37^th Nano Congress for Future Advancements

Professor Fairouz Kamareddine works as a Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Fairouz Kamareddine has been involved in a number of worldwide consultancy assignments, especially on education and research issues working for United Nations and the EU.

Her research interest includes Interface of Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science. She has held numerous invited positions at universities worldwide. She has well over 200 published articles and a number of books. She has played leading roles in the development, administration, and implementation of interdisciplinary, international, and academic collaborations and networks.

Prof. Dr. Litter is Doctor in Chemistry from the Buenos Aires University, Argentina (1974) with Postdoctoral stage at the University of Arizona, USA (1983). She is Senior Researcher of the Research Council (CONICET) and Full Professor of the University of General San Martín, Argentina. She was Principal Researcher at the National Atomic Commission until her retirement where she was Head of the Environmental Chemistry Remediation Division.

Her research focuses on treatment of organic and inorganic contaminants in water and air by innovative advanced technologies, especially heterogeneous photocatalysis and use of nanomaterials. She authored more than 200 scientific publications in international journals, books and chapters of books. She received the Mercosur Prize twice in 2006 and 2011. She was President of the Local Organizing Committee of the 5th. International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2014), Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 11 to 16 May 2014. She was designated pioneer on photocatalysis in Argentina (2016).

Victor M. Kogan graduated from Oil and Gas University and since 1979 he serves for the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of sciences as a researcher. From 2009 he heads the Institute Laboratory of Catalysis by Transition Metals and their Compounds.

His research interests include studies of mechanisms of catalytic reactions, such as olefin and ring olefin metathesis; thiophene hydrodesulfurization, Fischer-Tropsch and alcohol synthesis over p- and d-metals and their sulfides; synthesis of alcohol and oxygenates over transition metal compounds; development of new types of catalysts for hydrotreating, hydrogenation and isomerization

Natalya Rapoport, Ph.D., D.Sc. has completed her PhD from the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry and D.Sc. degree from the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. In 1990 she immigrated into the United States at the invitation of the University of Utah where she held a position of a Research Professor. She is currently a Research Professor Emerita at the Department of Bioengineering, the University of Utah. She has been awarded a number of prestigous awards and several patents in the nanomaterial field. She published more than 100 papers in high-rank journals and served as an editorial board member of reputable journals.

Dr. Rapoport is interested in researching targeted drug delivery using stimuli-responsive nanoparticles as an application of nanomedicine.

Muhammad Tayyab Noman received his Ph.D. in Textile Technics and Materials Engineering from Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. He is pursuing his career as a Recognized Researcher at Institute of Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation (CXI), Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. Through his research, he is trying to understand the reaction dynamics of photo generated charge carriers during photocatalysis, composites materials and the incorporation of variety of nanomaterials on textiles. He is the author and co-author of many scientific publications in area of fibrous materials and composites, characterization and optimization of fibre reinforced composite structures. In addition, he is a member of Editorial Board of “Polymers” as a Topic Editor and currently running a special issue “Advanced Textile Based Polymer Composites: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications”.

In area of fibrous materials and composites, characterization and optimization of fiber reinforced composite structures.

Michal Petru received his Ph.D. degree and is Associate Professor in design and machine parts from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic. In present time, Petrů is Head of Department of Machinery Construction at the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technology and Innovation, Liberec, Czech Republic. He is author or coauthor of many scientific and professional publications for area numerical modeling and optimizing design machine (more than 50 publications in databases SCOPUS and ISI WOS, 20 patents and utility samples). His main interests are related to engineering, textile engineering, agricultural science, environmental science, and R&D in new materials applicable for optimizing design of parts and machines.

His research interest are agricultural science, environmental science, and R&D in new materials applicable for optimizing design of parts and machines.

Prof. Dr. Habil. Arkady Shipulin, Associate Director of CPQM, Skolkovo Institute of Science & Technology, Nobel st. 3, Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Moscow, 121205, Russian Federation

Nanophotonics for telecom and biosensing, anapole metaatoms at optical frequencies, superconducting anapole metaatoms. Experimental education in area of optical measurements techniques.

E. Snoeck has completed his PhD in1986 at the Laboratoire d’Optique Electronique (LOE) in Toulouse University. He is CNRS Research Fellow since 1989 and the director of the CEMES-CNRS laboratory since 2015. He has published more than 240 papers in journals and 7 chapters in scientific books

Nanomaterials

Aliyev Zakir Huseyn Oglu is currently working as an associate professor at RAE academician RAPVHN and MAEP. He has a degree in DFA sciences and he is the author of over 200 published scientific works, including 10 and weighty monographs and more than 15 patents, many of which have found large-scale introduction in production of farmers and others. Farms both in Azerbaijan and in other CIS countries (bw Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia) as well as in Turkey, Poland and Iran. Taking part in the implementation of a large number of international scientific and economic projects implemented in the framework of the program, "FAO" "ICARDA", "Azerbaijan-Russia-Turkey". "The Azerbaijani-Polish" and others, where he was executive in charge of development, whose works are also successfully introduced agriculture in many countries: in the CIS and far abroad.

His research interests include Arana-environmental problems resource saving, is the supervisor of the eponymous educational, scientific and university-academic direction of the study performed in conjunction with a number of scientific research institute on problems of development, creation and implementation of automation systems, low-intensity and optimize irrigation in the conditions of insufficient natural moist areas Azerbaijan, in order to develop agriculture and mining study the possibility of creating environmental technologies to combat soil erosion.

Sabu Thomas is currently Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. Prof. Thomas is a highly committed teacher and a remarkably active researcher well-known nationally and internationally for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. He has published over 1200 research articles in international refereed journals. And has also edited and written 165 books with an H-index of 122 and total citation of more than 72,000. He has received a large number of international and national awards and recognitions. Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University has been transformed into a top University in the country where excellent outcome based education is imparted to the students for their holistic development.

His Research work interest in Polymer blends, Fiber filled polymer, composites Particulate filled polymer composites, engineering Polymer nanocomposites for Electronic, Applications Water purification.