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Ruslán R. Alvarez Diduk (ICN2, Spain)
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Ruslan Alvarez, a senior researcher in the Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), obtained his PhD in Chemistry in Mexico in 2014. Driven by a passion for engineering complemented by his chemistry expertise, he transitioned to ICN2 in 2015. He spearheads research on pioneering nanostructured biosensing platforms with dual optical and electrochemical readouts, focusing on point-of-care and cost-effective systems. His work also encompasses the synthesis of nanoparticles, development of graphene-related materials, graphene oxide reduction techniques, laser patterning, and the innovation of readout prototypes, including smartphone-integrated biosensing solutions. He has made significant contributions at the intersection of nanotechnology, materials science, and healthcare. With over 40 peer-reviewed articles published, he has garnered more than 2,500 citations and holds an h-index of 23. He has also held key leadership roles in major research initiatives. His work extends beyond academia, with four patents and contributions to global technological events, demonstrating the practical impact of his research.
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Andras Badacsonyi (European Research Council Executive Agency, Belgium)
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As a former researcher, I helped over thirty evaluation panels in various research fields and I followed up the implementation of hundreds of projects during my fourteen years at the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA). I represented the ERC and ERCEA at various scientific conferences and meetings providing information on ERC, its projects and its funding opportunities to various audiences.
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Larysa Baraban (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)
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Larysa Baraban began her scientific career in Ukraine, where she studied physics at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. After successfully completing her studies, she earned her doctorate in experimental physics at the University of Konstanz. In 2009, she joined a French research team at the École Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) and worked on biotechnologies for the first time. Two years later, she went to the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) and then to TU Dresden to specialize in systems in the nanometer range. Since 2020, Baraban has been group leader of the “Nano-microsystems for Life Sciences” research group at the HZDR, which developed into a separate department at the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research at the beginning of 2023. Prof. Dr. Larysa Baraban took up the newly created Chair of Medical Nanotechnology at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus at TUD Dresden University of Technology on 1 May 2024. The professorship was jointly established by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health. The physicist is researching nanoelectronics for individualized cancer immunotherapies and innovative, cost-effective methods for pathogen detection.
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Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Spain)
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Giuseppe, also referred to as Beppe, is a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) professor and group leader at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). Beppe is an Honorary Professor in Biophysical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) and a visiting professor at the West China Hospital - Sichuan University. Before his current position at IBEC, Beppe held a chair in Molecular Bionics at UCL (2013-2022), a chair in Synthetic Biology (2011-2013), and a lectureship (2006-2011) at the University of Sheffield. He leads a diverse team of scientists dedicated to investigating the transport of molecules and cells across body barriers and developing novel nanomedicines. He is also the founder of Somaserve Ltd, a biotech company specialising in precision nanomedicine and gene therapy.
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Oscar Castaño Linares (University of Barcelona / IBEC, Spain)
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Ciro Chiappini (King´s College London, UK)
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Dr. Ciro Chiappini is a Senior Lecturer in Nanomaterials and Biointerfaces at King's College London, where he has been a faculty member since 2016. His research focuses on developing nanotechnology-based solutions for advanced therapies and biosensing, integrating principles of bioengineering and cell biology. Prior to joining King’s, Dr. Chiappini was a Marie Curie Fellow and a Newton International Fellow at Imperial College London from 2011 to 2016. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2018, he received the ERC Starting Grant. Dr. Chiappini has authored over 40 publications, amassing more than 3,500 citations in the fields of materials science and bioengineering, and holds multiple international patents.
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Valeria Chiono (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
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Valeria Chiono is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. Her research is interdisciplinary, aimed at the design of innovative bioengineering approaches to solve key problems in regenerative medicine and nanomedicine, and includes the development of bioactive materials and interfaces, tissue engineering, materials characterization, in vitro tissue models, drug delivery and non-viral gene therapy. One main research topic is cardiac tissue regeneration through in situ miRNA release. She coordinates the ERC Consolidator project BIORECAR (grant agreement, GA: 772168) on advanced strategies for myocardial regeneration, and two ERC-PoC projects (POLIRNA, GA: 101113522; EMPATIC, GA: 101158332) on the design of hybrid nanocarriers for RNA delivery and in vitro platforms for cardiotoxicity assessment of drugs and nanomedicines, respectively. Recently she has co-founded the spinoff company PoliRNA Srl deriving from achievements in BIORECAR and POLIRNA projects.
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Jaap den Toonder (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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Jaap den Toonder is full professor and chair of the Microsystems section at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on innovative microsystems design approaches that are often biologically inspired, out-of-cleanroom fabrication technologies, and interactive polymer materials. The application focus is on microfluidic chips, organ-on-chip, biomedical microdevices, and soft microrobotics. Jaap den Toonder has (co-)authored over 150 scientific papers, as well as over 45 patents, and he has given more than 60 invited lectures at international conferences. He is recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2019. He was elected Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering in 2023.
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Juan Fraire (IBEC, Spain)
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Juan Fraire received his PhD in 2016 at the University of Cordoba (Argentina). Immediately after, Juan joined the Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy at Ghent University (Belgium) headed by Prof. Stefaan De Smedt and Prof. Kevin Braeckmans as postdoctoral researcher. He is a former Fulbright (Boston University) and FWO (Ghent University) fellow, and his early-career achievements have been recognized by the Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award and Sabato Institute Award. In 2021, Juan joined the Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - IBEC (Spain) as senior postdoctoral researcher, and since 2022 he is a Beatriu de Pinós - MSCA Fellow. His research is situated at the interface between advanced drug delivery, material sciences, biophysics and biology
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Xavier Gallart Palau (Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Lleida, Spain)
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Clara Garcia Astrain (Polymat, Spain)
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Clara García Astrain is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at POLYMAT. She holds a PhD in Renewable Materials Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). During her PhD studies, she was a visiting researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany) in the field of nanocomposite hydrogel development for biomedical applications. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES) from the University of Strasbourg (France) and at BCMaterials (Spain). From 2018 to 2024, she worked as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Bionanoplasmonics Lab led by Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán at CICbiomaGUNE (Spain). Her work was focused on the design of polymer nanocomposites to create scaffolds for 3D sensing and imaging applications. In 2024, she joined POLYMAT to work on the development of functional polymers for biosensing applications.
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Jose Antonio Garrido (ICREA/ICN2, Spain)
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Jose A. Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and head of the Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices group. He received a master and PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a habilitation degree by the Technical University of Munich. His research interest focuses on aspects of the science and technology of novel electronic materials, with a strong emphasis on 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2, as well as in the application of these materials to bioelectronics and neural interfaces. He participates in major national and European projects and efforts to explore the development of novel neural interfaces for biomedical applications. Jose Garrido is co-founder of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, where he is now the Chief Scientific Officer
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Kerstin Göpfrich (Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), Germany)
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I have always been curious about fundamental questions in science and long fascinated by the idea to engineer a cell from scratch. I am a professor at Heidelberg University at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) and I am leading the Max Planck Reseach Group Biophysical Engineering of Life. Previously, as a Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Stuttgart, I worked on bottom-up synthetic biology and microfluidics with Joachim Spatz. In April 2017, I completed my PhD in physics as a Gates Cambridge Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, where I built DNA origami nanopores in the group of Ulrich Keyser.
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Aitziber López Cortajarena (CIC BiomaGUNE, Spain)
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Prof. Aitziber Cortajarena earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Universidad del País Vasco in 2002. Then, she worked on protein design in the group of Dr. Lynne Regan at Yale University, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Research Scientist. She joined IMDEA Nanociencia in 2010 and started her independent research in nanobiotechnology. In 2016, she joined CIC biomaGUNE as Ikerbasque Research Professor. Currently, she leads the Biomolecular Nanotechnology group and is Scientific Director at CIC biomaGUNE since 2022. Her research focuses on protein engineering toward the generation of functional nanostructures and bioinspired materials for applications in nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.
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Jesus M. De la Fuente (INMA/CSIC, Spain)
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Jesús M. de la Fuente finished his Ph.D. in 2003 at the CSIC (Seville, Spain). After two years at the University of Glasgow, he went back to Spain where he obtained a permanent position at the University of Zaragoza to lead the Group of Biofunctionalization of Nanoparticles and Surfaces. Since 2014, he is Research Professor at the ICMA/INMA (CSIC–University of Zaragoza). His research is focused on the development of nanotechnologies for advanced therapies and new transduction systems for the development of novel biosensors.
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Noemí Marina (Mecwins, Spain)
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Noemi Marina Garcia PhD. She holds a double degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry, a Master’s degree in Experimental Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, by the University of Barcelona, with a thesis focused on apoptosis pathways modulators as therapeutic potential for the treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative and auto-immune diseases. She consolidated her expertise in Biomedical Research with six years as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, first at the University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, USA), and afterwards at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (Barcelona, Spain), with studies in the field of signaling pathways regulating innate immunity, and pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases and cancer. Afterwards, she driven her professional career towards the Biotechnology Industry, with eight years of experience as a Senior Scientist in the field of In vitro Diagnosis at Biokit Research and Development S.L.U, a Werfen Company (Barcelona, Spain). She was in charge of development, validation and transferring to manufacturing of diagnostic immunoassays, within the context of international cross-functional teams and international regulatory compliance. In 2019, she joined Mecwins as a Senior Scientist in the Bioscience Department.
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Lluis F. Marsal (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
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Lluís F. Marsal is a Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Between 1998 and 1999, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, he received the URV's RQR Award for quality in research and in 2014, he received a 2014 UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of South Australia (UniSA) and the ICREA Academia Award from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2013, he is the Chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and also an active member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Dr. Marsal serves as a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the Electron Devices Society (EDS-IEEE) He has been member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions (CINVESTAV - Instituto Politécnico Nacional, McMaster University, University of South Australia, CIC biomaGUNE, CSIC, etc. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, two books, five book chapters and holds three patents. He has presented over 30 invited lectures in international conferences and has participated in over than 80 national and international projects. His current research interests mainly focus on low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous silicon and nanoporous alumina for biomedical applications and optical biosensing platforms. He is also interested in organic and hybrid nanostructured materials to enhance light-matter interactions for optoelectronic devices.
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Eduard Masvidal Codina (ICN2, Spain)
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Claudio Parolo (ISGlobal/URV, Spain)
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Claudio Parolo studied Biotechnology at the University of Padova and obtained his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2013. His PhD thesis focused on the use of paper as sustainable and low-cost platform for different types of biosensors. During his postdoctoral period, he joined the Prof. McKendry’s group at the University College London/London Centre for Nanotechnology where he developed lateral flow assays for various infectious diseases (Influenza, HIV and Ebola). Then, thanks to a Beatriu de Pinós fellowship, he joined Prof. Plaxco’s group at the University of California Santa Barbara. There he worked on electrochemical aptamer-based and DNA-scaffold sensors for monitoring various protein biomarkers. Finally, he returned to Spain and joined Prof. Merkoçi’s group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology thanks to a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship. During his second period in the Merkoçi group, he worked on several paper-based platforms such as lateral flow assays and paper-electrode to integrate DNA-based sensors.
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Ferruccio Pisanello (IIT, Italy)
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Ferruccio Pisanello leads the research unit “Multifunctional Neural Interfaces” at the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Italian Institute of Technologies in Lecce. He holds a Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Salento (Lecce) and a Ph.D. in Physics (Quantum Optics) from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris). He is author and co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles and PI a Starting and a Consolidator ERC grant. His team is dedicated to pioneering innovative approaches to interface with the central nervous system, leveraging unconventional applications of physical phenomena to develop a new generation of devices capable of extracting multifunctional signals from the brain and influencing its physiology.
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Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science.
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Victor Puntes (ICREA / ICN2, Spain)
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ICREA Research Prof. Víctor F. Puntes’ work spans the full breadth of nanoparticle research: synthesis, conjugation and characterisation of inorganic nanoparticles; study of their physicochemical properties; nanotoxicology and nanosafety; and myriad applications for sectors including energy harvesting, catalysis, medicine and the environment. Prof. Puntes completed his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering and materials science at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (France) and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 1998, he earned his PhD in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), working with Prof. Xavier Batlle and Prof. Amilcar Labarta on giant magnetoresistance in granular alloys. He then spent over three years at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, USA) in the groups led by Prof. Paul Alivisatos and Prof. Kannan Krishnan, working on the synthesis and control of nanostructures. In 2003 he returned to Catalonia with a Ramón y Cajal research position at the UB. In 2005 he obtained an ICREA Professorship at the then ICN (now ICN2) to create the Inorganic Nanoparticles Group, which he currently leads. By the end of 2017, Víctor Puntes had 195 peer-reviewed publications and over 12,500 citations. He is also well-known for his work in science communication to the general public, his industrial and commercial efforts, and for his endeavours linking science and art
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Pilar Rivera Gil (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain)
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Pilar Rivera Gil, professor at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and Coordinator of the research program on Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering. Pilar obtained her PhD in Pharmacology in 2007 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) and the Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology in 2013 at Philipps Universitaet Marburg (Germany). Pilar has more than 60 publications in the field of translational nanomedicine. Pilar teaches in the degree of Biomedical Engineering and Human Biology. Besides her teaching activities, she is also fully committed to contribute to the translation of nanomedicine to the society.
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Anna Roig Serra (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)
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Anna Roig is a Research Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Her work focuses on the development of functional nanomaterials. She leads the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, conducting research on bio-based nanocomposites and nanoparticles. Her driving force is to validate those nanomaterials for nanomedicine applications. With a PhD in Materials Science, she has also spent time working internationally in Sweden, the US, and Belgium. Alongside her scientific contributions, Anna likes to be involved in gender equality and science education initiatives.
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Xavier Rovira Clavé (IBEC, Spain)
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Dr. Xavier Rovira Clavé is a junior group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, where he develops and applies highly multiplexed imaging technologies to study tissue biology in models of cancer and infectious diseases. Dr. Rovira Clavé holds a PhD in Immunology from the University of Barcelona, and he trained in cancer biology as a postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Garry Nolan at Stanford University. Dr. Rovira Clavé has published several articles in renowned scientific journals such as Cancer Cell, Immunity, Nature Communications, and Cell, holds 5 patents, and has received a series of awards that include the EMBO postdoctoral fellowship, the LLS Career Development Award, and the ERC Starting Grant.
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Lorena Ruiz Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona , Spain)
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Lorena Ruiz-Perez is a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Barcelona and a Senior Researcher at the Molecular Bionics Group, Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia IBEC. She specialises in in-situ liquid phase transmission/scanning electron microscopy of soft organic and biological systems in liquid, focusing on dynamic soft mesoscopic systems. Her research combines molecular dynamics simulations, novel imaging methods, structure reconstruction, and image analysis. Lorena earned her PhD in Polymer Physics from the University of Sheffield. She held postdoctoral roles at the University of Sheffield and University College London (UCL), where she also managed The Centre of Liquid Phase TEM. Her team investigates the structure and dynamics of misfolded proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases.
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Samuel Sanchez (IBEC, Spain)
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Samuel is since 2015 a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he acts as Deputy Director for the Internationalization of IBEC. Before that, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, IFW Dresden, Germany, MANA-NIMS in Japan. His work spans from fundamental aspects of catalytic and biocatalytic nano-micromotors, 3D Bioprinted BioBOTS, electrochemical biosensors to applications in biomedical and environmental fields. He received several awards and recognitions such as the MIT TR35 as Top Innovator Under 35 in the Spanish edition, Guinness World Records in 2010 and 2017, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016 by the Catalan Foundation of Research among others. He received the ERC-Starting Grant in 2013, and two ERC-Proof-of-concept in 2016 and 2017. He has published about 130 papers with h-index of 48 and he has filed 6 patents.
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Simone Schuerle-Finke (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Simone Schuerle is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she leads the Medical Systems Lab. Her research team focuses on developing diagnostic and therapeutic systems at the nano- and microscale to address a range of challenging medical problems. Before joining ETH Zurich, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (2014-2017), where she worked on nanosensors for in vivo tumor profiling and methods to wirelessly enhance drug transport. Schuerle earned her PhD in microrobotics from ETH Zurich in 2013, receiving the distinguished ETH medal for her work. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards, including the Ernst Th. Jucker Prize for Cancer Research, the Prix Zonta for Women in Science, and fellowships from SNSF, DAAD, and the Branco Weiss Foundation. In 2017, she was honored as a "Young Scientist" by the World Economic Forum. In 2014, Schuerle co-founded MagnebotiX, a spin-off company that provides electromagnetic control systems for wireless micromanipulation
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Javier Tamayo (INM-CNM-CSIC, Spain)
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Dr. Javier Tamayo obtained his PhD in Physics in 1998 and was a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at the University of Bristol (UK). He is a Full Professor at CSIC and received the RSEF award in “Física, Innovación y Tecnología” in 2018. His research focuses on nanomechanics and optomechanics for ultrasensitive molecular detection and cellular mechanobiology, with over 98 articles, more than 7700 citations, and an h-index of 45. Dr. Tamayo has developed concepts bridging physics and biology, including identifying biophysical markers for cancer mechanobiology and detecting pathogens He created a hybrid opto-mechano-plasmonic biosensor for detecting tumor biomarkers at 100 ag/mL, exceeding existing. This technology was used in clinical trials with cancer patient samples, funded by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (2016-2019). He has coordinated a FET-Proactive-RIA project (2016-2022) with over 7 million euros in funding. Dr. Tamayo has transferred technologies to industry with eight licensed patents. He founded spin-off companies Mecwins S.A., Sensia S.L., and Nanodreams S.L., and licensed innovations to Infinitesima Ltd. Mecwins' nanosensors, based on his research, were co-developed with Quidel (USA). He leads the Bionanomechanics group at CSIC
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