Anila Bello Sc.D. is a research faculty in the Department of Public Health. She holds a Doctor of Science degree in Exposure Sciences and a Master of Science degree in Occupational Health/Hygiene from UMass Lowell, as well as a BSc in industrial chemistry. She started her career as a chemist and chemical engineer. She has more than fifteen years of research experience in quantitative exposure assessment for health and intervention research, workplace compliance monitoring, identification and evaluation of exposure controls, and promotion of safer alternatives. Her current work focuses on complex chemical exposures and their impact on health. Bello is a past recipient of The Barry Commoner Award (excellence in pollution prevention), the W. Hardie Shepard Memorial Prize, and the Harvard-NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) Award, among others. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications in leading professional journals in her field, including Environmental Health, International Journal of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Annals of Work Exposures and Health, and Environment International. Bello's broader research goals are to reduce or eliminate exposures to toxic chemicals in workplaces by promoting data-driven intervention research, greener alternatives, and better work practices.

Dhimiter Bello, Sc.D., MSc, is the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a tenured Professor of Toxicology n the Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences. Bello’s research investigates the toxicology of advanced materials and chemical mixtures. For the past 12 years he has been an active member of the Harvard Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology. Prior to that he co-led the Nano EHS thrust of the NSF-funded Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing based at UMass Lowell and Northeastern University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, five book chapters, and invited editorials and has an extended network of collaborators. For a decade he served as associate editor of Nanotoxicology and Annals of Work Exposures and Health. He has served as a reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals and in several grant review panels. His education background includes a BSc in chemistry from University of Tirana, an MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy (U Manchester, UK), and an ScD in exposure sciences (UMass Lowell), followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health

Alessandro Bertucci is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability of the University of Parma, where he leads his laboratory of bioartificial systems and biosensors. The laboratory’s research goal is to develop programmable nanotechnologies for biomedical applications, integrating elements of DNA nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and nanomaterials science. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2015 jointly from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Parma. Next, he was an Endeavour Research fellow at The University of Melbourne, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of California San Diego, and an Umberto Veronesi Foundation Fellow at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He was also a visiting scientist at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. After joining the University of Parma as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2020 and establishing his own laboratory, he was promoted to his current appointment as an Associate Professor in September 2023. In 2021, he was recognized with the International Galileo Galilei Prize for Young Scholars from the Galileo Galilei Rotary Foundation, and the Honorable Mention and Silver Medal for the Primo Levi Award of the Italian Chemical Society

Johan Bobacka, D.Sc. (Tech.), is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and the Laboratory of Molecular Science and Engineering, Åbo AkademiUniversity. Johan Bobacka’s main research activities are in the area of electroanalytical chemistry and electrochemical sensors with special emphasison the development of solid-contact ion-selective electrodes, solid-state reference electrodes and novel transduction principles for ion sensors. Research activities are also directed towards wearable chemical sensors and Johan Bobacka is a co-founder and senior scientific advisor of the company GlucoModicum Ltd developing a platform for needle-free health monitoring. Johan Bobacka is an editor of Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical (Elsevier) and a member ofthe editorial advisory board of Electrochimica Acta (Elsevier). He is also a member of the editorial boards of Chemosensors (MDPI) and Current topics inelectrochemistry (Research Trends). Johan Bobacka is the chairman of the board of the profiling area Technologies for a sustainable future and chairman of the board of the Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre (PCC) at Åbo Akademi University.

Dr. Ivan Bobrinetskiy (M), Senior Researcher at BioSense Institute, received Doctor of Technical Science Degree from the National Research University of Electronic Technology, in January 2011. Afterwards, he was employed by the University as a Leader researcher and Professor teaching courses in quantum physics, probe microscopy, nano- and microelectronics and supervising BSc, MSs and PhD students. His main topic of scientific research was focused on development of carbon nanotube and graphene-based electronic devices for chemical and biological sensors as well as fundamental research in single-molecular electronics. From February 2015 until August 2016 he was the senior researcher in newly organized Laser Application Centre of AIMEN technological center in O Porrino, Spain, where he developed new maskless photochemical processing for graphene-based electronic devices. Dr. Bobrinetskiy has published over 100 journal and conference papers as well as chapters in two scientific books. He is co-author of 10 patents and patent applications and co-founder of two innovative companies. He is also an expert in several domestic science supporting foundations. He has ample experience in coordination of more than 20 of national projects. His research interests are primarily focused on: nano-bio-electronics, scanning probe microscopy, nanowires, nanotubes/graphene devices, nanosensing, nanomedicine, nanomaterials, conducting polymers, nanolithography (probe, ion beam), laser microprocessing.

Anja Boisen is head of section and professor at department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. Also, she is heading a DNRF and Villum Centre of Excellence named ‘IDUN’. Her research group focuses on development and application of nanosensors and microfabricated systems for oral drug delivery/gut sampling. Anja is cofounder of companies Cantion, Silmeco BluSense Diagnostics and LightNovo, is a member of several company/foundation boards and has received numerous awards.

Juergen Brugger is a Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL he was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. Research in his laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. Juergen Brugger was appointed in 2016 as Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 he was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing. In 2022 he became MNE Fellow for the development of innovative micro/nano manufacturing strategies for MEMS and Nanotechnology.

Caliceti Paolo is full Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences of University of Padova (2002-). Education: MS degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (1984); PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1989). Abroad work: invited scientist at NIH (1986/1987), at Academy of Sciences of Moscow (1990), at SKB (USA, 1994). Scientific interest on nanotechnology for tailored drug delivery systems protein PEGylation; stimuli sensitive and targeted polymer bioconjugates, gold nanoparticles, micelles, liposomes and polymersomes, supramolecular assemblies for protein and oligonucleotide delivery. Head of the Department (2015-2019); associate editor of JCR; member of international scientific advisory boards for project funding, consultant with pharmaceutical companies; President of CRS Italy Chapter (2008-2013); coordinator of CRS Chapter Committee (2009-2012). Currently, he is President of the Italian Associations of Pharmaceutical Technology. Patents 17, Publications over 170; Invited presentations over 80.

Susana Campuzano is Full Professor at the Analytical Chemistry Department of the Chemistry Faculty of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) where she is currently Head of “Electroanalysis and Electrochemical (Bio)Sensors” (GEBE) research group. Her areas of interest include the development of affinity-based electrochemical bioplatforms with potential for multiplexed and/or multi-omics determinations in precision medicine and nutrition. She is Associate Editor in Electroanalysis and member of the Editorial Board of Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, Talanta and Biosensors & Bielectronics: X.

Dr. Çağrı Çırak is Full Professor at Physics Department of the Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University (Türkiye). He has a Ph.D in Experimental Physics from Süleyman Demirel University (Türkiye). He completed his postdoctoral research at Nano Tech Center of Texas Tech University (USA) on TiO2 nanotubes and DSSC applications. His research is focused on preparation and functionalization of nanocomposites based metal-oxides materials, both for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications

Prof Ivan Cole is a world leading researcher with over 40 years’ experience in surface and nano-science applied to industrial problems. He has made significant contributions to the development that the application of semi-conductor, carbon and graphene dots as sensors and catalysts for industrial, environmental and bio-imaging . In addition he has contributed significant to corrosion science to the development of corrosion inhibitors and passivation systems to reduce the corrosion of active metals. He is currently the Research Director of RMIT Europe and an ongoing Professor of Engineering in RMIT Australia. Prior to that he worked for Australian National Research Organization CSIRO for 25 years. He has close to 10000 citations , greater than 260 refereed publications and a H-factor of 52

Marina is a Senior Researcher of the National Research Council of Italy at SCITEC-CNR in Milano, where she leads the projects on protein and peptide assays for diagnostics and biomarker discovery. She is currently coordinating the H2020 FET PROACTIVE project MARVEL (Evolving reversible iMmunocapture by membrane sensing peptides: towARds scalable extracellular VEsicLes isolation). Her research is focused on the development of new biomolecular methods for diagnosis and health monitoring, with a strong focus to system integration and technology development; ongoing projects include new analytical platforms for extracellular vesicles, point of care devices for infectious diseases, microarrays for allergy profiling and biomarker validation. She has been PI in 4 National projects and staff scientist in 5 European projects. She is author of more than 80 peer reviewed papers, 5 invited reviews, 8 chapters in books (h-index 28 in Scopus) and served as Editor of the books Peptide Microarrays 1st , 2nd , 3rd editions, Methods in Molecular Biology Series. She holds the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Clinical Biochemistry.

M. Lucia Curri is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Chemistry Dept. of University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) and associate research scientist at CNR IPCF. She received her PhD from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1997, then she worked at CNR until 2018, when she has been appointed at University of Bari. She is active in the field of material chemistry, aiming to design and fabrication of inorganic and hybrid solids at the nanoscale for obtaining multifunctional nanostructured materials and investigation of their properties. Her research is focused on developing original strategies for the preparation and functionalization of colloidal nanocrystals based inorganic and hybrid materials, both for fundamental studies and photocatalytic, optoelectronic, energy, (bio)sensing and biomedical applications. She has experience in surface engineering of nanoparticles and nanocrystals, for their bioconjugation, organization in mesoscale structures and integration in nanocomposites.

Dr Francesco De Angelis has a long standing experience in the field of nanotechnologies applied to biology. He leads the Plasmon Nanotechnologies Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. His main expertise relies on the design and fabrication of nanostructures for optics and electronics applied to molecular sensing with special emphasis on bio-molecules and living tissues. In this regard, his main interests are devoted to i) nanostructured interfaces between opto-electronic sensors and living neurons and ii) single molecule sensing with a focus on plasmonic detection of nucleic acids and proteins. Currently the research unit is composed of about 20 people. Among them, physicists, chemists, biotechnologists, pharmacologists and engineers collaborate in a very multi-disciplinary research group that aims to develop multi-omic approaches for controlling biological systems at the nanoscale and for developing new ways for biomolecule identification.

Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz received his Ph.D. in physics from Aarhus University in 2009 and then took on a postdoctoral‐research position at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School. He joined Technical University of Denmark as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and later on started his own research group, #TeamBioEngine, at DTU Nanotech. Currently, the group is a part of the newly launch department, Health Technology, and their research lies at the crossroads of biology, engineering, physics, chemistry and biomaterials. #TeamBioEngine aim to create advanced material innovations based on bioinspired discoveries, and they believe such bioinspired materials and complex nanostructures will drive the engine of the next big revolution in material science. They are trying to explore interesting green solutions in the fields of nanomedicine, electronics and tissue engineering. Along this vein, they introduced Fleco-ionics and Fleconess in 2019, which offers a huge leap forward towards foldable substrates for flexible electronics. What’s more, the team is currently working on developing new self‐healable and stretchable materials with high electrical sensitivity for applications within the emerging fields of flexible electronics, cyborganics, and soft robotics. In 2018, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz received a VIDI Grant to further develop his innovative research on regenerative biomaterials at Radboudumc. To date he has published close to 90 papers–most published in medium to high impact journals. He is also a highly cited young researcher with his citations numbering 5269 and an h-index of 43 according to Google Scholar.

Arzum Erdem Gürsan received the PhD degree on Analytical Chemistry in Ege University in 2000. She has been working as a Full Professor since 2009 at Analytical Chemistry department in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Ege University. She is the principal investigator at the research team @nanoBioSensLab (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey), and has initiated many national and international collaborative research on development and applications of electrochemical (bio)sensors based on drugs, nucleic acids, enzymes, proteins, toxins etc. Prof. Arzum Erdem Gürsan has authored more than 210 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, she has given more than 25 invited talks in international meetings and conferences, is the author / co-author of 20 book chapters and review papers. She has 7 national patents approved between 2018-2022. She has received 7439 citations according to the records on Web of Science (WoS) obtained in June 2023 with h-index: 45.
Prof. Arzum Erdem Gürsan received "Juniour Science Award" in 2006, and "Science Award" in 2015 given by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). She was elected member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) since 2007, the Special Committee member of Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA)- Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) for the period of 2017-2019, 2019-2021 and 2021-2023. She was elected as the fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in December, 2017. The recent research of Prof. Arzum Erdem Gürsan is centred on the development of novel transducers and chemical and biological recognition systems by using different nanomaterials (e.g, graphenes, magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, gold and silver nanoparticles, dendrimers, nanowires, nanorods etc.) designed for electrochemical sensing of nucleic acid (DNA, miRNA) hybridization, and also the specific interactions between drug and DNA, or protein and DNA, aptamer-protein and also the development of integrated analytical systems for environmental monitoring, food safety, industry and biomedical monitoring. More details available in web site: http://www.arzumerdem.com

Alberto Escarpa is a Full Professor at the University of Alcalá. His main research interests are focused on microfluidics and micromotors. He has co-authored more than 200 articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals, and several books, and book chapters. He has given several invited lectures in prestigious forums. He has been included in Stanford University's list of the 2% of the most cited scientists. His research has been highlighted as covered in Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Science, Nanoscale, and Analytical Chemistry. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry. He is the Editor in Chief for Microchimica Acta.

Wei Gao is an Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. at University of California, San Diego in 2014. In 2014–2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, and Sensors & Diagnostics. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist and a Highly Cited Researcher. His research interests include wearable sensors, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics.

Marc G. Cuxart received his degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona, and obtained his MSc (ALBA Synchrotron, 2014) and PhD in Physics (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ICN2, 2019) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. After his doctoral studies, he conducted two postdoctoral stays, the first one at the Technical University of Munich (2019-2022), where he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual fellowship, and the second one at IMDEA Nanociencia after receiving a COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (2022-2023). He recently obtained a position as senior researcher at ICN2, to participate in the establishment of the new singular infrastructure InCAEM - In Situ Correlative Facility for Advanced Energy Materials. His research focuses on the creation and study of low-dimensional materials, such as atomically thin layers or molecular nanostructures. By utilizing scanning tunneling microscopy and synchrotron-based spectroscopies, he aims to correlate microscopic with macroscopic observables to achieve fundamental understanding of quantum electronic, magnetic and chemical phenomena occurring at the atomic level.

Raik Grünberg received his degree in Biochemistry from the University of Leipzig. His PhD research, initially at the EMBL Heidelberg and then at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, used computational tools to explore the biophysics of protein-protein interactions and structural dynamics. His postdoc at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona brought him back to experimental work and he started applying principles of synthetic biology to protein engineering. After a research associate position at Université de Montréal he is now research scientist at KAUST and leads a team of protein synthetic biologists within a larger structural biology lab.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Albana (Ndreu) Halili completed her bachelor studies at the Department of Chemical Engineering and then successfully completed her MSc and PhD studies in the field of Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University/Turkey. Her main research focuses on biomaterials, tissue engineering, nanobiotechnology, materials science and recently biomedical imaging. Albana is the author and co-author of many research papers, mostly in the field of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and recently in Image Processing for medical applications. She is a member of many scientific European Societies and part of Editorial Boards of some international journals and conferences. During the last years in Albania, Dr. Halili has had a broad experience with project writing and management and also research such as Horizon2020 PanBiora Project, Cost Actions MP1206 and CA17140 and many Erasmus+ projects. She is also part of the Albanian NanoScience and Nanotechnology Unit (NanoAlb) created next to the Academy of Sciences of Albania. At the moment she holds the position of Deputy Rector of Western Balkans University in Albania.

Dr. Samo B. Hočevar received a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 2002 from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. Presently, he is the Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC). For over 15 years, he was also a member of the NIC’s Innovation Committee. He is/was involved in several national and international research projects and is a member of the NIC’s Scientific Council. Among others, his research interests include trace metal analysis and designing sensitive and selective electrochemical sensors, biosensors, and gas sensors.

Dr. Gjylije Hoti is a Post-doc Researcher of the Polymeric Materials Group at the Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Italy. She received her Bachelor of Chemistry-Engineering (in September 2015), and Master of Chemistry Sciences (in November 2017) from the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosovo. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Materials Sciences from the University of Turin in March 2022. Her research aims are considered polymer chemistry, green chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, and nanomedicine, etc., more specifically the synthesis, characterization, and applications of novel soluble and cross-linked dextrin-based polymers (known as Nanosponges). Her research project also focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel dextrin-based polymers and molecularly imprinted polymers utilizing moreover greener processes. She is the author or co-author of 19 published articles in several international research journals. Recently, she has become a reviewer of several scientific articles for high-quality journals. She is a member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM). She has participated in teaching activities in the course “Polymeric Materials with Laboratory (MFN1282)”, in 2020 and 2021, and the course “Sustainable Polymers and Composites Laboratory” in 2023 at the Department of Chemistry, University of Turin. She is frequently involved in Public Engagement activities.

Sahika Inal is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She has a B.Sc. degree in Textile Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), an M.Sc. in Polymer Science, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from the University of Potsdam (Germany). She completed her postdoctoral training at the Center of Microelectronics of Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France). Sahika is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has received recognitions, including ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award 2022, Beilby Medal and Prize 2022, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship (2022).

Il-Doo Kim is Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST He received Ph. D degree from KAIST (2002). He was a postdoc. Fellow at MIT (Prof. Harry L. Tuller group, 2003-2005). Prof. Kim has published over 397 articles (including 68 cove-featured papers), 5 book chapters, and holds 250 international patents. Prof. Kim served as an Associate Editor for ACS Nano for four and a half years. Starting from July 1, 2023, he has taken on the role of Executive Editor. He is a fellow (academician) of Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

Dr. Filiz Kuralay has been working as a Professor at Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry since March 2021. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Analytical Chemistry department of the same university in 2003 and 2009, respectively. She worked as an Associate Professor at Ordu University, Department of Chemistry between 2013 and 2019, and then she was an Associate Professor at Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry between 2019 and 2021. In 2010-2012, she was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego. Her research interests focus on (bio)sensors, nano/micromotors and bioelectrochemistry. She mainly develops detection platforms for important analytes such as nucleic acids, neurotransmitters; drug delivery systems; and diagnosis platforms. She is the (co)author of more than 75 papers in leading journals and 13 book chapters. She was elected as the Associate Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2015. She was the recipient of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Incentive Award in 2017.

Dr. María Jesús Lobo-Castañón holds a PhD in Chemistry and leads the Electroanalysis research group at the University of Oviedo in Spain, which is also integrated in the Health Research Institute of Principado de Asturias (ISPA). Since 2017 she is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at said University. Her research interests focus on the development of electrochemical sensors for clinical diagnosis, using different molecular recognition elements, such as DNA and aptamers. She is (co)author of over 130 articles in leading international journals and various book chapters in that field.

Lluís F. Marsal is Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2014, he received the ICREA Academia Award (the highest award for university professors in Catalonia, from ICREA Institute). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Optical Society of America. He is member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and holds three patents. His current research interests focus on organic and hybrid solar cells and nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing and bio-applications

Rodrigo Martins, Portuguese nationality, was born in Nova Lisboa, Angola. He got in 1974 the Honours degree in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications and applied Electronics by U. Luanda, Angola/ PT. In 1977 he got the MSc degree in Semiconductor Materials, by the University of Dundee, Scotland. Thesis title: “Photoconductivity in P Doped and Undoped Amorphous Germanium.” Supervisor W. Spear, 1977 Euro physicist award. In 1982, the Ph.D. in Energy conversion and Semiconductors, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: “a-Si:H solar cells processing and characterization”. In 1988 he got the Habilitation in Semiconductor Materials and Microelectronics, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Lesson title: “Density of states in disordered semiconductors”. Full Professor at FCT-NOVA since 2002 in Materials Engineering, speciality Materials for Energy, Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies.

Dr. Eda Mehmeti is currently Associate Professor and a vice-dean at the UBT- University for Business and Technology, faculty of Pharmacy in Pristina.
She was Awarded for PhD Scholarship, from HigherKOS-Promoting Institutional Development in Higher Education and Research in Kosovo, by OeAD-GmbH, ICM, Austria to pursue her doctorate studies (2013-2016) at the University of Graz, Institute of Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Kurt Kalcher. The focus of her scientific research was based on the development of electrochemical (bio)sensors for the determination of biologically active compounds using different electrochemical techniques and new electrode materials, in particular nano-sized and composite materials.
In 2016-2017 she continued her scientific career as a post-doctoral researcher in the Sensors Group at University of Graz.
In February 2018 she was selected as a scientist/post-doctoral researcher at the Integrated System Laboratory at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland with Prof. Sandro Carrara in the area of wearable electrochemical sensors dealing with the feasibility study coordinated by a pharmaceutical company.
In October 2018 until October 2020, she was employed at the University of Graz, Institute of Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, as a University Assistant with doctorate.
In October 2019 she received Gold medal and Awards, in Boston, MA, USA in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition.
Dr. Mehmeti has co-authored over 30 scientific papers (H Index = 18). She is also part of the Albanian NanoScience and Nanotechnology Unit (NanoAlb) created next to the Academy of Sciences of Albania.

Rodolfo Mundaca-Uribe is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Concepcion, Chile. He received his PhD degree in Nanoengineering in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Wang, at University of California San Diego. Previously, he had obtained his B.S. degree in Pharmacy and M.S. degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Concepcion, and a M.S. degree in Nanoengineering from University of California San Diego. In 2015, he was awarded with a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his PhD studies. His research interests are focused on the development of novel platforms towards active drug delivery and their clinical translation, microrobotics, and pharmaceutical analytical chemistry.

Professor 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 is Langworthy Professor of Physics and 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

Dr. Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and holds >60 issued/granted patents in microscopy, holography, computational imaging, sensing, mobile diagnostics, nonlinear optics and fiber-optics, and is also the author of one book and the co-author of >1000 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals/conferences. Dr. Ozcan received major awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), International Commission for Optics ICO Prize, Dennis Gabor Award (SPIE), Joseph Fraunhofer Award & Robert M. Burley Prize (Optica), SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, Rahmi Koc Science Medal, SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, Army Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Navy Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and Distinguished Lecturer Award, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, National Academy of Engineering The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award and MIT’s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to computational imaging, sensing and diagnostics. Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of Optica, AAAS, SPIE, IEEE, AIMBE, RSC, APS and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a Lifetime Fellow Member of Optica, NAI, AAAS, and SPIE. Dr. Ozcan is also listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science, Clarivate

Dr. Maksym Plakhonuyk, Founder and CEO of ATLANT 3D Nanosystems. Inventor of first-ever atomic layer advanced manufacturing technology that enables materials, devices, and microsystem development and manufacturing with atomic precision. A scientist with a Ph.D. in Nanotechnology and Photovoltaics with expertise in nanotechnologies, renewable and exponential technologies, and deep knowledge of photovoltaics, semiconductor processing, solid-state physics, and material science. Member of Forbes Technology Council, Hello Tomorrow Grand Winner, Fulbright scholar, and proud Ukrainian.

Fetah Podvorica is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Prishtina and Corresponding Member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova. Since 2014 he has been visiting professor at University of Paris, former University of Paris 7, and previously was visiting professor at Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris (ESPCI); during the period 2003-2013. He did his PhD thesis at the University of Paris 7 in 2000 and his Habilitation he obtained in 2010 at the University of Paris 6. His research interests include: electrochemical or chemical modification of material’s surfaces with 2D organic thin layers and their use for different applications; the use of Electro-Fenton method for the degradation of organic pollutants in waste water. He has 2 patents, 3 book chapters, 50 published papers in peer review journals, H index: 25 and over 5200 citations (scholar). He is Associate Editor in the Springer journal, Chemistry Africa.

Dr. Nik Qafoku is a PNNL Laboratory Fellow in the Environmental Subsurface Science Group and Deputy Director of the Center for the Remediation of Complex Sites (RemPlex). He joined the PNNL in June 2000 initially as a postdoctoral researcher. Since then, he has been promoted three times to the categories of research scientist, senior research scientist level III and IV and chief scientist level V.
Prior to joining PNNL, Dr. Qafoku worked as a postdoctoral research associate from 1999-2000 at the University of Georgia, where he served as a teaching assistant and received the outstanding graduate teaching award. In 1994, he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholarship and conducted soil systems modeling work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also served as assistant pedagogue, pedagogue, department head and vice-dean for research for the Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania. Dr. Qafoku was nominated the director of the science, research and training directorate of the Department of Agriculture and Food and supervised the research conducted in the research institutes and stations in Albania.
Dr. Qafoku holds a B.S. in Agronomy and a Doctor of Science in Soil Science from the Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania. He also holds a M.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with a Ph.D. in Environmental Soil Chemistry from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA).

Simona Ranallo is assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Technology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. During her PhD she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and at the University of Montréal (Canada). During her post-doc period at the University of Rome Tor Vergata she obtained her own funding through competitive individual fellowships: 2019 Umberto Veronesi Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Global Fellowship. In the frame of her MSCA she spent two years as post-doc researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working in the group headed by Prof. Kevin Plaxco. Currently, her main research activity is focused on the development of novel optical and electrochemical DNA-based sensors for diagnostic applications. Her trajectory has been recognized by several awards, including: “2014 Best Thesis” (Analytical Division, Italian Chemical Society), “2019 Primo Levi Award, post-doc category” (Italian Chemical Society) and “Premio Cristina Giovannoli 2023” (Analytical Division, Italian Chemical Society).

Dr. Rivas is Plenary Full Professor at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Cordoba National University (UNC) and Superior Researcher at Argentina Research Council (CONICET). Since 2016 he is member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina. Dr. Rivas was editor (2011-2018) and Co-Editor-in-Chief (since 2018) of Sensors and Actuators B. Chemical and member of the editorial board of Electroanalysis. He received several national awards (from National Academy of Sciences of Argentina, Argentinean Chemistry Society, Exact Sciences Academy of Sciences of Argentina, Konnex foundation) and since 2023 is fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials. Dr. Rivas had a key role in the development of the Analytical Chemistry in Argentina and was President of the Argentinean Association of Analytical Chemists (2007-2009). Dr. Rivas is author of more than 180 peer review papers and several book chapters, with more than 12000 citations and H index of 59. Current research activities of Dr. Rivas are focused on the development of electrochemical nano(bio)sensors devoted to the quantification of (bio)markers of clinical and environmental relevance.

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.

He has more than 15 years research experience in the academic sector working on nanoelectronics, spintronics and optoelectronics. He possesses extensive hands-on experience on emerging low dimensional electronic systems including nanowire transistors, GaAs single spin quantum-bits, as well emerging phenomena in functional oxide and superconductive/ferromagnetic interfaces towards beyond-CMOS technologies. He has served at various academic research positions in high reputation European institutions including the Foundation of Research and Technology in Greece, the Institut Néel CNRS in France and the London centre for Nanotechnology – University College of London in United Kingdom. Dr Konstantinos Rogdakis received his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences and his master’s degree in Microsystems and Nanodevices both from National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He obtained his PhD in Nanoelectronics from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France, in 2009. He is a member of Technical Chamber of Greece. He is currently a Researcher (Grade C) in the i-EMERGE Research Center of HMU and the Team Leader of Innovative Printed Electronics at the Nanomaterials for Emerging Devices research group. His current research interests include 2D materials engineering in various printed device concepts including high performing solar cells, functional sensors and thin film memristors/transistors for neuromorphic computing towards energy efficient Internet of Things and wearables.

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2005
M.S. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, U.S., 2000
B.S. Cairo University, Egypt, 1997

Juan F. Sierra is a Ramon y Cajal senior researcher at ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanoelectronic Devices Group, led by ICREA Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela. Juan F. Sierra obtained his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 2008 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). After that, he worked at CEA/SPINTEC from 2009 to 2012, focusing his research on the study of the spin-transfer-torque phenomena in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions and metallic spin valves developed for microwave emission and detection and STT-MRAM technologies. In 2012, he moved to ICN2 in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, his research consists of investigating technological relevant properties of 2D quantum materials, particularly in materials based on combinations of van der Waals materials in artificial heterostructures.

Jordi Sort leads the ‘Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism’ (with ca. 20 researchers) as an ICREA Research Professor at UAB. After finishing his PhD in 2002 in the field of “magnetic interfacial effects” (Extraordinary Award), Prof. Sort performed two postdoctoral stays, at SPINTEC (Grenoble) and at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on a wide variety of materials (thin films, lithographed structures, porous materials and nanocomposites) with emphasis on their magnetic, magnetoelectric and mechanical performance. He received awards from the Catalan and Spanish Physical Societies as well as the Federation of European Materials Societies. So far, Prof. Sort has supervised 17 PhD Theses, has published 352 articles (11275 citations in WoS, h = 53), has issued 6 patents and has managed 38 research projects, being Coordinator of 2 European Training Networks (ITN), and PI of a CoG, a PoC and an AdG from the ERC.

Dr. Barbara Stadlober is Principal Investigator at MATERIALS - the Institute for Sensors, Photonics and Manufacturing Technologies - of the JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (JR) located in Austria. She studied Physics at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and received a PhD from the Technical University in Munich-Garching. In 1996 she started her career as part of the technology development team of Siemens Halbleiter AG (later Infineon Technologies Austria) in Villach. She joined JR in 2002, where she started a research group dedicated to organic and printed electronics as well as large area micro/nanopatterning. Currently, Dr. Stadlober is head of the research group "Hybrid Electronics and Patterning". Her areas of interest range from organic thin-film transistors over printed piezoelectric sensors and nanogenerators to R2R UV-nanoimprinting for bionic, microoptical and microfluidic functional films. She authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and appears as inventor of more than 70 patents.

Professor Francesco Trotta took a degree in Chemistry in 1982 at the University of Torino, Italy. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences in 1987, at the University consortium of Torino, Genova, and Pavia. After short teaching in High School, he became a permanent researcher at the Department of IFM Chemistry. In the period 2006-2016, he was an associate professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry-University of Torino. Since December 2016 he is a full professor of Industrial Chemistry in the same Department. He has worked with many Italian and foreign research groups. From 2001-2015 he was also an associate researcher at the Institute of Membrane Technology – National Research Council.
He has got financial support from many enterprises and multi-billion companies such as Propack srl, Pieffe srl, Globalchimica srl, Kemin Cavriago, Oxon-Sipcam, Syngenta crop protection, Roquette Frères, Philips Morris International, Baxter Healthcare, etc.
He is a member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM). He is president of the Italian Association of Chemistry and Technology of Cyclodextrins and vice-president of the European Cyclodextrin Society. He is also part of the Italian Scientific Society (ISA) and co-founder of the Green Sciences for Sustainable Development Foundation (Venice, Italy). Since 2004 he is a member of the International Scientific Board of the International Cyclodextrin Symposium. He also was "Guest Editor” of the Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry. He was the editor of a Book from Wiley published in 2019. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Polymers, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Acta Scientific Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has been an "invited speaker” to many international conferences. Over the years he has acted as examiner of numerous scientific articles for outstanding international journals. He is the author or co-author of more than 252 scientific papers, 20 industrial patents, 8 book chapters, 2 items of the Encyclopedia of Membrane, and more than 200 communications to national and international conferences. He has 8448 citations and an h-index of 53 based on scopus.com (April 2023). In nearly twenty years of teaching activity, he has taken numerous courses in Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry, and Chemistry of Materials. His research interests are focused on cyclodextrin chemistry, polymer synthesis and modification, drug delivery systems, molecularly imprinted polymers, and membrane phase transfer catalysis. Recently, Standford University Scientists Ranking recognize Professor Trotta in the Top 2% of World Scientists.

Prof. Andrey Ustyuzhanin – Director of AI/ML research at Acronis, visiting research professor at NUS, and a PI at the IFIM. His research’s primary priority is designing new Machine Learning methods and using them to solve tough scientific challenges, thus improving the fundamental understanding of our world. Before joining NUS, he worked with LHCb – one of the LHC experiments at CERN. Amongst the project he has been working on are efficiency improvement of online triggers at LHCb, speed up BDT-based online processing, development of the algorithm for tracking in scintillators optical fiber detectors, and many others. Discovering the deeper truth about the Universe by applying data analysis methods is the primary source of inspiration in Andrey’s lifelong journey. Andrey is a co-author of the course on Machine Learning aimed at solving Particle Physics challenges at Coursera and organizer of the annual international summer schools following similar topics.

Giovanni Valenti obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bologna in 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Paolucci. He was appointed as an assistant professor in 2013 and he been a visiting fellow at the Dublin City University (R. Forster) and at the University of Texas (A. J. Bard). In 2021 he become a faculty member as associate professor in Chemistry at Department “Ciamician” (University of Bologna). He is passionate about electrochemistry and the application of electrochemical tools for study molecules and nanomaterials, for the generation of light (electrochemiluminescence), for the early diagnosis (biosensors) and for energy (CO2RR, HER and OER).

Majlinda Vasjari is currently professor in Analytical Chemistry Group at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. She obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Tirana (1997, Albania) and followed various postdoctoral researches in various european universities supported by TEMPUS program, DAAD, Erasmus mundus, etc. She is/was coordinator of national and international EU projects (Erasmus+ Program, Twinning, Ceepus network, COST Action), as well as bilateral projects Albania-Italy, Albania-Turkey, etc. Her research interests include environmental studies and nanotechnology (designing sensitive and selective modified analytical sensors and biosensors using nanomaterials, biomolecules, plant tissue, etc). She has more than 60 published papers in peer review journals, 1 book chapter. Since 2020 she is Co-coordinator of the Albanian Unit of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoAlb), next Academy of Science of Albania.

Dr. sc. Albana Veseli is a teaching assistant of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Science, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosovo. She gets her Master degree in 2009 at the University of Prishtina and her PhD in 2014 at the University of Tirana in the field of ‘’Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors for organic compounds analysis’’ in collaboration with the Institute of Analytical Chemistry at the Karl – Franzens University of Graz, Austria. Currently, she is continuing her professional development as a postdoc researcher at University of Vienna, Austria regarding ‘’Electroactive Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Nanoparticles’’. She is author and co-author of many scientific papers published in high ranking journals. She coordinated Erasmus + project between University of Prishtina, Kosovo and Keele University, UK as a National Coordinator and is part of COST action program financed by EC. Accomplished her two own Nacional scientific projects with a title ‘’Antibiotic Residues in Water near Municipalities of Kosovo: Raising Public Health Issues Awareness through University Teaching’’ and “Using Nanostructured Carbon Material to design Electrochemical Sensor for detecting the residue of Antibiotics in the Environment’’ (2017 -2021) financed by Ministry of Science and Education, Kosovo and NanoAlb unit, Academy of Science in Tirana, Albania. Voluntary work – active member of regional and local organization Western Balkan Alumni Association (WBAA) 2017-2022 and Organization of Kosovar Austrian Alumni Organization (OKAA) 2021-2023. Very good communicative and organizational abilities and capable skills on teamwork and individually.

Joseph Wang, is currently a SAIC Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor of Nanoengineering and Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Between 2014 and 2019 he served as the Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering at UCSD. Previously, he was a Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) and Director of Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the Biodesign Institute. He obtained his higher education at the Technion and being awarded his D. Sc. in 1978. From 1978 to 1980 he served as a research associate at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and joined New Mexico State University (NMSU) at 1980. From 2001-2004, he held a Regents Professorship and a Manasse Chair positions at NMSU. Since 1980, 30 Ph.D. candidates and 300 research associates and visiting scholars have studied with Professor Wang.

Kledi Xhaxhiu is a full time professor at the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. He is also acting as a co-coordinator of the Albanian Unit of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoAlb). For 1.5 year he was deputy minister of the environment of Albania.
Kledi Xhaxhiu studied Food Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. Elaborated the diploma thesis at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry-Biology, University of Siegen, Germany. Completed PhD at the same university and faculty at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. Participated in an internship at the Intermediate Products Department, BASF A.G. Ludwigshafen, Germany. He Post-doctorated at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He has co-authored over 65 publications in international and national scientific journals and has presented in more than 40 international and national scientific conferences. He is an as editorial board member of 6 scientific international journals and member of scientific/advisory board of 14 international conferences.
His research interests of include syntheses and structural characterization of solid compounds, thermal expansion and thermal behavior of solids, physical properties of solid compounds and their composites with conducting polymers, such as: thermoelectric and photo-sensorial; adsorption-desorption of heavy metals on layered/channeled solids, adsorption-desorption of organic pollutants from clays and fly ash; carbon paste electrodes for targeted determination and quantification of electro-active compounds in aqueous solutions; sub- and supercritical extraction of essential oils from plants and fruits.
Actually cooperates with several research groups in distinguished universities abroad.