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

Gianni Ciofani (born in La Spezia, Italy, on August 14th, 1982), Ph.D., is Senior Researcher Tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -Italian Institute of Technology, IIT- (Pontedera, Italy; since 2019), where he is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Unit (since 2017) and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces (since 2021). He has been Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Torino, Italy; 2015-2019) and Visiting Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan; 2021).

Prof Craciun gained a PhD in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), an MSc in Materials Physics (Joseph Fourier University, Grenobe, France), an MSc in Applied Physics (University of Bucharest, Romania) and an MSc in Materials Engineering (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium). Before joining Exeter she was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and at the University of Tokyo were she was awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Prof Craciun joined the University of Exeter in January 2010 as research fellow and took up her current position in April 2017.

Massimo De Vittorio is Coordinator of the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Lecce – Italy and Full Professor at Università del Salento where he is lecturer of the courses “Electronics for biomedical applications” and “Nanotechnologies for Electronics”. He has been responsible for more than ten years of the nanodevice division at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of the CNR Istituto Nanoscienze. His research activity deals with the development of science and technology applied to nanophotonics, nanoelectronics and nano and micro electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) for applications in the fields of life-science, energy and ICT.

Arjan Durresi is a computer science professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis. He has an extensive publication record, with over 100 journal articles, over 220 conference proceedings articles, and twelve book chapters. His research focuses on various areas, such as trust engineering, trustworthy and causal artificial intelligence, system security, AI control and alignment, network architecture, and quantum computing. Multiple sources have funded his research, including NSF, USDA, states, universities, and industry. In September 2021, he was ranked among the top 2% of scholars on Stanford's list, and this ranking was updated in 2022 and 2023.

Yasuaki Einaga received his BS (1994), MS (1996), and PhD (1999) from the University of Tokyo. After 2 years as a research associate at the University of Tokyo, he started a faculty career as an assistant professor in Keio University in 2001, where he was promoted to full professor in 2011. He has been also a research director of JST-CREST (2011-2014), JST-ACCEL (2014-2020), and NEDO (2020-). He was awarded "The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work" in 2016 for his pioneering work in diamond electrodes. His research interests include functional materials science, photochemistry, and electrochemistry

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

Dr. César Fernández-Sánchez holds a BSc in Analytical Chemistry (1993) and a PhD in Chemistry (1999), both from the University of Oviedo (Spain). From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, being awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (6th EU Framework Programme), at the Newcastle University (UK) in the field of impedance-based biosensors. In 2004, he moved to Barcelona and joined the Chemical Transducers Group at the Barcelona Institute for Microelectronics (IMB-CNM (CSIC)), as a tenure-track Ramon y Cajal researcher. Since 2009, he holds a permanent position as a Tenured Scientist (Científico Titular) at IMB-CNM. Since 2013, he is the Head of the Chemical Transducers Group at IMB-CNM

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

Hossam Haick is a Full Professor in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. He earned his doctorate from the Technion in 2002. After graduation, he did two, two-year postdoctoral fellowships – first at the Weizmann Institute of Science, then at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He returned to the Technion at the end of 2006 as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 2011.

Dr. Hemmer’s research program seeks to develop novel lanthanide-nanophosphors as multifunctional nanocarriers for near-infrared based bioimaging and energy conversion applications. Combining materials science, chemistry, physics and biological aspects, the three main areas of research are (i) the synthesis of lanthanide- nanophosphors with optimized near-infrared and upconversion emission, controlled size, crystalline phase and morphology and application-oriented surface modification, (ii) the implementation of the nanophosphors in biological systems and the assessment of nano-bio-interactions, and (iii) the design of novel optical materials for energy harvesting technologies.

Fatih Inci is an associate professor at Bilkent University, Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM). Earlier, he worked as an academician and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School-Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard-MIT. His scholarly pursuits are centered around advancing microfluidics, biosensing, and microneedle technologies for biomedical applications. He has published 75+ papers, 8 book chapters (3 chapters in-press), and 3 editorials, as well as edited 3 books (2 books in-progress). He also holds a notable portfolio of 23 national and international patents, including two licensed products. His research has not only graced the covers of 12 esteemed journals but has also received acclaim from a multitude of prestigious institutions and organizations that include National Institutes of Health (NIH)–National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and Science–AAAS, as well as renowned publications including Nature Medicine, AIP, JAMA, Newsweek, and Popular Science. Actively engaged in research projects, he has played pivotal roles in securing over 50 grants, accumulating a substantial total budget exceeding $8 million USD from national and international entities. In addition, his contributions have earned him 40+ national/international awards and accolades, from organizations such as from National Science Foundation (NSF), Junior Chamber International, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Science Academy, European Molecular Biology Organization-European Science Foundation, Horizon 2020-European Commission, Harvard Medical School-Brigham & Women’s Hospital, American Chemical Society, METU Mustafa Parlar, Association of Science Heroes, Doktorclub, Istanbul University, and Istanbul Technical University

Dr. Cecilia Jiménez is Scientific Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Microelectronics IMB-CNM, CSIC. He joined the Chemical Transducers group of the IMB-CNM, CSIC (GTQ) in January 2000. In May 2008 she became a Scientific Researcher at the same Institute. She held the position of GTQ Director from 2003 to 2013; she has been a member of the CSIC Area Commission for Physical Science and Technologies from 2008 to 2012 and was the Vice Director of the IMB-CNM from 2016 to 2021. Her research activities focuses on the design and manufacture of smart chemical sensors based on microelectronic technology and their integration into integrated analytical microsystems and Lab on Chip (LoC) for applications in clinical diagnosis, monitoring of biomarkers in biological fluids, environment and the agri-food sector. She has been the PI of 4 international and European projects and she has participated in 29 national and regional projects, of which she has coordinated 13. She collaborate with companies in the instrumentation and environmental control sectors to develop multisensor systems, having participated to date in 21 contracts with companies, of which he has been responsible for 13. She has published more than 100 articles in prestigious international journals in the field of sensors and microsystems and 3 book chapters (Scopus h 31, quotes 2165).

Takeshi Kondo received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 2004. He became an assistant professor in 2004, a junior associate professor in 2013, an associate professor in 2019, and a professor in 2024 at Tokyo University of Science. His research interests include functionalization of diamond and application of diamond to electrochemical devices such as electrochemical sensors, electrolysis system and chemical energy devices

Emmanuel Kymakis is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and Director of the Institute of Emerging Technologies of the HMU Center for Research & Innovation. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2003. His multidisciplinary research lies at the interface between nanotechnology and electrical engineering and is centred on the development of printed optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 150 research articles, which have attracted over 12.000 citations and an h-index of 58, while he has an extensive experience in the management of research and industrial projects (8,5 M€ research funding, design & implementation of 67 MWp of PV parks). Ηe is also included in the list of the top 2% of scientists in their respective fields by citation impact (PLoS Biol 17(8), e3000384). He has been an honorary lecturer at UConn and a recipient of an Isaac Newton and an EPSRC studentship. He was named as a 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator and has received three National Excellence Awards. He has served as a member of the founding General Assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI), a member of the Engineering sectoral scientific council of the National Council for Research & Innovation of Greece (NCRI) and the work package leader of Energy Generation of the EU FET-Flagship Initiative Graphene

Lorenzo obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2003 and since 2008 is Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Pavia. In 2021 he was appointed Full Professor in the same department. He was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award for outstanding work in the field of perovskites at the International Conference on Perovskites held in late 2005 in Zürich, of the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize for Chemistry 2008 of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded to distinguished under 35-year-old chemists and contributed the Journal Materials Chemistry and Chemical Communications“Emerging Investigator” issues in 2010 and 2011. He is working in several areas of solid state chemistry with particular interest in the investigation of structure–properties correlation in different kinds of functional materials, in particular electrolyte materials for clean energy, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and catalysis materials. He is author of about 200 papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Since 2018 he is member of Academic Senate and Vice-Director of the Chemistry Department. He is Director of the INSTM Reference Center “PREMIO” (link) devoted to the synthesis of innovative materials and member of the Directive Board of INSTM. Since 2014 he is member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Chemistry of Pavia University. He is Editor of Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Dr Daniel Maspoch is a chemist who has always maintained a rewarding balance between fundamental and applied research, with pioneering developments in the field of porous reticular materials and delivery systems. He is author of over 185 articles and 6 book chapters. In 2021 and 2022, he got the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant and a second ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant, respectively. In addition, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014, and his first ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2019. In 2015, he was bestowed with the Premio Marcial Moreno Mañas Lectureship and in 2020 with the Research Excellence Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, while in 2022 he was appointed new Corresponding Academician of the Physical and Chemical Sciences Section, in the specialty of Materials Science, by the Royal Spanish Academy of Science (RAC).

Verónica Montes-García obtained her PhD degree from the University of Vigo (Spain) under the supervision of Dr Isabel Pastoriza-Santos and Dr Jorge Pérez-Juste. Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Paolo Samorì in the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.) (France). She is the author of 37 publications on (hybrid) low-dimensional materials for diverse applications including chemical sensors, strain sensors, heterogeneous catalysis, and energy storage systems

Dr. Sergio E. Moya is at group leader at CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain. Sergio got a degree in Chemistry at the National University of the South Argentina, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Germany, working at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. He did post docts at the College de France in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge, UK. His group at CIC biomaGUNE works on soft materials for biomedical applications with a focus on physico chemical aspects, bio nano interactions and biological fate.He has published more than 270 articles in different areas of Chemistry, Soft Matter and Nanomedicine

Prof. Aitor Mugarza graduated in physics in 1997 and completed his PhD in the same field in 2002, both at the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country). He was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to work as a postdoctoral scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) and the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB). He joined the former Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in 2007 with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. In 2013 he became group leader of the Atomic Manipulation and Spectroscopy Group at ICN2. He has been an ICREA Research Professor since 2015.

Yuya Oaki is a Professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Keio University, Japan. He received his Ph. D. in 2006 from Keio University and worked at The University of Tokyo as a postdoctoral fellow. He moved back to Keio University. His current research interest is soft 2D materials (layered structures and nanosheets), conjugated polymers, and their applications, such as batteries, catalysts, and sensors. He worked as a Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO project researcher from 2016–2019 to study machine learning. Now, his group has developed a new approach combining machine learning and chemical insight for small data.

Sibel A. Ozkan is currently working as a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She is the active member of European Chemical Society-DAC member on behalf of Turkish Chemical Society. She is the member of European Pharmacopoeia-EDQM- Chromatography Section. She is the member of PortASAP: - European network for the promotion of portable, affordable and simple analytical platform: Core group of Cost Action CA 16215. Working Group 4. She has published more than 385 original and review papers and Editor of 9 scientific books from HNB Publishing (2012), Springer (2015), Bentham (5 Volumes, 2018-2019), Elsevier (2019), CRC (2022) and more than 50 book chapters in different years (for Elsevier and Springer). She received Ankara University Encouragement Award (2003), Turkish Pharmacists Association-Scientific Award (2008), Supervisor of The Best PhD Thesis Award (Health Sciences) in Turkey from High Council of Education of Turkey in 2017, Ton Duc Thang University Woman in Science 2019 Award (Vietnam) and Ankara University Science Award (2021). She is the Editor of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (SCI) and Regional Editor (Europa) of Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (SCI). In addition, she is an Editorial Board member of Talanta (SCI), Chromatographia (SCI), Biosensors&Bioelectronics X and other journals.

Onur Parlak earned his PhD in Bioelectronics from Linköping University in 2015. He then received a Fellowship from The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) and started postdoctoral research at Stanford University, focusing on wearable bioelectronics. After spending three years, he turned back to Sweden and joined the Karolinska Institutet to translate his engineering skills into medical settings with a KAW starting grant. He has been recently awarded by KI Central Funding as an Assistant Professor and research group leader as a part of the KI investment program to recruit and support leading junior researchers with particularly outstanding scientific merits and future potential. Since 2021, Dr. Parlak has been acting as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Dermatology and Venereology Unit in Karolinska Institutet where he specializes in personalized diagnostics and wearable bioelectronics.

Dr Marijana Petković is currently a Full Research Professor at the COHERENCE-Center for Light-based Research and Technologies of the Laboratory of Atomic Physics, VINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. She holds a PhD (Dr Rer. Nat.) in Chemistry from the University of Leipzig, Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Germany, a master's thesis (formerly Magister thesis) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Bachelor's thesis in Biochemistry from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry. Dr. Petković is an evaluator for project proposals, including Horizon Europe. Previously, her research focused on optimising methods for MALDI TOF mass spectrometry detection of small molecules and studying nanoparticles as substrates for this mass spectrometric method. Currently, she leads a group focused on developing nanocomposite systems for photodynamic therapy of cancer and its application in cosmetics. Dr. Petković, along with her team and international collaborators, studies the properties of nanoparticles based on metal oxide and carbon as drug carriers and photosensitisers. The group investigates the effects of nanocomposite systems on cancer cells and elucidates the interaction mechanism with target cell structures.

Prof. Mamas (Mamantos) Prodromidis is a full professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Ioannina, Greece. His research interest are focused on the development of voltammetric and impedimetric sensors and biosensors, the generation of nanoparticles with spark discharge, the development of low-cost medical diagnostic devices for point-of-care applications, the design & fabrication of screen-printing electrodes and analytical devices based on bipolar electrochemistry.

Javier Rodríguez-Viejo is Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB) and leads the Group of Thermal Properties of Nanoscale Materials at the UAB and the ICN2. He performed the experimental part of his doctoral thesis at the Institut des Materiaux et Procedés CNRS, France and received his PhD in Physics from UAB in 1992. He continued his studies as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Klavs F. Jensen (Chemical Eng. and Material Science Dep.) and Prof. M.G. Bawendi (Chemistry Dep.) on the synthesis of highly-luminescent CdSe(ZnS) quantum dots and the deposition of thin film quantum dot composites by electrospray organometallic chemical vapor deposition. His research in this field resulted in several patents and papers, one of which is among the most highly cited papers in semiconductor nanoparticles. In May 1997 he was appointed Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the Physics Department of UAB and in 2011 became Full Professor at the same university. He has been visiting scientist at Air Products in Allentown, US (July-August 2008) and Harvard University (May-September 2016).

Dr. Konstantinos Rogdakis is a project manager at the Nano@HMU group. He 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 (NTUA), Greece in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He obtained his doctoral degree in nanoelectronics in January of 2010 from Grenoble Institute of Technology, France. From 1/2010 until 6/2013, he was a post-doctoral researcher in FORTH Institute, Greece working on novel oxide interfaces/superlattices. For the following two years, he moved to CNRS Institut Néel, Grenoble, France working on GaAs based quantum-bits. From 03/2017-06/2018 he was a research associate in London Centre for Nanotechnology in UK studying magnetization dynamics in superconductive/ferromagnetic interfaces. He has 20 SCI publications and more than 400 citations.

Zdeněk Sofer has been a Full Professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, since 2019. He also received his Ph.D. at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague in 2008. During his Ph.D., he spent one year at Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany), followed by postdoctoral experience in University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interests include semiconductors and 2D materials, their synthesis, crystal growth, chemical modifications and functinalization. He is particularly focused on various applications of two-dimensional materials including energy storage and conversion. He has published more than 350 papers, received more than 13,000 citations, and has the h-index of 56. He was the recipient of the Rector award for young researcher in 2013 and 2016 as well as the Neuron Impulse award in 2016 and the award of the Czech Science Foundation President and the UCT Prague rector award in 2019.

Dr Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas(FORTH), where he is leading the “Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing” laboratory(https://www.iesl.forth.gr/en/research/ULNMP-Group). He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2001 from the University of Crete. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the University of California Berkeley in the fall semesters of 2006 and 2008.He has over 220 SCI publications and more than 8000 citations,h-index=48 (Scopus), and he has coordinated many National and EU grants. He has delivered more than 40 invited and keynote lectures and has been organizer and chair in major international scientific conferences. He has been an Editor of the journals 'Optoelectronic Advances', 'Materials Today (Bio)', 'Applied Sciences' and 'International Journal of molecular Sciences'. Since 2015, he is the Director of the European Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is a National expert in the High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of COST. Since January 2020 he is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biomimetic

Mai Tomisaki is an Assistant Professor at International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan from 2022. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in science from Keio University, Japan in 2017 and 2018, respectively. She received a Ph.D. degree in science from Keio University in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Yasuaki Einaga. Her research interests include electrosynthesis of useful compounds, fine bubbles, and carbon-based electrode materials

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.

Takashi Uemura obtained his PhD at Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University in 2002. He then began his academic career as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Kyoto University. In 2018, he moved to the University of Tokyo where he holds the position of Professor. During the last five years, he has delivered >70 invited lectures at conferences and symposia. He has received a number of awards, including the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists, Kao Research Initiative Award, JSPS Prize, CSJ Award for Creative Works, and Inoue Prize for Science. He has been appointed as Associate Editor of several international journals, such as Dalton Trans. (RSC), Chem. Lett. (CSJ), and Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. (CSJ). He also joined the Advisory Board of Chem. Sci. (RSC) in 2019. His research interest focuses on the preparation of synergistic nanohybrids between porous coordination compounds and polymeric materials, in particular, polymer chemistry in confined nanospaces

After receiving his PhD degree in 2000, Radek Zbořil stayed at several universities, for example, the University of Delaware or the University of Tokyo. Since 2010, he has been a Professor at Palacký University Olomouc. He was a Founding Director (2010–2020) of the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) at Palacký University Olomouc. Since 2018, he has been a guest scientist at Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany. Currently, he acts as the Scientific Director of the RCPTM division of the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN). He is also a vice-director of Nanotechnology Centre and leads the Materials-Envi Lab at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-Technical University Ostrava.

Dr. Erhan Zor is an Associate Professor at Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Selçuk University in the topic of electrochemical chiral discrimination based on graphene-related materials. During his Masters and Ph.D., he had worked as visiting researcher at European research centers in the field of nano(bio)sensors; at Nanotechnas-Nanotechnology and Material Research Center at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Zor has published more than 40 SCI papers, book chapters and, review articles relevant to his scientific research field. His current research interest is focused on graphene, nanocellulose, chiral sensors, (nano)biosensors, optical sensors, electrochemical sensors, paper-based diagnostics, biomedical diagnostics.