Marie-Paule Pileni

Distinguished Professor& Senior researcher, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University
France

Pr. M.P Pileni is a Distinguished Professor at University P&M; Curie and Senior Researcher in Nuclear and Environmental Center, France. She is a member (1999- at present) and chair (2004-2010) of Institut Universitaire de France, IUF, which favors the development of high quality research and interdisciplinary projects among French universities. She has published more 450 articles with 20,241citations, 50 average citations per item and h factor of 73. Prof. Pileni research has been highly interdisciplinary over her entire scientific career, starting from biophysics to solar energy and developing nanoreactors to reach nano structures. Her recent major breakthroughs are related to chemical and physical properties of nanocrystals differing by their crystalline structures and/or self assembled in 3D superlattices. Over her carreer, she received significant awards and prizes: the Langmuir award of the American Chemical Society, the lecture award of the Japanese Chemical Society, the research award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Descartes-Huygens prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts, Science and Emila Valori prize from the French Academy of Sciences, Catalán-Sabatier Lectureship award from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain, Life Achievement award from Journal Colloid Interface Science, Pierre Süe prize from the French Chemical Society and Chalmers Lecture award. In addition, she received the French citation award laureate from the Institute of Scientific Information for most quoted French scientist between 1981 and 1998. She is a member of various European scientific academies. She is a commandor in “ l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur”.

Shen-Ming Chen

National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
H-Index 77

Shen-Ming Chen received his PhD degrees in chemistry from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1997. He had been an associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan from 1991 to 1997. Since August 1997, he has been a professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2010, he has been a Distinguished professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been the Dean(Curator) of library, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 2000 to 2006 and the Director of Extracurricular Activity, office of student affairs, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 1995 to 2000.His research interest includes Nanocomposite materials research, organic electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry, conducting polymer Electrochemistry, Nanoelectrochemistry, chemical sensors, biosensors, electrocatalysis and electroanalysis.

Qing-Hua Qin

Australian National University
Australia
H-Index 71

Qing-Hua Qin received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Chang An University, China, in 1982, and his Master of Science and PhD degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 1984 and 1990, respectively. Both MS and PhD are in applied mechanics. He joined the HUST Department of Mechanics as an associate lecturer in 1984, and was promoted to lecturer of mechanics in 1987 during his PhD candidature period. After spending ten years lecturing at HUST, he was awarded a DAAD/K.C. Wong research fellowship in 1994, which enabled him to work at the University of Stuttgart in Germany for nine months. In 1995 he left HUST to take up a postdoctoral research fellowship at Tsinghua University, China, where he worked until 1997. He was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II fellowship in 1997 and a Professorial fellowship in 2002 at University of Sydney and stayed there till December 2003, both by the Australian Research Council. He is currently working as a professor in the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University, Australia. He was appointed a guest professor at HUST in 2000 and was a recipient of the J.G. Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science. He has published over 300 journal papers and six monographs.

Philippe Knauth

Aix-Marseille University, CNRS
France
H-Index 43

Pr. Knauth received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1987 at the Saarland University, Germany. After two years postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Thermodynamics and Microcalorimetry, France, and one year in industry at Bayer Co., he became CNRS researcher in 1990. He got his habilitation in 1996 and a Full Professor position at Aix Marseille University in 1999, where he is currently director of the Chemistry Department. He has published more than 180 research articles in international journals and serves as editorial board member for the Journal of Nanomaterials, the Journal of Electroceramics and Membranes. His H-index is 43

Luo Jack

University of Bolton
United Kingdom
H-Index 41

Prof. Jack Luo joined the University of Bolton in January 2007 as a professor. His current research interests include nanomaterials and nanodevices, physical and biochemical sensors, microactuators, microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip, flexible electronics and energy harvesting technologies. Jack Luo received his PhD degree from the University of Hokkaido, Eng. Faculty, Japan in 1989 on "Preparation and Electrical Characterization of InGaAs and InP Field Effect Transistor Structures". He worked as a process engineer (1990) at Hoxan Co. Sapporo, Japan, to develop high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. He then be a research associate (1990) and senior research (1993) fellow at Cardiff University, U.K, working on III-V compound semiconductor devices. During 1995 and 2002, he worked in industry as an Engineer, Senior Engineer and Manager at Newport Wafer Fab. Ltd, Philips Semicond. Co. and Cavendish Kinetics Ltd, respectively, developing CMOS and MEMS products and processes, gained substantial experiences in R&D;, project and team management. In 2002, he re-joined academe, and was a Senior Research Associate in Engineering Department, Cambridge University with responsibility for MEMS activities.

Maria Luisa Di Vona

University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
H-index 34

Professor Maria Luisa Di Vona is author of about 100 papers on international journals on materials synthesis and characterisation, multifunctional inorganic and organic-inorganic materials, formation and study of nanocomposites materials, characterization by means of multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. Her current research interest is in the field of ion exchange membranes for energy application and storage. Her H-index is 34

Pavel G. Baranov

A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS
Russia

Vaidotas Kazukauskas

Vilnius University
Lithuania

Dr. Habil. Vaidotas KAŽUKAUSKAS is a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He was awarded Dr. Habil. degree in 1999. The topics of his research work are carrier transport, generation, recombination and trapping phenomena in advanced materials and structures for (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic applications. Prof. V. Kažukauskas is/was involved as a team leader into the six large-scale international projects and other numerous projects. He was awarded the National Science Award of Lithuanian Republic, the National Science Award for the Distinguished Scientist, the Science Award of the Rector of Vilnius University and others. V. Kažukauskas has more than 380 publications, had delivered more than 60 invited lectures at the international conferences, and authored three textbooks.