AICMSN2025 | Materials Science and Nanoscience Conference | Rome | Italy

Prof. Dieter Bimberg

CIOMP of CAS, Changchun and TU Berlin , Germany

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Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he was appointed as executive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Association and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturi and MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award), to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Alferov University of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 69,000 and his Hirsch factor is 115 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Prof. Meilin Liu

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Title: Reversible Fuel Cells for Hydrogen and Electricity Generation

Meilin Liu is the Hightower Chair and Regents' Professor of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BS from South China University of Technology and both MS and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include design, fabrication, in situ/ operando characterization, and simulation of membranes, thin films, and nanostructured electrodes in devices for energy storage and conversion, aiming at achieving rational design of materials and structures with unique functionalities. He holds 31 U.S. patents, co-organized 11 international symposia and workshops, co-edited 7 proceedings volumes, delivered ~200 plenary, keynote, or invited lectures, and published ~650 refereed articles. Dr. Liu is a fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM, 2021), Electrochemical Society (ECS, 2012), and American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2011). Professional awards include Highly Cited Researcher (since 2018), the Charles Hatchett Award (UK IM3, 2018), HTM Outstanding Achievement Award (ECS, 2018), Kolon Faculty Fellow (2017), Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award (Georgia Tech, 2013 and 1997), Ross Coffin Purdy Award (ACerS, 2010), Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award (Georgia Tech, 2003), Sustained Research Award (Sigma Xi, 2003), and National Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1993).

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Prof. Ute Kaiser

Ulm University, Germany

Title: Happy Marriage between Low-Dimensional Materials and Low-Voltage Transmission Electron Microscopy

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Prof. Ya-Ping Sun

Clemson University, USA

Title: Carbon Dots: Exploring Carbon at the Zero-Dimension

Professor Ya-Ping Sun holds the Frank Henry Leslie Chair of Natural and Physical Sciences at Clemson University in South Carolina since 2003. He obtained his B.Eng from Zhejiang University of Technology (1982), M.Eng from Zhejiang University (1985) and PhD from Florida State University (1989). His pioneering works on nanoscale carbons, including carbon dots, carbon nanotubes and nanosheets have been the inspiration to many researchers. His over 300 papers have attracted more than 33,000 citations (h-index of 90). He has the recipient of South Carolina Governor's Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in 2005 and was a Clarivate Analytics “Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers 2018”.

Prof. Michel W. Barsoum

Drexel University, USA

Title: 1D Lepidocrocite Titania-based Nanomaterials, Their Diverse Morphologies and Exceptional Properties

Prof. Michel W. Barsoum is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He is an internationally recognized leader in the area of MAX phases and more recently the 2D solids labeled MXenes derived from the MAX phases. Most recently he also discovered a new universal mechanism – ripplocation - in the deformation of layered solids. With over 500 refereed publications and a Google h index is 140, his work has been cited almost 110,000 times to date. He was on the Web of Science’s highly cited researchers list in 2018 to 2023. In 2020, according to a recent Stanford University study, he had the highest c-index (combines citations and h-index) in the Materials Science subfield in 2022 and was 8th on the all-time list of material scientists in the world. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Society of Engineering Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, fellow of the American Ceramic Soc. and the World Academy of Ceramics. He is the author the books, MAX Phases: Properties of Machinable Carbides and Nitrides and Fundamentals of Ceramics, a leading textbook in his field. In 2020, he was awarded the International Ceramics Prize for basic science by the World Academy of Ceramics. This prize is awarded quadrennially and is one of the highest in his field. The prize was awarded for “… outstanding contribution in opening new horizons in material research and specifically for your pioneering work in MAX phases and their derivatives.”

Prof. Michel Armand

CIC energiGUNE, Spain

Title: Solid-State Batteries with Polymer Electrolytes

Prof. Dr. Michel Armand earned his Ph.D from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble in 1978. He was Director for Research at CNRS, France since 1989 and Professor at U. Montreal (1995−2004). He has pioneered the use of intercalation electrodes (1972), introduced polymer electrolytes (1978), new salts based on delocalized anions, FSI, TFSI, (1986), organic electrode materials (1996) and the carbon coating for LiFePO4 (1998). He joined CIC Energigune in 2011, and present activities include new solvating polymers for lithium and sodium, new salts and new organic and inorganic electrode materials; Michel Armand has authored > 500 publications, a H factor of 106; his work has been quoted > 95000 times.

Prof. Vladimir Torchilin

Northeastern University, USA

Title: Stimuli-Sensitive Nanoparticular Drug Delivery Systems

Vladimir Torchilin got his M.S, Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the Moscow State University and currently serves as a University Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. He has published more than 450 original papers, more than 200 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 15 books, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 90,000 citations of his papers with H-index of 132. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and on the Editorial Boards of many other journals. He received more than $20 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. In 2005-2006 he served as a President of he Controlled Release Society. He is the member of the European Academy of Sciences and has multiple national and international honors and awards including the Blaise Pascal medal in Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences. In 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010. In 2021 Elsevier/Stanford analysis ranked him as a single highest-cited researcher among more than 130,000 ranked researches in the area of Pharmacology/Pharmacy. He is also 2023 Clarivat Citation Laureate. In 2024, he has been named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS.

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