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Prof. Ute Kaiser

Ulm University, Germany

Title: Atomic-Level Functionalization of Two-Dimensional Inorganic and Organic Materials.

Ute Kaiser received her Diploma and PhD in Crystallography and Physics from Humboldt University Berlin in 1976 and 1993, respectively. She completed her habilitation in Experimental Physics at the University of Jena, Germany, in 2002. From 2004 to 2023, she served as a Full Professor at Ulm University and headed the Materials Science Electron Microscopy Center in Ulm. Since October 2023, she has held the position of Senior Professor at Ulm University.

Between 2009 and 2018, she was the Scientific Director of the SALVE project, playing a key role in the development of low-voltage TEM technology. Her research focuses on applying this innovative technique to investigate and functionalize the properties of low-dimensional materials. She has authored more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

She is currently the Physical Sciences Editor for the journal Micron.

Prof. John Texter

Strider Research Corporation, USA

Title: To be confirmed.

John Texter is Professor Emeritus of Polymer and Coating Technology at Eastern Michigan University and consults through Strider Research Corporation. He received his undergraduate engineering education and his PhD in Chemistry from Lehigh University, where he studied at the Zettlemoyer Center for Surface and Coatings Research. He is an experienced lecturer, technical project manager, inventor, editor, and author of over 250 publications including five books, 47 issued U.S. patents, and many research and review articles. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. His research focuses on stimuli-responsive polymers, particles, and materials and the general area of dispersion science and practice.

Prof. Gerd Bacher

University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Title: Optoelectronics with scalable 2D materials

Gerd Bacher studied physics and received his PhD at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He continued his career as senior scientist at Würzburg University and joined Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as a guest professor 1996/1997. In 2003, Gerd Bacher got a full professorship at the faculty of engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he co-founded the center of nanointegration (CENIDE). His research activities cover nanomaterials and nanodevices for optoelectronics, information science and energy applications, with a focus on 2D materials. He published > 300 scientific papers and gave > 100 invited talks. Currently, he is co-speaker of an international research training group on 2D materials with > 30 PhD and MSc students, jointly funded by DFG and NSERC.

Prof. Ya-Ping Sun

Clemson University, USA

Title: Composite Materials with 2D Nanofillers and Decoupled Thermal and Electrical Conductivities for Thermal Management Applications.

Dr. Ya-Ping Sun earned his Ph.D. (1989) at Florida State University with Prof. Jack Saltiel. After postdoctoral training at the University of Texas at Austin in the groups of Prof. Josef Michl and Prof. Marye Anne Fox, he became a Clemson faculty as assistant professor in 1992, full professor in 1999, and the endowed Frank Henry Leslie Chair Professor in 2003. His research interest and activities have mostly been in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, with 370+ publications, 52,500+ citations, and an h-index of 108.

Prof. Byeongmoon Jeong

Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Title: 2D/3D composite systems for biomedical applications.

Byeongmoon Jeong has been working on design/synthesis of biomedical materials and their applications to drug delivery, 3D cell culture, and new drug screening. In particular, intensive research on development of "heat-induced sol-gel transition polymers (thermogel)”, transition mechanism, and their biomedical applications are published in 100 peer-reviewed SCI(E) papers including Nature, Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Biomaterials, J. Controlled Release, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Macromolecules, Biomacromolecules, and 10 patents. Byeongmoon Jeong published about 160 SCI(E) papers which have been cited 17,900 times with h-index=56. He also transferred 3 technologies to biotech companies. He has been serving vice president of KSBM and Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials Research, an official journal of KSBM with an impact factor of 8.1.

Prof. Wanqin Jin

Nanjing Tech University, China

Title: Graphene-based Membranes for Molecular or Ion Separation

Dr. Wanqin Jin is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University, the Director of the State Key laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University of Technology in 1999. He was a research associate at Institute of Materials Research &Engineering of Singapore (2001), an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2001-2003), visiting professors at Arizona State University (2007) and Hiroshima University (2011, JSPS invitation fellowship). His currently research focuses on the development of membrane materials and processes. He has published over 300 refereed journal publications including Nature, Science, Nat. Mater., AIChE J., J. Membr. Sci. with 34,000+ citations and 95 of H-index; written 3 monographs, contributed 6 book chapters and hold 64 authorized patents. He is now an editor of Journal of Membrane Science. His research has been awarded the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award from the Chinese Government (2024), and the Underwood Medal (2019) by the IChemE (UK) and the “Humboldt Research Award” (2021) by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his leading research in the area of separation.

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