The 11th edition of the EGF - Graphene and 2D Materials 2026

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ICN2-CSIC, Spain

Daniel Ruiz-Molina is a Full Professor of Materials Sciences and Nanotechnology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Editor of the journal Biomimetics. He earned his PhD at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and afterwards took a 3-year postdoctoral position at the University of California San Diego (USA), mostly focused on smart molecular materials. Since 2006, he has held a permanent position as a CSIC researcher and leader of the Nanostructured Functional Materials Group (NanosFun) at the ICN2. His main research areas include the fabrication, characterization, and application of functional nanostructures for environmental and medical applications. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles in leading environmental and chemical engineering research journals, book chapters, and conferences and he has authored numerous professional reports. He has also been very active in industrial collaborations and applied research, setting up four startups in areas related to the environment and health.

Manchester University - United Kingdom

Prof. Vladimir Fal’ko is condensed matter theorist responsible for several advances in the theory of electronic and optical properties of atomically thin two-dimensional crystals and fundamentals of nanoelectronics. His current research interests include graphene-based electronic and optoelectronic systems and electronic and optical properties of various atomically thin two-dimensional crystals and their heterostructures. He is one of the initiators of the European Graphene Flagship Project, founder of Graphene Week Conference series and Editor-in-Chief of the IoP Journal ‘2D Materials’. Falko is currently Director of the National Graphene Institute and Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Manchester.

University of Zaragoza, Spain

Dr. Arenal is the Group leader of the Nanoscopy on Low Dimensional Materials (NLDM) at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragon (INMA, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza) and since 2018, he is the Coordinator of the TEM area of the Laboratorio de Microspcopias Avanzadas (LMA, Universidad de Zaragoza, member of the ELECMI, Spanish National facility (ICTS) for Advanced Microscopies). Since Dec. 2011 Dr. Arenal is on leave from the CNRS and he is currently ARAID Research Professor at the INMA and the LMA. Dr. Raul Arenal received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Univ. Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, 2005) and in 2013, he obtained his Habilitation (HDR) also at this University. From April 2005 to August 2007, he joined the Electron Microscopy Center in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, USA) as post-doctoral fellow. In 2007, he became research scientist (Chargé de Recherches) at the CNRS (France), working at the LEM, CNRS-ONERA (Chatillon, France).

Dr. Arenal has published more than 325 papers in refereed journals (http://www.raularenal.com) and edited one book (Springer).

He is Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of the Societies for Microscopies (IFSM) (2024-2031). Dr. Arenal is member of the board of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME; periods: 2013-2017, 2017-2021 & 2021-2025) and in 2021, he has been elected Secretary of the SME (2021-2025). In 2017, DR. Arenal has been elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and this year he was elected member of its board (2017-2020; Communication Vice-chair and Membership Chair). Dr. Arenal is the chair of the HeteroNanoCarb conference series focused on graphene, NT and related 1D-2D nanomaterials.

National University of Singapore - NUS, Singapore (to be confirmed)

Professor Barbaros Özyilmaz is best known for his work on developing new device applications based on 2D materials such as graphene, black phosphorus, and monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC). He graduated in 1999 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, with his Diplomarbeit in Physics at the European High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Institute in Grenoble, France. He undertook his PhD studies (1999-2004) with Prof Andrew Kent at New York University. His PhD work in collaboration with IBM on spin transfer torque provided the foundational IP for one of the first STT-RAM start-up companies; Spin Memory, Inc., Fremont, California. He did his postdoctoral work (2004-2007) at Columbia University in Prof Philip Kim’s group pioneering graphene research in the USA. He joined the Physics Department at NUS in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was instrumental in establishing Graphene Research in Singapore. He was promoted directly to full professor in 2013. As founding member and Deputy Director of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D material (CA2DM) he has greatly contributed to establishing NUS as one of the globally leading Centre’s for 2D material research. More recently he has transformed the Office of Industry and Innovation at CA2DM into a 2D materials incubator with a focus on joint technology validation with industry. Since 2019 he is also the Department Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at NUS. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NRF Fellowship and the NRF Investigator Award, NUS Young Investigator Award and the Institute of Physics Award, Singapore.

He is globally recognized as a highly prolific researcher and inventor in a wide range of material systems and device applications. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed research papers and has close to 30 patents and is among the top cited researchers in the world. Both in 2018 & 2019 he was listed in the Clarivate Analytics – Global Highly Cited Researchers List for Cross-Field Research demonstrating significant scientific influence through publication of multiple papers that are ranked in the top 1 per cent by citations for their field and year of publication. His current focus is on accelerating the widespread adoption of graphene and other 2D materials into industry. His is the founder of GrapheneScale Pte. Ltd, a NUS spin-off commercializing graphene for the use in supercapacitors, semiconductors, heat assisted magnetic recording, IR sensors, and in biomedical applications.

Oak Ridge & University at Buffalo, USA

Dr. Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo; a Member of US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors; a Fellow of AAAS, MRS, IEEE, APS, ASM, ACERS, IOP, WIF and WTN; and a Member of the US National Materials & Manufacturing Board (NMMB). He has co-authored over 360 publications and has 85 issued patents. He was ranked by Thompson-Reuters as the most cited author worldwide in the field of high temperature superconductors from 1999-2009. He is the Director of the Lab for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices, and the Director of the NYS Center of Plastics Recycling Research & Innovation at SUNY. He served as the Founding Director of the Institute on Research and Education on Energy, Environment & Water (2015-21), and is an Emeritus Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Lab. He has received numerous accolades including DOE’s E.O. Lawrence (EOL) Award in the inaugural category of Energy Science & Innovation. The EOL award is given by the DOE Secretary on behalf of the President. Selected additional honors include: TEN R&D 100 awards, the R&D Magazine's "Innovator-of-the-Year" award (2010), Three National Federal Lab Consortium Awards for Tech. Transfer, and the SUNY-Buffalo President’s Medal (2019), the. highest award at the University at Buffalo.

IHP, Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany

Dr. Mindaugas Lukošius received M.Sc. degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2006 from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. The PhD degree in Chemistry was obtained from the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany in 2010, in the field of CVD depositions and developments of high-k MIM capacitors. In 2015 he joined the Graphene research group and since 2018 he is leading the 2D materials team in the Materials Research department at IHP and focuses on the development and integration of novel graphene modules into the BiCMOS pilot line. The research focuses on graphene- and 2D-material-based photonic devices, with particular emphasis on graphene modulators integrated on silicon nitride platform.