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Eva Andrei
Rutgers University, USA
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Eva Andrei is an experimental condensed matter physicist recognized for her work on low dimensional electron systems, including two-dimensional electrons on helium, magnetically induced Wigner crystal in semiconductor heterojunctions and vortices in superconductors. She is known particularly for her ground-breaking work on the electronic properties of graphene, a one-atom thick membrane of crystalline carbon with extraordinary electronic properties stemming from charge carriers that behave like ultra-relativistic particles.
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Siva Böhm
The Royal Society Industry Fellow, UK
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Dr Sivasambu Bohm received his first degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by an M.Sc. at Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin. After gaining his PhD at the University of Bath in Chemistry, he worked at different academic institutions, University of Swansea, TU Delft, The University of Birmingham & India Institute of Technology. Siva has 20 years of industrial experience in various research fields; metallurgy, protective coatings, energy storage in the automotive industry, aerospace coatings and nanotechnology, Graphene synthesis and applications of graphene. Dr Bohm published 30 patents and 94 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Technical Surface Coatings. Dr Bohm has been awarded the Royal Society Industry Fellowship initial at University of Cambridge, CGC. Since 2020, Dr Bohm completing his final year of fellowship at Imperial College London and working as Graphene research scientist at AM Commercial UK Ltd / AM Global R&D Asturias
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Francesco Bonaccorso
BeDimensional, Italy
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Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and Visiting Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina after working at the Italian National Research Council, the University of Cambridge and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J.Mater.Chem.A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem and highlighted by Clarivate Analytics as Highly cited scientist. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 12 patents and 130 publications. He has an H-index of 52 and more than 29700 citations.
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Paolo Bondavalli
Thales Research & Technology, France
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Dr. Paolo Bondavalli is in charge of the transverse topic on nanomaterials at Thales Research and Technology. Presently his work is focused on discovering potentialities for new 2D materials for the next generation of electronics, energy storage devices, memristor, electromagnetic shielding, quantum computing. Dr Bondavalli has received his Hdr in 2011, at Paris-Sud on a work on "devices based on random network of carbon nanotubes". During the last five years, he has participated, also as coordinator, in several EU projects (concerning CNTs, graphene, spintronics, energy) and ANR projects. He is involved in the Graphene Flagship initiative. He recently issued a book on Graphene ("Graphene and Related Materials: Properties and Applications" Ed Elsevier, pp 192, 2017).
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Cinzia Casiraghi
University of Manchester, UK
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Dr Cinzia Casiraghi received her BSc and MSc in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2006. In 2005 she was awarded with an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2007 and the prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, won in 2008. This Prize is given to young, cutting-edge researchers, providing them with risk capital to pursue innovative projects and establish their own lab at a very early stage in their careers. This allowed her to become Junior Group Leader at the Physics Department of the Free University Berlin (Germany). In 2010 she joined the School of Chemistry, at the University of Manchester (UK). She is also member of the Athena Swan committee of the School of Chemistry.
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Marta Cerruti
McGill University, Canada
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Marta Cerruti is Associate Professor in Materials Engineering at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in "Bio-synthetic interfaces". Her research focuses on the interface between synthetic materials and biological molecules, and one of the goals is to develop "surface interactive scaffolds" for soft and hard tissue regeneration, with a functional surface designed to induce or inhibit mineralization depending on the desired application, as well as a specific cellular response. Her groups works extensively on controlling the self-assembly of graphene oxide flakes into structures with tunable properties; one of her ultimate goals is to showcase applications of these structures in bone tissue engineering.
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Aldo Di Carlo
University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
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Aldo Di Carlo is Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Electronics Engineering. Leader of the Nano&Optoelectronic research group - http://www.optolab.uniroma.it at the Department of Electronic Engineering and member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. His research activity concerns the study of electronic and optical properties of nanostructured devices, their analysis, optimization and technology. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in organic/inorganic devices and thermal processes at nanoscale has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. In the last years his researches have focussed on the study and fabrication of organic devices. Research activities in carbon nanotubes have been quite successful leading to the realization cold cathode vacuum triode based on CNT cathode for THz generation. The research activity of organic optoelectronic devices has been consider of excellence and the Lazio Region has sponsored this activity funding the "Polo Solare Organico della Regione Lazio", namely the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) where Prof. A. Di Carlo is co-director. The aim of the Center is the study and development of organic photovoltaic cells and their industrialization. Prof. Di Carlo has organized, together with Prof. Lugli, IEEE 2004 Nanotechnology Conference in Munich. Prof. Di Carlo is author/co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals, several reviews on electronic and optoelectronic devices, 7 patents, several book chapters and co-author of two books (in Italian language) and has been invited to more than 40 invited talk at international conferences. Prof. Di Carlo has an h-factor = 38. The results of his research have been used to realize 5 spin-off companies dealing with ICT and Energy technologies
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Norbert Fabricius
KIT - ISC, Germany
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Dr. Norbert Fabricius is responsible for standardization of nanotechnology at the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany.
In his industrial career between 1986 and 2002 he developed materials and processes for the manufacturing of integrated optical components used in telecommunication networks. His last industrial position was director operations at JDS Uniphase in Germany. In 2003 he joined the KIT and headed the Helmholtz programs “Microsystem Technologies” and “Nanotechnology” until 2008. After 2008 his main focus was on the standardization aspect in nanotechnology.
He has experience in standardization on the national (DKE, DIN) and international (IEC, ISO) level for 30 years in different technology areas as well as in industrial and academic environments. He acts as the secretary for the IEC technical committee 113 “Nanotechnology for electrotechnical products and systems” and is a member of several other IEC and ISO technical committees. On the national level he is member of the steering committee of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE) and head of the German mirror committee to IEC/TC 113. In 2015 he established the GFSC (Graphene Flagship Standardization Committee) within the EU FET Flagship Graphene. Since that time the GFSC cooperates closely with IEC/TC 113.
In 2016 he established the privately held company ISC (International Standards Consulting). ISC is intended to support companies and research organizations, as well as governmental institutions to develop their own standardization strategies. That includes the initiation of new standardization projects and guidance through the whole standardization process from NWIP (New Work Item Proposal) to publication.
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Marcel Franz
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Marcel Franz is a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, most recently focusing on problems in topological states of quantum matter. Previously, and more generally, he made contributions to the theory of high temperature superconductivity, graphene, and various exotic phases of correlated electrons.
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Pawel Hawrylak
University of Ottawa, Canada
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Ph.D., Condensed Matter Theory - University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky, USA, 1984.
M.Sc (with Honours) - Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, 1979.
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Mark Hersam
Northwestern University, USA
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Mark C. Hersam is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Materials Research Center at Northwestern University. He also holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Applied Physics, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1996, M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2000. His research interests include nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, scanning probe microscopy, nanoelectronic devices, biosensors, and renewable energy. Dr. Hersam has received several honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award, AVS Peter Mark Award, MRS Outstanding Young Investigator, U.S. Science Envoy, MacArthur Fellowship, AVS Medard W. Welch Award, and eight Teacher of the Year Awards. An elected member of the National Academy of Inventors, Dr. Hersam has founded two companies, NanoIntegris and Volexion, which are commercial suppliers of nanoelectronic and battery materials, respectively. Dr. Hersam is a Fellow of MRS, AVS, APS, AAAS, SPIE, and IEEE, and also serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.
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Kari Hjelt
Chalmers Industrial Technic, Sweden
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Kari Hjelt, Head of Innovation, Graphene Flagship PhD (Eng.), MBA Kari Hjelt has extensive experience in ICT and over 15 years career in corporate venturing and research. At Nokia he established a number of ventures and two research laboratories. His last tenure at Nokia was Director, Research Innovations. Since then he has been a co-founder and advisor to several high-tech SMEs. He currently works in Graphene Flagship as the Head of Innovation and is a member of the Management Panel and the Executive Board. He received his PhD in 1997 with “Photoluminescence and growth of compound semiconductors” from Helsinki University of Technology. He earned his Executive MBA from London Business School in 2010. Kari holds 10 patents and has published 40+ reviewed publications.
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James Hone
Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
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Hone received a BS in physics from Yale University in 1990 and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.
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Philip Kim
Harvard University, USA
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Professor Philip Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1967. He received his B.S in physics at Seoul National University in 1990 and received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1999. He was Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics from University of California, Berkeley during 1999-2001. In 2002, he joined in Department of Physics at Columbia University as a faculty member, where he is now Professor of Physics. Starting from summer of 2014, he moves to Harvard as Professor of Physics. Professor Kim is a world leading scientist in the area of materials research. His research area is experimental condensed matter physics with an emphasis on physical properties and applications of nanoscale low-dimensional materials. The focus of Prof. Kim’s group research is the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. These materials include carbon nanotubes, organic and inorganic nanowires, 2-dimensional mesoscopic single crystals, and single organic molecules. 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. He has initiated these efforts very successfully, and is continuously making innovations in microscopic experimental tools and methods in order to investigate the electric, thermal/thermoelectric transport properties of the nanoscale materials. Professor Kim published more than 120 papers in professional journals which are well cited. Many of his papers are published in high impact journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. Professor Kim received numerous honors and award including Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2014), Loeb Lectureship, Harvard (2012); Dresden Barkhausen Award (2011); Yunker Lectureship, Oregon State University, (2011); Chapman Lectureship, Rice University, (2009); IBM Faculty Award (2009); Ho-Am Science Prize (2008); American Physical Society Fellow (2007); Columbia University Distinguished Faculty Award (2007); Recipient Scientific American 50 (2006); National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2004). In addition, He has given more than 300 invited presentations as keynote speaker, plenary speakers, and invited speakers in international and domestic conferences, colloquiums and department seminars.
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Frank Koppens
ICREA/ICFO, Spain
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Prof. Frank Koppens obtained his PhD in experimental physics at Delft University, at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, The Netherlands. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Since August 2010, Koppens is group leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). The quantum nano-optoelectronics group of Prof. Koppens focuses on both science and technology of novel two-dimensional materials and quantum materials. Prof. Koppens is vice-chairman of the executive board of the graphene flagship program, a 1000 MillionEuro project for 10 years. He is also the leader of the optoelectronics workpackage within the flagship. Prof. Koppens holds a GSMA Chair with activities related to the Mobile World Congress. Koppens has received five ERC awards: the ERC starting grant, the ERC consolidator grant, and three ERC proof-of-concept grants. Other awards include the Christiaan Hugyensprijs 2012, the national award for research in Spain, the IUPAP young scientist prize in optics, and the ACS photonics investigator award. In total, Koppens has published more than 80 refereed papers (H-index above 50), with more than 35 in Science and Nature family journals.
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Max Lemme
AMO, Germany
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Max Lemme received his Dipl.Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 1998 and 2003. In 1998 he joined nanotechnology start-up AMO GmbH, where he later became Head of the Technology Department. He has worked in the field of non-conventional nano-CMOS devices, including nanowire SOI-MOSFETs, novel high-k materials for gate stacks and, since 2005, graphene. His research on graphene devices includes the world’s first top-gated graphene MOSFET and the invention of a novel graphenebased nonvolatile memory device. In 2006 he received a young researchers’ award “NanoFutur” from the German Ministry for Education and Research and in 2007 he received a Lynen Research Fellowship form the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2008 he joined Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, where he pioneered a helium ion-based nanolithography method for graphene and investigated graphene photodetectors. In September 2010, he became Professor at KTH, where he is leading the graphene activities within the School of ICT. In 2012 he became Heisenberg Professor for Graphene-based Nanotechnology at the University of Siegen. His most recent work includes the first demonstration of graphene hot electron transistors (in collaboration with IHP) and graphenebased piezoresistive pressure sensors in an nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS). In addition, he has initiated research towards analog circuit design of graphene devices. Prof. Lemme is a Senior member of the IEEE and serves in several technical programme commitees for international conferences such as DRC (since 2013), IEDM (2008-2009), ESSDERC (since 2010), ULIS (since 2007) and EMRS.
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Adina Luican-Mayer
University of Ottawa, Canada
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Adina Luican-Mayer is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at the University of Ottawa since 2016. She received her undergraduate degree from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany (2006) and her PhD in Physics from Rutgers University (2012). Prior to joining uOttawa, she was the Alexei Abrikosov postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research group focuses on uncovering the novel electronic properties of low-dimensional systems custom made by stacking atomically thin sheets of van der Waals materials using scanning probe microscopy and supporting spectroscopic techniques.
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Arben Merkoci
ICREA-ICN2, Spain
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Arben Merkoçi is currently ICREA Professor and director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group at Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), a BIST centre situated at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) campus (Bellaterra, Barcelona). After his PhD (1991) at Tirana University, in the topic of Ion-Selective-Electrodes (ISEs) designs and applications in clinical and environmental analysis, Dr. Merkoçi worked as postdoc at other European research centres and USA in the field of nanobiosensors and lab-on-a-chip technologies. His postdoc periods were followed by leading positions in several laboratories: (1997-2006) at Autonomous University of Barcelona and since 2006 in ICN2.
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Nima Moghimian
nanoxplore, Canada
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Dr. Nima Moghimian is currently the Global Director of Research and Development at NanoXplore – the largest producer of graphene powder – and the head of corporate’s product development activities. Dr. Moghimian is a materials scientist with more than 10 years of experience in development of advanced materials for everyday use. He specializes in commercialization of graphene for transportation and renewable energy. He received his master’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the University of Barcelona and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria.
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Emanuele Orgiu
INRS, Canada
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Dr. Emanuele Orgiu leads the Molecular and Device Physics laboratory. His future research interests focus on the characterization of charge, spin and heat transport in novel materials such as organic (semi)conductors and 2D materials. These materials are integrated into two- or three-terminal devices as the active layer and such integration allows to probe different physical properties.
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Andrew J. Pollard
National Physical Laboratory, UK
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Andrew Pollard is the Science Area Leader of the Surface Technology Group and leads NPL's research into the structural and chemical characterisation of graphene and related 2D materials, with a focus on enabling industrial commercialisation in this area. This metrology research addresses the actual measurement of 2D materials with a range of surface characterisation techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), scanning probe microscopies (SPM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). He is leading international graphene standards within ISO/TC229, including the first published graphene ISO standard on terminology. Andrew is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK, the co-chair of the VAMAS Technical Working Area 'TWA 41: Graphene and Related 2D Materials' and the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's "2018 Rising Star in Industry Award"
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Stephan Roche
ICREA/ICN2, Spain
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ICREA Prof. Stephan Roche is working at the Catalan Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology-ICN2 and BIST. He leads the "Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience" group which focuses on physics of Dirac materials (graphene & topological insulators) and 2D materials-based van der Waals heterostructures. He pioneered the development of linear scaling quantum transport approaches enabling simulations of billion atoms-scale disordered models. He studied Theoretical Physics at ENS and got PhD (1996) at Grenoble University (France); worked in Japan, Spain & Germany; was appointed as assistant Prof. in 2000, CEA Researcher in 2004 and joined ICREA in 2009. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Since 2013, he is the PI of ICN2 of the GRAPHENE FLAGSHIP, currently leader of the Graphene Spintronics Workpackage.
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Thomas Szkopek
McGill University, Canada
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Thomas Szkopek is Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University. He received his PhD in electrical engineering at University of California Los Angeles in 2006. His research interests are in the investigation of the electronic properties and applications of graphene and 2D materials. He has made contributions to the understanding of graphene, hydrogenated graphene, black phosphorus, and stannous selenide. He has also contributed to the development of graphene oxide acoustic transducers, presently being commercialized by ORA Graphene Audio, and the development of large area graphene sensors.
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Mauricio Terrones
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Mauricio Terrones, obtained his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics with first class honors at Universidad Iberoamericana, and was distinguished as the Best Student of Mexico in Engineering Physics in 1992. In 1994 he started his doctorate degree with Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS), and received his D.Phil. degree from University of Sussex in 1998. He has co-authored more than 400 publications in international journals, and counts with more than 28,000 citations to his work (His H index is 83; Google Scholar H=91). He has published in Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry, ACS Nano, PNAS, etc. In 1999, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and carried out research at the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany). In 2000, he was recipient of the Mexican National Prize for Chemistry. He also received the Javed Husain Prize and the Albert Einstein medal from UNESCO in 2001. In 2005, he received the TWAS Prize in Engineering Physics for his contributions in the field of carbon-based nanomaterials. This prize is given by the Academy of Sciences of the Developing world, and Mauricio is the youngest scientist ever to receive any TWAS award. In 2005, Terrones also received the “José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez” Prize, awarded by the governor of the state of San Luis Potosí, for his contributions to Nanoscience. He is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2002. In 2007, Terrones was elected the National Contact Point in Nanotechnology with the European Union. In 2012 was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2015, he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and was awarded the Jubilee Professorship from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). In 2016, Mauricio was awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences (Penn State). Mauricio is also Associate Editor of Carbon, 2D Materials, Journal of Materials Research and Nature Scientific Reports. He is Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering with tenure at Penn State University. He is also the Founder Director of the Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at Penn State, and also the NSF-IUCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC).
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Colin Van der Kuur
ZEN Graphene Solution, Canada
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Dr. Colin van der Kuur is the head of research at ZEN Graphene Solutions which is currently collaborating with six Canadian Universities. Colin has extensive experience serving on non-profit boards and professional coaching.
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Aiping Yu
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Dr. Aiping Yu has over 20 years of experience focusing on development, processing and functionalization of nanostructured carbon materials, along with their application as electrode materials in high performance supercapacitors and reinforcement of polymer composite. She has published over 125 refereed journal papers, two book chapters and one book, which have been cited over 16,000 times. She is also the associate editor for Chemical Engineering Journal (IF=10.65). She holds 7 patents and provisional patents for nanomaterials or device development. Two of these are licensed to companies such as Tessera, Inc., and Grafoid, Inc.
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Amaia Zurutuza
Graphenea, Spain
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She received her Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in 2002. After two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships working in two European projects related to molecularly imprinted polymers. In 2004, she joined Ferring Pharmaceuticals (previously Controlled Therapeutics) where she worked in the research of new controlled drug delivery systems as a Senior Polymer Scientist. Her contribution led to the granting of three patents in novel biodegradable and biostable polymers for the controlled release of active compounds. In 2010, she became the Scientific Director of Graphenea. At Graphenea, she leads the research and development activities on graphene-based materials. Since joining Graphenea, she has so far filed for ten patents and published in Nature and Science.