Dr Sara Abalde-Cela is the Research Group Leader of the Medical Devices group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal. The Medical Devices group focuses on the development of optofluidic platforms for the diagnosis and understanding of diseases. Sara holds a PhD in nanotechnology by the Universidade de Vigo and a postdoc in the field of microfluidics at the University of Cambridge. Sara has attracted +6 million € in competitive funding as a PI, such as Pathfinder, FET Open or RIA/IA Actions. She has also been active in teaching, science outreach and start-up programs internationally (Cambridge, London, Boston, Vigo, and Braga). Sara is the co-founder of the start-up RUBYnanomed (2018 – now), having raised + 5 million € for innovation to date. In 2022 she was nominated as finalist for Women Innovators Prize by the European Innovation Council.

Ana Alcudia obtained her Ph.D. with Honors (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado) in the field of Asymmetric Synthesis under the supervision of Prof. J. Luis García Ruano from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay in Emory University (USA) in the group of Prof. L. Liebesking focusing on organometallics synthesis, she joined two pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson PRDES and PharmaMar to develop new chemical entities with therapeutical interest. In 2004 she joined the Department of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at Universidad de Sevilla as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher. In 2011 she was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2024 achieved Full Professorship. She is the author of 56 publications and the leader of QUIFARA group, which is focused in developing novel strategies that use organic and medicinal synthesis to construct new functional nanomaterials with interesting applications in the fields of agriculture, nutrition, and specially biomedicine and bioengineering. https://prisma.us.es/investigador/96

José Alemán defended his doctoral thesis in 2006 in the field of asymmetric synthesis under the guidance of Prof. García Ruano. After completing a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Jørgensen (2006-2008) in the field of organocatalysis, he joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as a Ramón y Cajal researcher. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor and achieved full professorship in 2023. He has received various research awards, including the Lilly award for the best doctoral student (2005), the award for the best doctoral thesis at UAM (2006), the Sigma-Aldrich award for young researchers from RSEQ (2013), the Lilly award for young researchers (2015), and the José Barluenga-RSEQ Medal (2022). His research focuses mainly on asymmetric catalysis and catalytic materials, and he has authored 210 scientific publications. He has supervised 23 doctoral theses, over 40 bachelor's and master's theses. In 2015, he received a Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council, a PoC-ERC-2019 and has obtained more than 17 projects in competitive calls. Since 2022, he has been serving as the director of the Institute Advanced of Chemistry-University Autonoma de Madrid.

Dr. Barranco received his BA in Physical Chemistry from the University of Granada (1995) and his PhD from the University of Sevilla in 2002. After three postdoctoral periods in the CNRS (Poitiers, France, 2002), EMPA-ETH (Switzerland 2003-2004), and the University of Seville (Ramon y Cajal fellow (2005-2006) he got a tenured position in the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) in 2007. Since 2016, he is a Senior Scientist at the Materials Science Institute of Seville (ICMS-CSIC-US). His scientific career is focused on developing multifunctional materials in the form of thin films, multilayered supported nanostructures, and functional surfaces by plasma and vacuum techniques, including the development of devices (photonic sensors, solar cells, optical devices). He is the Group Leader of the Nanotechnology and Plasma Group in the ICMS. He has co-authored 150 research articles and 13 patents and supervised 9 doctoral theses

Giuseppe, also referred to as Beppe, is a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) professor and group leader at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). Beppe is an Honorary Professor in Biophysical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) and a visiting professor at the West China Hospital - Sichuan University. Before his current position at IBEC, Beppe held a chair in Molecular Bionics at UCL (2013-2022), a chair in Synthetic Biology (2011-2013), and a lectureship (2006-2011) at the University of Sheffield. He leads a diverse team of scientists dedicated to investigating the transport of molecules and cells across body barriers and developing novel nanomedicines. He is also the founder of Somaserve Ltd, a biotech company specialising in precision nanomedicine and gene therapy.

Prof. Sonia Conesa-Boj obtained her Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2011. Afterwards she moved to a postdoctoral research position at EPFL Lausanne, funded by a Marie-Heim Vogtlin personal fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. After a second postdoc in The Netherlands, in 2016 Dr. Conesa-Boj became Assistant Professor at the Department of Quantum Nanoscience and the Kavli Instiuture of Nanoscience at TU Delft, and since 2020 she's tenured Associate Professor there. The focus of her research is developing novel approaches for the growth and characterisation of low-dimensional nanoscale materials, from nanowires to van der Waals layered materials. She has demonstrated how the exploitation of state-of-the-art Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques provide a unique window to unravel the physical properties of novel nanomaterials. Dr. Sonia Conesa-Boj is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and her research has been supported, among others, by the award of an ERC Starting Grant and a Dutch "Top Kennis en Innovatie" Consortium grant.

Silvano De Franceschi is an expert in quantum nanoelectronics and experimental mesoscopic physics. He received his PhD in 1999 at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and, he currently works as research director at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG). In 2005 he was awarded the Nicholas Kurti European Prize for his achievements in the field of quantum transport and, in particular, his works on the Kondo effect in quantum dots and on hybrid normal/superconductor nanostructures. His current research activity focuses on the development of silicon-based devices for quantum information processing. He is co-leading the Grenoble Quantum Silicon Group (http://quantumsilicon-grenoble.eu) and he is one of the three PIs in the ERC Synergy project QuCube

Ernane de Freitas Martins is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). He has a master’s in science from the Federal University of São João del-Rei (Brazil) and a PhD in physics from the São Paulo State University (Brazil), including an internship time at Uppsala University (Sweden). After finishing his PhD in 2018, he was involved in several research projects focusing on different methods for including the solvent effects on molecular modeling. Currently, his main research area is on modeling innovative coating technologies to prevent metals from corroding in an as realistic as possible fashion, fully accounting for both the solvent and voltage effects at the electrified interface.

Luis Echegoyen was the Robert A. Welch Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso from August 2010 until his retirement in 2021. He was President of the American Chemical Society in 2020 and was the Director of the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation from 2006 until 2010. He was simultaneously a Professor of Chemistry at Clemson University in South Carolina, where he maintained a research program with interests in fullerene electrochemistry, monolayer films, supramolecular chemistry, endohedral fullerene chemistry and electrochemistry; and carbon nano-onions He served as Chair for the Department of Chemistry at Clemson University from 2002-2006. Luis has published >520 articles, including 49 book chapters, and his current h index is 94 (Google Scholar, 1-29-2024). He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 and was the recipient of many awards, including the 1996 Florida ACS Award, the 1997 University of Miami Provost Award for Excellence in Research, the 2007 Herty Medal Award from the ACS Georgia Section, the 2007 Clemson University Presidential Award for Excellence in Research, and the 2007 University of Puerto Rico Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was also selected as an ACS Fellow in 2011. He was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2019. Luis has >500 scientific invited lectures and presentations. He has delivered several named lectureships in places like Northwestern University, Georgia Tech., UC-Riverside and is a member of several international advisory boards, such as the IMDEA-Nanoscience Center in Madrid and Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces (PCOSS) Center at Xiamen University in China. He was the editor in chief of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, a Wiley publication, from 2010-8. Since May, 2023, he works at the Instituto Catalan de Investigación Química (ICIQ) where he is the International Chair for Academic Programs, acting as an ambassador for the institute, mainly focused in Latin America.

Prof. Feng is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and heads the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. His current scientific interests include synthetic methodology for new-type polymers, organic and polymer synthesis, interfacial chemistry, supramolecular chemistry of π-conjugated system, bottom-up synthesis of carbon nanostructures and graphene nanoribbons, 2D polymers and supramolecular polymers, 2D carbon-rich conjugated polymers for opto-electronics and spintronics, electrochemical exfoliation of 2D crystals, graphene and 2D materials for energy storage and conversion, new energy devices and technologies. He published more than 725 research articles, attracting >109.000 citations with an H-index of 164 (Google Scholar). He was awarded several prestigious prizes such as the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014), Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014-2021), Small Young Innovator Award (2017), Hamburg Science Award (2017), EU-40 Materials Prize (2018), ERC Consolidator Grant Award (2018). He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019), member of the Academia Europaea (2019), and member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech, 2021). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemNanoMat, Energy Storage Materials, Small Methods, Chemistry -An Asian Journal, Trends in Chemistry, etc. He is Head of the ESF Young Research Group "Graphene Center Dresden", Working Package Leader of WP Functional Foams & Coatings for European Commission’s pilot project “Graphene Flagship”, and Spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research “Center for the Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials” (2020-).

J. Fernández-Rossier leads the group of Theory of Quantum Nanostructures at INL (Braga, Portugal) since 2011. He obtained a Diploma (1994) and a PhD (1999) on Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He then spend 2 years (99-01) as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of California San Diego and 18 months (01-03) at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2003 he obtained a "Ramón y Cajal" assistant professor position in the Universidad de Alicante (UA). He was promoted to a permanent position in 2008 and to associate professor (professor titular) in 2009. Since 2011 he is on leave from the UA and he holds a tenured staff researcher position at the INL (Braga, Portugal). He has graduated 8 PhD students, coauthored more than 150 papers, coordinated several European and national research projects. His research interests include 2D materials, on-surface atomic scale magnetism, nanographenes, scanning tunnel microscopies, quantum sensing and quantum computing.

Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship

Gianluca Fiori, Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and Deputy Leader of the Graphene Flagship's Electronic Devices Work Package. Fiori is working on new device architectures that can be printed on paper and other low-cost materials, in collaboration with Graphene Flagship partners the University of Manchester, UK, and Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Gianluca Fiori is an electrical engineer with a background in device simulations. He worked on electrical and noise characterisation of nanoscale devices during his PhD. He have experience investigating the main mechanisms at play in novel devices, as well as assessing their potential performance against the requirements of industry. Recently, he obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant for flexible electronics with graphene and layered materials.

P. David García is an experimental Physicist interested on complexity and emergent phenomena in photonic systems both in the classical and quantum regimes. His research background is on the role of fabrication disorder in photonic nanostructures where the components (scatterers) show short and long-range spatial correlations. In photonics, interesting phenomena occur when disorder and imperfection appear at length scales similar to visible and near infrared electromagnetic wavelengths. At first sight, this may be seen as a problem but it can also be used to our advantage in technologies involving the emission or propagation of light for, e.g., energy harvesting, imaging, lasing, quantum optics or information generation and processing. P. David Garcia obtained the PhD working on random lasers at the Material Science Institute in Madrid (CSIC) and then he spent 8 years in Copenhagen working in quantum photonics first at the DTU as a postdoc and then as Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 2015 he moved to Barcelona first as a Skłodowska-Curie and then as a Ramon y Cajal fellow to work in optomechanics at the ICN2. Back in 2021, P. David obtained a CSIC permanent position at the ICMM where is leading a research line on optomechanics (https://pdgarfer.github.io/) and coordinates a n EU Pathfinder project (https://www.neuropic-project.com/) on Neuromorphic computing exploiting the complexity observed in nanoscale optomechanical systems.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. Danijela received her PhD at the CIC biomaGUNE in Spain, followed by a postdoc at the MIT in the US.  Her Biointerfaces lab now focuses on the development of new functional nanomaterials and interfaces with applications in modulating cellular signaling. Danijela has received an ERC Starting Grant 2023 and is involved in two ongoing EIC Pathfinder projects, CROSSBRAIN (https://crossbrain.eu/) and BRAINSTORM (https://www.brainstorm-project.eu/), the latter of which she coordinates. These projects largely concentrate on exploring the new physical properties of inorganic materials to wirelessly stimulate and sense neuronal activity.

Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Malaga with ten years' experience in the private sector. Expert in the optimisation of solar energy management in industrial and experimental devices. Her research interests include the preparation, characterisation and application of materials in their nano- and macrometric dimensions for their implementation in photovoltaic devices, both silicon and less mature technologies, photosupercapacitors and, more recently, photoelectrolysis of water to produce green hydrogen

Dr. Jan M. Macak is a Senior Researcher and a group leader at the Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies of the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic and at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) in Brno, Czech Republic, as the leader of the research group Advanced Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials. He got his Ph.D. in 2008 at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received several prestigious awards and in 2015 also ERC Starting grant „Chromtisol“ devoted to development of new type of solar cells based on nanotubular titania. His research is focused on the synthesis of new low-dimensional structures such as nanotubes, nanoparticles, nanofibers, in various ways and their applications, especially in electrochemically driven applications. He currently serves as the Chairman of the European Section of the Electrochemical Society. The presention will focus on the Atomic Layer Deposition synthesis of ultrasmall noble metal nanoparticles down to single atoms for electrocatalytic applications

Manuel Marques obtained his B.A in physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995 and was awarded with an extraordinary Ph.D. prize in physics at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2000. Fullbright fellow at Boston University from 2001 to 2003. In 2003 he was awarded with a Ramón y Cajal appointment at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Manuel Marques is now Associate Professor in the Material Physics Department and member of the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics (IFIMAC). He has coauthored more than 100 scientific articles with around 2000 citations

Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero: is a senior researcher at the Institute of Chemical research (ICIQ) where she acts as scientific coordinator of Prof. Palomares group. She has several years of experience on material’s chemistry, especially on nanocrystalline metal oxides and optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and light emitting diodes. The aim of her research during these last years has been to prepare the devices and characterize their morphological, structural and photophysical properties to establish a relationship between these features to improve their performance, in terms of efficiency and/or stability.

Verónica Montes-García obtained her PhD degree from the University of Vigo (Spain) under the supervision of Dr Isabel Pastoriza-Santos and Dr Jorge Pérez-Juste. Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Paolo Samorì in the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.) (France). She is the author of 37 publications on (hybrid) low-dimensional materials for diverse applications including chemical sensors, strain sensors, heterogeneous catalysis, and energy storage systems

Dr. Sergio E. Moya is at group leader at CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain. Sergio got a degree in Chemistry at the National University of the South Argentina, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Germany, working at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. He did post docts at the College de France in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge, UK. His group at CIC biomaGUNE works on soft materials for biomedical applications with a focus on physico chemical aspects, bio nano interactions and biological fate.He has published more than 270 articles in different areas of Chemistry, Soft Matter and Nanomedicine

Miguel Muñoz Rojo received my PhD (2015) in Condensed Matter Physics & Nanotechnology from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and M.S./B.S. in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He obtained a JAE pre-doctoral Fellowship from CSIC to study during my PhD how the reduction of dimensionality affects the transport properties of organic and inorganic thermoelectric materials. During this period of time, he carried out scientific stays at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York, USA), the University of Bordeaux (France) and the University of California Berkeley (USA). In 2012, he participated in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics after qualifying in an international competition among young talent scientists. From 2016 to 2018, he became a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, studying two dimensional (2D) materials and devices based on them for thermal, electrical, and thermoelectric applications. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. He was successful in obtaining funding for his research in USA and Europe, including the ERC Consolidator Grant 2023, in the field of thermal conversion and management processes with national and international partners. He is now a permanent researcher at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) working at the institute of Materials Science in Madrid (ICMM). His research focuses on thermal management, energy harvesting, nano- and micro-scale thermometry and thermal sensing

Vincenzo Palermo obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2003 at the University of Bologna, after working at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and at the Steacie Institute, National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). He has published more than 130 scientific articles on international journals in chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science (>4000 citations, h-index=35). Vincenzo Palermo holds a joint position as research director of the National Reseach Council of Italy, and research professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, acting as vice-director of the Graphene Flagship. Between 2013 and 2017 he has been the leader of the work package on composites of the flagship. He previously coordinated two large European research projects: GOSPEL (Graphene-Organic SuPramolEcular functionaL composites) and the International Training Network GENIUS (GraphenE-orgaNIc hybrid architectures for organic electronics: a mUltiSite training action), and was member of the scientific committee of EUROGRAPHENE programme of the ESF. In 2012 Vincenzo Palermo won the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and in 2013 the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI).

Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science.

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.

Dr.Celia Rogero is Tenured Researcher of CSIC and Vice-president of the Spanish Vacuum Society (ASEVA) She got her PhD from UAM in 2003. From 2004 to 2009 she was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Astrobiology Center in Madrid, CAB (INTA-CSIC). She is expert in the study of physico-chemical properties of metal-semiconductor (insulator) interfaces. Her actual main research line, as leader of the Materials for Quantum Technologies Group, is the bottom-up fabrication with atomic precision of devices, specially that involving ferromagnetic semiconductors and superconductors.

Dr. Raga holds a PhD in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (2013) from Universitat Jaume I, Spain. She did a post-doc at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (2013-2017), and at Monash University, within the Center of Excellence in Exciton Science, Australia (2017-2020). In 2020 she joined the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotecnology (ICN2) as an Incoming Junior Leader laCaixa-MSCA fellow, currently supported by the “Consolidación Investigadora” program from the Spanish Ministry of Science. She was awarded the 2020l’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science prize. She has over 12-year experience on the development of third generation solar cells, including dye-sensitized, organic and halide perovskite photovoltaic materials. Her research focuses on the synthesis of new metal halide materials for photovoltaics and photoelctrochemistry, in-operando characterization of optoelectronic devices with main emphasis on impedance spectroscopy. Dr. Raga produced over 54 peer reviewed publications in Q1, one book chapter, 5 patents and has been PI of 5 funded projects.

Sascha Sadewasser holds a Diploma (1995) in Physics from the RWTH Aachen, Germany and a PhD (1999) from the Washington University St. Louis, MO (USA). He did a post-doc (1999-2003) at Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin (Germany) and was a Ramón y Cajal scientist at the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica in Barcelona (Spain) from 2003 to 2004. From 2005 until 2011, he was the group leader of the Nanoanalytics and Nanofabrication group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) and the deputy head (2008-2011) of the Department for Heterogeneous Materialsystems. In 2011, he obtained his Habilitation in Experimental Physics from the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Since July 2011, he has been the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Nanostructured Solar Cells (LaNaSC) at INL. Additionally, at INL, he took the responsibilities of Coordinator of the Energy Research Area (2015-2016), Head of the Department for Quantum and Energy Materials (2018-2019) and Coordinator of the Clean Energy Cluster (2020 and 2022).

Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg, Director of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Member of the Academia Europaea, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), Socio corrispondente, Sezione di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali ; Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena, Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He has obtained a Laurea (master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000, he has received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof. J. P. Rabe). He has been permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna from 2001 to 2008 and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 to 2008. He has published 400+ papers on nanochemistry, supramolecular sciences, materials chemistry, and scanning probe microscopies with a specific focus on graphene and other 2D materials as well as functional organic/polymeric and hybrid nanomaterials for application in optoelectronics, energy and sensing. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the E-MRS Graduate Student Award (1998), the MRS Graduate Student Award (2000), the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2001), the Vincenzo Caglioti Award (2006), the Nicolò Copernico Award (2009), the Guy Ourisson Prize (2010), the ERC Starting Grant (2010), the CNRS Silver Medal (2012), the Catalán-Sabatier Prize (2017), the Grignard-Wittig Lectureship (2017), the ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2017), the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award (2018), the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (2018), the Pierre Süe Prize (2018), the ERC Advanced Grant (2019), the “Étoiles de l’Europe” Prize (2019), the ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2020) and the RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences (2020). He is Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances (RSC) and Member of the Advisory Boards of Advanced Materials, Small, ChemNanoMat, ChemPhysChem, ChemPlusChem, ChemSystemsChem and SmartMat (Wiley-VCH), Chemical Society Reviews, Nanoscale Horizons, Chemical Communications and Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC), ACS Nano and ACS Omega (ACS), and BMC Materials (Springer Nature).

I am a Doctor in Biology (2006) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). I was a FPU predoctoral fellow at UCM, a MINECO postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (USA), a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at ICMM-CSIC and a Miguel Servet postdoctoral fellow at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos. Since 2017, I am a tenured scientist at the Group of Materials for Medicine and Biotechnology (ICMM-CSIC). I have published over 70 research articles, co-edited a book for Springer-Nature and contributed to more than 100 scientific conferences. My research interests are focused on biomaterials, tissue engineering and nanomedicine. At present, I am the coordinator of the ongoing PathFinder Project Piezo4Spine (2023-2026).

David Soriano obtained a BSc. in Chemistry from the University of Alicante where he defended his thesis about spin phenomena in Graphene-based materials. In 2011, he joins the group of Stephan Roche at ICN2 (Barcelona) to explore spin and spin-orbit proximity effects in graphene heterostructures. In 2017, he obtained a Marie-Curie COFUND fellowship to study the magnetic properties of 2D ferromagnets (CrI3) in the group of Joaquín Fernández Rossier at INL (Portugal). One year later, he was awarded a Marie Curie IF from the European Commission to study correlation effects in 2D magnets in the group of Mikhail Katsnelson at Radboud University (Netherlands). In 2021, he worked as a senior postdoc in the group of Gianluca Fiori in the University of Pisa where he worked on the design of ultra-low power electronic based on magnetic van der Waals heterostructures. Since 2022, David Soriano works in the Applied Physics department at University of Alicante where he is Distinguished Researcher from the Gen-T programme (Generalitat Valenciana - Spain). Here, he leads a research group (https://www.spinwaals.com) focused on understanding the electronic properties of magnetic van der Waals heterostructures and their potential applications in spintronics and valleytronics

Prof. Dr. Clivia M Sotomayor Torres obtained her PhD in Physics in 1984 from the University of Manchester, UK. She held tenured academic appointments at Saint Andrews and Glasgow universities in the UK, at Wuppertal University in Germany and was a research professor at the National university of Ireland University College Cork (Tyndall National Institute). From 2007 to 2023 she was an ICREA research professor and group leader of the Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Spain. Clivia received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from ZONTA International (USA). She carries out research in the science and engineering of phononic nanostructures, nanophotonics and thermal transport. In 2020 she was elected to the Academia Europaea. She is the Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Braga, Portugal.

Jennifer Passos Teixeira is a PhD graduate in Physics and the holder of an individual FCT CEEC position, being currently a Tenure Track Staff Researcher in the Nanofabrication, Optoelectronics, and Energy Applications (NOA) research group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), where her research involves topics such as fundamental characterization of charge carrier dynamics in complex semiconductors for energy applications and development of passivation/light management schemes for novel solar cells’ architectures. Since 2021, she has been responsible for the scientific monitoring of the group activities, involving topics such as passivation and light trapping schemes for CIGS solar cells and fundamental characterization in complex semiconductors and dielectric materials

Aurelien graduated from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2009 from a PhD in supramolecular chemistry that he carried out in the group of D.A. Leigh (FRS) working on synthetic molecular machines and interlocked architectures. He subsequently moved to the field of organic and hybrid photovoltaics, working at the ICIQ (Prof. Palomares) and at the University of Tarragona (Prof. Marsal) for several years. After an interlude in industry as head of R&D he joined the IPREM (University of Pau, France) in February 2020, where he currently coordinates the Intermat chair on projects related to the transformation and capture of CO2 in a broad sense.