2025 Invited Speakers

NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025 Invited Speakers (tentative list)

Plenary Speakers

	Prof. Donal Bradley President, NEOM Education, Research & Innovation Foundation and Vice-President for Research and Innovation, NEOM University, Saudi Arabia short bio short bio Donal Bradley studied physics as an undergraduate, receiving BSc and ARCS degrees from Imperial College in 1983, and completed his PhD in 1987 at the University of Cambridge on controlling the microstructure and photophysical properties of poly(p-phenylenevinylene) thin films. He also holds honorary DSc degrees from the University of Sheffield (2014) and Hong Kong Baptist University (2017). After completing his PhD, Donal held a Toshiba Research Fellowship at the Toshiba R&D Center in Kawasaki, Japan (1987-88), and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in Chemical Physics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1987-89). His first faculty position was at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (Assistant Lecturer, 1989-93), and he subsequently worked at the University of Sheffield (1993-2000; Reader then Professor of Physics), Imperial College London (2000-15; Professor of Solid State Physics, Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics, Head of the Department of Physics, Director of the Center for Plastic Electronics, Vice-Rector for Research), the University of Oxford (2015-19, Professor of Engineering Science and Physics; Professorial Fellow at Jesus College; Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences), and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (2019-22, Distinguished Professor of Materials Physics and Device Engineering; Vice-President for Research), before moving to his current roles at NEOM, where he is Executive Director of the Education, Research, and Innovation Foundation and Vice-President for Research and Innovation at NEOM University. Donal’s research has focused on molecular electronic materials and devices and soluble semiconductors, with an interest in materials and devices for electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. He is a pioneer in the field, contributing to many scientific advances and innovations, and his work has been recognized by multiple awards and prizes, including the E-MRS Jan Czochralski Gold Medal (2019), Jiangsu Province Governor’s Award for International Cooperation (2016), Founders’ Prize of the IOP Polymer Physics Group (2013), IET Faraday Medal (2010), Royal Society Bakerian Lecture (2010), IOP Faraday Gold Medal (2009), Royal Society Brian Mercer Award (2006), SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2005), ESF European Latsis Prize (2005), EU Descartes Prize (2003), Daiwa Award for Anglo-Japanese Collaboration (1994) and RSA Silver Medal (1983). He is a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS, 2004), US National Academy of Inventors (FNAI, 2020), Institute of Physics (FInstP, 2005), Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET, 2013), and Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (FRSA, 1987), an honorary fellow of Churchill College Cambridge (2018), and a chartered engineer (CEng, 2015). Donal was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2010 by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to science.

	Prof. Yury Gogotsi Distinguished University and Charles T. And Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director, A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, USA MXenes and Assembled 2D Nanosheets Redefine What Materials Can Do short bio short bio Yury Gogotsi is a Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Endowed Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA). He is the founding Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) from Kyiv Polytechnic and a DSc degree from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1995. Together with his students and colleagues, he made principal contributions to the development of materials for electrochemical capacitors and other energy storage devices, discovered MXenes, demonstrated the tuning of structure and porosity of carbide-derived carbons, and developed new processes for the synthesis, surface modification, and purification of nanotubes and nanodiamonds. He also published the first microscopic observation of water inside carbon nanotubes, discovered polygonal nanotubes (graphite polyhedral crystals), and shaped the field of high-pressure surface science. He is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science and Chemistry and a Citations Laureate in Physics by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science). He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Ceramic Prize from the World Academy of Ceramics, the MRS Medal, the Jan Czochralski Award from the European MRS, the European Carbon Association Award, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in the Chemistry of Materials, etc. He has been elected a Fellow of MRS, the National Academy of Inventors, World Academy of Ceramics, European Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, and other professional societies. He holds honorary doctorates from several European Universities.

Keynote Speakers

	Prof. Spiros Anastasiadis, University of Crete & FORTH IESL, Greece Tuning Crystallinity in PEG-containing Bottlebrush Copolymers
	Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Flow through Raman sequencing and identification of DNA/RNA and protein
	Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos, University of Manchester, UK Printable Hydrogen Sensor for Distributed Monitoring Applications
	Prof. Milan Damnjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Topologically predicted electron-ion position mismatch in Quasi-1D systems
	Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell University, USA
	Prof. Norbert Koch, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Energy level manipulation in van der Waals heterostructures of 2D materials with organic molecules
	Mr. Thomas Kolbusch, COATEMA Coating Machinery GmbH, Germany
	Prof. Mario Leclerc, Laval University, Canada Green Materials for Green Electronics
	Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge, UK Electrophoretic drug delivery devices
	Prof. Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
	Prof. Kostas Sarakinos, University of Helsinki, Finland
	Prof. Ravi Silva, University of Surrey, UK
	Prof. Katsuya Teshima, Shinshu University, Japan Flux-method Process Informatics for Sodium-ion Battery Materials
	Prof. Eugenia Valsami-Jones, University of Birmingham, UK From nanomaterials to advanced materials and their safe and sustainable future
	Prof. Sihong Wang, University of Chicago, USA Bioadhesive and immune-compatible polymer bioelectronics

Invited Speakers

	Prof. Katerina Andreopoulou, Univerisity of Patras, Greece
	Dr. Maria Rosa Antognazza, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Milan, Italy Cell mechanotransduction driven by bio-organic optoelectronic devices
	Dr. Raul Arenal, University of Zaragoza, Spain
	Prof. Stelios Choulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Device Engineering Concepts for High Performance Perovskite Photovoltaics
	Dr. James Claypole, Ail Arian Ltd, UK
	Prof. Alexander Colsmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Organic Solar Cells fabricated from Aqueous Dispersions
	Dr. Vincent Consonni, University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LMGP, France Critical Effects of Polarity and Doping on the UV Photocatalysis of ZnO Nanowires
	Dr. Vassilios Constantoudis, NCSR Demokritos and Nanometrisis p.c., Greece
	Prof. Lioz Etgar, Hebrew University, Israel Chirality and piezoelectricity in low dimensional perovskite and Fully printable solar cells
	Dr. Ilise Feitshans, Virginia Mountain Valley Lawyers Alliance & Georgetown University Law Center, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, USA
	Prof. Maria Fyta, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Biosensing with nanopores: using computational modeling & learning
	Prof. Dimitra Georgiadou, University of Southampton, UK
	Dr. Farzan Gity, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Electronic Transport Properties of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures
	Dr. Filippo Giubileo, CNR-SPIN, Italy 1D and 2D nanodevices for sensing
	Prof. Emmanouil Glynos, Univeristy of Crete, Greece
	Dr. Amparo Guemes Gonzalez, University of Cambridge, UK Advancing bioelectronic technologies for metabolic control
	Prof. Juan Cabanillas Gonzalez, IMDEA Nanoscience Institute, Spain Excited state dynamics of Ni containing nanographenes
	Prof. Ilya Goykhman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Hybrid 2D materials integration for light detection and manipulation on-chip
	Prof. Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain CMOS-compatible chemoresistive nanosensors functionalised with gas-phase synthesised nanoparticles
	Dr. Salim El Hadwe, University of Cambridge, UK i360: An Ultra-Thin, Flexible, Circumferential Spinal Cord Interface for Bidirectional High-Resolution Neuromodulation
	Prof. Vangelis Harmandaris, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus Properties of Nanostructured Systems Through Simulations and Machine-Learning Methods: From Atoms to the Design of Advanced Materials
	Prof. Grigorios Itskos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Photophysics of perovskite nanocrystal films and superlattices
	Prof. Seung-Kyun Kang, Seoul National University, Korea Biodegradable Electronics: From Wearable Sensors to Therapeutic Applications
	Prof. Neil Kemp, University of Nottingham, UK Memristors as Building Blocks for Neuromorphic Systems
	Prof. Chang-Hyun Kim, University of Ottawa, Canada Organic solid-state memories and their neuromorphic application
	Prof. George Kioseoglou, FORTH/IESL & University of Crete, Greece Textured-induced strain in a WS2 single-layer to monitor spin valley polarization
	Prof. Joseph Kioseoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Machine and Deep Learning for Interatomic Potentials in Materials Science
	Prof. Vasileios Koutsos, University of Edinburgh, UK Nanocolloids on surfaces: a closer look
	Prof. Dimitrios Koutsouras, University of Bath, UK Organic materials for bioelectronics
	Prof. Emmanuel Kymakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center, Greece
	Prof. Chieh-Ting Lin, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan The Role of the Hole Transport Layer in Hybrid Sn-Pb Perovskite Solar Cells
	Prof. Janis Locs, Riga Technical University, Latvia
	Prof. Eleonora Macchia, University of Bari, Italy & Abo Akademi University, Finland Enhancing the accuracy of bioelectronic point-of-care tests through machine learning
	Prof. Tom Macdonald, University College London, UK Crystal Growth Modulation of Tin-Lead Halide Perovskites via Chaotropic Agent
	Dr. Rainer Mahrt, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland
	Prof. Martyn McLachlan, Imperial College London, UK
	Prof. Ivanka Milosevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Topology of Non-Rotating States in Layers
	Prof. Yannis Missirlis, University of Patras, Greece
	Dr. Juliana Panidi, University of Edinburgh, UK
	Prof. Anna-Maria Pappa, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
	Prof. Alexandra Paterson, University of Kentucky, USA
	Dr. Jiri Pfleger, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
	Prof. Charalampos Pitsalidis, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
	Dr. Henning Richter, Nano-C, Inc., USA
	Dr. Sergi Riera-Galindo, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
	Prof. Paulo Rocha, University of Coimbra, Portugal Sensors for real-time monitoring of electroactive cyanobacteria
	Dr. Holger Roehm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Thermally driven microstructural evolution of perovskite solar cells
	Prof. Francesca Santoro, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
	Prof. Eirini Sarigiannidou, University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LMGP, France
	Prof. Constantinos Simserides, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Coherent, ultrafast charge movement in bio-organic nanowires
	Prof. Filippos Sofos, University of Thessaly, Greece
	Prof. Xenofon Strakosas, Linkoping University, Sweden In Vivo Formation of Organic Mixed Conductors for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces
	Prof. Gang Sun, University of California, Davis, USA Reliable and Ultrasensitive Colorimetric f-ELISA Biosensors for Rapid Onsite Detection of Biological and Chemical Agents in Fluids
	Prof. Daniel Qi Tan, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), China Atomic Layer Deposition Enabled High Voltage Supercapacitors and Mechanism
	Dr. Lionel Tenchine, CT-IPC, France Laser micro/nanotexturing of injection moulds: improving the processing of recycled polymers
	Dr. Maria Vasilopoulou, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece Room temperature superradiance from perovskite superlattice single crystals
	Dr. Fabrice Wilhelm, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
	Prof. Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Laser Printing: A Key Tool for the fabrication of Flexible Electronics and Photonic Integrated Circuits