Babak Anasori
Purdue University

Chong Min Koo
Sungkyunkwan University

Christina Birkel
Arizona State University

Christopher E. Shuck
Rutgers University

De-en Jiang
Vanderbilt University

Dhriti Nepal
AFRL

Dmitri Talapin
University of Chicago

Flavia Vitale
University of Pennsylvania

Hassan Arafat
Khalifa University

Husam N. Alshareef
KAUST

Johanna Rosén
Linköping University

Joselito Razal
Deakin University

Khaled Mahmoud
Qatar University

Lucia Gemma Delogu
Universiy of Padua

Maksym Pogorielov
University of Latvia, Sumy State University

Michel Barsoum
Drexel University

Michel Naguib
Tulane University

Paul Weiss
UCLA

Pooi See Lee
Nanyang Technological University

Qing Huang
NIMTE

Steven J. May
Drexel University

Susan Sandeman
Brighton University

Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity University

Zahra Fakhraai
University of Pennsylvania

Babak Anasori

Dr. Babak Anasori received his PhD at Drexel University in 2014 in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, the birthplace of MXenes. Before joining Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University from 2016 to 2019. Dr. Anasori has more than 145 refereed publications on MXenes and MAX phases, and he is among the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He has received several international awards, including the 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Postdoctoral Award, 2021 Drexel University 40-under-40, and the 2021 WIN Rising Star Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Dr. Anasori’s research lab at IUPUI is currently supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), and Department of Energy (DOE). His lab works on developing novel 2D carbide and carbonitride MXenes for various applications, including energy generation, electromagnetic interference shielding, and ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs).

Chong Min Koo

He recieved his BS degree from Hanyang University in 1997 and Ph.D. degree from Chemical Engineering Department of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2003. He performed a postdoctoral fellowship in Minnesota University for two years(2003-2005) and worked for LG Chemicals in two years (2005-2007) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) (2007-2022). He currently works as a professor in the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering in Sungkyunkwan University. He won the several awards including LG Group Best Research and Development Award (2007), KIST Best Researcher Award (2016, 2017, 2020), Songgok Scientist Award (2017), Best Academic Award (2018) from Korea Polymer Society, Young Scientist Award from the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2017), Best Korean Scientist Award from KRF (2018), Korea President Award (2019), and S-OIL Best Scientist Award (2020). His research interest covers 2D nanomaterials including transition metal carbides (MXene) and graphene and their polymer nanocomposites for EMI shielding, thermal conduction, flexible electrodes, and energy storage.

Christina Birkel

Christina Birkel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University and holds a joint position (“Kooperationsprofessur”) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her group focuses on the (non-conventional) synthesis of functional layered and two-dimensional materials, particularly carbides and nitrides that belong to the MAX phase and MXene families. Prior to her appointment at ASU, she was a Junior Research Group Leader – and one of the first Athene Young Investigators – at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where she completed her Habilitation in the field of inorganic chemistry on Non-conventional syntheses of energy-relevant materials (2018). For her Postdoctoral project, she worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Galen Stucky and Ram Seshadri (2011 – 2013). In 2010, she successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (summa cum laude) with a double degree from the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz and Seoul National University. She received several awards and fellowships, such as an NSF CAREER Award (2022), a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2011), a Ph.D. Fellowship in the Graduate School of Excellence (MAterials Science IN MainZ, 2008) and the Mainz Award granted for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis (2010).

Christopher E. Shuck

Dr. Christopher E. Shuck received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Notre Dame in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and B.S.E. in 2013 from Princeton University in Chemical and Biological Engineering. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Fulbright Scholarship in 2016. He is currently working as a research assistant professor at the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University. His research interests include chemical kinetics, materials synthesis, and 2D materials. Christopher’s work has led to a direct change in the definition of both MAX phases and MXenes (Discovery of M5AX4 and M5X4Tx MXene), he has pioneered work into solid-solution MXenes, and has applied MXene work into many fields, including electrochemical energy storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, and biomedicine.

De-en Jiang

De-en Jiang is a Professor in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University since July 1, 2022. Before that, he was a Professor of Chemistry at University of California Riverside, as well as a cooperating faculty member of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his BS and MS degrees from Peking University and PhD degree from UCLA, all in chemistry. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory first as a postdoc and then as a staff scientist before joining UCR in 2014. His group moved from UCR to Vanderbilt in July 2022. His research focuses on computational materials chemistry for energy and the environment.

Dmitri Talapin

Dmitri Talapin is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His research interests focus on inorganic nanomaterials, from synthetic methodology to self-assembly to charge transport and optoelectronic devices.

He was born in USSR and grew up in Belarus, received a doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2002, followed by a postdoctoral work at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2005-2007, he was a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and joined faculty of the University of Chicago in 2007. His recognitions include ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and others. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014 and serves as an Associate Editor for Chemical Science published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Flavia Vitale

Departments of Neurology, Bioengineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics. University of PennsylvaniaCenter for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration. Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center

Dr. Flavia Vitale is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, and in the Departments of Neurology Bioengineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She is also a core faculty member of the Brain Science, Translation, Innovation, and Modulation Center at Penn and of the Center of Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration at the Philadelphia VA. Dr. Vitale earned her B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the Università Campus Biomedico di Roma in 2008, and in 2012 she received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. She completed a postdoctoral training in Chemical Engineering at Rice University, a Neuroengineering training at Penn, and in 2018 she joined the Penn faculty.

Dr. Vitale’s research interests are in the area of bioelectronic technologies for studying, diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous and neuromuscular systems. Her lab integrates neuroengineering, materials science, electrical engineering, and neuroscience approaches to develop novel neuroelectronic interface technologies and apply them to both basic science and fundamental studies of neural functions and disease. The ultimate goal of the Vitale Lab is to translate these innovative technologies and scientific knowledge to patient care and improve outcomes.

In the last few years, Dr. Vitale has pioneered the field of MXene-based implantable and wearable bioelectronics for clinical and research applications. Her work has led to the first examples of invasive microelectrode arrays for recording brain activity as well as high-resolution, gel-free and MRI compatible wearable electrode arrays for brain, heart, and muscle monitoring in humans, all based on Ti3C2Tx MXene. She also established scalable and cost-effective manufacturing approaches for fabricating MXene bioelectronic devices and demonstrated the biocompatibility of Ti3C2Tx MXene to neurons.

Dr. Vitale has been recognized with several awards, including the Welch Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Taking Flight Award from Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, the McCabe Fellow and Linda Pechenik Investigator Awards from the University of Pennsylvania, the K12 Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award from the NIH, and the 2021 Global Young Scientist Award from iCANX.

Husam Alshareef

Husam Alshareef is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He obtained his Ph.D. at NC State University followed by a post-doctoral Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories, USA.

He spent over 10 years in the semiconductor industry where he implemented processes in volume production for chip manufacturing. He joined KAUST in 2009, where he initiated an active research group focusing on the development of nanomaterials for electronics and energy applications. His work has been recognized by over 20 awards including the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award, two Dow Sustainability Awards, the Kuwait Prize for Sustainable and Clean Technologies, and the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award. He has published over 500 papers and 75 issued patents. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), and Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly-cited Researcher in Materials Science (2019, 2020, 2021).

Johanna Rosen

Professor Johanna Rosen is the Head of the Materials Design Division at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), at Linköping University in Sweden. She received her PhD from RWTH-Aachen University in Germany in 2004, and after being a post doc and visiting scientist at LBNL in Berkeley (USA) and at Sydney University (Australia), she returned to Sweden to establish her research platform. Her research interest is focused towards fundamental theoretical and experimental studies targeting novel 3D and 2D materials, including carbides (MAX phases and MXenes) and borides (MAB phases and MBenes), for studying, e.g., magnetism and energy storage/conversion. Professor Rosen has published more than 250 scholarly research articles, and is a recipient of the Göran Gustafsson Award in Physics, handed out by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is also a Wallenberg Scholar, and a member of the Young Academy of Sweden (2017-2022).

Lucia Delogu

Lucia Gemma Delogu is head of the ImmuneNanolab at the University of Padova (www.delogulab.eu) and Visiting Professor at New York University AD. Delogu previously worked at the University of Southern California and as visiting Professor and Marie S. Curie Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

Delogu’s research focuses on using systems immunology approaches to study bi-dimensional nanomaterials and MXenes in particular for their interactions with immune cells towards biomedical applications. Beyond various National Italian Grants, she has been the scientific coordinator of two interdisciplinary European projects on nanomedicine and nanosafety (G-IMMUNOMICS, CARBOIMMAP). Her work as the corresponding author has appeared in major academic journals, including Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nano Today, ACS Nano, and Small. Cumulatively, her work contributes to immunology, nanotechnology, material science, and space biology.

Maksym Pogorielov

Prof. Maksym Pogorielov, MD, Head of Biomedical Research Center and Vice Director in Science in Medical Institute, Sumy State University. He has a strong background in biomaterial development, including polymer scaffolds and metal implants for orthopaedics and dental surgery application. His main research areas are biomaterials and bone biology, nanomaterials, animal experiment techniques (including surgeries), electron microscopy, cell cultures (animal and human cell lines, cancer cell line), confocal and fluorescence microscopy, histology and immunohistochemistry. His lab secured participation in H2020 MSCA-RISE project 777926 “Nanostructural surface development for dental implant manufacturing”; and Horizon-Europe grant “Towards MXenes’ biomedical applications by high-dimensional immune MAPping”, and previously participated in the EU FP-7 project “Nano-Guard”, as well as supervised several British Council and CRDF projects in Ukraine. He also serves as a Head of H2020 National Contact Point (NCP) and Expert from Ukraine in Program Committee “Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing”. He currently acts as a supervisor and leading researcher in 3 Ukrainian projects and co-supervisor of Polish project supported by NCBR agency. Last years his research interests focused on MXene biomedical application for photo-thermal therapy and conductive biomaterials development.

Michael Naguib

Michael Naguib is a Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Science and Engineering and an assistant professor in the department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Prior to joining Tulane in 2018, he was a Wigner Fellow (2014-2017) and Research Staff (2017-2018) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University in 2014 where he co-invented MXenes. He has published more than 100 papers (with more than 31,000 citations and h-index of 55) in international journals and presented many plenary, keynote and invited lectures and seminars at number of international conferences and universities. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics twice and has received many awards such as NSF CAREER Award, Robert L. Coble Award, Kroto Award, Ross Coffin Purdy Award, Rising Star Award by Tulane University, MRS Gold Graduate Student Award, Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Award, and was listed as Drexel University Forty-Under-Forty. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He is an Associate Editor of Energy Advances.

Paul Weiss

Paul S. Weiss graduated from MIT with S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry in 1980 and from the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1986. He is a nanoscientist and holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA, where he was previously director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He also currently holds visiting appointments at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and several universities in Australia, China, India, and South Korea. He studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization, developing and applying new tools and methods for atomic-resolution and spectroscopic imaging and patterning of chemical functionality. He and his group apply these advances in other areas including neuroscience, microbiome studies, tissue engineering, cellular agriculture, and high-throughput gene editing. He led, coauthored, and published the technology roadmaps for the BRAIN Initiative and the U.S. Microbiome Initiative. He was the founding editor-in-chief of ACS Nano and served in that role from 2007–2021. He has won a number of awards in science, engineering, teaching, publishing, and communications. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society, Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE, Materials Research Society, and an honorary fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and Chemical Research Society of India.

Pooi See Lee

Pooi See is the President’s Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is the Dean, Graduate College and Associate Provost (Graduate Education) of NTU. Her current research focuses on developing advanced materials for soft human-machine interfaces, energy harvesters, electrochromics, actuators, and soft robotics. Pooi See is named the National Academy of Inventors Fellow in 2020, and she is elected to the class of 2022 MRS Fellows.

Steven May

Steve May is a professor and department head of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, having joined the department as an assistant professor in 2009. He received a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. Following his doctorate, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory from 2007-2009 in the Materials Science Division. His research focuses on the synthesis of novel electronic and magnetic materials in thin film form and characterization of their functional properties for potential use in next generation information processing, data storage, or energy devices. He has received the NSF CAREER award, an ARO Young Investigator Award, the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, and the Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers from ASM International.

Susan Sandeman

Dr. Susan Sandeman is a biomaterials scientist whose research focuses on ways to better understand and optimise the interaction of materials with the cells and tissues of the body in order to provide corrective treatments. Susan’s early research into the impact of cellular ageing on corneal wound healing and how this impacts the success of novel ophthalmic biomaterials first drew her to a career in biomaterials research. She has subsequently led a team of researchers engaging with companies, clinicians and academic partners to develop a range of adsorbent, nanostructured and smart polymer materials as prototypes to replace or repair organ function. For example, kidney dialysis provides life-saving support when the kidneys fail but does not act as a complete replacement therapy, partially because significant detoxification and metabolic activities no longer occur. Working with a multidisciplinary team, it has been possible to design a range of ‘sticky’ nanostructured adsorbents with components in the size range of 1-100 nm for more effective removal of biological toxins linked to poor dialysis performance. Another approach under development is the design of blood perfusion scaffolds tethered with bioactive molecules to specifically bind to microorganism derived toxins in the treatment of life-threatening infection. Such scaffold approaches may also be adapted to improve functional liver cell longevity as part of a liver replacement therapy. Susan is a strong advocate for the pivotal role of postgraduate research students in scientific innovation and the need for ambitious interdisciplinary training programmes involving placement opportunities to better facilitate communication across disciplinary boundaries. Linking local biomedical materials companies with the novel ideas emerging from international research consortiums is a key factor in successful biomaterials innovation.”

Valeria Nicolosi

Professor Nicolosi is the Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy at the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Physics from TCD in 2006. She moved to the University of Oxford in February 2008 as a Marie Curie Fellow. In April 2008 she was awarded with a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Fellowship. In 2012 she returned to TCD as Research Professor. In 2016 she was promoted to Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy. She is the first woman to have reached the position of Chair in the School of Chemistry since the foundation of TCD in 1592. Prof. Nicolosi 6 times ERC awardee (StG in 2011, followed by 3 PoC grants to bring results of frontier research closer to the market, a CoG in 2016, followed by a further PoC in 2019). She has published more than 200 high-impact-papers and her research has attracted more than 25 M euro funding over the last 9 years. Aspects of her research has been licenced to companies like Thomas Swann, Samsung, Intel, Lego, etc. In 2018, 2019 and 2020 she was recognized as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in Web of Science. Prof. Nicolosi served as Advisory Board member of the European Innovation Council (EIC) from 2019 to 2021. As a recognition of her carrier achievements, in 2021 Prof. Nicolosi was conferred the honourary decoration of “Cavaliere” in the Order “Stella d’Italia” by the President of the Italian Republic, at the proposal of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zahra Fakhraai

Zahra Fakhraai is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD degree in Physics from the University of Waterloo in 2007, where she studied the dynamics of polymers in thin films and at interfaces. After two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto (2008-09) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (NSERC post-doctoral fellow, 2009-11) she joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently an Associate Professor with a secondary appointment at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Her group at Penn combines experiments and modeling to explore structure, dynamics, and optical properties to study glass transition and other dynamical phenomena at nanometer length scale. She has also developed in-situ characterization techniques based on spectroscopic ellipsometry to study thermal stability, local microenvironments, and electrochemical properties of two-dimensional materials and their hybrid interfaces. She has recently become interested in applying these techniques to study the plasmonic and conductivity of MXenes under various conditions. Zahra is a member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the recipient of the APS Padden Award (2007), NSF Career award (2014), Sloan fellowship in Chemistry (2015), the Journal of Physical Chemistry JPC-PHYS lectureship award (2017), APS Dillon Medal (2019), and ACS Rising Starts Award (2021).