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Gonzalo Abellán (ICMOL - UV, Spain)
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Gonzalo Abellán obtained his PhD in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in 2014 at the University of Valencia (UV). Afterwards, he gained a self-driven Marie Curie Fellowship and joined Prof. Andreas Hirsch's group at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2018 he returned to Spain as an Excellence Distinguished Researcher getting a GenT-CIDEGENT contract (Generalitat Valenciana), the Ramón y Cajal fellowship, the ERC Starting Grant, or the ERC Proof of Concept Grant, among others. Gonzalo Abellán’s main research activities have been focused on three lines: 2D-pnictogens (group of P, As, Sb and Bi), layered hydroxides, and carbon nanoforms and related hybrid materials, with special emphasis on energy-related applications. He leads the 2D-Chem research group at the Institute of Molecular Science (www.icmol.es/2dchem) and is one of the founders of the spin-off company of the University of Valencia: 2D-Match S.L. He is also the president of ACCENT (association of GenT-program Excellence Researchers of the Valencian Community).
Rainer Adelung (Kiel University, Germany)
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Rainer Adelung received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Kiel University, Germany, in 2000. From 2001 to 2002 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of materials science at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., partially assisted by a grand from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. In 2002 he joined the faculty of engineering of the Kiel University at the chair for multicomponent Materials of Prof Faupel, where he lead a scientifically independent sub group. In 2006 he received his Habilitation by the faculty of engineering. In 2007 he and the Kiel University were awarded with a Heisenberg Professorship by the DFG (German research society) and his group for functional nanomaterials was founded. As a consequence of negotiations about an offer of a professorship from another university, the chair for functional nanomaterials was established in 2010. His research interests include nanotechnology, implant Materials and medical technology, integration of self-organized processes into standard lithography, new sensor technology, metal oxide semiconductors, battery research, highly porous materials and 3d nanomaterials of macroscopic expansion. He has more than 260 international journal publications and more than 20 patents and patent applications. The publications include journal articles as author and co-author in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, or Materials Today. He carried out successfully many national and international funded research project.
Jong-Hyun Ahn (Yonsei University, South Korea)
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Jong-Hyun Ahn holds Underwood distinguished professor at Yonsei University, Korea. He has worked as a director of the Center for strain engineered electronic devices, supported by National Research Foundation of Korea and an associate editor of NPG Asia Materials. His research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nanomaterials and fabrication for flexible and stretchable electronic devices, and recent interest focuses on 2D material based wearable electronics with an emphasis on bio-applications. Jong-Hyun Ahn has authored more than 150 papers, and is an inventor of more than 60 patents and has received numerous scientific awards, including the National Young Scientist Award and the IEEE George Smith Award.
Luigi Ambrosio (CNR, Italy)
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Luigi Ambrosio is Adjunct Research Director at Institute of Polymer, Composites & Biomaterials, CNR, Naples, Italy. Qualified Full Professor in Bioengineering and in Materials Science and Technology. President of the European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) (2007-2013). Director of Chemical Sciences & Materials Technology Department, CNR, Rome, Italy (2011-2017). He is recipient of the ESB "G. Winter Award" (March 2015). He has been nominated Fellow of: (i) American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2001), (ii) Biomaterials Science and Engineering (2004), (iii) European Alliance for Medical and Biomedical Engineering & Science (2018) (iv) European Academy of Science (2019). Editor-in-Chief of J. of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine (since 2017). Research interests include design of polymers, composites and nanostructures for medical applications and regenerative medicine, additive technologies. He is author/co-author of more than 360 publications and 27 patents
Claudia Backes (University of Kassel, Germany)
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Claudia is a chemist by training and has received her Ph.D with honors in 2011 from the University of Erlangen, Germany. After some time as deputy executive director in the Erlangen Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” Claudia received a fellowship grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2012 and moved to Jonathan Coleman’s groups at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. In 2015, she returned to Germany and started her independent research at the Chair of Applied Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University funded through the prestigious Emmy Noether funding from the German Research Foundation from 2016. In 10/2021, she was appointed Chair Professor of Physical Chemistry of Nanomaterials at Kassel University. Claudia’s research interests are in liquid exfoliation, nanosheet size control and size-dependent properties, chemical modification and production of composites and hybrid structures.
Alberto Bianco (IBMC-CNRS-Université de Strasbourg, France)
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Dr. Alberto Bianco received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Padova. As a visiting scientist, he worked at the University of Lausanne, the University of Tübingen (as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow), the University of Padova and Kyoto University. He is currently First Class Director at the CNRS in Strasbourg. His research interests focus on the design of multifunctional carbon and 2D nanomaterials for therapy, diagnostics and imaging. He is also interested on their health impact, particularly on the immune system. He has published more than 330 articles (h-index: 90, > 47500 citations). In 2017 he has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Science and in 2020 of the Academia Europaea, and in 2019 he has obtained the CNRS Silver Medal. Since 2011 he is Editor of the journal CARBON.
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. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 120 publications and 12 patents.
Meganne Christian (CNR-IMM & Member of the ESA Astronaut Reserve, Italy)
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Meganne Christian is a researcher in the field of nanomaterials at IMM-CNR, where she has been working since 2014. Born in Pembury, UK in 1987, she was awarded her PhD in Industrial Chemistry in 2014 from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Chemistry at the same university in 2009, for which she was awarded Honours Class 1 and the University Medal. Meganne has ~30 papers in academic journals as well as >30 international conference presentations. She has received a number of awards, including the Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research for her doctoral studies, the UNSW Research Excellence Award, the National Postgraduate Student Energy Award from the Australian Institute of Energy, and best presentation/poster awards at 5 international conferences. Her current expertise is in Scanning Electron Microscopy and Chemical Vapour Deposition of graphene, and she is skilled in a wide range of other laboratory synthetic and analytical techniques. She is also interested in research in extreme conditions, having flown experiments on two parabolic flights and performed two scientific expeditions (including one winter-over) to Concordia Station in Antarctica. In November 2022, Meganne was selected from over 22500 candidates as a member of the European Space Agency astronaut reserve.
Camilla Coletti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy)
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Camilla Coletti is a tenured Senior Scientist of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and principal investigator of the research line 2D Materials Engineering. She is the coordinator of the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation (CNI@NEST) of Pisa and of the Graphene Labs. She received her MS degree from the University of Perugia in 2004 and her PhD degree from the University of South Florida in 2007 (both in electrical engineering). Her research is currently focused on: (i) synthesis and integration of scalable 2D materials for optoelectronics, photonics and biomedicine (ii) engineering van der Waals heterostructures. She is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, contributed to several book chapters and holds 3 international patents
Sabrina Conoci (ST Microelectronics, Italy)
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Sabrina Conoci received the M.S. degree in industrial chemistry from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering of materials from the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.,She was with the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, for one year. Since 1999, she has been with STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy, covering several research and development positions in the field of nanomolecular devices, biosensors, and biotechnologies. She is the first accomplished biotechnologist of STMicroelectronics and recently she has been selected on the international experts’ panel to edit the CLSI MM22 technical rule “Microarrays for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases” recognized from Food and Drug Administration as Consensus Standard for Molecular Diagnostic. From 2012 to 2015, she was the Scientific Coordinator of the Italian PON research project entitled “Hippocrates: Development of Micro and Nanotechnologies and Advanced Systems for Human Health” funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. She has co-authored more than 70 publications in international scientific journals and more than 100 communications to national and international congresses, and holds 10 international patents
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
Francesco Gazza (Centro Richerche FIAT / Stellantis, Italy)
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Francesco Gazza, Master’s degree in Photochemistry and Molecular Materials, with applied Degree in Composite Materials, 2015 Currently working for the Materials and Sustainability Engineering (a department of the Fiat Research Center, subsidiary form Stellantis) as Material Specialist, specifically as coordinator for material testing for automotive applications. Four years old expertise in the added-value plastic for multifunctional applications and on high strain rate plastic characterization supporting crashworthiness CAE analysis field, he is involved in several r&D projects with the aim of characterize new kind of high added-value plastics for applications in the automotive field.
Filippo Giordanino (LayerOne AS, Norway)
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Filippo joined LayerOne on March 2022 as the new CTO. Filippo has an international experience within EssilorLuxottica, a global leading manufacturer in the eyewear industry. In EssilorLuxottica Filippo has held different roles within the R&D, the Engineering and the Manufacturing departments, and spent 3 years in USA in a chemical business unit as Senior Chemistry Manager. Filippo graduated with a PhD in Chemistry and Material Science from the University of Turin, and has been a visiting PhD student at Haldor Topsøe in Denmark.
Gloria Guidetti (Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions, Italy)
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Gloria Guidetti is Materials and Enabling Technology expert at Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Having a PhD in graphene technologies and over 10 years of experience in graphene industrial applications, at Tetra Pak she leads the coordination of R&D projects related to graphene and innovative materials.
Fouzia Hannour (Qatar Free Zones Authority, Qatar)
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Dr. Fouzia Hannour is Director of strategy at the Qatar Free Zones and is responsible for investment development in industrials, technology and sustainability (since dec.2018). She has developed industrial sectors strategies and attracted investment of companies like Akzo Nobel and Arcelor Mittal contributing to Qatar’s economic development.
She spent the large majority of her career serving the industrial private sector in large global corporations, at Tata Steel in the Netherlands in various leading and managerial positions in R&D for 14 years. Responsibilities covered strategic innovation, business development, product and manufacturing processes in the fields of coatings materials for various markets.
Since 2014, she served at the European Federation of Corrosion as an elected member of the international scientific committee and has acted as chairman of the automotive section. Recently, she has been nominated as the Director of the EFC Middle East Branch with its headquarter in Doha.
Since 2009, she has been acting as industrial expert for the European Commission in the graphene flagship, in EU funded programs, including horizon 2020.
She holds a Master Degree in Chemistry Physics and a Ph.D. in Industrial Process Engineering- Material Sciences from the Technical University of Compiegne, France (1993) for the group Valeo.
She is the holders of book chapters, numerous patents and publications.
Thomas Heine (TU Dresden, Germany)
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Thomas Heine, FRSC, MAE (PhD 1999, venia legendi 2006 TU Dresden) started his research group in 2008 at Jacobs University Bremen, moved in 2015 to University of Leipzig and 2018 to his current position at He is a highly cited author with more than 350 peer-reviewed articles, an h-index of 87 (ISI) / 96 (Google Scholar). Prof. is elected member of the Review Board of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and coordinates DFG Priority Program PP 2244 “2D Materials: Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures” and the Marie S. Curie European Training Network “2Exciting”.
Jiyoung Kim (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
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Jiyoung Kim is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and affiliated at Depts. of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2005. He received the B.S. (1986) and the M.S. (1988) at Seoul National University, and the Ph.D. (1994) at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as an integration engineerat Texas Instrument, Inc (Dallas, TX) from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2005 he was afaculty member of School of Advanced Materials Engineering at Kookmin University,(Seoul, Korea). His research interests are in the area of future semiconductor technology articularly focusing on process integration and characterization logic, memory and analog evices.
Simone Ligi (Graphene-XT, Italy)
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Simone Ligi (Director). He has more than ten years of experience in the field of polymer industry. His background spans from research manager to sales manager, primarily with multinational chemical companies. Simone has received his PhD in 2000 in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna and in 2013 patented the graphene production technology. He is author of 9 patents and various scientific papers.
Francesco Matteucci (European Innovation Council, Green Tech Programme Manager, Belgium)
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Francesco is an innovation manager with 20 years of experience spent as a researcher in materials science, as a Corporate R&D Manager within the field of technologies for renewable energy production and storage, and as an intermediary of knowledge trying to exploit the research results within the field of energy and environment. As R&D Corporate manager, he also cofounded and directed several start-ups and joint-labs managing public-private partnerships.
Manuela Melucci (ISOF-CNR, Italy)
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Manuela Melucci is researcher at the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity of the National Research Council of Italy (ISOF-CNR) since 2012. She received her PhD in Chemistry at University of Bologna in 2005. Research interests of MM include the design and synthesis of molecular organic materials for organic electronics as well as of graphene-based materials for biomedical (immunosorption, biosensing) and environmental applications (i.e. water treatment and monitoring). MM is Deputy leader of the Graphene flagship Spearhead project Graphil and coordinator/PI of several National and European initiatives (i.e. EU project Life-remembrance) and industrial contracts. In 2022 MM was expert member of the Body of Knowledge of the EIT-Climate KIC- Water scarcity and pollution and is currently co-representative of CNR for the EuChems
Alberto Moscatelli (Nature Nanotechnology, Germany)
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Alberto has a first degree in environmental sciences from the University of Urbino in Italy and obtained a PhD in chemistry, with distinction, from Columbia University in 2008. During his PhD he studied reactive intermediates of photochemical reactions in nanoconfined spaces. He then went to Carnegie Mellon University for a postdoc where he studied the photophysical properties of fluorescent polymers used in organic LEDs. He joined Nature Research in October 2010 and has worked at Nature Nanotechnology since March 2012. He has been Chief Editor since January 2022 and he is based in the Berlin office
Rahul Raveendran Nair (The University of Manchester, UK)
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Rahul R. Nair is a Professor of Materials Physics at the National Graphene Institute (NGI), Henry Royce Institute, and Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is a world-leading expert in graphene-based membranes. His current research focuses on molecular transport through sub-nanometer two-dimensional (2D) capillaries and exploring its potential applications. So far, these efforts have led to several groundbreaking results, such as the demonstration of tunable ion sieving through graphene nanocapillaries (Science 2014 and Nature Nanotech. 2017), ultrafast solvent permeation and precise molecular sieving properties of graphene oxide membranes (Nature Mater. 2017), the demonstration of electrical control of water transport through graphene oxide membranes (Nature 2018), and ion exchangeable vermiculite membranes (Nature Comm. 2020, Nature Mater. 2021). He has published over 60 highly cited peer‐refereed research articles, including five Science, four Nature, and more than a dozen Nature series publications during the last twelve years. His awards include a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society, IUPAP Young Scientist Award (2014) from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the Moseley Medal and Prize (2015) from the Institute of Physics, European Research Council (ERC) starting grant (2015), Lee Hsun Lecture Award on Materials Science (2018) from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Creativity Prize (2018) from the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), and the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2018) from the Leverhulme Trust. He has also been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2016 by Thomson Reuters.
Yuta Nishina (Okayama University, Japan)
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Dr. Nishina is a professor at Okayama University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 in organic chemistry, then became an independent assistant professor at Okayama University. He started graphene-based material research in 2012 from the viewpoint of chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and research professor in 2018. He has been CEO of NiSiNa Materials, Co. Ltd. since 2012. Based on organic chemistry techniques, he is currently working in multi-discipline research, including nanocarbon production, biomedicals, catalysis, and energy-related devices.
Pablo Ordejon (ICN2, Spain)
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Prof. Pablo Ordejón earned his degree in physics (1987) and his PhD in science (1992) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) from 1992 to 1995 and as assistant professor at the Universidad de Oviedo from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, he obtained a research staff position at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In 2007 he moved to the former CIN2 (now ICN2) as the leader of the Theory and Simulation Group, where he is currently a CSIC Research Professor. Since July 2012 he has served as Director of the ICN2.
Stephan Roche (ICREA / ICN2, Spain)
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Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.
Gregory Schneider (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
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Grégory Schneider is associate professor at the University of Leiden in the department of chemistry since 2013. His team aims at understanding and harvesting the chemical properties of two-dimensional materials for ion and molecular transmembrane transport, developing sensors and energy devices. https://youtu.be/c92PGi-mSE0
Hyeon Suk Shin (UNIST, South Korea)
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Hyeon Suk Shin is a UNIST endowed chair professor at Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. He received his PhD from Department of Chemistry at POSTECH in 2002. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge, UK and subsequently as a research Professor at POSTECH, he joined UNIST in 2008. He received 'Top 100 National R&D Outstanding Achievements' (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2021, Sigma-Aldrich Excellent Chemist Award (Korean Chemical Society) in 2021, Basic Researcher of the Year award (Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea) in 2020, Creative Knowledge Award (Minster Award by Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning) in 2015, outstanding researcher award (Materials Chemistry Division, KCS) in 2015, the Faculty of the Year award of UNIST in 2014, and the Minister award of Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea in 2012. His current research is focused on 2D materials, including graphene, h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides, and their heterostructures, and their applications for electrocatalysts and (opto)electronic devices
Zdenek Sofer (UCT Prague, Czech Republic)
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Prof. Zdenek Sofer is tenured professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague since 2019. He received his PhD also at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. During his PhD he spent one year in Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany) and also one postdoctoral stay at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Research interests of prof. Sofer concerning on 2D materials including graphene, MXene, layered chalcogenides and other 2D materials, its crystal growth, chemical modifications and derivatisation. His research covers various applications of 2D materials including energy storage and conversion, electronic, catalysis and sensing devices. He is an associated editor of FlatChem journal. He has published over 530 articles, which received over 21 000 citations (h-index of 73). He received in 2019 President of Czech Science Foundation Award and in 2016 Neuron Impulse award.
Alexandr Talyzin (Umeå University, Sweden)
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Alexandr Talyzin is Associated Professor at the Department of Physics Umeå University, Sweden . He completed PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2001. After 2 years of work in France Alexandr returned to Sweden as a postdoc and later worked as Assistant and Associate professor at Umeå University. Alexandr’s research interests over past 20 years included mostly work with carbon materials: fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, hydrogen storage, high temperature hydrogenation of carbon materials and more recently graphene-related materials: graphene oxides, graphite oxides, composite 2D materials. Currently, Alexandr’s research is related to applications of graphene-related materials in supercapacitors and as sorbents for removal of pollutants. He is interested also in fundamental studies of graphene/graphite oxides properties and chemical modifications.
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