Dr Kalin Dragnevski obtained his MSc from the University of Chemical Technology & Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria & his PhD from the Institute of Materials at Leeds University. Following a short spell in industry, he took a research position in the Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge. He is now in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Laboratory for In-situ Microscopy & Analysis (LIMA). His research is aimed at developing methodologies for better understanding the structure-property-composition relationship in advanced materials systems on a micro- & nano-scale using novel in-situ micromechanical testing techniques. His work recently received the prestigious DR Harting Award for best paper of the year, given by the Society of Experimental Mechanics.

MJ Deen is Distinguished University Professor, Senior Canada Research Chair and Director of the Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory, McMaster University. He is regarded as a world-leader in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, nanotechnology and their emerging applications to health and environmental sciences. His research record includes more than 530 peer-reviewed articles, two textboooks on Silicon Photonics and Fiber Optic Communications, and sixteen best paper/poster/presentation awards. Over his career, he has won more than fifty awards and honors and is elected to Fellow status in ten national academies and professional societies including The Royal Society of Canada, IEEE, APS and ECS.

Dr. Yobas received his MSc and PhD degrees both from Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, USA. Currently, Dr. Yobas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering as well as in the Division of Biomedical Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and is an inventor of 3 issued US patents.

Dr. Baumann is Professor for Digital Printing and Imaging Technology of the Technische Universität Chemnitz and head of the Department Printed Functionalities of the Fraunhofer ENAS in Chemnitz, Germany.His research interests are future applications of graphic arts technologies in digital manufacturing of Smart Objects. Since his engagement in the graphic arts industry he is involved in the R&D of digital fabrication processes and equipment for the industrialization of printed and large area electronics.The results of his research activities are published in numerous journals, conference papers and patents.Prof. Baumann serves since 2004 on the board of the Organic Electronic Association oe-a. 2011- 2015 he served as Vice President of IS&T and is a fellow of that organization.

Dr Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH. He obtained physics degrees from the University of Western Australia/Perth and the University of Heidelberg. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD thesis at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial College. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences, for which he received various awards, most notably a nomination for the “Deutscher Gründerpreis” in 2004.

Yaghoub Tadi Beni is Professor of Solid Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shahrekord University, Iran. Prof. Tadi Beni received his Master and PhD in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He is the author or co-author around 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His main research interests are: Micro/Nano mechanics; modeling of micro/nano electromechanical systems (M/NEMS); Nonlinear/Nonclassical continuum mechanics; Nonlinear stability of Micro/Nanostructures.

Yaroslavl Andrey Borisovich graduated with honors from the chemical faculty of Moscow State University. In 1982 he defended his PHD thesis and in 1991 became doctor of chemical sciences. In 2006 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the head of the laboratory of ionics of functional materials in Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry RAS and the laboratory of membrane catalysis in Topchiev institute of petrochemical synthesis RUS. He works in the field of solid state ionics and ion-exchange membranes.

Dr. Castracane is Professor (Founding Faculty) and Head of the Nanobioscience Constellation in the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Castracane received his BS degree in Physics from Canisius College (1976) and his Ph.D. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1982). Dr. Castracane has a 35 year record of research and development funding from numerous Federal agencies including NIH, NSF, DOD, DOE, DARPA, and NASA as well as a significant portfolio of State and corporate sponsors. His publication record spans over 150 articles, numerous invited or keynote presentations and 14 patents issued/pending.

Dr. Da Chen is currently a professor at China Jiliang University, China. He received his PhD in 2008 from University of Science & Technology of China. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited over 3400 times, and is also an inventor of more than 30 issued China patents. He has won a Second Class National Natural Science Award in 2015, and a Third Prize of Natural Science of Zhejiang Province in 2016. His current research interest is mainly focused on the design and synthesis of functional semiconductor nanostructures, as well as their applications for electrochemical sensing, photocatalysis and energy conversion and storage.

De. Cheng received his Ph.D degree from Sichuan University. He has the honour of receiving several scholar ships and awards including China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Scholarship, National Scholarship Award for Graduate Students of China, Committee of 100 Leadership Scholarship Award of USA. His research interest include micro-nanostructured porous carbon as highly efficient catalysts, Designing graphene, CNT and porous carbon based electrochemically-active, conductive and bioactive nanoarchitectures for neural and cardiac tissue regeneration, biological electrodes, implantable and stretchable Mg-biobattery, Synthetic polymers, supramolecules, nanomaterials and scaffolds for anticoagulant, anti-inflammation, anti-bacterial membranes and composite biomaterials. He has published over 70 papers and has an H-Index 28 and citation 2200.

Dr. Yuhua Duan is a physical scientist at National Energy Technology Laboratory of the United States Department of Energy. He obtained his BS in Chemistry, a MS in Chemical Physics, a PhD in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. As an active researcher, he has been working in the fields of condensed matter of physics, chemical physics and bioinformatics at several international research groups in China, Brazil, Switzerland, and the U.S. Dr. Duan has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications.

Prof. Antonio Gloria is a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy and Professor at different universities. He is a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Fraunhofer International Joint Laboratory Ideas – University of Naples “Federico II”. He is a Member of the European Society for Biomaterials, the ACS and a Full Member of the ANS. He was awarded and appointed as “Future Leader” in Science and Technology (“Dialogue between Nobel Laureates and Future Leaders,” STS Forum, October 2015, Kyoto, Japan). His main research interests include additive manufacturing, reverse engineering, design, modeling/simulation, biomaterials, tissue engineering, materials science and technology.

Samson A. Jenekhe holds the Boeing-Martin Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003), the American Physical Society (2003) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (2015). He was elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2013. He is the recipient of the 2014 Charles M. A. Stine Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Jenekhe’s research interests are in the chemistry, physics, and engineering applications of organic/polymer semiconductors in electronic and optoelectronic devices, materials and devices for solar energy technologies, self-assembly and soft nanotechnology, and polymer science.

Dr. Song is the Canada Research Chair

Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy has been Professor of Formulation Science, having previously been Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Materials and Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at Reading School of Pharmacy, University of Reading. Prior to his appointment at the University of Reading, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, and as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Strathclyde. Prof Khutoryanskiy has researched broadly in the area of biomaterials for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, with a particular emphasis on drug delivery, mucoadhesive materials, hydrogels, nanoparticles, and stimuli-responsive polymers.

Professor Xiaochun Li is the Raytheon Endowed Chair in Manufacturing Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the California Smart Manufacturing Center, DOE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University. He is a holder of multiple best paper awards and patents, including five of those licensed by industry. He received National Science Foundation CAREER award, Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Howard F. Taylor Award from American Foundry Society.

Dr. Xianbo Lu is currently a professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph.D. in 2007 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He worked at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Visiting scholar during 2013-2014. His current research interests focus on environmental analysis and detection technology such as sensors, biosensors and analytical nanomaterials for rapid screening and detection of environmental pollutants and other important targets, environmental mass spectrometry for trace analysis, etc. As a distingwished professor, Dr. Lu has received many awards.

Stefano Mariani is associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has co-authored around 200 scientific publications. His main research interests are: numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites; reliability of MEMS subject to shocks and drops; structural health monitoring of composite structures through MEMS sensors.

Josep Samitier Martí, Director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain.Full Professor of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering. Engineering Department. (Electronics). Faculty of Physics. University of Barcelona (UB). Background in Physics (M.S. Degree in Physics, University of Barcelona and Ph.D. in Physics, University of Barcelona). Group leader of the Nanobioengineering Group at IBEC. EIT Health Supervisory Board member. Coordinator of the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanomedSpain). Spanish delegate in the Working Party on Biotecnology (OECD). President of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (Associació Catalana d'Entitats de Recerca - ACER). Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC). In 2003, he was awarded the City of Barcelona prize in the Technological Innovation category. His main research areas are Organ-on-chip, Biosensors and Microfluidics.

Dr. S. M. Sohel Murshed received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2007. He is a professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has authored/co-authored 6 books, 20 book-chapters and more than 118 papers in leading international journals and conferences. His current citation counts 3799 (Google Scholar) with h-index of 22. He is a member of ASME and ASTFE. He has been reviewer for dozens of leading journals including for Nature. He is a management committee member and also a group leader of a European COST action (NANOUPTAKE).

Dr. Giovanni A. Salvatore received his Master and PhD in Electronics and Science from the Polytechnic of Turin and EPF Lausanne, respectively. His doctoral dissertation on ferroelectric transistors was awarded the 2012 ABB Award. In 2011 he joined the Electronics Laboratory at ETH Zurich to work on thin film flexible transistors, circuits and sensors. Two years later, he joined the Rogers research group at UIUC to work on "biointegrated electronics" which was a project founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with an Advanced post-doc mobility fellowship.

Dr. Mikhail Sheremet is currently a Head of the Laboratory on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer and Professor in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Tomsk State University, Russia. He received his Ph.D. (Russia, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics) in Fluid Mechanics from Tomsk State University in 2006 and habilitation (Russia, Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics) in Fluid Mechanics from Tomsk State University in 2012. His recent research concentrates on fluid flow and heat transfer in nanofluids; heat and mass transfer in porous media; turbulent modes; radiation heat transfer; heat transfer and flow pattern in electronic systems.

Prof. Sorrell obtained his degrees from University of New South Wales in 1987. His research emphasis for more than 35 years has been the processing of ceramics, often informed by phase equilibria considerations. This work has been funded principally by the Australian Research Council and a range of Australian and international industries. His research activities, documented in >500 publications and 4 patents, have been commensurately broad, including most areas of ceramics except fracture mechanics. His current research is focused on the development of photocatalytic materials for water and air purification, self-cleaning building materials, self-sterilising orthopaedic implants, cancer therapy, self-cleaning contact lenses, and self-cleaning building materials.

Angeliki Tserepi is Director of Research at the Institute of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-NCSR “Demokritos”. She received the Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University, USA. She is the author or co-author of 7 patents and more than 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals (3700 citations and h-index=33), and co-founder of a spin-off company. Her research is focused on plasma-enabled surface engineering (for wettability, biomolecule and cell control), as well as the development of microfluidic and Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices for food safety and medical diagnostics.

Dr. Li-Hsien Yeh is currently an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2007 and has been awarded the Young Scholar Award from the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2013. His current research interests focus on microfluidics and nanofluidics, nanofluidic power, ionic circuits, nanopore sensing, and colloid and interface science, and he has published three book chapters and more than 70 SCI referred papers on these fields since 2006.

Dr. Ramin Yousefi obtained his Ph.D in solid state physics from University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia in 2010. His research in during Ph.D was about optical properties of ZnO nanowires and nanobelts. Then, he jointed to the Islamic Azad University (I.A.U), Iran as an Assistant Professor. His position is an Associate Professor currently and in addition of metal oxide nanostructures such as ZnO as gas sensor application, he researches about metal-chalcogenide nanostructures for different applications such as photocatalysis and photovoltaic. Furthermore, he has focused on semiconductor/graphene nanocomposites to improve applications of semiconductors.

Dr. Xiaohong Zhou received her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2007. She has been postdoc, lecture and associated professor in School of Environment, Tsinghua University since that. Dr. Xiaohong Zhou has already published more than 50 international research articles in esteemed international scientific journals with the H-index of 13. She is nominated as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (2015-now), Technical Program Committee Members of international conference SENSORDEVICES (2016-now). Dr. Xiaohong Zhou also took part in many research grants in her career. Research in her lab has resulted in several patents as well as successful products in environmental monitoring (http://www.jq-environ.com).