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Prof.
Noriaki Takagi
University of Tokyo, Japan
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Noriaki Takagi is associate professor at Department of Advanced Materials Science, the University of Tokyo. His recent research activity is to spectroscopically uncover strong-correlated phenomena of magnetic molecules at surfaces and electronic properties of two-dimensional topological materials such as silicene, germanene, TDMC etc.
He earned his PhD from Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, in 1993.
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 Dr.
Geoffroy
Prévot
INP-CNRS, France
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Dr.
G. Prévot is researcher at CNRS. He is head of the "Physico-Chemistry
and Dynamics of Surfaces" team of the Paris Institute of Nanosciences.
He obtained his PhD in 1999 at the Pierre & Marie Curie University
on atomic displacements on copper surfaces, atomic vibrations and lead
diffusion. After a post-doctoral stay in Marseille, he joined the Groupe
de Physique des Solides at Paris. He works on nanostructured surfaces,
model catalysts and two-dimensional materials, using scanning tunneling
microscopy and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction performed in-situ and
in operando conditions. He also uses numerical simulations such as
molecular dynamics or Monte-Carlo.
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Prof.
Laurence MASSON
Aix-Marseille University, France
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Laurence
Masson is Professor at Aix-Marseille University. She obtained her
thesis in solid state physics in 1994 (University Paris-Sud – Orsay)
and defended her HDR diploma in materials science in 2007 (Aix-Marseille
2 University). She is head of the “Science et Technologie des Nano-Objets”
research department at CINaM (25 permanents). She is specialist
of surface nanopatterning using bottom-up approaches and scanning
probe microscopy for nanoscale structural characterization. Her
main field of interest concerns the elaboration of ultrathin films,
self-organized nanostructures on metal and semiconductor surfaces
with potential original structural, electronic and magnetic properties.
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Prof.
Ming Hu
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Professor
Ming Hu received the B.S. degree from
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and
Technology of China (USTC) in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in solid
mechanics from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) in 2006. After several years of research at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, he joined RWTH Aachen
University in Germany in February 2013 as an assistant
professor. His current research interests include
micro-/nano-scale thermal transport in novel energy systems, in
particular low-dimensional materials and nanostructures, and
energy nanotechnology, interfacial heat transfer for advanced
thermal management, and multiphysics modeling of complex energy
transport process.
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 Prof.
Mustapha Ait Ali
University Cadi Ayad, Morocco
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Professor
AIT
ALI Mustapha is full professor at the University Cadi Ayad in Marrakech.
He is working in Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry and
catalysis in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia,
Marrakech-Morocco. His research interests include Coordination
Chemistry, asymmetric Catalysis, Green chemistry and nanoparticles
and the chemistry of nanostructured materials: graphene; silicene
and phosphorene. Pr. AIT ALI M. was a guest professor at Villeneuve
d’Ascq University, France, ENS Chimie de Rennes France and at
the University of Cergy Pontoise France. He co-authored more
than 60 papers published in leading refereed journals. He
participated at more than 70 congress and supervised 10 PhD students.
He also participated in 10 international cooperation projects and
he was an active member in the organization of several international
conferences.
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 Prof.
Laurène Tetard
University
of Central Florida, USA
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Professor
Tetard is currently an Assistant Professor at the NanoScience Technology
Center at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. Her
group focuses on developing new nanometrology platforms to study
complex systems of interest for energy and material discovery. Before
she joined UCF in 2013, she was a staff researcher and Eugene P.
Wigner fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During her tenure
at the national laboratory, she focused on multi-frequency Atomic
Force Microscopy for subsurface imaging and for infrared nanoscale
spectroscopy. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Tetard has authored over 45 publications
in refereed journals, several book chapters and has contributed
to several patents, one of which received an R&D100 award in
2010.
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 Dr. Paolo Moras
CNR,
Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
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Dr.
Paolo Moras is a scientist of the Istituto di Struttura della Materia,
of the Italian National Research Council. He obtained his PhD in
Physics in 2007 at the Università di Ferrara with an experimental
work on quantum size effects in ultrathin metal films. He leads
the research group of the VUV-Photoemission beamline at the Elettra
synchrotron radiation source (Trieste, Italy). His current research
interests focus on the effect of coexisting fundamental interactions
(exchange, spin-orbit coupling) on the electronic structure of low-dimensional
systems.
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 Dr. Fabio Ronci
CNR,
Roma,
Italy
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Dr. Fabio Ronci is a Researcher at the Istituto di Struttura della Materia of the Italian National Research Council. He received the Master Degree in Chemistry in 1995 and the Doctoral Degree in Materials Science in 2001 at
the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, dealing with synthesis and
characterization of electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. In
2001 he joined ISM-CNR switching its research field to Surface
Physics, studying the structural and electronic properties of
interfaces and nanostructures obtained by depositing inorganic or
organic material on clean surfaces of semiconductor or metallic
substrates in Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) using, in particular, the Scanning
Tunneling Microscopy (STM) technique. His current interests include the
study of graphene nanostructures, "beyond graphene” materials, topological insulators and hybrid organic/inorganic interfaces.
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 Dr. Holger
Vach
LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique,
France
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Holger
Vach was born in Wuppertal, Germany. After having earned his Bachelor
of Science degree from the Ruhr University in Bochum, he was granted
a Fulbright scholarship to continue his studies in the USA where
he obtained first a Master of Science degree in Physics and a second
one in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
He received a PhD in Physics from the Ludwig Maximilians University
in Munich for his experimental work carried out at the Max Planck
Institut for Quantum Optics in Garching and finally his habilitation
from the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. He became researcher
at the CNRS and was promoted Research Director in 2005. His main
research areas involve the interaction of surfaces with atoms, molecules,
and clusters using beam-foil spectroscopy, non-linear optics, laser
spectroscopy, ultra-high vacuum techniques, and ab initio molecular
dynamics simulations. Some of his most recent works concern the
“chemistry with a hammer”, nucleation processes in plasma reactors,
hydrogen-induced crystallization of amorphous clusters, repairing
of damaged surfaces with hydrogen atoms, cluster-induced high speed
epitaxy in low-temperature plasmas, formation and properties of
plasma-generated aromatic silicon clusters, and more recently genuine
silicene and germanene.
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 Prof. Thomas
Seyller
Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
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Thomas
Seyller earned his Diploma in Physics (1993) and Ph.D. in Physical
Chemistry (1996) from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Following
postdoctoral work at the Pennsylvania State University, he returned
as a scientific assistant to the Chair of Technical Physics at the
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2006, Seyller completed his
Habilitation in Physics. Since 2012 he is full Professor of Physics
at the Technical University of Chemnitz. His fields of interest
include semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, two-dimensional materials
(graphene, hBN, TMDs, etc.), and more recently ferecrystals. In
2010, Thomas Seyller received the Walter Schottky Prize of the German
Physical Society for his contributions to the field of graphene
synthesis on silicon carbide.
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 Dr.
H. Jamgotchian
CINAM-CNRS
Marseille, France
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Dr.
H. Jamgotchian works currently at the “Centre Interdisciplinaire
de Nano-science de Marseille” (CINaM) which is a laboratory associated
to the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS) and
to ‘Aix-Marseille University’ (AMU). His group is focused on the
formation of 2D nanomaterials synthetized mainly on metallic substrates.
He received his PhD in 1989 from Aix-Marseille University on the
topic “Coupling effect in the Directional solidification with Convection”.
After a Post-Doctoral stay at Iowa State University (Aims, Iowa,
USA), he focused on a comparative study of directional solidification
on earth and under microgravity. He is specialist in solidification,
growth and self-organization of materials.
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 Dr. Guido Fratesi, University of Milan, Italy
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Dr. Guido Fratesi is assistant professor at the Physics Department of
the University of Milan since 2013. He has received his Ph.D. in
Theoretical Condensed Matter at the International School for Advanced
Studies of Trieste (SISSA, Italy) in 2005. His research activity aims to
the first principle study of electronic, structural and spectroscopic
properties of condensed matter systems and especially surfaces of
solids, molecular adsorbates, and nanostructures. Present research
topics focus on hybrid interfaces between adsorbed organic molecules and
metals/semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, and thin magnetic
films on magnetic surfaces.
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Prof.
Salvador Barraza-Lopez
Department
of Physics. University of Arkansas, USA
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Salvador Barraza-Lopez received a PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and is currently Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas. His current research delves into structure-property
relations in two-dimensional materials, and on thermally-driven structural transitions in 2D materials.
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Dr.
Lenart Dudy
SOLEIL Synchrotron, France
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Dr.
Lenart Dudy recently became beamline manager at Sychrotron Soleil
for the TEMPO beamline which is soft X-ray beamline optimized for
dynamic studies of electronic and magnetic properties of materials
using photoelectron spectroscopy. His research activity is based
on electron spectroscopy and related tools and covers the electronic
structure of low dimensional systems, surfaces and interfaces. He
did his PhD in 2008 at the HU Berlin, followed by three years postdoc
at the University of Michigan. From 2012-2017 he was Senior Researcher
at the University of Wuerzburg managing a surface science laboratory.
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