Keynote Speakers
Prof. Stergios Logothetidis, Nanotechnology Lab LTFN & HOPE-A, Greece A new Digital Industry based on FPEs to boost Growth, Green Deal and Sustainability short bioS. Logothetidis is Professor of Physics, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Thin Films Technologies, Organic Electronics, Optics and Nanomedicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has extensive R&D experience and leadership as a Coordinator in more than 130 EU and Nationally Funded R&D&I Projects. His research activity and excellence has generated over 1000 papers and review articles in International Journals & Conferences and 400 keynote and invited talks. He is the author of over 360 peer-reviewed papers, 6 books and 7 patents, and has received over 10000 citations holding an h-index=48. He is the Founder and Director of Nanotechnology Lab LTFN (www.ltfn.gr), of the Post-Graduate Program “Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies” (nn.physics.auth.gr) and of the Center of Organic & Printed Electronics Hellas (COPE-H). He is the organizer of the annually NANOTEXNOLOGY multi-event (www.nanotexnology.com) since 2004, and the Founder and Coordinator of the NANONET Thematic Network (www.nano-net.gr) since 2003, with 650 Universities, Research Centers and Companies as members all over the world. Prof. S. Logothetidis is the Founder and President of the Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A) (www.hope-a.com) with 40 Companies and Organizations and has signed collaboration agreement with 6 other Associations all over the world, and he is the Founder of 3 Start-up Companies. |
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Prof. Georges Hadziioannou, University of Bordeaux, France The emerging flexible printing organic electronic technologies and the pathway for their introduction to the present and future markets short bioSince 2009 Georges Hadziioannou is Professor at the University of Bordeaux, Holder of the Chair “Advanced Functional Materials for the emerging Information, Communication and Energy Technologies”. He is heading the group “Polymers Electronic Materials & Devices” at LCPO. Simultaneously he is the Coordinator of the EquipEx ELORPrintTec and Scientific Director of the LabEx AMADEus.Georges Hadziioannou received his Doctorate in Physical Sciences from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in 1980. Between 1980 and 1982, he was associate researcher at the Polymer Science and Engineering Department of University of Massachusetts. In 1982 he became research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory where he directed the group “Surface and Interface Dynamics” from 1986 to 1989. Between 1985 and 1989 he was simultaneously Industrial Research Fellow of the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST), and consulting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. In 1989 he became Professor at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where he directed the Materials Science Center (today named Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials) from 1997 to 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg where he took the direction of the European Engineering School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials between 2004 and 2009. His career is characterized by a strong commitment to fundamental research at different universities and research institutes worldwide and an important industrial tenure at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory. He has pioneered works on nanostructured polymers materials with innovations in flexible and printable organic electronic materials. He directed 46 PhD’s and hosted in his research group more than 60 post-docs and invited professors. He was co-founder of 2 startups: “Polymer Service Center”, for scientific consulting of small and medium size companies, and “Papyron”, for the development of innovative technologies for electronic paper. |
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Dr. Nello Li Pira, Centro Ricerche Fiat, S.C.p.A, Italy Towards autonomous vehicle: the evolution of functional materials short bioDr. Nello Li Pira holds a PhD in General Physics. He currently works as head of functional Surfaces & Coating group within Group Materials Labs Department. He is involved in the development and engineering of functional systems for vehicle applications. He is a master in surface and coating metrology and processing as well. He has international experiences in EU projects as project coordinator: FP7 PRIAM, FP6 NANOPRIM, and scientific responsible in FP7projects: LAMP, LIGHT-ROLLS, E-STARS. Fur-thermore, he is involved in the OE-A, EPOSS and OLAE platforms. |
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Dr. Yanaris Ortega Garcia, Policy and Project Officer, "Materials for Tomorrow" Unit, European Commission, Belgium From EU policies to Nanotechnologies for Industry short bioDr Yanaris ORTEGA GARCIA is a Policy and Project Officer at Materials for Tomorrow at the European Commission, and currently managing EU-funded projects on materials characterisation techniques and materials development for the building sector. She completed her PhD Physical Chemistry on computational simulation at the University of Seville in 2012. She has been linked to knowledge, policy and project management positions at the European Commission and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking over the last 6 years. Earlier on, she was working in the private and academia sectors. |
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Prof. George Malliaras, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK Flexible Electronics on the Brain short bioGeorge Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece) in 1991, and a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, cum laude, from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1995. After postdocs at the University of Groningen and at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (New York) in 1999. From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He moved to the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in 2009, where he started the Department of Bioelectronics and served as Department Head. He joined the University of Cambridge in 2017.Prof. Malliaras' research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award), the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont, and with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and serves as a Deputy Editor of Science Advances. He is the Director of the EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers. Prof. Malliaras is a co-author of 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 30,000 citations. His h-index is 93 (google scholar, 9/20). |
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Dr. John Fahlteich, Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, Germany Open Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable NanoFunctionalized Flexible Surfaces/H2020 FF2S short bioBorn 1981, graduated from the University of Leipzig with a diploma in physics in 2005.In 2010, he earned a PhD from the Technical University of Chemnitz with a thesis about vacuum deposited permeation barrier layers. In total, he has now 14 years of experience in the field of permeation barriers and encapsulation of flexible electronics. John is a Research Group Leader for Roll-To-Roll Vacuum Coating Technologies in the Business Unit “Plasma Technology” at Fraunhofer FEP. As of today, he published over 40 papers, conference contributions and patents as well as three book chapters in the field. His experience in leading and coordinating large-scale research project is based on his participation in various EU funded Projects (e.g. SMARTONICS; PI-SCALE; SMART2GO;) leading the Fraunhofer Group in these Projects) and in 5 national funded projects (being the consortium coordinator in two of these projects) with a budget > 8 Million Euro). |
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Mr. Thomas Kolbusch, Vice President, Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, Germany Upscaling R2R Printing Processes for Manufacturing short bioThomas Kolbusch is Vice President of Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, an equipment manufacturing company for coating, printing and laminating solutions located in Dormagen, Germany.He is member of the board of the OE-A (Organic Electronic Association) in Germany, a global association for printed electronics. He serves in the advisory board of Fraunhofer ITA institute. He served as member of the board of COPT.NRW, a local association in Germany, as well as exhibition chair of the LOPEC in Munich for five years. Thomas is active in the field of fuel cells, batteries, printed electronics, photovoltaics and medical applications. He organizes the international Coatema Coating Symposium for over 19 years and represents Coatema in a number of public funded German and European projects. Thomas Kolbusch studied Business Economics at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and got his degree as business economist in 1997. He started his career at 3M, Germany. Since 1999 he is working for Coatema Coating Machinery in different positions. |
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Dr. Henri Rajbenbach, European Commission, DG CONNECT, Communications Networks, Content & Technology, Belgium EU's activities, projects and future opportunities in Horizon Europe: Organic, printed and wearable electronics for bio and medical sensor-based systems short bioHenri Rajbenbach is a Senior Expert and Programme officer at the European Commission (EC), in the Directorate General DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content & Technology) Henri Rajbenbach joined the EC in 1997 as a Project officer in the areas of microelectronic integration, sensors and displays. In 1999, he launched the “Photonic Components” initiative in the IST (Information Society Technologies) programme, and then expanded the original field of optical telecommunications to include health, life science, environment, lighting and security.In 2007, Henri took over a project portfolio in the area of Microsystems, supporting multidisciplinary research for the integration of core technologies and associated materials. Applications address biochips and biosensors, microdisplays, large-area organic devices and miniaturized smart system sensors and actuators. He is currently coordinating the ICT activities on Smart System Integration and related policies. Prior to joining the EC, Henri conducted research in image processing and lasers for biometrics, security and defense applications at Thomson-CSF (now Thales), France (1987-1997) and in optical signal processing and computing at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1984-1987). He was also teaching an Optoelectronics course at the University of Paris XII (1990-1997). Henri has published some 50 conference and journal publications, 2 text book chapters and few patents in the areas of information processing, biometrics, photorefractive materials, semiconductor lasers, real-time holography, optical storage, image processing and target recognition. Henri graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, ESPCI (1983) and received his PhD from the Université de Paris VI (1984). He received the first SPIE Europe recognition award in 2008 and was elected SPIE fellow in 2009. |