MORE INFO Carlos Abellan Quside (Spain) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Javier Aizpurua CFM-CSIC (Spain) 3PM2021 Javier Aizpurua is a research professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and head of the "Theory of Nanophotonics Group" at the Center for Materials Physics in San Sebastian, where he theoretically studies the interaction between light and matter at the nanoscale. Aizpurua developed his career in a variety of research centers, including those at the University of the Basque Country, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US. Aizpurua is a highly-cited researcher according to clarivate analytics, and has published more than 200 works on the topic of Plasmonics with a large international impact, particularly in the area of nanoantenna-enhanced microscopy and spectroscopy, and quantum effects in plasmonics. MORE INFO Thomas Alava CEA (France) Graphin2021 MORE INFO Pablo Albella Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) 3PM2021 Pablo Albella is Ramon y Cajal (RyC) Researcher at University of Cantabria and invited researcher at Imperial College London. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cantabria (2009) awarded with the prize of best thesis in physics that year. He was postdoctoral researcher from 2010 to 2013 at the Material Physics Center (UPV/CSIC) in San Sebastian and from 2013 to 2017 senior research associate at Imperial College London. His research interests and activities are mainly devoted to the fields of nanophotonics and materials science. In particular, to the optical modelling and innovation of photonic structures able to enhance the performance of the actual nanodevices in applications such as sensing, spectroscopy, nanocircuitry, metamaterials or energy storage. He aims to, not only the electromagnetic understanding and application of plasmonics, but also to open new fascinating possibilities in the field using novel nanostructures made of alternative materials. MORE INFO Pilar Aranda ICMM-CSIC (Spain) Composites2021 Dr. Pilar Aranda is Research Scientist at the Materials Science Institute of the National Research Council of Spain (ICMM-CSIC). She graduated in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid (1986), and then she joined the Materials Science Institute of Madrid, CSIC, carrying out her Ph.D. (1991) under the supervision of Prof. Ruiz-Hitzky on nanocomposite materials based on poly(ethylene oxide)/clay intercalations, which gave rise to a new class of ion conductors. She has worked at the École National Superieur de Chimie de Montpellier, France and at the University of Aberdeen, UK under the supervision of Prof. L. Cot and Prof. A. R. West, respectively. She was subsequently a postdoctoral Fellow at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO working with Prof. C.R. Martin before joining the Carlos III University in Madrid as Assistant Professor (1994–1997) till she moved to the ICMM-CSIC. MORE INFO Elena Aznar UPV/CIBER BBN (Spain) Nanospain2021 Elena Aznar is graduated in Chemistry from the University of Valencia in 2005 and gained her PhD in 2011 from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She is currently lecturer at Polytechnic University of Valencia. She has been permanent researcher at the Networking Center for Biomedical Research (CIBER) in the thematic area of Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine since 2011 and she spent a short stay at Instituto Português Oncologia Porto in 2017. She is co-author of more than 80 publications in international journals in the area of chemistry multidisciplinary such as Chem. Rev, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, Chem. Eur. J. and Chem. Commun. She is also inventor of several patents and co-founder of the spin-off Match Biosystems. She serves as reviewer of several scientific journals in the field of Chemistry and Materials Science. Dr. Elena Aznar works on the development of new controlled release systems using mesoporous silica nanoparticles equipped with molecular gates. These systems are able to retain a load inside them until a physical (temperature, light, magnetic fields, etc.), chemical (pH changes, redox, etc.) or biochemical (enzymes, oligonucleotides, etc.) stimulus is applied, which causes the release of the encapsulated substance to the medium. This type of systems is demonstrating great potential in the field of the controlled and targeted delivery of drugs, in their application as systems for the sensitive detection of species and pathogens of interest and also to develop chemical communication systems at the nanoscale. This is a very promising field that will allow highly significant improvements in the fields of human health, environment or industry among others, in the coming years. MORE INFO Susana Barasoain Arrondo Functional Print Cluster/3NEO (Spain) 3DPrinting2021 MORE INFO Christopher Bauerle Neel Institut / CNRS (France) QUANTUM2021 Christopher BÄUERLE is Research Director at the NEEL Institute – CNRS, Grenoble. He received his B.S degree in 1990 from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, his M.S. degree in 1992 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and his PhD degree in 1996 from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. After working for two years at the University of Tsukuba and the University of Tokyo, he joined the NEEL Institute in 1998. He made significant contributions to the field of symmetry-breaking phase transition using ultracold superfluid 3He as well as to the understanding of phase coherence in mesoscopic systems. More recently his research interests focus on single-electron transport using surface acoustic waves as well as ultrashort charge pulses. MORE INFO Roy Beck Tel Aviv University (Israel) Nanospain2021 Prof. Roy Beck's research has been dedicated to unraveling the physio-chemical origins of intrinsically disordered building blocks originating in or inspired by biological systems. These include natively disordered proteins, lipids, block copolymers, and short polypeptides. After a Ph.D. in solid-state physics, Prof. Beck received the cross-disciplinary HFSP postdoctoral fellowship that transformed him into biophysics research at UC Santa Barbara. Small-angle X-ray scattering, microscopy, and protein isolation are the main experimental techniques utilized in Prof. Beck's lab. There, they combine theoretical investigations as a vital tool to unravel biological functions. Prof. Beck's group is interdisciplinary and consists of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medicinal and biology researchers. In the past decade, they have studied a variety of systems, including the structures and interactions of the disordered domains, in particular, those stabilizing the cytoskeleton of neuronal intermediate filaments; phospholipids membranes metastability; multiple sclerosis pathological structural phase transition in myelin sheets; self-assembly of short peptides and peptide-amphiphiles; and the development of novel experimental techniques to study weak and transient interactions. Prof. Beck also participates in broad collaborative networks to complement his groups' specialties and chair the Physics and Chemistry of Living System center at Tel Aviv University. MORE INFO Yehonadav Bekenstein Technion (Israel) Composites2021 Yehonadav bekenstein is an Assistant Professor at Technion Israel institute of technology. In 2018 he joined the Solid-state institute and material science and engineering faculty, receiving the Alon fellowship. Before joining Technion, Yehonadav conducted postdoc research with A. Paul Alivisatos as a Rothschild fellow at UC Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he studied Physics and Chemistry. He currently directs a research group that explores materials with strong light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. The group is diverse, and projects range from the design of colloidal nanocrystal synthesis through structure functions relations in low dimensional perovskites, Scintillation, and near-field nano spectroscopy. MORE INFO Moshe Ben Shalom Tel Aviv University (Israel) Graphin2021 MORE INFO Francesco Bonaccorso BeDimensional (Italy) Graphin2021 Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA and Visiting Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina after working at the Italian National Research Council, the University of Cambridge and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the Graphene Flagship. He is now Deputy of the Innovation of the Flagship. He was featured as 2016 Emerging Investigator by J.Mater.Chem.A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. His research interests encompass both the fundamental understanding and solution processing of novel nanomaterials and their technological applications. He authored/co-authored more than 120 publications and 12 patents. MORE INFO Adelina Braun Merck (Germany) Graphin2021 Dr. Adelina Braun completed her doctorate in Materials Science at Saarland University, Germany with a thesis entitled “Nanomaterials for Optoelectronic Applications”. She then gained professional experience at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre working on nanomaterials research projects. Adelina joined Merck KGaA, science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, 7 years ago and handles the Materials Science portfolio for all of Western Europe. MORE INFO Juergen Brugger EPFL (Switzerland) 3DPrinting2021 Juergen Brugger is Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL he was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Master in Physical-Electronics and his PhD degree from Neuchatel University, Switzerland. Research in Juergen Brugger’s laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. The group has made several important contributions to the field, at the fundamental level as well as in technological development, as demonstrated by the start-ups that spun off from the lab. In his research, key competences are in micro/nanofabrication, additive micro-manufacturing, new materials for MEMS, increasingly for biomedical applications. He published over 200 peer-refereed papers and supervised 20 PhD students. Former students and postdocs have been successful in receiving awards and starting their own scientific careers (6 professors so far). Juergen Brugger has been appointed in 2016 Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 he was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing. MORE INFO Niels Bultink Qblox BV (the Netherlands) QUANTUM2021 Niels specializes in controlling quantum computers performing the first feedback on solid-state qubits in 2012. His PhD research with Leonardo DiCarlo at TU Delft has led to more than ten scientific publications centred around fault-tolerant quantum computing with superconducting circuits. The work at QuTech enabled the control of setups with up to 50 qubits and has now found its way to the market via the company Qblox. With Qblox new and industrialized generation of control stacks, he is paving the way for quantum computer integrators worldwide to reach practical applications in quantum computing. MORE INFO Izaskun Bustero Martínez de Zuazo Tecnalia (Spain) 3DPrinting2021 MORE INFO Tommaso Calarco Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) QUANTUM2021 Tommaso Calarco has pioneered the application of quantum optimal control methods to quantum computation and to many-body quantum systems. Currently the Director of the Institute for Quantum Control of the Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Tommaso received his PhD at the University of Ferrara and started to work as a postdoc in the group of P. Zoller at the University of Innsbruck. He was appointed as a Senior Researcher at the BEC Centre in Trento in 2004 and as a Professor for Physics at the University of Ulm in 2007, where he then became Director of the Institute for Complex Quantum Systems and of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology. He has authored in 2016 the Quantum Manifesto, which initiated the European Commission’s Quantum Flagship initiative, and is currently the Chairman of one of the Flagship’s Governing Bodies: The Quantum Community Network. MORE INFO Daniel Carriazo CIC EnergiGUNE (Spain) Graphin2021 Dr. Carriazo obtained his PhD in 2008 from the University of Salamanca (Spain). In 2009, he joined the group of Bio-inspired Materials at the ICMM-CSIC (Spain). In 2011, he was postdoctoral visiting fellow at the Multifunctional Materials group at the ETH-Zürich (Switzerland). Between January 2012 and December 2013, he was working as a JAE-DOC at the ICMM-CSIC (Spain). Since 2014 he works at the CIC energiGUNE as Ikerbasque Researcher. He is currently leading the Supercapacitor’s research line and the activities related to the graphene-based materials for energy storage applications at the CIC energiGUNE. Dr. Carriazo is deputy leader of the work package 12 (Energy Storage) of Core 3 Graphene Flagship European project. He has co-authored 2 book chapters and more than 60 scientific articles and he has a H-index of 30. MORE INFO Nerea Casado University of the Basque Country / POLYMAT (Spain) Composites2021 Nerea Casado earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry (2012) and M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials (2013) from the University of the Basque Country. She was awarded with the Best Academic Record Award 2012 in Chemistry by Kutxa. Granted with the Erasmus scholarship in 2011, she carried out a research project on early stage sustainability assessment of biobased chemical processes at Utrecht University (Netherlands). MORE INFO Felix Casanova CIC nanoGUNE (Spain) Graphin2021 Fèlix Casanova is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Universitat de Barcelona in 2004 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009, he is the coleader of the Nanodevices Group at CIC nanoGUNE, devoted to the electronic properties of systems in reduced dimensions. His current research interests are focused on spin-dependent phenomena (including spin transport and spin-orbit effects) in metals, insulators and novel two-dimensional materials. His pioneering studies on spin-charge interconversion in metals and 2D materials have led to several R+D contracts with Intel Corp., the world-leading microelectronics company. He is Editorial Board member of Physical Review Applied, published by the APS. He has been distinguished with the 2020 Outstanding Researcher Award by Intel Corp. MORE INFO Alba Cervera Lierta Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) QUANTUM2021 Alba Cervera-Lierta is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the coordinator of "Quantum Spain" project. She earned her PhD in 2019 at the University of Barcelona, where she studied a physics degree and a Msc in particle physics. After her PhD, she moved to the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow at the Alán Aspuru-Guizik group. She recently joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a Senior Researcher and coordinates the Spanish quantum computing initiative "Quantum Spain". She works on near-term quantum algorithms and their applications, high-dimensional quantum computation, and artificial intelligence strategies in quantum physics. MORE INFO Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany) QUANTUM2021 Born on October 11, 1965 in Manresa, Spain. Licenciado (graduate) in theoretical physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1988), PhD in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1991), Fellow "Formación del Personal Investigador" (Prog. General) (1989-1991), "Profesor Titular de Universidad", Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (1991-1996), Research Associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado (1993-1994), Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck (1996-2001), Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institut of Quantum Optics (since 2001), Honorary Professor, Technical University of Munich (since 2002). MORE INFO Eugenio Coronado ICMOL - Universidad de Valencia (Spain) Graphin2021 Eugenio Coronado is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia and Director of the Institute for Molecular Science (ICMol) and of the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism (EIMM). Expert in Molecular Magnetism, his recent research interests lie in the areas of Molecular Spintronics, quantum computing and 2D materials. In this last topic his research focuses on the design of 2D molecular magnets and hybrid molecular/2D heterostructures combining functional molecules with 2D superconductors and magnets, as well as in the use of these materials for applications in spintronics. To develop these research lines he has been financed by the European Research Council (ERC) with the Advanced grants SPINMOL and MOL-2D. MORE INFO M. Lucia Curri University of Bari, CNR (Italy) Nanospain2021 M. Lucia Curri is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). Before joining University of Bari, she was at Italian National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Physical Chemical Processes. She received her PhD in Chemistry from University of Bari (Italy) in 1997. She is active in material chemistry research, aiming to design, fabricate and process inorganic solids at the nanoscale by using chemical routes to obtain multifunctional nanostructured materials both for fundamental investigation and for application in biomedical field, energy conversion and in the environmental technologies. MORE INFO Silvano de Franceschi CEA/UGA (France) QUANTUM2021 Silvano de Franceschi is a researcher in experimental condensed-matter physics. At the end of 2006, he joined the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) in Grenoble. His research activities are positioned in the field of quantum nanoelectronics, a branch of nanoscience whose general goal is to investigate the electronic properties of nanometer-scale electronic devices and to explore new device operation principles base on quantum mechanics. MORE INFO Hugues de Riedmatten ICFO (Spain) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Enrique Diez Fernández University of Salamanca (Spain) Graphin2021 Enrique Diez is a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Fundamental Physics at Salamanca University. He is the Director of the Nanotechnology Group and Head of the Clean Room and Low Temperature Laboratories. He is also the Director of the Fundamental Physics Department. He has successfully coordinated in Salamanca 3M€ projects from 2006 leadering the installation of the previously mentioned infrastructures among other research projects. He was born in Luzern (Swiss Confederation) in 1969 and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at University Carlos III of Madrid in 1997. He continued his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Daniel Tsui (Nobel Prize in Physics) in Princeton University with a MEC-Fulbright fellowship. Dr. Diez is currently researching unconventional graphene and topological insulators nanostructures looking for unique physical properties bearing in mind their uses in novel devices. In particular in the fabrication and characterization of graphene and topological insulators based nanodevices and related 2D materials. MORE INFO David DiVincenzo FZ Jülich / RWTH Aachen (Germany) QUANTUM2021 David DiVincenzo (Philadelphia, VS, 1959) has a secondary appointment as professor at the EEMCS Department at the TU Delft and a staff member at QuTech since 2017. His primary appointment is as Director, Theoretical Nanoelectronics, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany). He received his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA in 1983; was a postdoc at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; then Research Staff Member at IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (1985-2011). Having been granted an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2010, he became a professor at the Institute of Theoretical Quantum Information at RWTH Aachen University and director of the Peter Grünberg Institute, where he serves to the present. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1999), and Associate Editor of the Reviews of Modern Physics (2011-present).David DiVincenzo was one of the first physicists to engage in quantum information research and is considered an authority on quantum information processing. In particular, his name is associated with the development of criteria for the quantum computer, known as the DiVincenzo Criteria, and also with the Loss-DiVincenzo approach to solid-state spin-based qubits. MORE INFO Ion Errea CFM-UPV, CSIC (Spain) Nanospain2021 Ion Errea currently leads the Quantum Theory of Materials group at the Materials Physics Center (CFM, CSIC-UPV/EHU). He is a a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country and also an associate researcher of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). His work is mostly dedicated to the development of new first principles technique to calculate complex properties of solids and to apply them for physical systems of interest. In the last years, he has worked intensely on the superconductivity of hydrogen-based compounds, thermoelctric materials, and bulk and monolayer systems with charge-density-wave transitions. MORE INFO Ruben Esteban CFM-CSIC (Spain) 3PM2021 Ruben Esteban is a researcher of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) working at the Centro de Física de Materiales in San Sebastián. He did his PhD work on the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, receiving his title from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2007 for experimental and theoretical work on superresolved near field microscopy. Since then, he has worked on many topics on the theory of nanophotonics, with frequent collaborations with experimentalists. He has special interest on the emergence of quantum effects due to the interaction between metallic systems that support plasmonic resonances and molecules or quantum dots. MORE INFO Sebastian Etcheverry Luxquanta (Spain) QUANTUM2021 He currently works as CTO at LuxQuanta Technologies. He has a large experience in opto-electronics, fiber optics components, quantum key distribution, and quantum cryptography. He completed a PhD in Applied Physics in 2017 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, where he worked on fiber optics sensing technology for industrial applications. After his PhD, Etcheverry obtained an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council to work at the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO) in Barcelona. For more than 4 years, Etcheverry worked at ICFO on developing systems for quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution. Such developments contributed to the creation of spin-off company LuxQuanta Technologies, lunched in May 2021 MORE INFO Vladimir Falko National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester (UK) Graphin2021 Vladimir Fal’ko (ORCID 0000-0003-0828-0310) is condensed matter theorist responsible for many advances in understanding of electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures (graphene, silicene, transition metal dichalcogenides, metal chalcogenides) and for various aspects of theory of quantum transport and fundamentals of nanoelectronics. His career was marked by Humboldt Fellowship, EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant and Synergy Grant, and Royal Society Wolfson Foundation Research Merit Award. Falko was the initiator of ‘Graphene Week’ conference series and a Chair-organiser more than 30 other international meetings; he is founding Editor-in-Chief of the IoP Journal ‘2D Materials’ (maintaining IF~7), and he serves as the Leader of Workpackage ‘Enabling Science’ in the European Graphene Flagship Project. MORE INFO Andrea Ferrari Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge (UK) Nanospain2021 Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship. MORE INFO Jean-Jacques Fouchet z3dlab (France) 3DPrinting2021 MORE INFO Luis Salvador Froufe Perez University of Fribourg (Switzerland) 3PM2021 Luis Froufe is assistant professor at the Physics department of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He received his PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) in 2006 where he obtained a degree in theoretical physics. His main research interests range from theory and simulation in atomic force microscopy to light transport in complex and disordered media. Luis Froufe has collaborated with different groups at UAM, École Centrale Paris, ESPCI, ICMM, and IEM among others. He is currently developing theory and simulation in the group of soft matter and photonics and leading a group in optical forces created by artificial random optical fields and machine learning applied to optics in complex systems. MORE INFO Alberto G. Curto TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) 3PM2021 Alberto G. Curto is Assistant Professor in the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also part of the Institute for Photonic Integration. The goal of Curto's research is to find new and improved ways of making light interact with very small matter, particularly by designing metal and semiconductor nanostructures. His current research interests include the optics and optoelectronics of layered 2D semiconductors and chirality in nano-optics. Before launching his research lab in Eindhoven, Curto was a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at Stanford University in the United States working on metal and semiconductor nano-optics and on layered 2D semiconductors. His PhD research at ICFO focused on nano-antennas as optical elements for enhanced interaction of light with nanoscale matter. Curto is the recipient of an NWO START-UP Grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2018) and an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (2020). MORE INFO Jose Hugo Garcia Aguilar ICN2 (Spain) Graphin2021 MORE INFO Javier García de Abajo ICREA - ICFO (Spain) 3PM2021 Javier García de Abajo received his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in 1993 and then visited Berkeley National Lab for three years. He was a Research Professor at the Spanish CSIC and in 2013 moved to ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (Barcelona) as an ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader. He is Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and has recently been awarded the Science of Light Prize by the European Physical Society. García de Abajo has co-authored 380+ articles cited 26,000+ times with a h index of 79 (Sept 2019 WoK data), including contributions on different aspects of surface science, nanophotonics, and electron microscope spectroscopies. MORE INFO Aran Garcia-Lekue DIPC (Spain) Nanospain2021 Aran Garcia-Lekue is an Ikerbasque Researcher at Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). She received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Spain). After finishing her Ph.D, she held postdoctoral positions at the Surface Science Research Center (SSRC) of the University of Liverpool (UK) and at the Berkeley National Laboratory (US). She joined DIPC as a Gipuzkoa Research Fellow Gipuzkoa in 2007, and became an Ikerbasque Researcher in 2012. Her research line is focused on the simulation of electron transport at the nanoscale, and on the theoretical investigation of electron processes at nanostructured surfaces. In the last years, she has been very active in the study of electronic and transport properties of graphene-based materials. MORE INFO Jan Goetz IQM (Finland) QUANTUM2021 Jan is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM, building next-generation quantum computers. IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international quantum experts developing co-design quantum computers to tackle the hardest challenges of modern society. IQM's breakthroughs include pioneering on-chip components for ultra-fast processors and hardware-efficient solutions for application-specific computers. IQM has raised more than EUR 71 million in funding, including the largest seed investment round in Finnish history. Jan did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at the Technical University of Munich and worked as a Marie Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. Capital magazine selected him as one of the 40 under 40 in Germany and he received the prestigious entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan is in the Board of the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, a quantum advisory board to the German space agency DLR, and the German Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat). MORE INFO Julio Gómez Avanzare (Spain) Graphin2021 Julio Gomez is the Founder and CEO of AVANZARE, company producer of graphene and other 2D materials and its composites with the largest EBITDA of the European grpahene companies. Member of the Board of Directors of the Camber of Commerce from 2010.Member of the social Council of the University of La Rioja, Elected by the Parliment. He is primarily interested in the mechanical properties of atomically thin materials such as graphene. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1995), receiving the and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (2000) from University of La Rioja where he studied the preparation and electrical and optical properties of nanosize metallic clusters, and a postdoctoral researcher position in the Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, University of Nantes-CNRS After finishing his Ph.D, he spent 3 years as assistant Professor in Universidad de La Rioja and 2 years as an Area Manager in the research centre CIDETEC studying electrochemical systems before joining AVANZARE at the end of 2004. His awards include among others the best B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1995 award in the University Complutense de Madrid, the best PhD degree in Science and Technology award in the University of La Rioja from the years 1999-2000, National award Entrepreneur of the year 2008 in Spain, best product NANOAWARDS 2008 (USA), F&S best practices in innovation 2013 (UK), Award SME of the year 2020. Author of 64 papers H-index 28. MORE INFO Wister Huang ETH Zurich (Switzerland) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Arrate Huegun CIDETEC (Spain) Composites2021 MORE INFO Alexandre Jaoui ICFO (Spain) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Daniel Jirovec IST Austria (Austria) QUANTUM2021 Daniel Jirovec completed his BSc in general Physics at the University of Pisa in Italy. He then moved to Aachen (Germany) for his MSc in Nanoelectronics at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule. There, he worked for one year in the group of Hendrik Bluhm on Silicon spin qubits. In 2017 he joined the group of Georgios Katsaros (https://nanoelectronicsgroup.wordpress.com/) at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria where he is working on spin qubits in two dimensional hole gases in germanium. He completed his PhD in September 2021 and is now working in the group as a PostDoc. MORE INFO Ian Kinloch The University of Manchester (UK) Composites2021 Prof. Ian Kinloch holds the Materials Science and the Morgan Advanced Materials/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Carbon Materials at the University of Manchester. He has previously held EPSRC/RAEng Research and EPSRC Challenging Engineering Fellowships. His research concerns the production and processing of nanomaterials to yield application-optimised architectures, with a focus on composite, electrical and electrochemical applications. MORE INFO Ulli Klenk Siemens AG (Germany) 3DPrinting2021 Principal Key Expert Additive Manufacturing at Siemens AG (Germany) MORE INFO Senentxu Lanceros Méndez BCMaterials (Spain) 3DPrinting2021 S. Lanceros-Mendez is Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director at BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spais. He graduated in physics at the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain, and obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Physics of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. He was Research Scholar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, and visiting scientist at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and University of Potsdam, among others. He is also Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Minho, Portugal (on leave). His work is focused in the area of polymer based smart materials for sensors and actuators, energy and biomedical applications, with over 500 publications and 10 patents in the field. He has supervised 34 PhD students and three Spin-off companies based on technologies developed from his group. MORE INFO Anna Laromaine ICMAB-CSIC (Spain) Composites2021 MORE INFO Karyn Le Hur Ecole Polytechnique (France) QUANTUM2021 Theoretical physicist aiming to answer fundamental questions in physics-related interdisciplinary research areas engaging many-body systems, condensed matter, quantum information theory, AMO systems and nanoelectronics. MORE INFO Alexander Legant Nanoscribe GmbH (Germany) 3DPrinting2021 Alexander Legant studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Heidelberg and joined Nanoscribe in September 2010 and worked there both as a Service Engineer and as a Sales Manager for Europe and North-America. Currently, he is taking care of the EMEA region. www.linkedin.com/company/nanoscribe-gmbh/ www.facebook.com/nanoscribe/posts/ twitter.com/NanoscribeGmbH MORE INFO Jordi Llop CIC Biomagune (Spain) Nanospain2021 Ph.D. from the University of Ramon Llull in 2002. Postdoctoral Research at Navarra University Hospital (CUN) working with Iván Peñuelas and in 2003 at Uppsala University PET Center in the group of Bengt Langstrom. In 2004 he went back to Spain to work as Production Manager of the Radiopharmaceutical Laboratory at Institut d'Alta Tecnologia (IAT-PRBB, Barcelona). Since 2007 he is group leader at the CICbiomaGUNE. MORE INFO Lluis F. Marsal URV (Spain) 3PM2021 Lluís F. Marsal is Full Professor and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2014, he received the ICREA Academia Award (the highest award for university professors in Catalonia, from ICREA Institute). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Optical Society of America. He is member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and holds three patents. His current research interests focus on organic and hybrid solar cells and nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing and bio-applications. MORE INFO José Manuel Martín CEIT (Spain) 3DPrinting2021 Dr. José Manuel Martín is researcher in the Group of Advanced Powder Metallurgy and Laser Manufacturing (Division of Materials and Manufacturing, CEIT-IK4, 1999-2020), and Associate Lecturer at TECNUN (University of Navarra). He obtained his M.Eng. (1993) and Ph.D. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering from TECNUN (University of Navarra). His field of expertise is Science and Engineering of Materials, especially the branch of Powder Metallurgy. The research lines is which he has worked recently include the production of metallic powders by atomization (2008-2020) and the processing of magnetic materials (2011-2020). MORE INFO Wolfgang Maser ICB-CSIC (Spain) Graphin2021 Wolfgang Maser is CSIC Research Professor at the Instituto de Carboquímica (ICB-CSIC) in Zaragoza where he leads the Group of Carbon Nanostructures and Nanotechnology. His research interests cover the field of carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes, graphene based materials, carbon dots): From synthesis, development of dispersions and novel functional hybrid materials towards their processing into macroscopic assemblies for applications in the fields of energy storage/conversion, sensors and catalysis. He is PI of EU and national research projects and has (co-)authored about 200 publications resulting in an h-index of 41. He was co-founder of Nanozar S.L. and directed the Department of Chemical Processes and Nanotechnology at the Instituto de Carboquímica. MORE INFO Arben Merkoci ICREA / ICN2 (Spain) Nanospain2021 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. Prof. Merkoçi research is focused on the design and application of cutting edge nanotechnology and nanoscience-based biosensors with interest for diagnostics. These nanobiosensors are based on the integration of biological molecules (DNA, antibodies, cells and enzymes) and other (bio)receptors with micro- and nanostructures and applied in diagnostics, environmental monitoring or safety and security. He has published around 300 peer review research papers, is editor of books (“Nanomaterials Based Biosensing Systems, by Wiley; “Electrochemical Sensor Analysis”, of Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series by Elsevier etc.), book chapters and special journals issues (Lab on a Chip, Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta) dedicated to the field of nanomaterials integration and applications in biosensors. Prof. Merkoçi is Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics, member of editorial board of Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta and other journals. MORE INFO Prineha Narang Harvard University (USA) QUANTUM2021 Prineha Narang is an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty, Prineha came to Harvard as a Ziff Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. She was also a Research Scholar in Condensed Matter Theory at the MIT Dept. of Physics, working on new theoretical methods to describe quantum interactions. MORE INFO Frank Ortmann TU Munich (Germany) Nanospain2021 Frank Ortmann studied physics and received his doctorate with “summa cum laude” from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2009 with a dissertation on the theory of charge transport in organic semiconductors. In the same year he joined CEA Grenoble (France) as postdoctoral fellow and was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship in 2010. In 2011 he moved to the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona (Spain). In 2013 he joined the TU Dresden, where he is leading an Emmy Noether research group since 2014. Frank is associated to cfaed as research group leader since 2017 MORE INFO Roman Orus DIPC/Multiverse (Spain) QUANTUM2021 I am the Scientific Director (CSO) and Cofounder of Multiverse Computing, as well as Ikerbasque research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastián, Spain. After obtaining my degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2006, I worked as a research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, as well as a junior professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. I was also visiting professor at the Universitè Paul Sabatier – CNRS, France, and at the DIPC. My research has been recognized by several awards, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, and the Early Career Prize (2014) by the European Physical Society. I have written more than 80 scientific articles about quantum research cited around 5500 times, and I am also honorary member of the steering board of the journal Quantum, member of the ‘Quantum for Quants’ (Q4Q) commission of the Quantum World Association, partner at Entanglement Partners, and president of the Specialized Group on Quantum Information at the Spanish Royal Society of Physics. MORE INFO Yossi Paltiel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) 3PM2021 Professor Paltiel is in the Applied Physics Department in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He has worked for both leading high-tech industry groups and in the academic world. Paltiel's group’s goal is to establish a way to incorporate quantum mechanics into room temperature devices. Paltiel published more than 180 papers in leading journals and has 13 patents (H index 31). His group are world leaders studying the CISS, we utilize chiral molecules as spin filters for achieving logic devices. Paltiel is involved in two startup companies; the first is named Valentis Nanotech founded in 2013. The 2nd company is named Kiralis founded in 2018. Kiralis uses magnetic surface interactions to achieve efficient chiral enantiomers separation. 1st place Kaye Innovation Awards winner MORE INFO Gloria Platero Coello ICMM-CSIC (Spain) QUANTUM2021 Gloria Platero is Research Professor at the Theoretical Condensed Matter Departament which belongs to the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (CSIC). Gloria received her PhD degree at the UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). Her research during the PhD was devoted to the theoretical analysis of surface phonons and scattering of atoms in surfaces. After this period she obtained a NATO fellowship, and afterwards, a MPI contract at the MPI High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble where she spent about two years as postdoctoral researcher. There she collaborated with Prof. M. Altarelli, in the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices under strain and external magnetic fields. After that she obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at the UAM, where she was Honorary Professor for eight years, and initiate a research line on quantum transport in semiconductor heterostructures under magnetic and ac electric fields. She got a permanent position at the Spanish Research Council CSIC and promoted later on to Research Professor. MORE INFO Danny Porath The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Nanospain2021 Prof. Danny Porath Studied for BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at the Hebrew University. Received his Ph.D in Physics from the Hebrew University in 1997. Did his postdoc at Delft University of Technology with Prof. Cees Dekker and established his group at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001. The group research interests include: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules, electrical transport measurements in single molecules, nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and biomarker detection. Member of the Editorial Board of “Self Assembly and Molecular Electronics and of “Scientific Report” from Nature Publishing Group. Received excellent postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society Meeting, Boston 2000, and The Israel Chemical Society Prize for the Outstanding Young Scientist in 2007. Holds the Etta and Paul Schankerman Chair of Molecular Biomedicine since 2014. Served as the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2011-2014. Currently serves and the Vice Dean Research of the Faculty of Science. MORE INFO Daniel Ramos IMN-CSIC (Spain) 3PM2021 Daniel Ramos holds a Distinguished Researcher position at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN-CSIC). He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2009) carrying out his research at the Bionanomechanics Lab at Microelectronics Institute of Madrid (IMM-CNM-CSIC). After that period, he was post-doctoral researcher at Nanodevices Lab, Yale University (2009-2010), and Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics, Harvard University (2011-2013). His research activities are mainly focused on the interplay in between phonons and photons in optomechanics with special attention to the energy exchange from electromagnetic field and nanomechanical resonators with applications in novel sensing schemes. MORE INFO Meital Reches The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Nanospain2021 Meital Reches is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction) in 2007 from the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University. In 2007-2010, she was an EMBO and a HFSP postdoctoral research fellow at the Chemistry Department, Harvard University. Research in the Reches group focuses on understanding, controlling and developing biomolecular self-assembly processes and generating new functional materials. Specifically, her group studies these biomolecular assemblies at the interface with inorganic surfaces.Altogether, Prof. Reches has over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano and PNAS), two book chapters and 13 families of patents. For her innovations, she was awarded by the Hebrew University with the prestigious Kaye Award for Innovation, the Marie Currie Alumni Association Best Innovator Award and the Tenne Family Prize in memory of Lea Tenne for Nanoscale Sciences MORE INFO Antoine Reserbat-Plantey ICFO (Spain) 3PM2021 MORE INFO Torsten Richter Raith GmbH (Germany) 3PM2021 MORE INFO Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky ICMM-CSIC (Spain) Composites2021 Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is since 1988 a Research Professor Scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (National Research Council of Spain), being currently the Head of the Hybrid, Biohybrid and Porous Nanostructured Materials team at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM), CSIC. Graduate in Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid in 1970; Docteur ès Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, (Belgium) in 1974, and Ph.D. in Chemistry, Universidad Complutense, Madrid in 1979. Author of around 200 publications and 20 patents on the research topics: Nanostructured Functional Materials; Hybrid, Biohybrid, Intercalation Compounds & Nanocomposites; Layered and Porous Inorganic Solids. Since 1987 has been Founder and First Director of several Departments at the CSIC including “New Architectures in Materials Chemistry Department” in 2010. Member of the Direction Committee of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) (1989-2013). Vice-President and President of the Spanish Clay Society (2002-2010), Member of the Direction Committee of the ICMM-CSIC (1990-2010). Invited Professor at the Collège de France, Paris (France), September-December 2011. Editor-in-Chief of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology and Associated Editor of Current Nanoscience, since 2010. Member of the Editorial Board of various SCI journals. Awarded with the STAS Prize (Academie Royal des Sciences, des Lettres et Beaux Arts de Belgique, Belgium), the BRUYLANTS award (Association de Chimistes de l’Université de Louvain, Belgium), the ICIDCA award (The Ministry of Sugar, Cuba), the AIPEA medal (Tokyo, 2005), the Guillaume Budé Medal (Collège de France), and various Distinctions of the CSIC, Spain MORE INFO Ramiro Sagastizabal Qilimanjaro (Spain) QUANTUM2021 Quantum Engineer with focus on hardware and control. Final year PhD in Quantum Computing - TU Delft. MSc in Physics MORE INFO Jose A. Sánchez Gil IEM-CSIC (Spain) 3PM2021 José A. Sánchez Gil is Scientific Researcher at the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC). He received his PhD degree in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1992, after working on rough surface scattering at the Instituto de Óptica (CSIC). He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the University of California, Irvine (USA), and has visited during his career various research centers such as the Imperial College London (UK), CICESE (Ensenada, México), FOM-Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and ICD-LNIO Université de Technologie de Troyes (France). In 1995 he joined the group of Optical Spectroscopies on Plasmonic & Semiconductor Nanostructures at the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), now leading the theoretical division. His research interests span the areas of nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials, currently focused on the fundamentals and applications of plasmonic and semiconductor metasurfaces. MORE INFO Henning Schomerus Lancaster University (UK) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Alexander S. Shaplov LIST (Luxembourg) Composites2021 MORE INFO Clivia M. Sotomayor ICN2 / ICREA (Spain) 3PM2021 ICREA Research Professor Dr Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres was awarded her PhD in physics in 1984 by the University of Manchester (UK). She then held tenured academic appointments at the universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow in the UK. She was a C4 professor at Universität Wuppertal (Germany) from 1996 to 2004 and after a research professor at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (Ireland) from 2004 to 2008. Since May 2008 is an ICREA research professor based at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). She leads the Phononic and Photonics Nanostructures group. She has received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International (USA). She has authored over 550 scientific publications and is an ERC advanced grant holder. MORE INFO Klaas-Jan Tielrooij ICN2 (Spain) QUANTUM2021 Klaas-Jan Tielrooij joined the ICN2 in October 2018, starting the ICN2 Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems Group. In July 2018, he was awarded a visiting professorship at the Graduate School of Excellence “Material Science in Mainz” (Germany). Before coming to the ICN2, he was a research fellow at fellow-BIST institute ICFO in Barcelona. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in December 2010. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2018. MORE INFO Liliana C. Tomé Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal) Composites2021 Liliana C. Tomé received her PhD in Engineering and Technology Sciences – Chemical Engineering in 2014 by Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Portugal. After post-doc (2015-2018) work at the same institute, she joined POLYMAT – UPV/EHU (Spain) for 2 years with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2020, she returned to Portugal and is currently an Assistant Researcher at LAQV-REQUIMTE, NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA). Author of 50+ publications (H = 26, 2250 citations, Google Scholar), her main areas of research are centered on ionic liquid-based materials for gas separation membranes and bioelectronic devices. MORE INFO Cristina Vallés National Graphene Institute (UK) Composites2021 Cristina Valles holds a BSc in Physical Chemistry and a PhD in Nanomaterials from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the CRPP-University of Bordeaux (France) and ICB-CSIC in Zaragoza (Spain), she joined The Department of Materials (University of Manchester) as a PDRA. In July 2019 she was appointed as 'Morgan Advanced Materials Research Fellow'. Together with Dr. Bissett, Prof. Kinloch and Prof. Young, she leads the Advanced Nanostructures Group within the Department of Materials and the National Graphene Institute. Her current research is focused on exploring the impact of carbon nanomaterials in applications such as nanocomposites and multifunctional textiles. MORE INFO Niek van Hulst ICREA - ICFO (Spain) 3PM2021 MORE INFO Paolo Vavassori CIC NanoGUNE (Spain) 3PM2021 MORE INFO Manuel Vázquez Sulleiro IMDEA (Spain) Graphin2021 MORE INFO Giorgio Volpe University College London (UK) 3PM2021 Giorgio Volpe is a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) in the UK. He has held this position since 2014. Relying on forefront photonics and fabrication methods, his current research interests focus mainly on the experimental and numerical study of far-from-equilibrium behaviors emerging in active soft matter systems that are of either biological or artificial origin, and their applications in materials science and healthcare. In 2012, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Photonics from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, Spain) for his work on the optical control of nanoantennas. After his Ph.D. studies, he was a postdoctoral research assistant at the Langevin Institute, ESPCI in Paris (France) working on controlling light propagation in complex media. MORE INFO Felix von Oppen Freie Universität (Germany) QUANTUM2021 MORE INFO Xavier Waintal INAC – CEA Grenoble (France) QUANTUM2021 Xavier Waintal graduated from Polytechnique school, Paris area, in 1995 (X92), did a master of theoretical physics at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, and moved on to the group of J-L Pichard in Saclay for his PhD (1999). He spent two years as a postdoc in P. Brouwer's group in Cornell University, USA and was hired as a permanent researcher in CEA Saclay in 2002. In 2009, he moved to INAC, CEA Grenoble. MORE INFO Amaia Zurutuza Graphenea (Spain) Graphin2021 She received her Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in 2002. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in two European projects related to molecularly imprinted polymers. In 2004, she joined Ferring Pharmaceuticals (previously Controlled Therapeutics) where she worked in the research of new controlled drug delivery systems as a Senior Polymer Scientist. In 2010, she became the Scientific Director of Graphenea. At Graphenea, she leads the research and development activities on graphene-based materials. Since joining Graphenea, she has so far filed for thirteen patents and published more than 74 publications. Principal Investigator in 21 EU FP7/H2020 funded research projects.