Plenary Speakers
Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi holds a Chair in Nanoscience at the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester (UK). She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2005, she was awarded with an Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by the Humboldt Research Fellowship and the prestigious Kovalevskaja Award (1.5M Euro). In 2010 she joined the department of chemistry at the University of Manchester. Her current research work focuses on the development of biocompatible 2D inks and their use in printed electronics and biomedical applications. She has published more than 100 works in well-respected journals in the field, by collecting more than 36,000 citations and a h-factor of 58. She has been chair/co-chair and member of conference committees of several prestigious conferences, such as MRS, MRS, Graphene Week, Graphene conference, etc. She also serves as editorial board member of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, both published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). She is a leading expert on Raman spectroscopy, used to characterize a wide range of carbon-based nanomaterials, as shown by the RSC Marlow Award (2014), given in recognition of her pioneering work on Raman spectroscopy. She is recipient of the Leverhulme Award in Engineering (2016, 100K GBP), and the recent RSC 2020 Gibson-Fawcett Award, in recognition of her contribution in the development of water-based 2D inks. She was also awarded an ERC Consolidator grant (2015, 2M Euro), ERC Proof of Concept (2020, 150K Euro) and ERC Advanced (2021, 2.5M Euro, converted into UKRI). |
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Prof. Xiaoying Zhuang’s key research area is computational materials design for nano composites, metamaterials and nanostructures as well as computational methods for multiphysics and multiscale modelling. Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang obtained her PhD in Durham University, UK in 2011, which is followed by her postdoc in Norwegian University of Technology in Trondheim and then as a faculty staff in Tongji University. In 2015, she was awarded with the Sofja-Kovalevskaja Programme from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation that brought her to Germany and she focused on the modelling and optimization of polymeric nanocomposite. Her ongoing ERC Starting Grant is devoted to the optimization and multiscale modelling of piezoelectric and flexoelectric nano structures. In 2018, she was awarded with Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize and in 2020 awarded with Heisenberg-Professor Programme of DFG. |