Guoping Chen, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Guoping Chen is a Group Leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and a Professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997 majoring in polymer biomaterials and did postdoctoral research until 2000. He joined the Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as a Researcher in 2000 and a Senior Researcher in 2003. He moved to the Biomaterials Center, NIMS as a Senior Researcher in 2004 and was promoted to Group Leader in 2007. He served as a Principal Investigator and Unit Director of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), NIMS from 2011 to 2017. He concurrently joined the Joint Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba as an Associate Professor in 2004 and a Professor in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2015), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, 2017) and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE, 2020). His research focuses on biomaterials, scaffolds, biomimetic matrices, micro-patterning, surface modification, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine.
Guosong Chen, Fudan University, China
Guosong Chen is a professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai. She studied chemistry at Nankai University and received her Ph.D. from the same university in supramolecular chemistry. After her postdoctoral studies in carbohydrate chemistry at Iowa State University, she moved to Fudan University in Dec 2008, where she joined the department as a lecturer, working on the interface of macromolecular self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry. Then she was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and professor in 2014. Recently, her research focus has been reoriented to carbohydrate-based macromolecular self-assembly and its biological functions. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society (FRSC), serves as an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters, and is an international board members for several journals. She received NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation and other awards including ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award.
Wenlong Cheng, The University of Sydney, Australia
Wenlong Cheng is a professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently an NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellow and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was an Ambassador Tech Fellow at Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. He earned his PhD from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2005 and his BS from Jilin University, China, in 1999. He was Alexander von Humboldt's fellow in the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and a research associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He founded the Monash NanoBionics lab at Monash University in 2010. His research interest lies at the nano-bio interface, particularly the design and self-assembly of 2D plasmonic nanomaterials and noble nanocrystals, DNA nanotechnology, soft wearable electronic skin sensors and soft and stretchable energy devices, targeted cancer theranostics, and soft plasmonic metamaterials.
Simone Fabiano, Linköping University, Sweden
Simone Fabiano is an Associate Professor and docent in Applied Physics at Linköping University, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Palermo in 2012. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In 2020, he founded n-Ink AB, a spinout company that focuses on developing n-type organic conductive inks, where he serves as the Chief Scientific Officer. His group at Linköping University primarily focuses on developing organic dopant-free conductors and mixed ionic-electronic conductors for printed electronics and neuromorphic hardware applications. He has received several awards, including the Swedish Research Council Starting Grant in 2017 and Consolidator Grant in 2023. He is also a Wallenberg Academy Fellow.
Katharina Landfester, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Katharina Landfester received her doctoral degree in 1995. After a postdoctoral stay at the Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), she worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany) leading the miniemulsion group. From 2003 to 2008, she was full professor at the University of Ulm. She joined the Max Planck Society in 2008 as one of the directors of the MPIP. She was awarded the Reimund Stadler prize of the German Chemical Society and the prize of the Dr. Hermann Schnell Foundation, followed by the Bruno Werdelmann Lecturer in 2012 and the Bayer Lecturer in 2014. Her research focusses on creating functional colloids for new material and biomaterial applications.
Martina Stenzel, University of New South Wales, Australia
Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She then started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, before being appointed as lecture in 2002 at the same University. In 2012 she was promoted to full Professor and is now UNSW Scientia Professor and ARC (Australian Research Council) Laureate Fellow. In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional polymers nanoparticles and their use as drug delivery carriers.
Shutao Wang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China
Shutao Wang is a full professor at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD degree in 2007 at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and California NanoSystem Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles (2007–2010). Subsequently, he was appointed as a full Professor of Chemistry from 2010–2014 at ICCAS. His scientific interests focus on the design and synthesis of bio-inspired interfacial materials with special adhesion and their applications at the nano-biointerface.
