Dr. Rezal Khairi Ahmad was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of NanoMalaysia in June 2012. As NanoMalaysia first employee, he crafted the company structure, developed business model and corporate positioning strategy relative to like-minded government agencies and relevant industries In February 2013, Dr Rezal’s appointment was upgraded to Chief Executive Officer.

Prof. Joung Real Ahn
Educational Background
March 1997 - August 2000: Ph. D, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology
March 1995 - February 1997: M. S, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science
and Technology
March 1991 - February 1995: B. S, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University

Research Experience
March 2016 - Present: Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
March 2010 - 2016: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
January 2006 - February 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
September 2005 - December 2005: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and CNNC, Sungkyunkwan University
September 2003 - August 2005: Research Assistant Professor, Center for Atomic Wires and Layers (CRi), Yonsei University
March 2002 - August 2003: Post‐doc, Atomic‐Scale Surface Science Research Center (SRC), Yonsei University October 2000 - November 2001: Post‐doc, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine

Claudia Backes has received her PhD with Honors in 2011 from the University of Erlangen, Germany. From 2011-2012, she supported the Erlangen Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” as Deputy Executive Director and Scientific Coordinator. After receiving a fellowship grant from the German Research Foundation in 2012, she subsequently moved to Jonathan Coleman’s groups at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has published more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals, a book chapter and a book.

Professor, Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Center for Dimension-Controllable Organic Frameworks, UNIST, Korea

Partner of ISC GmbH & Co. KG.
(17 years for Infineon Technologies / Siemens Semiconductors; 12 years at Jacobs-University Bremen)
- 20 years in international standardization in IEC & SEMI.
- 10 years as the vice chairman of the German mirror committee to IEC/TC 113 “Nanoelectronics“.
- 8 years as convenor of WG 3 of IEC/TC 113 & 2 years as assistance secretary to IEC/TC 113.
- 17 years SEMI European Regional Technical Committee Co-Chair and Co-Chair of the TC silicon wafers and member of the SEMI Audit and Review Committee.

Dr Paolo Bondavalli, male, is in charge of the transvers topic on nanomaterials at Thales Research and Technology (the central research lab of Thales group). He graduated in Physics in 1995 at the University of Parma, obtained his PhD in 2000 at INSA de Lyon and his HdR in 2011 on a work on carbon nanotubes based networks. He has a strong experience in leading and participating in European and French Research project (20 years). He is presently in charge of the task on supercapacitors of the Graphene Flagship initiative. He is the author of more than 60 papers and he has around 60 invited and keynote talks in international conferences. He is the author of the book “Graphene and related materials: properties and applications” edited by Elsevier in Octovber 2017. He is expert for H2020, Eurostars, Euripides, Flag-Era and National French Research Agency member of the Committee ‘Sensors and instrumentations’. He reviewer for IOP, Springer, Elsevier…

Vincent Bouchiat joined CNRS-Grenoble in 2001. He received an engineer degree from ESPCI in 1993 and a Master Degree from the University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie in 1993. After completing his Ph.D. at Quantronics group in CEA-Saclay in 1997 under supervision of Michel Devoret and Daniel Estève, he got CNRS position the same year at University of Marseilles.
He received the Visiting Miller Professorship Award from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, and the Lee Hsun Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017). He is currently a member of the selection panel committee of the Canadian Research Agency NSERC.

Chris Bower is the Director of Production, who leads Emberion’s technology development and research. Before establishing Emberion he was leading a R&D team to develop scalable manufacturing methods for ground-breaking graphene sensor devices at Nokia Technologies. After joining Nokia in 2009 he was working on nanomaterials and high surface area double-gyroid polymers to enable new mobile device functionalities. Before Nokia he worked at Eastman Kodak Company as a coating engineer with several years’ experience in all aspects of multilayer thin-film coating technology for sensitised goods, including the processes and procedures to ensure robust manufacturing of photographic film products, comply with health and safety and meet ISO quality requirements and used fundamental understanding of coating process, and dynamic wetting to improve robustness, reduce defects, improve coating speed and reduce manufacturing costs. Dr Bower is a Chartered Physicist and member of the Institute of Physics, he has co-authored over 30 academic papers and filed over 100 patents

Director of Communications and Government Affairs, Grafoid Inc., Canada.
Mr. Burtt brings more than 30 years of sophisticated corporate and political communications-related experience to Grafoid. He is President of Chester Burtt & Associates Ltd. (“CBAL”), a corporate and public affairs advisory firm that specializes in connecting private and public companies with domestic and international opportunities. CBAL also arranges for the provision and supply of financial services in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Working through an international network and associate firms, CBAL has a 25-year history of offering a full range of services to assist companies with strategy development and decisions to best suit their investor and corporate relations. Mr. Burtt graduated with a B.A. (Honours) from Waterloo Lutheran University and an M.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University in Political Science. Mr. Burtt also sits on the Board of Directors of Focus Graphite Inc.

Professor A. H. Castro Neto got his Ph.D. in Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1994. In 1994, he moved to the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1995, he became an Assistant Professor at University of California at Riverside. In 2000, he moved to Boston University as Professor of Physics. At Boston, Prof. Castro Neto became one of the leading theorists in the study of graphene. In 2010, Prof. Castro Neto became the Director of the Graphene Research Center and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore . In 2003, Prof. Castro Neto was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the colloquia Editor for Reviews of Modern Physics, and co-editor for Europhysics Letters. Prof. Castro Neto was awarded the 11th Ross J. Martin Award by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California Regent Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the visiting Miller Professorship by the University of California, Berkeley, the visiting Gordon Godfrey Professorship by the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano-Technology (SAINT), South Korea. Prof. Castro Neto has authored more than 200 manuscripts and has published in prestigious journals including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters, and has over 12,000 citations. Prof. Castro Neto has given more than 200 seminars worldwide.

Prof. Sung-Yool Choi received the BS (with Summa Cum Laude), MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemistry, KAIST, in 1991, 1994, and 1998, respectively. Before joining KAIST, he had been with Basic Research Laboratory of ETRI, Korea as a principal researcher and worked on the R&D programs for various functional electronic devices. In November 2011, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. His research focus is on generating innovative nanomaterials and device architectures for the applications to next-generation electronics systems with an emphasis on the electronics and photonics applications of graphene and 2D materials. He received several academic awards including the Prime Minister's Award for Research Innovation in Nanotechnology at Nano Korea 2015, KIDS Award Silver in IMID 2016, and the Prize for Academic Excellence of KAIST in 2017. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Lectureship Awards from the Dept. of EE, KAIST in 2014 and from UST in 2009, respectively. He is serving as the director of Graphene/2D Materials Research Center (GRC) from Apr. 2012, and, as the director of Center for Advanced Materials Discovery towards 3D Display (CAMD³) from Nov. 2016

Jonathan Coleman has been a lecturer in Physics at Trinity College Dublin since 2001. He graduated with First Class Honours and a gold medal in Physics in 1995 and completed a PhD in Physics in TCD in 1999 .
Dr Coleman's main area of research is the study of Carbon nanotubes. These nanoscale cylinders, just a millionth of a millimeter wide but up to millimeters in length are more conductive than copper and many times stronger than steel. To harness these properties, Coleman's work focuses on mixing nanotubes with plastics to create new, functional composite materials. This work has resulted in electrically conductive plastics and lightweight composites with the strength of steel.

Camilla Coletti is leading the research line 2D Materials Engineering at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pisa (https://www.iit.it/research/lines/2d-materials-engineering). She received her PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida in 2007. After working at the Max Planck Institute of Stuttgart as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow from 2008 to 2011, she joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Her research is currently focused on: (i) the scalable synthesis of 2D materials for optoelectronic applications; (ii) interface engineering of 2D heterostacks. She is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 4 book chapters, edited 1 book and holds 2 international patents

Richard Collins obtained a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He worked on the design and synthesis of organometallic catalysts as part of an industrial collaboration in the production of elastomers. Through this Richard has published review and journal articles, contributed towards a patent and presented his research globally at workshops and conferences. Prior to this Richard obtained a first-class MChem degree also from the University of Oxford. His master's project focussed on the synthesis of biodegradable polymers using abundant non-toxic metal catalysts. Richard will work on IDTechEx's research into lightweight technologies. This will focus on composites, advanced porous materials, light alloys and metals and other lightweighting techniques. Read more at: https://www.idtechex.com/contact/team/dr_richard_collins.asp

Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu served the University of Sassari, Italy, as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (2012-2017). She has worked at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2007-2009), as visiting researcher at the Sanford-Burnham Institute of San Diego, CA, USA in 2008 and at the Department of Health and Human Services at the NIH in Bethesda, MD in 2013. Dr. Delogu has been appointed as Senior Visiting Professor under the “Program Excellence in Science” at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany (2016, 2017). In 2011, she was selected as one of the “200 Best Young Talents of Italy” from the Italian Ministry of Youth (Rome, Italy). Beyond different National Grants she has been the Scientific Coordinator of two interdisciplinary European Projects on Nanomedicine involving 10 leading Institutions in EU and extra EU Countries including China, USA and Qatar. Dr. Delogu in 2018 joined the Institute of Pediatric Research in Padua, Italy where she is currently leading the ImmuneNano-lab

Aldo Di Carlo is Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Electronics Engineering. Leader of the Nano&Optoelectronic research group - http://www.optolab.uniroma.it at the Department of Electronic Engineering and member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. His research activity concerns the study of electronic and optical properties of nanostructured devices, their analysis, optimization and technology. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in organic/inorganic devices and thermal processes at nanoscale has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. In the last years his researches have focussed on the study and fabrication of organic devices. Research activities in carbon nanotubes have been quite successful leading to the realization cold cathode vacuum triode based on CNT cathode for THz generation. The research activity of organic optoelectronic devices has been consider of excellence and the Lazio Region has sponsored this activity funding the "Polo Solare Organico della Regione Lazio", namely the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) where Prof. A. Di Carlo is co-director. The aim of the Center is the study and development of organic photovoltaic cells and their industrialization. Prof. Di Carlo has organized, together with Prof. Lugli, IEEE 2004 Nanotechnology Conference in Munich. Prof. Di Carlo is author/co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals, several reviews on electronic and optoelectronic devices, 7 patents, several book chapters and co-author of two books (in Italian language) and has been invited to more than 40 invited talk at international conferences. Prof. Di Carlo has an h-factor = 38. The results of his research have been used to realize 5 spin-off companies dealing with ICT and Energy technologies.

Jaroslav Fabian (PhD 1997, SUNY Stony Brook) is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Regensburg where he heads Spintronics group since 2004. Prior to that Jaroslav Fabian was on the faculty at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, and a research associate in UMD College Park and Max-Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden. Research activities of Jaroslav Fabian span a wide spectrum of theoretical solid state physics, but are particularly focused on the physics of 2D materials and spintronics. He is a member of Graphene Flagship, and several collaborative research initiatives. Recently, he has been excited about the art of creating novel electronic properties by proximity effects in stacks of 2D materials.

Yuan Ping Feng has been a faculty member of Department of Physics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 1990. He joined NUS following a 3 year postdoctoral stint at Purdue University. His research interest is in computational condensed matter & materials physics, focusing mainly on the understanding of fundamental properties of materials for advanced technologies, and prediction of new materials based on ab initio electronic structure calculations. In recent years, he has studied various materials including dilute magnetic semiconductors, graphene spintronics, high-k materials, topological insulators, semiconductor and metal surfaces and interfaces, materials for magnetic data storage, etc. He has an established track record in collaboration with experimentalists. He has authored/co-authored more than 400 scientific papers in international refereed journals and one book.

Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship.

Albert Fert, (born March 7, 1938, Carcassonne, France), French scientist who, with Peter Grünberg, received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent codiscovery of giant magnetoresistance.
Fert received master’s degrees in mathematics and physics from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1962. He earned a doctorate in physical science from the Université Paris-Sud in 1970 and was made a professor there in 1976. He served as research director for the university’s condensed-matter physics laboratory (1970–95) before moving to Unité Mixte de Physique—a laboratory jointly operated by the Université Paris-Sud and the technology firm Thales.

Luis E. F. Foa Torres (b. 1978) is a condensed matter physicist. Since May 2016 he is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Chile (FCFM). Before he worked in Argentina as a Professor and CONICET Independent Research Scientist; in Germany as a fellow of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (TU Dresden) granted “in recognition of previous research work”; in France, at CEA-Grenoble; and in Italy, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as Associate of the Condensed Matter Section (2011-2016). His research is focused on quantum transport, two-dimensional materials (e.g. graphene), topological insulators and the physics of driven systems. Inelastic effects deriving from electron-phonon and electron-photon interactions (e. g. quantum pumping, Floquet topological states) occupy a central stage in his contributions. He has more than 45 publications in international journals and a book published by Cambridge University Press, which is both the oldest publishing house in the world and the oldest university press. These works have collected more than 1300 citations with h-index 22.

Jose Antonio Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor working at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, and head of the Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices group, which explores novel electronic materials, such as graphene and other 2D materials, and their potential in electronic and bioelectronic applications. He received a master and PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a postdoc at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München, and afterwards became Group Leader of the Functional Carbon Materials group. He obtained his habilitation in experimental physics at the TU Munich in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, Jose A. Garrido held a lecturer (privatdozent) position at the department of physics of the Technische Universität München. Jose A. Garrido is Editor of the journal Diamond and Related Materials and co-coordinator of the workpackage Biomedical technologies of the European Graphene Flagship Initiative.

CTO of 3SUN 2.0 PV Enel Green Power Company. Experienced R&D and Technology Transfer Manager in the field of Photovoltaic and Microelectronic Technologies (20+years). 25 years of experience in the field of materials science. Author of several (180+) published works, including papers on peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and international papers. Worked for international industrial companies such as STMicroelectronics, Micron and Enel Green Power. Graduated in Solid State Physics, Master in Surface and Interface Analysis, 5 years of activity as Researcher expert of Materials Science and Characterization Techniques.

Chief Executive Officer.
Ray Gibbs is a Chartered Accountant, and former Deloitte audit and corporate finance partner for 9 years. He has spent the last 21 years in industry as CFO or commercial director of high technology and fast moving consumer goods businesses both in the quoted and private arenas with sales ranging from £500,000 to £500 million. He was a former CFO of Chemring Group Plc.
Ray was part of the original Haydale Graphene Industries’ management team that acquired Haydale Limited in 2010. Appointed CEO from 2013 and led a successful IPO in 2014 doubling its value to over £35m. Ray is a Board Member of the USA based National Graphene Association and is also UK Chairman of a UK and China Joint Working Group on Graphene Standardisation, organised by the BSI Group.

Yury Georgievich Gogotsi is a leading Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA since the year 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology. Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor of materials science at Drexel University — founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (since 2014 - A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute).

Graduated (Laurea Magistrale) in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Post-degree R&D activity at Politecnico, G.Natta department, and National Research Council (CNR). Since 1989 with companies of Italcementi, nowadays integrated in HeidelbergCement Group. Specialist in admixtures for concrete, additives for cement grinding and cementitious products. Currently involved in nanotechnologies and task leader in charge of T13.3.4 of EU Graphene Flagship. Coordinator of the UNI Admixtures Group. Co-author of about thirty scientific publications and some patents in the field of cementitious materials and graphene.

Giulia Grancini is Team Leader at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Valais based in Sion (Switzerland). She graduated from Politecnico of Milan in 2008 (MS in Physical Engineering). In 2012, she obtained her PhD in Physics cum Laude from the Politecnico of Milan. During the PhD she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she has been post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (CNST@PoliMi) in Milan. In 2015 she joined the group of Prof. Nazeeruddin at EPFL awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Since 2016, she leads the SolarPhysicsLab at EPFL, aiming to address the fundamental physics behind advanced photovoltaic devices. In 2017 she has been awarded with the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant, which provides independent young researchers with up to 1million CHF for leading a group and innovative projects in the energy sector. She is author of 65 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 26 (>7000 overall citations).
Giulia’s work focuses on the current scientific challenge of exploring the fundamental photophysical processes underlying the operation of advanced optoelectronic devices, with a special attention to new generation photovoltaics. In particular, she contributed with pioneer works to the understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of organic and hybrid perovskite solar cells.

Christopher Hinkle is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with affiliated positions in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, joining the faculty in the fall of 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2005 in physics from North Carolina State University. Dr. Hinkle's interdisciplinary research focuses on the growth, characterization, and device physics of semiconductor materials and interfaces for use in a wide variety of devices. He is particularly interested in the heterogeneous integration of conventional and novel materials for applications related to advanced CMOS and power devices, energy harvesting, and energy storage. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 65 contributed and 37 invited talks at international meetings. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including APS, AVS, ECS, IEEE, and MRS.

Kari Hjelt, Head of Innovation, Graphene Flagship PhD (Eng.), MBA Kari Hjelt has extensive experience in ICT and over 15 years career in corporate venturing and research. At Nokia he established a number of ventures and two research laboratories. His last tenure at Nokia was Director, Research Innovations. Since then he has been a co-founder and advisor to several high-tech SMEs. He currently works in Graphene Flagship as the Head of Innovation and is a member of the Management Panel and the Executive Board. He received his PhD in 1997 with “Photoluminescence and growth of compound semiconductors” from Helsinki University of Technology. He earned his Executive MBA from London Business School in 2010. Kari holds 10 patents and has published 40+ reviewed publications.

Stephan Hofmann is a Professor of Nanotechnology at the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, where he heads a group and large research effort on advanced nanomaterials and their device integration. He holds degrees from the Technische Universität München and the University of Cambridge. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, leads large grants/consortium on CVD enabled 2D Material Technology and is co-director of the Doctoral Training Centre in Nanotechnology. Among his awards is the 2014 ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship.

Cedric Huyghebaert is currently leading the nano-applications and – material engineering (NAME) group at imec dealing with the integration of nano materials as CNT and graphene and graphene related materials in functional applications. He is deputy of the wafer scale integration work package in the Graphene Flagship. He started as a junior researcher in the materials and component analyses group at imec. He studied the oxygen bean interactions during sputtering profiling of semiconductors. He received his PhD in Physics in 2006 at the KULeuven in Belgium. In 2005 he joined imecs pilot line as an integration engineer, especially dealing with the process contamination control. He was part of the packaging group from 2008 to 2010, working as a senior integration engineer dealing with the journey of bringing 3D-stacked IC integration from lab to fab.

Giuseppe Iannaccone is Professor of electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Fellow of the American Physical Society. His interests include the fundamentals of transport and noise in nanoelectronic and mesoscopic devices, the development of device modeling and TCAD tools, and the design of extremely low-power circuits and systems for RFID and ambient intelligence scenarios. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 130 papers in proceedings of international conferences. Giuseppe Iannaccone has coordinated a few European and National Projects involving multiple partners and has acted as the Principal Investigator in several research projects funded by European and National public agencies and by private organizations.

Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, serves as the Executive Director of the National Graphene Association (NGA). NGA is responsible for promoting, facilitating and advocating for the commercialization of graphene and graphene based materials in the United States. As a consultant and entrepreneur in the field of graphene, she has multi-faceted experience and a deep understanding of the graphene market, the supply chain and the challenges involved in the commercialization process. She received her PhD in the field of graphene optoelectronics and ultrafast spectroscopy from Vanderbilt University with a focus on electron-phonon interactions and still maintains position as a visiting scientist. She served as the CTO and founder of G.Element, a consulting and application development company in the graphene composite sector.

Dr. Jiao's principal research interests are focused on nanoscale materials and devices, electron microscopy, and characterization techniques. Current research in the Jiao lab is focused on the development of nanofabrication techniques for the property-controlled growth of graphene and its metal and metal oxide hybrids, nanotubes, nanowires, and nanocrystals for use in nanoelectronic devices with the potential for industrial applications. Another important effort is to use nanoscale materials and devices for biomedical applications, including cancer therapy, cancer vaccine, and adjuvant for infectious diseases. The results of her nanomaterials research are documented in more than 200 publications and five issued patents.
Since joining PSU in 1999, Dr. Jiao has successfully initiated several major research activities that have provided a strong foundation for her research and teaching at PSU. Her devotion to mentoring undergraduate students and encouraging young scientists led her to establish an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the only such program in the greater Portland area. More than 150 students have been trained through this program since 2001. Dr. Jiao has been recognized as the Outstanding Mentor of 2003–04 by Siemens Westinghouse Competition of Math, Science, and Technology. In 2004, she was awarded the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher Award, a recognition based on student nomination. Dr. Jiao was honored by the United States President with the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers—the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their research careers whose work shows exceptional promise for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Dr. Jiao also received the PSU President's Diversity Award, and has been nominated for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, acknowledging her commitment to providing opportunities for female and minority students to explore their interests in science and engineering.

Full Professor at the Physics Department and Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. PhD from the UFMG, Postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT / USA, Director of Technology and Information in INMETRO, and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich. Coordinator of the Brazilian Network for Research and Instrumentation in Optical Nanospectroscopy and considered one of "The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds", according to the Thomson Reuters.

Professor Catherine Journet was born in Toulon, France, in 1972. She received her PhD in Condensed Matter from the University of Montpellier in 1998. In 1999, after a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, she was recruited as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lyon to work on Physics of Nanostructures and Field Emission. Since 2011 she is a full professor at the Laboratory of Multimaterials and Interfaces (LMI) from the University of Lyon. Currently, her research interests include synthesis and characterization of 2D and 1D boron- and carbon-based nanomaterials as well as Van der Waals heterostructures.

Ute Kaiser is head of the Materials Science Electron Microscopy Facility at Ulm University, Germany. She received her doctoral degree from the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin, in 1993 and her habilitation in experimental physics from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in 2002, working on thin SiC films and low-dimensional structures in SiC using advanced transmission electron microscopy. Since 2004 she is a full professor at Ulm University. Currently, her main focus is the development of high-resolution low-voltage transmission electron microscopy for understanding properties of low-dimensional materials from the scale of single atoms.

Jiyoung Kim is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and affiliated at Depts. of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Hereceived the B.S. (1986) and the M.S. (1988) at Seoul National University, and the Ph.D.(1994) at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as an integration engineer inworldwide productization at Texas Instrument, Inc (Dallas, TX) from 1994 to 1996. From1996 to 2005 he had been a faculty member of School of Advanced Materials Engineeringat Kookmin University, (Seoul, Korea). In 2005, Dr. Kim joined as an associate professorof Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an author or coauthorof more than 270 peer reviewed journal and proceeding papers. His research interests arein the area of nanoprocessing (particularly applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD)and molecular-atomic layer deposition (MALD) for extremely scaled CMOS),Graphene/2D/graphite materials and their device applications and future semiconductortechnology for logic, memory, power, RF and analog devices.

Professor Philip Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1967. He received his B.S in physics at Seoul National University in 1990 and received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1999. He was Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics from University of California, Berkeley during 1999-2001. In 2002, he joined in Department of Physics at Columbia University as a faculty member, where he is now Professor of Physics. Starting from summer of 2014, he moves to Harvard as Professor of Physics. Professor Kim is a world leading scientist in the area of materials research. His research area is experimental condensed matter physics with an emphasis on physical properties and applications of nanoscale low-dimensional materials. The focus of Prof. Kim’s group research is the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. These materials include carbon nanotubes, organic and inorganic nanowires, 2-dimensional mesoscopic single crystals, and single organic molecules. The use of modern state-of-the-art semiconductor device fabrication techniques and the development of new methods of material synthesis/manipulation are essential parts of this research. He has initiated these efforts very successfully, and is continuously making innovations in microscopic experimental tools and methods in order to investigate the electric, thermal/thermoelectric transport properties of the nanoscale materials. Professor Kim published more than 120 papers in professional journals which are well cited. Many of his papers are published in high impact journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. Professor Kim received numerous honors and award including Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2014), Loeb Lectureship, Harvard (2012); Dresden Barkhausen Award (2011); Yunker Lectureship, Oregon State University, (2011); Chapman Lectureship, Rice University, (2009); IBM Faculty Award (2009); Ho-Am Science Prize (2008); American Physical Society Fellow (2007); Columbia University Distinguished Faculty Award (2007); Recipient Scientific American 50 (2006); National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2004). In addition, He has given more than 300 invited presentations as keynote speaker, plenary speakers, and invited speakers in international and domestic conferences, colloquiums and department seminars.

Prof. Koppens is the leader of the nano opto-electronics research group at ICFO, focussing mostly on research and technology development of graphene and 2d materials. Koppens is co-leader of the optoelectronics activities in the European Graphene flagship program, with total funding of one billion Euro (for 10 years).

Byoung Hun Lee
Director, Center for Emerging Electronic Devices and Systems
School of material science and engineering, GIST
062-715-2308, 010-8786-2308
Work Experience
2008–Present GIST, MSE
2013.9- Director, Center for Emerging Electronic Devices and Systems
2015.3- 16.12 Dean, Office of International and Public Affairs
2011.4- 14.11 Director, Southwest Touch Industry Cluster development program
2007–2008 Program Manager, Emerging Tech. Program, SEMATECH, USA
2001–2007 Senior Scientist, IBM, USA
2003–2007 Program Manager, Advanced Gate Stack Program, SEMATECH, USA
2004–2006 Co-director, FEP Transition Center, SRC-SEMATECH, USA
2001–2003 Lead Integrator, 65nm FEOL integration, IBM, USA
1997–2000 R.A., SRC Graduate fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
1991–1997 SAMSUNG Electronics, Semiconductor R&D center, Korea
Publications
- Lifetime citation 7800, H-index 46
- Journal publication 229, Conference publications 394, Internation patent 15
- For the full list of publications, gistexel.com
Research interest
- extreme low power devices (ternary logic, neuromorphic device, 3D integration)
- Logic devices and reliability
- Infrared detectors

Lee Joung Hoon, CEO of STANDARD GRAPHENE
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University, Industrial Management & Economics (1996)
- Harvard University, Senior Executive Program (1997)
- Duquesne University, MBA & MIS (1999)
Career
- IDT International Inc., Vice President (2014 – 2015)
- STANDARD GRAPHENE Inc, President (2015 – present)
Award & Activity
- CGI(Clinton Global Initiative) LEAD, Global 21 Leaders (2010)
- Fortune Korea, 2017 Korea Leader Award (2017)

Professor Michal Lipson joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Columbia University in July 2015. She completed her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at the Technion in 1998 followed by a Postdoctoral position at MIT in the Materials Science Department until 2001. In 2001 she joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She was named Cornell Given Foundation Professor of Engineering in 2013. Lipson was one of the main pioneers in the field of silicon photonics and is the inventor of several of the critical building blocks in the field including the GHz silicon modulator. She holds over 20 patents and is the author of over 200 technical papers. Professor Lipson's honors and awards include the MacArthur Fellow, Blavatnik Award, IBM Faculty Award, and the NSF Early Career Award. She is a fellow of OSA and IEEE. Since 2014 she has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Physics.

Dr Johan Liu graduated with a master and a Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Before joining Chalmers University of Technology, he served in various positions at the Swedish Institute for Production Engineering Research (IVF) as project manager, group leader and division manager. He is currently a chair professor in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and a short term specially recruited professor at Shanghai University, China.

As a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a fellow of IEEE, he has published 500 papers in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters with a Hirsch index of 39and with over6000citations. He has also received many awards including IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award, IEEE CPMT Transaction Best paper award in “Advanced Packaging”. He also serves as the chairman for a Chalmers spin-off company: SHT Smart High Tech AB which is actively involved in graphene technology for heat dissipation.

Prof. Zhongfan Liu graduated from Changchun Institute of Technology in 1983 and got his PhD in physical chemistry in University of Tokyo in 1990. After postdoctoral study in University of Tokyo and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), he joined the College of Chemistry at Peking University in 1993 as associate professor and promoted to full professor in the same year. He became the Changjiang Scholar in 1999 and a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Currently, he is the director of Institute of Physical Chemistry, the director of Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Peking University.

Professor Kian Ping Loh did his Bachelor of Science (Honors) in the National University of Singapore, majoring in Chemistry, and thereafter obtained his D.Phil from University of Oxford in 1996. He did his postdoctoral research in NIMS, Japan between 1997 and 1998. Both his doctoral and post-doctoral work concerned the surface chemistry of diamond, an area which he still maintains active interests. He has an established a notable presence in 2D materials research, and his team focuses on the large area growth and applications of 2D materials. The expertise of his group ranges from surface science of 2D materials at the atomic domains, optoelectronics of 2D materials, design and synthesis of covalent organic framework and growth of 2-D materials. He also works on the Industrial scaling and applications of graphene composites. He is currently Provost's Chair Professor at NUS, Singapore, and the head of 2D materials research at Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, Singapore and also co-director of Shenzhen-NUS Joint Laoboratory on Optoelectronics Science and Technology, Shenzhen China.

Tony Low joined the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in fall 2014. Prior to this, Low worked as an in-house theorist at various experimental groups at Columbia University, Yale University, and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research. While at IBM, from 2011-2014, Low served as an industry liaison to various Universities under the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative with the goal of finding the next electronics switch. He obtained his doctoral degree from the National University of Singapore in 2008, and then a postdoctoral associate at Purdue University. Low received the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (2014), IBM Invention Award (2013), KITP Rice Family Fund Fellowship (2012), Singapore Millennium Fellowship (2007), and the IEEE Electron Device Society Fellowship (2005).

Dr. Mindaugas Lukosius received M.Sc degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2006 from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. The Ph.D degree in Chemistry was obtained from the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg,Germany in 2010, in the field of CVD depositions and developments of high-k MIM capacitors. Since 2006 he has been with the IHP where, in 2012, he joined the group of graphene research and is currently leading several projects of graphene synthesis by CVD as well as the integration of novel graphene modules into the BiCMOS technology. He authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and held ~40 talks on national and international conferences.

Cecilia Mattevi is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London since October 1, 2012. Her research interests centre on science and engineering of novel 2D atomically thin semiconducting materials to enable applications in optoelectronics and energy storage. Mattevi’s research group focuses on the synthesis of these materials and tailoring thier properties, and on the fabrication of devices based on planar structures and on highly porous 3D hierarchical structures where a diverse range of assembly methods is employed.

He was born in the year of the moon landing. Graduated "cum laude" in Aeronautical Engineering (1994) at Politecnico di Milano- Italy with a thesis on orbits in the Earth-Moon system. PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2007) at the same University with a research on MonteCarlo techniques applied to the thermal control of spacecraft.
He dealt with vibration dynamics at helicopter company Agusta (1996), and then spent his space engineering career in the Italian national space industry.
Since 2011 he is with Leonardo, the larget Italian aerospace company, as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of the Space Business Line in the Avionics and Space Systems Division.
He has collaborated on more than ten missions already launched in orbit: satellites, microgravity experiments and experiments on the International Space Station, including the largest orbital experiment in fundamental physics, AMS-02, launched in 2011 and currently operational.
He is in the team developing the most advanced hyperspectral instrument ever conceived for a satellite (PRISMA). Moreover he is in charge of the space qualification of electronic components for future space RADAR, and of the technologies development to explore Mars and the Moon.
He is participating to the Graphene Flagship: in this context he flew in December 2017 on an experimental plane, bringing -for the first time ever- Graphene in weightlessness.

Klaus Müllen joined the Max Planck Society in 1989 as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. His PhD degree was granted by the University of Basel in 1972. He received his habilitation in 1977 at ETH, Zürich. In 1979 he became a Professor at the University of Cologne, and in 1983 at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz. He owns about 60 patents, published over 1700 papers and has a h-index of 125.

Dr. Nikolaus Nestle is a researcher at the BASF Advanced Materials and Systems Research division. He studied physics a the University of Ulm (Diploma 1993, PhD 1995). His work includes advanced materials characterization using NMR and X-ray methods, project work in building energetics and additive manufacturing technology. Prior to joining BASF in 2006, Dr. Nestle conducted Postdoc work at several universities and held various faculty positions at the Free University of Bolzano (Faculty of Design and Arts) and the TU Darmstadt (Department of Physics).

Daniel Neumaier is head of the Graphene-Group at AMO GmbH since 2009. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg and received his Dipl. phys. degree in 2006. From 2006 until 2009 he worked at the University of Regensburg in the field of III/V spintronics. In 2009, he received the PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) degree from the University of Regensburg. He has managed several national research projects on graphene, has been the coordinative manager of the STREP project GRAND and has been leader of the carbon-electronics task in the NoE Nanosil. He is currently principle scientist in the project Graphene-CA, which is preparing the Graphene-Flagship project, and in the IP Grafol.

Dr. François Peeters is Professor of Physics at the University of Antwerp. He received the PhD degree in physics from the University of Antwerp in 1982. He did postdoctoral research at Bell Laboratory (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) and Bell Communications Research (Red Bank, NJ, USA). Peeters is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and of the Academia Europaea. The University of Szeged awarded him a Doctor Honoris Causa and in 2013 he was awarded the Francqui Chair. He is associate editor of Journal of Applied Physics, co-editor of Europhysics Letters and member of the excecutive editorial board of Solid State Communications. He published over 1000 papers with more than 30,000 citations and h-index 78. His areas of interests are computational modelling of mesoscopic and nanoscopic semiconductor and superconducting nanostructures, artificial atoms (quantum dots and coupled quantum dots), graphene and other two dimensional atomic layered systems.

Vittorio Pellegrini is senior tenured researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genova and director of the IIT Graphene Labs. He is the chair of the executive committee of the European flagship project on graphene. He is also the Italian representative of the flagship and leader of the work-package ENERGY STORAGE.
Vittorio Pellegrini has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers. He gave more than 60 invited/keynote talks. He was Fellow of the Italian Academy at Columbia University (USA) in 2008, Winner of Campisano prize for condensed matter physics of the CNR in 2008. Director of the CNR international schools on low-dimensional system in 2008, 2010 and 2011. He has been the coordinator and local coordinator of several FET, Marie Curie ITN projects and national projects.
Vittorio Pellegrini is also active in scientific divulgation. He has published several articles for the general public in Italian newspapers and routinely gives talks at science festivals and at other public events. He is co-funder of the start-up BeDimensional (www.bedimensional.it)

Arup Polley received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 2003, the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2008.He joined Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA, as a Design Engineer in 2009, where he was responsible for developing advanced fly height sensing circuits for hard-disc drives. He joined Kilby Research Labs in 2012, where he developed low-power sensor platform for wearable devices. He has authored or co-authored over 20 journal and conference publications. He holds four U.S. patents granted and six patents pending. His current research interests include optical communications and analog circuit design, magnetic sensors, and graphene devices.

Eric Pop is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (EE) and Materials Science & Engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2007-13) and also worked at Intel (2005-07). His research interests are at the intersection of electronics, nanomaterials, and energy. He received his PhD in EE from Stanford (2005) and three degrees from MIT (MEng and BS in EE, BS in Physics). His awards include the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) from the White House, the highest honor given by the US government to early-career scientists and engineers. He is also a recipient of Young Investigator Awards from the Navy, Air Force, NSF and DARPA, and of several best paper and best poster awards with his students. In a past life, he was a DJ at Stanford’s KZSU 90.1 FM radio station from 2001-04.

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.

R. Saito was born on March 13th, 1958, in Tokyo and recieved PhD degree in Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1985. After being a research associate at the University of Tokyo in 1985 and an a associate professor at the University of Electro-Communication (Tokyo) in 1990, Saito is a professor in Department of Physics, Tohoku University in Sendai since 2003. Saito wrote a book titled "Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes" with Professor Gene Dresselhaus and Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus published by Imperial College Press in 1998 (book citation 8.989 2017.10).

Paolo Samorì (born in Imola, Italy, 1971) is an Italian physical chemist and Distinguished Professor (PRCE) and director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) of the Université de Strasbourg (UdS) where he is also head of the Nanochemistry Laboratory.
He obtained a Laurea (master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000 he received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Jürgen P. Rabe). He was permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna from 2001 til 2008, and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 til 2008.
He has published over 200 papers on applications of scanning probe microscopies beyond imaging, hierarchical self-assembly of hybrid architectures at surfaces, supramolecular electronics, and the fabrication of organic- and graphene-based nanodevices.
He is using the supramolecular chemistry approach in order to generate ordered 1D, 2D and 3D architectures at surfaces and interfaces, with the ultimate goal of controlling an improving the properties of electronic devices.
He exploited supramolecular scaffolds based on H-bonding and metal-ligandinteractions to control the patterning of functional groups in two-dimensions. He has fabricated the first dynamer operating at the solid-liquid interface which were monitored on the sub-molecular scale by means of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
At University of Strasbourg he showed that combining organic semiconductors with photochromic systems it is possible to fabricate optically switchable field-effect transistor as a first step towards multifunctional devices. He is exploiting supramolecular methods to generate graphene based materials with tunable properties. His current research is focused on the architecture vs function relationship in supramolecular and graphene based materials for applications in (opto)electronics and materials science.

Henrik Sandberg is a principal scientist at VTT's centre for Printable and Hybrid Functionalities with a PhD in physics from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. His work is currently focussed on printed electronic devices and circuits, polymer device physics, printing technology and printing ink formulation as well as heterogeneous and monolithic integration for flexible electronics. He coordinates work on printed graphene based materials and hybrid integration, specifically targeting flexible applications such as wearable devices. He specializes in device and circuit development as well as the development of analog printing compatible processing techniques from the lab to the R2R pilot scale and on related ink development, in particular on the topics of thin film polymer transistors and circuits, organic photovoltaics and graphene applications.

June.2009-present • Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Freie Universitat, Berlin, Ger- ¨ many
2005-June.2009 • Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
2002-2005 • Postdoctoral Fellow at Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Graz, Austria
2000-2002 • Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2000 • Ph.D. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India
1997 • M.Sc. with Hons., Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India
1995 • B.Sc., Meerut University, India

Haofei Shi is a professor of Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He started up the Chongqing Graphene Tech. Co., Ltd. and serves as the chief scientist of the company, where they completed the 1st and 2nd generation graphene film mass production line, and involved in the commercialization of graphene film. His research interests include synthesis of graphene film, fabrication of functional optoelectronics and electronics devices, and their application in information and energy related systems.

Hyeon-Jin Shin, Ph.D. is a Research Master at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics. She is a technical leader of Graphene team in SAIT. Graphene team is conducting fundamental and applied research about graphene & 2D materials (TMD, h-BN) for electronic, opto electronic, and energy applications. Our team has focused on improving the performance of conventional Si devices using graphene/2D as a component material. Our team is also developing new device concepts such as Graphene Barristor and IR sensor beyond Si devices.
She received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Kongju National University (2000). She received M.S. degree in Chemistry from Korea University (2002). She joined SAIT (2002) where she developed ultra-low-dielectric materials for back-end of lines based on silsesquoxane polymer. Since 2007, she has been researched nano-carbon based materials such as Carbon Nano Tube and Graphene for electronic device. During working at SAIT, she received Ph.D in Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nano Technology from Sungkyunkwan University (2010). Her thesis topic was electronic structure modulations of nano-carbon based materials by chemical doping for electronic device. She has published over 61 articles, which received over 4354 citations (h-index of 27). She also has been filled over 200 US patents.

Since 2014, I am working as Product Manager for Energy and Nanomaterials product line. The product line includes innovative products with applications in energy harvesting, storage andefficiency technologies. The product portfolio includes perovskites, quantum dots, nanomaterials and lithium ion battery materials etc.
I received my Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2007. My doctoral work was devoted to the study of magnetic, magnetocaloric and magnetoresistive properties of intermetallics. From 2007 to 2011 I worked as postdoctoral research at The Ames Laboratory of USDOE at Iowa State University, USA. Here, I worked towards underpinning the correlation between structure and functional properties of rare-earth based materials. During postdoctoral research, I also investigated complex metal hydrides and probed the effect of mechanical milling on the dehydrogenation kinetics and reaction mechanism for a variety of hydrides. In 2011, I joined as Senior Scientist at MilliporeSigma and worked in this role till March of 2014. As senior scientist, I worked on variety of materials such solid oxide fuel cell materials, metal organic frameworks, lithium ion battery materials etc.
To date, I have 40 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and I also serve asreviewer for various journals.

Jurgen Smet is heading the independent research group Solid State Nanophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. He graduated with a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1990. In 1994, he received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge U.S.A, with research on intrawell and interwell intersubband transitions in single and multiple quantum well structures. He joined the von Klitzing department at the Max-Planck-Institute in October 1994 as a postdoc to investigate composite fermions in the two-dimensional electron system.

Luca joined Greatcell Solar in 2009 as technical manager for Greatcell Solar Italia, first managing the research projects and sales in Italy and lately becoming the sales and marketing manager for the Greatcell Solar group with a global market responsibility.
Luca has a bachelor degree in computer science from Leeds University, a Master degree in Business Engineering from Tor Vergata University and a Doctorate from Tor Vergata in the field of knowledge management. He started working in the computer science field for several Italian companies reaching the CIO status, meanwhile he was appointed in several positions at Tor Vergata University and Malta University teaching on subjects such as information systems, human resource management, economics for engineers in various masters and undergraduate courses. He has also held different research positions on several themes concerning e-learning technologies and energy. His interest for energy matters and themes grew higher becoming his main research and work interest, in particular in the field of building integration systems and renewable energy. He is author of several articles and books.

Prof. Litao Sun currently serves as vice dean of School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University (SEU), the deputy director of Key Lab of MEMS of Ministry of Education, and the director of SEU-FEI Nano-Pico center. He is the founding chairman of IEEE Nanotechnology Council Nanjing Chapter. He received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. He worked as a research fellow at University of Mainz, Germany from 2005 to 2008, and a visiting professor at University of Strasbourg, France from 2009 to 2010. Since 2008, he joined SEU and honored as a Distinguished Professor.

He is the member of standing committee of Chinese Electron Microscopy Society, member of China Graphene Standardization Committee, one of drafters of the No.1 standards for graphene in China and Review Panel member of Graphene Flagship, European Commission. He is the author and co-author of over 100 papers on international journals including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, etc.

Ingmar Swart studied chemistry and physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In 2008 he received a PhD (with highest honors) from the same institution. He then joined the group of Prof. Jascha Repp at the University of Regensburg, Germany, as a NWO Rubicon research fellow. In 2012 he returned to Utrecht and joined the faculty of science as a tenure-track assistant professor. He obtained tenure in mid-2016. His current research interests are focused on the bottom-up construction and characterization of atomically well-defined 2D materials as well as graphene nanostructures.

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 28,000 citations to his work (His H index is 83; Google Scholar H=91). 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). Mauricio is also Associate Editor of Carbon, 2D Materials, Journal of Materials Research and Nature Scientific Reports. He is 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).

Andrey Turchanin studied physics and materials science at the National University ofScience and Technology, Moscow (Ph.D. 1999). In 2000 he moved to the Universityof Karlsruhe with an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. 2004-2014 he joined theFaculty of Physics at the University of Bielefeld where he completed hishabilitation in 2010. In 2012 Turchanin was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship ofthe German Research Foundation (DFG) and in 2013 the Bernhard-Heß-Prize of theUniversity of Regensburg for his research in the field of emerging 2Dmaterials. In 2014 he became a professor of physical chemistry at the FriedrichSchiller University Jena, where he is leading the group of “Applied PhysicalChemistry & Molecular Nanotechnology”. His current research interests arefocused on the materials science of 2D materials and their applications inelectronics, optoelectronics and nanobiotechnology.

Sten Vollebregt was born in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both cum laude) in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and 2009, respectively. For his master thesis, he investigated the growth of carbon nanotubes at NanoLab, Newton, MA, USA and AIXTRON, Cambridge, UK. He performed his Ph.D. thesis from 2009 till 2014 in the Microelectronics Department of the Delft University of Technology on the low-temperature high-density growth of carbon nanotubes for application as vertical interconnects in 3D monolithic integrated circuits. After obtaining his Ph.D., he held a Post-doc position on the wafer-scale integration of graphene for sensing applications together with the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and several industrial partners. During this research, he developed a transfer-free wafer-scale CVD graphene process. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Laboratory of Electronic Components, Technology and Materials of the Delft University of Technology where his research focusses on the integration of emerging electronic materials into semiconductor technology. His current research interests are (carbon-based) nanomaterials, 3D monolithic integration, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and environmental sensors.

I completed my PhD in Physics at the University of Queensland in 2004, and then spent 18 months as a post-doc in New Zealand and Australia, before coming to the Department of Materials at Oxford in November 2006. In October 2008, I was awarded the University of Oxford's Glasstone Fellowship in Science to start my own research group. At this same time I began a Junior Research Fellowship at Brasenose College. In October 2010, I was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in the topic of carbon nanomaterials and currently still hold this fellowship. From October 2011-2014, I was at Balliol College, as a Junior Research Fellow and member of Governing Body. In September 2012, I moved from Senior Research Fellow to Academic Staff, a 'Research Lecturer' in the Department of Materials. In May 2014 I became Associate Professor in the Department of Materials at Oxford University. In July 2014 I became Full Professor in the Department of Materials at Oxford University. During 2016, I spent a term as Visiting Professor at MIT in the Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, teaching a special elective postgradaute course on 2D Materials and undertaking extensive research collaborations. In 2017, I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for 5 years on Large Area Transparent Opto-Electronics.
I have a total of 228 publications in peer-reviewed journals and a h-index of 46, with more than 8150 citations since 2004. I have first/corresponding author publications in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications (x2), Nano Letters (x16), Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials (x2), Angewandte Chemie, ACS Nano (x37), primarily on the topic of nanomaterials including nanoscale characterization by aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy, bottom up synthesis by CVD and solution methods, nanoelectronic devices, sensors, and opto-electronics. Recent work has explored single atom dopant catalysts and hybrid nanoparticle:2D material co-catalysts for hydrogen production and fuel cells.

CEO / General Manager at Abalonyx AS Worked as researcher at SINTEF in Oslo from 1988 - 2005. Worked with preparation and characterization of catalysts and adsorbents in SINTEF. Established Abalonyx in 2005 and Graphene Batteries in 2012.

President, Qingdao DT Nanotech Co, Ltd.
Adjunct Professor, Jiangxi University of Science & Technology
Prof. Xiao received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Purdue University in 1992. Then he became associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and deputy director of the State Key Lab of New Ceramics & Fine Processing, Tsinghua University. Later on, he worked as the laboratory manager and senior/principal scientist in SACHEM Inc., USA.
Prof. Xiao has been the Chairman of the International Graphene Innovation Conference in China since 2014, and member of the International Science Committee of the European Graphene Conference since 2015. He is a board member and the director of the International Cooperation Department of China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Indusry - CGIA.
Prof. Xiao has published more than 40 papers, including an invited review article on "Graphene Commercialization" in Nature Materials in 2016. He organized a special edition on graphene technology in the journal of Electronic Components & Materials in 2017. He has applied for 24 patents in related to graphene technology.
Prof. Xiao received the national awards of "China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Innovation Award" in 2012, and "China Economic Innovation Leadership" in 2015.

After finishing the Ph.D. study (2000), he underwent several short-term stays e.g. at University of Delaware and University of Tokyo. From 2010, he is a professor at the Palacky University Olomouc and the general director of the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, RCPTM (www.rcptm.com), in Olomouc, Czech Republic (EU). He is a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (http://www.learned.cz/en/) and an active member of the board of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. In 2011, he was awarded by the Czech Republic’s Minister of Education for extraordinary results achieved in the field of research, experimental development and innovations. Professor Zboril is the author and principal investigator of more than 30 national and international grant projects with the total support over 47 mil EUR for the Palacky University. He is also a general chairman of the international conference NANOCON (www.nanocon.eu) and a member of the scientific board for chemistry in the Neuron endowment fund (http://www.nfneuron.cz/en/). Prof. Zbořil is the director of Competence Centre of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (www.nanobiowat.com).

Amaia Zurutuza obtained her PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) in 2002. During her PhD she worked in the research of novel polymers for biomedical applications. After completing her PhD she did two post-doctoral fellowships working within two European projects in the field of molecularly imprinted polymers. At the beginning of 2004, she joined Controlled Therapeutics Scotland Ltd. (UK) where she was a Senior Polymer Scientist working in the R&D of new controlled drug delivery systems. Her research contribution in Controlled Therapeutics lead to the publication of 3 patents in novel biodegradable and biostable polymers for controlling drug delivery. In April 2010 she joined Graphenea as the Scientific Director.