2015 Plenary Speakers
Prof. Donal Bradley is the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics, Director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and Vice-Provost (Research) at Imperial College London. He is a co-inventor of conjugated polymer electroluminescence (1989) and a co-founder of Cambridge Display Technology Ltd (1992). He also co-founded Molecular Vision Ltd (2001) and sits on the Board of Solar Press (UK) Ltd. He is a named co-inventor for 25 patent families. Professor Bradley has published 563 ISI journal papers with > 48,800 citations (h-index = 95) and is a 2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. His contributions have been recognized by the award of a CBE (2010), Fellowship of the Royal Society (2004) and many prizes including the Royal Society Bakerian Lecture (2010), the Institute of Engineering and Technology Faraday Medal (2010), the Institute of Physics Faraday Medal (2009), The European Latsis Prize for Nanoengineering (2005), The Society for Information Display Jan Rachman Prize (2005) and the EU Descartes Prize (2003). |
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Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1957. After obtaining a B. Sc from Aristotle University in Greece, he received his Ph D. in chemistry from the University of Iowa in 1984. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University from 1985 to 1987 and is currently the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Mercouri moved to Northwestern in the fall of 2006 from Michigan State University where he was a University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry since 1987.His Research Interests are: Inorganic chemistry, solid state and coordination chemistry of chalcogenide compounds. Design of new materials, exploratory synthesis, thermoelectric materials, nanostructured materials, intermetallics, mesoporous semiconductors, phase-change materials, conducting polymers, intercalation chemistry applications of new materials. He has an h-index of 80, having thus far published some 548 ISI listed publications with > 25000 citations (ISI Web of Knowledge). |
Prof. Donal Bradley, Imperial College, UK
Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, USA2015 Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Donal Bradley, Imperial College, UK "Polymer Photonic Nano-structuring and Patterning" |
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Prof. Wolfgang Brütting, Augsburg University, Germany "Reducing energy losses in small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells" |
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Prof. Antonio Facchetti, Dept. of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern Uni., USA "Polymeric Semiconductors for Printed Circuits and Energy Storage" |
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Prof. Bernard Kippelen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, USA "Organic Electronics: the Endless Frontier" |
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Prof. Thomas Russell, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA "Understanding Morphology Evolution and Device Performance" |
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Prof. Ravi Silva, University of Surrey, UK "Nano-Engineered Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Organic heterojunctions for Improved Photovoltaic Performance" |
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Prof. Sekitani Tsuyoshi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan "Imperceptible sheet-type active matrix sensors for cyber–physical systems" |
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Ass. Prof. Alejandro Lopez Briseno, Polymer Science and Engineering, Uni. of Massachusetts, USA "Oligothiophenes as Model Systems for Investigating Relationships in Polymer Semiconductors" |
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Dr. Arnold Gillner, Fraunhofer-Institut für Lasertechnik ILT, Germany "High speed multi beam laser processing for flexible electronics" |
ISFOE15 Invited Speakers (Preliminary list, updated daily)
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Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London, UK "Advanced materials and patterning paradigms for plastic electronics, energy generation & harvesting systems " |
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Prof. Mariano Campoy-Quiles, ICMAB, Spain "On the origin of light absorption in organic semiconductors" |
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Prof. Yanglong Hou, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, China "High Performance Electrodes for Advanced Energy Storage Systems: Lithium Ion Battery and Supercapacitors" |
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Prof. Aihua Liu, Qingdao Inst. of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, China "Bio-mimetic Nanostructures Self-assembled from Genetically Engineered Phage or Fusion Proteins: Towards Applications in Biosensing and Biomedicine" |
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Prof. K. S. Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India "Non-Fullerene based Heterojuction Films for Organic Photovoltaics and Retinal interface" |
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Prof. Raman Singh, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia "Graphene Coating for Remarkable Corrosion Resistance: Current State and Challenges" |
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Prof. Geert Van Steenberge, Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST), Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium "Laser processing for large area polymer photonic applications" |
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Prof. Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Concordia University, Canada "Polarized spin and valley transport across ferromagnetic silicene junctions" |
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Assoc. Prof. Roisin Owens, Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, France "Multi parameter monitoring of live cells using organic electronics" |
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Assoc. Prof. Feng Yan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong "High performance biosensors based on solution-gated flexible transistors with functionalized gate electrodes" |
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Ass. Prof. Aram Amassian, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (OEPV) Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia "Two-Step Nucleation and Its Potential to Enable High Performance Large-Area Organic Electronics" |
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Ass. Prof. Sandra Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal "MC3T3-E1 cell response of PVD-grown antibacterial thin films on piezoelectric PVDF Substrates for sensor applications" |
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Ass. Prof. Konstantinos Papagelis, Dept. of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece "Mechanical performance of a prototype graphene-based touch panel display" |
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Ass. Prof. Marco Polini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy "Loss mechanisms in graphene plasmonics" |
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Ass. Prof. Leonidas Tsetseris, Dept. of Physics, NTUA, Greece "Emerging electronic materials: insights from first-principles studies" |
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Dr. Sabine Amberg-Schwab, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Germany "Barrier coatings based on hybrid polymers (ORMOCER®s) with extended shelf life, controlled quality, environmentally friendly" |
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Dr. Yuliy Bludov, University of Minho, Portugal "Linear and nonlinear graphene plasmonics" |
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Dr. Christine Boeffel, Fraunhofer IAP, Germany "Influence of substrate and barrier stack technology on the barrier performance" |
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Dr. Francesco Bonaccorso, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs, Italy |
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Dr. George Deligeorgis, FORTH - IESL, Greece "Graphene ballistic high frequency integrated circuits" |
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Dr. May Falk, BASF SE, Germany "OLED Research at BASF: Simulation and Device Results" |
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Dr. Oliver Fenwick, ISI, University of Strasbourg, France "Asymmetrically functionalised electrodes for organic electronics" |
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Dr. Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, Institute for Heterogeneous Material Systems, HZB, Germany "All-dry processed high efficient perovskite photovoltaic devices" |
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Dr. Silvia Janietz, Dept. of Polymers and Electronics, Fraunhofer IAP, Germany "Smart chemical strategies for high performance polymers in organic devices" |
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Dr. Emmanuel Kymakis, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I) of Crete, Greece "Solution processable graphene derivatives and related 2D crystals for high efficient organic and perovskite solar cells" |
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Dr. Maria Magliulo, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy "Organic electronics biosensors for point of care applications" |
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Dr. Christoph Merschjann, FU Berlin & Institute of Methods for Material Development at HZB, Germany "Ultrafast optical spectroscopy unveils charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride: dimensionality, mobility and functionality" |
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Dr. Nico Meyer, Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, Germany "Flexible & Large-Area Organic Electronics: Equipment Solutions to transfer Processes from Lab to Fab" |
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Dr. John Parthenios, FORTH/ ICE-HT, Greece "Strain Engineering in two dimensional atomic crystals" |
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Dr. David Peyrade, MicroTech for Health, LTM CEA - LETI, France |
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Dr. Daniel Popa, Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, UK "Ultrafast photonics with graphene and related materials" |
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Dr. Tobias Sauermann, Belectric OPV Gmbh., Germany "Stability of OPV and Current Application Showcases" |
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Dr. Edsger Smits, Holst Centre / TNO, The Netherlands "Photonic processes in printed electronics" |
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Dr. Andreas Sperlich, University of Würzburg, Germany "Spin-Sensitive Probing of Charge Transfer and Triplet States in Organic Solar Cells" |
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Dr. Barbara Stadlober, Joanneum Research - Materials, Austria "Advanced micro- and nanomanufacturing of large area organic electronics and functional surfaces" |
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Dr. Roland Steim, Empa, Switzerland "Electrode materials and barrier foils for organic electronics – an overview on the R&D activities within the EU funded project TREASORES" |
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Dr. Felice Torrisi, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK "Large-scale Manufacturing of Graphene and Related Materials Inks for Flexible (Opto)electronics" |
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Dr. Monika Voigt, ZAE BAyern Regenerative Energies, Germany "Towards the development of printed semitransparent OPV modules" |
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Dr. George Volonakis, Oxford University, UK "Perovskite/Graphene interfaces: a first-principles study" |
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Dr. Michael Zenou, Orbotech Ltd., Israel "Digital Printing of 3D metal micro-objects by laser transfer methods" |
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Ms Andrea Glawe, KROENERT GmbH & Co KG, Germany "Challenging developments for advanced R2R printing application for organic electronics" |
