Igor Aharonovich is an award-winning scientist working on cutting-edge research into quantum sources that are able to generate, encode and distribute quantum information. A Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS, Igor investigates optically active defects in solids, with the aim of identifying a new generation of ultra-bright solid state quantum emitters. He is a chief investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Materials (TMOS), and leads an international collaboration investigating the chemical structure of crystal imperfections, or defects, in the nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). In 2013, he established the nanophotonics research group at UTS, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and to a full Professor in 2018. His research group explores new quantum emitters in wide bandgap materials, with the aim of fabricating quantum nanophotonic devices on a single chip for the next generation of quantum computing, cryptography and bio-sensing. In 2016, Igor and his team discovered the first quantum emitters in 2D materials that operate at room temperature based on defects in hBN. He has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, including one of the most cited reviews on diamond photonics. He has also written a road map for solid state single-photon sources. In 2019, Igor co-founded the inaugural online photonics conference, Photonics Online Meetup, which attracted more than 1100 attendees from around the world, and which was highlighted by top science outlets. The conference now runs twice a year. Igor has received several international awards including the Pawsey Medal (2017), the IEEE Photonics Young Investigator Award (2016) and in 2020 he was the recipient of the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science from Materials Research Society. In 2021, he became a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), and in 2024 elected as a fellow of SPIE.

Prof. Saroj Dash is leading a research group on Quantum device Physics, Nanoelectronics and Spintronics research at Chalmers. He holds a PhD degree in Physics from Max Planck Institute (2007, Stuttgart, Germany). His previous positions include postdocs at Uni. of Twente and Uni. of Groningen in Netherlands for three years. He was appointed at Chalmers in November 2010, where his group focus is on electronic charge and spin transport in graphene, semiconductor nanostructures, 2D magnets, hBN, MoS2, other two-dimensional materials and topological insulators. His group develops novel approaches for nanofabrication and design new measurement techniques that lead to fundamental physics experiments. The goal is to exploit the quantum and spin degrees of freedom of electrons for the integration of memory and logic functionalities in nanoelectronic devices and integrated circuits.

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

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

Professor Michael Fuhrer is an ARC Laurete Fellow in the School of Physics at Monash University. Michael directs the ARC Centre of Excellence for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) and co-founded the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials. Prior to coming to Monash, Michael directed the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at the University of Maryland. Michael is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society.

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).

Marcos H. D. Guimarães is an Associate Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering) of the University of Groningen. He is the principal investigator (PI) of the research group Opto-Spintronics of Quantum Materials, studying the interplay between light, electron charge and spin, in structures which are just a few atoms thick. In 2020 Marcos joined the Young Academy Groningen, where he aims to help and broaden the science outreach programs at the University of Groningen and the North of the Netherlands.

Luis E. Hueso is currently an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian) since 2008. He is the leader and founder of the center's Nanodevices group, created in the same year. Since June 2017, he is also the scientific director of the Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu awarded to his institution, a position he will hold for a further four years starting in January 2022.

Bjarke S. Jessen is a researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), with a background in two-dimensional materials and nanotechnology. His work focuses on 2D heterostructures, moiré patterns, and the electronic properties of graphene and other layered materials. He has held research positions at Columbia University and DTU, contributing to projects within the EU Graphene Flagship and Center for Nanostructured Graphene. Bjarke has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers, with a particular focus on charge-transfer processes and nanoscale optical phenomena. He is currently focused on the properties of nanoscale contacts and on scalable superlattice technologies.

Moon-Ho Jo is Director of Center for van der Waals Quantum Solids, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Mueunjae Chair Professor of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Moon-Ho received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at University of Cambridge (2001), with a dissertation on electron-spin tunneling in half-metallic manganites. He joined the faculty of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at POSTECH in 2004 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied mesoscopic electron transport in single molecules. Earlier in his faculty career, he had worked on epitaxial growth of alloy semiconductor nanowires and nanowire photonics. Later, he was working on epitaxial growth of novel van der Waals heterostructures and related photophysics, therein. In 2022, he set out the IBS Center, working toward epitaxial molding of novel van der Waals lattices for the new quantum technology material platforms. He was appointed as a Fellow of The Korea Academy of Science and Technology in 2016. He is currently an Editorial Advisory Board member of Nano Letters.

Prof. Catherine Journet is Full Professor at the Laboratory of Multimaterials and Interfaces from the University of Lyon (FR). She is leading the research group on “low-dimensionality materials” whose main activities are related to the synthesis of micro- and nanostructures, the study of the interfaces structuration during synthesis, and the physico-chemical properties of the fabricated materials. She is among the pioneering scientists in the nanotube field and an expert in the synthesis techniques of C and BN 1D and 2D nanostructures. She received her PhD in 1998 from the University of Montpellier (FR) about the "Production of Carbon Nanotubes". After a post-doctoral position at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (DE) in the group of K. von Klitzing, she joined the University of Lyon as an Assistant Professor in 1999. Currently, she is involved in the synthesis of BN-based 2D materials and heterostructures. She is author of about ~ 80 scientific peer-reviewed papers for a total of more than 8000 citations.

Professor Kim joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty in 2015 and DMSE as a joint faculty member in 2016. Before MIT, he was a research staff member at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, conducting research in photovoltaics, 2D materials, graphene, and advanced complementary metal-oxide semiconductor devices. Professor Kim has been named a Master Inventor at IBM, with more than 100 patent filings in five years. He received a BS from Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea, an MS from Seoul National University, and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, all in materials science and engineering.

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 then joined in Department of Physics at Columbia University as a faculty member during 2002-2014. Currently, he is Professor of Physics and Professor Applied Physics at Harvard University. The focus of Prof. Kim’s research is the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. Professor Kim received numerous honors and award including Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2023) and Oliver E. Buckley Prize, American Physical Society (2014). He is Elected member of the National Science of Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and Fellow of American Physical Society.

Steven J. Koester is the Russell J. Penrose Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Minnesota, and Director of the Minnesota Nano Center. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1997 to 2010, he was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Since 2010, Dr. Koester has been a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota where his research focuses on novel electronic, photonic, and sensing devices, with an emphasis on those using 2D materials. Dr. Koester has authored or co-authored over 300 technical publications and conference presentations, 7 volumes, 4 book chapters, and holds 80 United States patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Optica.

Prof. Kostas Kostarelos read Chemistry at the University of Leeds and obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering and his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, studying the steric stabilization of liposomes using block copolymer molecules. Currently, Kostarelos is Professor and Chair of Nanomedicine at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, leads the Nanomedicine Lab and is a member of the National Graphene Institute and the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, all at the University of Manchester. He has been invited to Fellowships with the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of Arts, all in the UK. He was awarded the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Professorial Fellowship in 2010. In 2019 he joined the ICN2 as Severo Ochoa Distinguished Professor and Group Leader, while retaining his appointments and research team at the University of Manchester.

Prof. Zhaoping Liu received his Ph. D. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Science & Technology of China in 2004. He then spent 2.5 years in National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), Japan, where he began his postdoctoral study in the field of inorganic layered materials. Following which he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, in which he studied on solution-phase synthesis of III-V nanomaterials. In Oct. 2008, he joined Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering (NIMTE). His current research interests focus on energy storage materials and Li-ion batteries. So far, Prof. Liu has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater.

Steven G. Louie received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1976. After having worked at the IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Laboratories, and University of Pennsylvania, he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1980. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), fellow of the American Physical Society (1985), senior faculty scientist and Theory Facility Director of the Molecular Foundry at LBNL, and editor of the journal Solid State Communications. He has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship (1980), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), two Miller Professorships (1986, 1995), the U.S. Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics (1993), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Outstanding Performance Award (1995), the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (1996), the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics of the American Physical Society (1999), and shared with M. L. Cohen the Foresight Institute Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2003). He is identified by the ISI as one of the most highly cited researchers in physics.

Prof. Dr LU Jiong holds Dean’s Chair Professorship, associate professor at Department of Chemistry and Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials at NUS. Dr. Lu received his bachelor’s degree from Fudan University (China) in 2007 and Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2011. After that, he worked as a postdoc fellow in Graphene Research Centre at NUS, and then in Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

Since 2022, Mathieu Luisier is Full Professor of Computational Nanoelectronics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. During his PhD at ETH Zurich (2003-2007) he started the development of a state-of-the-art quantum transport simulator called OMEN. After graduation, he joined in 2008 the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University, USA, as a research assistant professor. In 2011 he returned to ETH Zurich to become Assistant and then Associate Professor. His current research interests focus on the modeling of nanoscale devices, such as advanced transistors photo-detectors, resistive switching memory cells, or quantum computing systems.

Florie is currently a postdoctoral scholar at University of Washington. She received her pHD in physics at the Université Grenoble Alpes (2022), during which she focused on studying the electronic properties of bilayer graphene - whether twisted, heterostrained, or with defects - using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Her most recent work is focused on probing by STM the physics of twisted Molybdenium di-Telluride in which the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect has been recently measured.

Hanako OKUNO graduated with a Master Degree in Materials Science and engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999. She received PhD in Materials Science from Louvain catholic University in Belgium, entitled “Synthesis and characterization of carbon based materials” in 2006. She worked in advanced microscopy to develop quantitative chemical atomic resolution imaging on semiconductor during her post-doc fellows at NIMS in Japan and CEA in France and then joined CEA LITEN in 2009 where she worked on the integration of CNTs in microelectronic device applications. Since 2012, she has been working in Laboratory of advanced electron microscopy in CEA INA, whereas she specializes advanced microscopy for two-dimensional material study using low-voltage aberration corrected TEM techniques.

Nacho Pascual obtained a PhD in Physical Sciences in 1998 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Condensed Matter Physics. His studies about quantum electronic transport through atoms and molecules using scaning tunnelling microscopy contributed to the settlement of a new research field in nanoelectronics. In 1999, he moved to Berlin, to the Fritz-Haber Institute der Max-Planck Gesselschaft, hosting there a Marie Curie Fellowship to investigate the rules behind single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy, a newly developed method to characterize chemically absorbates with STM. After a short stay in Barcelona, at the Institut de Ciencia de Materiales (ICMAB-CSIC), hosting a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, he moved back to Berlin, now to the Freie Universität, first (2004) as a Junior Professor and posteriorly (2008) as full Professor. There, he expanded his research in the field of Molecular Physics at Surfaces, dealing with various molecular-scale phenomena, from molecular switching behaviour and charge transfer processes, to magnetism and superconductivity. In 2012, he joined nanoGUNE as Ikerbasque Research Professor and Group Leader of the Nanoimaging group.

Felix received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in 2008. Prior to joining the Faculty at UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor he was a German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University New York, NY.

Elisa Riedo is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She is also Professor of Physics at NYU College of Arts and Science and affiliated Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, Riedo was Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2015. She graduated summa cum laude in Physics at the University of Milano, and obtained a Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 with a joint thesis between the University of Milano, and the European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. She then worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. She is particularly well known for her pioneering work in thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL), a novel and sustainable nanofabrication technique with applications in biomedicine, nanoelectronics, and magnetic materials. She has also made fundamental contributions in nanomechanics, graphene, diamene, 2D materials, and nano-confined water. She is widely published, and has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg, Emeritus Director of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is Member of the Académie des Technologies, Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (ACATECH), 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, 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). Before joining ISIS, he has been permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna. He trained over 130 people among Master Students, Ph.D and Post Docs out of which 34 are now Professor in major universities or resarch centers in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, US, Canada, China, Brazil, etc. He has published 470+ 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), the RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences (2020), the Prix André Collet (2022) and the Mid-Career Researcher Award by IUMRS-ICEM (2024)
He is Associate Editor of ACS Nano (ACS) and Member of the Executive Advisory Board of Advanced Materials and of Avanced Sensor Research, member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Small, ChemNanoMat, member of the Editorial Board of ChemPlusChem, Electron, Responsive Materials, MGE Advances, Chemistry Europe, and SmartMat (Wiley-VCH), Chemical Society Reviews, Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, RSC Applied Interfaces, Materials Advances, Chemical Communications and Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC), and BMC Materials (Springer Nature).

Patrice Simon is Distinguished Professor of Material Science at Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier. He is currently leading on behalf of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) the PEPR Batteries, a national program launched in January 2023. He is also Deputy Director of the French network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E, www.energie-rs2e.com) since its creation in 2011, that gathers together about 20 Labs and 15 companies working on batteries and supercapacitors. His research activities focus on the fundamental understanding of electrochemical processes occurring at the material / electrolyte interfaces in electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices (batteries and electrochemical capacitors). Patrice Simon is a Fellow of the French Academy of Sciences (2019), European Academy of Sciences (2020) and Academia Europaea (2019).

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

Sergio Valenzuela obtained his PhD in Physics in 2001 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and held research positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since July 2008 he has been an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices Group. His research is focused on the unique properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions, motivated by both their intrinsic scientific interest and their potential for advanced electronic applications. His work encompasses spintronics, quantum computation with superconducting circuits and quantum metrology. Together with his collaborators, he has pioneered the use of non- local devices to study the spin Hall effect and of thermopiles to isolate the magnon drag in ferromagnetic materials, and he has implemented novel qubit control and spectroscopy methods.

Prof. Kenji Yasuda earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2018 from the University of Tokyo, where he discovered various spintronic functionalities in magnetic topological insulator thin films. He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pioneered the field of artificial ferroelectrics based on van der Waals heterostructures. He joined the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell as an assistant professor in 2024. The Yasuda lab designs quantum nanomaterials and heterostructures to explore novel physical properties and functionalities. Prof. Yasuda has received numerous honors and awards, including MRS Postdoctoral Award.