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Gonzalo Abellán (MATTECO & University of Valencia, Spain)
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Andrés Castellanos Gómez (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)
Dr. Andrés Castellanos-Gomez is a Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). He explores novel two-dimensional (2D) materials, investigating their mechanical, electrical, and optical properties, with a particular focus on their applications in nanomechanical and optoelectronic devices. His pioneering work extends beyond graphene, encompassing early studies on materials such as MoS?, black phosphorus, TiS?, and franckeite. Notably, his contributions to strain engineering in 2D semiconductors and the development of photodetectors based on 2D materials are considered seminal within the scientific community.
Dr. Castellanos-Gomez has authored over 150 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and six book chapters. His work has garnered significant attention in the scientific community, with an h-index of 74 and more than 30,000 citations, according to Google Scholar. These metrics highlight his substantial contributions to the field of 2D materials.
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Manish Chhowalla (University of Cambridge, UK)
Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In particular, his group studies the optical and electronic properties of different phases of 2D TMDs. He has demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilize phases with disparate properties for field effect transistors, catalysis, and energy storage. Prof Chhowalla is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Churchill College. He was the founding Editor in Chief of Applied Materials Today and is now the Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2016. Prior to Cambridge, Prof. Chhowalla was a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He was also the Director of the Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices & Nanotechnology at Rutgers. Before that, he was a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge and Churchill College. After his doctorate and Royal Academy of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Professor Chhowalla briefly worked in industry where he developed applications for “amorphous diamond”.
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Renhao Dong (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dr. Renhao Dong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong. His research group focuses on functional interfaces and crystalline polymer materials, with emphasis on 2D polymer ionic-electronic conductors and 2D framework membranes, as well as functions in (bio-)electronics, electrochemical energy technologies, and separation. Thus far, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles which have attracted more than 18500 citations with h-index of 64. He was the recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2022-2025.
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David Écija Fernández (IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain)
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Hermenegildo García Gómez (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
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Marco Gobbi (CIC Nanogune, Spain)
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Thomas Kempa (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
homas J. Kempa is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Boston College in 2004, Tom was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and spent 2 years at Imperial College London. Returning to the United States, he began graduate studies under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber at Harvard University and earned his PhD in 2012. Thereafter, Tom conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Daniel Nocera, first at MIT and then Harvard. Professor Kempa’s research group develops new methods to prepare and study low-dimensional (low-D) inorganic crystals from nanoparticles (0D) to few-atom thick sheets (2D) whose exceptional properties render them intriguing platforms for optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum science studies. Professor Kempa is the recipient of numerous awards including a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Mercator Fellowship, a Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship, a Toshiba Distinguished Young Investigator Award, and multiple Discovery and Catalyst Awards for Johns Hopkins. He was also named by Matter as one of their 35 PIs under 35 for his leading contributions to materials science, and was recognized by J. Mater. Chem. A as their recipient of the Emerging Investigator Award. In 2024, Tom was elected co-Vice Chair and co-Chair of the 2026 and 2028, respectively, Gordon Research Conferences on “2D Electronics Beyond Graphene”. Tom is currently an Associate Editor at npj 2D Materials and Applications and a member of the Nano Letters Editorial Advisory Board. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Hub for Imaging and Quantum Technologies (HIQT), a major institute at Johns Hopkins.
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Marcelo Lozada Hidalgo (The University of Manchester, UK)
Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on proton and ion transport in 2D materials and field effects at electrode–electrolyte interfaces for renewable energy and unconventional computing. His high-profile publications include over a dozen articles in the Nature/Science family, including recent breakthroughs on field-driven selective acceleration of electrochemical processes (Nature 2024) and nanoscale imaging of proton transport through graphene (Nature 2023). He holds an ERC Starting Grant (2022) and fellowships from the Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, and University of Manchester, and has led projects with industry partners such as Atkins and the US Army.
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Aurelio Mateo Alonso (POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country, Spain)
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Diego Peña (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Prof. Peña was graduated in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1998, where he also obtained his PhD degree under the guidance of Profs. Enrique Guitián and Dolores Pérez, working in transition metal-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions of arynes (2001, Special Doctorate Award).
He spent short predoctoral stays in the groups of Profs. Eric N Jacobsen (1999, Harvard University), Paul Knochel (2000, LMU, Munich) and Antonio M. Echavarren (2001, UAM, Madrid). During 2002 and 2003 he joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa (Groningen University, The Netherlands) as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow working on asymmetric catalysis, with short research stays in the group of Prof. Hans de Vries (DSM, Geleen, The Netherlands).
In 2004 he returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela as Ramón y Cajal researcher. In 2008 he got an Associate Professor position and in 2020 he was promoted to Full Professor (currently on sabbatical). In 2024 he got an Oportunius Research Professor position at CiQUS.
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Emilio Manuel Pérez Álvarez (IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain)
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Maurizio Prato (CIC Biomagune, Spain)
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Aleksandra Radenovic (EPFL, Switzerland)
Aleksandra Radenovic received her master's degree in physics from the University of Zagreb in 1999 before joining Professor Giovanni Dietler's Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter in 2000 at University of Lausanne. There she earned her Doctor of Sciences degree in 2003. In 2003 she was also awarded a research scholarship for young researchers from the Swiss Foundation for Scientific Research which allowed her to spend 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (2004-2007). Before joining EPFL as Assistant Professor in 2008 she spent 6 months at NIH and Janelia Farm. In 2010 she received the ERC starting grant and in 2015 SNSF Consolidator grant. Her group is interested in using novel nanomaterials and single molecule experimental techniques to study fundamental questions at nanoscale.
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Hyeon Suk Shin (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea)
Prof. SHIN is the director of Center for 2D Quantum Heterostructures at SKKU, established in March, 2024. He was a professor at UNIST before he becomes the director of the center at SKKU. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as an associate editor in npj 2D materials and applications and as an advisory board member in Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.
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Ester Vázquez (University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain)
Ester Vázquez obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Castilla-la Mancha (UCLM) in 2000. She performed her doctoral research mainly in the Microwave and Sustainable Chemistry group of UCLM, working on microwave-assisted organic reactions in dry media. She also spent a few months at the University of Zaragoza, studying silica-supported Lewis acids for catalysis and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, working on microwave applications in radiolabelling tracers for positron emission tomography (PET). After finishing her Ph.D., she carried out her postdoctoral training in Trieste, Italy, working on biological applications of fullerenes and new fullerene derivatives in the group of Professor Maurizio Prato, in the frame of a European Research Training Network. She then joined the Faculty of Chemistry at UCLM in 2001, completing other short stays in Trieste in 2002 and 2003. In 2007 she received the “Ibn Wafid de Toledo” Price for young researchers of Castilla-La Mancha. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, and to Full Professor in 2019. She became director of the Instituto de Investigación Científica Aplicada (IRICA) in 2017 and she is co-founder of the spin- off Biograph Solutions.
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Félix Zamora (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
For as long as I can remember, I've had a thirst for discovery, and this led me to science. I graduated with a degree in Chemical Sciences in 1990 from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). I obtained a postgraduate scholarship from the UAM and, subsequently, a teaching assistant position that allowed me to complete my doctoral thesis and begin teaching. The research I conducted during my doctoral thesis on antitumor compounds brought me into contact with the pharmaceutical industry and stimulated my interest in knowledge transfer. In 1994, I earned my doctorate from the UAM. I received a scholarship Human Capital and MobilityI received a postdoctoral grant from the EU to pursue postdoctoral studies at the University of Dortmund (Germany). Following this, I completed another research stay at the University of Virginia (USA). I then rejoined the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) as an Assistant Professor, carrying out teaching and research duties. In 2002, I obtained a position as Associate Professor and in 2020 as Full Professor within the Community of Madrid's Excellence Program. I have had the opportunity to work as a visiting researcher at Newcastle University (UK) and as a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore (since 2016). I am currently affiliated with the IMDEA Nanoscience Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences, and the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics.
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