Nanotechnology & Materials Science

Dr. Leon L. Shaw is Rowe Family Endowed Chair Professor in Sustainable Energy and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is the founding director of NSF Center of All-Solid-State Batteries. Dr. Shaw has extensive experience in nanomaterials synthesis and processing for applications in structural materials, hydrogen storage, Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, and solid-state batteries. He has authored and co-authored more than 320 archival refereed publications in these areas. Among these 300+ publications 238 are journal articles and invited chapters for books and encyclopedias. His publications have been cited more than 14,700 times with h-index of 64 and i10-index of 208 (according to Google Scholar). His publications are ranked top 1.4% citations for career-long impact among all scientific fields and top 0.2% citations for career-long impact in the subfield of “materials” (based on the composite score c compiled by Elsevier). His accomplishments are recognized worldwide with many honors and awards, including “Scientist Medal” in 2024 and “Energy Award” in 2018 presented by International Association of Advanced Materials, and “Researchers to Know in 2020” recognized by Illinois Science & Technology Coalition. Dr. Shaw is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials, a Fellow of ASM International, a Fellow of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, and a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

MARTIN SCHMAL is professor since 1970, became Full Professor in 1985 and Emeritus since 2008 at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and actually professor at the University of São Paulo since 2014 – He graduated Chemical Engineering at the Engineering Faculty of the Catholic University of S. Paulo( 1964), Master Science degree - 1966 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/COPPE, Brazil, Doktor Ingenieur degree (Dr.Ing.) at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (1970). He specialized at the Institut du Recherche sur la Catalyse (1981), Lyon, France and University of Karlsruhe , 1983, Germany. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, elected in 1999 and of the International Catalysis Society since 2000. Awards : Humboldt Research Award – 2002 – Humboldt Foundation – Germany, Prize from the México Science and tecnology ( 2002); Senior Researcher award from the Ibero American society (2010); the SCOPUS AWARD- Elsevier-CAPES ( 2009) and finally the Distinguished Professor AWARD at Coppe- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013). He has more than 300 publications in international journals;250 papers presented and published in Annals in International Congresses, Symposia’s and Meetings Books: Chemical Reaction Engineering,CRC, 2014,700 pages -ISBN978-0-415- 69538-1; Heterogeneous Catalysis and its Industrial Applications SPRINGER,2016- ISBN 978-3-319-09249-2 See publication list Founder and President of the Brazilian Catalysis Society -1998-2004. External collaborations: H.J.Freund (Max Planck Berlin), E.Lombardo (Argentina), Schlogl and Behrens ( Max Planck – Berlin(Germany), Albert Vannice –Pennstate (USA), Ted Oyama – Virginia Tec (USA) Research areas on Catalysis, Materials and Nanotecnology • Citations ORCID (0000-0001-6816-523X) Total citations (about 6500) (Google) – h-51 Research - Gate – h – 44,64- SC h – 40 Scopus h 42 • Indexed publications - 302 • Books – 7 Chapters - 3 • Students:Thesis defended - 131

Paulo C. DE MORAIS (H-60), PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology – China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010. 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post- doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB. Professor Morais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He has delivered about 190 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With more than 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals, more than 13,000 citations, more than 200 international invited talks, and more than 15 filed patents, He has appeared in recent World ranking of top scientists, such as 2020-Stanford, 2022-Research.com, 2023-AD Scientific Index, 2023-Research.com, 2024- Elsevier, and 2025-AD Scientific Index.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). Since 2018 until 2020 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is IETI Fellow (https://www.ieti.net/pro/memberdetail.aspx?ID=539) since 2019.Since March 2022 he is A Fellow of National Academy of Technology for his contributions to Information Electrical and Electronic Research . He is a Editor in Chief of Liquid Crystal section in Crystals journal since 2023

ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Arben Merkoçi obtained his PhD at the University of Tirana (Albania) in ion selective electrodes. Since 1992 he has carried out research as postdoctoral fellow and research professor at the Polytechnic University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ioannina (Greece), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and New Mexico State University (USA). His research is focused on the integration of biological molecules and other species with micro- and nanostructures to design novel (bio)sensors. He is member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania and director and coordinator of NANOALB (www.nanoalb.al), the regional network of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Prof. Merkoçi is Co-Editor in Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics, member of editorial board of Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta and other journals. Prof. Merkoçi has published 353 articles (H-index / citations: Google Scholar 91 / 32689; WOS 81 / 25064) and supervised 40 finished PhD theses. He is also involved in teaching PhD courses in the field of nanomaterial- based biosensors in several Spanish and international centres. He has been a member of the commission for establishing the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology undergraduate academic curriculum at the UAB, the first one in Spain, which started during the academic year 2010- 2011. He is a member of the Academics Working Group of BIST and coordinator of the Nanodiagnostics module of the Nanotechnology Master at the UAB. He has got several national and international grants related to nanomaterials application in biosensors and his group is collaborating with several worldwide leading labs in the field of nanobiosensors. Prof. Merkoçi serves also as scientific evaluator and member of panels of experts of various international governmental and nongovernmental agencies (EU-FP and EU-ERC panels and other panels in Europe, USA and other countries), as a scientific committee member of many international congresses, director of several workshops and other scientific events and have been invited to give plenary lectures, keynote and invited speeches in more than 220 occasions in various countries. Prof. Merkoçi is the co-founder of two spin-off companies: GraphenicaLab, devoted to graphene patterning, and PaperDrop, dedicated to clinical diagnostics.

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André RTS Araujo graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto in 2005, where he also obtained his European PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Analytical Chemistry) in 2011. He is Assistant Professor at the School of Health Sciences of Institute Polytechnic of Guarda (Guarda, Portugal) since 2011. He is the Director of the Pharmacy Degree since 2018. He is a member of the LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto (Porto, Portugal) and collaborator of UDI-IPG, Research Unit for Inland Development, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (Guarda, Portugal). His research activities have been focused on the development of enzyme-based automated methodologies in different application fields, ranging from clinical to environmental ones. Currently, he works on the development, characterization and quality control of cosmeceuticals and in the development, optimization and validation of analytical methods for the determination of analytes in different matrices.

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Elvira Fortunato, currently the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (30th March 2022-…), was Vice‐Rector at Nova University since September 2017-2022, Director of the Materials Research Center (CENIMAT) and the integrated Associate Laboratory i3N, the Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling and Nanofabrication (The only Portuguese research centre (1998-2022) classified as Exceptional in the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies area in the last national evaluation); Invited Professor at Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil (2013-2022). She has held other Institutional Responsibilities, such as, Deputy Director of FCT NOVA (2014-17); Coordinator of Research Centers of FCT NOVA (2006-17); Member of the Executive Board of the Materials Science Department (2009-17); Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, FCT NOVA (2009-18); Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Program in Biomaterials (UFLA, Brasil) (2014-2022). Participation in several academic examination referees board (PhD juries in and abroad Portugal). She has received her Bachelor´s degree in Physics and Materials Engineering in 1987, obtaining, in 1995, the PhD in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. Elvira Fortunato pioneered European research on transparent electronics, namely thin-film transistors based on oxide semiconductors, demonstrating that oxide materials may be used as true semiconductors. She is co-inventor of the paper electronics concept worldwide: Paper-e®. In 2008 she wins an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “Invisible” and in 2018 she received the second one ERC, with the amount of € 3.5 million. The project is entitled "Multifunctional Digital Materials Platform for Smart Integrated Applications | DIGISMART". Her research team is exploring novel active properties in advanced and sustainable multifunctional materials, including oxides as well as novel electronic-active materials including alternative deposition methods, with the main objective of developing eco-friendly technologies and devices to be used and exploited in electronic circuits made of stable amorphous semiconductors able to serve large area smart flexible and conformable surface electronics. She has been distinguished with several National and International Prizes, among those it is worth mentioning the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, in 2009, by University of Galati, and the denomination of Grand Officer of Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, acknowledged by the President of the Republic of Portugal in 2010, the Blaise Pascal Medal conferred by the European Academy of Sciences, 2016, the Czochralski Medal (Science of Materials) assigned by the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017, Award women of the year Science Category LUX in 2018, and the Honourable Mention of the Scientific Prize of City of Almada in 2019. The most recent awards are: - In September 2020, received the European Commision's Horizon Impact Award 2020; - Winner of the 2020 Pessoa Award (March 2021); - The World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) GREE Women in Engineering Award 2020 (08th April 2021); - Gold Medal Human Rights 2020 Award recognition granted by the President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal (07th July 2021). She is an elected member of: Academy of Engineering (2008); European Academy of Sciences (2016); Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2017) and Academia Europaea (2019). She belongs to the Board of Trustees of the Luso‐American Development Foundation (2014). Former Chief Scientific Advisor of the European Commission, between 2016 and 2020. She is coordinating since 2019 at NOVA University the SPEAR project, an European platform for supporting and implementing plans for gender equality in academia and research. Editorial Advisory Board Member of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ACS-AMI (2020-2022), Editorial Board of IEEE Electron Device Letters (2020). Among these years, she has participated as Plenary, Keynote and Invited Speaker, in several International and National events.

Maria Raposo received a PhD Degree in Materials Sciences and Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil in 1999 and a Habilitation degree in Physics Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in 2019. Since 1990, she has lectured at the Physics Department of NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa disciplines of Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, Solid State Physics, Surface and Interfaces Technology, Conducting Polymers, Molecular Electronics, Physics of Functional Macromolecular Systems, Advanced Topics in Physics, and Biophysics of Cells and Membranes. She leads the Functional Molecular Systems group whose research interests include electric and optical properties of ultra-thin films of polymers and biomolecules, interfaces and nanotechnology, colloids, molecular architectures for electronics, photonics magnetism and sensors, biomimetic membranes and radiation effect in biological systems. She is deeply committed to the quality and relevance of physics in interdisciplinary research working on research topics such as the development of sensing devices to detect traces of molecules in complex media systems such as tap water, wastewater, water bodies, body fluids, air; and breath; and in the effect of radiation on biological molecules in conditions close to those of the cells by encapsulating molecules in liposomes for Photodynamic Therapy application. She has been a supervisor of Postdocs, PhD students, Master's students, and undergraduate students, has been a coordinator and participant of projects with financial support, and has been a participant of European Scientific Networks. She has over 150 research papers, several edited books, and 1 book, h-index 31, i10-index 62. She serves on Editorial Boards of international journals such as European Physics Letters, the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Chemosensors, Photonics, and Radiation, and she has been program chair of PHOTOPTICS, an international conference series on Photonics, Optics, and Laser Technology.

Dr. Lu Wang now is engaged as a postdoctoral fellow at Shandong University, interested in structural regulations of bismuth-based materials and the related mechanisms, to develop secondary alkali metal ion batteries, such as potassium ion batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries, etc. with high-specific energy, high-stable and high practical prospects. Up to now, he has published about 30 SCI papers, among which he co-authored as the first author/corresponding author for 10 papers published on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Energy Storage Mater., J. Mater. Chem. A and other internationally renowned journals, with a H index of 19. Dr. Lu Wang has been also invited as reviewer for J. Mater. Chem. A and other journals, and acts as a guest editor for Materials (SCIE; IF 3.1, Q1). He won the first prize of National Equipment Management and technology innovation achievement (second rank), Gold Award Mentor in "2023 China International College Students Innovation Competition", and the Excellent Mentor in "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of Shandong Province, China.

Dr. Sergio Carrasco (38 years; H=13, 4 book chapters, 1 patent, 22 papers (19 Q1), 6 as corresponding author; >700 citations, 110 cit./year 2020-2024) has a multidisciplinary background with a broad experience in the synthesis and characterisation of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for sensing and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for catalysis. He is a postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Energy, in the Advanced Porous Materials Unit, where he leads the green H2 generation and CO2 valorisation research lines. In 2017, he received the best thesis awards by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, Applied Spectroscopy Society and Complutense University, and he has participated in 57 congresses (36 international) with 7 invited keynotes. He has an extensive experience in the MOF field within the last 7 years (25 MOF phases, 7 new, based on porphyrins, phthalocyanines, squaryls and anthraquinones). During his postdoctoral stay in Sweden (7 publications, 3 years), he specialised in the microwave assisted synthesis and characterisation of MOFs as catalysts: new C-C, C-N and C=N bonds, and CO2 valorisation, that continued during his MSCA project (as PI). Member of 2 regional, 8 national and 6 international projects related to catalytic MOFs for green solar fuels and other CO2 valorisation reactions. Supervision includes 2 BSc, 3 MSc and 4 PhD students, 2 international visiting researchers and 5 internships.

Since 2017, Dr. Pérez is Professor (Profesora Titular) at Rey Juan Carlos University, and since 2020, she is Senior Assistant Researcher in the group of Dr. Patricia Horcajada (Advanced Porous Materials Unit) at IMDEA Energy Institute (Excellence Center María de Maeztu). She has an extensive knowledge in the fields of Nanomaterials, Catalysis/Photocatalysis, Photovoltaic devices and Lubricating oils. She is currently focused on the development of multifunctional materials (e.g. lead-free perovskites, MOFs and composites) to address varios social concerns, including performing chemical processes using clean energy and for environmental remediation. Dr. Pérez has been the PI of one research project for knowledge transfer, with the company Repsol S.A. (06/2014-09/2016). Currently she is the co-IP of two research projects. Dr. Pérez has participated in 21 research projects and has published nearly 60 scientific papers in high-impact international journals indexed in JCR (h-index of 18). She has been recognized for 24 years of international-quality research (4 sexenios). Her training experience includes supervising 21 BSc students , 2 MSc students, 2 collaboration grants and 3 students of external work experience and 4 PhD students (3 ongoing).

Dr. George A. Stanciu, is Professor of Physics at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Starting with 1973 he has been working in the Laser Scanning Microscopy field. In 1977 his team reported the first Digital Laser Scanning Microscope: (System for investigation of the semiconductor devices and the integrated devices by using laser scanning microscopy, G.A.Stanciu and C.M.Stoichita, Bul. Instit. Polit. XXXIX, 4, pp11-14, 1977). The system was the subject of Romanian patent no. 995574 (System for studying semiconductor materials and semiconductor devices -1978). He is head of Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing founded by him in 2001. He got his Doctor degree (Ph. D.) in Technical Physics in 1981. He received the Professor title in 1994. Currently he acts as professor of Quantum Mechanics in Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Starting with 1973 he has been working in the Laser Scanning Microscopy field. In 1977 his team reported the first Digital Laser Scanning Microscope in the world. His research has been mainly in the field of laser scanning microscopy techniques and their applications in the fields of Life Sciences and Materials Science. Dr. George Stanciu was Visiting Professor at more than 20 Universities from Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. His research activities have been supported by over 50 national and international research grants. Dr. George Stanciu published more than 120 ISI papers and presented more than 40 invited lectures at international conferences. Currently is focused on researches related to near field instrumentation and application. Prof. George Stanciu is Senior member of the IEEE from 1995.