Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Peter Smith completed his academic studies at the Universities of London (Imperial College) and Sheffield, graduating with a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry in 1985. Upon graduation, Peter began his career in the consumer goods industry working in the Research & Development Department at Procter & Gamble. During his 27 years’ experience at P&G, Peter has worked in a wide range of product categories (ranging from toothpaste to household laundry/ cleaning products to Cosmetics and Pet Food). He has extensive experience across the different R&D disciplines and has lived in the UK, Italy, and Belgium. For the past 7 years, Peter worked at Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) where he had responsibility for the Product Stewardship Programme, covering the EU Chemicals regulatory framework and International Chemicals Management. Since 2015, Peter has also represented the chemical industry as a Member of the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). And since 2016, he has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Helsinki Chemicals Forum.

Kun Tang got his Ph. D in microelectronics at Nanjing University, China. He worked at Data Storage Institute, A*STAR, Singapore from 2011-2013. After that, he joined Nanjing University as a research fellow, and is now an associated professor at School of Electronic Science & Engineering, Nanjing University, China. His research interest includes: (1) Oxide and diamond semiconductor material and devices; (2) Functional materials for photo-thermal conversion, especially titanium nitride; (3) Solar energy harvesting and utilization.

Vanessa De Wolf, industrial engineer in chemistry from I.S.I.B., specialized in material science. Her first work experience with nanoparticles was at Nanocyl for 1 year. Before her actual work at Nano4, she followed a formation in quality and production management at Bruxelles Formation. At Nano4, she is in charge of technical part in European R&D projects (IASS, INNOHU, Silenthalpic…) and in upscaling and development of products in accordance with customer’s needs, since October 2012. She has an extensive experience in research and development in materials including thermosets and thermoplastics resins, nanomaterials, specific properties (self-healing through IASS, flame retardancy, thermal and electrical conductivity, antibacterial, COV absorption…). She has experience in R&D project management.

Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in the Dept. of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee Univ. (KHU). He received BS from Seoul National Univ., MS and PhD from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He spent sabbatical years at National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), Australian National Univ., and Samsung Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at Institute of Natural Sciences at KHU, and was appointed as Fellow Professor from 2009. He has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots/nanowires/graphene/2D-related materials, and the other on their applications in optoelectronic devices. He has published over 210 papers.

Gabriele Vargas Cesar is postdoctoral researcher at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She holds a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology (2010), MSc. (2013) also, Ph.D. (2016) in Microbiology at the Microbiology Institute of Paulo de Góes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She also has a researcher treinee carried out at the Department of Infectious Diseases Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. She currently works as a postdoc at the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Magnetotaxis - Microbiology at the Microbiology Institute of Paulo de Góes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is inserted in the projects of magnetosomes, as magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications of relevance for the human. She also works for the inclusion of the visually impaired in microbiology, the micro on touch, based on a 3D print of imaging of microscopy images. Gabriele grew up in Rio de Janeiro city and is passionate about Samba music and to discover new ways of treating diseases in order to improve the quality of human life.

Experience researcher. Field close related to the semiconductors industry and research areas in microelectronics for sensors and MEMS. He obtained his PhD in Applied Science at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, emphasizing his work on microelectronic biosensors. Worked in research at the Université catholique de Louvain, focusing its work in biosensors, gas, pressure and optical sensors. Worked in different industrial projects with companies like Samsung, Canberra and vivaMOS, helping in process integration, quality improvement and validation for image and gas sensors. Currently working in the process development and characterization for thin film photodiodes in the IR light applications at IMEC, Belgium