Claire Berger is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research - Néel Institute working at the Georgia Institute of Technology in W. A. de Heer’s group. She obtained the PhD in Physics from the University of Grenoble, France, with a dissertation on the electronic properties of AlMn quasicrystals. She then moved to a postdoc position at the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques, where she produced and studied amorphous films, and was hired as a researcher at the CNRS ‘s Laboratory for Study of Electronic Properties of Solids (LEPES), in Grenoble. She focused the first part of her carrier on electronic properties of quasicrystalline materials grown and characterized at LEPES. She contributed to the experimental evidence for a metal-insulator transition in these metal- based compounds.

Dr Sivasambu Bohm received his first degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by an M.Sc. at Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin. After gaining his PhD at the University of Bath in Chemistry, he worked at different academic institutions, University of Swansea, TU Delft, The University of Birmingham & India Institute of Technology. Siva has 20 years of industrial experience in various research fields; metallurgy, protective coatings, energy storage in the automotive industry, aerospace coatings and nanotechnology, Graphene synthesis and applications of graphene. Dr Bohm published 30 patents and 94 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Technical Surface Coatings. Dr Bohm has been awarded the Royal Society Industry Fellowship initial at University of Cambridge, CGC. Since 2020, Dr Bohm completing his final year of fellowship at Imperial College London and working as Graphene research scientist at AM Commercial UK Ltd / AM Global R&D Asturias

Vincent Bouchiat is the CEO of Grapheal, a company spin-off from Neel Institute focusing on bioelectronic and healthcare applications of graphene. He is on leave from the French National Research Center (CNRS) at Grenoble, where he has a permanent position since 1997. He received an engineer degree from ESPCI in 1993 and a Master Degree from the University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie the same year. He has completed his Ph.D. on quantum devices at CEA-Saclay in 1997 under supervision of Michel Devoret and Daniel Estève. He got the Visiting Miller Professorship Award from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, and the Lee Hsun Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017). He co-authored more than 100 publications with over 4000 citations and hold 9 international patents.

Professor Gianaurelio Cuniberti holds since 2007 the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Technische Universit ̈at Dresden (TU Dresden) and the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials in Dresden, Germany. He is a member of the TU Dresden School of Engineering Sciences (Materials Science) and of the School Science (Physics). He studied Physics at the University of Genoa, Italy (where he got his B.Sc. and M.Sc.) and obtained his PhD in 1997 at the age of 27 in a joint collaboration between the University of Genoa and the University of Hamburg, Germany. He was visiting scientist at MIT and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden. From 2003 to 2007, he was the head of a Volkswagen Foundation Research Group at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research activity is internationally recognized in more than 400 scientific journal papers to date. He initiated and organized numerous workshops, schools and conferences and took part in international research training networks, offering extensive opportunities for young scientists. He has given plenary and invited talks at numerous international meetings. He serves as referee for numerous high impact journals, and for several funding research institutions including among others the EU, the German Science Foundation (DFG), the USA National Science Foundation (NSF), the German Israeli Foundation (GIF), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Fokko de Vries received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at Delft University of Technology. He obtained his PhD in the lab of Leo Kouwenhoven where he investigated superconducting devices in various semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. His research is centered around quantum transport in twisted graphene nanodevices, with a focus on superconducting devices.

Gerd Grau is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at York University and a graduate faculty member in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BA and MEng degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has extensive experience in microfabrication, especially of printed microelectronic devices such as transistors and sensors. His expertise spans the study of fundamental printing physics, the optimization of material properties through process innovations, and the integration device process flows. At York University, his lab focuses on the integration of electronics in 3D structures such as 3D printed objects and carbon fiber composites using novel techniques such as printing and laser processing. His research is funded by NSERC, CIHR, Mitacs, York University, and industry collaboration.

Gordon Harling received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Maîtrise en Ingénierie Physique from Polytechnique Montréal. He has worked in Research and Development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and DALSA. He has been a founder and CEO of several start-up companies including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies. He joined CMC Microsystems in February 2018 as President and CEO.

He obtained a PhD degree in Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela with J. Rivas, and was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at both the University of Cambridge (MSCA Fellow with N.D. Mathur) and the Italian National Research Council (with V.A. Dediu). Before his arrival to nanoGUNE in 2009, he was a Lecturer at the University of Leeds (UK). His research focuses on electronic transport in nanoscale devices, and particularly spintronic and organic electronic applications.

Mario Lanza is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia since October 2020. Dr. Lanza got his PhD in Electronic Engineering with honors in 2010 at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During the PhD he was a visiting scholar at The University of Manchester (UK) and Infineon Technologies (Germany). In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoc at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoc at Stanford University. On October 2013 he joined Soochow University as Associate Professor, and in March 2017 he was promoted to Full Professor. Prof. Lanza has published over 120 research papers, including Science, Nature Electronics, Nature Chemistry, and IEDM, edited a book for Wiley-VCH, and registered four patents (one of them granted with 5.6 Million CNY). Prof. Lanza has received the 2017 Young Investigator Award from Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), and the 2015 Young 1000 Talent award (among others), and in 2019 he was appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society (IEEE-EDS). Prof. Lanza is Associate Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature) and Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), and serves in the board of many others, like Advanced Electronic Materials (Wiley-VCH), Nanotechnology and Nano Futures (IOP). He is also an active member of the technical committee of several world-class international conferences, including IEEE-IEDM, IEEE-IRPS, IEEE-IPFA and APS. Prof. Lanza leads a research group formed by 10-15 PhD students and postdocs, and they investigate how to improve electronic devices using 2D materials, with special emphasis on two-dimensional (layered) dielectrics and memristors for non-volatile digital information storage and artificial intelligence computing systems.

Dr. Nima Moghimian is currently the Global Director of Research and Development at NanoXplore – the largest producer of graphene powder – and the head of corporate’s product development activities. Dr. Moghimian is a materials scientist with more than 10 years of experience in development of advanced materials for everyday use. He specializes in commercialization of graphene for transportation and renewable energy. He received his master’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the University of Barcelona and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria.

Daniel Neumaier is fully Professor for Electrical Engineering at the Bergische University of Wuppertal and Scientific Advisor at AMO GmbH. He received the PhD degree in 2009 from the University of Regensburg. From 2009 until 2020 he was head of the Graphene-Group at AMO GmbH, a research foundry located in Aachen, Germany. He has managed several research projects on graphene and is currently leading the work-package on Electronic Devices in the Flagship-Project Graphene and coordinating the FET-Open project ORIGENAL.

Professor Xiaowu (Shirley) Tang joined the Department of Chemistry & Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) at the University of Waterloo (UW) in 2006. Currently, she is the Associate Dean of Science, Research, and a member of the Board of Directors for WIN. During 2014-2017, she served as the Director of Nanotechnology Engineering (NE) program, Canada’s only undergraduate NE program. Prior to joining UW, she received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and pursued postdoctoral work at Stanford University. She also had 3 years of industrial experience in Silicon Valley, California, and is a co-founder of LeNano Diagnostics, Inc, a company incorporated in 2016. Central to Tang group’s research is to develop intelligent materials and devices for critical medical needs, particularly portable and wearable technologies for personalized and distributed healthcare. Prof. Tang received the Leader’s Opportunity Award from Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) in 2008 and the Stars in Global Health Award from Grand Challenges Canada in 2012, Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Achievements in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NanoOntario, in 2018.

Dr. Xiaolei Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta, and runs his Nano For Advanced Clean Energy (NanoFACE) laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering focusing on the rational design, development and application of novel nanostructured materials for energy-related technologies including lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalytic systems. Before joining UofA, he worked as tenure-track assistant professor at Concordia University from 2017 to 2019, and postdoctoral fellow researcher at the University of Waterloo from 2014 to 2017. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 2013), M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University (TJU, 2007), and B.Sc. in Polymer Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology (DUT, 2004). Dr. Wang was awarded the Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS, 2018) with his first NSERC Discovery Grant (DG) application as an early career researcher (ECR). He is the recipient of Petro-Canada Young Investigator Award (2018) and Concordia University Research Chair-Young Scholar (2019). He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: Sustainable Chemistry and Current Trends in Chemical Engineering and Processing Technology, and committee members/organizers/session chairs of many international/national conferences.