ICNFM 2024 is inviting experts in the fields of novel functional materials to attend the
conference and deliver keynote/invited speech. If you are interested in joining us, please
send your CV with your speech title and abstract to committee@icnfm.net. The list of ICNFM 2024
speakers will be updated continuously.
Prof. Sushanta Mitra
University of Waterloo, Canada
Sushanta MITRA is a full Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering and is cross-appointed as a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, and Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the Executive Director of Canada’s largest nanotechnology institute – the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). Before joining Waterloo, he had several administrative roles in Canadian higher education, including Department Chair (Lassonde School of Engineering), Associate Vice-President Research (York University) and Assistant Vice-President Research (University of Alberta). He also served as the President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. For his contributions to science and engineering, he has been elected a fellow of several professional organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign fellow of both the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences India. He has an entrepreneurial mind, being the Founder & CEO of a Canadian startup, Aquabits Inc. (on quantum computing) and a Dutch startup, SLE Enterprises B.V. (on ultra-fast encapsulation technology), supported by Waterloo.
Prof. Franz E. Weber
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Franz Weber graduated from the University Konstanz (Germany) with a PhD in Biology/Muscle Biochemistry. He completed a 3-year postdoctoral training on muscle cell biology at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and served as a lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy. He spent the following two years at Biochemistry of the ETH Zurich working on the lipid uptake from the small intestine. In 1995, he joined the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich. Beside his obligations at the University of Zurich, he became Director of the European Technical Center of Inion Ltd in Cambridge (UK) in 2005 and occupied this position until 2009. His research encompasses additive manufacturing, bone substitutes, osteoconduction, bone morphogenetic proteins, delivery systems, epigenetics, bone and pulp tissue engineering. Franz E. Weber has authored 140 peer-reviewed research articles published in international journals amounting to more than 7273 citations, 16 patents; several review articles, book chapters, and an h-index of 40. He is member of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering international & Regenerative Medicine Society), IADR (International Association for Dental Research), DKG (German Ceramic Society), ACerS (The American Ceramic Society), and SSB+RM (Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine).
He is currently appointed as Professor of Craniofacial and Oral Biotechnology at the Center of Dental Medicine, member of the Medical and the Science Faculty of the University of Zurich and as honorary Professor at the Dental Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.
Assoc. Prof. Anatoly Zinchenko
Nagoya University, Japan
Anatoly Zinchenko is currently an Associate Professor of the Materials and Energy Design unit at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. He earned his master’s degree at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2001 and received his PhD degree from the University of Nagoya in 2004 working on the physical chemistry and biophysics of DNA. After completing his PhD, he continued his work as a postdoc at the Science Department of Kyoto University (Japan) on the construction of artificial systems mimicking DNA assembly in nature. In 2007, Anatoly accepted a Lecturer position at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University where he began developing materials based on biopolymers such as chitosan and cellulose for environmental cleaning. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the same Graduate School in 2011 where Anatoly established the Sustainable Materials Laboratory in 2019 which works on the utilization of waste plastics and biomass for environmental and civil engineering applications including wastewater treatment, soils improvement, and others. Anatoly has authored about 100 refereed publications that received over 2000 citations.
Prof. Wei Wu
Wuhan University, China
Wei Wu received his PhD degree from Wuhan University in 2011. He then joined the group of Prof. Daiwen Pang at Wuhan University (2011) and Prof. V. A. L. Roy at the City University of Hong Kong (2014) as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is the full professor of the School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University. He received The State Scientific Innovation and Pioneer Award in 2023, 15th Bi Shen Award of Printing Technology in 2019, STAM Best Paper Award in 2017 and Hong Kong Scholars Award in 2014. He has published over 100 papers, which have received over 15000 citations. His research interests include the synthesis and application of printable functional materials, printed electronic devices, flexible/wearable electronics, integrated electronics systems and smart packaging.
ICNFM 2024 is inviting experts in the fields of novel functional materials to attend the conference and deliver keynote/invited speech. If you are interested in joining us, please send your CV with your speech title and abstract to committee@icnfm.net. The list of ICNFM 2024 speakers will be updated continuously.
Prof. Sushanta Mitra
University of Waterloo, Canada
Sushanta MITRA is a full Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering and is cross-appointed as a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, and Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the Executive Director of Canada’s largest nanotechnology institute – the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). Before joining Waterloo, he had several administrative roles in Canadian higher education, including Department Chair (Lassonde School of Engineering), Associate Vice-President Research (York University) and Assistant Vice-President Research (University of Alberta). He also served as the President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. For his contributions to science and engineering, he has been elected a fellow of several professional organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign fellow of both the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences India. He has an entrepreneurial mind, being the Founder & CEO of a Canadian startup, Aquabits Inc. (on quantum computing) and a Dutch startup, SLE Enterprises B.V. (on ultra-fast encapsulation technology), supported by Waterloo.
Prof. Franz E. Weber
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Franz Weber graduated from the University Konstanz (Germany) with a PhD in Biology/Muscle Biochemistry. He completed a 3-year postdoctoral training on muscle cell biology at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and served as a lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy. He spent the following two years at Biochemistry of the ETH Zurich working on the lipid uptake from the small intestine. In 1995, he joined the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich. Beside his obligations at the University of Zurich, he became Director of the European Technical Center of Inion Ltd in Cambridge (UK) in 2005 and occupied this position until 2009. His research encompasses additive manufacturing, bone substitutes, osteoconduction, bone morphogenetic proteins, delivery systems, epigenetics, bone and pulp tissue engineering. Franz E. Weber has authored 140 peer-reviewed research articles published in international journals amounting to more than 7273 citations, 16 patents; several review articles, book chapters, and an h-index of 40. He is member of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering international & Regenerative Medicine Society), IADR (International Association for Dental Research), DKG (German Ceramic Society), ACerS (The American Ceramic Society), and SSB+RM (Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine). He is currently appointed as Professor of Craniofacial and Oral Biotechnology at the Center of Dental Medicine, member of the Medical and the Science Faculty of the University of Zurich and as honorary Professor at the Dental Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.
Assoc. Prof. Anatoly Zinchenko
Nagoya University, Japan
Anatoly Zinchenko is currently an Associate Professor of the Materials and Energy Design unit at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. He earned his master’s degree at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2001 and received his PhD degree from the University of Nagoya in 2004 working on the physical chemistry and biophysics of DNA. After completing his PhD, he continued his work as a postdoc at the Science Department of Kyoto University (Japan) on the construction of artificial systems mimicking DNA assembly in nature. In 2007, Anatoly accepted a Lecturer position at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University where he began developing materials based on biopolymers such as chitosan and cellulose for environmental cleaning. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the same Graduate School in 2011 where Anatoly established the Sustainable Materials Laboratory in 2019 which works on the utilization of waste plastics and biomass for environmental and civil engineering applications including wastewater treatment, soils improvement, and others. Anatoly has authored about 100 refereed publications that received over 2000 citations.
Prof. Wei Wu
Wuhan University, China
Wei Wu received his PhD degree from Wuhan University in 2011. He then joined the group of Prof. Daiwen Pang at Wuhan University (2011) and Prof. V. A. L. Roy at the City University of Hong Kong (2014) as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is the full professor of the School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University. He received The State Scientific Innovation and Pioneer Award in 2023, 15th Bi Shen Award of Printing Technology in 2019, STAM Best Paper Award in 2017 and Hong Kong Scholars Award in 2014. He has published over 100 papers, which have received over 15000 citations. His research interests include the synthesis and application of printable functional materials, printed electronic devices, flexible/wearable electronics, integrated electronics systems and smart packaging.