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Aurélie Bessière (CNRS, France)
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Maria Maddalena Calabretta (University of Bologna, Italy)
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Gianni Ciofani (IIT, Italy)
Gianni Ciofani, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher Tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -Italian Institute of Technology, IIT- (Pontedera, Italy; since 2019), where he is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Line (since 2017) and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces (since 2021). He has been Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Torino, Italy; 2015-2019) and Visiting Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan; 2021). His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, complex in vitro models, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions. He is coordinator or unit leader of several projects: in particular, he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and two ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2016, 2018, and 2022, respectively. Thanks to grants from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA), he had the opportunity to carry out experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017, 2019, and 2022. In 2018, his real-scale model of the blood-brain barrier was highlighted in the Annual Report on the ERC Activities and Achievements. Gianni Ciofani is author of about 175 papers on international journals, 3 edited books, and 16 book chapters, and delivered about 65 invited talks/lectures in international contexts.
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Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz holds a PhD in Chemistry (2006) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Most of his post-doctoral career has been spent at Prof. Merkoçi’s group at ICN2 (Barcelona, Spain), where he specialized in Nanobiosensors. He has participated in +25 national and international projects (5 as PI) and is the coauthor of over 95 scientific publications (+4100 citations; h-index: 39) and 4 patents. As of December 2023, he holds a position as Associate Professor in the Nanobioanalysis Group, Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo (Spain) where he is also the Group Leader. His research interests focus on the development of biosensing systems based on nanoparticles and nanochannels for point-of-care diagnostic applications
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Plinio Innocenzi (University of Sassari, Italy)
2005 - present - Full professor in Science and Technology of Materials Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari. Italy Associate researchers of the National Instituto of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Director of the Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Academician of European Academy of Sciences 2022 August – June 2023. Distinguished visiting faculty. Department of Chemistry. United Arab Emirates University. 2010 – 2018 – Science and Technology Counsellor at the Embassy of Italy to the People’s Republic of China (Beijing)
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Mariana Ionita (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
Mariana Ionita was educated at top level universities (Politecnico di Milano, Technical University of Denmark, Universita degli Studi di Milano) and gained her PhD in Chemistry and in Bioengineering in 2008 from Politecnico di Milano. Thereafter she was appointed Professor and project co-coordinator at Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica Bucharest. Mariana has an outstanding contribution related to bone tissues regeneration solution and additive manufacturing / 3 D printing topic in which she emerged as a game changer achieving structures with predictable bone tissue regenerative performance or fine-tuned structures with anisotropic mechanical properties. She has co-authored four research monographs, more than 95 peer reviewed scientific papers, and participated in over 50 different scientific events as keynote and invited lecturer.
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Josep Nogués (ICREA / ICN2, Spain)
ICREA Research Professor Josep Nogués earned his degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1986. After obtaining his PhD at the Kungliga Tekniska Höskolan (RoyalInstitute of Technology) in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1993, he moved to the University of California San Diego (USA) to complete his postdoctoral studies. Four years later he returned to the UAB as an associate researcher, becoming an ICREA research professor in 2001 and a founding member of the former Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) shortly thereafter. His Magnetic Nanostructures group was formally integrated into the ICN structure in 2006.
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science.
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Maurizio Prato (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
Prof. Maurizio Prato has made numerous significant scientific contributions to the field of Organic Chemistry applied to Nanosciences by enabling innovative, controlled and reproducible ways to make intractable materials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, useful materials for sensing, catalysis, drug delivery, as well as in neurosciences and energy-relevant technologies.
The breadth of Maurizio Prato's activity is unique, with major contributions in nanoscience, such as:
The chemical functionalization of C60 fullerene and their use in photovoltaic applications: the Prato Reaction.
Chemical functionalization and solubilisation of CNTs and their subsequent application in the fields of drug delivery, including gene delivery and immunology.
Biocompatibilization of CNTs by designed chemical functionalization.
Development of carbon nanostructures as scaffolds for neuronal growth.
Design of innovative carbon nanodots for applications in bio-imaging, sensing and catalysis.
Has published more than 700 papers on international peer reviewed Journals, with a total of around 57,000 citations and an h-index of 111. Has been invited to more than 250 conferences and workshops in the last 10-15 years as a plenary or keynote speaker, and has given more than 50 invited talks in Universities or research centers all around the world.
Director of more than 50 PhD students, 50 master theses, more than 40 postdocs and more than 25 visiting researchers.
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Samuel Sanchez (IBEC, Spain)
Samuel is since 2015 a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he acts as Deputy Director for the Internationalization of IBEC. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, IFW Dresden, Germany, MANA-NIMS in Japan. His work spans from fundamental aspects of catalytic and biocatalytic nano-micromotors, 3D Bioprinted BioBOTS, electrochemical biosensors to applications in biomedical and environmental fields. He received several awards and recognitions such as the MIT TR35 as Top Innovator Under 35 in the Spanish edition, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Foundation of Research among others. He received the ERC-Starting Grant in 2013, and two ERC-Proof-of-concept in 2016 and 2017. He has published about 130 papers with h-index of 48 and he has filed 6 patents.
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María Concepción Serrano López-Terradas (ICMM/CSIC, Spain)
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