Speakers

Invited speakers

Yuval Golan, PhD

Professor at Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Professor Yuval Golan obtained his PhD in the Department of Materials and Interfaces, the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1996. He then spent over 3 years as a postgraduate researcher at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999 he joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and in 2010 he was promoted to full professor and appointed Director of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at BGU.

Lucian PREJBEANU

CEA Research Director

Lecture title: Spintronic innovations for frugal and agile digital technology

Lucian PREJBEANU is a CEA research director, CEA fellow and director of SPINTEC research laboratory. Pioneer of thermally assisted MRAM work, awarded the European Descartes Research Prize in 2006, he participated in the creation of the start-up Crocus Technology and ensured the technology transfer, awarded in 2012 by the SEE-IEEE Brillouin prize.

Dr. Joan-Josep Suñol

Professor in Applied Physics at the University of Girona, UdG, Spain

Dr. Joan-Josep Suñol is a full professor in Applied Physics at the University of Girona, UdG, Spain (2010-xx). He works in the Physics Department of the Polytechnic Engineering School. He obtained a PhD Degree at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1996. Regarding the scientific dissemination, more than 250 articles in indexed (SCI) journals and more than 350 communications in scientific congresses. Dr. Suñol is the former president of the Spanish GECAT (Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry group) and the Head of the Materials and Thermodynamics research group of UdG.

Christophe Couteau

PhD in physics from the University of Paris-Saclay

Christophe Couteau obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Paris-Saclay in 2006 working on quantum optics with quantum dots. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctorate fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada working on quantum cryptography and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He is now a Professor and since 2009, he works at the French University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) in France.

Pr. Dr. Ing. Olivier ISNARD

Univ. Grenoble Alpes France and Institut Néel, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, BP166X, 38042 Grenoble cédex 9,

Pr. Olivier Isnard – Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France & Institut Néel, CNRS. Expert in materials for energy applications such as hydrogen storage and magnetic materials, including intermetallic phases and oxides. Leads a team involved in synthesis and structure investigations using X-ray (lab/synchrotron) and neutron scattering.

Nicoleta Lupu

Keynote

Florin Miculescu

Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Faculty from National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania

Title of the keynote presentation: 3D printed bone reconstruction products with improved antibacterial and mechanical properties

Prof. Florin Miculescu has been Full Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Faculty, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest (Romania) since 2015. He leads a research group working on advanced methods for materials, biomaterials, and nanomaterials processing and characterization, and coordinates two research laboratories.

Dr. Cosmin M. Cotrut

Associate Professor at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest

Dr. Cosmin M. Cotrut is Associate Professor at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering. He published 7 books and book chapters (Springer Nature, Elsevier), over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers with Hirsch index 24, total number of citations 1500+.

Daniel Munteanu

Vice-Rector for Students and Liaison with the Economic and Socio-Cultural Community at Transilvania University of Braso

Prof. Daniel Munteanu is the Vice-Rector for Students and Liaison with the Economic and Socio-Cultural Community at Transilvania University of Brașov (UNITBV) since 2012, and Full Professor at the Materials Science Department since 2008. As Vice-Rector, he oversees the Entrepreneurial Society of Students (SAS-UNITBV), the Alumni structure, the Career Counseling and Guidance Center, and the Economic Relations Office.

Rodica Elena Ionescu

(PhD) in Biotechnological Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Dr. Rodica Elena Ionescu received a PhD in Biotechnological Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2004), and a second PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bucharest, Romania (2007). She completed three post-doctoral fellowships in France in electrochemical biosensors. In 2008, she was a researcher at the National Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Lecce (Italy), working on impedimetric cell chips.

Mohamed Belmeguenai

PhD thesis at Orsay (Université Paris XI) and postdoctoral positions at Universität Regensburg (Germany)

Prof. Mohamed Belmeguenai joined the Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (LSPM) at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord in September 2007 as an assistant professor, after completing a PhD at Université Paris XI (Orsay) and postdoctoral work at Universität Regensburg (Germany), where he focused on high-frequency magnetization dynamics in interlayer exchange-coupled NiFe/Ru/NiFe thin films.

Leandru-Gheorghe BUJOREANU

Professor at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Fe-Mn-Si-based shape memory alloys: an alternative to NITINOL

Professor Bujoreanu is an international expert in the field of research and development of shape memory materials, being ranked among the top 100 authors in this topic, according to Web of Science database, as a function of the number of publications (>100). He defended, at the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, his PhD thesis entitled “Technology and equipment for obtaining some shape memory alloys” which was focused on Cu-based shape memory alloys.