Prof. Adnane Abdelghani is a Full Professor in the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT, Tunisia). He obtained the master degrees in "Microelectronics Devices" at the INSA of Lyon in 1994, then a Ph.D from Ecole Centrale of Lyon (France) in 1997. He was a post-doc researcher in Germany in the field of biophysics (1997-2000). He obtained a Habilitation in Physics in 2004 (Tunisia) and a Habilitation in 2009 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). He organized in Tunisia two International Conferences in the Field of Nanotechnology (2009 and 2012) with the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He is now the leader of research group working mainly on gas sensors based on Functionalized carbon nanotubes (metallic oxides, polymers) and on the development of interdigitated gold microelectrodes integrated in microfluidic cell for bacteria analysis in biologic medium. He published more than 80 papers in International Journals. He edited two chapters book in the field of sensors.
Prof. Erich Sackmann is considered to be the founder of biophysics in Germany. In the German Physical Society, he initiated and established a work group for biophysics. His working area is influenced by numerous interdisciplinary and international co-operations, which also led to three Collaborate Research Centres in the German Research Foundation. In recognition of the groundbreaking results of his research on understanding the dynamics of membranes and biopolymer networks, the mechanical properties of cells as well as cell surface interaction, Erich Sackmann received the Stern-Gerlach Prize of the Germany Physical Society in 2006. Since 2007, he is involved with his current research project “Fundamental Physics” in the Technische Universität München’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Prof. Axel Lorke received his PhD in Experimental Physics in 1991 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munich. He worked as a PostDoc at the University of Tokyo, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the LMU Munich, where he also received his ‘Habilitation’. Since the year 2000 he has been a Full Professor (C4) for Experimental Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His work focuses on the electronic and optical properties nano-structures and low-dimensional semiconductors. Starting in 2004 he has been coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Nanoparticles from the Gas Phase’,funded by the German Research Foundation. He is co-founder and presently Director of the ‘Center for NanoIntegration Duisburg-Essen’ (CeNIDE), which represents about 35 research groups working in the nanosciences with a total of about 200 scientists.
Lorke is author and co-author of 4 patents and 125 refereed publications with a total of about 4000 citations.
Prof. Dr.larbi Sfaxi is a Full Professor in the Graduate School of Sciences and Technology (ESSTHS Tunisia). He obtained the master degrees in "Materials Science" at the University of Paris VI in 1991, then a Ph.D from the same University (France) in 1995. He obtained a Habilitation in Physics in 2002 (Tunisia). In 2007, he was an invited professor at the Institute of Nanotechnology of Lyon (France). His research area is the growth by MBE and the optical and electrical characterization of nanoscale structures. He published more than 70 papers in International Journals.
Dr. Sir Harold "Harry" W. Kroto, one of the co-recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, now teaches at FSU. Dr. Kroto is a Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Kroto gives a highly popular series of public lectures, visiting area schools to promote science education and has taught a graduate class on interstellar chemistry. He comes to FSU from the University of Sussex in England, where he taught for 37 years.
Kroto said his move to FSU allows him to "not only open up some new research avenues" but "also maintain the considerable momentum that (his research has) built up over the past 10 years in my international educational outreach work." Dr. Kroto, through the Vega Trust website, aims to create a broadcast platform for the science, engineering and technology (SET) communities, so enabling them to communicate on all aspects of their fields of expertise using the exciting new TV and Internet opportunities.
An ardent advocate for science education, Kroto devotes much of his time and energy to promoting careers in science among young people. "He'll be a very visible guy" on campus, said Alan G. Marshall, a professor of chemistry, in an interview with Chemical & Engineering News. "The plan is for him to give at least one lecture to every freshman at Florida State during their career, so they'll get a chance to see him."
Kroto's Nobel Prize was based on his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs." The extraordinary molecule consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged as a spheroid, in a pattern exactly matching the stitching on soccer balls. The configuration reminded Kroto of the geodesic domes designed by the late inventor/architect Buckminster Fuller, hence the name "buckminsterfullerines."
Kroto is the second Nobelist (with J. Robert Schrieffer of the National Magnetic Field Laboratory) now serving on the FSU faculty. Others to serve at FSU were Konrad Bloch, human sciences; James Buchanan, economics; Paul Dirac, physics; and Robert Sanderson Mulliken, chemical physics.
In 2001, Kroto won the Royal Society's prestigious Michael Faraday Award. The award is given annually to a scientist who has done the most to further public communication of science, engineering or technology in the United Kingdom.
Prof. Erich Sackmann is considered to be the founder of biophysics in Germany. In the German Physical Society, he initiated and established a work group for biophysics. His working area is influenced by numerous interdisciplinary and international co-operations, which also led to three Collaborate Research Centres in the German Research Foundation. In recognition of the groundbreaking results of his research on understanding the dynamics of membranes and biopolymer networks, the mechanical properties of cells as well as cell surface interaction, Erich Sackmann received the Stern-Gerlach Prize of the Germany Physical Society in 2006. Since 2007, he is involved with his current research project “Fundamental Physics” in the Technische Universität München’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Kenneth A. Dawson is Director of the Centre for BioNano Interactions (CBNI). The scientific focus of this Centre is to understand the interaction of nanoparticles with living systems (www.ucd.ie/cbni). The Centre seeks to clarify the controlling factors for these interactions, and to support applications in nanotherapeutics and nanosafety. Prof. Dawson is Chair of Physical Chemistry, Chairman of the National BioNanoscience Action, and co-ordinator of the European Infrastructure in the arena. He has experience in the management of large scale EU projects, including multi-sectoral cross-disciplinary research projects and other international programs. He has received several international prizes, including the 2007 Cozzarelli prize from the National Academy of Sciences USA, as well as IBM, Packard, Canon, Sloan and Dreyfus prizes.
Prof. Dawson’s professional roles include representing Ireland on various international bodies, including the OECD and ISO working groups on standards for Nanotechnology. He has been an advisor on nanoscience matters in the EU New Risk Committee of the European Commission, as well asthe Advisory group of the European Medicines Agency.
Prof. Eduard Llobet is the director of the research center in Materials Engineering and micro / nano systems (EMAS), which aims to transfer and training in the field of new materials and micro / nano systems, especially those related development of new technologies for application in the fields of sustainable chemistry, environment, health, energy and communications.
After graduating in Telecom Engineering (UPC), since 1993 he is professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He obtained his doctorate degree from the UPC in 1997.
Prof. Llobet has published over 163 articles in journals, he is co-author of 8 chapters of international books and has presented more than 200 contributions in international conferences.
Dr Alexander Mozalev was born in Minsk, Belarus (USSR) in 1962. He received the BSc in Engineering from the Minsk Radioengineering Institute (MRTI) in 1985, the MSc and PhD (CSc) in Engineering (Solid State Electronics) from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR) in 1990 and 1993 respectively.
Following graduation, he was employed by MRTI (1985) and then BSUIR (1995) where he started interested in applied electrochemistry, mostly for forming nanoporous anodic films on aluminium and nanostructured oxide films on a range of transition metals. He was one of the Soviet scientists who discovered the phenomenon of field-assisted growth of self-organized metal-oxide nanostructures resulting from smart anodizing of thin-film metal bilayers (1984), published the first report disclosing the method concept (1986) and has contributed significantly to the conception development till now. During his 25-year employment at MRTI-BSUIR, Dr Mozalev was involved in a variety of investigations and developed a number of advanced electrochemistry-based technologies for electronic passives, multilevel interconnections of CMOS VLSI, self-assembled nano-cathodes for FED displays, LED structures based on porous alumina with embedded organic luminophors, alumina membranes and separators for Li-metal batteries, nanostructured active layers for micromachined gas sensors.
Since June 2011, Dr Mozalev has been employed as a senior researcher at Brno University of Technology (BUT) and joined the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) in the Czech Republic where he is currently leading a group formed to develop next generation solid state devices via electrochemistry-based approaches. In this capacity, he has been involved in the formation and investigation self-organized 3-D nanofilms consisting of metals, semiconductors and mixtures via a blend of electrochemical and physical deposition techniques for application to sensors, hydrogen generators, solar cells, electric capacitors and nonvolatile memory cells.
Dr Mozalev has been a fellow and invited professor at the leading anodizing research laboratories in Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain and Czech Republic thanks to the awards of STA of Japan, JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), AGAUR of Generalitat de Catalunya, DFG, The Max-Planck Society, Marie Curie Actions, SoMoPro program and GACR.
Dr Mozalev has been a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), the Surface Finishing Society of Japan and the Anodizing Research Society of Japan (ARS). He has served as a reviewer for the European Science Foundation and for 17 scientific journals of ACS Publications, RSC Publishing, ECS Publishing, Elsevier, Wiley-VCH and IOP Publishing (63 reviews so far made). He was a committee member of 6 international conferences.
Dr Mozalev is the author of 65 papers, reviews and proceedings, 16 R&D reports, over 140 contributions to international conferences including 15 invited lectures and courses, and holds 7 patents and invention certificates (USSR, Japan, Belarus).
Prof. Joydeep Dutta is the Chair of Functional Materials division at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was the Chair Professor in Nanotechnology for Water Desalination and other applications in Sultan Qaboos University until recently. He was the Vice President (Academic Affairs), Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology and a Professor in Nanotechnology at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, whose faculty he joined in April 2003 (until October 2011). He completed his Ph.D in 1990 from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India (Calcutta University). In 1991 and 1992 he did Post Doctoral work at the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL, Japan) and at Ecole Polytechnique (France) before moving to Switzerland in 1993 where he was associated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland until 2003. From 1997-2001 he worked in technical and managerial qualities in high technology industries in Switzerland before returning back to academia in 2002. He has been the member of the board of two companies working in high technology electronics and environmental consulting respectively.
His broad research interests include nanomaterials in nanotechnology, self-organization, enhanced water treatment, catalysis, nanoparticles, nanorods and their applications. The current research interests encompasses two themes namely: Planetcare and healthcare. In the planetcare nexus research is focused on visible light photocatalysis, electrocatalysis of waste water (with focus on degradation of waste water, produced water and hospital waste), desalination (both membrane and capacitive deionization) and alternate energy sources (rainbow solar cells and hydrogen production from methanol steam reforming). In the healthcare nexus, work in the group encompass magnetic imaging, quantum dot labeling and in bone implants.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN) and the Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SNN), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, founding member of the Thailand Nanotechnology Society, and member of several professional bodies. He has served to review projects of various scientific organizations of different countries and has organized a few international conferences and served as a member in several others.
Prof. Dutta is an award winning author (Choice award for Outstanding Academic title of 2010 from American Library Association) of the book “Fundamentals of Nanotechnology”. He has also written two other text books entitled “Introduction to Nanoscience” and “Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” (CRC Press of Taylor and Francis Group LLC).
Dr. Edreese Alsharaeh earned his B. Sc. in Chemistry in 1993 from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and his M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry on 1997 From Tennessee State University (USA). In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He had intense teaching and industrial experience, as well as, a number of scholarly achievements including US patent . He have had journals published in a major referee journal. (American Chemical Society Publications) and numerous presentations in ACS Meeting nationally and regionally. He worked as Senior Scientist in The R&D Laboratory of Vintage Pharmaceutical Company. Then he accepted the position as assistant professor in chemistry at George Mason University and Gulf University for Sciences and Technology . His research interest in the general areas of Nanomaterials and polymer nanocomposites materials containing graphene nansheets and metal nanoparticles. The major goal is to gain insights as to how the properties of matter evolve as the size of a material system ranges from molecular to macroscopic dimensions.
Dr Taleb Ibrahim earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has taught and worked on research in chemical engineering and chemistry departments for more than 18 years at universities such as Auburn University and Tuskegee University, USA.
His areas of research and teaching interest are interfacial phenomena/surface, colloidal science, materials science, corrosion, separation processes and thermodynamics. In his research, emphasis is placed on problems that are related but not limited to polymers, composite materials, pharmaceutical products, environmental issues and corrosion. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers and organized/co-chair several conferences.