Speakers

Plenary speakers

Hui-Ming Cheng

Hui-Ming Cheng

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China

Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng graduated from Hunan University, China in 1984 and received his Ph. D in 1992 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). He is the director of both the Advanced Carbon Research Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, IMR CAS since 2001, and the Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Faculty of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2021. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of TWAS. He used to work at Kyushu Research Center of AIST and Nagasaki University, Japan from 1990 to 1993, and MIT, USA from 1997 to 1998.

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Yury Gogotsi

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University, USA

Talk: Non-flammable electrolytes for emerging potassium and zinc ion batteries

Prof. Yury Gogotsi is a global scientist, born and educated in Ukraine, and trained in Western Europe and Japan. He is a chaired Distinguished University Professor and Director of the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA.

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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Talk: Intelligent skin electronics for healthcare monitoring and touch VR

Kris Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and director of Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He prepares advanced materials for biomedical, environmental and energy-related applications.

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Rachel Segalman

Rachel Segalman

University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Talk: 2D carbides, nitrides, oxycarbides, and carbonitrides (MXenes) expand the nanomaterials world

Rachel A. Segalman received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Université Louis Pasteur before joining the faculty of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories from 2004-2014.  During a portion of this time she also served as the Materials Science Division Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

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Keynote speakers

Alessandro Baraldi

Alessandro Baraldi

University of Trieste, Italy

Talk: Smart nanoparticle-based platforms for regulating tumor microenvironment, cancer immunotherapy and cardiac tissue repair

Prof. Alessandro Baraldi is a full professor at the Department of Physics (Department of Excellence 2023-2027) of the University of Trieste. He is the head of the Nanoscale Materials Laboratory at Elettra, the synchrotron radiation facility placed in Italy.

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Cristina Barrias

Cristina Barrias

University of Porto, Portugal

Talk: Heterogeneous atomic catalysts overcoming the limitations of single-atom catalysts

Cristina Barrias is Principal Investigator and Group Leader at i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, www.i3s.up.pt), Vice-coordinator of the “Infection, Immunity and Regeneration” Integrative Program of i3S,  Secretary of the Board of Directors of INEB (Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, University of Porto) and member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB, www.esbiomaterials.eu).

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Lias Belharouak

Lias Belharouak

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

Talk: Solid state battery endeavor

Dr. Ilias Belharouak is a Corporate Fellow and Electrification section head at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee. Dr. Belharouak also serves as a Professor of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

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Jong-Beom Baek

Jong-Beom Baek

UNIST, Republic of Korea

Talk: Electron microscopy and spectroscopy of low dimensional hybrid materials

Jong-Beom Baek is a distinguished professor/director at the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering/Center for Dimension-Controllable Organic Frameworks, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea.

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James Chapman

James Chapman

RMIT University, Australia

Talk: Broad spectrum antibacterial zinc oxide-reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for water depollution

James is an Associate Professor at RMIT University, and a Program Manager for the Environmental Sciences and Environmental Science and Business degree programs, previously holding roles of Head of Science at Central Queensland University.

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Aránzazu del Campo Bécares

Aránzazu del Campo Bécares

Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, Germany

Talk: Phase engineering of nanomaterials

Prof. Dr. Aránzazu del Campo Bécares is Scientific Director & CEO at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Professor for Materials Synthesis at the Faculty of Chemistry at Saarland University.

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Laura Delafresnaye

Laura Delafresnaye

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Talk: Synchrotron radiation-based study on the interfacial engineering of heterogeneous electrocatalysts

Dr. Laura Delafresnaye is a senior research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She received both her engineering degree in chemistry and her MSc in polymer chemistry in 2012 (CPE/University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France).

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Emmanuelle Deleporte

Emmanuelle Deleporte

ENS Paris-Saclay, France

Emmanuelle Deleporte, alumni of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (ENS Paris, 1986 – 1990), received her PhD in Physics from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris in 1992.

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Kuan Eng Johnson Goh

Kuan Eng Johnson Goh

A*STAR Research, Singapore

Talk: Multi-colour synergistic, antagonistic and orthogonal photochemistry for macromolecular synthesis

K. E. Johnson Goh is Director of the Quantum and Advanced Technologies Division, and Principal Scientist at IMRE A*STAR (Singapore). Trained as a Physicist (VUW, New Zealand), Engineer (Sheffield, UK) and Educator (NIE/NTU, Singapore), he went on to obtain his PhD in 2007 from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology at the University of New South Wales (Sydney).

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Zaiping Guo

Zaiping Guo

The University of Adelaide, Australia

Talk: Electrocatalytic refinery for hydrogen production

Professor Zaiping Guo is an Australian Laureate Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide. She is also the Deputy Director of the ARC SafeREnergy Research Hub, and an Associate Editor for Chemical Science, a flagship journal of the RSC.

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Seonki Hong

Seonki Hong

DGIST, Republic of Korea

Talk: Site-specific fabrication of melanin-like pigments for biomedical applications

Dr Seonki Hong is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST. She received her PhD in chemistry from KAIST in 2015 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2015 to 2017.

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Hyunjoo Lee

Hyunjoo Lee

KAIST, Republic of Korea

Talk: Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Energy Materials

Prof. Hyunjoo Lee received her B. S. and M. S. degree from Seoul National University, South Korea and Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology, USA.

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Chun-Sing Lee

Chun-Sing Lee

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Talk: Recovery and reuse of electrode materials from spent lithium ion batteries

Prof. Chun-Sing Lee obtained his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Hong Kong in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He embarked on his research career at the University of Birmingham of the UK with the support of the Croucher Foundation Fellowship. Prof. Lee joined City University of Hong Kong in 1994 and is currently a Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and the Dean of College of Science.

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Xian Jun Loh

Xian Jun Loh

A*STAR Research, Singapore

Talk: Site-specific fabrication of melanin-like pigments for biomedical applications

Prof. Xian Jun Loh completed his basic and postgraduate studies at the National University of Singapore. A polymer chemist by training, he is the Executive Director at both Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), A*STAR.

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Jian Luo

Jian Luo

University of California, San Diego, USA

Jian Luo graduated from Tsinghua University with dual Bachelor's degrees: one in Materials Science and Engineering and another in Electronics and Computer Technology. After receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T., Luo worked in the industry for more than two years with Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories and OFS/Fitel.

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Shizhang Qiao

Shizhang Qiao

University of Adelaide, Australia

Talk: Charge-neutral polymer complexes as battery components

Dr Qiao joined the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide (UoA) in March 2012 as the inaugural Chair professor of Nanotechnology. He is the founding Director of Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis (CMEC) and Deputy Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for new energy technologies (electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries, fuel cell). He has co-authored more than 496 papers in refereed journals, which have attracted over 90,520/104,878 citations with h-index: 154/164 (Web of Sci./Google Scholar).

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José Carlos Rodríguez Cabello

José Carlos Rodríguez Cabello

University of Valladolid, Spain

Talk: New macromolecular materials enabled by atom transfer radical polymerization

Prof. J. Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello (1963). Carlos got, first, a degree in chemistry (Biochemistry) and, later a second degree in physics (Condensed Matter), both at the University of Valladolid in Spain, where he also obtained his doctoral degree.

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Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

University of Glasgow, UK

Talk: Growth factor microenvironments in stem cell engineering

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez is a world leader in engineering biomaterials for in vitro modelling and regenerative medicine. He is currently co-director of the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment at the University of Glasgow. Manuel was based in Valencia (Spain) until 2013 when he moved to Glasgow.

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Hélder Santos

Hélder Santos

University of Groningen, Netherlands

Talk: Engineering of colloidal nanoreactors for sustainable catalysis

Prof. Santos (D.Sc. Tech., Chem. Eng.) is a Full Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Groningen. He is also Research Director at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy. Prof. Santos is also the co-founder of the startups Capsamedix Oy and Medixmicro Oy, and Coordinator of MSCA-ITN P4 FIT network.

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Li Song

Li Song

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Talk: Structure regulation and electrocatalytic properties of graphene quantum dots

Prof. Song received his Ph.D. in 2006 from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After four years as postdoctoral researcher at University of Munich Germany (Humboldt Research Fellowship) and Rice University USA, he became an associate professor at Shinshu University in Japan.

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Kazu Suenaga

Kazu Suenaga

Osaka University, Japan

Kazu Suenaga got his Ph.D in Materials Science at the University of Tokyo in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mine de Paris (1994-1997) and at the Solid State Physics Laboratory in the University Paris-Sud (1997-1998).

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Hua Zhang

Hua Zhang

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Talk: 2D interfacial phases and grain boundary "phase" diagrams

Dr. Hua Zhang obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Nanjing University in China in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Zhongfan Liu at Peking University in China in July 1998. He joined Prof. Frans C. De Schryver’s group at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium as a Research Associate in January 1999. Then he moved to Prof. Chad A. Mirkin’s group at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2001.

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Qiang Zhang

Qiang Zhang

Tsinghua University, China

Talk: Organic-inorganic halide perovskites: tailor-made excitons for lasers and photovoltaïcs

Prof. Qiang Zhang is a full professor at Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering (2009) from Tsinghua University, China, and subsequently held Research Associate/Postdoc Research Fellow positions in the Case Western Reserve University, USA, and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany.

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Invited speaker

Dongliang Chao

Dongliang Chao

Fudan University, China

Talk: When each atom makes the difference: the unique properties of the oxides at the sub-nanoscale.

Prof. Dongliang Chao obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). He joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA) in 2016 as a joint-researcher. Dr Chao served as Research Fellow and senior researcher respectively at NTU and University of Adelaide (UoA, Australia).

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Jian Liu

Jian Liu

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China

Talk: Living therapeutic materials: self-replenishable drug depots

Dr. Jian Liu is currently a Professor in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Head of School, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, China. Dr Liu received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from the DICP, CAS, in 2009, and worked at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland (UQ) as a research fellow.

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Liang Wang

Liang Wang

Shanghai University, China

Talk: Organic electronic materials for novel biomedical, energy and environmental applications

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Xinge Yu

Xinge Yu

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Talk: Energetic aqueous batteries: electrochemistry and device

Xinge Yu is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Associate Director of the CAS-CityU Joint Lab on Robotics, and Assistant Director of Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering.

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