Dr Sivasambu Bohm received his first degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by an M.Sc. at Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin. After gaining his PhD at the University of Bath in Chemistry, he worked at different academic institutions, University of Swansea, TU Delft, The University of Birmingham & India Institute of Technology. Siva has 20 years of industrial experience in various research fields; metallurgy, protective coatings, energy storage in the automotive industry, aerospace coatings and nanotechnology, Graphene synthesis and applications of graphene. Dr Bohm published 30 patents and 94 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Technical Surface Coatings. Dr Bohm has been awarded the Royal Society Industry Fellowship initial at University of Cambridge, CGC. Since 2020, Dr Bohm completing his final year of fellowship at Imperial College London and working as Graphene research scientist at AM Commercial UK Ltd / AM Global R&D Asturias

Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and Visiting Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina after working at the Italian National Research Council, the University of Cambridge and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J.Mater.Chem.A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 120 publications and 12 patents.

Dr. Paolo Bondavalli is in charge of the transverse topic on nanomaterials at Thales Research and Technology. Presently his work is focused on the development of new materials (e.g. graphene, CNTs, nanowires, Topological Insulators) for the new generation of electronics devices, for energy storage applications, memristor, electromagnetic shielding. Dr Bondavalli has received his Hdr in 2011, at Paris-Sud on a work on "devices based on random network of carbon nanotubes". During the last 20 years, he has participated, also as coordinator, in several EU projects (concerning CNTs, graphene, spintronics, energy…) and ANR projects. He is involved in the Graphene Flagship initiative. He recently issued a book on Graphene ("Graphene and Related Materials: Properties and Applications" Ed Elsevier, pp 192, 2017) and he is publishing another one the exotic properties of 2d materials. He published around 60 papers and participated to 60 international conferences as Invited or Keynote speaker. He is the first author of around 15 patents on nanomaterials. He is the president of the French Evaluation Committee on sensors and instrumentation, member of the High Council of Research Evaluation and H2020 EU expert in different panels.

Vincent Bouchiat is the CEO of Grapheal, a company spin-off from Neel Institute focusing on bioelectronic and healthcare applications of graphene. He is on leave from the French National Research Center (CNRS) at Grenoble, where he has a permanent position since 1997. He received an engineer degree from ESPCI in 1993 and a Master Degree from the University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie the same year. He has completed his Ph.D. on quantum devices at CEA-Saclay in 1997 under supervision of Michel Devoret and Daniel Estève. He got the Visiting Miller Professorship Award from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, and the Lee Hsun Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017). He co-authored more than 100 publications with over 4000 citations and hold 9 international patents.

AFM-Raman Product Manager Oversee development, applications, worldwide marketing and sales of Raman spectroscopy products coupled with Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) for Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS). Survey new technologies and suggest ideas for new developments that could give us an edge on the market. Support Sales teams worldwide. Evaluate client special requirements feasibility, cost and time frame with R&D in our French and US offices. Business development including marketing, web advertising and sales. Development of technical documents to help Sales People quote, calculate specifications, answer bid requests etc...

Luigi Colombo was born in Italy and was educated in the United States where he obtained a B.S. in Physics in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1980 from the University of Rochester. He joined Texas Instruments (TI) in 1981 where he worked on a variety of materials research and development programs. The principal accomplishments at TI were the development of a liquid phase epitaxy production process of HgCdTe on CdZnTe substrates for infrared detectors (still in production), a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process BaSrTiO3 as a high-k capacitor material for random access memories, a nitrided Hf-silicate CVD process and a low leakage scaled SiON for 45 nm transistors all of which were taken from the research stage to full production. Recently, in collaboration with the Ruoff group at the University of Texas at Austin, he discovered and developed a large area graphene film growth process on Cu substrates. He now manages the external research and development activities where in collaboration with several university professors he is developing new device flows for beyond CMOS devices. Luigi has also authored and co-authored over 140 refereed papers, made over 150 invited and contributed presentations, has written 3 chapters in edited books, and holds 108 US and international patents. In 1999 he was elected to the level of Fellow at TI, in 2011 he was elected IEEE Fellow, in 2011 he was also granted the distinction of “Cavaliere dell’Ordine “Stella della Solidarieta Italiana””, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2009.

Mar Garcia-Hernandez is Research Professor at CSIC. Her research has focused on complex oxide 2D heterostructures with application in spintronics, fundamental problems regarding diluted magnetic semiconductors and superconductors. Currently, she is deeply involved in the synthesis and functionalization of 2D layered materials. She has co-authored more than 300 publications in peer reviewed journals. She leads the Material Science WP and is a member of the Executive Board of the Graphene Flagship. She is the Scientific Director of the nation-wideArchimedes scientific contest that promotes research among undergraduate and master students in Spain and is deeply involved in outreach activities. She has been awarded the Innovative Enterprises Forum Prize for The Innovative Researcher of the year (2018) and theScientist of the year by the Spanish Scientist Association. She has been member of the Women at CSIC Committee and is an active member of the group “Women in Graphene”. From January 2019 she is vice-Chancellor of the Universidad Internacional Menendez y Pelayo.

Byung Hee Hong obtained PhD (2002) degree in chemistry from POSTECH in Korea. After spending 3.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia University (Advisor: Philip Kim), he joined the Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) as an Assistant Professor, in 2007. Now, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National Univ. as of Mar. 1, 2017. Byung Hee Hong pioneered the large-scale synthesis of graphene by CVD, which triggered chemical research studies toward the practical applications of graphene. His first report on the CVD synthesis of graphene (Nature 457, 706 (2009)) has recorded the world highest citations in chemistry among the papers published since 2009. A year after, Byung Hee Hong developed the synthesis of ultra-large graphene based on roll-to-roll methods and applied it to flexible touch screens (Nature Nanotech. 5, 574-578 (2010)). To commercialize the graphene-based materials, he established two companies, Graphene Square (http://www.graphenesq.com) and BioGraphene (http://bio-graphene.com) in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is a Founding/Regional Editor for 2D Materials journal and a member of Strategic Advisory Council for EU Graphene Flagship Project.

Prof. Koppens is the leader of the nano opto-electronics research group at ICFO, focussing mostly on research and technology development of graphene and 2d materials. Koppens is co-leader of the optoelectronics activities in the European Graphene flagship program, with total funding of one billion Euro (for 10 years).

Head of Department, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS, 2019 – current
Deputy Director, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS, 2016 - current
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS, 2015 – current
Head of Graphene Research, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials,
Professor, Department of Physics, NUS, 2013 – current
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, NUS , 2007 – 2013
PostDoc, Columbia University, 2005-2007.
Ph.D. New York University 2005.
Dipl.-Phys., RWTH AACHEN, 1999.

Dr Ravi Sundaram is the Head of strategic R&D Markets at Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology tools responsible for leading the market strategy and collaborative R&D activity globally. He has been involved in materials research in several institutions such as EPFL, Switzerland, Max Planck Institute Stuttgart, Germany, IBM T.J Watson Research Labs, NY and Cambridge University where he worked on several aspects of 1D and 2D materials-based research from synthesis, fundamental science to prototype applications in sensors, optoelectronics and electronics. He joined Oxford Instruments to lead and coordinate R&D efforts towards 2D materials products. Currently, he is responsible for strategy and business development in key R&D markets such as 2Dmaterials, biomedical devices, integrated photonics, Quantum Technologies among others.

Archana Venugopal is a technologist in Texas Instruments: Analog Technology Development (ATD) group. Her background includes work on device and package level electro-thermals, device reliability, graphene contacts and mobility characterization. She has also been interested in the development and large scale integration of two-dimensional materials such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2012 and has been with TI since. She is an IEEE Senior Member.

Rune Wendelbo is CEO of Abalonyx AS. He holds a PhD from the University of Oslo, 1987, and has previously worked with R&D at SINTEFs department for catalysis in Oslo. He founded Abalonyx AS in 2005, and co-funded Graphene Batteries AS in 2012. Abalonyx is now a well-established producer of graphene oxide and graphene oxide derivatives based on a proprietary safe process, the only producer of Kg-amounts in Europe. He has about 30 publications and 20 patents and received "SINTEFs prize for excellent research" in 2002.

She received her Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in 2002. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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 nine patents and published more than 64 publications in peer reviewed journals, including Nature and Science. Principal Investigator in 12 EU FP7/H2020 funded research projects, 10 collaborative projects including the Graphene Flagship and 2 people training network projects. In addition, she has also given more than 45 invited talks in international conferences. Her research interests include the synthesis, characterization, and future industrial applications of graphene.