Juan Carlos Cabria Ramos (INTA, Spain)
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Lt. Col Juan Carlos Cabria heads the Biological Defence Area, a Unit belonged to the CBRN and Materials Dept. at INTA. He is graduated in Veterinarian by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is specialist in Microbiology. He has participated in many NBC symposiums within the NATO and EDA organizations. He is technical director of several projects related to NBC Defense. He is co-author of different papers on Biodefence.
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Alexandre Carella (CEA, France)
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Alexandre Carella is a researcher and project leader at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Grenoble, France since 2006. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Toulouse, France in 2004 and spent 2 years as postdoctoral fellow in the Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr. laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA from 2004 to 2006. In 2017, he received his habilitation. He has been involved as coordinator or partner in many industrial, national or European projects His research interests are in the field of chemically functionalized nanomaterials based gas sensors and conductive polymers for thermoelectric applications and thin film heaters. He has authored or co-authored 35 publications and 23 patent applications.
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Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio (IFN-GV/ ETSII Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
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Jose María De Teresa (UNIZAR, Spain)
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Prof. José María De Teresa leads the group of Nanofabrication and Advanced Microscopies (NANOMIDAS) at the Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain). Coordinator of the Spanish network on Nanolithography (NANOLITO) and the FIB-SEM area in the Spanish National facility for Advanced Microscopies. Board member of the Condensed Matter Division in the European Physical Society. Main research interests are nanofabrication with focused electron and ion beams, magnetic nanostructures, nano-superconductivity and epitaxial graphene. More than 200 research articles (h factor=40, researcher ID= E-2430-2011) and 75 invited conferences. Supervisor of 13 PhD thesis (4 in progress).
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Pablo Diaz Nuñez (IFN-ETSII-UPM, Spain)
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Born in 1987, studied Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Oviedo and a master degree in Nuclear Science and Technology at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 2014, started the Phd. thesis in the Instituto de Fusión nuclear “Guillermo Velarde” on ultrafast laser modification of colloidal nanoparticles and near-field characterization of nanostructured substrates under the cosupervision of Dr. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez (Instituto de Fusión nuclear) and Dr. Luis Bañares Morcillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
His main research interests are focused on the optical characterization and modification of plasmonic nanoparticles and nanostructures for high electronic excitation and on the generation of high electromagnetic field enhancement
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Alfonso Gallo Bueno (ITENE, Spain)
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Born in 1987, Alfonso Gallo studied Oceanography at the University of Vigo and chemistry at the University of Oviedo. He is master and Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry and computational modeling by the University of Oviedo, where he made his doctorate in electronic structure of solids and molecules in collaboration with the Max Planck Institut CPfS in Dresden, Germany. He has been working in different research institutions as the University of Jordan or the Czech Academy of Sciences. Nowadays works as computational toxicologist in the safety of nanomaterials group at ITENE (Valencia).
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Raquel González Arrabal (IFN-GV/ ETSII Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
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Raquel González Arrabal is professor at the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear Guillermo Velarde (IFN), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). After his PhD (2001) at the Technische Unviersität Wien (TUW), she worked as postdoc at the Atominstitut der österreichischen universitäten (ATI/TUW), Centro de Microánalisis de Materiales (CMAM/UAM), Parque Científico de Madrid (PCM) and Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología (IMN/CSIC).
Her field of interest is the developing and testing of materials with improved properties to work under extreme conditions. She has published more than 50 papers in ISI journals. She has more than 100 presentations in conferences all around the world and has lead and participated in different national and international research projects funded by public and private entities
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Arben Merkoçi (ICREA-ICN2, Spain)
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Arben Merkoçi is currently ICREA Professor and director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group at Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), a BIST centre situated at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) campus (Bellaterra, Barcelona). After his PhD (1991) at Tirana University, in the topic of Ion-Selective-Electrodes (ISEs) designs and applications in clinical and environmental analysis, Dr. Merkoçi worked as postdoc at other European research centres and USA in the field of nanobiosensors and lab-on-a-chip technologies. His postdoc periods were followed by leading positions in several laboratories: (1997-2006) at Autonomous University of Barcelona and since 2006 in ICN2.
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Nieves Murillo (Tecnalia, Spain)
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Doctor in Physical of Material, Univ. del Pais Vasco, UPV/EHU, (Spain) – 1997 Doctorate award. Her research fields are focused in two main areas: sensor and actuator development based on smart materials, and magnetic and superconducting, including the materials design, fabrication and applications development for the aerospace and security sectors. Her research and technologies activities have been carried out in Spanish national institutions, such as the Chemistry Faculty of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) in San Sebastián, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas of Madrid-CSIC, private research institutions Cidetec and TECNALIA, and international institutions, such as, Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart (Germany) and the Istituto Materiali per Elettronica e Magnetismo IMEM-CNR in Parma (Italy). Presently, she is coordinating the smart systems and functional component and the sensors and actuators Research Line in TECNALIA
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Jorge Pedros (ISOM/UPM, Spain)
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He obtained the PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2007. After his PhD, devoted to surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices in nitride semiconductors, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on RF MEMS under contracts with Indra Sistemas. In 2009, he joined the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK), where he worked on SAW-driven quantum devices as well as on bulk acoustic wave resonators for biosensing. He returned to the UPM in 2012, where he is currently a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology. His research is focused on the growth of graphene by chemical vapor deposition and on the development of different graphene devices for electronic, plasmonic, and energy-storage applications. He is PI of various research projects, including an EU MSCA Innovative Training Network, and coauthor of 40 publications and 3 patents.
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Fernando Ponz Ascaso (INIA, Spain)
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Research Professor at the CBGP (Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics), a joint research center between the UPM (Polytechnical University of Madrid) and INIA (National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research), appointed as a Center of Excellence ‘Severo Ochoa’ in 2017. Dr. in Biochemistry (1984) by the Complutense University of Madrid. Postdoctoral stay at the University of California at Davis. Leader of a research group focused on Plant Virus Biotechnology for the last 30 years, and co-founder of the biotechnological start-up company Agrenvec in 2001. The most recent developments in the group approached the deployment of virus-derived particles (VNPs) as functionalized nanoparticles with multiple applications, including antibody boosting and sensitive sensing, enzyme nanoimmobilization, autoimmune diseases, and antimicrobial strategies, among others.
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Miguel Roncales (AlphaSip, Spain)
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Fabian Torres (SICPA Spain SLU, Spain)
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