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Qiaoliang Bao (Monash University, Australia)
Qiaoliang Bao has over 150 peer-review publications in many prestigious journals such as Nature Photonics (1), Nature Chemistry (1), Nature Communications (4), Advanced Materials (6), Advanced Functional Materials (9), Light: Science and Applications (1), JACS (4), ACS Nano (14), 2D Materials (2), Nanoscale (4) and Chemistry of Materials (6). Overall citations ~15000, with an H-index of 50 (Google Scholar). 1 Book, 3 book chapters, 1 US patent and 50 international conference presentations.
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Francesco Bonaccorso (IIT-Graphene Labs / BeDimensional, Italy)
Francesco Bonaccorso gained the PhD from the University of Messina in Italy after working at the Italian National Research Council, the Engineering Department of Cambridge Universi-ty (UK) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Vanderbilt University (USA). In June 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where he also obtained a MA. He is currently leading the processing and prototyping group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Graphene Labs. He was responsible in defining the ten years sci-entific and technological roadmap for the European Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the workpackage Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J. Mater. Chem. A. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials with on-demand designed structures, their spectroscopic characteriza¬tion, incorporation into polymer composites and their technological application in solar and photoelectrochemical cells, lithium-ion batteries, light emitting devices and ultrafast lasers. He organized several conferences such as Graphene2015/2016/2017,2018, Graphene Canada, GrapChina 2014/2015/2016,2017,2018 etc., and symposia in MRS, e-MRS. He has several publications in journals such as Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, etc.. These have been covered by a number of reports in the technical and general press. He Co-founded BeDimensional Srl, a Start-up of IIT.
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Jun Chen (Nankai University, China)
Jun Chen is a Professor at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees from Nankai University (China) in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D from Wollongong University (Australia) in 1999. He held the NEDO fellowship at National Institute of AIST Kansai Center (Japan) from 1999 to 2002. He joined College of Chemistry as a full Professor of Nankai University in 2002. He is Cheung Kong Scholar Professor (2005), Director of Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (KLAEMC) (Ministry of Education) (2009), Dean of College of Chemistry at Nankai University (2017), and Chairman of the Chinese Electrochemistry Society (2015). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014) and an Academician of Chinese Academy of Science (2017). His research covers nanomaterials chemistry and battery technologies.
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Hui-Ming Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Cheng Huiming was born in Sichuan in 1963. He received his bachelor degree in 1984 on carbon materials from Hunan Univ., his M.S. in 1987 and Ph.D in 1992 on materials sci. and eng. from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). Prof. Cheng began his career as a Guest Researcher at Kyushu Industrial Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, in 1990; then he was employed as a Research Associate in the Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., Faculty of Eng. at Nagasaki Univ., Japan, in 1992, and then took an associate professor position at IMR CAS in 1993. He is currently professor and deputy director at the same institute. Prof. Cheng also worked at MIT (USA), Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore), Univ. of Queensland (Australia), etc, as visiting scientist or honorary professor for short periods. Prof. Cheng is mainly working on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene, new energy materials and high-performance carbon materials. He authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited for more than 8000 times. For his scientific achievements, he was awarded a number of national and international prizes, such as the 2nd class National Award in Natural Science, Ryukiti Hashiguti Award, Khwarizmi Award, Chareles E. Pettinos Award, etc. Prof. Cheng has already supervised more than 30 Ph.D students, given more than 40 invited talks on international and national conferences and symposia, and is Editor of Carbon since 2000 and Editor in Chief of New Carbon Materials since 1998. He takes a leading role in carbon materials research in China.
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Daniel Chua (NUS, Singapore)
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Xiangfeng Duan (University of California, USA)
Dr. Duan is an Associate Professor at UCLA. He received a B.S degree in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and China, Hefei, China, in 1997; M.A. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
From 2002 to 2008, he was a Founding Scientist, Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Technology at Nanosys Inc., a nanotechnology startup founded based partly on his doctoral research. In 2008, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Duan’s research in inorganic nanostructures contributed significantly to recent advancements in nanoscience and nanotechnology. His doctoral research in semiconductor nanowires pioneered the recent blossom in nanowire based research and technology. While at Nanosys, Dr. Duan was responsible for identifying new technological opportunities based on inorganic nanostructures and advancing the newest ideas into compelling technological demonstrations. He is the leading inventor of a number of the most important nanotechnology inventions. His current research interests include heteointegration of nanoscale materials, development of novel nanoscale device concepts and exploration of their potential in future electronics, energy science and biomedical science. Dr. Duan has published about 100 technical papers in leading scientific journals, and holds more than 50 patents or patent applications.
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Goki Eda (NUS, Singapore)
Dr. Eda received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and Ph.D. in the same discipline from Rutgers University in 2009. He became a Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society of the UK and worked at Imperial College London. Dr. Eda joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and a member of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials in 2011. He is a recipient of the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Fellowship and many awards including the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Young Scientist Award, University Young Researcher Award, and IPS Omicron Nanotechnology Award. He is an Associate Editor of npj 2D Materials and Applications.
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Hongjun Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Dr. Hong-jun Gao was born in 1963. He obtained his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1994. He is now a Professor and Group Leader in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academician of the Developing-country Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is now serving as an Associate Editor for Appl. Phys. Lett. and editorial board members for several international journals. He was the Vice President of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (U-CAS) and Chair of the U-CAS Advisory Committee of Sciences. He was the Scientific Secretary of the International Union of Vacuum Science, Technology, and Applications (IUVSTA) in the triennium 2004-2007, and the Chairman of the NSTD, IUVSTA (2010-2013). From 1997 to 2000, he worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a Guest Scientist.
His research interests are in construction and physical properties of quantum nanostructures and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS). He has 6 international books/chapters, more than 350 journal publications including Physical Review Letter, Journal of American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature series, and more than 90 invited talks. His research on the construction of an "anchored" single molecular rotor array, and on nanorecording using conductance transition at a single molecular scale, have been highlighted by the American Physical Society–physics, Physical Review Focus, Science News, Nature Materials, and Nature Nanotechnology.
He was awarded the "OCPA AAA (Robert Prize)" (OCPA: the Overseas Chinese Physics Association; AAA: Achievement in Asia Award), the "TWAS Prize in Physics 2009" (TWAS: Third World Academy of Sciences), "Humboldt Research Award 2010", " Science and Technology Awards of the Ho Leung Ho Lee 2012", "Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2013", and “Tan Kah Kee Science Awards on Mathematics and Physics 2018”.
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Slaven Garaj (NUS, Singapore)
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Dr. Slaven Garaj received PhD from Swiss Federal institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in the field of solid-state physics. He continued his research career at Harvard University, working at the intersection of nano-electronics and biophysics, particularly by developing novel methods for electrical (4th generation) DNA sequencing based on nanopores. Throughout his career, his different research projects attracted general public attention and were featured in international media and professional magazines (such as BBC News, New Scientist, Technology Review, MRS Bulletin, etc). Dr. Garaj is Singapore NRF Fellow, and Assistant Professor at Departments of Physics and Bioengineering of the National University of Singapore.
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Wanlin Guo (Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China)
Dr. Wanlin GUO, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor in mechanics and nanoscience, founder and director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education and the Institute of Nanoscience of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His current research focuses on intelligent nano materials and devices, novel conception and technology for efficient energy conversion, molecular physical mechanics for neuronal signaling and molecular biomimics. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers on Nature series, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Nano Lett., etc. He received the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1996 and the honor of Cheung Kong Scholars in 1999. In 2010, he founded Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education of China. In 2012, he obtained the National Nature Science Prize of China.
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Jinsong Hu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, China)
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Prof. Jin-Song Hu received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry in 2005 at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) under the supervision of Prof. Chun-Li Bai and Prof. Li-Jun Wan, and then joined in ICCAS as an Assistant Professor working in the rational design and preparation of functional nanomaterials for the applications in energy storage and conversion, and environmental remediation. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. Prof. Hu visited Professor's Shuit-Tong Lee's group in City University of Hong Kong in the end of 2007. Since June 2008 to June 2011, he worked in Professor Charles M. Lieber's group at Harvard University as a Research Associate. Then, he moved back to China as a Full Professor at the CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, ICCAS. He currently works in the low-cost thin film solar cells, including quantum-dot sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells etc.; fuel cells; and microbial fuel cells. Hu has authored/co-authored more than 70 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, including Nat. Commun., PNAS, JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. etc., and more than 10 patents, with a total citation of over 7000 times.
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Yoshihiro Iwasa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Takamasa Kawanago (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
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Takamasa Kawanago received the Ph.D. degrees in electronics and applied physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, in 2011. He is an Assistant Professor in FIRST at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current interests include two-dimensional inorganic and organic materials for device applications. His research is recognized national and international awards (e.g. 63th JSAP Outstanding Poster Award, 26th Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics, 41th ESSDERC Best Paper Award, 32th JSAP Young Scientist Presentation Award, 11th Funai Young Researcher’s Award).
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Keun Su Kim (Yonsei University, South Korea)
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Ph. D Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Feb. 2010
Thesis title: “Electronic structures of lead nanowires and layers on silicon surfaces
studied by photoelectron spectroscopy”
B.S. Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Aug. 2005
CAREER HISTORY
Mar. 2017 – Present Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Yonsei University
Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2017 Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Sep. 2010 – Oct. 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow / Co-supervisors: Dr. Eli Rotenberg and Dr. Aaron Bostwick
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Feb. 2010 – Aug. 2010 Research Associate (military duty)
Basic Science Research Institute, POSTECH
Sep. 2005 – Feb. 2010 Research Assistant / Supervisor: Prof. Han Woong Yeom
Center for Atomic Wires and Layers, Yonsei University
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Mikito Koshino (Osaka University, Japan)
Dr. Koshino received his Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo, Japan in 2003. He was a research associate in Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2010, and he was an associate professor in Tohoku University from 2010 to 2016. Since 2016, he has taught in Osaka University, where he is a professor in Department of physics.
His current research is focused on the theoretical study on the electronic properties of various low-dimensional materials including graphene, carbon nanotubes and other atomic layer materials, and also covers the topological materials such as Weyl-Dirac semimetals and topological insulators.
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Mario Lanza (Soochow University, China)
Mario Lanza is a Young 1000 Talent professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials of Soochow University since September 2013. Dr. Lanza got his PhD in Electronics in 2010 at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During the PhD he was a visiting scholar at The University of Manchester (UK) and Infineon Technologies (Germany). In 2010-2011 he did a postdoc at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was a Marie Curie fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Lanza has published over 70 papers, including Science and Advanced Materials, edited an entire book for Wiley-VCH and registered four patents. He is member of the advisory board of Scientific Reports (Nature) and Crystal Research and Technology (Wiley-VCH), as well member of the technical committee of several international conferences. His research interests focus on the improvement of electronic devices using 2D materials, with special emphasis on 2D (layered) dielectrics and logic memory devices.
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Lance Li (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
Dr. Lain-Jong (Lance) Li now serves as a Research Director in the Corporate Research at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). He received his BSc and an MSc in chemistry at National Taiwan University. After 5 years of R&D at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (1997-2002), he obtained his PhD of condensed matter physics at Oxford University in 2006. He was an assistant professor in Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2006-2009). Since 2010, he has become an Associate Professor at Academia Sinica Taiwan. He joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2014 and became a full professor in 2016. His main research interest focuses on carbon nanotubes, graphene and 2D materials for electronic and energy applications, and large-scale growth of various 2D materials.
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Yen-Fu Lin (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
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Dr. Lin, Yen-Fu (林彥甫) received a B.S. degree in Physics at Tunghai University (Taiwan) in 2005. In 2010, he obtained a Ph. D. degree in Institute of Electrophysics from National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU, Taiwan). He worked in NCTU as a postdoctoral fellow (2010/08-2012/12) and then was a MANA research associate in National Institute for Material Science (NIMS, Japan) from 2013/01 to 2014/01. In Feb. 2014 , he joined National Chung Hsing University (NCHU, Taiwan) as an Assistant Professor (Department of Physics). His fields of experience are fabrication and characterization of nano-devices and his current research interests focus on fundamental electron transport physics as well as applications of low-dimensional electronics.
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Chang-Hua Liu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
Prof. Liu is leading a research group at the National Tsing Hua University, Institutes of Photonics Technology. His research interests lie in fundamentally understanding the unique electrical, optical and mechanical properties of emerging two-dimensional materials, as well as exploring their applications in novel optoelectronic and optomechanical devices. Prior to joining NTHU, Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in January 2014, working on room temperature graphene photo-detectors with ultra-broadband and -high responsivity. After graduation, he worked at Northwestern University, Materials Science & Engineering for 1.5 years and focused on developing atomically-thin optomechanics. From 2015 to 2017, he worked in the Physics Department at the University of Washington as a postdoctoral research fellow, exploring the application of 2D materials integrated with nanophotonic devices. He co-authored 16 publications in peer-reviewed journals and his research works have led to two U.S. patents and a startup company.
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Hongyang Liu (Institute of Metal Research, China)
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Zhongfan Liu (Peking University, China)
Prof. Zhongfan Liu graduated from Changchun Institute of Technology in 1983 and received his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990. After a postdoctoral experience at Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, he became an associate professor (1993), full professor (1993) and Cheung Kong Chair professor (1999) of Peking University. He was elected as the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and as one of the six outstanding scientists in Ten-Thousand-Talents Program in 2013. Prof. Liu is the Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK, 2004), the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2014) and the Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries, 2015).
Prof. Liu’s research interest focusses on low dimensional carbon materials and novel 2D atomic crystals targeting nanoelectronic and energy conversion devices together with the exploration of fundamental phenomena in nanoscale systems. He has published over 500 peer reviewed articles and over 70 Chinese patents. The academic awards he received include, Outstanding Young Scientist Award of Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation (1997), MOE Science and technology Award (1st class, 2007), National Natural Science Awards (2nd class, 2008, 2017), Chinese Chemical Society-AkzoNobel Chemical Science Award (2012), Baogang Outstanding Teacher Award (2012), Founder Special Prize (2016), the Lectureship Award of 2016 Colloid and Surface Chemistry Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (2016), Beijing Municipal Excellent Teacher (2017).
He is now the Director of Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI), Vice Chairman of The Central Committee of Jiusan Society, Chairman of The Beijing Municipal Committee of Jiusan Society, Member of The Standing Committee of The National Committee of CPPCC, and the Vice Chairman of The Beijing Municipal Committee of CPPCC. He also serves as advisory/editorial board member of Adv. Mater., Small, Nano Res, ChemNanoMat, Natural Science Review, Graphene Technology and NPG Asia Mater, and Editor-in-Chief of ACTA PHYSICO-CHIMICA SINICA and the associate editor of Chinese Science Bulletin.
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Feng Miao (Nanjing University, China)
Feng Miao joined Nanjing University as a full Professor and a Principal Investigator at Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures in July 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California, Riverside, United States, in 2009. Then he worked with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, as a research associate for three years. He is currently a NSFC (National Science Fund of China) Distinguished Young Scholar, and the Chief Scientist of a National Key Basic Research Program supported by Ministry of Science and Technology. His awards include the Poe Memorial Award (2009), the China's "Thousand Youth Talents Plan" (2012), and a Jiangsu Young Investigator Award (2014). He published over 70 technical papers (with over 12000 citations) and is the inventor of 8 granted US patents and 2 granted China patents. His research interests mainly focus on electronic transport properties of 2D materials, and their applications for nanoelectronics, including emerging optoelectronic, memory, and computing devices.
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Lei Miao (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China)
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Pilkyung Moon (NYU Shanghai, China)
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Pilkyung Moon is Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was Research Fellow at Korea Institute for Advanced Study in 2013-2014 and assistant professor in Department of Physics at Tohoku University in 2011-2013. He holds a PhD from Seoul National University.
Moon’s research interests are condensed matter theory, electronic properties of atomically thin films (graphene, hBN, TMDs) with recent emphasis on the moiré interference between layers, semiconductor nanostructures (quantum well, quantum dot and quantum ring), and quantum Hall effect. His work has appeared in Nature, Science, and Physical Review.
Moon is a member of the American Physical Society and the Korean Physical Society. He has also previously been the organizing member of the 2012 A3 Symposium of Emerging Materials: Nanomaterials for Energy and Environments.
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Aitor Mugarza (ICN2, Spain)
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Prof. Aitor Mugarza graduated in physics in 1997, before earning his PhD in the same field in 2002, both at the University of the Basque Country. He was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to work as a postdoctoral scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2013, he leads the Atomic Manipulation and Spectroscopy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), and since 2015 he is an ICREA research professor. His current research activity focuses on developing methods to synthesize novel 2D nanostructured materials and manipulate their spin and charge at the single atom level. He is expert on scanning probe microscopy (STM/STS) and electron (ARPES) and X-ray (XAS/XMCD) spectroscopy. He has over 65 publications and 40 invited international conference and lectures in the field of low-dimensional electronic systems and hybrid interfaces.
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Kostya Novoselov (University of Manchester, UK)
Prof Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS was born in Russia in August 1974. He has both British and Russian citizenship. He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene. Kostya holds positions of Langworthy Professor of Physics and the Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in 2001. Professor Novoselov has published more than 250 peer-reviewed research papers. He was awarded with numerous prizes, including Nicholas Kurti Prize (2007), International Union of Pure and Applied Science Prize (2008), MIT Technology Review young innovator (2008), Europhysics Prize (2008), Bragg Lecture Prize from the Union of Crystallography (2011), the Kohn Award Lecture (2012), Leverhulme Medal from the Royal Society (2013), Onsager medal (2014), Carbon medal (2016), Dalton medal (2016) among many others.
He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.
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Hailin Peng (Peking University, China)
Dr. Hailin Peng is a full professor at Peking University, China. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Jilin University in 2000, and a PhD in physical chemistry from Peking University in 2005. He pursued postdoctoral studies at Stanford University during 2005–2009. His current research interests focus on high-mobility 2D materials and nanodevices. He has published more than 150 papers including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Science Adv., PRL, JACS, Nano Lett., Adv. Mater., etc. He received many awards, including SMALL Young Innovator Award (2017), the MRS Singapore ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award (2017), the second prize of National Natural Science Award of China (2017), and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2015).
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Jason Jieshan Qiu (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China)
Prof. Jieshan Qiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China, and the Dean of College of Chemical Engineering of BUCT. Prof. Qiu is an internationally-recognised research and thought leader in chemical engineering. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies for producing carbon materials from coal and coal-derived by-products such as coal tar pitch, and their applications in energy storage and conversion (solar cells, supercapacitor and batteries), catalysis and environment protection. Prof. Qiu is the author of more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy & Environ. Sci., Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. etc., with a citation of over 15400 times and h-index 58, including a number of ISI highly cited papers (Web of Sci.). He has a strong record of innovation – over 80 China and International patents issued. He is currently the Vice President and Fellow of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, an Associate Editor of the international journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and CIESC Journal (Hua Gong Xue Bao, in Chinese), and is on the advisory board of over 20 high profile journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, and Science China Materials. He has served as the editor of the journals Carbon and FlatChem published by Elsevier.
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Wencai Ren (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Wencai Ren is a professor at Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph. D. degree in materials science from IMR, CAS in 2005, and worked with Prof. Andre K. Geim at the University of Manchester from 2009 to 2010. His research interests mainly focus on the synthesis of graphene and other two-dimensional materials and their applications in energy storage, composites and optoelectronics. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in Nature Mater., Nature Commun., PNAS, Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, J. Am. Chem. Soc. etc., and filed more than 20 patents.
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Shintaro Sato (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)
Shintaro Sato received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2001. He joined Fujitsu Limited in 2001. He was a group leader at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology from 2010 to 2014. He is now a project director at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and works on research and development of nanoelectronics devises using graphene and carbon nanotubes.
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Zakuan Azizi Shamsul (NanoMalaysia Berhad, Malaysia)
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Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, South Korea)
Young-Woo Son has studied physical properties of various materials based on first-principles computational approach.
Sep. 2008− : Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2007−Aug. 2008 : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
2004−2006 : Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL
2004 : Ph.D. in Physics at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Ching-Yuan Su (National Central University, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
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Li-Xian Sun (Guilin Univ. of Electronic Technology, China)
Professor Dr. of Chemistry; Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic
Technology (GUET); Director of Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guangxi Province, China; Professor of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP)
Research interests:
1. Thermochemistry study for design and preparation of new materials such as nano materials, functional materials, catalysts, etc.;
2. Development of new energy including hydrogen storage/production material, fuel cells such as biofuel cells, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, clean combustion of coal, etc.;
3. Bio/chemical sensors based on quartz crystal microbalance, slab optical waveguide and electrochemistry for hydrogen, glucose, etc.;
4. Bio-microcalorimetry for drug design, and Chemometrics algorithms (ANNs, QSAR) and applications in Bioinfomatics and material science
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Taishi Takenobu (Nagoya University, Japan)
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Taishi Takenobu received his Ph.D. (materials science) from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2001. Since April 2001, he has worked in SONY corporation. From December 2001, he was assistant and associate professor of Tohoku University. From 2010, he was associate professor and professor of Waseda University, and, from March 2016, he is currently a professor of Nagoya University. His current research interests include (1) realization of electrical driven organic laser devise, (2) novel functional electronics based on organic and nano materials, and (3) solid state physics and functional devices of TMDC monolayer.
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Li Tao (Southeast University, China)
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Dr Li Tao is a Young 1000-Talent Awarded Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Southeast University. Prior to 2016, he was a research scientist at the Microelectronics Research Center, the University of Texas Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Texas Dallas in 2010 with an inventor recognition award. His research expertise cover 2D materials and flexible micro/nano electronics, nanofabrication and nanomedicine, with research featured in the TIME blog and 50+ tech media. He serves as a committee member for the EIPBN (3-beam) conference, young associate editor for Chinese Chemical Letters, board member for MRS China young scientist branch and panel reviewer for NSF China.
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Mauricio Terrones (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mauricio Terrones, obtained his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics with first class honors at Universidad Iberoamericana, and was distinguished as the Best Student of Mexico in Engineering Physics in 1992. In 1994 he started his doctorate degree with Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS), and received his D.Phil. degree from University of Sussex in 1998. He has co-authored more than 400 publications in international journals, and counts with more than 45,000 citations to his work (His H index is 97; Google Scholar H=109). He has published in Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry, ACS Nano, PNAS, etc. In 1999, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and carried out research at the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany). In 2000, he was recipient of the Mexican National Prize for Chemistry. He also received the Javed Husain Prize and the Albert Einstein medal from UNESCO in 2001. In 2005, he received the TWAS Prize in Engineering Physics for his contributions in the field of carbon-based nanomaterials. This prize is given by the Academy of Sciences of the Developing world, and Mauricio is the youngest scientist ever to receive any TWAS award. In 2005, Terrones also received the “José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez” Prize, awarded by the governor of the state of San Luis Potosí, for his contributions to Nanoscience. He is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2002. In 2007, Terrones was elected the National Contact Point in Nanotechnology with the European Union. In 2012 was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2015, he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and was awarded the Jubilee Professorship from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). In 2016, Mauricio was awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences (Penn State). In 2017, Terrones was also elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Mauricio is the Editor in Chief of Carbon, and he is currently associate editor of 2D Materials, Journal of Materials Research and Nature Scientific Reports. He is Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering with tenure at Penn State University. He is also the Founder Director of the Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at Penn State, and also the NSF-IUCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC).
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Rune Wendelbo (Abalonyx, Norway)
CEO at Abalonyx AS, producer of graphene oxide and graphene oxide derivatives. Has developed a safe and scalable method for production of GO as the basis for Abalonyx' business. PhD from University of Oslo. Worked as researcher at SINTEF, Norway, 1988 - 2005 with catalysts/surface chemistry and combinatorial methodology. Established Abalonyx AS in 2005 and Graphene Batteries AS in 2012.
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Jian-Bin Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Dr. Xu received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Nanjing University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, in Physics and Electronic Science and Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Shu-yi Zhang (Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences). Since 1988, he was highly privileged to study in the University of Konstanz (an elite university), particularly under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Dransfeld (Member of German Academy of Sciences), former Director of Max-Plank Institute for Solid State Research, and Max-Plank Institute for High-Magnetic Fields). His doctoral dissertation was focused on the near-field sensing and nanoscopic energy transfer and heat transport associated with electronic processes. He earned his doctorate (Dr.rer.nat.) in 1993. Afterwards, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been Professor in the department since the midst of 2002.
Dr. Xu has published extensively on advanced electronic and photonic materials and devices as well as on nanotechnology in peer-reviewed professional journals (c.a. 240) and conferences (c.a. 50) as well as more than 200 presentations, including conference invited talks, colloquia, seminars, etc. The published papers have been extensively accessed and cited, as well as many topic reviews and monographs, and patents. Meanwhile, he has secured numerous competitive research grants. Also he actively participates in a myriad of professional activities and has served as symposium chair in several international conferences. Particularly, he has served as Member of International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China 2009 (ChinaNano 2009), and as Director of Advanced Study Institute on Printed Electronics 2013 (Dedicated to Professor Sir Charles Kao on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday). He is Fellow of IEEE and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the Secretary and Council Member of Hong Kong Materials Research Society, and Member of American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, Hong Kong Institution of Science, and Physical Society of Hong Kong. Since 2007, he has been Director of Materials Science and Technology Research Center in CUHK. From 2011, he has been Convener of Strategic Initiatives for Nano, Energy, and Materials in CUHK.
Dr. Xu is a recipient of Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macau Scholars, funded by NSFC, a nationally prestigious award (formerly National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas Chinese)).
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Xuebin Yu (Fudan University, China)
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Hua Zhang (NTU, Singapore)
Dr. Hua Zhang obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Nanjing University in China in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Zhongfan Liu at Peking University in China in July 1998. He joined Prof. Frans C. De Schryver’s group at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium as a Research Associate in January 1999. Then he moved to Prof. Chad A. Mirkin’s group at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2001. He started to work at NanoInk Inc. (USA) as a Research Scientist/Chemist in August 2003. After that, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore from November 2005 to July 2006. Then he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor. On March 1, 2011, he was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor. On Sept. 1, 2013, he was promoted to Full Professor. Until now, he has filed 71 patent applications and 430+ papers with total citation of over 47,100 and H-index of 106. He is one of the Chairmen of the Editorial Board of ChemNanoMat (2015-), sits on the Advisory Board of Chemical Society Reviews (2012-), Nanoscale (2012-), Nanoscale Horizons (2015-), NPG Asia Materials (2018-), and Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2016-), the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Nano (2014-), Chemistry of Materials (2014-), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2014-), Small (2012-) and Nanofabrication (Versita, 2012-), the Editorial Board of CHEM (2016-), Carbon (2013-), npj 2D Materials and Applications (2016-), ACS Omega (2016-), Materials Today Energy (2016-), Applied Materials Today (2015-), Energy Storage Materials (2015-), Chinese Science Bulletin (2014-), Science China Materials (2014-), and NANO (2007-), the International Advisory Board of Chemistry – An Asian Journal (2018-present), the International Advisory Panel of Materials Research Express (2014-2016), the International Editorial Board of ChemPlusChem (2012-2015), and the Scientific Advisory Board of Small Methods (2017-), and is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Nanoscience (2007-) and one of the members of the Advisory Committee of IOP Asia-Pacific (2010-). In 2015, he was elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). In Nov. 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Moreover, he received the 2015 ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2015), the World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award (2013), SMALL Young Innovator Award (2012) and Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2011). In 2016, he was listed in the top 300 most cited researchers in the field of materials science and engineering by Elsevier Scopus. In 2017, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2017" in Chemistry and Materials Science. In 2016, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2016" in Chemistry and Materials Science. In 2015, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2015" in Chemistry and Materials Science, and also listed as one of 19 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the world (please see the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 by Thomson Reuters, 2015). In 2014, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2014" in Materials Science, and also listed as one of 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” and No. 1 in Materials and More in the world (please see the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 by Thomson Reuters, 2014).
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Yihe Zhang (China University of Geosciences, China)
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Zhang Yihe, doctor, professor, doctoral tutor. He is currently the chief scientist of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Beijing), the chief scientist of the "New Materials Innovation Team for Comprehensive Utilization of Resources and Environment Energy," the director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-metallic Mineral and Solid Waste Resource Materials Director of circular economy engineering laboratory. Academic part-time: China Composites Society of mineral composite materials special committee (chips) responsible person, director of China Materials Research Society, China Micrometer's Institute of nano-technology, China circular economy association director / industrial solid waste special committee vice chairman, China Environmental Science Society of solid waste branch vice chairman, China Silicate Society solid waste branch director, tailings comprehensive utilization of industrial technology innovation strategic alliance director, waste textile comprehensive utilization industry technology innovation strategic alliance director / expert committee deputy director, science and technology department / Ministry of Education / National Foundation / CPA / Beijing and other scientific and technological awards and project review experts. Respectively, in the Beijing Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences received bachelor, master, doctorate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University postdoctoral. Successor of Shandong Institute of Nonmetallic Materials engineers, senior engineer, science and technology committee and secretary, research and development master plan, Shandong North New Materials Science and Technology Development Company Deputy General Manager; Hong Kong City University Visiting scholar, researcher, Hong Kong Polytechnic University postdoctoral researcher; Visiting Professor of the University of Flanders, Australia; Visiting Scholar, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany; Visiting Scholar, Tuen Tuen University, Netherlands.
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Jijun Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China)
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Min Zhu (South China University of Technology, China)
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