Dr. Yilmazer is working in the Biomedical Engineering Department of Ankara University as an Associate Professor. She is also the vice director of the Stem Cell Institute of the same university since 2016. In 2008, she completed her MSc degree in Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Nottingham (UK) and, in 2012, she obtained her PhD in the Nanomedicine Lab based in the School of Pharmacy, University College London (Prof. K. Kostarelos). During her PhD, she focused on artificial envelopment of adenoviral vectors and how this technology affects the in vitro and in vivo behaviour of viral particles. She also had opportunity to work with a variety of delivery vectors including carbon nanomaterials. She continued her postdoctoral study in the same lab and for the first time in literature, she showed that direct in vivo reprogramming towards pluripotency in mouse liver tissue is possible via non-viral overexpression of defined factors. This provided a proof-of-evidence of in vivo reprogramming of adult somatic cells towards a pluripotent state with high efficiency and fast kinetics. In July 2013, she moved back to Turkey where she established her own research group in Ankara University. She has been selected as the Best Young Investigator in Turkey by the Turkish Society of Medical Biology and Genetics in 2013. In 2018, she has been selected as a Young Investigator by the Turkish Academy of Sciences and in 2019 she has been awarded Scientific Encouragement Award by the Ankara University.

Dr. Andrews is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a member of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, the Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, and the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Andrews received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry as a U.S. Department of Education Fellow working at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she was later a postdoctoral fellow and senior staff fellow. At the NIMH, Andrews and her mentor, Dr. Dennis Murphy, discovered and characterized a novel serotonin neurotoxin, 2’-NH2-MPTP. Dr. Andrews was also instrumental in early studies on serotonin transporter-deficient mice. Andrews is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, American Chemical Society, and Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry. She has been the recipient of an NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, an Eli Lilly Outstanding Young Analytical Chemist Award, an American Parkinson’s Disease Association Research Award, and a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) Independent Investigator Award. She is a fellow of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum and a Serotonin Club elected councilor. Recently, Dr. Andrews became Associate Editor for ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

Fabiana Arduini is a Full Professor at Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, founder of start-up SENSE4MED, DG at ISO9001 Certified Laboratory LabCap, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Editor of Green Analytical Chemistry Journal, Elsevier, Associated Editor of Microchemical Journal, Elsevier, Specialty Chief Editor Micro- and Nano- Sensors, Frontiers in Sensors, and Coordinator of Italian Sensor Group, Italian Chemical Society 2019-2021.

Javier Ramon got his PhD in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB). Posteriorly during their post-doc stay, he was working under the direction of professor Mizutani at Hyogo University in Japan on lithography fabrication, microfluidics and dielectrophoresis technic (2009-2011). After their post-doctoral stay (2011), he was hired by the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) at Tohoku University as Assistant Researcher. The AIMR-WPI institute is Japan's third most relevant institute and one worldwide material science reference. He joined the group of Prof. Matsue in the device/systems group, and in April 2013, he was promoted to Assistant Professor. In 2015 he joined as Ramon y Cajal researcher IBEC. In 2020, he became an ICREA Research Professor and is now leading the Biosensors for Bioengineering group, focused on integrating fully functional tissues with microscale biosensor technology to obtain "organs-on-a-chip".

Dr Aristeidis Bakandritsos (1977, Greece) is the Group Leader and senior researcher at the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute - RCPTM of Palacky University Olomouc and at VSB-TUO, CEET, MELab in Ostrava (Czech Republic). He received his BSc in 2001 from Chemistry Dept (A.U. of Thessaloniki, Greece) and PhD in 2006 in chemistry from the NKUA & N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens Greece. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Patras (Materials Sci. Dept.), and as a visiting scientist at the Materials Sci. Dept., Cornell University. In 2012 he was elected at the Dept. of Materials Sci., University of Patras as a lecturer and later as an assistant professor until 2015-2016, when he joined RCPTM as a senior researcher and later as the head of a research division. In 2020 he also received a senior researcher position in VŠB–Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is mentor in several Marie Curie projects and coordinator or PI in European Horizon 2020 projects. Research interests include the functionalization of nanomaterials and their application in energy storage, catalysis, and biomedicine. Results have been published in more than 130 articles (h-index 39), in peer-review journals.

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.

Prof. Gustau Catalán earned his degree in physics at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1997 and his PhD, also in physics, at Queen’s University of Belfast in 2001. He held research positions at the Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats in Mallorca (2002- 2004), the University of Groningen (2004-2005) and the University of Cambridge (2005-2009). In 2009, he was appointed ICREA Research Professor and joined the ICN2 as leader of the Oxide Nanophysics Group. At the ICN2, with the help of an ERC Grant, he set up one of the world’s first laboratories of flexoelectricity.

Gianni Ciofani 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). His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, microphysiological systems, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions. He is coordinator or unit leader of several projects: in particular, he was awarded with a Starting Grant and three Proof-of-Concept Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Thanks to grants from the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, he had the opportunity to carry out four experimental campaigns onboard the International Space Station. In 2018, his real-scale model of the blood-brain barrier was highlighted in the Annual Report on the ERC Activities and Achievements. He is co-founder (2022) and Scientific Advisor of “Kidaria Bioscience SRL”, an IIT spin-off company dedicated to the preparation and characterization of cosmetic and nutraceutical products based on natural-derived active ingredients. He is also co-founder (2021) and member of the executive committee of “ERC in Italy APS”, a non-profit association of ERC awardees born to promote fundamental and frontier research in Italy. Gianni Ciofani is Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, appointed by the President of the Italian Republic on December 27th, 2022.

Graduated in Chemistry in 1993 at the University of Amsterdam. PhD student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, from 1994 to 1998 (supervisors: Prof. Wim Nieuwpoort and Prof. Ria Broer). Post-Doc in the group of Prof. Francesc Illas of the University of Barcelona with a Marie Curie fellowship from 1998-2000 (subject: magnetism in low-dimensional Heisenberg systems). Post-Doc in the Quantum Chemistry group of the University Rovira i Virgili (2000-2005) with a Ramón y Cajal fellowship. Presently ICREA Research Professor in the same group.

Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz holds a PhD in Chemistry (2006) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Most of his post-doctoral career has been spent at Prof. Merkoçi’s group at ICN2 (Barcelona, Spain), where he specialized in Nanobiosensors. He has participated in +25 national and international projects (5 as PI) and is the coauthor of over 95 scientific publications (+4100 citations; h-index: 39) and 4 patents. As of December 2023, he holds a position as Associate Professor in the Nanobioanalysis Group, Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo (Spain) where he is also the Group Leader. His research interests focus on the development of biosensing systems based on nanoparticles and nanochannels for point-of-care diagnostic applications

Nunzio Denora earned his PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Palermo in 2004. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Kansas University, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2006. His academic journey progressed, and in 2019, he was promoted to Associate Professor. As of July 2023, he holds the position of Full Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Legislation at the University of Bari, where he leads a cutting-edge research laboratory focused on advanced drug delivery systems. Throughout his career, Professor Denora has authored over 205 peer-reviewed publications and is the inventor of 10 patents. He also serves as the Coordinator of the Industrial PhD program in "Sustainable Technologies for Medicines and Diagnostics Development" and plays an active role in shaping pharmaceutical education and research. In addition, he is the Secretary of the Italian Society of Pharmaceutical Technology and Legislation (SITELF). His research is at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation, focusing on the development of advanced drug delivery systems using state-of-the-art technologies such as 3D printing, prilling, and microfluidics.

Fabio Di Francesco received a degree in physics and PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pisa, where he is currently associate professor in analytical chemistry. His research interests are at the interface of analytical technologies, nanomaterials and medicine, with an emphasis on the identification, in easily accessible body fluids (breath, oral fluid, sweat …), of chemical markers with clinical interest and the development of sensors and low cost technologies for the translation of research results into the clinical practice and everyday life. He is responsible of many research projects at regional, national and EU level.

Lorena Diéguez is the leader of the Medical Devices research group at INL. Her research is dedicated to Translational Medical Research in close collaboration with hospitals and focuses on the development of solutions based on microfluidics, biosensors and nanotechnology towards early diagnosis and better understanding of diseases. She is also very interested in translating technologies from the lab to the clinic and is co-founder of the spin-off company RUBYnanomed in the field of liquid biopsy. Also, since 2019, she is the Chair of the Working Group in Medical Devices at the ETPN (European Technology Platform in Nanomedicine).

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 and “Awards for Science and Technology” from The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2023 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 (Izmir, Turkey) in 2000. She has been working as a Full Professor since 2009 at Analytical Chemistry department in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Ege University. Prof. Dr. Arzum Erdem Gürsan who is the principal investigator at the research team @nanoBioSensLab (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey), 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. She is the Project investigator many national/international projects from 2002 up to now. In 2021, she was awarded as the one of national research leaders on health sciences of all by TÜBİTAK. She has authored more than 216 papers in refereed SCI-expanded journals and conference proceedings, 30 invited talks in international meetings and conferences. In addition, she is the co-author of 20 book chapters and review papers. She has 8 national patents approved between 2018-2023. She has received 7851 citations according to the records on Web of Science (WoS) obtained in June 2024 with h-index: 46. 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. In April 2024, she has been appointed as the Scientific Committee member representative for Türkiye by the selection of the Committee of Senior Officials in COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). 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.

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.

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

Professor Gianluca Fiori, professor of Electronics at the Information Engineering department, currently holds two prestigious grants from the European Research Council. With an ERC Consolidator Grant project already underway, Prof. Fiori is also one of the 55 European researchers awarded an ERC Proof of Concept at the end of 2020. This grant of 150,000 euros from the European Research Council is aimed at supporting ideas that have strong potential for generating an innovative marketable product.

Jose A. Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices Group, which explores novel electronic materials, such as graphene and other 2D materials, and their potential in electronic and bioelectronic applications.
He received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a postdoc at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München (Germany). He obtained his habilitation in experimental physics at this university in 2010 and from 2011 to 2015 held a lecturer (Privatdozent) position at its Department of Physics.
In 2015 Jose A. Garrido joined the ICN2 where, in addition to his role as Group Leader, he is Vice-Director. He is the coordinator of thei-VISIONproject funded byLa Caixa Foundation, where 5 institutions join forces in the development of a retinal implant to restore vision. Since October 2022, he has also coordinated the EIC Pathfinder MINIGRAPH project, in which 7 institutions from 5 countries work together to develop and validate a new generation of brain implants with closed-loop neuromodulation capabilities enabled by high-density arrays of graphene microelectrodes.
Jose A Garrido is also the founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and member of the Board of Directors of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, an ICN2 spin-off that aims at the commercialization of graphene-based neural devices for medical applications. Employing ICN2-patented technology, INBRAIN has made a tremendous step towards the clinical use of graphene-based BCI therapeutic technology with the recent approval by MHRA (England regulatory approval body) of the first-in-human clinical study using graphene neural interfaces. Additionally, together with ICN2, the company received €2.5M in the framework of the EIC Transition program sponsored by the European Commission to accelerate the clinical translation of graphene transistors for brain-computer interfaces.

Prof. Dr. Pedro Gomez-Romero, FRSC, is Full Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (2006-) and Head of the NEO-Energy Lab (www.neoenergy.cat) at the Catalan Institute of Nano-science and Nanotechnology, ICN2 (CSIC-BIST) (www.icn2.cat) in Cerdanyola, Barcelona (Spain) (2007-).
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Georgetown University, USA, 1987, with Distinction. Sabbatical at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, Colorado, USA (1998-99). Vicedirector of MATGAS technology Center (2010-2013). Member of the Materials Science Committee of CSIC (2012- 2014). He is currently member of EuroScience, the Royal Society of Chemistry, The Electrochemical Society (ECS), International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Asociación Española de Comunicación Científica (AECC). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) since 2014. Winner of the CIDETEC Award for Research in Electrochemistry 2016.
His research is focused on the design, development and application of materials and devices for energy storage and conversion (hybrid supercapacitors, Li and post-Li batteries (Na, Zn), flow cells, solar-thermal energy, nanofluids and nanopastes). This includes a variety of materials from inorganics (Polyoxometalates, LiFePO4) to conducting polymers to nanocarbons, with special emphasis on hybrid nanostructures and nano-composite materials with inorganic clusters or nanoparticles and polymers or carbons. Along this line, Gomez-Romero’s group pioneered the use of Polyoxometalates (POM) in energy storage applications. His most relevant work focuses on Hybrid electrode materials and devices for fast and extended energy storage. The recent creation of a spin-off company "Napptilus Battery Labs” (NBL) aims at putting all the knowledge generated in the lab to work in the development of fast-charging and durable hybrid energy storage devices.

Biologist by the University of the Basque Country (2005) and PhD in Chemistry by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013). He carried out the doctoral thesis in the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, focused on the development of polymer-based microfluidic biosensors with dual detection (optical and electrochemical). In December 2013 he joined the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (TU Dresden, Germany) as postdoc, where he gained experience in the use of nanomaterials to boost the sensitivity of field-effect transistors for biodetection. In October he started leading the biosensorics group of the same Chair, supervising projects related to point-of-care diagnostic platforms, flexible microelectronics, and gas sensors toward electronic nose development. In January 2024 he became part of the Health Unit of Tecnalia (Spain), leading the research line of biosensors and microelectronics for diagnostics and for the monitoring of biological and biomedical processes.

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. Filiz Kuralay has been working as a Professor at Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry. 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 mainly focus on (bio)sensors, electrochemistry and nano/micromotors. 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 Türkiye Incentive Award in 2017.

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

Prof. Sachiko Matsushita received her B.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) in Applied Chemistry from the University of Tokyo under Prof. Akira Fujishima's guidance in self-assembled nanoparticle structure fabrication and application. In 2001, she became a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Toyoki Kunitake’s group at RIKEN and widened her research focus to photonic crystals. After her experience as a lecturer and associate professor at Nihon University, she joined the Department of Metallurgy & Ceramics Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (currently Institute of Science Tokyo) as an associate professor (2010), and decided to commit to energy issues. After developing a new thermal energy conversion system, semiconductor-sensitised thermal cell (STC), she founds elleThermo, Ltd. (2023) for the practical application of STC

Dr. Mariana Medina Sánchez earned her degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of San Buenaventura in Bogotá, Colombia. Following the completion of her diploma studies, she dedicated almost five years to serving as an assistant professor and researcher at the same university. Concurrently, she pursued postgraduate studies in education and biomedical engineering. Her academic journey then led her to Barcelona, Spain, where she undertook master’s and PhD studies under the guidance of Prof. Arben Merkoçi at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. During her time in Barcelona, Dr. Medina Sánchez focused on the development of nanomaterials-based and inkjet-printed electrochemical biosensors for various disease diagnoses.

SALVO MIRABELLA is Full Professor of Experimental Physics of Matter and Applications (PHYS03/a) at the University of Catania, since March 2024, and is Coordinator of the PhD school in Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the same University, since March 2025. He has been Associate Professor of Experimental Physics of Matter (FIS02/B1) at the Univ. Catania since March 2016, Researcher TI at CNR-IMM (since 2008), Tenure Track Researcher at INFM (since 2003). He received the title of Doctor of Research in Physics from the Univ. Catania (February 2003) and the Degree in Physics from the Univ. Catania (May 1999).

Hirotomo Nishihara is a full professor at Tohoku University, Japan. Having obtained his academic degrees from Kyoto University (Japan), he spent most of his career working for Tohoku University up to date. He has received numerous scientific awards, including the prestigious Gottfried Wargener Prize in 2019 and the JSPS Prize in 2020. In 2022, he took his innovations into the business sphere by establishing a startup company, 3DC. As the Chief Science Officer, he is dedicated to the industrialization of a novel porous carbon material, graphene mesosponge, which he developed. His research interests include nanoporous materials and carbon-based materials

ICREA Research Professor Josep Nogués earned his degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1986. After obtaining his PhD at the Kungliga Tekniska Höskolan (RoyalInstitute of Technology) in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1993, he moved to the University of California San Diego (USA) to complete his postdoctoral studies. Four years later he returned to the UAB as an associate researcher, becoming an ICREA research professor in 2001 and a founding member of the former Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) shortly thereafter. His Magnetic Nanostructures group was formally integrated into the ICN structure in 2006.

Hiroaki Onoe, received his Ph.D. in Mechano-Informatics at The University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof. Isao Shimoyama in 2006. Since 2007, he moved to University of California Berkeley and worked with Prof. Richard Mathies in Department of Chemistry as a visiting scholar. Since 2009, he began to work with Prof. Shoji Takeuchi at Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo as an assistant professor. Since 2014, he has joined to Keio University, Japan, and is now a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include microfluidics, biofabrication, organ-on-a-chip, functional nanomaterials and self-assembly technologies.

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.

Giulia Palermo is a computational biophysicist and Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside in the Department of Bioengineering and Chemistry. She is a native of Italy where she earned her Ph.D. in 2013 from the Italian Institute of Technology. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded an early career fellowship to join the group of Prof. Ursula Roethlisberger at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). In 2016 she became a post-doc at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) working with Prof. J. Andrew McCammon, thanks to a Swiss National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship.

Mamas (Mamantos) Prodromidis is a full Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry (University of Ioannina, Greece). His research is focused on the development of electrochemical (bio)sensors, the generation of nanoparticles with spark discharge, the development of diagnostic devices for point-of-care applications, the design & fabrication of screen-printing integrated electrochemical cells and bipolar electrochemistry. He has co-authored more than 130 articles, reviews, book chapters and he has given several invited lectures in international meetings and seminars. Since 2020, he is Editor in Chief of Microchimica Acta.

Martin Pumera is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Functional Nanorobots and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, and Chief Investigator of Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. at Charles University, Czech Republic, in 2001. After two postdoctoral stays (in the United States and Spain), he became a tenured group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, in 2006. In 2010 Martin joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he worked as a tenured associate professor for almost a decade. Prof. Pumera has broad interests in nanomaterials and microsystems, in the specific areas of electrochemistry and synthetic chemistry of 2D nanomaterials, nanotoxicity, micro and nanomachines, and 3D printing. Martin is “2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics (as the only chemist in the Czech Republic). He published over 820 papers which received more than 50,000 citations. Martin's h-index is 114. Martin has supervised over 40 postdoctoral associates, 30 PhD students, 8 Master students and over 50 BSc students. Martin takes pride that 14 group members became faculty members at the Universities around the World, from Spain to Singapore. Total funding Martin received as PI is over 18 M EURO (current active funding 14.8 M EURO). Prof. Pumera is Editor-in-Chief of Appl. Mater. Today (IF 8.01) and member of Editorial Boards of ACS Nano, Small, Chem Eur J, Electrochem Commun, ChemElectroChem, Electroanalysis and other journals.

Dr Laura Rodriguez-Lorenzo holds both Diploma (2007) and PhD (2012) degrees in Chemistry and Nanotechnology, respectively, from the University of Vigo, Spain. She is a staff researcher in the Water Quality group at INL. She was awarded in 2020 a Scientific Employment Stimulus contract (2020.04021.CEECIND). Her research focuses on the development of devices able to monitor in real-time biotoxins and other organic pollutants, and emerging contaminants (e.g. microplastics) in water bodies and integrated systems for the purification of urban wastewater. She has integrated several major competitive research projects (LABPLAS, D4runoff, DIGIRAS, FRONTSH1P, R&W Clean, and industrial collaborations (KET4CP)). She was awarded a L’Oreal Fellowship “For Woman in Science 2013” and “the 100 most influential young people at the francophone Swiss zone” in 2015 by L’Hebdo journal. Laura has published 74 peer-reviewed papers, with an h-index of 29, and she is co-author of 4 book chapters and 1 patent related to biosensors and nanoparticle characterization.

Rogdakis Konstantinos is an Assistant Professor in Nanoelectronics at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). 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. Prof. 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 the team leader of innovative printed electronics at the Nanomaterials for Emerging Devices research group in HMU. 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, intelligent Internet of Things and wearables.

Prof. Josep Samitier is Director of IBEC and Full Professor in the Physics Faculty (Electronic Dep.), University of Barcelona. From February 1984 to June 1985 he was visiting research fellow at the Philips Electronic Laboratory, Paris, France. From March 2001 to June 2005 Prof. Samitier was Deputy Head of the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), and in 2003 he received the Barcelona city Prize of the Barcelona Council in the area of technology. Prof. Samitier is the coordinator of the Spanish Platform on Nanomedicine and the president of the Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER).

Samuel obtained his PhD in Chemistry at Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2008. Currently, he is ICREA Research Professor, Group Leader and Deputy Director at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Stuttgart, at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at IFW Dresden, Germany, and at MANA-NIMS in Japan. He is currently honorary visiting Professor at HIT Harbin in China and Adjunct Professor at POSTECH University in South Korea.
Samuel received several awards (among others): The MIT TR35 Top Innovator Under 35 Spain 2014, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Research Foundation, and this year receive the Scientific Excellence award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and recently the prestigious Bank Sabadell Foundation award for "Basic Science and Engineering award". He is elected member of the Young Academy of Spain since 2020. He received the prestigious ERC-Starting grant in 2013 and the ERC-Consolidator Grant in 2019, together with two ERC Proof of concept grants. Besides extensive public funding (>8Mi Eur), he has cooperation agreements with the Private sector and hospitals.

Tomoko K. Shimizu received her B.Eng. from Keio University, Japan, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She conducted postdoctoral research at RIKEN, Japan, and later served as a senior researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science. In April 2018, she was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. Her research centers on surface science and materials characterization, with a particular emphasis on scanning probe microscopy and related spectroscopic techniques. In 2018, she received the Young Scientists’ Award of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education. Her current work focuses on gas adsorption on oxide catalyst surfaces, structural characterization of self-assembled organic porous thin films, and investigation of technologically relevant nanomaterials.

Carsten Sönnichsen, born 1973 in Hamburg (Germany), studied physics in Hamburg and Cambridge. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany (working for Jochen Feldmann). Following his experience in an international management consulting in Munich, Germany, he joined the Paul Alivisatos group in Berkeley as a postdoc. In 2005, he started his own group at the University of Mainz where he now holds a chair in physical chemistry. The group emphasizes on the production and application of nanoparticles as markers and sensors for biological molecules, optical single particle spectroscopy and electron microscopy. The work is funded among others by an ERC starting grant.

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

She has received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry at Ege University in 2001. She is currently a full-time Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, at the same University. Her research is focused on the integration of biomolecules and other species with micro and nanoplatforms to create novel functional bio-based surfaces.

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.

Driton is currently a Reader at King’s College London. He is a registered pharmacist and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham. Prior to joining King’s, Driton contributed towards the establishment of a new School of Pharmacy (University of Lincoln). Driton’s research interests centre around understanding and overcoming the biological barriers to improve drug delivery, with a key focus on enabling injection-free administration of biotherapeutic drugs (peptides, proteins, nucleic acids). As part of this, he has specific interests in drug delivery systems, including nanomedicines and exosomes, that potentially enable injection-free delivery. He is also interested in drug delivery for diseases of, or linked to, the gut. Finally, aspects of Driton’s research relate to the creation of improved (more predictive) in vitro models for use in medicines development, including organoids. Driton routinely collaborates with the pharmaceutical industry and his research has been funded by different UK Research and Innovation councils, charities and the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently leading the EU-funded ‘Nanoparticles in Environment and Medical Research’ (NanoKos) project. The overarching aim of Driton’s activity is to improve patient outcomes and access to medicines through translational drug delivery research.

Paul S. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA. He received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry from MIT in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. He was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1986-88 and a visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1988-89. He served as the director of the California NanoSystems Institute and held the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at UCLA from 2009-14. Before coming to UCLA, he was a distinguished professor of chemistry and physics at the Pennsylvania State University, where he began his academic career in 1989. He has authored over 500 publications, holds over 40 patents, and has given over 1000 invited, plenary, keynote, and named lectures. He is involved in startups from his and other labs in biotechnology, food security, energy, entertainment, and healthcare. Weiss was a member of the U.S. National Committee to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2000-05). He has been the technical co-chair of the Foundations of Nanoscience Meetings and thematic chair of the Spring 2009 and Fall 2018 ACS National Meetings. He was the senior editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters for molecular and organic electronics (2005-07), and was the founding editor-in-chief of ACS Nano (2007-2021). At ACS Nano, he won the Association of American Publishers, Professional Scholarly Publishing PROSE Award for 2008, Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine, and ISI’s Rising Star Award a record ten times.

Chiara Zanardi is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and associated to the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity of the National Research Council of Italy. She received the degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna and the PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Her expertise mainly concerns the application of innovative materials and nanomaterials in amperometric sensing for the monitoring of biomarkers for human health, of environmental pollutants and of drugs of abuse. She is the co-author of more than 100 papers printed on peer-review journals, two patents, one book and three book chapters dealing with modified electrodes in electroanalysis