Valbona Aliko, Full Professor in Animal EcoToxicoPhysiology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Albania. Leader of NanoToxicology NanoAlb Research Group and Coordinator of NanoAlb PhD Programme-Quartz, Albanian Academy of Science. Research interests focused on studying the mechanisms of adaptive response of animals to environmental stress (heavy metals, pesticides, nanoparticles), by using multi-biomarker approach and designing & bio-functionalizing biosensors with possible application in monitoring environmental pollution and biota health

Toshinori Fujie received his PhD (Engineering) from the Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University in 2009. He spent postdoctoral periods at the Italian Institute of Technology (2010-12) and Tohoku University (2012-13). In 2013, he joined the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University as an Assistant Professor. In 2016, he moved to the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS). He also served as a PRESTO researcher of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (2015-2019). From November 2018, he moved to the current institute as a tenure-track Associate Professor (Lecturer). In June 2021, he was promoted to Associate Professor. His research interests are dedicated to the development of nano/micro technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics in the treatment of intractable diseases by utilizing polymeric materials, molecular assembly, tissue engineering, bioelectronics and bio-inspired/mimetic engineering.

ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Arben Merkoçi obtained his PhD at the University of Tirana (Albania) in ion selective electrodes. Since 1992 he has carried out research as postdoctoral fellow and research professor at the Polytechnic University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ioannina (Greece), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and New Mexico State University (USA). His research is focused on the integration of biological molecules and other species with micro- and nanostructures of interest in the design of novel (bio)sensors. Prof. Merkoçi is Co-Editor in Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics, member of editorial board of Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta and other journals.

Fetah Podvorica is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Prishtina and Corresponding Member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova. Since 2014 he has been visiting professor at University of Paris, former University of Paris 7, and previously was visiting professor at Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris (ESPCI); during the period 2003-2013. He did his PhD thesis at the University of Paris 7 in 2000 and his Habilitation he obtained in 2010 at the University of Paris 6. His research interests include: electrochemical or chemical modification of material’s surfaces with 2D organic thin layers and their use for different applications; the use of Electro-Fenton method for the degradation of organic pollutants in waste water. He has 2 patents, 2 book chapters, 45 published papers in peer review journals, H index: 23 and over 4800 citations (scholar). He is Associate Editor in the Springer journal, Chemistry Africa

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.

ICREA Research Prof. Dr Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres was awarded her PhD in physics in 1984 by the University of Manchester (UK). She then held tenured academic appointments at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Glasgow in the UK, before becoming a C4 professor at Universität Wuppertal (Germany) in 1996. She was a research professor at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (Ireland), from 2004 to 2008. Since May 2007 she has been an ICREA Research Professor based at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (formerly, the ICN). She has received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International (USA). In 2020 she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to lead a five-year project (starting in January 2021) aiming at developing a disruptive technology based on phononic interconnects to reduce energy consumption of electronic circuits

Prof. Sergio Valenzuela obtained his PhD in Physics in 2001 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and held research positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In July 2008, he became an ICREA Research Professor and Leader of the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanoelectronic Devices Group. His research focuses on the unique properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions, motivated by both their intrinsic scientific interest and their potential for advanced electronic applications in the fields of spintronics, thermoelectricity, in quantum technologies and metrology. He was awarded the 2001 Giambiagi Prize, the 2009 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Magnetism as well as an ERC Starting Grant in 2012. He was elected member of the Academia Europaea in 2022.