Prof. Arafat is the Senior Director, Research and Innovation Center for Graphene and 2D Materials (RIC2D) and professor of chemical engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he is working since 2010. He received a Ph.D. and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. of Cincinnati (USA) (2000) and the Univ. of Jordan (1996), respectively. He is a recipient of several research fellowships by the US National Academy of Science (USA), the Open Society Foundation (USA) and DAAD (Germany). Through his career thus far, he supervised 58 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. His research was published in 270+ book chapters, journal papers, and conference presentations, in addition to two US patents. He was invited to deliver 60 keynote and invited talks worldwide.

Jordi Arbiol graduated in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona in 1997, where also obtained his PhD in 2001. Since 2015 he is ICREA Professor and Group Leader at Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2). He was Vice-President (2013-2017) and President (2017-2021) of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME). Since 2019, he is Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM). He is Scientific Coordinator of the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA Synchrotron (JEMCA) and Founder member of e-DREAM. His research is focussed on the atomic scale structural characterization and modeling of nanomaterials for energy, environmental, quantum and electronics applications.

Anne-Laure Biance graduated ESPCI and University Paris 6, where she defended a PhD on Droplet dynamics, in particular in a Leidenfrost situation, under the supervision of D. Quéré. After a post-doc where she investigated experimentally the transport of a single molecules through one nanopore, with some biological motivations for protein screening or DNA sequencing, she joined CNRS to work on multiphasic flows and namely the physics and hydrodynamics of soap and bubbles. She received CNRS bronze medal in 2019. She is now director of research at iLM in Lyon, where she works more largely on interfacial hydrodynamics, including nanofluidics and electrokinetics transport in sub-nanometric liquid films. She in particular develops original experimental systems to investigate these phenomena, taking inspiration from soft matter.

Blanca Biel received the M. Sc. in Physics in 1999 from the Universidad de Granada, (Granada, Spain) and the Ph.D. in Physics (with honors) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in 2006. After a two-years postdoctoral stay at CEA-LETI Grenoble (France), she joined the University of Granada as a Research Fellow, through the prestigious programs “Juan de la Cierva” (2009-2012) and “Ramón y Cajal” (2014-2019). Since October 2019 she is an Associated Professor at the Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics department of the University of Granada.
Her research has mostly focused on the study of the electronic and transport properties of materials, and the modification of their electronic properties by defects, molecular adsorption, or interaction with substrates, by means of atomistic (Density Functional Theory and tight-binding) and quantum transport (NEGF) simulation tools. More recently, she has started working on classical Molecular Dynamics and hybrid (QM/MM) simulations of biomolecules. She has co-authored over 35 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals, which have received more than 1800 citations

Xavier Blase is a CNRS research director at Institut Néel, Grenoble, with a PhD from UC Berkeley and a postdoctoral fellowship at EPFL. He is a computational and theoretical condensed matter physicist, focusing on ab initio methodology developments for the study of the optoelectronic, transport and superconducting properties of systems ranging from nanotubes, 2D materials, doped semiconductors to organic systems. 2008 CNRS Silver medal and 2014 Bull-Fourier prize.

Lydéric Bocquet is director of research at CNRS and joint professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. His recent research interests concern the emerging field of nanofluidics, which explores the emerging properties of fluid transport at the nanoscales. He is also exploring how such nanoscale properties can be converted into innovation, with in particular new routes for energy harvesting and desalination. His fundamental research has led to the creation of four startups, including Sweetch Energy in the field of osmotic energy. He received several awards including two Advanced Grants and one Synergy Grant of the European Research Council, the silver medal of CNRS and the 2022 Gentner-Kastler Award.

Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin is a professor at the Paris-Saclay University in Orsay. She carries out her research at the “Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay” (ISMO) where she heads the Nanophysics@Surfaces group. Her research focuses on the development and exploitation of electrical nanosources of photons, of surface plasmons and of excitons, and on innovative uses of scanning probe microscopies.

Francesco Bonaccorso gained the PhD from the University of Messina. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where he also obtained a MA. He is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and visiting Scientist at the Istituto Ital-iano di Tecnologia. He is author of 15 patents and more than 190 publications that have been cited more than 37000 times. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J. Mater. Chem. A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. In 2018 he was recognized as Highly cited Scien-tist by Clarivate Analytics. In 2019 he received the Magister Peloritanus by Accademia Pe-loritana dei Pericolanti and ExAllievi Eccellenti by the University of Messina. He co-founded Cambridge Graphene Ltd and BeDimensional SpA.

Rémi Carminati is a Professor at ESPCI Paris - PSL, and a researcher at the Langevin Institute. A specialist in optics of complex media optics and nanophotonics, his work addresses fundamental questions and applications in different areas of photonics. Since June 2022, he has also been the Managing Director of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School. He has received several scientific awards, including the Fabry-de-Gramont prize from the French Optical Society, and was named Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Jean-Christophe Charlier is Full Professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. His main scientific interests are centred on theoretical condensed matter physics and nanosciences, covering the areas of electronic and structural properties of crystals and reduced-dimensional solids (nanotubes, graphene and related carbon-based nanostructures, and 2D materials). The objective is to explain and predict the properties of materials using first-principles theories and computational physics.

Nicolas Chauvin received the Engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, in 2003, the Ph.D. degree in physics from INSA Lyon, France, in 2006 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from INSA Lyon in 2016. He worked at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2007, and with the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 2008 to 2009. Since January 2010, he has been a scientific researcher with the Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology and is currently co-head of the Functional Materials and Nanostructures team. His research is focused on telecom-band classical and quantum light sources and semiconductor nanowires.

Sonia obtained her Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2011. Afterwards she moved to a postdoctoral research position at EPFL Lausanne, funded by a Marie-Heim Vogtlin personal fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. After a second postdoc in The Netherlands, in 2016 Dr. Conesa-Boj became Assistant Professor at the Department of Quantum Nanoscience and the Kavli Instiuture of Nanoscience at TU Delft, and since 2020 she's tenured Associate Professor there. With a strong commitment to bridging fundamental physics with real-world applications, her research focuses on harnessing the potential of nanostructured 2D materials in various fields, including nanophotonics, tunable electronics, and efficient signal processing applications. Additionally, she plays a vital role in pushing the boundaries of electron microscopy instrumentation and data analysis techniques.  The impact and significance of her work has been recognized by several prestigious grants, including ERC Starting Grant, a NWO Vidi, a TKI consortium grant, and her involvement in the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Initiative as part of the NWO National Roadmap. 

With over 580 publications amassing 34.392 citations and an H-index of 91, his career has always been characterized by a high interdisciplinarity and impact in chemistry, physics and materials science. Coronado has been at the forefront of Molecular Magnetism during the last 25 years making seminal contributions in the chemical design, physical characterization and theoretical modelling of molecular nanomagnets and multifunctional materials. He leads two ERC AdG in Molecular Spintronics and 2D materials. His relevance goes well beyond Molecular Magnetism and is also strongly appreciated in the areas of Polyoxometalate Chemistry, Molecular Conductors and Superconductors, Molecular Electronics and, more recently, Molecular Spintronics, Quantum Computing (Magnetic Molecules as qubits) and 2D materials. Eugenio Coronado is the Director of the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) at the University of Valencia and of the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism (EIMM).

Marie-Laure David received her M.Sc. degree in Material Science (2000) and Ph.D degree in Physics (2003) from the University of Poitiers, France. In 2004, she held a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, where she investigated irradiation-induced defects in CMOS technology. In September 2004, she joined the Laboratoire de Métallurgie Physique, which is now Institut PPrime, Poitiers, as an Associate Professor. In 2018, she obtained her Habilitation as research supervisor (HDR) from the University of Poitiers. Her research activities are mostly related to the analysis of defects in materials by (S)TEM and related spectroscopies (EELS). Her current research interest focuses on irradiation and implantation-induced defects in low-dimensionnal materials such as layered heterostructures and 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes).

Silvano De Franceschi is an expert in quantum nanoelectronics and experimental mesoscopic physics. He received his PhD in 1999 at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and, he currently works as research director at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG). In 2005 he was awarded the Nicholas Kurti European Prize for his achievements in the field of quantum transport and, in particular, his works on the Kondo effect in quantum dots and on hybrid normal/superconductor nanostructures. His current research activity focuses on the development of silicon-based devices for quantum information processing. He is co-leading the Grenoble Quantum Silicon Group (http://quantumsilicon-grenoble.eu) and he is one of the three PIs in the ERC Synergy project QuCube

Lucia Gemma Delogu is the head of the ImmuneNano-Lab at the University of Padua in Italy. She obtained her expertise in Material Science, Immunology, and Nanotoxicology during her time at the University of Southern California and the Sanford-Burnham Institute in the United States. Prof. Delogu, previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Sassari and a Visiting Professor at Technische Universität Dresden, is now a Visiting Associate Professor at New York University in Abu Dhabi. Prof. Delogu has been the Scientific Coordinator of several interdisciplinary European projects on nanomaterials' immune interactions and biomedical applications. She coordinates the MX-Map project focused on developing MXenes for biomedical use. She has received awards such as the "Marie S. Curie Individual Fellow" and the "200 Young Best Talents of Italy 2011." She introduced the "NanoImmunity-by-design" concept and pioneered high-dimensional single-cell approaches for 2D materials. Her research has been published in prestigious journals including Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Today, and ACS Nano. Her studies contribute to immunology, biomedicine, material science, and space science.

Magalie Faivre is a researcher in at Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology. She received her PhD from the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble in 2006 under the supervision of Annie Viallat (Laboratoire Spectrométrie Physique, Grenoble), Brigitte Pépin-Donat (SPRAM, Grenoble) and Howard A. Stone (Harvard University, Cambridge USA). Currently, Magalie’s research is focused on the exploitation of the interplay between cells mechanical properties and their physio-pathological state. She is developing Lab-On-a-Chip systems dedicated to the diagnosis, prognosis, drug screening assays or therapeutic follow-up of several diseases, using different microfluidic approaches.

I received a doctorate in Physics in 2017 from Ecole Polytechnique in France. Since 2021 I have been an associate professor at Lyon University in the Multimaterials and Interfaces Laboratory. My research activities revolve around single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), encompassing various aspects ranging from their synthesis and growth mechanisms to structural characterization, optical properties, and integration into devices. Currently, I am particularly interested in the encapsulation of molecules within nanotubes to study the one-dimensional confinement of resulting molecular systems and the emerging properties of these hybrid molecule/nanotube structures.

M. Venkata Kamalakar is the group leader of the Quantum Material Device group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research involves studying the behavior of electric charge, spin, and orbital properties in low-dimensional quantum materials. His work contributed to nanoelectronics and spintronics of two-dimensional (2D) materials, particularly the progress of graphene and two-dimensional van der Waals spintronics. His team currently focuses on next-generation spin current circuits, two-dimensional flexible spintronics, engineering band structure, and spin phenomena in 2D quantum materials, steady state, and ultrafast time-resolved spin dynamics, and developing innovative instrumentation. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2020.

Benoit Mahler is a CNRS researcher at the Light and Matter Institute (iLM) in Lyon. He graduated ESPCI Paris followed by a PhD at Paris 6 University. His research interests include the colloidal synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures and heterostructures, the growth of two-dimensional materials and their applications for light conversion applications.

Lluís F. Marsal is Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2014, he received the ICREA Academia Award (the highest award for university professors in Catalonia, from ICREA Institute). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Optical Society of America. He is member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and holds three patents. His current research interests focus on organic and hybrid solar cells and nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing and bio-applications

Eva Monroy holds a Master's degree (1996) and a Doctorate (2000) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). From 1999 to 2001, she served as an assistant professor at the same institution. Since 2001, she has been a senior researcher at the French Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA), where she is responsible for a molecular beam epitaxy cluster for the growth of III-nitrides and oxides. In 2005, she obtained her Habilitation as a research supervisor (HDR) from the University of Grenoble. In 2016, she obtained the European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics. Since 2021, she is deputy head of the Quantum Photonics, Electronics and Engineering Laboratory (PHELIQS). Her primary research focus centers around the synthesis of nanostructures and heterostructures of wide bandgap semiconductors, along with their incorporation into innovative devices for opto- and microelectronics.

Prof. Pablo Ordejón earned his degree in physics (1987) and his PhD in science (1992) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) from 1992 to 1995 and as assistant professor at the Universidad de Oviedo from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, he obtained a research staff position at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In 2007 he moved to the former CIN2 (now ICN2) as the leader of the Theory and Simulation Group, where he is currently a CSIC Research Professor. Since July 2012 he has served as Director of the ICN2.

Vincenzo Palermo obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2003 at the University of Bologna, after working at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and at the Steacie Institute, National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). He has published more than 130 scientific articles on international journals in chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science (>4000 citations, h-index=35). Vincenzo Palermo holds a joint position as research director of the National Reseach Council of Italy, and research professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, acting as vice-director of the Graphene Flagship. Between 2013 and 2017 he has been the leader of the work package on composites of the flagship. He previously coordinated two large European research projects: GOSPEL (Graphene-Organic SuPramolEcular functionaL composites) and the International Training Network GENIUS (GraphenE-orgaNIc hybrid architectures for organic electronics: a mUltiSite training action), and was member of the scientific committee of EUROGRAPHENE programme of the ESF. In 2012 Vincenzo Palermo won the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and in 2013 the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI).

Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his NanoBioElectronics group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Served as Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science and Vice Dean International Affairs of the Faculty of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Chair of the Nano.IL conference to be held 27-29.2.24

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators. He has published more than 250 papers in journals such as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 2023. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.

Dr Yarjan Abdul Samad is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Khalifa University, UAE and a Senior Research Associate and Senior Teaching Fellow at The University of Cambridge. He is also the Chief Technology Advisor to a climate change company called Levidian based out of Cambridge, UK, which is transforming waste gas resources to graphene and hydrogen. His research work is based on developing graphene & 2d materials-based technologies for Space and Aerospace. He was among the team of scientists on European Space Agency (ESA)’s Zero Gravity flights who were the first to test Graphene in microgravity. He has also tested graphene-based materials for applications in space using Sounding Rockets. He is a member of the Science Team of Rashid Rover, which is due for launch within 2022, by MBRSC, UAE. He is the recipient of several awards such as Young Leaders Award 2020 by the UK’s Young Professional Society, The Innovator of The Year by the technology development company, Pakistan foreign affairs award for twenty-five under the age of 40 talents of Pakistani origin abroad, The Outstanding Research Reviewer of the year 2017 by the Royal Society of Chemistry UK, Nano Today Best Scientific Presentation, and many other Best Scientific Talks awards at international conferences. In addition to research, he has taught parts of a graduate course on graphene technology at the University of Cambridge. He is a proud graduate of Khalifa University. Prior to moving abroad, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI) in Pakistan. He graduated from GIKI with two gold medals (one for best academic performance and another for best overall performance).

Alfonso San Miguel is a Professor of Physics at the University Lyon 1, specializing in the physics of condensed matter under extreme pressure conditions. Over the past 20 years, he has led groundbreaking research focused on investigating the effects of extreme strain on low-dimensional systems, including fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, and van der Waals heterostructures. His work primarily concerns understanding the induced geometrical and dimensional changes and their influence on various physical properties, such as electronic, optical, and mechanical. Alfonso San Miguel also dedicates himself to the preservation of scientific heritage. Particularly involved with Ampère’s Museum in Lyon, further nurturing his passion for the history of science.

Tullio Scopigno receives a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Trento in 2001, focused on the microscopic dynamics of liquid metals. From 2001 to 2008 he holds a Researcher position at the INFM/CNR, with research interests on glasses and the glass transition, and on liquids under extreme conditions, developed with extensive use of large scale facilities. In 2007, after a short visit at Berkeley, he becomes interested in ultrafast dynamics and applies for the first ERC-Starting Grant call, which he receives in 2008. In the same year, he leaves CNR and gets a fixed term Assistant Professorship from University “Sapienza” in Rome, where he establishes “Femtoscopy”, an independent research group and a new laboratory for ultrafast processes in biomolecules and condensed matter. In 2013 he is appointed Associate professor. In 2012, he starts to work on advanced imaging techniques in collaboration with the Center for Life Nanoscience at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he builds a laboratory for Coherent Raman Microscopy. In 2018 he is affiliated to the IIT Graphene Center as a partner of the ongoing Flagship initiative. Since 2022 is Full Professor at the Physics Department of “Sapienza” University in Rome.

Hyeon Suk Shin is a UNIST Endowed Chair Professor at Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. He received his PhD from Department of Chemistry at POSTECH in 2002. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge, UK and subsequently as a research Professor at POSTECH, he joined UNIST in 2008. He received ‘Scientist of the Month’ award (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2023, Grand Academic Award (UNIST) in 2023, 'Top 100 National R&D Outstanding Achievements' (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2021, Sigma-Aldrich Excellent Chemist Award (Korean Chemical Society) in 2021, Basic Researcher of the Year award (Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea) in 2020, Creative Knowledge Award (Minster Award by Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning) in 2015, outstanding researcher award (Materials Chemistry Division, KCS) in 2015, the Faculty of the Year award of UNIST in 2014, and the Minister award of Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea in 2012. His current research is focused on 2D materials, including graphene, h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides, and their heterostructures, and their applications for electrocatalysts and (opto)electronic devices.

Marianna Sledzinska received PhD in Physics from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona in 2012. She works as research engineer in the Phononic and Photonic Nanostructure (P2N) group in Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, investigating phonons and thermal transport in the nanoscale. She was a visiting researcher in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019), University of Poznan, Poland (2018) and Teer Coatings, Miba Group, UK (2017-2018). Within the P2N group she leads the Quantum 2D materials team, focused on growth and characterization of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides. Her research interests cover thermal transport, elastic properties strain effects, fracture and phonon-electron interactions in 2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride or graphene.

Christophe Voisin is a Professor of physics leading the research of the nano-optics group at LPENS (Université Paris Cité / Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris). He is also the head of the research network HOWDI, devoted to van der Waals hetero-structures. He is a specialist of light-matter interaction in nano-structures, exploring novel materials for photonic applications (semi-conducting quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and quantum dots, 2D materials, perovskites...). Recent research directions deal with the ultimate limit where a single photon interacts with a single excitation in the matter. To this aim, we investigate the generation and dynamics of excitons in these nano-structures and the control of their light emission properties using cavity effects in the quantum regime (Purcell effect). This latter can be used to change at will the emission diagram, the emission rate and even to some extent the emission wavelength of the emitter by tailoring its electromagnetic environment, resulting in strong brightening effects, original exciton/photon/phonon coupling schemes

Marc Willinger, born in Austria, studied physics at the Vienna University of Technology and received his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin for work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Robert Schlögl at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. After a Post-Doc at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, he returned to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute as a group leader with a permanent position. In the following years, he started to develop and implement tools for multi-scale in-situ and operando electron microscopy. In 2018, he accepted a new position as technical director at the Scientific Centre for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM) at the ETH in Zurich. Since 2022 he is full professor at the Technical University of Munich. Marc Willinger is interested in the relationship between structure/composition and the resulting physical/chemical properties of materials, in particular the emergence of synergistic effects and non-linear dynamics in non-equilibrium material systems.

Dr Qian Yang received Doctorate in Material Science in 2018. She is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Manchester. Her research mainly focused on mass transport inside 2D nanocapillaries enabled by van der Waals technology, molecular properties under spatial confinement, nanofluidics and novel methods for nanofabrication.