses of the devices by electrical impedance spectroscopy. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and has received more than 6700 citations. His current h-index is 37 (Web of Science). He also has an important diffusion activity reflected in four book chapters and one edited book, all this production published by important international publishers (Springer, Wiley and World Scientific). He has also served in different national and international assessment committees for the evaluation of scientific and technological proposals. |
Speech from organisers
Prof. Bunsho Ohtani
Hokkaido University, Japan Professor Ohtani has been studying photocatalysis and relating topics for more than 30 years and published more than 200 original papers and two single-author books. He got a full professor position in Catalysis Research Center (presently Institute for Catalysis), Hokkaido University in 1998. He was awarded the 2005 Scientific Achievement Award of the Electrochemical Society of Japan, The Japanese Photochemistry Association Award 2006 and Catalysis Society of Japan Award for 2013 for his works on photocatalysis. |
Prof. Alla Zak
HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Israel Prof. Alla Zak, is a head of the Laboratory for Synthesis and Investigation of Nanomaterials and Associate professor in the Faculty of Sciences in the HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. She is also a Scientific Adviser in the Department of Materials and Interfaces in Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel. Recently, she successfully scaled up the synthesis of the WS2 nanotubes, which paved the way for numerous scientific researches, for discovery of novel properties and opened new possibilities for using these materials in commercial products. Currently, Prof. Zak focuses her research on synthesis of nanospheres and nanotubes of transition metal dichalcogenides with modified properties for advanced applications. Alla Zak is an inventor of 2 patents and an author of 65 scientific papers in the field of inorganic nanomaterials. |
Prof. Dr. Dominik Eder
Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Prof. Dr. Dominik Eder received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2003 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He then joined the University of Cambridge, UK in 2005 as Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In 2006, he was awarded an APART Advanced Research fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science, which he used to start his group at Cambridge. In 2011 he accepted a position as a Junior-Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany. In 2015 he became Full Professor for Materials Chemistry in the Institute of Materials Chemistry (IMC) at TU Wien. He is currently head of the “Molecular Materials Chemistry” division at IMC at TU Wien. Prof. Eder has co-authored over 90 papers (>3600 citations, h-index: 30). His research interests include nanocarbons, functional inorganic nanostructures and ordered mesoporous transition metal oxides and zeolites for photocatalysis and electrochemical storage applications. |
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