Prof. Arafat is the Senior Director, Research and Innovation Center for Graphene and 2D Materials (RIC2D) and professor of chemical engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he is working since 2010. He received a Ph.D. and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. of Cincinnati (USA) (2000) and the Univ. of Jordan (1996), respectively. He is a recipient of several research fellowships by the US National Academy of Science (USA), the Open Society Foundation (USA) and DAAD (Germany). Through his career thus far, he supervised 58 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. His research was published in 270+ book chapters, journal papers, and conference presentations, in addition to two US patents. He was invited to deliver 60 keynote and invited talks worldwide

Inge Asselberghs is Program Manager Process and Module Innovation at imec. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. After a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in nonlinear optics, she joined imec in 2011. Her research interest covers new materials, process set-up, and integration pathfinding from the laboratory scale to the fab. She holds the position of division leader of the 2D-experimental pilot line, an EU funded initiative working on the enablement of 2D-materials-based device fabrication in an industry-relevant environment

Vincent Astié is a Process Engineer in the R&D department of Annealsys, a Rapid Thermal Processor and Chemical Vapor Deposition tool manufacturer established in Montpellier, France. He focuses mainly in MOCVD of ternary oxides for which he obtained a PhD for his work on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) and lanthanum nickelate (LaNiO3), two perovskites of great importance in their respective fields. He is currently working on various projects involving the controlled deposition of 2D materials for electronic, optic and catalytic applications.

Leni Bascones is a research scientist at ICMM-CSIC expert in quantum materials. Her research explores from a theoretical perspective the complex electronic states which emerge as a consequence of the repulsion between electrons, such as Mott insulators, magnetism, nematicity and superconductivity. She is currently interested in understanding the fascinating phases discovered in moiré heterostructures. Previously she worked extensively in high temperature superconductors, cuprates and iron based. Leni got her Phd in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and at ETH-Zurich, and has been a visiting scientist at other universities such as ESPCI in Paris. She is involved in many activities which bring science closer to society and create a more inclusive scientific environment

Since 2017, Moshe has been heading the Quantum Layered Matter Lab at Tel-Aviv University, where the group research currently explores charge distribution and electronic orders in poly-types of van der Waals crystals. His post-doc research with Prof. Andre Geim at Manchester UK focused on ballistic Josephson junctions and hydrodynamic charge transport in graphene. His Ph.D. with prof. Yoram Dagan at TAU focused on correlated electronic phases at oxide interfaces. Moshe is the recipient of the Israel Physics Society Awards for a young experimental researcher (2022) and a Ph.D. student (2013).

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, philosopher and historian of science is emeritus professor at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She was the 2021 Sarton Medalist of the History of Science Society and the recipient of the Dexter Award for outstanding achievements in the History of Chemistry from ACS in 1994. She is a member of the French Academy of Technology and of several ethics committees, including the Ethical Advisory Board of the Graphene Flagship and of 2D-Health EPSRC program. Her research topics span from the history of modern chemistry, to the philosophy of technosciences such as materials science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. She also developed a continuous interest in sciences and the public issues with a focus on the notions of natural and artificial and public trust in science. Among her recent publications Temps paysage. Pour une écologie des crises (Le Pommier 2021) ; Biographies of Materials. (World Scientific Publisher 2022); Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima. [coll. Boudia S. and Sato K.] (Routledge 2022) ; Carbon Biography (Polity, in print), Sciences dans la mêlée. Pour une culture de la défiance (Seuil, in print)

I am a postdoctoral researcher working at the Weizmann Institute of Science with Prof. Shahal Ilani. I completed my Ph.D. with Prof. Andre Geim and Prof. Irina Grigorieva at the University of Manchester, UK. My research focuses on using unique scanning probe microscopes to visualize the electronic properties of 2D materials and vdW heterostructures.

Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and Visiting Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina after working at the Italian National Research Council, the University of Cambridge and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J.Mater.Chem.A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 120 publications and 12 patents.

Sarah obtained a BSc in Pharmacology with Industrial Experience at the University of Manchester, with a year spent performing research in the Cardiovascular Department at Boehringer Ingelheim in Germany. She then completed a PhD at the University of Manchester funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for research that examined calcium channel and transporter expression in human stem cells with respect to the generation of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. Sarah then moved to the Cardiac Physiology Group to undertake several postdoctoral researcher positions with Profs Andrew Trafford and David Eisner. Her work involved identifying the molecular and electrophysiological properties of the heart and how these are affected by disease processes, such as heart failure. Other projects involved understanding the mechanisms of arrhythmia generation. Sarah joined the Nanomedicine Lab in October 2019 as the Project Manager of the EPSRC-funded 2D-Health Programme Grant. Since 2021 she is overseeing all major funding programmes in the Nanomedicine Lab as the Senior Project Manager.

Prof Casiraghi holds a Chair in Nanoscience at the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester (UK). She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2007, she was awarded with the prestigious Kovalevskaja Award (1.5M Euro). In 2010 she joined the department of chemistry at the University of Manchester. She is recipient of several awards, including the ERC Consolidator (2015), ERC Proof of Concept (2020), ERC Advanced grants (2022), as well as the Leverhulme Award in Engineering (2016, 100K GBP), and the RSC 2020 Gibson-Fawcett Award. Her current research work focuses on the development of biocompatible 2D inks and their use in printed electronics and biomedical applications.

Marc Chaigneau received his PhD in solid-state physics from the University of Nantes in 2007. He joined the PICM lab (the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films) at Ecole Polytechnique as a postdoctoral associate in 2008 and was appointed tenured researcher in 2010. His research activities were focused on the instrumental development of Tip-Enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) as well as its application in strain measurements and the characterization of advanced materials. He received the ASTRE prize (Actions of Support for Technology and Research in Essonne) in 2013. Marc Chaigneau joined HORIBA Scientific in 2015 to oversee development, applications, and worldwide marketing of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM). He received the IP Award from the HORIBA group for innovative intellectual property in 2016, and the Presidential Achievement Award for remarkable development of the global business in 2020.

Seungmin Cho is a founder and CEO of MCK Tech Co., Ltd. He received his BS and MS in aerospace engineering from KAIST. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Maryland College Park in 2005. He joined Hanwha Aerospace(former Samsung Techwin) and led a new business division focused on developing materials including graphene. During his tenure at Samsung Techwin, he and his colleague developed new processes and equipments to fabricate large area CVD graphene and applied it to make graphene touch panel and OLED. In 2017, he founded MCK Tech and has been working as CEO. His main interest is to develop new graphene products.

Jonathan Coleman is the Erasmus Smith´s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724) in the School of Physics, and a researcher in the AMBER Research centre at Trinity College Dublin. His research involves the production of nanomaterials, especially by Liquid Phase Exfoliation, their solution phase deposition and printing as well as their applications from energy storage to sensing to electronics. He has published >350 papers in journals including Nature and Science and has been cited >100,000 times. He was recently listed by Thomson Reuters among the world’s top 100 materials scientists and has collaborated with many companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAB Miller, Nokia-Bell Labs and Thomas Swan.

Christopher is currently the Channel Manager for XPS fin EMEA for Thermo Fisher Scientific. In this role he is responsible for the XPS product line, working with partners in these territories. He began working with XPS in 2011, with Thermo Scientific, as an engineer, then as an applications scientist within the company. In these roles he gained a broad understanding of surface analysis by running sample analyses, product training courses, and attending and presenting at conferences and workshops worldwide. During his time within the applications team, Christopher worked on the full suite of Thermo Scientific XPS tools: K-Alpha, Escalab, Theta Probe and Nexsa.

Lucia Gemma Delogu is head of the ImmuneNano-Lab at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua (UNIPD, Padua, Italy), www.delogulab.eu. After acquiring her experience in Material Science, Immunology, and Nanotoxicology at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA) and Sanford-Burnham Institute (San Diego, USA), she served as Assistant Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) and as Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD; Dresden, Germany). She is now a Visiting Associate Professor at New York University in the chemistry and biology divisions in Abu Dhabi. In addition, Prof. Delogu has been the Scientific Coordinator of four interdisciplinary European projects under HORIZON2020 (G.-IMMUNOMICS, CARBO-IMMAP, and SEE) on the immune interactions of nanomaterials towards biomedical applications involving over ten partners in Europe, the USA, and the middle east. Moreover, she currently coordinates the project MX-Map on developing MXenes for biomedical applications. She has received several awards, including the “Marie S. Curie Individual Fellow”, the “200 Young Best Talents of Italy 2011” from the Italian Ministry of Youth, and the “Bedside to Bench & Back Award” from the National Institutes of Health, USA. Since 2020, Prof. Delogu has been in charge of the Italian chapter and a member of the road map working group of the Advanced Material Global Pandemic & Future Preparedness Taskforce (AMPT) www.amptnetwork.com/. She introduced the “NanoImmunity-by-design” concept and pioneered the use of high-dimensional single-cell approaches in the context of 2D materials. Her works appeared in major journals, including Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Today, and ACS Nano. Cumulatively, her studies contribute to immunology, biomedicine, material science, and space science.

Dr Kostas Despotelis is a Higher Scientist in the Surface Technology Group at NPL. His work is focused on standardisation of graphene and involves the structural and chemical characterisation of graphene and related 2D materials using a number of surface characterisation techniques such as, Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). Previously, Kostas worked as Research Associate at the National Graphene Institute, where his research involved the characterisation of 2D materials using Atomic Force Microscopy coupled with infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) and Infrared Scattering Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (s-SNOM). He received his PhD from the University of Manchester which was focused on nanotribology and chemical characterisation at the nanoscale using AFM and AFM-IR and was fully sponsored by BP-ICAM

Aldo Di Carlo is Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Electronics Engineering. Leader of the Nano&Optoelectronic research group - http://www.optolab.uniroma.it at the Department of Electronic Engineering and member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. His research activity concerns the study of electronic and optical properties of nanostructured devices, their analysis, optimization and technology. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in organic/inorganic devices and thermal processes at nanoscale has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. In the last years his researches have focussed on the study and fabrication of organic devices. Research activities in carbon nanotubes have been quite successful leading to the realization cold cathode vacuum triode based on CNT cathode for THz generation. The research activity of organic optoelectronic devices has been consider of excellence and the Lazio Region has sponsored this activity funding the "Polo Solare Organico della Regione Lazio", namely the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) where Prof. A. Di Carlo is co-director. The aim of the Center is the study and development of organic photovoltaic cells and their industrialization. Prof. Di Carlo has organized, together with Prof. Lugli, IEEE 2004 Nanotechnology Conference in Munich. Prof. Di Carlo is author/co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals, several reviews on electronic and optoelectronic devices, 7 patents, several book chapters and co-author of two books (in Italian language) and has been invited to more than 40 invited talk at international conferences. Prof. Di Carlo has an h-factor = 38. The results of his research have been used to realize 5 spin-off companies dealing with ICT and Energy technologies

Dr. Srinivasan Duraiswamy: Head – Graphene business and New Technology Platform - Vice President at RIL- 25 years in Business Development and Technology Innovations in various business set ups and multinational corporations across Healthcare, Plastics, Electronics, Energy & Consumer industries with a PhD in Physics from IIT Madras.

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

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

Laura Fumagalli is reader in condensed matter physics at the Department of Physics & Astronomy and staff researcher of the National Graphene Institute. Her research focuses on the study of electric/dielectric properties of bio and non-bio materials on the atomic scale. She received her M.Sc. in electronic engineering in 2002 (double-degree program at Polytechnic University of Milan - Italy and École Superior d’Electricité - France) and her PhD in 2006 at Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis on low-noise amplifiers applied to scanning probe microscopy (SPM) - supervisors Prof. M. Sampietro and Prof. G. Ferrari - developing new instrumentation and methods that probe impedance and dielectric properties on the nanoscale. She then joined the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona (Spain) as post-doctoral researcher (2006-2010) and lecturer (2010-2014), further developing scanning probe approches to probe dielectric properties on the atomic scale. During this period, she was awarded the Juan de la Cierva research fellowship (2009) and the Ramon y Cajal research fellowship (2014) by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. She joined the Condensed Matter Physics group at the University of Manchester as lecturer in 2015. In 2018 she was awarded the ERC Consolidator grant "Two-dimensional liquid-cell dielectric microscopy - Liquid2DM" by the European Research Council with the aim of probing the dielectric properties of liquids under confinement. She got tenured in 2019 and promoted to reader in the same year. She currently sits in the AFM & SPM committee of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) and is co-editor of the RMS magazine "InFocus".

Costas Galiotis is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced – Tailoring Graphene project. He is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) and former Director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) which is one of the 7 academic research institutions of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH). In its over 26 years of operation FORTH/ ICE-HT has developed into a world-leading centre for the advancement of high quality scientific knowledge in the fields of material science and in the computer aided design and simulation of new materials and processes. It comprises of approximately 150 personnel and has a running yearly budget of 5 M€. Prof. Galiotis is also a member of the Board of Directors of FORTH (since July 2007). FORTH has been ranked as the first Research Centre in the field domain in Greece in 3 successive evaluations. Prof. Galiotis had an auspicious term of office as Director of the Institute in the years 2009-2014. Being also the coordinator of the Hellenic participation and national representative of “Graphene” he contributed in establishing the Graphene Center by joining the research forces of three FORTH institutes, ICE-HT, IESL and ICAM. Despite the Country's intense economic situation he expanded the Institute by literally setting the foundations to the Institute's new modern building that will house research laboratories.

Luiz Tizei has a Bachelor in Physics (2005) from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil). In 2008, he finished his master's degree at UNICAMP. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Daniel Ugarte and was focused on quantitative analysis of atomically resolved transmission electron microscopy images of III-V semiconductors. In 2011, he obtained his PhD from the IFGW at UNICAMP under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Ugarte and Prof. Mônica Cotta (co-advisor), with a thesis concentrated on the chemical and physical properties of III-V semiconductor nanowires. He then joined the STEM group at the LPS (Orsay, France) for a post-doc between 2011 and 2013, during which he built a light intensity interferometer to detect single photon sources excited by fast electrons (cathodoluminescence) in an electron microscope. The first demonstration of this effect in NV0 centers in diamonds was achieved in late 2012. In late 2013 he left the STEM group and joined Kazu Suenaga at the AIST (Tsukuba, Japan) for a post-doc, during which he studied the physical and chemical properties of low dimensionality structures (single atoms, carbon nanotubes, atomic chains, 2D monolayers) using electron microscopy techniques. In December 2014 he was hired by the CNRS to work at the LPS. His research is focused on the development of electron spectroscopy techniques and their application to nanooptics. Particularly, he is active in the study of the optical response (absorption and emission) of nanostructures in the middle infrared to ultraviolet range. Luiz Tizei received his habilitation (HDR) from Université Paris-Saclay in September 2021.

Slaven Garaj’s research is focused on nanoscale phenomena at the interfaces between soft and hard matter, with particular interest in nanopores single-molecule sensors, nano-fluidics and nano-electronics. His research has been features in top journals such as Nature, Science, Nature sister journals, and PNAS, and received a keen attention in the media. While pursuing in-depth scientific understanding, his research group drives the development of technologies in the fields of medical diagnostics, water filtration and energy harvesting. His patents are licensed by biotech companies, and he spined-off a cleantech company ReActo, focused on removing persistent contaminants from water. Slaven joined National University of Singapore in 2012 as faculty member in the Departments of Physics and Biomedical Engineering, and has been awarded NRF Fellowship. Previously, he worked as a research scientist at Harvard University, where he pioneered work on 2D nanopores for DNA sequencing. He conducted his PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in the field of condensed-matter physics

The Gehring Lab focusses on Functional Quantum Devices and is funded by ERC Starting Grant (2022), Excellence of Science Grant (2022), FNRS-MIS grant (2022), ARC grant (2021).
Assistant Professor and Research Associate (FNRS) / from Oct 2020 UC Louvain
Postdoctoral Research Assistant Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 Imec / KU Leuven
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (IF) Research Fellow - Oct 2017 – Sep 2019 Department of Quantum Nanoscience, TU Delft
Senior Research Fellow Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Oct 2014 – Dec 2016 Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Feb 2014 – Oct 2014 Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Doctoral Studies (PhD) Mar 2010 – Feb 2014 - EPFL, Switzerland and Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart

Sir Andre Geim is Regius Professor at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on graphene. He has also received numerous international awards and distinctions, including medals from the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, and holds honorary doctorates and professorships from many countries and universities. Thomson-Reuters repeatedly named him among the world’s most active scientists and attributed to him three new research fronts – diamagnetic levitation, gecko tape and graphene. More than thirty of his papers have been cited >1,000 times with six of them >10,000 times. He was awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel prize for his work on levitation, becoming the first and only recipient of both Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes.

Prof. Brian Gerardot holds a Chair in Emerging Technologies from the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society. Previously, he obtained a BSc in Materials Science from Purdue University (1998), a PhD from UC Santa Barbara (2004), was a post-doctoral researcher at HWU (2004-2006), held a Fellowship at HWU from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006-2009) and a University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society (2009 - 2017).

Arindam Ghosh is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow in Nanotechnology at the T J Watson Research Centre of IBM. His research involves both fundamental and applied aspects of 2D materials focusing on electrical transport and noise, light-matter interaction and thermal management. He has graduated over 20 PhD students, and coordinated the material/devices vision for the National Quantum Mission in India. He has received numerous prizes, including in December 2020 the Infosys Prize for Physical Sciences for his development of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices.

Avik Ghosh is Professor of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dept. of Physics at the University of Virginia. He has 200+ publications and nearly 200 invited talks in the area of quantum transport and device physics, focusing on organic electronics, 2-D materials, nanomagnetism and optoelectronics. He is author of two books with World Scientific. He is fellow of the Institute of Physics UK, recipient of the NSF CAREER award, IBM Faculty award, and UVA’s all university teaching award, associate editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society, and site director of the NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center on Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology. His work with Columbia University on negative index in graphene was voted by editors of Physics World as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year in 2016.

Dr. Stijn Goossens is CTO of Qurv and a pioneer in wide-spectrum image sensor technologies based on colloidal quantum dots and/or 2D materials. He is inventor of multiple patents in Qurv’s portfolio. He obtained his PhD from Delft University of Technology and continued his career as a program manager at the Institute of Photonic Sciences before founding Qurv in 2020.

Dr. Oliver Gröning received his PhD in experimental physics from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1999 on the study of the field emission properties of carbon thin films and carbon nanostructures. He joined Empa, Materials Science and Technology in 2001, where he is currently the deputy head of the nanotech@surfaces laboratory. His main fields of research are the on-surface synthesis, characterization and properties of low-dimensional materials with a strong emphasis on scanning probe microscopy, photoemission spectroscopy and theoretical modelling.

Dr. Wanlin GUO, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor in mechanics and nanoscience, founder and director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education and the Institute of Nanoscience of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His current research focuses on intelligent nano materials and devices, novel conception and technology for efficient energy conversion, molecular physical mechanics for neuronal signaling and molecular biomimics, as well as strength and safety of aircraft and engine. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers on Nature series, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Nano Lett., etc. He received the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1996 and the honor of Cheung Kong Scholars in 1999. In 2012, he obtained the National Nature Science Prize of China

Sarah Haigh is a Professor of Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests centre on improving understanding of nanomaterials structure and properties using transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging and analysis techniques. She has a particular interest in (i) advanced TEM characterisation of functional 2D materials and vertical stacked heterostructures and (ii) in developing in situ TEM imaging methods. She is Director of the University of Manchester’s Electron Microscopy Centre in the School of Natural Sciences. She is also Director of the bp International Centre for Advanced Materials an academic-industrial collaboration set up with $100M investment from bp and focused on research towards net zero. She has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers as an independent academic, including more than 45 as corresponding author, and 5 book chapters (H-index =61).

Dr. Avetik R. Harutyunyan is currently a Chief Scientist and Research Director at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., (San Jose, CA) and Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department at The Penn State University (State College, PA). His areas of research include growth and studies of nanoscale materials for alternative energy and quantum systems applications perspectives. He is an author of more than 150 scientific publications and more than 140 patents worldwide. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of the Science. Currently he is leading research activities on developing a new quantum materials and devices for sensing and computing.

Mark C. Hersam is a professor of Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering at Northwestern University (2000–present) who, according to the National Science Foundation, has made "major breakthrough[s]" in the field of nanotechnology. He is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award and a 1996 Marshall Scholar. He is also an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.

Michael Hirtz is leader of the group for “Scanning Probe Lithography for Biomaterials and Bioelectronics” situated in the research unit of Prof. Aghassi-Hagmann at the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He holds a PhD in physics and in medical sciences from the University of Münster. After doing research on self-organization phenomena in phospholipid films generated by Langmuir-Blodgett technique during his PhD, he is now focusing on advancing Dip-Pen Nanolithography and other Scanning Probe Lithography methods for applications at the interface of physics, surface chemistry and biomedical applications. In 2018, he received the "High-End Foreign Talent" of Shanxi Province, China and recently became Honorary Faculty member at the Centre for Nanotechnology at IIT Guwahati, India (2021).

Kari has 20 years experience in building up corporate research and venture activities. He has been the founder and CEO of several start-up companies, as well as worked as director at Nokia Ventures Organization and at Nokia Research Centre. Dr. Kari Hjelt holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, as well as an Executive MBA from the London Business School. Currently Kari works as Head of Innovation at the Graphene Flagship, where he also is a member of the Management Panel and the Executive Board

Dan Hodoroaba is head of the Division Surface Analysis and Interfacial Chemistry at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). His current research activities focus on correlative approaches for accurate physico-chemical characterization of nanomaterials, mainly by means of electron and X-ray spectroscopies/microscopies and increased consideration of graphene-related 2D materials. He is a representative of Germany at VAMAS (Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards), where he coordinates several projects, and head of the national (DIN) standardization committee Microbeam analysis. He is Editor of the book “Characterization of Nanoparticles - Measurement Processes for Nanoparticles” and an Editor of Scientific Reports.

James Hone is currently Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, and director of PAQM, Columbia’s Materials Science Research and Engineering Center (MRSEC). He received his BS in physics from Yale in 1990, and PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from UC Berkeley in 1998, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and Caltech, where he was a Millikan Fellow. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2003.

Byung Hee Hong is a full professor of chemistry department in Seoul National University, the director of SNU graphene research center for convergence technology, and the founder of Graphene Square and Biographene He pioneered the large-scale synthesis of graphene by CVD (Nature 457, 706 (2009), Nature Nanotech. 5, 574-578 (2010)), which triggered the applied researches toward the industrial production of graphene. Byung Hee Hong is the Founding/Regional Editor for 2D Materials journal and a Strategic Advisory Board Member for EU Graphene Flagship Project since 2012.

Alex James is a Full Professor of AI hardware at School of Electronic Systems and Automation, and Dean (Academic) at Digital University Kerala. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works in the broad area of memristive systems, intelligent devices, intelligent materials, circuits and imaging systems. He heads Maker Village that supports over 80+ hardware startups. He is Chief Investigator of national centres for excellence in Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for Graphene, developing new products to the market. He leads the efforts for the development of Graphene industrial ecosystem and setting up of Digital Science Park in Kerala. He is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1. He is a Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of IET (FIET).

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is currently Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT. He received his “Licenciatura” in physics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1999. Then he spent two years at the University of California in San Diego, where he received a M.Sc. degree before going to the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2005. After a one-year postdoc in Delft, he moved to Columbia University, where he worked as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow. He joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics in January 2008 and received tenure in 2015. He was promoted to Full Professor of Physics in 2018. His awards include the Spanish Royal Society Young Investigator Award (2006), an NSF Career Award (2008), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2009), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship (2009), the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics (2010), a DOE Early Career Award (2011), a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2012), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2013), and a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics in Quantum Systems Investigator Award (2014). Prof. Jarillo-Herrero has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science (2017-present), and was elected APS Fellow (2018), Fellow of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR, 2019), and Member at Large of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (2019). Prof. Jarillo-Herrero is the recipient of the APS 2020 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, the 2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, and the 2021 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery.

Dhifaf has over 12 years of experience in the field of Pharmacy (industry, clinical, community, teaching, and research). After obtaining M.Sc. in drug delivery from the School of Pharmacy University of London with distinction, she was awarded the ORS Award from UCL School of Pharmacy to complete her PhD in Pharmacology/Nanomedicine which was carried out at both UCL School of Pharmacy and the University of Manchester. She has made, characterised, and labelled various nanoparticles and biomolecules with different labels whether for optical imaging or nuclear imaging purposes. Dhifaf has extensive experience in vivo imaging (SPECT/CT, IVIS) and in vivo/in vitro toxicity with the aim of understanding the structure-activity relationships. Dhifaf also holds an honorary teaching role at the University of Manchester where she teaches both MPharm and postgraduate (CDT) students.

BS, Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2001)
Ph.D. Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA (2007)
Postdoc, National Insititute of Standards and Science, Gaithersburg, MD, USA (2007-2012)
Senior Research Scientist, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Korea (2012-2017)
Principal Research Scientist, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Korea (2017- Present)

Ute Kaiser is head of the Materials Science Electron Microscopy Facility at Ulm University, Germany. She received her doctoral degree from the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin, in 1993 and her habilitation in experimental physics from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in 2002, working on thin SiC films and low-dimensional structures in SiC using advanced transmission electron microscopy. Since 2004 she is a full professor at Ulm University. Currently, her main focus is the development of high-resolution low-voltage transmission electron microscopy for understanding properties of low-dimensional materials from the scale of single atoms.

Prof. Gopinadhan Kalon is a Physics and Materials Engineering faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, India, since 2018. After obtaining his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, India, he moved to the National University of Singapore and worked there for seven years. During this period, he published several articles on the magneto-transport properties of graphene, graphene/hBN, and LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures. In 2015, he joined the University of Manchester as a Marie Curie Fellow with Prof. Andre Geim. His research focused on understanding the atomic scale ion transport properties through angstrom-scale capillaries. He has published articles in Science, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Communications. His current research interest is to use intercalation and electric fields to control the transport of protons, ions, and molecules through interlayer spaces of van der Waals structures with potential applications in desalination, gas separation, and energy harvesting

Jaewon Kim, Ph.D. is a Staff Researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and his main area of research is the CVD growth of 2D/Nitride Materials. Currently, he is a member of the 2D Device Technical Unit at SAIT focusing on the application of new materials in next-generation semiconductor devices.

Professor Philip Kim received his B.S in physics at Seoul National University in 1990 and received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1999. He was Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics from University of California, Berkeley during 1999-2001. He is Professor of Physics and Professor Applied Physics at Harvard University. The focus of Prof. Kim’s group research is the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. Professor Kim also received numerous honors and award including Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2014) from American Physical Society.

Prof. Frank Koppens is group leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). The quantum nano-optoelectronics group of Prof. Koppens focuses on both science and technology of novel two-dimensional materials and quantum materials. Prof. Koppens is vice-chairman of the executive board of the graphene flagship program and leader of the optoelectronics workpackage within the flagship. Koppens has received the ERC starting grant, the ERC consolidator grant, and five ERC proof-of-concept grants. Other awards include the Christiaan Hugyensprijs 2012, the national award for research in Spain, the IUPAP young scientist prize in optics, and the ACS photonics investigator award. Since 2018 Koppens is on the Clarivate list for highly cited researchers, in the physics category. Koppens has been elected as fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022. In total, Koppens has published more than 120 refereed papers (H-index 69).

A chemist by qualification, Devandran Krishnan attained his bachelor’s degree in University Putra Malaysia in 2010. He then progressed into postgraduate studies researching enzyme usage for platform chemical production in renewable reaction medias. In 2012, he worked in University of Minnesota, USA as Research Specialist refining chemical processes for green chemicals production using different spectroscopy approaches. In NanoMalaysia Berhad, as the Deputy Vice President he is now leading Graphene based commercialization efforts under the flagship of GrapheNovation. To date, he have published a few technical papers and co-invented nanotechnology based development patents. He is also scheme development committee member for nanotechnology products verification in Malaysian market

Mario Lanza got the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. After postdocs at Peking University and Stanford University, in October 2013 he joined Soochow University as Associate Professor, and in 2017 he promoted to Full Professor. In October 2020 he moved to the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he is currently leading a group focused on the integration of 2D materials in CMOS microchips. Prof. Lanza has published over 170 research articles, and one of his patents was granted with 1 million USD. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society (IEEE-EDS), and has received multiple funding projects (EU, NSFC, MOST) and international awards (Young 1000 Talent, Marie Curie, Elsevier YIA). He also sits in the board of governors of the IEEE-EDS, as well as in the committee of multiple IEEE conferences and journals. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Microelectronic Engineering.

Professor Young Hee Lee obtained his Ph. D. at Kent State University in 1986 and did postdoctoral work in the Ames National Laboratory at Iowa and Michigan State University. He joined the physics faculty at Chonbuk National University in Korea and became a full professor in 1999, and then moved to the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea in 2001. In 2012 he was selected as the Director of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science, located at Sungkyunkwan University, which he led for the first 3 years of its existence. Lee is a member of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (2007) and nominated as the first Fellow of SKKU in 2007. Young Hee Lee has received numerous major awards for his work in the field of carbon-based nanomaterials and nandevices, and two-dimensional materials physics; these include Science Award in Korean Physical Society (2005), Nomination as ‘The National Scholar of Korea’ (2005), the Presidential Award (2008), Lee Hsun Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2007), and Sudang Award (2014).

Zhongfan Liu completed his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990 and postdoctoral study from the same university and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan. His current research interests include the CVD growth, mass production and equipment manufacturing, and unique applications of graphene. He is the founding Director of Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI) and a BOYA chair professor of Peking University. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the fellow of TWAS.

César Javier Lockhart De La Rosa received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Universidad APEC, Dominican Republic, and the M.Sc. degree in nanoscience and nanotechnology from KU Leuven, Belgium, and Chalmers University, Sweden, in 2012. After that he got his Ph.D. degree from KU Leuven in collaboration with IMEC, Belgium, in 2017 tackling the contacts and doping of 2D TMDCs based devices. He then worked as a researcher at imec in different domains such as selector devices for memory applications and DNA for data storage before becoming the program manager for Exploratory Logic program where he drives the efforts to identify and integrate the next generation logic devices.

Adina Luican-Mayer is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Physics Department at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD in Physics from Rutgers University (2012). Prior to joining uOttawa, she was the Alexei Abrikosov distinguished postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. She is the recipient of uOttawa Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher of the year (2020) and Ontario Early Researcher Award (2021) as well as a CIFAR Fellow (2023).

Andrew MacDonald completed his PhD studying immunity to parasitic worms (helminths) at the University of Edinburgh in 1998. After several years in the U.S., first at Cornell University and then at the University of Pennsylvania, he returned to the UK in 2002 to the University of Edinburgh where he established his lab through successive MRC Career Development and Senior Fellowships at the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research. In January 2013 he took up the position of Professor of Immunology at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR). His research addresses some outstanding fundamental questions about activation and modulation of cellular immune responses during inflammation.

Christian Martella graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa in 2009 with a master thesis on the near-field optical microscopy investigation of plasmonic metal nanostructures. (Final grade: 110/110). In 2013, he obtained the Ph.D. in Nanotechnology (XXV cycles) at the University of Genova working on the optical functionalization of substrate for broad-band photonic and photovoltaic applications by means of ion-beam based nanostructuring techniques. From 2013 to 2015, he held a post-Doc fellowship at the same university. Since 2015 he is a post-Doc fellow at the CNR-IMM laboratory (Agrate-Brianza) focusing his major activity on the growth and characterization of flat and anisotropic nanosheets of transition metal dichalcogenides. During his research activity, he gained experience in the growth of thin films by means of physical and chemical vapour phase methods. His activity is also related to the structural and chemical characterization of thin films by means of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and optical characterization by means of far-field (transmittance, reflectance, absorbance) and Raman scattering spectroscopy in the UV-IR range. He has a solid experience of surface investigation at the nanoscale by means of scanning probe microscopy (SNOM, AFM, Kelvin Probe AFM, etc…).

Cecilia Mattevi is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London since October 1, 2012. Her research interests centre on science and engineering of novel 2D atomically thin semiconducting materials to enable applications in optoelectronics and energy storage. Mattevi’s research group focuses on the synthesis of these materials and tailoring thier properties, and on the fabrication of devices based on planar structures and on highly porous 3D hierarchical structures where a diverse range of assembly methods is employed.

Professor Jannik Meyer leads the Advanced Materials group at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany and at the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) at the University of Tübingen. He graduated from the University of Aachen in 2002, earned a PhD from the University of Tübingen in 2006 with the PhD research carried out at the Max Planck Institute for solid state Research in Stuttgart, worked as a post-doc at the UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and at the University of Ulm. From 2010 to 2018 he was Professor in the Physics department at the University of Vienna. Prof. Meyer and his group study low-dimensional materials by advanced electron microscopic methods and investigate how new functionalities can be obtained by atomic-scale structuring combined with stacking of 2D materials

Titash Mondal is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He is currently leading the Flexible and Elastomeric Composite (FPEC) Lab at the Rubber Technology Centre of IIT Kharagpur. At FPEC Lab, different types of flexible and wearable sensors are mostly fabricated for end applications in the healthcare domain. Titash Mondal did his Ph.D. jointly (2015) from the IIT Patna and the University of Houston, USA. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, Dr. Mondal worked as a scientist at different levels in Momentive Performance Materials (Formerly GE Silicones). Dr. Mondal holds several publications in peer-reviewed journals, one edited book, and multiple US and European patent applications. Dr. Mondal is a member of the American Chemical Society.

Alberto Morpurgo is a condensed matter physicist, with a broad interest in the electronic properties of materials and devices. He received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) for his thesis on mescocopic physics, for which he also received the Miedema Prize 1998 for the best PhD thesis in condensed matter physics of the previous two years. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University, working on carbon nanotubes, Alberto Morpurgo moved to Delft University, where he became associate professor. In 2008, Alberto Morpurgo moved to University of Geneva, Switzerland, as full professor. The research of Prof. Morpurgo has covered a broad variety of material systems (III-V heterostructures, carbon nanotubes, superconductors, organic semiconductors, topological insulators) and physics problems (superconductivity, phase coherent transport, semiconductor physics, electron-electron interaction effects, etc.). Since the original discovery of graphene, Prof. Morpurgo has been working with increasing intensity in the field of 2D materials and heterostructures. His group has been one of the first in the world to start a systematic experimental research line of magnetic 2D materials.

Rahul R. Nair is a Carlsberg/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair and Professor of Materials Physics at the National Graphene Institute (NGI), Henry Royce Institute, and Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on molecular transport through sub-nanometer two-dimensional (2D) capillaries and exploring its potential applications. He has published over 60 highly cited peer‐refereed research articles, including five Science, five Nature, and more than a dozen Nature series publications during the last twelve years. His awards include a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society, IUPAP Young Scientist Award (2014) from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the Moseley Medal and Prize (2015) from the Institute of Physics, European Research Council (ERC) starting grant (2015), Lee Hsun Lecture Award on Materials Science (2018) from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Creativity Prize (2018) from the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), and the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2018) from the Leverhulme Trust. He has also been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2016 by Thomson Reuters

Masaki Nakano received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 2009. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Geneva and at RIKEN. He joined the University of Tokyo in 2014 as a project lecturer, and since 2019 he is a project associate professor at the University of Tokyo. His current research interests include exploration of novel quantum phenomena emerging at the van der Waals superstructures fabricated by molecular-beam epitaxy. He is in particular interested in the interplay between superconductivity, magnetism, and spin-orbit coupling at the van der Waals superstructures with reduced symmetry and dimensionality

Narayanan (TNN) is currently an Associate Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad and he is working there since 2014. Prior to this, he worked as a Scientist at one of the National Laboratories in India, CSIR-CECRI. He finished his Ph.D. from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala India where major part of his work on carbon nantoubes was conducted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. After his Ph.D., he moved to Rice University USA to work with Prof Pulickel Ajayan as a postdoctoral fellow. His research expertise is on nanomaterials for different applications including catalysis, energy storage, and water purification. He has more than 175 international peer reviewed publications to his credit and three patents. He is a guest researcher at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena Germany and also received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellowship. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry along with a few other national and international recognitions for his work. Eight students have finished their PhD under his guideship.

Carl H. Naylor received his B.A. and M.S. degree in physics from the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), followed by a Ph.D degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) in 2017 on Novel Materials Beyond Graphene. He is a Senior Research Engineer with Intel Components Research in the Novel Device Materials group. His focus is on the development and synthesis of novel nanomaterials, and searching for unique applications where they can be implemented across an intel chip. He holds over 50 co-authored publications in peer reviewed journals, over 50 U.S. patents filed, and numerous industrial and academic accolades.

Professor Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS was born in Russia in August 1974. He has both British and Russian citizenship. He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene. Kostya is Langworthy Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester.He graduated from The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and undertook his PhD studies at The University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in 2001. Professor Novoselov has published more than 250 peer-reviewed research papers

Alex Noy joined LLNL in 1998 as the lab's inaugural E.O. Lawrence Fellow, and became a staff scientist after the fellowship term. He is currently a research scientist at the Materials Science Division. His research centers on the fundamental studies of nanomaterials and biomaterials, where he studies nanofluidic transport and separations phenomena. In particular his group investigates water and ion transport in ultra-small carbon nanotube channels and other low-dimensional materials to enable novel precision separation solutions. Another set of activities in his group centers on surface characterization with atomic force microscopy (AFM) with an emphasis on high-speed AFM imaging of biological molecules and materials surfaces. Noy has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers and has 10 US and international patents. He also has an Adjunct Professor appointment at the University of California Merced.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Saner Okan received BS degree in Chemistry at Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey in 2005. Dr. Saner Okan received MS degree in 2007 and PhD degree in 2011 in Materials Science and Engineering programme at Sabanci University. Dr. Saner Okan is an academic director of Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center since March 2022, and also a research and application-oriented faculty member at Materials Science and Nanoenginnering and Manufacturing technologies at Sabanci University since 2017. In addition, Dr. Saner Okan is co-founder of NANOGRAFEN Nano Technological Products Company. Dr. Saner Okan develops cost-effective and lightweight automotive composites parts reinforced by waste tire-derived Graphene NanoPlatelet with part producers and leading OEM partners. Nanografen is in the supplier list of Renault Global to use as a reinforcement in thermoplastics. Dr. Saner Okan has an expertise in graphene, polymer nanocomposites, compounding, surface chemistry and electrospinning, recycling and upcycling, circular economy. She has more than 40 articles published in international journals, 7 book chapters, 2 patents and more than 50 conference papers in these fields.

Prof. Pablo Ordejón earned his degree in physics (1987) and his PhD in science (1992) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) from 1992 to 1995 and as assistant professor at the Universidad de Oviedo from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, he obtained a research staff position at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In 2007 he moved to the former CIN2 (now ICN2) as the leader of the Theory and Simulation Group, where he is currently a CSIC Research Professor. Since July 2012 he has served as Director of the ICN2.

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 in collaboration with IBM pioneering spin transfer torque. 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 is currently the Deputy Director of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D material (CA2DM) and has greatly contributed to establishing NUS as one of the globally leading Centre’s for 2D material research. 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.

At ASML Technology Research, Syam specializes in process technology and integration. His role involves creating predictive models and analyzing experimental data to develop optimal solutions for patterning and metrology, which enables customers to continue the device shrinkage. Additionally, he devotes attention to researching emerging technologies and future devices, including 2D materials, to explore new scaling engines relevant to ASML's core market and technolog

Amalia Patanè studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where she received her MSc in Physics (1994) and PhD (1998). She then moved to the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham where she has been Professor of Physics (since 2011) and Director of Research (since 2019). Her research achievements in semiconductor physics were recognized by the Sir Charles Vernon Boys Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2007), an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2004-09), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2017-19), a Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Award (2018-19), and an honorary professorship at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, Beijing (since 2019). As Council member and UK Director of the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (since 2015), she supports magnetic field research and a community of > 600 scientists. Also, she leads at Nottingham an advanced facility, EPI2SEM, for the EPitaxial growth and In-situ analysis of 2-dimensional SEMiconductors funded by the EPSRC and the University of Nottingham (https://bit.ly/3zN00dx)

Andrew Pollard leads NPL´s research into the structural and chemical characterisation of graphene and related 2D materials, with a focus on enabling industrial commercialisation in this area. This metrology research has allowed the development of several international standards addressing the measurement of 2D materials, either published or in progress within the ISO 'Nanotechnologies' Technical Committee (TC229). Andrew is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Manchester, the co-chair of the VAMAS Technical Working Area 'TWA 41: Graphene and Related 2D Materials', Metrologist-in-Residence at the Henry Royce Institute, the Secretary of the 'Materials and Characterisation' Group at the Institute of Physics (IOP)) and the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's "2018 Rising Star in Industry Award".

She is researcher at INRIM since 2011. She is part of the Physical chemistry and nanotechnology group in the Quantum metrology and nanotechnology division at INRIM.
She is involved as WP leader in the EMPIR project 19NRM04 ISO-G-SCoPe “Standardisation of structural and chemical properties of graphene” and she is the project leader of the VAMAS project 11” Determination of disorder and number of layers of graphene flakes by Raman Spectroscopy” in Graphene and Related 2D Materials Technical Work Area 41.
She is the official INRIM delegate at the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM) of the Working Group on Protein Analysis (PAWG) and she is the appontend person for UNI committee 29 Nanotechnologies as expert in CEN and UNI.
She is author of 70 peer review pubblication at international level.

Jörg Radnik is senior scientist in the Division Surface Analysis and Interfacial Chemistry at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). He has a great experience in surface analytics with the focus on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of nanomaterials. In the last years, graphene-related 2D materials have taken more and more his attention. He is a representative of Germany at VAMAS (Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards), where he coordinates several projects, and active in several standardization committees in the field of surface analytics and nanotechnology. He is associate editor of Scientific Reports.

PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009

Dr. Wencai Ren is a professor in materials science at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests mainly focus on the synthesis of graphene and other two-dimensional materials and their applications in optoelectronics, energy storage, thermal management, and membrane technology. Prof. Ren has published over 200 peer-refereed papers in Science, Nature Mater., Nature Nanotechnol., Nature Commun., PNAS, etc. with a total citation over 35,000 times, owned 100 granted patents, and co-founded 3 graphene companies. He has received several awards including the National Natural Science Award of China, HO LEUNG HO LEE FOUNDATION Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of 2D Materials

Rebeca is an experimental condensed matter physicist and the latest member of the group Phynano. She obtained her bachelor degree from the University of Carabobo in Venezuela her master's degree at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), where she was working in non-centrosymmetric superconductors at the low temperatures laboratory. After this she moved to France where she obtained her PhD in Physics from the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. Durign this time she worked at the French National High Magnetic Field Lab (LNCMI) in graphene nanoribbons under extreme conditions (high magnetic field and low temperature). Her first postdoc was at the French National Metrology lab (LNE) where they demonstrated the exceptional experimental conditions at wich graphene can be use as a quantum Hall resistance standard. After this Ishemoved to the US where she worked as a MRSEC fellow at Columbia University. Her work at Columbia was directed, among others, towards the in situ band structure manipulation of van der Waals heterostructures.

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).

Dr Sandeman is a Reader in Biomaterials and Medical Physiology at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research focuses on strategies to understand and optimise the interaction of functional biomaterials with the cells and tissues of the body in order to provide corrective treatments. She has coordinated multi-centre international partnerships through UK NIHR i4i, EU FP7 and British Council funded projects and participated in Horizon 2020 funded research leading to innovation in porous and 2-D materials for kidney dialysis and liver disease. Current industry sponsored research is focused on polymer-nanomaterial coatings within interactive devices for anterior eye.

Shaijumon is Professor at the School of Physics, Indian Institiye of Science Education & Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, INDIA. After his Ph.D. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. He was also at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, as a senior postdoc before joining IISER Thiruvananthapuram in 2010. Shaijumon’s research interests are in the area of nanomaterials and energy storage and conversion, focusing on the synthesis of novel nanostructures, 2D layered materials and heterostructures, design and development of efficient energy storage devices such as rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, mostly looking at the materials science and physics of these systems. Shaijumon heads the DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram centre for the development of Solid-State Battery technology. He has 2 Indian patents, 2 US patents and more than 90 publications to his credit. He is on the editorial board of International journals, PLOS ONE and Infomat. Shaijumon received the DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2012. He is also a recipient of the Materials Research Society of India medal for 2019.

Prof. Mayank Shrivastava is a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and co-founder of AGNIT Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd. He is also instrumental in setting up a 300 Crore worth GaN prototyping Fab and leading a national effort on 2D material’s technology hub. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2010). For his Ph.D. work, he received Excellence in Research award and the Industrial Impact award from IIT Bombay in 2010. He is among the first recipients of the Indian section of the American TR35 award (2010) and the first Indian to receive IEEE EDS Early Career Award (2015). He is also an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. Besides, he is an IEEE Electron Device’s Society (EDS) Distinguished Lecturer and an elected member of the IEEE EDS Board of Governors. He is the recipient of the prestigious DST Swarnjayanti Fellowship (2021), Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship from INAE-SERB (2021), and the VASVIK award (2021). He has received several other national awards and honors of high repute, like the National Academy of Sciences, India, (NASI) Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award – 2018; Indian National Academy of Science (INSA) Young Scientist Award - 2018; Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovator Entrepreneur Award 2018 (Special commendation); Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award - 2017; INAE Young Associate (since 2017); Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Young Associate, 2018 – 2023; Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Young Faculty Fellowship. Besides, he received best paper awards from several international conferences like Intel Corporation Asia academic forum, VLSI design Conference and EOSESD Symposium. Prof Shrivastava broadly works on applications of emerging materials like Gallium Nitride (GaN), atomically thin two-dimensional materials like Graphene and TMDCs, in electronic and electro-optic devices working closer to its fundamental limits (like the ability to handle extreme powers, ability to work at THz like ultra-high frequencies, or ability to compute information in unconventional ways). Currently, his group is developing few-atom thick devices & circuits, GaN-based ultra-high-power devices with high reliability, and devices/circuits for operation at THz frequencies. Besides, his group also works on developing novel ESD and High Voltage device concepts in advanced CMOS nodes. He held visiting positions in Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, from April 2008 to October 2008 and again from May 2010 to July 2010. He worked for Infineon Technologies, East Fishkill, NY, USA; IBM Microelectronics, Burlington, VT, USA; Intel Mobile Communications, Hopewell Junction, NY, USA; Intel Corp, Mobile and Communications Group, Munich, Germany between 2010 and 2013. He joined the Indian Institute of Science as a faculty member in the year 2013. Prof Shrivastava’s work has resulted in over 200 peer-reviewed publications (47 of these papers are in IRPS and IEDM, the two most prestigious conferences of IEEE EDS, and around 100 are in journals such as IEEE T-ED) and 47 patents. Most of these patents are either licensed by semiconductor companies or are in use in their products

Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland working with the scale-up of the 2D material related manufacturing processes including wafer-scale fabrication of CVD graphene-based devices and integration of graphene-based sensors on CMOS readout platforms. Currently leading the wafer-scale fabrication activities in the European 2D Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) to improve the industrial maturity of the 2D materials.

Young-Woo Son has studied physical properties of various materials based on first-principles computational approach.
Sep. 2008− : Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2007−Aug. 2008 : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
2004−2006 : Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL
2004 : Ph.D. in Physics at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Mauricio Terrones, obtained his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics with first class honors at Universidad Iberoamericana, and was distinguished as the Best Student of Mexico in Engineering Physics in 1992. In 1994 he started his doctorate degree with Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS), and received his D.Phil. degree from University of Sussex in 1998. He has co-authored more than 400 publications in international journals, and counts with more than 28,000 citations to his work (His H index is 83; Google Scholar H=91). He has published in Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry, ACS Nano, PNAS, etc. In 1999, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and carried out research at the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany). In 2000, he was recipient of the Mexican National Prize for Chemistry. He also received the Javed Husain Prize and the Albert Einstein medal from UNESCO in 2001. In 2005, he received the TWAS Prize in Engineering Physics for his contributions in the field of carbon-based nanomaterials. This prize is given by the Academy of Sciences of the Developing world, and Mauricio is the youngest scientist ever to receive any TWAS award. In 2005, Terrones also received the “José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez” Prize, awarded by the governor of the state of San Luis Potosí, for his contributions to Nanoscience. He is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2002. In 2007, Terrones was elected the National Contact Point in Nanotechnology with the European Union. In 2012 was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2015, he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and was awarded the Jubilee Professorship from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). In 2016, Mauricio was awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences (Penn State). Mauricio is also Associate Editor of Carbon, 2D Materials, Journal of Materials Research and Nature Scientific Reports. He is Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering with tenure at Penn State University. He is also the Founder Director of the Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at Penn State, and also the NSF-IUCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC).

Aaron Thean is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently Deputy President of Academic Affairs and Provost of NUS. In addition, he holds several technical leadership responsibilities at the University, which includes Director of National Research Foundation’s Next- Generation Microelectronics research center (SHINE). Aaron was also the founding director for the NUS-Applied Materials Corporate Laboratory. Prior to joining NUS, Aaron Thean was the Vice President of Logic Technologies at IMEC. Working with Semiconductor Industry leaders like Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Globalfoundries, Apple, and Sony, he directed the research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies and emerging nano-device architectures. Before IMEC in 2011, he was with Qualcomm’s CDMA technologies in San Diego, California. There, he led the Strategic Silicon Technologies Group working on Qualcomm’s 20nm and 16nm mobile System-On-Chip technologies. From 2007 to 2009, Aaron was the Device Manager at IBM, where he led an eight-company process technology team to develop the 28-nm and 32-nm low-power bulk CMOS technology at IBM East Fishkill, New York, from research to risk production. The technology was transferred successfully to several foundry partners, the technologies became the industry’s first foundry-compatible Gate-First High-k Metal- Gate with novel SiGe channel Low-Power bulk CMOS technologies. Aaron started his career in industry as a senior scientist at Freescale Semiconductor (and Motorola) in Austin, Texas, where he performed R&D of novel electronic devices. Aaron graduated from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he received his B.Sc. (Highest Honors), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Edmund J. James Scholar). He has published over 300 technical papers and holds more than 50 US patents.

Flavia Tomarchio serves as the Head of Innovation Deployment at Constructor Group. A distinguished alumna of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Graphene Centre, she earned her PhD in Physics and Engineering and continued her journey at the same centre as a Project Manager. In this role, she was responsible for the scientific coordination and reporting of the centre's entire grant portfolio, including European Commission (EC), European Research Council (ERC), UK, and international grants. Currently, in her position at Constructor Group, she identifies long-term strategies and business opportunities, establishing an integral role in shaping the company's future direction. She is committed to forming framework projects with both academic institutions and industry counterparts. As the Head of Innovation Deployment, she effectively bridges the gap between research components and technology transfer within the Constructor ecosystem, ensuring a smooth and efficient translation of ideas into practical applications.

Richard van Rijn obtained his PhD (2012) and a cum laude MSc (2007) in physics from Leiden University. He performed PhD research in Leiden and at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble. There he developed and implemented an experimental system for surface X-ray diffraction studies of heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry. He is (co-)author of 14 peer reviewed scientific articles in applied physics and physical chemistry. He has attended over 10 research conferences, several as invited speaker. Richard helped to commercialise the SXRD reactor via Leiden probe Microscopy BV. After his PhD, he returned to Leiden to work on scaling up graphene production and shortly after co-founded Applied Nanolayers, where he is currently CTO

Sandra obtained her BSc Degree in Molecular Biology and Physiology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 2007. After graduation she completed her MRes Degree in Toxicology at University Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France. She pursued her PhD in Toxicology in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Responses to Xenobiotics at University Paris Diderot – Paris 7, supervised by Prof Armelle Baeza and Dr Sonja Boland. She focused on interactions of manufactured engineered nanoparticles with cells, especially on the mechanisms of their internalization and subsequent cellular effects. After her PhD, Sandra obtained Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Nagoya University and Tokyo University of Science in Japan supervised by Professor Gaku Ichihara, where she focused on the effects of silica nanoparticles on mice and zebrafish models. She joined the Nanomedicine Lab in January 2015 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow under the RADDEL ITN project studying carbon-based nanocapsules filled with radiometals aimed for biomedical applications in the areas of cancer diagnosis and therapy. Sandra is a lead scientist in the Graphene Flagship WP4 Health & Safety and 2D-Health projects, and the PI of EU-funded Horizon 2020 project BIORIMA. In November 2018 she was appointed as Lecturer in Nano-Cell Biology. Her team aims to investigate the cellular and molecular biology mechanisms and pathways on interaction of 2D and other nanomaterials using tissue organoid models and contribute to the discovery of new therapeutic modalities.

John has been a senior technical manager or operations director for the last decade, and has always been grateful to technical leaders in the past who allowed him to develop his skills. One of his core incentives on the Technical Apprenticeship Programme is to provide similar inspiration for up and coming technical staff.

Dr. Yakobson is the Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering. Dr. Yakobson holds a joint appointment between the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering and the Department of Chemistry. In 2008, Yakobson received a Nano 50 Award from the science magazine, Nanotech Briefs, for his innovation in nanotechnology, and in 2009, the Department of Energy R&D Award. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Yakobson is an editorial board member of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research and a member of the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical Society

Prof. Wang YAO obtained his BSc from Peking University in 2001, and PhD in physics from University of California, San Diego in 2006. He joined the University of Hong Kong in September 2008, and is currently Chair Professor in the Department of Physics. His research interest lies in the physics of spin and valley in solids, with a current focus on two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures. He has received honours including the OCPA Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize), Croucher Innovation Award, Nishina Asia Award, XPlorer Prize, and has been named by Clarivate Analytics in the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" in consecutive years since 2018. In 2020, he is elected Fellow of American Physical Society.

Dr. Yilmazer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Ankara University (Turkey). She is also the vice director of the Stem Cell Institute of the same university since 2016. In 2012, she obtained her Ph.D. in the Nanomedicine Lab based in the School of Pharmacy, University College London. In 2013, she moved back to Turkey where she established her own research group in Ankara University. She has extensive experience on in vitro and in vivo preclinical evaluation of nanomaterials. Her research group is currently focusing on the use of nanomaterials in cancer, regenerative medicine and viral therapeutics. She has been selected as the “Best Young Investigator” in Turkey by the Turkish Society of Medical Biology and Genetics in 2013, Young Investigator Award by the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2018 and she has been awarded Scientific Encouragement Award by the Ankara University in 2018, Scientist Award by the International Association of Advanced Materials in 2022.

Zdeněk Sofer has been a Full Professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, since 2019. He also received his Ph.D. at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague in 2008. During his Ph.D., he spent one year at Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany), followed by postdoctoral experience in University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interests include semiconductors and 2D materials, their synthesis, crystal growth, chemical modifications and functinalization. He is particularly focused on various applications of two-dimensional materials including energy storage and conversion. He has published more than 350 papers, received more than 13,000 citations, and has the h-index of 56. He was the recipient of the Rector award for young researcher in 2013 and 2016 as well as the Neuron Impulse award in 2016 and the award of the Czech Science Foundation President and the UCT Prague rector award in 2019.