Invited Speakers

NN20 Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Joachim Spatz, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
Matter-to-Life: How to Build a Cell

Joachim P. Spatz joined the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in 2016 as Director. From 2004-2015 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (former MPI for Metals Research). From this time on he is also a Full Professor at the University of Heidelberg and head of the Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry. He was an Associated Professor for Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg from 2000-2004. From 1999-2000 he received his habilitation in Physics at the University of Ulm. He was a PostDoc in the group of Professor Jacques Prost and Albrecht Ott at the Institut Curie, Paris, in 1997 - 1998. He received his Diploma in Physics (1994) and his Ph.D. in Physics (1996) from the University of Ulm under the supervision of Prof. Möller (founding Director of the Leibniz Institute of Interactive Materials in Aachen). He is member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Among other awards, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation in 2017.

Prof. Norbert Koch, University of Berlin, Germany
Controlling hybrid inorganic/organic electronic materials interfaces

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Norbert Koch studied technical physics at the Technische Universität Graz, Austria. At the same university he received a doctorate in solid state physics in 2000. He spent the following two years as postdoc at Princeton University and worked on organic/metal interfaces and covalently surface-bound self-assembled monolayers. After moving to Berlin in 2003, he started building his own group, and unraveled a comprehensive understanding of interfaces of organic semiconductors with inorganic materials, and developed methods to optimize interface electronic properties. In 2009 he was appointed as professor in the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2010 his group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie was established. At present, doping of organic semiconductors, as well as interfacial phenomena with perovskites and 2D materials are part of his research agenda.

Keynote Speakers

	Prof. Milan Damnjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Topological phases of layers: elementary band representations
	Prof. Paul Hurley, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Investigating the Interface between MoS2 and Insulating Oxides
	Prof. Elisa Konofagou, Columbia University, USA Noninvasive Drug Delivery Through the Opened Blood-Brain Barrier for the Treatment of Brain Diseases - From Mice to Humans
	Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge, UK Electronics on the Brain
	Prof. Theodore Moustakas, Boston University, USA Development of AlGaN UV LEDs for environmental and medical applications
	Prof. Fabrizio Pinto, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey Dispersion force engineering and next-generation spacecraft: Case studies in a nanoscale emerging enabling general-purpose technology
	Prof. Ravi Silva, University of Surrey, UK Powering the next generation of Wearables and IoT with Plastic Electronics
	Prof. Thomas Webster, Northwestern University, USA Commercializing Improved Prevention, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Approaches

Invited Speakers

	Dr. Bandar Abdulaziz Al-Mangour, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia Strengthening of stainless steel by reinforcement addition and grain refinement during additive manufacturing
	Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Plasmonic nanostructured surfaces for bio-interfaces and sensing of living cells
	Dr. Fedor Antonov, Anisoprint LLC, Russia Anisoprinting technology: continuous fiber 3D printing for manufacturing of optimal composites
	Dr. Raul Arenal, University of Zaragoza, Spain In-situ TEM Studies on Low Dimensional Nanomaterials
	Dr. Mark Birch, University of Cambridge, UK Using nanoscale interactions to influence the repair and regeneration of osteochondral injuries
	Prof. Joe Briscoe, Queen Mary University of London, UK Scalable fabrication and treatment of hybrid perovskite solar cells by aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition
	Dr. Asterios Chatziparadisis, General Secretariat of Research & Technology, Greece
	Prof. Aris Christou, University of Maryland, USA Material and Nanostructure Challenges for Wide Bandgap Switches with THICK Homo and Hetero -GaN Epitaxy
	Dr. Vassilios Constantoudis, NCSR Demokritos and Nanometrisis p.c., Greece The challenge of nanocomplexity
	Dr. Vladimir Damljanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Electronic Dispersions in Two- and Three-Dimensional Single Crystals From Symmetry Point of View
	Dr. George Deligeorgis, FORTH IESL, Greece Carbon Nano-Tube and Transition Metal Dichalcogenide smart electronics
	Dr. Evangelos Delivopoulos, University of Reading, UK An alginate fibre scaffold as a spinal cord organoid
	Prof. Antonio Di Bartolomeo, University of Salerno, Italy Pressure, temperature and radiation effects on back-gate transistors based on layered 2D materials
	Dr. Ilise Feitshans, European Scientific Institute, France & Executive Director The Work Health & Survival Project, EU/USA Safernano by design: enhancing commercialization of nano-enabled products Snapshot from the trenches of law and pharmacy: Saving the world from Covid-19 by Applying Nanotechnology
	Prof. Beatrice Fraboni, University of Bologna, Italy Morphology and mobility as tools to control X-ray sensitivity in organic thin-films
	Prof. Vasiliki Giagka, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Engineering long-lasting and spatially selective active neural interfaces for biolectronic medicine
	Dr. Paschalis Gkoupidenis, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Electrolyte-gated transistors for neuromorphic electronics
	Prof. Costas Kiparissides, CERTH/CPERI & AUTh, Greece Recent Developments in Antigen-Specific Immunotherapies for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
	Dr. Michael Koblischka, Saarland University, Germany The possible applications of superconducting nanowire fabrics
	Prof. Vasileios Koutsos, University of Edinburgh, UK Microbubble Agents for Biomedical Applications: Focus on NanoMechanics and the NanoShell
	Dr. Anna Krivosheeva, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus Heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides: formation, ab initio modeling and possible applications
	Prof. Roger Leblanc, University of Miami, USA Carbon Dots as Novel Vehicle for Drug Delivery in Modern Medical Healthcare
	Dr. Eleonora Macchia, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Selective Single-Molecule Detection of clinically relevant biomarkers with an Organic Transistor
	Prof. Ivanka Milosevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Electronic-band topology of group VI layered transition metal dichalcogenides
	Prof. Yannis Missirlis, Lab of Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece Information and communication pathways in cells
	Prof. Otto L. Muskens, University of Southampton, UK Tunable and smart metal oxide infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling of satellites and multiband flat optics
	Prof. Aylin Sendemir, Ege University, Turkey Utilisation of Microfluidics in 3D Bioprinting
	Dr. Ludmilla Steier, Imperial College London, UK Shining light on some nanophotocatalysts
	Dr. Anastasios Stergiou, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece Covalent functionalization of exfoliated MoS2 with organic motifs for the selective recognition of ions and molecules
	Prof. Milan Stojanovic, Columbia University, USA Molecular Computing Cascades on Cell Surfaces
	Dr. Anna Tasolamprou, FORTH IESL, Greece Fabrication and characterization of Fused Deposition Modeling 3D printed mm-scaled metasurface units for microwave applications
	Dr. Gerard Tobias, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Spain Biomedical imaging and therapy with carbon nanotubes
	Prof. Ioannis S. Vizirianakis, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, AUTH, Greece Implementation of pharmacogenomics knowledge in the clinical setting to guide precision cancer therapy decisions
	Dr. Marios Zacharias, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus & Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany Temperature dependence of the optical properties of silicon nanocrystals
	Prof. Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Laser Induced Forward Transfer as a tool for precise printing of biomolecules and drug products