Speakers
WELCOME SPEAKERS:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Nicola Marzari
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Director of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research NCCR MARVEL, on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials, Switzerland

Soren Bowadt
Deputy Head of Unit for the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Programme of the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Directorate in Brussels

Robert Schlögl
Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
INVITED SPEAKERS:

Gabriele Centi
Professor at University of Messina and President ERIC aisbl (European Research Institute of Catalysis), Belgium

Petr KRTIL
Head of Electrocatalysis group at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic

Joanna Kargul
Head of the Laboratory of Solar Fuels at the Centre of New Technologies – University of Warsaw, Poland

Sorin Melinte
Professor at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Leif H. Christensen
Director at Danish Technological Institute, Centre for Nano- and Microtechnology, Denmark

Mariana Pinteala
Head of the “IntelCenter”, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Romania

Patrick BOISSEAU
Chairman of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine, VP Europe at CEATech Healthcare Institute, based in Grenoble, France

Adam Vojtech
Head of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno

Iuliana Popescu
University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Barnstable Brown Diabetes & Obesity Research Center, President of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), KY Affiliate Group, USA

César Merino Sánchez
Director of the plant implemented by the Spanish automotive company Grupo Antolin for manufacturing Carbon Nanofibers, Spain

Agnieszka Mech
Scientific Officer at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (EC JRC), Ispra, Italy

Anke Jesse
Division “Nanotechnology, advanced materials and OECD Chemicals Policy” at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Monique Groenewold
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Utrecht, Netherlands

Anthony Bochon
Associate lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Law, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

Marco Sebastiani
Tenured Assistant Professor of Materials Science at “Roma TRE” University, member of the Operational Management Board at the European Materials Characterization Council (EMCC), Italy

Iseult Lynch
Professor in Environmental Nanosciences, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Felix SIMA
Senior Scientist at the Laser Department, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics – INFLPR, Romania

Salim Belouettar
Head of the Structural Composites Group, Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Natalia Konchakova
Magnesium Innovation Centre MagIC, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Costal Research, Germany

Corneliu Ghica
Head of the Laboratory of Atomic Structures and Defects in Advanced Materials, National Institute of Materials Physics, Romania

Eva Valsami Jones
University of Birmingham, Director of the Facility for Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation (FENAC) and Director of the MRes programme on Environmental and Biological Nanoscience

Tommaso Serchi
Environmental Health group of the SUSTAIN research Unit within the Environmental Research and Innovation Department (ERIN) of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxemburg

Calin Alexandru Ur
Technical Director, Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics ELI-NP, Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering – IFIN-HH, Romania

Nicoleta Lupu
General Manager, National Institute of Research & Development for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania

Mircea Dragoman
President of the Scientific Council of the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies – IMT Bucharest

Karl-Heinz Haas
Head of New Business Development – Managing Director of Fraunhofer-Alliance Nanotechnology, Fraunhofer-Institute for Silicate Research – ISC, Germany