Dr. Behdinan is the past President of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), served as a member of the technical and scholarship committees of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) and a member of the Design Division of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI). He is the founding director and principal investigator of the University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering “Advanced Research Laboratory for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures”, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (Leader’s Opportunity Fund) and Ontario Research Fund. His research interests include Design and Development of Light-Weight Structures for aerospace, automotive, and nuclear applications, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Aerospace and Automotive systems, Multi-scale Simulation of Nano-structured Materials and Composites. He has supervised 28 PhDs, 110 Masters’, and 34 Post-Doctoral Fellows and Scholars. He has also published more than 330 peer-reviewed Journal and Conference papers, and 9 book chapters. He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and recognitions such as the Research Fellow of Pratt and Whitney Canada and Fellows of the CSME, ASME, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, AAAS, as well as Associate Fellow of AIAA.

She is an Associate Professor at Chemical Engineering Department of Marmara University. She was graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey and  did her masters at Materials Science and Engineering Department as well as Polymer Science and Engineering Department of Lehigh University (USA). She took her Ph.D. from Chemical Engineering Department of Hacettepe  University (Turkey) . Then, joined to TUBITAK, Marmara Research Center, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute as Chief Researcher. She is an author of many international publications and involved in national and international projects as reseacher and principal investigator.

Her research focused on  production and characterization of graphene derivatives, synthesis and characterization  of nanoparticles such as magnetic, metallic and polymeric, preparation and characterization of composites, applications of nanomaterials such as bioseparation, biosensor, non-viral gene delivery, controlled drug release and diagnostic kits

Professor Dr. Nasrallah M. Deraz received B. Sc., M.Sc.  and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry (Solid State, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) in  1990, 1996 and 1999, respectively, from College of science, Zagazig University, Egypt. However, he received B. Law in 2005 from College of Laws, Zagazig University, Egypt.  He joined Physical Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, since 1992 till now. He was awarded a Post- doctoral fellowship to Institute of Materials Science, Structure Research, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He joined Chemistry Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, since 2009-2013.

Professor Deraz's researches focus on various aspects of advanced nanomaterials, surface chemistry and catalysis for industrial and environmental applications.

Deraz has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals with H- index of 24. However, he has seven patents registered in the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research. Deraz has supervised on various M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in Egyptian universities. He is reviewer and member of editorial board for different scientific societies and international scientific journals. In addition, Deraz’s papers had cited in many papers in different journals.

Islamabadgharb Education 2- Education of District 2 of Kermanshah 3- Payam Noor University of Islamabadgharb Center 4- Sama Technical and Vocational College, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch. Razi University, Faculty of Engineering, Islam Abad Gharb. Razi University Faculty of Chemistry as a Certified Expert in Organic Chemistry. Razi College of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Islam Abad Gharb ((as Head of Public Affairs of this Faculty)). Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch - Faculty of Basic Sciences and Faculty of Agriculture

Farzaneh Mohamadpour Ph.D: Organic Chemistry, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Science ranking: Ranked first among the entries with GPA.  Specialization: Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Catalyst, Nanotechnology and Synthesis. Published 6 papers. Member of the Iranian Chemical Society. Member of Iranian Nanotechnology.  Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Mining Engineering, Metals and Materials. Member of the Scientific Committee of the first scientific-research conference of development strategies and promote science education in Iran. Hold Workshop on the green catalysts as master lecturer at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2014-2015 years.

Professor Maoquan Chu was born in Anhui Province in China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2001. He then did his postdoctoral work in School of Life Science and Technology in Shanghai Jiaotong University, where he delved into biomaterials and nanotechnology. In 2004, he attended the School of Life Science and Technology at Tongji University. In 2007, he wined China Education Ministry’s New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan. In 2008, he was hired as a Professor. He is a principal investigator of the School of Life Science and Technology at Tongji University and Research Center for Translational Medicine at Shanghai East Hospital. His research concerns nanobiomedicine. His current research focuses on cancer imaging and therapy using nanomaterials and natural materials.

Full Professor of Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino.In 1999 he was the founder of the Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino. He is Director of the Lab with a Research Staff working in the field of micro-technologies and nano-science (http://www.polito.it/micronanotech). Since 2003 he is Coordinator, for the Polytechnic of Turin, of the International Master of Science in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems (POLITO, INP Grenoble, EPF Losanne:  http://www.master-nanotech.com/). Since 2005 he is Coordinator of the National MIUR Excellence Laboratory “LATEMAR” funded by FIRB 2003 call  (http://www.latemar.polito.it/). From March 2011 to May 2016 he was Director of the Center for Space Human Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (http://shr.iit.it ).  From May 2016 he is Senior Scientist and P.I. of “Advanced Materials Lab” at Italian Institute of Technology (https://www.iit.it/lines/advanced-materials ).

Since 2017 he is Director of the Center for Center for Sustainable Future Technologies of the Italian Institute of Technology (https://www.iit.it/centers/csft-polito ).

From 2015 he is member of the steering committee of Safety & Environmental Analysis Division for Oil & Gas Lab of  Politecnico of Torino and Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico.

As professor in the department of chemical engineering at Daegu University, Dr. Lim has impressed upon students the many intricacies of the field for more than 21 years. His expertise stems from his education, which includes both a BS from Seoul National University and a PhD from University Center City University of New York in the United States. Over the past seven years, his excellent technology was designated as Superior Technology by the Korea Research Foundation. He has also been cited with numerous awards for his achievements in the field, including receiving a Governor Citation Award from Gyeongbuk government governor, two-times Superior Academic-Industrial Cooperation Award and five-time Superior Research Award from Daegu University, and Biotechnology and Bioengineer Award from the Korea Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
Dr. Lim's journey during his tenure in higher education has also allowed him to contribute to numerous journals, both as a provider and as an editor. He has been serving as an editor for the Korean Chemical Engineering Research since 2011. He formerly served as an editor for the Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering from 2012 to 2016 as well as an editor for the HWAHAK KONGHAK from 2007 to 2010. Furthermore, he has been serving on the mediation committee for the Daegu District Court since 1998, and was an examiner for the Environmental Information Institute from 2011 to 2015.
Dr. Lim is a fellow, longtime board member of the Korean Society of Rheology, a former editor-in-chief of BT News for the Korean Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, fellow and vice president of the Korean Society of Odor Research and Engineering, and fellow and journal editor for the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is holding numerous patents in his field.

Krisztian Niesz holds a M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Szeged, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in the Synthesis and Modification of Carbon Nanotubes at the same institute in 2003. Krisztian conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, where he investigated the catalytic properties of nanostructured nobel metal particles. Krisztian has also worked at the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he and his colleagues developed methods to scale up the synthesis of industrially relevant oxide materials and investigate potential applications. Furthermore, he has two years of industrial experience with microscale flow instruments for pharmaceutical chemistry. He joined ChemAxon in 2012 as an application scientist, and currently he is heading the Application Science Department. He is the co-author of several peer reviewed scientific papers and conference presentations.

Richard Smith has spent decades leading teams of scientists and engineers in medicine, telecom, nanotechnology, and climate science, bringing advanced products from concept to the marketplace. His specialties are ideation, strategic planning, forecasting and scenarios, and public policy. His current concentrations are in rapid medical diagnostics, water purification and desalination, and global warming abatement.

He is also writing a novel set in 2048 where dangerous rising tides and frequent mega-storms are bringing Washington to its knees. The novel will present a bold but plausible scenario and draw a picture of a realistic 2048: socially, technologically, environmentally, economically, and politically.



Dr. John C.T. Lang, PhD DABT, Managing Director, Medwise International Consultancy Limited (established 2003). He is Chairman of BSI CH/194, Biological evaluation of medical devices, Convenor of ISO TC 194 WG14 Material Characterisation, and Leader of the British Delegation to ISO TC 194.

John has been Board Certified as an Expert in General Toxicology (DABT) for 31 years and is also a Eurotox Registered Toxicologist (ERT). He was previously Corporate Product Safety Assurance Manager for the Smith and Nephew Group for 11 years and prior to this a Research Manager with them. His career focus was initially in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (Inveresk Research and Upjohn Ltd) and then expanded to include safety assessment of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, ATMPs, and consumer healthcare products.

John has been involved in the development of European and International Technical Standards for 25 years, including ISO 10993, EN 12442 and ISO 22442 on Use of Animal Tissues and their Derivatives in Medical Devices, ASTM F04 on Tissue Engineered Medical Products (TEMPs); ISO Nanotechnologies Committee (ISO TC 229) WG3 Environment, Health & Safety; ISO/TC 194/SCI, Use of Human Tissues and their derivatives in Medical Products. He is also Liaison between ISO/TC 194 and ISO/TC 229, and an External Toxicology Adviser for MHRA in assessment of applications to conduct clinical trials of medical devices. 

Charles Seeney (M.S. Polymer Science) is a scientist and entrepreneur with extensive experience in the creation, deployment and management of Intellectual Property (IP). His current translational activities center on emerging technologies in areas of nanotechnology and biotechnology, with specific emphasis on nanofabrication methods that lead to high-value commercial applications. His research has been acknowledged through publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and the award of 22

 Dr William Cho is a Biomedical Scientist in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His main research interests have been focusing on cancer studies utilizing high-throughput technologies to discover biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, treatment prediction and prognostication. He is a Chartered Scientist granted by the Science Council (UK), a Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner (HK), Guest Professor of a number of Universities and a Fellow Member of several institutes, including the Institute of Biomedical Science (UK), Hong Kong Institute of Biomedical Science and Hong Kong Society for Molecular Diagnostic Sciences. Dr Cho has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers (Lancet Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Chemistry, Annual Oncology, etc) covering cancer biomarkers, proteomics, microRNAs, Chinese medicine and plenty of books including "MicroRNAs in cancer translational research", "An omics perspective on cancer research", "Supportive cancer care with Chinese medicine", etc.

 He serves as the editor-in-chief, editor and associate editor of a number of international medical journals. Dr Cho is also an international renowned grant reviewer of the Hope Funds for Cancer Research (USA), Cancer Research (UK), MRC Research Grant (UK), Health Research Board (Ireland), Science Foundation (Ireland), Istituto Toscano Tumori (Firenze), The Foundation Fournier-Majoie for Innovation (Brussels), National Medical Research Council (Singapore), The Medical Research Council (South Africa), and Academia Sinica Investigator Award (Taiwan), etc.

Dr. Marco Curreli is the Founder, President, and Chief Development Officer of Omni Nano, a non-profit organization entirely dedicated to nanotechnology education. Prior to founding Omni Nano, he worked in the biomedical and surveillance industry developing nanotechnology-based sensors for biological and chemical analytes. He regularly consults for his former employers and other tech companies on matters of technology, intellectual property, and grant proposals. Dr. Curreli received his B.S. in Chemistry from the California State University of Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California, where his graduate dissertation focused entirely on Nanotechnology. His full bio is available on LinkedIn. 

Stephanie (Gratton) Barrett is currently an Associate Principal Scientist and works in the Discovery Pharmaceutical Sciences group at Merck & Co, Inc..  She received her B. Sc. from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in polymer science.  During her Ph.D., her research centered on the cellular delivery of biocompatible, monodisperse, shape-specific polymeric nanogels produced using Particle Replication In Non-wetting Templates (PRINT) technology.  Stephanie has authored numerous papers and patents in the field of nanomedicine.

Dr. Bhattarai is a Cancer Nanotechnology Scientist and working as a Research Faculty in Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.  He received doctorate degree in Bio-nanosystem engineering. Dr. Bhattarai’s primary research interest is to investigate innovative technologies that can directly benefit agriculture, environment and human health. Dr. Bhattarai’s research abilities through engineering concept include the design and testing of new materials that derive uniquely from nature and that allows to work within a multidisciplinary team applicable to food industry, pharmacy and health care in the path of bionanosystem engineering using diverse state-of-the-art techniques. Bhattarai’s research experience has spanned unique interdisciplinary academic research initiatives in applied nano-engineering materials in challenging research areas such as cancer nanotechnology, pharmaceutical, environmental and bio-medical fields using diverse state-of-the-art techniques. 

Dr. Harsh Chauhan is an Assistant Professor at Creighton University, Omaha, NE. Dr. Chauhan received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from MCPHS, Boston, MA. He worked as visiting scientist at Vertex pharmaceuticals and his professional affiliations include AAPS, ACS and AACP. His recent publication includes “Correlation of Inhibitory Effects of Polymers on Indomethacin Precipitation in Solution and Amorphous Solid Crystallization Based on Molecular Interaction” in Pharmaceutical research and a book chapter titled “Factors Affecting Drug Absorption and Disposition” in “Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice” by academic press edited by Dr. Dash et al.

 Dr. Alistair H. Kean studied Physics at The Universities of Strathclyde and St. Andrews in Scotland between 1978 and 1986. He was a research fellow at The Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University and also a Research Fellow at The University of Glasgow. His academic work encompassed nano-electronics, optical spectroscopy and opto-electronics. In 1992 he joined Sharp Laboratories of Europe in Oxford, UK where he ran the Advanced Optoelectronic Devices Group. Dr. Kean was a co-founder of Kamelian Ltd, a manufacturer of semiconductor optical amplifiers. In 2004 Dr. Kean became the Technical Director of Mantis Deposition Ltd. In 2013 Dr. Kean set up NikaWorks Ltd. NikaWorks is working with Johnson Matthey PLC and New Energy Investment Management as well as providing thin film and nanoparticle coating and research services.

 Daniel Hernández-Cruz is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Mexico. He received his B. in Electronic Eng. from the ITTG in México, his M.Sc. in Optics from the INAOE in México and his Ph.D in Physics from Laval University in Canada. Among other, his research involves the study, fabrication and characterization of advanced materials, composites and nanomateirals; seeking for new physicochemical properties, for applications in sensors and materials bio-compatibility. Part of his research is focused on the study and characterization, at nano and micro scale level, of materials utilizing synchrotron radiation based techniques

Witold Lojkowski graduated in physics at the Warsaw University, and obtained the Ph.D. degree in material science from the Faculty of Material Science, Warsaw University of Technology. He works currently as a Professor and as the Head of the Laboratory of Nanostructure for Photonics and Medicine in the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. His interests include nanotechnology and material science, synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications in nanomedicine and photonics. He also teaches nanotechnology and materials science at the Faculty of Management, Bialystok University of Technology. Prof. Lojkowski is member of Domain Committee Materials, Physics and Nanotechnology (MPNT) at the European COST programme.

Dr. Giovanni Baldi, born in 1960 in Florence (Italy). In 1987 he carried out research in the field of material science, glass, ceramics and biomaterials. In 1989 he assumed responsibility for the Chemical Laboratory of Colorobbia Group. He also got a Ph.D. in Industrial engineering with a work on titania based nano-structured system for air de-pollution. Since 1994 head of Ceramic Research Laboratory and in 2001 is Director of Colorobbia Research Center, CERICOL, in Vinci.

He’s in the Steering Commitee of Nanotech.it Society and in the board of Italian Society of Nanotoxicology. Since 2010 he’s Scientific Director of GRINT, Research Group for Tuscany Innovation.

He is owner of 24 PCT patents and 95 publications in the field of glass, ceramics, glass-ceramics, functional coatings, nano-structured surfaces, synthesis of nano-structured particles, nano bio materials and drug delivery.

Dr. Paolo Bondavalli, Msc, PhD, Hdr is the Head of Nanomaterial team at Thales Research and Technology (CNRS/Thales, UMR137) and he is a member of the Nanocarb Lab. (joint team Ecole Polytechnique/Thales). His research has principally dealt with carbon nanotubes gas sensors and silicon nanowires for biological detection. In the last two years, he is the first author of several scientific papers (see refs in project) dealing with CNTFET based sensors, supercapacitors and of 6 patents dealing with gas sensors, thermal management through CNTs, nanomaterials deposition, supercapacitors and memristor-like structures. Presently his work is focused on the development of new materials (e.g. graphene, cnts, nanowires) for the new generation of electronics devices and for energy storage applications and memristor. Dr Bondavalli has received his Hdr in 2011, at Paris-Sud on a work on “devices based on random network of carbon nanotubes”. He is EU expert, and Vice-Chairman, for Marie Curie Fellowships (EIF, IIF, OIF, CIG, IRSES), NMP and ICT panel, for the French National Research Agency (ANR), EDA, Eureka and reviewer for IOP, ACS, IEEE, ECS, Elsevier, EPJ B, Bentham, Taylor & Francis... During the last five years, he has participated, also as coordinator, in several EU projects (concerning MEMS, MOEMS, CNTs, graphene, spintronics) and ANR projects. He is involved in the Graphene Flagship initiative.   

1992-1999, R&I supervisor Suzano Pulp and Paper;

2000, D.Sc Chemistry, Unicamp, Brazil;

2004, Habilitation in Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor, Åbo Akademi University, Finland;

2005-present, Full Professor in Biomass Chemical Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

2013-present, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Materials Science, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University -Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Vice-president of EPNOE (www.epnoe.eu); Member-at-large, Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division, American Chemical Society (http://cell.sites.acs.org/); Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science (http://www.iaws-web.org)

Coordinator/creator of Finnish-Brazilian Network of Excellence in Biomass and Renewable Energy (NOBRE), Finland, Brazil (www.nobrefibr.org). Expert for European Science Foundation, European Commission, Swedish Knowledge Foundation, Qatar National Research Fund, Research Council of Norway, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 30 scientific journals, 6 International Scientific Conferences.

Dr. Gary Chinga Carrasco holds a Master of Science in Cell biology and a PhD in Chemical engineering. He is senior research scientist and project manager of the NanoHeal project, working with production of ultrapure nanocellulose, its interaction with wound bacteria and assessment of biocompatibility for biomedical applications. He has published 6 books chapters and 58 peer reviewed articles, in addition to over 50 conference contributions. He is presently the Lead scientist of the Biocomposites area at PFI. 

Dr. Haisheng Peng works as a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at Harbin Medical University, where he teaches courses of Chinese herbal formulation, Pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, and Drug discovery.  Now, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. He finished his first Postdoctoral training in Cardiovascular Pharmacology from Harbin Medical University in 2011. He got his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harbin Medical University in 2008. He earned his B.Eng in Pharmaceutical engineering and his Master’s degrees in Pharmacology from the Harbin Commercial University in 2000 and in 2003.  Dr. Peng has published many papers in top journals of the Pharmaceutics including Biomaterials and Journal Biomedicine Nanotechnology, and Journal of Controlled Release and serves as a peer reviewer for several journals. Dr. Peng’s areas of interest include Design of drug delivery system, Investigation of distribution behavior and mechanisms, Stem cell engineering, and Biomaterials.

Octavian is a graduate of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics (BEng, 1987).

Following the graduation he worked in the R&D Institute for Nuclear Power Reactors (Pitesti, Romania), R&D Institute for Electronic Devices (Bucharest, Romania), and Institute for Microtechnology (now National R&D institute for Microtechnology).

Between 1995-1996 he worked also as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Budapest, Hungary).

IN 1998 he was awarded a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics, by "Babes-Boylai" University of Cluj (Cluj Napoca, Romania)

In 1997 he joined the Solid State Electronics Group in the Department of Electrical Eng. and Electronics at University of Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom), as a research assistant. In January 200, he joined the Academic Staff being appointed as a Lecturer in the same department.

Currently, Octavian is with Honeywell  Romania ACS Bucharest Labs.

Octavian's scientific output includes 3 awarded patents, 5 patents applications,more than 60 journal technical papers, 120 conference contributions and 10 contribution in books. He is a Chartered Physicist (CPhys – IoP London), IEEE member (since 1991), and reviewer for AIP, IEEE, and Elsevier Journals in the fields of (micro/nano) electronic devices, thin solid films, materials physics and technology.