Dr. Rezal Khairi Ahmad was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of NanoMalaysia in June 2012. As NanoMalaysia first employee, he crafted the company structure, developed business model and corporate positioning strategy relative to like-minded government agencies and relevant industries In February 2013, Dr Rezal’s appointment was upgraded to Chief Executive Officer.

P. Alpuim is group leader of 2D Materials and Devices at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, and professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Minho (UM). He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST, 2003) where he worked in thin-film silicon devices for flexible electronics. The 2D Materials and Devices group investigates the growth of graphene and other 2D materials by chemical vapor deposition, fabricates graphene devices at the wafer-scale for bio-sensing applications, and van der Waals heterostructures for optoelectronics. His research interests include graphene plasmonics, graphene inks and pastes for large-area electronics, photon emitters on-demand from hBN, and different types of sensors based on 2D materials.

Aleandro Antidormi is a senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at Catalan Institute of NanoScience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering in 2010 and an MS in computer engineering in 2012, both from Politechnic University of Turin, Italy. He received a PhD in Electronic and Telecommunications engineering also from Politechnic University of Turin in 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department at University of Cagliari (Italy) before joining ICN2 in 2018. His current research focuses on charge and heat transport in graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

Peter Bøggild is professor and group leader at DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark. He obtained his PhD in low temperature solid state physics at the Copenhagen University in 1998, and became a full professor in 2013 at DTU. He has worked across numerous areas, including nanomechatronics/robotics, topology optimization, nanometrology, nanotubes/nanowires, surface science, material synthesis and microfabrication, mesoscopic physics and simulations, but is today is leading a group entirely focusing on graphene and other 2D materials, with emphasis on large scale fabrication/applications, electronics, terahertz metrology and material science. He has published nearly 200 papers, most of which are on 2D materials, and is committed to push fundamental research in two-dimensional materials towards real and viable technologies and applications. He is main organizer of the international conference Carbonhagen, which has run annually since 2010, latest in 2020 as an online meeting.

Lucia Gemma Delogu, Ph.D., is the head of the ImmuneNano-Lab at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua (UNIPD, Padua, Italy) www.delogulab.eu. After acquiring her experience in Immunology and Material Science at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA) and at Sanford-Burnham Institute (San Diego, USA), she served as Assistant Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) and as Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD; Dresden, Germany). Dr. Delogu has been the Scientific Coordinator of two interdisciplinary EU projects, under HORIZON2020, on nanomedicine and immune interactions of nanomaterials. In this field, she has received several awards, including the “Marie S. Curie Individual Fellow”, the “200 Young Best Talents of Italy 2011” from the Italian Ministry of Youth, and “Bedside to Bench & Back Award” from the National Institutes of Health, USA. Since 2020, Dr. Delogu is in charge of the Italian chapter and a member of the road map working group of the Advanced Material Global Pandemic & Future Preparedness Taskforce (AMPT) www.amptnetwork.com.
She introduced the “NanoImmunity-by-design” concept for the design of nanomaterials based not solely on their physicochemical characteristics but also on their immunomodulatory properties.
She pioneered the use of systems immunology approach by high-dimensional single-cell strategies in the context of nanomaterial applications.

Gianluca Fiori, Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and Deputy Leader of the Graphene Flagship's Electronic Devices Work Package. Fiori is working on new device architectures that can be printed on paper and other low-cost materials, in collaboration with Graphene Flagship partners the University of Manchester, UK, and Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Gianluca Fiori is an electrical engineer with a background in device simulations. He worked on electrical and noise characterisation of nanoscale devices during his PhD. He have experience investigating the main mechanisms at play in novel devices, as well as assessing their potential performance against the requirements of industry. Recently, he obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant for flexible electronics with graphene and layered materials.

Yunqiao Fu has been appointed as the Director of International Cooperation Centre of CGIA since 2018. In that time, he was in charge of the international communication between Chinese graphene society with the international academia and industry, including the official channel from Shanghai Industrial Technology Center of Graphene. He is also the head of planner for the GRAPCHINA, one of the largest commercial events for global graphene industry.
Yunqiao is a professional technical manager with a MS degree in Material Science, from Stony Brook University. He been involved in graphene functionalization and humidity sensor application research from 2013 and has 8 years’ experience in graphene related works. He was involved in market research from 2018 as the co-author for Global Graphene Industry Research Report which is the best-selling market report of graphene in China.

Costas Galiotis is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced – Tailoring Graphene project. He is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) and former Director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) which is one of the 7 academic research institutions of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH). In its over 26 years of operation FORTH/ ICE-HT has developed into a world-leading centre for the advancement of high quality scientific knowledge in the fields of material science and in the computer aided design and simulation of new materials and processes. It comprises of approximately 150 personnel and has a running yearly budget of 5 M€. Prof. Galiotis is also a member of the Board of Directors of FORTH (since July 2007). FORTH has been ranked as the first Research Centre in the field domain in Greece in 3 successive evaluations. Prof. Galiotis had an auspicious term of office as Director of the Institute in the years 2009-2014. Being also the coordinator of the Hellenic participation and national representative of “Graphene” he contributed in establishing the Graphene Center by joining the research forces of three FORTH institutes, ICE-HT, IESL and ICAM. Despite the Country's intense economic situation he expanded the Institute by literally setting the foundations to the Institute's new modern building that will house research laboratories.

Jose A. Garrido is an ICREA Research Professor working at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, and head of the Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices group, where he explores novel electronic materials, such as graphene and other 2D materials, and their potential in electronic and bioelectronic applications. He has a PhD on Telecommunication Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Habilitation degree by the TU München. He has pioneered the use of 2D materials such as graphene for application in bioelectronics and neural implants. He leads several EU and Spanish projects aimed at developing neural interfaces for bidirectional communication with the nervous systems. Jose A Garrido is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a spin-off of ICN2 and ICREA that develops medical solutions based on innovative graphene technologies.

Dr. Blerina Gjoka, Research Scientist-Project Leader at Abalonyx
Blerina received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Padova, Italy in 2014 and after a short experience in Milan as a post doc, she moved to Oslo, Norway and worked for three years in Sintef research institute as a researcher. She has 10 years of experience working as a researcher in chemistry field such as composite/catalysts synthesis, functionalization with organic/inorganic molecules and polymer chemistry in three different countries.
She joined Abalonyx in 2018 where she is directly managing Eurostar project developing graphene-based material with improved properties for thermal management and leading research work towards graphene-based products development with Industries and customers worldwide. Currently she is also involved in network building and market opportunities in Gothenburg Sweden

Stijn Goossens (CTO and co-founder of Qurv Technologies S.L.) is a pioneer in graphene quantum dot image sensors and inventor of 8 patents in Qurv’s portfolio. He has led in the past multi-million development programs on graphene-based technologies. He obtained his PhD from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and continued his career as a program manager at ICFO (Barcelona, Spain) before starting Qurv, totalling more than 10 years in the graphene field

Dr. Mahdi Hamidi holds a joint-appointment as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California-Berkeley and University of Toronto. Dr. Hamidi received his PhD from University of Toronto on Advanced Manufacturing of Functional Nanocomposites. He has also obtained another PhD in solid mechanics from Ryerson University. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019), NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (2018), NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (2017), and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2016).

Gordon Harling received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Maîtrise en Ingénierie Physique from Polytechnique Montréal. He has worked in Research and Development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and DALSA. He has been a founder and CEO of several start-up companies including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies.
He joined CMC Microsystems in February 2018 as President and CEO.

Masataka Hasegawa is a director of AirMembrane Corporation which was established in 2017 in Tsukuba, Japan. He received his B.S., M.E. and Doctor of Engineering (1990) at Kyoto University. He has also been working for National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) since 1990 as a researcher. His research field is carbon materials including graphene, diamond, and nanocrystalline diamond.

Ida Marie Høiaas is the Chief Technical Officer of CrayoNano, the semiconductor company developing new generation UVC LEDs. She has a background from electronics and materials science, having done her masters and PhD degree on hybrid semiconductor-graphene optoelectronic devices, including Si, GaAs and GaN/AlGaN. Since 2018, she has been leading the research and development within CrayoNano, utilizing graphene and AlGaN nanowires in combination for UVC LEDs for the water disinfection market. Her team received the EIC accelerator grant of 2.4 M€ in winter 2020, further accelerating the product development and market entry.

Cedric Huyghebaert is currently leading the nano-applications and – material engineering (NAME) group at imec dealing with the integration of nano materials as CNT and graphene and graphene related materials in functional applications. He is deputy of the wafer scale integration work package in the Graphene Flagship. He started as a junior researcher in the materials and component analyses group at imec. He studied the oxygen bean interactions during sputtering profiling of semiconductors. He received his PhD in Physics in 2006 at the KULeuven in Belgium. In 2005 he joined imecs pilot line as an integration engineer, especially dealing with the process contamination control. He was part of the packaging group from 2008 to 2010, working as a senior integration engineer dealing with the journey of bringing 3D-stacked IC integration from lab to fab.

Dr Denis Koltsov was born in Moscow in 1976, graduated from Cambridge University in 1998 and obtained his PhD in nanotechnology in 2003 from the same university. He worked as a research associate in Cambridge Nanoscience Centre before taking up lecturing position at Lancaster University in 2005 where he led nanotechnology work and outreach services till 2009. Dr Koltsov is now running his own nanotechnology consulting practice (BREC Solutions limited) that focuses on technical, regulatory and standardisation issues nanotechnology innovation. Dr Koltsov is the author of several patents, numerous publications and confidential reports to stakeholders. He is a recognised authority in nanotechnology standardisation, innovation and current market, regulatory and policy trends. Dr Koltsov is an expert representing industry on BSI, ISO, IEC and CEN expert committees. Dr Koltsov developed and published a number of international nanotechnology standards and currently holds the chairman position for the ISO TC229 (Nanotechnologies). He advises small startups as well as multinationals, international organisations and governments.

Mario Lanza is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia since October 2020. Dr. Lanza got his PhD in Electronic Engineering with honors in 2010 at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During the PhD he was a visiting scholar at The University of Manchester (UK) and Infineon Technologies (Germany). In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoc at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoc at Stanford University. On October 2013 he joined Soochow University as Associate Professor, and in March 2017 he was promoted to Full Professor. Prof. Lanza has published over 120 research papers, including Science, Nature Electronics, Nature Chemistry, and IEDM, edited a book for Wiley-VCH, and registered four patents (one of them granted with 5.6 Million CNY). Prof. Lanza has received the 2017 Young Investigator Award from Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), and the 2015 Young 1000 Talent award (among others), and in 2019 he was appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society (IEEE-EDS). Prof. Lanza is Associate Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature) and Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), and serves in the board of many others, like Advanced Electronic Materials (Wiley-VCH), Nanotechnology and Nano Futures (IOP). He is also an active member of the technical committee of several world-class international conferences, including IEEE-IEDM, IEEE-IRPS, IEEE-IPFA and APS. Prof. Lanza leads a research group formed by 10-15 PhD students and postdocs, and they investigate how to improve electronic devices using 2D materials, with special emphasis on two-dimensional (layered) dielectrics and memristors for non-volatile digital information storage and artificial intelligence computing systems.

Dr. Cécilia Ménard-Moyon obtained her PhD in 2005 at Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA)/Saclay (France). After a 1-year postdoc at the University of York (UK) and 18 months at Nanocyl SA (Belgium), she became CNRS researcher in Strasbourg in 2008. Her research interests are focused on the functionalization of carbon-based nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon dots) for biomedical applications, the self-assembly of amino acid derivatives and peptides, as well as the formation of hydrogels for on-demand drug delivery. She has published 90 articles and 10 book chapters (h-index: 35, 3200 citations).

Nikolaus Nestle is a principal scientist at BASF Advanced Materials and Systems Research in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He holds a PhD in Physics and joined BASF in 2006 after working on various academic research positions including non-tenured faculty positions in Germany and Italy.

Daniel Neumaier is fully Professor for Electrical Engineering at the Bergische University of Wuppertal and Scientific Advisor at AMO GmbH. He received the PhD degree in 2009 from the University of Regensburg. From 2009 until 2020 he was head of the Graphene-Group at AMO GmbH, a research foundry located in Aachen, Germany. He has managed several research projects on graphene and is currently leading the work-package on Electronic Devices in the Flagship-Project Graphene and coordinating the FET-Open project ORIGENAL.

Prof Chul Park received his PhD from MIT in 1993 on microcellular foaming technology. He is now Distinguished Professor of Microcellular Engineered Plastics at University of Toronto. He is also the NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Multi-Functional Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites and Foams. He has an international recognition in polymer foam area. He has published over 400 journal papers and four books with 73 Scopus H-index. Prof Park serves as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Cellular Plastics. He has been inducted into 5 academies as an Academician Fellow including European Academy of Science

Vittorio Pellegrini holds a PhD degree in condensed matter physics. He is co-founder and currently the Chief Innovation Officer of BeDimensional Spa ( www.bedimensional.it ), head of the division energy, composites and production of the European Graphene Flagship and also leader of the Graphene Flagship work-package energy storage. He has been the director of the Graphene Labs at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) until April 2020. Vittorio Pellegrini has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and he is co-inventor of several patents. He was Fellow of the Italian Academy at Columbia University (USA) in 2008, Winner of Campisano prize for condensed matter physics of the Italian National Research Council in 2008.

Andrew Pollard is the Science Area Leader of the Surface Technology Group and leads NPL's research into the structural and chemical characterisation of graphene and related 2D materials, with a focus on enabling industrial commercialisation in this area. This metrology research addresses the actual measurement of 2D materials with a range of surface characterisation techniques, leading to the development of several international graphene standards.

Luca Sorbello has been associated with activities of the Greatcell Solar group since 2008. From 2010 Luca Sorbello was Executive Sales and Marketing Manager. He is now Managing Director for Greatcell Solar Italia. In December 2002 he was awarded a Master of Arts in “business organization and management” in the engineering management school at University of Tor Vergata in Rome. At Tor Vergata, he has been since 2004 an adjunct professor and in 2008 Luca completed his Ph.D. in industrial management at the University.

Christoph Stangl received his Ph.D from Graz University of Technology in 2011 and joined VARTA Micro Innovation GmbH in the same year. Here, his focus of research has been on novel materials, processes and analytics for lithium ion batteries, first as researcher and later as project leader. Since 2014, Christoph Stangl has been in charge of VARTAs agenda within the Graphene Flagship and from 2018-2020 he led the Graphene Flagship spearhead project on silicon/graphene batteries.

Peter G. Steeneken received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in experimental solid state physics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2002, he joined Philips Research and NXP Research in Eindhoven, as an industrial scientist focusing on the modeling, characterization and reliability of CMOS MEMS devices for sensors, actuators and RF applications.
Since 2013, he is professor of Applied Nanophysics at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft. In 2017, he is full-time professor in TU Delft’s Precision and Microsystems Engineering Department, chairing the section Dynamics of Micro and Nanosystems. Prof. Steeneken currently leads the sensors workpackage of the Graphene Flagship and the large national project Plantenna on plant-based sensor technology. He has authored more than 100 journal and conference publication and holds 44 granted US patents.

Dr. Vijayaraghavan is a Reader in Nanomaterials in the Department of Materials and the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester. He leads the Nanofunctional Materials Group. He is also the Head of Business Engagement (Advanced Manufacturing) for the Faculty of Science & Engineering. His research involves the science and technology of graphene and 2-dimensional materials, particularly for applications in composites, electronics, sensors and biotechnology. He has published over 90 papers in international peer reviewed journals and delivered over 80 presentations at international conferences. He has filed 7 patents. He is the founder of two spin-out companies, Atomic Mechanics Ltd. and Grafine Ltd. He is also a leader in public engagement and science communication has won numerous awards for the same.

She received her Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in 2002. After two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships working in two European projects related to molecularly imprinted polymers. In 2004, she joined Ferring Pharmaceuticals (previously Controlled Therapeutics) where she worked in the research of new controlled drug delivery systems as a Senior Polymer Scientist. Her contribution led to the granting of three patents in novel biodegradable and biostable polymers for the controlled release of active compounds. In 2010, she became the Scientific Director of Graphenea. At Graphenea, she leads the research and development activities on graphene-based materials. Since joining Graphenea, she has so far filed for ten patents and published in Nature and Science.