Programme & Speakers

Plenary Session 3

Plenary Session 1

Monday 22, 13:30 - 14:45, Room A

Plenary Session 4

Title: Epitaxial growth of wafer-scale transition metal dichalcogenides: An enabling technology for large area devices.

Bio: Joan Redwing is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. She currently serves as Director of the 2D Crystal Consortium, an NSF Materials Innovation Platform (MIP) national user facility that is focused on the synthesis and characterization of 2D materials for next generation devices. Her research focuses on crystal growth and epitaxy of electronic materials, with an emphasis on thin film and nanomaterial synthesis by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. She currently serves as Vice President of the American Association for Crystal Growth and the International Organization for Crystal Growth. She is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an author on over 350 publications in refereed journals and holds 8 U.S. patents.

Plenary Session 2

Plenary Session 5

Plenary Session 3

Plenary Session 4

Thursday 25, 9:40 - 10:10, Room A

Bio: Prof. Alexey Berdyugin received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in condensed matter physics from Moscow Phystech in 2016. Next, he conducted doctoral research at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Nobel Prize laureate, Sir. Andre Geim. In 2022, Dr Berdyugin joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor, where he has received the NUS Presidential Young Professorship award, and more recently National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore Fellowship Award 2024. Research works of Dr Berdyugin have pioneered the non-linear electron transport studies of the novel twisted heterostructures which resulted in the discovery of a novel current propagation regime, as well as electron hydrodynamic and the giant magnetoresistance effect recently discovered in high-quality graphene heterostructures.

Plenary Session 2

Bio: Amalia Patanè studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where she received her MSc in Physics (1994) and PhD (1998). She then moved to the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham to research quantum semiconductor systems. She has been Professor of Physics (since 2011) and Director of Research (2019-23) at the University of Nottingham. Since 2015, Patanè is the UK Director and Council member of the European Magnetic Field Laboratory, a national facility of the EPSRC that develops and operates world class high magnetic field systems. Since 2018 she leads the EPI2SEM facility at Nottingham for development of atomically thin semiconductors. Her EPSRC Programme Grant (NEED2D 2025-30) with Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow brings together UK research institutions and industry to develop prototype low-energy-consumption electronic devices beyond traditional semiconductor systems.

Her research achievements were recognised by the Sir Charles Vernon Boys Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2007), an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2004-09), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2017-19), a Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Award (2018-19), and an honorary professorship at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, Beijing (since 2019).

Plenary Session 1

Monday 22, 13:30 - 14:45, Room A

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Plenary Session 4

Thursday 25, 9:40 - 10:10, Room A

Plenary Session 3

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations - CHAIR

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Innovation Forum: Commericalisation of graphene applications 

Tuesday 23, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Plenary Session 2

Bio: Emmanuelle Deleporte is a full professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, where she conducts her research activities at the LuMIn (Light, Matter and Interfaces) laboratory. In 2005, she founded a multidisciplinary research team, composed of physicists and chemists, which synthesize crystals, thin films and nanoparticles of 2D and 3D lead halide perovskites, and studies the linear and non-linear, continuous and time-resolved optical properties of these materials, both in the context of photovoltaics and light emission. The main topics addressed concern confinement effects at the nanometric scale, excitonic properties, charge carrier relaxation mechanisms, energy and/or charge transfers, and light-matter interaction in photonic cavities containing perovskites. Since 2017, Emmanuelle Deleporte is the director of the CNRS National Research Group "Halide Perovskites" (Groupement de Recherche (GDR) HPERO).

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Bio: Dr. Evgeniya Kovalska is a chemist with over a decade of experience in 2D and carbon-based materials, spanning their synthesis, characterisation, and application in advanced technologies for energy, (bio)sensing, wearables, and sustainable devices. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry, with a specialisation in the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces, from the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Evgeniya is currently a Lecturer in Advanced 2D Energy Materials at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, where she is a member of the Nano Engineering Science and Technology Group. Her research aims to transform energy technologies through the development of innovative, sustainable materials, with a particular focus on next-generation energy storage systems, including Li-/non-Li-based rechargeable batteries, and renewable energy devices such as triboelectric nanogenerators. Leveraging her interdisciplinary expertise, she seeks to harness the hybrid potential of these materials to drive future advancements in both energy and sensing sectors.

Plenary Session 3: Invited Roadmapping Speaker

Wednesday 24, 10:40 - 10:45, Room A 

Plenary Session 2: Invited Standardisation Speaker

Tuesday 23, 10:40 - 10:45, Room A

Standardisation Workshop: Bring standards to the factory floor - CHAIR

Wednesday 24, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Innovation Forum Opening 

Tuesday 23, 14:15 - 15:15, Room C

Innovation Forum: Commericalisation of graphene applications - CHAIR

Tuesday 23, 15:15 - 17:15, Room C

Plenary Session 4: Invited Innovation Speaker

Thursday 25, 10:40 - 10:45, Room A

Plenary Session 5

Bio: Dr. Lorena Manzanares is a pharmacist by training who obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017, specialising in biosensor development. In 2017, she joined the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague as a scientist and, later, as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, where she worked on the use of 2D materials for electrochemical and fluorescence-based biosensing applications. After gaining industrial experience in 2021 developing organic electrochemical transistor biosensors for cardiac biomarkers at Omini, a biosensing start-up in Paris, she was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship at LMU Munich, where she explored 2D materials for single-molecule fluorescence sensing. Since November 2023, she holds a Junior Chair Professorship in Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnology (IEMN) and Centrale Lille, France, leading research on biomolecular sensors for pharmaceutical sciences and clinical diagnostics.

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Thursday 25, 15:45 - 16:15

Bio: Dr. Das received his B.Eng. degree (2007) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and his Ph.D. degree (2013) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2013-2015) and Assistant Research Scientist (2015-2016) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Dr. Das joined the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Penn State University in January 2016.  Dr. Das received the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2017 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021. Das Research Group at Penn State focuses on 2D microelectronics for monolithic 3D integration, bio-inspired sensing, neuromorphic computing, and hardware security.

Plenary Session 5

Friday 26, 9:00 - 10:45, Room A

Title: Manipulating and Measuring Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials at the Atomic Scale for Applications in Nano- und Quantum Technologies

Bio: Ute Kaiser is Senior Professor at Ulm University since 2023 and was Head of the Central Facility of Materials Science Electron Microscopy from 2004-2023. She graduated from Humboldt University Berlin, received her PhD in 1993 and her habilitation on “TEM on semiconductor quantum materials” in 2002. From 1993-2004 she was postdoc at Jena University, with extended visits at Bell Labs, Cambridge University and in Tohoku University. From 2009-2018 she was the director of the Sub-Angstrom Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy project, where she focuses on developments of low-voltage electron microscopy for application on beamsensitive low-dimensional materials. Ute Kaiser has more than 400 publications, was 2018 "highly cited researcher“and holds several honorary adjunct positions. Since 2021 she is the Physical-Sciences Editor for Micron.

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Innovation Forum: From fundamental research to innovative applications, Part I - CHAIR

Plenary Session 5

From fundamental research to innovative applications, part II 

Thursday 25, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Bio: Dr. Abhishek Kumar commenced his academic background in 2008 in Dept. of Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, developing expertise in computational and experimental design of composite materials. He was then offered a full PhD scholarship as a Research Assistant at the Center of Advanced Vehicle Systems at the University of Alabama funded by NASA Glenn Research Center, USA where he worked on multiscale material models and experimental validation of advanced composites incorporated with nanomaterials like graphene for aerospace applications. He started his industrial experience in 2017, working with Collins Aerospace facility in Foley, USA as a Materials Review Engineer, during which he worked on several prominent programs like Airbus A320, Bombardier C-series, Embraer E175, E190 and Rolls Royce T700 on structural analysis and repair of engine nacelles and nozzles.

He has served as the Principal Investigator of Material Labs in Leonardo SpA since 2022, guiding a team of 13 scientists and several PhD thesis, and coordinating research areas of Multifunctional nanomaterials & composites, Advanced Manufacturing, Energy and Computational material modelling. He has an active role in several European funded civil (Horizon Europe, CHIPS JU) and defense (European Defense Fund) projects for research in disruptive materials and processes in aerospace and defense sector.

From fundamental research to innovative applications, Part I 

2D-PL Workshop

Titles: Printed supercapacitors and batteries & Aqueous batteries for stationary energy storage

Start-up companies 

Tuesday 23, 15:15 - 16:15, Room C

2D-PL Workshop

Commercialisation Pitches

Wednesday 24, 15:15-16:15, Room C

Standardisation Workshop: Bring standards to the factory floor 

Wednesday 24, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Title: Graphene-based developments in the packaging and construction sectors

Bio: Dr Beatriz Alonso obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2011. During her PhD, she focused on the research of the asymmetric synthesis of organic molecules, and she did a shot stay at the University of Oxford. After completing her PhD, she joined GRAPHENEA in September 2011 as Research Scientist where she combined her work as a researcher with the production control of the graphene-based derivatives. In 2018 she started leading the R&D department of the team focus on the graphene oxide materials being responsible of the founded projects, both European and national, and private projects with companies from different sectors.  She is expert in graphene oxide materials and its adaptation to different applications what helps in the developing of new additives in KIVORO.

Start-up companies 

Tuesday 23, 15:15 - 16:15, Room C

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations - CHAIR

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

Commericalisation of graphene applications 

Tuesday 23, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

From fundamental research to innovative applications, Part I 

Bio: Senior professional with over thirty years of experience in the financial and strategic consulting sectors, with a strong focus on corporate finance, M&A and the evolving needs of the corporate world. Over the past decade, he has increasingly dedicated his expertise to supporting high-tech and high-impact knowledge transfer including spinoff and scaleup ventures. Since 2016, he has been collaborating with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), initially contributing to the humanoid robotics think tank; he joined later IIT Technology Transfer department full-time, becoming part of the Industrial Innovation business unit, which he now leads. He also served for five years on the Innovation Team of the Graphene Flagship and recently has been selected as an Expert in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship with the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), contributing to train the next generation of European innovators supported by the Agency.

How to raise capital for commercialisation? - CHAIR

Wednesday 24, 14:15 - 15:15, Room C

Commercialisation Pitches - CHAIR

Wednesday 24, 15:15 - 16:15, Room C

From fundamental research to innovative applications, part II 

Thursday 25, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

2D-PL Workshop - CHAIR

From fundamental research to innovative applications, Part I 

Title: Graphene applications in aerospace platforms: Why would a seemingly academic curiosity be of interest to an industry that manufactures massive mobile airborne structures? 

Plenary Session 2: Invited Standardisation Speaker

Tuesday, September 23, 10:40 - 10:45, Room A

Standardisation Workshop: Bring standards to the factory floor - CHAIR

Wednesday 24, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Innovation Forum Opening 

Tuesday 23, 14:15 - 15:15, Room C

Commericalisation of graphene applications - CHAIR

Tuesday 23, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Plenary Session 4: Invited Innovation Speaker

Thursday, September 25, 10:40 - 10:45, Room A

Standardisation Workshop: Bring standards to the factory floor 

Wednesday 24, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

From fundamental research to innovative applications, part II 

Thursday 25, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Bio: Laura Rizzi is co-founder and CEO of Flow-nano, a Milan-based start-up founded in June 2023. The company develops and produces high-performance nanostructured electrodes for electrochemical applications, with flow batteries as its initial target market.

Flow-nano’s core technology is a proprietary process for synthesizing and depositing carbon nano-onions onto selected substrates—currently carbon fabrics—to significantly enhance the electrochemically active surface area. The ultimate goal is to increase system efficiency while reducing overall costs.

Laura holds an MSc in Physics Engineering and a PhD in Physics from the Polytechnic University of Milan, both with a focus on nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Prior to founding Flow-nano, she spent 12 years at another Italian start-up, where she specialized in the large-scale production and commercialisation of graphene nanoplatelets. She is the inventor of 48 granted patents and co-author of 12 scientific publications

Commericalisation of graphene applications 

Tuesday 23, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

How to raise capital for commercialisation? 

Wednesday 24, 14:15 - 15:15, Room C

Standardisation Workshop: Bring standards to the factory floor 

Wednesday 24, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

2D-PL Workshop

Commericalisation of graphene applications  

Tuesday 23, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Title: AeroGraft and Beyond: From Graphene Filters to New Energy-Efficient Pneumatics

Start-up companies 

Tuesday 23, 15:15 - 16:15, Room C

Innovation Forum Opening - CHAIR

Tuesday 23, 14:15 - 15:15, Room C

From fundamental research to innovative applications, part II 

Thursday 25, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

From fundamental research to innovative applications, part II 

Thursday 25, 16:45 - 18:15, Room C

Bio: Vincent Bouchiat is the Founder and CEO of Grapheal, a company spin-off from Neel Institute CNRS Grenoble in France focusing on the sensing applications of monolayer graphene applied to the fields of environment and healthcare. 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 has completed his Ph.D. on quantum devices at CEA-Saclay & Paris University in 1997 under supervision of Michel Devoret.He co-authored more than 110 publications in electron transport in nanodevices with over 6000 citations and hold 12 international patents. He received 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) and the Rocard Prize in 2023.

Open Forum: Future Challenges to 2DM Integrations

Monday 22, 14:45 - 15:45, Room A

From fundamental research to innovative applications, Part I - CHAIR

Commercialisation Pitches

Wednesday 24, 15:15-16:15, Room C

Title: A graphene-based Point-of-Care In-Vitro Diagnostics device

Commercialisation Pitches

Wednesday 24, 15:15-16:15, Room C

Commercialisation Pitches

Wednesday 24, 15:15-16:15, Room C

Title: Self-lubricating coating with graphene, free from plastics and fluorinated compounds

2D-PL Workshop

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Bio: Bruno Pinto Branco holds a joint PhD in Chemical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) & University of Stuttgart, focused on solar-driven water electrolysis. As part of an ITN-EJD project, he worked in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and France, for periods of 3 months up to 2 years. He stayed as a researcher in TU/e on several perovskite solar cells-related projects. He was a member of the TU/e hydrogen community, aimed at structuring the hydrogen research across TU/e and creating a hydrogen-related network. Before joining Eurecat, Dr. Branco was a process engineer at SparkNano B.V working on spatial atomic layer deposition, mainly for water electrolysis and battery applications. Dr. Branco authored several publications ranging from perovskite solar cell engineering to water electrolysis and ion exchange membranes, resulting from collaborations across Europe and Japan.

Safe & Sustainable-by-Design 2D Materials: Manufacturing Processes and Applications in Energy, Electronics, and Biotechnology

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15

Title: Advancing Biosensors via Sustainable MXenes: The SAFARI Project's Green and Upscaled Synthesis

Bio: Diana Marcano earned her PhD in Materials Physics from Göttingen UniversityGermany and holds a Master’s degree in Materials Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. Her career focuses on the multidisciplinary development of materials through R&D and industrial projects, particularly in energy applications. She is currently part of the Engineering Materials Development Section at the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Poznań Institute of Technology in Poland.

Bio: Dr. Diogo Garcia is the team leader of the Printed Energy Devices research group at Eurecat – Technology Centre of Catalonia, based in Barcelona. He specializes in electrochemical devices for sustainable energy applications, with a particular focus on membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) and printed functional materials. He completed his Ph.D. (2018–2022) as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow within the eSCALED European Joint Doctoral Programme, jointly awarded by Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) and Université de Namur (Belgium). His doctoral work contributed to the development of advanced materials for artificial photosynthesis and green hydrogen production, culminating in a patent on electrodes, membranes, and MEAs for electrolyzers and fuel cells. Dr. Garcia holds an MSc in Materials Engineering (2018) from FCT NOVA – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), with published research on large-area paper batteries with screen-printed electrodes. He has conducted research in top European institutions, including Collège de France, and actively leads and contributes to European and national R&D projects, while mentoring undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students. His expertise lies at the intersection of materials science, electrochemistry, and printing technologies, driving innovations from lab-scale to industrial relevance.

2D materials for electronic/photonic/quantum applications

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15 

2D materials for electronic/photonic/quantum applications

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15 

Title: Graphene-based far-infrared photodetectors and applications

Bio: Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is an Associate Professor in the Applied Physics department of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), associated with the Advanced Nanomaterials and Devices group. He is also a Senior Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Spain. Klaas-Jan leads the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group, which partially moved from Spain to the Netherlands in the summer of 2023. His key areas of expertise include ultrafast spectroscopy, terahertz photonics, optoelectronics, and layered quantum materials. One of his recent goals has been to reach a fundamental understanding of the transport and dynamics of electronic and phononic heat in 1D and 2D material systems through advanced optical and optoelectronic techniques with high temporal and spatial resolution, and to explore applications in photodetection and thermal management. The group continues to work on quantum materials, studying heat and charge flow, and will also address the conversion of energy and information between various degrees of freedom and across different frequencies. Klaas-Jan has received several prizes, including the FOM Physics Thesis Prize, and competitive grants including an ERC Starting grant (2018), an ERC Proof of Concept grant (2021), and an ERC Consolidator grant (2024).

Safe & Sustainable-by-Design 2D Materials: Manufacturing Processes and Applications in Energy, Electronics, and Biotechnology

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15

Title: Safe and Sustainable-by-design approach for 2D Materials: SAFARI project case study

Bio: João Laranjeira holds a PhD in Engineering – Adhesion and Adhesives Technology from Oxford Brookes University, and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon. His career has been centered on multidisciplinary engineering within R&D projects. Currently, João works in the R&D department at ISQ on occupational health and safety aspects of new materials and process technologies in European projects, while also managing R&D projects.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Safe & Sustainable-by-Design 2D Materials: Manufacturing Processes and Applications in Energy, Electronics, and Biotechnology

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15

Title: Multiscale Numerical Modeling to support SSbD Laser-Engineered Graphene-electrodes for electrochemical energy storage

Bio: Nadia (Konstantina) Bali is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ICEHT/FORTH and an Adjunct Professor in Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods at the University of the Peloponnese. She holds Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Patras and has authored 32 publications across various journals and conference proceedings, including 9 in peer-reviewed journals. She has actively contributed to 14 research projects, 5 of which were conducted within the Horizon Europe framework. Her research focuses on developing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models to describe transport phenomena in porous media. She is currently working on hierarchical modeling of ion transport at the meso- and macroscale to optimize engineered processes in commercial electrodes, with the goal of enhancing power density in battery applications

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Safe & Sustainable-by-Design 2D Materials: Manufacturing Processes and Applications in Energy, Electronics, and Biotechnology

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15 

Title: Sustainability challenges and opportunities in graphene-based smart textiles and Li-ion batteries

Bio: Dr. Matteo Maccanti is an environmental researcher with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Technology. He currently works as Researcher and LCA Analyst at Next Technology Tecnotessile, contributing to European projects on sustainability and innovation. His expertise includes Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Social LCA, and Life Cycle Costing, with a focus on textiles, packaging, bio-based materials, and EcoDesign. He has previous experience in academic and consulting roles, conducting environmental impact assessments, sustainability certifications, and training. Matteo has published several scientific articles and actively engages in outreach and volunteer initiatives.

2D Quantum & Spin Materials

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Bio: Pr. Pierre Seneor is full professor at the University of Paris-Saclay in Orsay. He received his PhD from Ecole Polytechnique in 2000 under the supervision of Albert Fert (Physics Nobel 2007) working on spin dependent tunneling in oxides. After a postdoctoral appointment at the California Institute of Technology working on superconductivity, he came back to CNRS/THALES corp. joint industrial/academic laboratory (now Laboratoire Albert Fert) while joining in 2003 the Physics Department of University of Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay) in Orsay. He was awarded Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France excellency institute. He is now co-head of the Paris-Saclay’s Master 2 Quantum, Light, Materials, and Nanosciences. His current research interests include exploring the physics of novel molecular and 2D materials in low dimension towards nanoelectronics, quantum materials and spintronics devices.

2D materials for electronic/photonic/quantum applications

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15 

Title: Process Solutions for Clean Interface and Dielectric Growth on 2D Materials Using Plasma ALD

2D Quantum & Spin Materials

Wednesday 24, 11:15-13:15

2D Quantum & Spin Materials

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

2D Quantum & Spin Materials

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

2D materials for electronic/photonic/quantum applications

Thursday 25, 11:15 - 13:15 

Title: Efficient 2D material-based photodetectors and modulators in the optical communication C-band for silicon photonics

Bio: Yujie Guo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University-imec, Belgium. Yujie received her Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, and then worked as a  research staff member and postdoctoral researcher at Shenzhen University, China. Since 2021, she has been part of the Photonics Research Group, where her work focuses on 2D-materialsbased optoelectronics for integrated photonics in the near- and mid-infrared spectral ranges. Her research expertise spans the scalable transfer of van der Waals heterostructures, nanomaterial fabrication and characterization, nanoplasmonics, and flexible optoelectronics.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop

Wednesday 24, 11:15 - 13:15

Remote participation

Diversity in Graphene

Tuesday 23, 14:15 - 15:15 

Bio: Colette Schrodi is Communications Manager at the European Science Foundation (ESF), where she oversees communication strategies for major EU research initiatives. With more than 20 years of experience in institutional and scientific communication, she specialises in building visibility and engagement for projects at the intersection of science and society. She currently leads the communication and dissemination work for GenderSAFE, a Horizon Europe project dedicated to promoting comprehensive gender-based violence policies in higher education and research institutions. Through this role, she works with partners to raise awareness, disseminate the project's outputs, and foster systemic change in research environments through advocacy for a zero-tolerance approach. Passionate about inclusive science communication, she brings expertise in stakeholder engagement, storytelling, and cross-cultural collaboration to promote lasting impact.

Diversity in Graphene

Tuesday 23, 14:15 - 15:15 

Bio: Dr. Mariya E. Ivanova is Head of Technology Development at the Center of Excellence for Hydrogen Technologies - H2Start, Trakia University, Bulgaria, where she leads the strategic planning and deployment of advanced research infrastructure, technology roadmaps, and innovation projects in hydrogen technologies. Her core expertise lies in protonic ceramics and electrochemical devices based on them, spanning their development, integration, and application in hydrogen production, separation, and energy conversion. Within H2Start, she is driving the creation of a comprehensive Research & Technology Infrastructure that integrates cutting-edge laboratories, pilot facilities, and testing platforms across the hydrogen value chain. This end-to-end capability - from materials research to full system validation - supports innovation in hydrogen production, purification, storage, and utilization, positioning H2Start as a regional and European hub for hydrogen innovation and sustainable energy deployment.

As a member of the Scientific Council of the Bulgarian Hydrogen, Fuel Cell, and Energy Storage Association (BGH2A), Dr. Ivanova helps shape Bulgaria’s national hydrogen strategy and align it with European decarbonization targets. She advises on technological priorities, R&D roadmaps, and project concepts, leveraging her expertise in innovative hydrogen solutions and large-scale research infrastructure. Her work emphasizes knowledge transfer, stakeholder engagement, and cross-sector collaboration, strengthening the Association’s role in European initiatives and ensuring Bulgarian stakeholders are well positioned in the evolving clean hydrogen economy.

Dr. Ivanova is also an Expert for Hydrogen Programs at the European Commission and a Certified Business Manager from the German Academy for Management.  Recognized by Women World Magazine for contributions to hydrogen science, featured in Women in Green Hydrogen, and named among The 10 Pioneering Women Leaders Shaping the Future of Green Hydrogen, she is an advocate for voice equality and a committed ally against mobbing, discrimination, misogyny, and power abuse in science. She holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and has an extensive track record in innovation projects, strategic partnerships, and the development of next-generation hydrogen energy systems. 

IOP Publishing Workshop

Tuesday 23, 11:15 - 12:15

Title: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Scholarly Publishing

Bio: Dr Siddharth Jethwa is a Publisher at the Materials Portfolio at IOP Publishing, for the journals 2D Materials, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and Superconductor Science and Technology. He received his doctorate in Surface Chemistry from the University of St Andrews and also undertook three years of Post-doctoral research at the iNANO centre, Aarhus University in Denmark, researching the self-assembly of molecules on surfaces using STM.