Speakers

Giovanni has 13 years experience within the best F1 Teams, ranging from smaller teams such as Minardi and Toro Rosso, through to Toyota to the front runners Ferrari and McLaren. It is here where he has expressed his best creativity and innovative attitude. Giovanni has spent time in 3 completely...

For more than 20 years, Terrance Barkan CAE has been building trade and professional associations on a global basis.  His international management career has taken him to more than 60 countries on 6 continents around the world developing and implementing association growth strategy projects. In...

A graduate in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Manchester. Since 2000 Brendan has been active in the Fuel Cell industry and has previously been the CEO of Ceramic Fuel Cells (Europe). From 2009 until April 2012 Brendan provided consultancy services to start-up technology...

Dr. Paolo Bondavalli, Msc, PhD, Hdr is the Head of Nanomaterial team at Thales Research and Technology (CNRS/Thales, UMR137) and he is a member of the Nanocarb Lab. (joint team Ecole Polytechnique/Thales). Presently his work is focused on the development of new materials...

Peter Budd obtained his first degree (chemistry, 1978) and PhD (1981) from the University of Manchester. He spent 8 years as a research chemist at the BP Research Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames, working on polymers and structural materials, returning to Manchester in 1989 as a lecturer. He is now...

Kitty Cha received the PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles on graphene syntheses from solution-processed and CVD methods and their application in organic electronic devices. She joined BASF SE thereafter and has been involved with the screening and application of novel carbon...

Srinivasan Chakrapani obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. Post-doctoral experiences (Europe & USA) include anionic polymerization & photocationic polymerization. Work experience include polymer synthesis, formulations for photoresists...

Mark Davis has been involved in research and development in semiconductors and optics since 1978.  He has held positions of Director of Advance Research and Development, Chief Technical Officer (CTO), and Chief Science Officer (CSO).  Responsibilities have included both the research and...

Andrea Ferrari is Professor of Nanotechnology and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. He is the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department and Nanoscience Centre. He is...

Dr. Konstantinos Gkagkas holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with a specialisation in Aeronautical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.  He also holds a PhD from Imperial College London on Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows.  Dr. Gkagkas joined the...

Dr. Louis Gorintin is leading nanotechnologies development on physical sensor and nanomaterial for GDF SUEZ applications adapting best technology available to identify market. The product developed in his team are ranging from nano sensors for optimization of flow process or bill of energy either ...

Tom Gregory received his BS and MS in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1978 and 1979, and spent 34 years at Dow Chemical in a variety of R&D roles, including graphene production process and application development.  Tom is the owner of Borealis Technology Solutions ...

Dr. Owen J Guy is Associate Professor in Engineering at Swansea University, working in nano/micro fabrication, MNs, microfluidics, devices and silicon nanowire and graphene sensors for healthcare applications, funded by EPSRC, TSB, EU and Welsh Government. His primary research areas are graphene...

Huw graduated with a degree in Political Theory and Government from the University of Wales. He began his career with the Unilever Group moving onto Philips Industries and Harris Corporation occupying Personnel Management roles. Later, Huw transferred to Sales Management with Harris and moved...

Dr. Shu-Jen Han is a manager and Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Sci. & Eng. and Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research activities encompass the heterogeneous integration using low-dimensional...

Tim has built a twenty-five year career on identifying, understanding and acting on technology trends, from instigating and managing development projects to investment and eventual commercialisation of micro- and nanotechnologies. This has been complemented by work in assessing and addressing the ...

Andrew Houghton is Deputy Head of the Unit "Future Networks", in the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium. He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and a Ph.D. from the University of...

Mr. Humes received his Bachelor of Science from Morehouse College. He graduated Cum Laude with Chemistry Departmental Honors while minoring in Mathematics and Biology. Mr. Humes performed research-based internships at the IBM Almaden Research Center, the University of Chicago, RUSH Medical...

Prof. Frank Koppens is a group leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). Koppens is deputy leader of the optoelectronics work package of the graphene flagship. The Nano-optoelectronics group of Prof. Koppens focuses on the realization of a variety of novel active and hybrid...

Cormac is the Director of External Affairs at Crown Packaging, which covers the Intellectual Property Group, the Open Innovation Group and External Partnerships. Prior to joining Crown, he led a $100m New Product Development and Innovation programme in low carbon transport for a major global oil...

Amaya has a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the Manchester Metropolitan University, and has been working in AIMPLAS (Plastic Technology Centre) since 2005. She has spent more than 10 years working in the field of nanomaterials, polymeric nanocomposites, functionalization and processing of polymeric ...

Manuel finished his PhD at Imperial College London and joined Drayson Technologies as CTO to continue developing wireless power transfer solutions. He is an entrepreneur from InnovationsRCA and Design London Fellow and graduate (summa cum laude) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.  ...

Craig is Senior Toxicologist at the IOM based in Edinburgh and is a particle toxicologist providing technical expertise and a nanotoxicology testing across consulting and research activities. His research interests lie in understanding the interactions between particles and biological systems and ...

Andrew is leading the Surface and Nanoanalysis Group's research into the measurement of graphene, other graphene-like advanced 2-D materials, and associated devices. This metrology research focuses on the actual measurement of the materials with a range of surface characterisation...

Branimir Radisavljevic is Scientist at ABB Corporate Research centre in Switzerland. He received B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2008) degrees in Electrical engineering and Computer Science from the University of Belgrade and was awarded PhD (2013) from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...

1996 – 2003  Student of Electrical Engineering at RWTH-Aachen University 2001  6 month internship at Agilent Labs, Palo Alto, USA “MBE-growth of VCSEL Lasers” 2003   Diploma in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University 2003-2007  PHD student at Institute for Semiconductor Electronics...

Milan Rosina is a senior analyst at Yole Développement for energy conversion and innovative materials. Before joining Yole Développement, he worked as a research scientist and a project manager in the fields of photovoltaics, microelectronics and LED. He has 15+ year scientific and industrial...

Twenty years ago David visited the secret lab at Los Alamos that created the nuclear bomb and he's been fascinated by science and scientists ever since. His reports on research have taken him as far afield as the Antarctic ice-sheet, the Amazon rainforest and the depths of the Gulf of...

Dr. Sinton is a Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow at the LM Space Systems Company, Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA. He currently leads a group of R&D professionals engaged in the design and synthesis of advanced materials, with emphasis on nanomaterials for electronic, sensing, and...

Anirudha Sumant received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Science form University of Pune, India in 1998. He is currently Materials Scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory and leading the research on nanocarbon materials. His main research interests include...

Quentin and his CambridgeIP team help clients accelerate the development and deployment of valuable technologies. Quentin has lead CambridgeIP from its outset and his intellectual property (IP) strategy and IP policy work has been featured by the BBC, the Financial Times, Nature News, in the Wall...

Brigitte has years of expertise in gas phase laser metrology using nonlinear techniques such as CARS and DFWM, in  hot and reactive media. She is an expert in molecular spectroscopy of gases, and has been involved in the development of in situ optical diagnostics of the nanotubes synthesis...

Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan is a Lecturer in Nanomaterials at The University of Manchester. His research involves the science and technology of graphene and carbon nanotubes, particularly for applications in electronics, sensors and biotechnology. He was previously a Senior Post-doctoral Research...

Stephen Voller C.Eng founded Zapgocharger Ltd in 2013 as London Graphene Ltd. He is an experienced entrepreneur having raised over $100m for start-up, technology and energy companies, including taking a TMT sector company to IPO on the AIM market of London Stock Exchange. Stephen was a panel member ...