Jacqueline BLOCH | CNRS Research Director, C2N, CNRS/Paris Saclay Univ.
Jacqueline Bloch is a CNRS Research Director. She develops experimental research at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N) at the heart of the Paris-Saclay University campus. She is interested in the non-linear and quantum properties of light trapped in lattices of semiconductor microcavities, realized by Nanotechnology at C2N. Her research is highly fundamental and concerns for example the superfluidity of light, topological photonics or Bose Einstein condensates of light. Her results are insightful for the development of innovative microlasers and for quantum technologies.
Jacqueline Bloch teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Paris Saclay University. She was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal, the Jean Ricard prize from the French Physical Society and the Ampère Prize from the French Academy of Sciences. Since 2019, she has been a Member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Massimo DE VITTORIO | Director of the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Lecce
Massimo De Vittorio is the Director of the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Lecce – Italy, and a Full Professor at Università del Salento. In his career, he has developed novel micro and nano technologies applied to ICT, energy, and life science and he has designed and coordinated micro and nanofabrication facilities with full prototyping and small/medium scale production capabilities.
He is currently focusing his research on nanomachined implantable probes for manipulating and recording brain activity and on piezoelectric transducers applied to wearable and skin sensors and ingestible sensors for monitoring and controlling pathophysiological signals and symptoms in real-time. He has been a consultant for high-tech corporations and founder/advisor of 5 startup companies.
He is author of about 440 manuscripts in international journals, 14 patents, 10 book chapters, and several invited/keynote talks at international conferences. He has served on several boards and committees, and for his activity, he has received recognitions and awards. He is the recipient of the 2023 Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Laureate Award.
Bernard DIENY | SPINTEC, Univ.Grenoble Alpes/CEA-INAC/CNRS
Dr Bernard DIENY has been conducting research in magnetism and spin electronics for 35 years. In 2001, he launched SPINTEC laboratory (Spintronics and Technology of components) in Grenoble and cofounded two startup companies in 2006 and 2014. He received two Advanced Research grants from the European Research Council in 2009 and 2014 related to hybrid CMOS/Magnetic Integrated Electronics. He was nominated IEEE Fellow in 2010, received the De Magny Prize from French Academy of Sciences in 2015 and the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award in 2019. He published more than 500 papers primarily in the field of nanomagnetism and spinelectronics, and filed more than 75 granted patents in particular on Magnetic Random Access Memory technology. His field of expertise covers a broad spectrum from basic research in nanomagnetism and spin-electronics to functional spintronic devices. In 2009, he also launched an activity at the interface between nanomagnetism and biology with a particular focus on magnetically induced mechanical stimulation of cancer cells and pancreatic cells with potential applications for cancer and diabetes treatments.
Akira FUJIWARA | Senior Distinguished Researcher, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
Akira Fujiwara is a senior distinguished scientist at NTT Basic Research Laboratories (BRL). He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively. He joined NTT LSI Laboratories in 1994 and moved to NTT BRL in 1996. He has been engaged in research on silicon nanostructures and their application to single-electron devices. He was a guest researcher at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA in 2003-2004. He was a group leader of nanodevcies research group and a senior manager of physical science laboratory at NTT BRL for 2006-2020 and 2012-2020, respectively. He was awarded Prizes for Science and Technology in 2017 from the Minister of MEXT, Japan. He was supported by the funding program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT), JSPS in 2011-2014 and serve as a PI of JSPS KAKENHI S (Quantum Standards and Ultimate Precision Measurements Based on Single Electrons) in 2018-2022. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, a member of Science Council of Japan, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
José MORAN-MIRABAL | Professor and University Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Jose Moran-Mirabal is Professor and University Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster University, and the Founding Director of McMaster’s Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy. Jose’s research designs and studies materials at the micrometer to nanometer scale by combining strengths in micro- and nanofabrication, 3D bioprinting, interfacial chemistry of biomaterials, and high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. His work has been recognized by the Province of Ontario with an Early Researcher Award and the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Micro- and Nanostructured Materials. Jose is the Vice President of the Microscopy Society of Canada and editor in the journals of Frontiers Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Industrial Biotechnology. He has trained >100 HQP, has authored 101 peer-reviewed publications, and has four granted patents.
Andy TAY | Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS
Andy Tay graduated in 2014 from NUS with a First-Class Honors in Biomedical Engineering. He later headed to the University of California, Los Angeles for his PhD studies and graduated in 2017 as the recipient of the Harry M Showman Commencement Award. Andy next received his postdoctoral training at Stanford University before heading to Imperial College London as an 1851 Royal Commission Brunel Research Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Young Professor in NUS.
Andy is a recipient of international awards including the Interstellar Initiative Early-Career Faculty Award, Christopher Hewitt Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Terasaki Young Innovator Award. He is listed as a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 (US/Canada, Science), 2020 World Economic Forum Young Scientist and 2022/3 Top 2% Scientist in the World by Stanford University.
Sébastien TOUSSAINT | Research Manager, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTM)
In 2014, Sébastien Toussaint obtained his Master’s degree in physical engineering from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). He was awarded a four-year FRIA grant (F.N.R.S.) to fund his PhD research project, and he successfully completed his PhD in Engineering in 2018. His doctoral thesis involved low-temperature experiments on a variety of devices based on 2D electron systems, which he fabricated in the UCL cleanrooms. His work primarily revolved around scanning gate microscopy measurements, with the goal of gathering local-scale information about the electronic system. He examined the relationship between quantum transport and electrostatic effects from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. In 2020, he transitioned from 2D to 3D and delved into cyclotron physics at PAC (Particle Accelerator Consultants). Following this enriching industrial experience, he joined Professor Raskin’s group as a post-doctoral researcher and guest lecturer. His current researches focus on ‘low-tech’ environmental metrology (in collaboration with the Royal Observatory of Belgium) and the value chain of ICs, with a particular emphasis on their life cycle.
Roman TRUCKENMÜLLER | Professor MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University
Roman Truckenmüller’s research focuses on micro- and nanoscale 3D polymer film forming and functionalization technologies and their biomedical applications, with a particular focus on engineering of complex artificial cellular microenvironments as advanced in vitro model systems using the aforementioned technologies.
After working as a development engineer for Siemens in Erlangen, Germany, he worked at the Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. At IMT, he carried out his doctoral project on fabrication of three-dimensional microstructures from polymer membranes, worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of X-ray lithography and headed a research group dealing with membrane-based microfluidic sensors and actuators from polymers. Roman Truckenmüller holds an engineering diploma and a doctorate in engineering science from the Universities of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, Germany, respectively.
From 2007 on, he worked at the Department of Tissue Regeneration (TR) of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where he was appointed assistant professor in 2010.
In 2014, he changed over to the successor of TR now at Maastricht University, the newly founded MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, where he works as an associate professor at the Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration.
Roman Truckenmüller is one of three founders of the start-up company 300MICRONS spun-off from KIT in 2015 and dealing with advanced 3D cell culture solutions based on proprietary platform technologies.
Loretta DEL MERCATO | Senior Researcher and group leader at the Institute of Nanotechnology of Cnr, Lecce, Italy
Loretta L. del Mercato, is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Nanotechnology of Cnr (Nanotec-Cnr) in Lecce, Italy, where she coordinates the 3D Cell Sensing group. She earned her Biotechnology degree in 2004 from the University “Federico II” and a PhD in “Materials and Innovative Technologies” in 2007 from the Scuola Superiore “ISUFI” of University of Lecce. She was post-doctoral researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, from 2008 to 2010, and then joined the Nanoscience Institute of Cnr in Lecce as a Junior Researcher. In 2015, she became a Principal Investigator at the newly funded Nanotechnology Institute of Cnr. Her expertise includes nanostructured systems and biomaterials for medical applications, combining optical imaging and computational techniques. She has led numerous national and international projects, receiving notable grants such as the ERC Starting Grant (2017), My First AIRC Grant (2019), and PRIN-MUR project (2023). She was a visiting researcher in Spain (2009), Germany (2013), Netherlands (2015), and Brazil (2023). Since 2018, she has been on the Supervisory Board of TecnoMed Apulia and, since December 2022, coordinates the Center of Excellence for Advanced NanoBiomaterials and Technologies (COE-NBT) in Lecce. Additionally, she is a founder of the Italian Pancreatic Cancer Community (I-PCC) and the “ERC in Italy” Association and serves as a grant evaluator for several funding agencies and journal reviewer/editor.
More info here: http://intercellmed.nanotec.cnr.it
Rosana DIAS | Staff Researcher in the Integrated Micro and Nanotechnologies research group at INL
Rosana Dias is a Staff Researcher in the Integrated Micro and Nanotechnologies research group at INL. She obtained her PhD in the MEMS area, focusing on pull-in time accelerometers and gas viscosity sensing at the University of Minho, the Delft University of Technology and the University of British Columbia. Before joining INL she was a postdoc researcher responsible for the development of a MEMS magnetometer for space applications, within a European Space Agency funded project.
Her expertise concerns the development of sensors and actuators to address technical challenges faced by society and industry. She has large experience in modelling, design, fabrication and testing of MEMS devices. Her research interests range from mechanical sensors and actuators (eg. acceleration and magnetic field sensing – MEMS and hybrid spintronic MEMS; large displacement actuators, micromirrors) to energy harvesting devices (piezoelectric AlN and EMF-based induction) and flexible substrate-based applications (flexible pressure and temperature sensors, resonators and packaging).
Gabi GRUTZNER | CEO of Microresist GmbH
Gabi Grützner, born in 1958, completed her chemistry studies in Jena in 1983 as a qualified Graduate Chemist with a focus on physical and surface chemistry and glass chemistry.
Afterwards she was as Research Assistant in the development of optoelectronic components in the large” concern for Television electronics” Berlin active until 1991. After the political changes in East Germany “the television electronics concern” was closed and Gabi Grützner worked from 1991 to 1993 at OUT e.V. (an innovative technological institute) as a Research Assistant in the “Micro structuring and plasma etching” department before she became an entrepreneur herself.
She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the medium-sized, internationally operating company micro resist technology GmbH since 1993, whose corporate purpose is the development, production and sales of innovative photoresists, polymers and photopolymers as well as complementary ones Process chemicals for lithographic manufacturing processes for micro and nano patterning. The products are used globally in key technologies and growth markets such as microsystems technology, microelectronics, optoelectronics, micro and nano photonics, micro and nanotechnology, micro optics and nano optics as well as the life sciences.
The CEO bases the company’s success on an active continuous collaboration with research institutes and the consistently introduction of the results thereof in their applications and in the industrial economy.
The company is one of “the best Employers” in German medium-sized businesses and was named top employer 2022 by TOP JOB excellent.
In addition to her entrepreneurial activities, Gabi Grützner was and is active in various committees. She was actively involved in the Berlin Research Association Board of Trustees for 8 years. She is a member of the board of trustees of Fraunhofer Institutes IOF, IZM, HHI and IPK. Due to her years of successful, innovative, scientific project work she was appointed as a member of the jury for the Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize 10 years ago, in which she’s continues playing an active role.
For 2 years she is a member of the supervisory board of the Leibniz for microelectronics, the “Institute IHP (Innovations for High Performance)”, formerly: Institute of Semiconductor Physics) in Frankfurt/Oder.
Gabi Grützner received a lot of attention for her appointment as a member of the steering committee “Innovation Dialogues” between the federal government, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Research Ministry with Chancellor Angela Merkel (2019-2022).
Ms. Gabi Grützner is a holder of the Federal Cross of Merit.
Hiroshi MIZUTA | Distinguished Professor and Vice President (Special Missions)
Hiroshi Mizuta received the Ph.D. in from Osaka University. He was the Laboratory Manager at Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK, Assoc. Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Professor of Nanoelectronics at University of Southampton. He is currently Distinguished Professor and Vice President at JAIST. He has a strong track record in silicon and graphene nanodevices and NEMS. He was awarded for 2018 Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT, Japan on ‘Hybrid Electro-Mechanical Functional Devices at Nanoscale’. He published over 610 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the Institute of Physics.
Michele PEREGO | Research Director at CNR-IMM
Michele Perego received the Degree in Physics from Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in 1999. In February 2004 he obtained the PhD in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics from the University of Milano. In the period 2004-2007 he has been Post-Doctoral Fellow at the MDM Laboratory. He has been employed as a Research Scientist from 2007 to 2019 at IMM-Unit of Agrate Brianza. In 2019 he became Senior Research Scientist. Since 2020 he has been appointed Research Director at CNR-IMM. He is interested in the development of novel strategies to control matter at the nanoscale, integrating self-assembling materials into conventional top-down processes.
Benoît CHARLOT | (IES) Institut d’Électronique et des Systèmes, CNRS-Université de Montpellier, France
Benoît CHARLOT, Ph.D., is a research director at CNRS (the National Center for Scientific Research) working at the Institute of Electronics and Systems, a research laboratory of the CNRS and the University of Montpellier, in France. He is the principal investigator of the Biomicrofluidics and Biophotonics research axis and develops micro and nanosystems for experimental biophysics with applications in the fields of neurosciences, cancerology, virology, and hematology. He specializes in the development in clean room of microfluidic circuits combined with microelectrode arrays for recording the electrical activities of cells and organoids. He is also involved in valorization projects, developing medical implants for capturing metastatic cells to combat cancer relapse, and developing a platform for high-throughput screening of droplets using microfluidics to discover new antibiotics and antibodies. He is an elected member of the National Committee for Scientific Research (CoNRS).
Julien CLAUDEL | Associate Professor, (IJL) Institut Jean Lamour, CNRS-Université de Lorraine, France
Julien Claudel, Ph.D, is associate professor at University of Lorraine, working at the Jean Lamour Institute.
His research interests are focused on the development, optimization and fabrication of microbiosensors integrating microelectrodes for tissues, single cell and cell-cultures characterization using electrical impedance spectroscopy.
His current research interests include the development of biosensors with integrated matrix electrodes array for 2D/3D analysis of physiological cells properties and viability. Main applications are the monitoring of the effect of curative molecules on 3D cancerous cell culture and organ-on-chip, and real time monitoring of the interaction at cellular/membrane scale between electromagnetic fields and living tissues.
Virginie HOEL | (IEMN) Institut d’Électronique,Microélectronique et nanotechnologie, CNRS-Université de Lille, France
Professor at the University of Lille Researcher at the IEMN laboratory.
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Mathilde BILLAUD | (Leti) Laboratoire d’Électronique et de Technologie de l’Information, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, France
Dr. Mathilde Billaud is a researcher in the eco-innovation program of CEA-Leti since December 2023. She investigates more specifically interconnection technologies and non-volatile memories. She carries out life cycle analysis of microelectronic components to promote more sustainable solutions. She also investigates repairability options in interconnection technologies. Between 2013 and 2017, she was part of the Environmental Engineering Department at Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin. She holds a PhD in microelectronics from the University of Grenoble Alpes, France.
Jean-Pierre RASKIN | (UCL) École Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgique
Jean-Pierre Raskin is full professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCLouvain, Belgium. His research interests are the modeling, wideband characterization and fabrication of advanced SOI MOSFETs and high-frequency integrated circuits, as well as micro and nanofabrication of MEMS / NEMS sensors and actuators, including the extraction of intrinsic material properties at nanometer scale. He is involved in the development of a more sustainable electronics. He has been managing a Chair in eco-innovation at CEA-Leti since January 2024.
Isabelle SERVIN | (Leti) Laboratoire d’Électronique et de Technologie de l’Information, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, France
Isabelle SERVIN is a research scientist at CEA-Leti, Grenoble (France). Since 2022, she has joined the eco-innovation program, as sustainability advisor for Technological Silicon Platform.
She evaluates the environmental impacts of processes in clean room through The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology for IC industry.
She has 20 years of experience in the development of lithography processes for microelectronics, both in industry and R&D. She received her PhD on polymer chemistry from University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris, France) in 1998.
Pascal XAVIER | Full Professor at Grenoble Alpes University
Pascal XAVIER is a Full Professor at Grenoble Alpes University, mainly involved in teaching electronics and physics. He is head of the DHREAMS (Devices in High frequencies for sustainable electronics and for complex systems) research team within the CROMA laboratory, where he conducts research into RF devices and micro-sensors with low environmental impact or for environmental applications. He has supervised 15 PhD theses, filed 4 patents and authored 35 journal articles and 94 conference papers. He is currently associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, coordinator of the European “DESIRE4EU” project (EIC “responsible electronics” challenge), flexible electronics expert for the European “ICOS” project (Horizon), manager of the CNRS “CIRCABIO” MITI contract and CNRS project leader for the creation of the DEFIE GdR (“Dispositifs Electroniques à Faibles Impacts Environnementaux”).
Cyril HERRIER | PhD – Directeur R&D, Aryballe Technologies
Cyril obtained his PhD in Materials Chemistry in 2011. During 8 years of academic research (IS2M Mulhouse, ISCR Rennes, IM2NP Marseille, CEA Grenoble), he acquired a strong expertise in structuration, functionalization, and characterization of surfaces at nanometer scale for applications in microbiotechnologies. He is co-author of 19 international papers and co-inventor of 11 patents families.
He participates in the design, the fabrication and the experimental evaluation of optical transducer used in gas phase detection.
Originality of Aryballe sensors is the biofunctionalization of these transducers, in order to obtained array differentially specific of gas sensors. An industrial pilot line of functionalization has been constructed in Aryballe-clean room. Several microfluid gas-phase bench and automate have been developed in order to automatize fast measurement of a large variety of different gas (VOC). Also, as the sensors have to be deployed in “on the field” applications, a large focus of humidity effect has been included in the gas bench. It has result in a clear better knowledge and understanding of the modelling of gas detection with these innovative sensors. Also, it participates in the better modelling of interface phenomena at molecular size of a surface-gas equilibrium.
Vincent RAIMBAULT | CNRS Research Officer at LAAS in Toulouse, France
Vincent Raimbault is a CNRS Research Officer at LAAS in Toulouse, France. His research interests are centered around the development of sensors and systems for environmental monitoring. This work leads him to combine different techniques such as microfluidics, additive manufacturing, xurography, with sensors ranging from innovative devices resulting from micro-nanotechnology processes, to the hack of COTS (Components Of The Shelf), with the aim of to respond to the instrumental challenges of in-situ environmental measurement. This interdisciplinary research is carried out in co-construction with scientists from oceanography, ecology, hydrology or marine biology, in order to create the link between technological innovations and the crucial needs of Earth System observation in the actual context of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Aurore VICET | Professor in Montpellier University, France
Dr. Aurore VICET is a professor in Montpellier University, France, in charge of spectroscopic developments based on tunable lasers: study and characterization of single frequency semiconductor lasers for spectroscopic applications, study and development of laser systems based on photoacoustic techniques in the infra-red, Laser/LED Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, Si-based oscillators and MEMS.The applications fields of her research are pollutants evaluation in environment and medical diagnosis.
Jenichi CLAIRVAUX FELIZCO | Research Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration
Jenichi is a Research Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) since January 2024, where she focuses on the environmental impacts and sustainability of semiconductor devices and manufacturing processes, based on the context of life cycle assessment and carbon footprint analysis. Prior to her current position, she was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Ferdinand Braun Insitute. During this time, she developed the in-house wafer-scale microfabrication process of MEMS alkali vapor cells for atomic quantum sensors. She also did a brief postdoctoral stint at Osaka University, wherein she studied the synthesis and atomic-scale microscopy of carbon nanotube/chalcogenide nanoribbon heterostructures. She obtained her PhD in 2021 from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Nara, Japan), with her research centralized on the thermoelectric properties of ZnO-based thin films.
Cédric ROLIN | Manager for the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS)
Cédric Rolin is Manager for the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS) Program at imec. After more than 15 years spent both at imec and at University of Michigan holding various positions as researcher and team leader in the fields of flexible and organic electronics and nanoimprint lithography, Cédric has joined in 2021 the sustainability team of imec as Program Manager, focusing on the assessment and improvement of the environmental footprint of the semiconductor manufacturing industry.