European Graphene Forum 2016 Conference and Exhibition

Prof. Zhongfan Liu graduated from Changchun Institute of Technology in 1983 and received his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990. After a postdoctoral fellowship 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. He is now the directors of Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons. He is the chairman of nanochemistry committee in Chinese Chemical Society. He also serves as advisory/editorial board member of Adv. Mater., Small, Nano Res and NPG Asia Mater, and Editor-in-Chief of ACTA PHYSICO-CHIMICA SINICA and the associate editor of APL Materials, Chinese Science Bullentin, Acta Chimica Sinica. 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 420 peer reviewed articles and 26 Chinese patents. He is now the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and the Fellow of Institute of Physics, UK.

Christian Schönenberger is an electrical engineer and experimental physicist by training. He was awarded a Ph.D degree in physics from ETH-Zürich in 1986 for his work conducted at the IBM research lab in Switzerland. He than stayed as a postdoc and staff researcher at Philips research Eindhoven for 5 years after he was appointed full professor in experimental condensed matter physics at the University of Basel. He is the director of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and group leader of the nanoelectronics group at the Department of Physics of the University of Basel. His research focus is in electrical properties of nano-sized hybrid devices realized using carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires and graphene. Please visit the web site www.nanoelectronics.ch.

Dr. Paolo Bondavalli is the Head of Nanomaterial team at Thales Research and Technology (CNRS/Thales, UMR137) and he is a member of the Nanocarb Lab. (joint team Ecole Polytechnique/Thales). Presently his work is focused on the development of new materials (e.g. graphene, cnts, nanowires) for the new generation of electronics devices and for energy storage applications and memristor. Dr Bondavalli has received his Hdr in 2011, at Paris-Sud on a work on “devices based on random network of carbon nanotubes”. During the last five years, he has participated, also as coordinator, in several EU projects (concerning MEMS, MOEMS, CNTs, graphene, spintronics) and ANR projects. He is involved in the Graphene Flagship initiative where he is in charge in the energy work package of the supercapacitor part.

Prof Herre van der Zant finished his Ph.D in 1991 at the Delft University of Technology on measurements of classical and quantum phase transitions in Josephson junction arrays. After his Ph.D, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on superconducting electronics. After three years, Herre van der Zant returned to Delft to start a new direction in mesoscopic charge density waves. On this subject he received a five year fellowship from the Royal Academy for Sciences. In 2005, he cofounded the Molecular Electronics and Devices group in the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology. As a professor in this group, his research focuses on transport through single molecules and nano-electromechanical systems.

Prof. Alberto Morpurgo is an expert in the investigation of the electronic properties of materials through the study of transport in nano-fabricated devices. He received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Groningen, where he worked on mesoscopic superconducting proximity effect and other aspects of mesoscopic physics (for which he was awarded the Miedema Prize for the best Dutch PhD thesis in condensed matter physics). After a two-year postdoctoral stay at Stanford University –where he mainly worked on carbon nanotubes- he moved to Delft University where he remained nearly nine years and became Associate Professor. In this period, next from starting his research on organic semiconductors, he worked on different aspects of quantum transport (Cooper pair splitting, Rashba two-dimensional electron gases, spintronics with carbon nanotubes) and started a successful research line on graphene electronics in 2006, just after the discovery of this material. Since Septembber 2008, Prof. Morpurgo is Professeur Ordinaire at the University of Geneva, where he is continuing his work on organic semiconductors and graphene, and starting new activities in the areas of topological insulators, oxide hetersostructures, and ionic liquid gating. - nanocomposites.

Dr. Julio Gómez Cordón is the CEO of AVANZARE, Spain. AVANZARE is a supplier of high-performance nanomaterials and nanotechnology based solutions used in a wide range of products for everyday life. AVANZARE nanomaterials and nanocomposites create added values and competitive advantages for their customers. In many applications, their developments allow the reduction of costs compared to traditional materials. AVANZARE nanomaterials are liquid or solid formulations and custom solutions for big consumers. Principal customers are automotive, aeronautic, fabric, wood, paper, plastic, rubber, paint and building industries, the wire & cable sector and manufacturers of household appliances and packaging.

Dr Cinzia Casiraghi received her BSc and MSc in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2006. In 2005 she was awarded with an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2007 and the prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, won in 2008. This Prize is given to young, cutting-edge researchers, providing them with risk capital to pursue innovative projects and establish their own lab at a very early stage in their careers. This allowed her to become a Junior Group Leader at the Physics Department of the Free University Berlin (Germany). From 2010 she is also a permanent Staff member of the School of Chemistry, at the University of Manchester (UK), where she has been appointed as lecturer in graphene’s chemistry. She is also member of the Athena Swan committee of the School of Chemistry.

Prof. Arben Merkoçi is currently ICREA Professor and director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group at Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN), situated at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) campus (Bellaterra, Barcelona) in Spain. After PhD (1991) at Tirana University, in the topic of Ion-Selective-Electrodes (ISEs) designs and applications in clinical and environmental analysis, he worked as postdoc at other European research centres and USA in the field of nanobiosensors and lab-on-a-chip technologies. These postdoc periods were followed by leading positions in several laboratories: (1997-2006) at Autonomous University of Barcelona and since 2006 in ICN2.

His research is focused on the design and application of cutting edge nanotechnology and nanoscience based biosensors. These nanobiosensors are based on the integration of biological molecules (DNA, antibodies, cells and enzymes) and other (bio)receptors with micro- and nanostructures and applied in diagnostics, environmental monitoring or safety and security.

Thomas Mueller received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. His Ph.D. work focused on terahertz spectroscopy of nanostructures. After civil service (2004-2005) he worked as a University Assistant at TU Vienna (2005-2007). In 2007, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA, as a postdoc where he worked on carbon-based electronics. End of 2009, he returned to Vienna, where he currently holds an Assistant Professor position. His research focuses on photonics and electronics using graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Selected awards include the START-Prize, the Fritz Kohlrausch-Prize, and the ASciNA Award. More information can be found at http://graphenelabs.at.

Prof. Vladimir Fal’ko is condensed matter theorist responsible for several advances in the theory of electronic and optical properties of atomically thin two-dimensional crystals and fundamentals of nanoelectronics. His current research interests include graphene-based electronic and optoelectronic systems and electronic and optical properties of various atomically thin two-dimensional crystals and their heterostructures. He is one of the initiators of the European Graphene Flagship Project, founder of Graphene Week Conference series and Editor-in-Chief of the IoP Journal ‘2D Materials’.  Falko is currently Director of the National Graphene Institute and Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Manchester.

Prof Qiaoliang Bao is the group leader of Optoelectronics Lab at FUNSOM, Soochow University, and also one of the core members at Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials. Bao has a PhD in materials physics and worked as senior research fellow on graphene photonics in Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS). He was enrolled in Thousand Young Talents Program of China in 2012. His main contributions include the demonstration of graphene-based mode-locked laser and graphene broadband polarizer. His current research interests include photonic and optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional materials including graphene, perovskite, black phosphorus, layered transition metal dichalcogenides and topological insulators. Bao has over 100 peer-review publications in prestigious journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials and ACS Nano, etc. His publications have received >8000 citations, with an H-index of 40.