Keynote & PlenarySpeakers
Prof. Tatiana Perova
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Biography: Prof. Perova completed her PhD at Leningrad State University in 1979. She joined the staff of Vavilov State Optical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1979, where she was involved in the characterization of condensed matter using far-infrared and Raman spectroscopy. In 1998 Prof. Perova took a position of the Research Director of Microelectronic Technology Laboratory (MTL) at Trinity College Dublin and from 2007 she is the Director of MTL. Since 2011 she is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and since 2013 she is a Fellow Emeritus. Prof. Perova’s research interests are principally related to the optical characterization of condensed matter, with an emphasis on the analysis of the composition, stoichiometry, molecular orientation, stress and strain in amorphous solids, liquid crystals, photonic crystals and semiconductors. She has over 270 publications in books and referred journals. Prof. Perova has given numerous invited talks at Universities and Research Institutes in Europe, Russia, Australia and Mexico and several invited and keynote talks at International Conferences. Prof. Perova is acting as a Reviewer Editor for the journal Frontiers: Frontiers in Materials and is a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Chemistry Letters journal.
Title of Speech: Micro-Raman spectroscopy and imaging of group IV semiconductor epitaxial nanolayers for photonic and opto-electronic applications
Prof. Lluís Soler
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain
Biography: Lluís Soler received his PhD in Chemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2010. In 2012, he joined the Institute for Integrative Nanoscience at the IFW Dresden (Germany) as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later on he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart (Germany). In 2014 he joined the group of Prof. Jordi Llorca at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC) with a “Beatriu de Pinós” (Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND) grant. He is currently Adjunct Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department at the UPC. He was recently granted as a principal investigator of a JIN type project (2019-2021) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and the ERDF. He published over 40 publications in books and referred journals (h-index=22) and authored over 4 patents. His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis and reaction engineering.
Title of Speech: Identifying active sites in nanoshaped heterogeneous catalysts for energy and environmental applications
Prof. Silvia Giordani
Dublin City University, Ireland
Biography: Silvia Giordani is full Professor (Chair) of Nanomaterials within the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University and a PI of the strategically important National Centre for Sensor research. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Miami, USA and carried out postdoctoral research at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland and at the University of Trieste, Italy. In 2007 she received the prestigious President of Ireland Young Researcher Award and was a Research Assistant Professor at TCD from 2007 to 2013. Since September 2013 she has been leading the new “Nano Carbon Materials” research lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and in December 2016 she was appointed Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy. Her main research interests are in the design, synthesis, and characterization of a wide range of nanomaterials for applications in smart and responsive bio-related nanotechnologies. She is the author/co-author of approx. 100 manuscripts, reviews and book chapters. In 2018 she was awarded the William Evans Fellowship from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and is Visiting Scientist to the Bio-Nano Institute at Toyo University (Japan).
Title of Speech: Smart Carbon Nano Onions for Biomedical Applications
Prof. Jorge Loredo
University of Oviedo, Spain
Biography: Graduated in Mining Engineering from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1976, PhD from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1981. Specialized in Mining Geology at the Paris School of Mines in 1981-1982. Professor of Mining and Environmental Exploration at the Oviedo School of Mines of the University of Oviedo (Spain). Visiting Professor in the University of California at Berkeley in 1987/88, in La Rioja and San Juan Universities (Argentina) in 1997 and 1999, in the University of Piura (Peru) in 1998 and 1999, in the Academy of Mines and Metallurgy of Cracow in 1992, and in the University of Sofía (Bulgaria) in 1993. Coordinator of National and International Research Projects focussed in mine water (CAMINAR, ERMITE, PIRAMID, TRANSCAT, ERBLASEN, CENIT-CO2, GEOCIMA, …. ). Author of papers in specialized magazins and ponent in international conferences in the area of mine water. Currently is member of the Executive Committee Council of the International Mine water Association.