CICECO and I3N invite you to join our upcoming workshop on Materials Processing and Nanofabrication.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez
University of Glasgow, UK & Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC), Spain
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Yogendra Kumar Mishra
Professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra leads the Smart Materials Group at the Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Sønderborg. Before joining SDU, he led a research group on 3D Nanomaterials at the Functional Nanomaterials Chair. Prof. Mishra has over 250 publications with 13,000+ citations and an H-index of 62. He serves on the Board of Delegates for the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) and as an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for high-impact journals, including the Materials Today family and Nano Energy. Renowned for pioneering research in Functional Tetrapod-based 3D Nanotechnology and Smart Fibers for Textiles and Healthcare, his work on 3D nanomaterials and engineered fibers enables applications in sensing, water purification, healthcare, drug delivery, plasmonics, imaging, advanced energy, and environmental technologies.
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Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez
Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow and ICREA Research Professor at Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC). Manuel develops advanced biomaterials for cell engineering and mechanobiology. His research includes materials that trigger the organisation of extracellular matrix proteins (Science Advances 2016); the use viscosity to control cell behaviour (PNAS 2018 & Nature Communications 2024) and interfaces that trigger the mechanical activation of growth factors (Advanced Materials 2024). Manuel holds an ERC Advanced Grant to develop the next generation of viscoelastic materials in cell engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy for Arts and Sciences.
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Paulo Jorge Ferreira
Paulo Jorge Ferreira
Paulo Ferreira is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon and the Head of Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal. He is also an Adjunct Professor, Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering in the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Before joining INL and IST in Portugal, he was Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty in Engineering and Full Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and the Director of Electron Microscopy at the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois, USA and has done his Post-doctoral work at MIT in Materials Science and Engineering. He concentrates his scientific research in the areas of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Electron Microscopy applied to Alternative Energy Technologies. At the educational level, he teaches graduate courses in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Structure and Electron Microscopy. In parallel, he has been involved in initiatives with various American and Portuguese institutions in the areas of Education and Higher Education, Systems of Innovation, and Science and Technology. He is co-author of three books, namely “Materials 2000”, IST Press, 2003, “Investing in the Future: University-Industry Collaborations in USA and Portugal”; and “Nanotechnology for Architects, Designers and Engineers” with co-authors D. Schodek (Harvard University) and Michael Ashby (University of Cambridge, UK). He is also the author of 185 scientific articles published in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Prof. Ferreira has also acted as a special advisor to the Minister of Economics and Innovation, Portugal, on Government Strategy for Science & Technology, and he is part of the Selection Nomination Committee of the Japan Prize.
Fabrizio Roccaforte
Rodrigo Martins
Rodrigo Martins, full professor at FCT-NOVA, expert in the field of Advanced Functional Materials for electronics and energy applications, with more than 1350 papers published, cited more than 41000, with an h-index of 100; running president of the European Academy of Sciences, director of the the Associated Laboratory i3N, the Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling and Nanofabrication; former: President of International Union of Materials Research Society - IUMRS; member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council; member of the Advisory Council of DG prosperity in the frame of European Programme Horizon (2014-2016). Coordinator of the Emerging Printed Electronics Research Infrastructure (EMERGE) the first in Europe beyond Silicon.
President of the administration board of the Portuguese cluster in Advanced Materials (NANOMAT); member of the administration board of the Portuguese cluster on Batteries (BatPower); Chair of the European Committee Affairs of European Materials Research Society. He is a member of: the Academia Europaea; Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona; Portuguese Academy of Engineering; European Academy of Sciences; the Portuguese Order of Engineers, OE, and of the Board of Admission and Qualification of OE. QiuShi Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University; Honorary Professor of Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Honorary Professor of the Technical University of Wuhan and of the School Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences of Wuhan University; Honorary Professor of Fuzhou University, Invited Professor at Southwest University, Chongqing, China. In 2023 selected as PIFI Distinguished Scientist of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the highest honour for overseas talents. He got more than 20 distinctions and awards, such as Professor Honoris Causa by University of Galati, Romania. In 2021 he got the Career and Recognition Award given by the Portuguese Society of Materials and the Research Nova-Altice Award. He is the editor in chief of the journal Discover Materials. Member of the international committee of ITC2025.
Clement Hebert
Clément Hébert obtained a PhD from the Université Grenoble Alpes in 2012, focusing on the development of diamond microelectrode arrays for electrophysiology within the Wide Bandgap Semiconductor team at the Institut Néel. He continued with a postdoctoral position at CEA LIST in Saclay, working in the diamond sensor team in collaboration with ESIEE Paris and the Vision Institute, focusing on the optimization of diamond microelectrodes and their integration into retinal and epicortical implants. In 2015, he joined Professor Garrido's team in Barcelona with a Marie-Curie fellowship, working on the development and integration of 2D technologies, such as graphene (transistors and electrodes) and MoS2 (transistors), into flexible neural implants. In 2018, he secured ATIP/Avenir funding to establish his team, "Wireless Neural Implants," which develops neural implants interfaced with ultrasound probes. In 2019, he obtained a position as a research associate at INSERM and joined the Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN) in 2020. Since 2021, his team has been collaborating with the teams of Homaira Nawabi and Stéphane Belin to use wireless implants for the regeneration and reformation of damaged neural circuits.
Yogendra Kumar Mishra
Professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra leads the Smart Materials Group at the Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Sønderborg. Before joining SDU, he led a research group on 3D Nanomaterials at the Functional Nanomaterials Chair. Prof. Mishra has over 250 publications with 13,000+ citations and an H-index of 62. He serves on the Board of Delegates for the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) and as an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for high-impact journals, including the Materials Today family and Nano Energy. Renowned for pioneering research in Functional Tetrapod-based 3D Nanotechnology and Smart Fibers for Textiles and Healthcare, his work on 3D nanomaterials and engineered fibers enables applications in sensing, water purification, healthcare, drug delivery, plasmonics, imaging, advanced energy, and environmental technologies.
Marc Torrell
Dr. Marc Torrell is a researcher in the Nanoionics and Fuel Cell Group that belongs to the Advanced Materials for Energy Area of the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia (IREC). His main lines of research are the structural and electrochemical characterization of materials electrochemical devices related to the use and generation of hydrogen. He has a degree in Chemistry (University of Barcelona) and Materials Engineering (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) and received his PhD in Chemistry from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Barcelona. After his first Postdoctoral stage at the Physics dept. of University of Minho, he returns to the University of Barcelona as associated professor before joining IREC. He currently combines his activity in the development of new concepts of electrolysis cells based on solid oxides (SOEC) and fuel cells (SOFC), some of them based on 3D printing of functional ceramic materials, with their activity and commitment to the realization of demonstration projects of the technologies of manufacture and use of hydrogen for the decarbonization of mobility and industry. He is the author of more than 70 works in international specialized journals (h> 28), has published 5 book chapters on advanced materials and their uses for energy applications and has several patents on the field.
Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez
Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez is the Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering and Co-Director of the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment at the University of Glasgow. Previously, he was a Full Professor of Applied Physics in Valencia until 2013.
With over 180 publications, Prof. Salmeron-Sanchez has received an ERC Consolidator Grant and two ERC Proof of Concept Grants (2015, 2017). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials Advances (Elsevier).
He was seconded to Abengoa Research, where he established a materials research division within a company of over 20,000 employees. Prof. Salmeron-Sanchez leads an EPSRC Programme Grant and a major translational research program funded by The Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation, dedicated to aiding civilians affected by landmines. He also coordinates HealiKick, an EU Horizon 2020 project focused on advancing bone regeneration technologies toward clinical trials within five years.
Jana Nieder
Jana Nieder is an experimental physicist and holds the position of Research Group Leader for the Ultrafast Bio- and Nanophotonics (UBNP) group and is also the Head of Nanophotonics and Bioimaging (NBI) research core facilities. Under her guidance, the UBNP group focuses on three interconnected photonics research areas: 1) Advanced Bioimaging and Sensing, 2) Integrated Photonics, and 3) Quantum Photonics; and the NBI became an open access ISO certified user facility providing access and services to internal and external users.
Jana Nieder is actively involved in funding aquisition, supervision and training of students and team members, organization of scientific conferences and workshops, as well as science outreach activities, and science & arts initiatives. She has a successful track record in building research consortia particularly in the fields of photonics-related research and innovation and has secured funding from regional, national, and European funding agencies, as well as philanthropic foundations to support ambitious research projects. During her tenure at INL, Jana Nieder has held various institutionally relevant roles, including "Head of the Nanophotonics Department" from 2016 to 2020. Following the institutional reorganization into six research clusters in early 2020, she assumed the yearly roles of i) deputy coordinator in 2020, ii) coordinator in 2021, and iii) active past coordinator in 2022, contributing to the strategic direction of the Advanced Materials and Computation (AMC) cluster, while actively contributing to the Precise and Personalized Health Tech (PPH) and Smart Digital Nanosystems (SDNS) clusters. Jana Nieder joined INL in October 2014, following her postdoctoral fellowships at IGC – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) from April 2014 to September 2014, and at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) from April 2011 to March 2014, where she worked on super-resolution microscopy and ultrafast single-molecule spectroscopy, respectively. She completed her PhD with "summa cum laude" at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in 2011, and with a thesis on "Single molecule spectroscopy on Pigment Protein Complexes".
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Programme
8h10 |
Departure: Rectory, University of Aveiro (Aveiro) to Laboratório das Artes (Vista Alegre) |
8h30 |
Welcome coffee: Laboratório das Artes (Vista Alegre) |
9h00 |
Opening Session with Rector of University of Aveiro, Director of CICECO and Director of i3N |
9h20 |
Chair: João Coutinho (CICECO Director, University of Aveiro) Yogendra Kumar Mishra (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Tetrapods based Smart Materials for Advanced Technologies |
10h10 |
Paulo Jorge Ferreira (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, Portugal) Probing Atomic Defects in 2D Materials and Battery Materials by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
11h00 |
Coffee Break | Free Networking | Poster session |
11h30 |
Chair: João Mano (CICECO, University of Aveiro) Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) Engineered viscoelasticity in cell microenvironments |
12h20 |
Jana Nieder (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal) Development and applications of diamond photonic platforms for quantum sensing |
13h10 |
Lunch | Poster Session |
14h30 |
Chair: José Fernando Mendes (I3N, University of Aveiro) Rodrigo Martins (NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal) Emerging Technologies for a Sustainable Electronic industry |
15h20 |
Marc Torrell Faro (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain) Additive Manufacturing of Functional Ceramic for enhanced Solid Oxide Cells technologies: From materials to stack fabrication |
16h10 |
Coffee Break | Free networking | Poster session |
16h40 |
Chair: Rute Ferreira (CICECO, University of Aveiro) Clément Hébert (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France) Carbon-based thin film technologies for electronic neural interfaces |
17h30 |
Moderators: Paula Vilarinho (CICECO, University of Aveiro) & Rodrigo Martins (NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal) Round Table with Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Jana Nieder, Marc Torrell Faro and Clément Hébert
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18h45 |
Closing Ceremony |
19h30 |
Departure: Laboratório das Artes to Aveiro |
I3N
Location
LABORATÓRIO DAS ARTES (VISTA ALEGRE - ÍLHAVO)
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The Laboratório das Artes is a cultural facility specialized in the areas of experimentation, research, investigation and training.
Rua Augusto, Vista Alegre. Ílhavo 3830-292
This work was developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, UID/50011 & LA/P/0006/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0006/2020), financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC).
This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education under project UIDP/50025/2020 and LA/P/0037/2020.
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