Keynote Speakers
Deji Akinwande
Deji Akinwande is an Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on 2D materials, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. He received the PhD degree from Stanford University in 2009. Prof. Akinwande has been honored with the 2018 Fulbright Specialist Award, 2017 Bessel-Humboldt Research Award, the U.S Presidential PECASE award, the inaugural Gordon Moore Inventor Fellow award, the inaugural IEEE Nano Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize, the IEEE "Early Career Award" in Nanotechnology, the NSF CAREER award, several DoD Young Investigator awards, and was a past recipient of fellowships from the Kilby/TI, Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 3M, and Stanford DARE Initiative. His research achievements have been featured by Nature news, Time and Forbes magazine, BBC, Discover magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many media outlets. He serves as an Editor ACS Nano and Nature NPJ 2D Materials & Applications, and on the editorial board for Science. He is the co-Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on 2D electronics, and was a past Chair of the 2018/2019 Device Research Conference (DRC), and the Nano-device sub-committee for the 2018 IEEE IEDM Conference. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), and the African Academy of Sciences.
Rebecca Cheung
Rebecca Cheung received her undergraduate and PhD degrees in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 1986 and 1990, respectively. During her PhD, she was a Visiting Researcher with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA. From 1990 to 2000, she had been a Visiting Scientist with the Delft Institute of Microelectronics and Submicron Technology, The Netherlands; the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland; and the Nanoelectronics Research Centre, University of Glasgow; working on various topics related to semiconductor technology, process induced material damage in GaAs nanostructures, mesoscopic physics in SiGe heterostructures, and microwave circuits in InP for gigabit electronics. Additionally, she was a Founding Member of the Nanostructure Engineering Science and Technology (NEST) Group, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1998. She joined the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and is currently Chair of Nanoelectronics and Head of the Research Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems in the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, U.K. She has an international reputation for her contribution in the development and application of micro- and nano-fabrication. More recently, her research focuses on micro-resonators and microelectromechanical systems. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, served as program chair for EIPBN 2013, and chairs the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal Committee in 2020.
Amanda Ellis
Prof. Amanda Ellis is the Head of Department for Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Ph.D (Applied Chemistry) from the University of Technology, Sydney in 2003. After two postdocs in the USA, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New Mexico State University she secured a Foundation of Research Science and Technology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Industrial Research Ltd, NZ (now Callaghan Innovations). In 2006 Amanda commenced at Flinders University, South Australia as a teaching/research academic in Chemical and Physical Sciences. During this time, she became a Full Professor (2013), an ARC Future Fellow (2014) and acting Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Science and Engineering (2016). In May 2017 she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She has published over 165 peer-reviewed publications on the fundamentals and applications of polymer membrane science, energy storage/ harvesting, microfluidics, genotyping and DNA nanotechnology. She has been a Board Member of the Royal Australia Chemical Institute (RACI (2015-2018), a recipient of the RACI Margaret Sheil Women in Leadership award (2019).
Aiko Fukazawa
Aiko Fukazawa is a Full Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Japan. She received her Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 2008. Her research focuses on molecular design and functional exploration of organic compounds with novel structures and properties, developing a number of unique optoelectronic organic materials. She is the recipient of the 2019 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, Lectureship Award MBLA from the MSD Life Sciences Foundation, The Brilliant Female Researchers Award from JST in Japan, the 2017 Nozoe Young Scientist Award, and the 2014 Award for Distinguished Young Chemists from the Chemical Society of Japan. She currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances, the International Advisory Board of Chemistry-An Asian Journal, and the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Justin Hodgkiss
Justin Hodgkiss is co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, and Chief Scientist of Ultrafast spectroscopy instrumentation company, Advemto. His research group develops and exploits ultrafast optical spectroscopy methods to study light induced processes in nature and in new materials.
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW and one of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellows of 2018. Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of analytical chemistry, materials sciences, gastroenterology electronics and sensors, and has co-authored of >450 highly cited scientific papers and books. He is also a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Applied Nano Materials (associate editor), ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale, Applied Materials Today, Applied Surface Science and ACS Nano. Kalantar-Zadeh is best known for his works on ingestible sensors, liquid metals and two-dimensional semiconductors. He led his group to the invention of an ingestible chemical sensor: human gas sensing capsule, one of the breakthroughs in the field of medical devices. Prof Kalantar-Zadeh has received many international awards for his scientific contributions including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement, 2018 American Chemical Society (ACS) Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards and 2020 Robert Boyle Prize of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He also appeared in the Clarivate Analytics most highly cited list since 2018.
Richard Kaner
Richard Kaner received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 working with Prof. Alan MacDiarmid (Nobel Laureate 2000, deceased). After postdoctoral research at Berkeley, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987, earned tenure in 1991, became a full professor in 1993, a Distinguished Professor in 2012 and was appointed to the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation in 2017. He has published over 450 papers in top peer reviewed journals and holds 62 U.S. patents. According to the most recent Clarivate Analytics/Thomson-Reuters rankings, he is among the world’s most highly cited authors. Professor Kaner has received awards from the Dreyfus, Fulbright, Guggenheim, Packard and Sloan Foundations along with the Materials Research Society Medal, the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize, the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society’s Buck-Whitney Research Award, Tolman Medal, Award in the Chemistry of Materials and the Award in Applied Polymer Science for his work on refractory materials including new synthetic routes to ceramics, intercalation compounds, superhard metals, graphene and conducting polymers. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Physical Society (APS), the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Euro-Acad), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and did a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center, USA. Before joining Cambridge, he was a faculty member at Cornell University in the USA, where he also served as the Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, and at the School of Mines in France. His research has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping in Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as Deputy Editor of Science Advances.
Smaranda Marinescu
Smaranda Marinescu earned her B.S. degree from Caltech, where she did undergraduate research with Prof. John E. Bercaw, and her Ph.D. degree from MIT, where she worked with Prof. Richard R. Schrock, exploring Mo and W alkylidene species for enatio-, Z-, and E-selective olefins metathesis reactions. After graduation in 2011, she undertook a postdoctoral position in the laboratories of Prof. Harry B. Gray at Caltech, as an NSF CCI postdoctoral fellow, working on mechanistic studies of the cobalt catalyzed hydrogen evolution reaction. In August 2013 she started her independent career as a Gabilan Assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. Marinescu has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, such as the NSF CAREER (2016), the Rising Stars Award (2018), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2019), the ACS Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator (2021), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2022). Marinescu’s research focuses on designing, synthesizing, and understanding novel catalytic systems essential to the development of efficient solar-to-fuel technologies.
Sally McArthur
Sally McArthur is the Director of the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) at Deakin University. As an engineering researcher Sally has obtained approximately $25M in funding from research councils, industry and government in the UK and Australia. She passionate about exploring new ways to link industry and academia to create a new products and services and critically, a new generation of entrepreneurial, innovative and internationally connected graduates. Sally spent the last 14 years at Swinburne University of Technology in a variety of roles including Associate Dean of STEM Research, Director of the Swinburne Innovation Precinct, Director of the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute and Professor of BioEngineering. Sally was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer for 6 years at the University of Sheffield in the UK after completing her Post-Doctoral Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She obtained her PhD from the University of New South Wales working with contact lens manufacturer Ciba Vision and CSIRO. She obtained her MEng Sci (Biomedical Engineering) and B.Eng (Materials Engineering) from Monash University.
Natalie Plank
Susan Quinn
Susan Quinn received her BSc and PhD from University College Dublin, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, spending significant time at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. An avid collaborator, her research interests include the development of light activated nanoparticle systems and the study of photoactivated process in nucleic acids. This includes research of DNA photostability, the development of molecular, and nanoparticle DNA targeting probes, and the development nanoparticle based imaging and therapeutic agents. Susan is an elected member of the executive of the European Photochemistry Association and serves as chair of the Life Sciences and Soft Matter Advisory panel STFC, UK.
In 2016, together with with Prof. John Kelly (TCD) and Professor Christine Cardin (Reading University), Susan was awarded the RSC Rita and John Cornforth Medal in recognition of their structural work on DNA – transition metal complexes, proof of the origins of the “light-switch” effect and its implications for mechanisms of DNA damage DNA damage.
Charles Royal
Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is an independent researcher and consultant, and a freelance composer, musician and storyteller. He is passionate about the ‘creative potential’ of indigenous knowledge and communities which he explores through research, teaching and advising, and through music and story. Charles has written/edited six books and ten reports on aspects of mātauranga Māori and iwi histories and traditions. He is also the founder and leader of whare tapere – iwi based ‘houses’ of storytelling, dance, games, music and other entertainments – which takes place in Hauraki. Previously he was a Director at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Director of Graduate Studies and Research at Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa, Ōtaki, and Professor of Indigenous Development and Director, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Auckland. Charles belongs to Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngā Puhi.
Duncan Sutherland
Duncan Sutherland earned his BSc (1991) and PhD (1995) in Physics (Biomaterials Science) from the University of Bristol, receiving the Raychem Prize. He carried out post-doc periods at Chalmers in Sweden through a Royal Society fellowship and then Marie Curie fellowship and remained to earn his Docent. In 2006 he moved his group to Aarhus University in Denmark where he is currently Professor of Biointerfaces at the Interdiscipinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and part of the DNRF Center of Excellence CellPAT and the iMAT research programme. His research interests cover fundamentals and applications of nanoscience and technology in materials and life sciences and and has published 140 articles and 3 patents. Particular directions include biointerfaces, nanooptics, sensors, cell signaling, nanotoxicology and public engagement and education in science. Over the last two decades he has been involved in many grant evaluation programmes including standing committees for the Swedish Research Council and the Villum Foundation.
Richard Taylor
Ilia Valov
Dr.rer.nat Ilia Valov is Head of Group Nanoelectrochemistry at the Research Centre Juelich in Germany and is teaching at the RWTH-Aachen University. He received his M.Sc. degree in materials’ electrochemistry in Sofia, and Ph.D. in physical chemistry of solids / solid state electrochemistry in Giessen, Germany. His research interests and activities are concentrated on electrochemical and, in general, physicochemical phenomena at the nano and sub-nanoscale, such as mass and charge transport, electric double layer, point defects, surfaces and interfaces with a focus on resistive switching memories, memristive and neuromorphic devices, energy conversion and electro- catalysis (water splitting). A special focus is set on the relation between materials chemistry, structure and properties, materials design and particular applications and functionalities.
Ilia Valov is Editor for Scientific Reports (NPG) and Materials (MDPI), and has guest edited special issues for RSC, Wiley and Elsevier journals on topics such as nanoscale electrochemistry, memristive devices and neuromorphic functionalities. He chairs the 2018 Faraday Discussion Meeting on New memory paradigms: memristive phenomena and neuromorphic applications and is co-initiator and co-organizer of the International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems (MEMRISYS) which is the largest and most important annual conference on memristive theory and applications.
Ajayan Vinu
Prof. Vinu is currently working as a Global Innovation Chair Professor and Director of Global Innovative Center for Advanced Nanomaterials at the University of Newcastle and made a significant contribution in the field of nanoporous materials and their application in sensing, energy storage, fuel cells, carbon capture and conversion, hydrogen technologies, catalysis and drug delivery. His contribution has led to ca. 480 papers with 27,000 citations and a H-index of 84, and more than 30 patents. The quality of his research has been recognised with several international awards including Medal, Chemical Research Society of India 2018, SPARC award 2019, CNR Rao Lectureship award 2019. Medal and KY NIEM CHUONG Award 2018, Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award by the Humboldt Society (2010), JSPS Senior Invitational Fellow 2014, Australian Future Fellowship 2010, Indian Society for Chemists and Biologists award for excellence 2010, Catalysis Society of India Young Scientist award 2010, Chemical Society of Japan Award for the Young Scientist 2008, and Laureate of Khwarizmi International Award 2008. Prof. Vinu is honoured with the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, RACI, World Academy of Ceramics, World Academy of Art and Science, Indian Chemical Society, and Asia-pacific Academy of Materials.
Tiffany Walsh
After graduating with a B.Sci(Hons) from the University of Melbourne, Tiff Walsh earned her PhD degree in theoretical chemistry from the University of Cambridge, U.K., as a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholar. Following a Glasstone Fellowship in the Dept of Materials at the University of Oxford in the U.K., she joined the faculty of the University of Warwick in the Dept. of Chemistry and the Centre for Scientific Computing. In 2012 she returned to Australia to the Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University, Geelong, where she is currently Professor of Bio/Nanotechnology. Her research interests focus on computational materials science, chiefly modelling interfaces between soft matter and solid surfaces, including nanoparticles, using both first principles calculations and molecular mechanics-based simulations.
Wang Xiaolin
Distinguished Professor Wang Xiaolin is Director of Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong and Node Director and theme leader of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies. Prof Wang pioneered several ground-breaking studies in superconductors, topological insulators, spintronic materials, liquid metals, thermoelectric materials, wettability, and materials design. He invented a new class of materials, spin-gapless semiconductors, that have been regarded as a new quantum matter, offering a unique platform for next-generation low-energy spintronics and electronics. Prof Wang is committed to fostering and training the next generation of researchers and leaders. Prof Wang’s significant contribution to the Australian research on materials science and condensed matter physics has led him to several Australian Research Council fellowships, including QEII Fellowship and Professorial Future Fellowship. Many of his important works were published in Nature Materials, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Science Advances, etc., with 19000+ citations and an H index of 68.
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