Organizing Committee Members Series of - Polymer Chemistry Conferences
International Committee
Charles Brumlik
Managing Director & Founder
Nanobiz LLC
New Jersey
Charles Brumlik(Biography)
Charles Brumlik worked with Dr. Brauer as a nanotechnology expert on many projects for over a decade and leads a team of 12 technical searchers. As corporate IP attorney with Honeywell and ExxonMobil and at a Princeton IP law firm, he managed international intellectual property strategies for materials, drafted patents for chemicals, manufacturing processes, and consumer products and negotiated technology, funding, joint venture and intellectual property agreements.
Charles Brumlik(Research Area)
Commencing with his Ph. D. dissertation entitled “Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials†at Texas A&M, Dr. Brumlik has over 30 years of experience working with nanotechnology. As a postdoc at Colorado State University, he published widely on creating and testing materials, devices and systems in the nano and meso scale. He also collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), international academic groups, government, and corporate research groups. Dr. Brumlik’s recent nanotechnology work ranges from composites to nanomaterials to petrochem. From early in his career, Brumlik assisted in the creation and operation of startup companies for molecular models, energy, business methods, electrically conducting composites, food chemistry, and consulting. His legal career started as a registered patent attorney and developed to include technology transfer, sponsored research, joint ventures, international business transactions, due diligence and related business law. For over 10 years, Charles held Chair, Vice Chair and related positions for the ACS’ Chemical Marketing & Economics Group.
Leszek Herman
President
Nanotechnology Center
Poland
Leszek Herman(Biography)
Sentor (from Sensor and Actuator) a computer stethoscope and actuator (for therapy) dual functions for total medicine, diagnosis and therapy of Autonomous Nervous System and all internal related human organs - projected for MEDICINA a Japanese Ryodoraku Medicine Computer System (Medicine Aid Computer), nanotechnology of cupper, dual parts polymer nano-glue, superlong power capacity smartphone battery with a graphene and carbon nanotubes use, nanosolar PV, spintronics, fotonics, superpower and high speed graphene laser, anticorrosion nanotechnologies of coins, Graphene Science "Flat" Tower Project, European Innovations & Nanotechnologies Bank Project. www.world-innovations-bank.global
Leszek Herman(Research Area)
Smart Materials and Nano technology
Moinuddin Sarker
CEO
Sheba Waste Technologies Ltd
USA
Moinuddin Sarker(Biography)
Dr. Sarker is the Owner of Waste Technologies LLC and working on Waste to Energy especially Waste Plastic to Fuel /Diesel, Waste Tires to Fuel and mixture of other Waste to converting in to Green Fuel. Waste Technologies LLC Turning Waste Plastic into Fuel & Creating Green Jobs. He is the Owner of Sheba Green Technologies LLC and working on Turning any Waste to Green Fuel or Green Product as well as E-Waste. He is the Owner of Sheba Construction LLC and working on Flipping Real Estate on Residential and Commercial properties. Buying foreclosure houses, rehab then reselling or renting. It creates local jobs. He is the owner of Sheba Landscaping and Design LLC and working on Landscape, Lawn, Lawn Mower, and Gardening. He is the Owner of Sheba Magic Touch LLC and working on providing cleaning services for residential and commercial in all aspect.
Moinuddin Sarker(Research Area)
Waste Technologies
Robert Buckingham
CEO
Robert L. Buckingham,MD, Inc.
USA
Robert Buckingham(Biography)
Robert Buckingham have been in private practice for 40 years but in contrast to other colleagues,some of which are much younger, I find my career more interesting now than ever before. I have been surrounded by an amazing group of allied healthcare professionals that have made my life easier to do the things that make differences in peoples lives. Over the course of several years I have held many positions and chairmanships of most of the hospital committees including Chief of Medicine twice, Chief of Staff at our community hospital and Chief of the ICU several times. In 2009 I was became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians which in part made the previous 26 years of hard work seem well worth it. I am grateful for the ongoing privilege of having people trust me to take care of them at their most difficult and challenging times. Taking care of so many difficult cases has given me insight into perhaps the greatest gift of all, a passion to explain what I have seen and to make sense of recurrent patterns of illness. So now as author, I will expose the deepest secrets of the origins of health. This path has been refreshing, perhaps something I should have done years ago. I welcome those of similar elk who have a passion and courage to discuss quality life extension as well as understanding paradigm shifts in health care prevention..
Robert Buckingham(Research Area)
Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Noninvasive Cardiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care, Consultant in Internal Medicine, author and writer on vascular inflammatory prevention and life extension
Scientific Committee
Dimitrios P. Nikolelis
Professor
University Of Athens
Greece
Dimitrios P. Nikolelis(Biography)
Dimitrios P. Nikolelis received his PhD from University of Athens in 1976 and he is a professor of environmental chemistry in Department of Chemistry, University of Athens. Prof. Dimitrios Nikolelis has coordinated 3 European Projects on environmental biosensors (CIPA96-0231, IC15-CT96-0804 and QLK3-2000-01311). He also was twice a. NATO Director in the following Advanced Research Workshops: 1. Biosensors for Direct Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in Field, Smolenice, Slovakia,: May 1996 and 2. Portable biosensors for the Rapid Detection of Biochemical Weapons of Terrorism, July 2012. Prof. Dimitrios Nikolelis has over 200 scientific papers in scientific journals and conferences. He is the Editor of 5 books on Biosensors (1. Biosensors for Direct Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in Field, Springer, 1996, 2. Portable Chemical Sensors- Weapons against Bioterrorism, Springer, 2012 and 3. Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants, CRC, 2013 3. 4. Biosensors for Security and Bioterrorism Applications, Springer, 2014. 5. Nanotechology and biosensors: recent advances, Elsevier, in press. He is the Editor of many scientific journals. His research is targeted on the fabrication of portable biosensors for in the field uses and he has authored a large number of scientific papers on the detection of environmental pollutants such as hydrazines, dioxins, insecticides, toxins, etc. His current interests also include the construction of novel chemical nanosensors that can be used for the rapid detection of environmental pollutants directly in the gas phase. Prof. D. P. Nikolelis group has recently utilized graphene and ZnO to develop chemical nanosensors based on polymer lipid films for species of clinical or food significance such as urea, uric acid, cholesterol, etc. In progress, there is the evaluation and validation of nanosensors that are based on stabilized polymerized lipid films supported on glass fiber filters using a dry spot test using optical methods of analysis (i.e., fluorescence) to detect environmental pollutants such as insecticides, plant hormones, toxins, hydrazines, etc.
Dimitrios P. Nikolelis(Research Area)
His research is targeted on the fabrication of portable biosensors for in the field uses and he has authored a large number of scientific papers on the detection of environmental pollutants such as hydrazines, dioxins, insecticides, toxins, etc. His current interests also include the construction of novel chemical nanosensors that can be used for the rapid detection of environmental pollutants directly in the gas phase. Prof. D. P. Nikolelis group has recently utilized graphene and ZnO to develop chemical nanosensors based on polymer lipid films for species of clinical or food significance such as urea, uric acid, cholesterol, etc. In progress, there is the evaluation and validation of nanosensors that are based on stabilized polymerized lipid films supported on glass fiber filters using a dry spot test using optical methods of analysis (i.e., fluorescence) to detect environmental pollutants such as insecticides, plant hormones, toxins, hydrazines, etc.
Magdalena Valentina Lungu
Head of Multifunctional Metallic Materials Laboratory
INCDIE ICPE-CA
Romania
Magdalena Valentina Lungu(Biography)
Magdalena Valentina LUNGU is the Head of Multifunctional Metallic Materials Laboratory in National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA (INCDIE ICPE - CA) Bucharest, Romania. Her research experience, Senior Researcher, CS I, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from 2008. Publications includes 124 articles, including 26 ISI articles, 15 ISI Proceedings articles, 14 articles in journals indexed in international databases, over 75 communicated papers; 2 books, 1 chapter in a book, 9 RO patents granted by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), 9 RO patent applications at OSIM; awards: 40; 320 citations & h-index: 7 in Google Scholar; 192citations & h-index: 5 in Scopus; 212 citations & h-index: 5 in Research Gate, RG Score: 21.71; 161 citations & h-index: 5 in Web of Science. She acted as a Committee Member in several International conferences and as a Board Members for many reputed journals.
Magdalena Valentina Lungu(Research Area)
Her research areas include materials science and engineering, electrical contact materials, micro/nanocomposites, multifunctional metallic materials, thin films, surface engineering, antimicrobial applications.
Plato A. Magriotis
Associate Professor
University of Patras
Greece
Plato A. Magriotis(Biography)
Since 2006, Plato A. Magriotis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Patras in Greece and a Research Affiliate with the Department of Chemistry at New York University. Magriotis received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology with Professor Francis Johnson at Stony Brook University in 1983 and did Postdoctoral work at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate Professor E. J. Corey. His career started at West Virginia University and continued at Merck & Co. as well as New York University in the U.S., prior to his return to Greece.
Plato A. Magriotis(Research Area)
Magriotis’ research program focuses on the development of new methodology for the synthesis of relevant pharmacophores applied in drug discovery.
Seema P Mengshetti
Medicinal Chemist
Emory University School of Medicines USA
USA
Seema P Mengshetti(Biography)
Seema P Mengshetti received her B.S. and M.S. degree in chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India in 2002 and 2004 respectively. She completed her Ph.D. in 2013 in the group of Dr. Vaijayanti Kumar, Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra. Her thesis focused on synthesis and biophysical properties of Nucleic acid analogues bearing 5-atom achiral amide- and chiral D/L-amino acid-derived linkages, as well as Nucleic acid analogues bearing 4’-modified nucleosides for their potential therapeutic application in the field of antisense drug strategy. After completion of her PhD, she worked as a Research Associate in the same group of Dr. Vaijayanti Kumar. Currently, Dr. Seema works at Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicines, Atlanta USA. She is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), The International Society of Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic acid (IS3NA), International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR), Indian Society of Chemist and Biologist (ISCB), and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
Seema P Mengshetti(Research Area)
Her research involves design and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides & corresponding phosphate analogs and/prodrugs for the treatment of HIV, HCV, HBV & other newly emerging viruses and nucleic acid analogs/mimics, oligonucleotides and their biophysical studies for their potential use as antisense drugs. She keeps her intellectual interests alive as an editorial board member for serval organic and medicinal chemistry journals. She also serves as a reviewer for many international journals (RSC, ELESVIER, Springer Open, ACS) spanning research areas; synthetic medicinal chemistry, nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry and biochemical sciences.
Dan Cohen
Project Manager
Informa-tix Israel
Israel
Dan Cohen(Biography)
Dan Cohen is PhD candidate specializing in nuclear physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), and member of MUSE collaboration which trying to solve the 'proton radius puzzle'. Among His achievements he developed a positron particle accelerator for NTD, the first of its kind in Israel. Dan has vast experience in developing simulations and models of ionized particles propagation.He is the CSO of Informa-tix, a premier Big-Data service organization.
Dan Cohen(Research Area)
Nuclear physics, Radiation damages, Non-destructive testing, Self-curing materials, Smart materials, Materials science, Space oriented structures, Space oriented materials, Space technologies, Quantum physics and Big-Data.
Ramesh Agarwal
Professor of Engineering
Washington University in St Louis
USA
Ramesh Agarwal(Biography)
Prior to joining the faculty at Washington University in 2001, Professor Agarwal was the Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Wichita State University from 1994 to 1996 and the Executive Director of National Institute for Aviation Research from 1996 to 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was also the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University. From 1978 to 1994, Professor Agarwal worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. From 1976 to 1978, Professor Agarwal worked as a NRC Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Center and as a Principal Research Engineer at Rao and Associates in Palo Alto, California from 1975 to 1976. Over a period of 35 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Electromagnetics, Computational Aeroacoustics, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flows, Bio-Fluid Dynamics, and Flow and Flight Control. More recently, he has devoted some of his efforts in nanotechnology and renewable energy systems - in particular wind, solar and biomass. He is the author and coauthor of over 500 publications and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many professional, government, and industrial advisory committees. Professor Agarwal is a Fellow of eighteen societies: American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Institute of Pysics (IOP), UK, Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Energy Institute (EI), Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Academy of Science of St. Louis, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and World Innovation Foundation (WIF). He has received many honors and awards for his research contributions including the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2001), ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2006), Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award (2007), AIAA Aerodynamics Award (2008), AIAA/SAE 2009 William Littlewood Lecture Award (2009), James B. Eads Award of Academy of Science of St. Louis (2009), ASEE/AIAA John Leland Atwood Award (2009), SAE Clarence Kelly Johnson Award (2009), SAE Franklin W. Kolk Award (2009), AIAA Lindbergh Award (2010), SAE Aerospace Engineering Leadership Award (2013), SAE Excellence in Engineering Education Award, SAE International Medal of Honor (2015) and AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award (2015) among many others.
Ramesh Agarwal(Research Area)
Ramesh Agarwal’s current research interests include ground effect aerodynamics, flow control, rarefied gas dynamics and hyper sonic flow, bio-fluid dynamics, wind energy, energy efficiency of buildings, chemical looping combustion and geological carbon sequestration
Filipe Nuno Mateus
CTO CRIAM Portugal
CRIAM
Portugal
Filipe Nuno Mateus(Biography)
I am passionate about technology, especially when it has the power to change someone's life. I pursued academic endeavors such as teaching and researching in the University of Beria Interior while having a strong connection to the industry and entrepreneurship. With a master degree in computer engineering, I paused my PhD in Bio medicine to pursue a bold idea that is now Nuada. I am the creator of Nuada, a patented system to help people recover hand function. I am also one of the founders of CriamTech, a company focused on ubiquitous chemical reaction detections and also I am Co-Founder & CTO at CRIAM from January 2016 which Focused on Scientific and technological aspects of the. Responsible for the submission of patents and assisting the R&D progress. I am also Founder & CEO at NUADA from February 2014 in which I Initially developed the concept and idea. Currently, responsible for the company strategy and direction, building a strong team, product development.
Filipe Nuno Mateus(Research Area)
Practical implementations of smart materials, mainly in medical technologies
Jose Miguel Garcia-Martin
Head of the Department
Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology
Spain
Jose Miguel Garcia-Martin(Biography)
I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) with a thesis on magnetic nanowires and microtubes. Then, I moved to the Solid -State Physics Lab at the Paris XI University (Orsay, France), where I spent almost three years with a Marie Curie individual fellowship. In 2003 I joined the Institute of Microelectronics of Madrid (IMM) with a "Ramon y Cajal" contract, where in 2006 I became Tenured Researcher of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). In 2017 IMM changed to Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN) and I got a promotion to become Research Scientist. In 2017 I was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston, USA) for several months. Nowadays, I also hold administrative duties as Head of the Department of Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructures at IMN.
Jose Miguel Garcia-Martin(Research Area)
My research work focuses on the study of different nanostructures (such as nanoparticles, nanocolumns, lithographed elements and thin films) with applications in various fields: magnetism, plasmonics and biomedicine. In particular, in this latter field, I prepare antibacterial coatings and nanostructured electrodes for cell stimulation. In the last few years, I have led the projects entitled “Magnetic antidotsâ€Â, “Large area advanced materials based on nanopillars and nanoparticlesâ€Â, “NeuPES (Electrical stimulation with nanostructured electrodes)†and “Nanoimplantâ€Â, which won the IDEA²Madrid Award (a partnership of the Madrid Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT). I have co-authored 82 articles (which have received more than 3000 citations) and 2 patents. I have given about 30 invited conferences and my h-index is 30 (WoS).
Aharon Gedanken
Prof.
Bar-Ilan University
Israel
Aharon Gedanken (Biography)
Prof. (Em.) Aharon Gedanken obtained his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles. He got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 835 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals. His H-Index is 91. He was a partner in five EC FP7 projects one of them, SONO, was coordinated by him. This project was announced by the EC as a “Success Storyâ€Â. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of EC in FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013.
Aharon Gedanken (Research Area)
Nanotechnology
Gregory Nelson
CEO
EW Polymer Group, LLC
Florida
Gregory Nelson(Biography)
Results-oriented, high energy leader who has a successful track record in achieving significant and sustainable results in major global companies like Nalco, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil. Major accomplishments include significantly turning around Lion Copolymer profitability in a difficult market, leading the Nalco European Operations enabling the region to meet financial commitments, delivering over $150 MM savings in Purchasing synergies in the Dow/Union Carbide merger, restructuring Sun Chemical Supply Chain organization resulting in $77MM saving in the first 18 months and reengineering Exxon Chemical manufacturing plants which resulted in 25% reduction in manufacturing cost and 30% improvement in productivity. Strengths are in the commercial, manufacturing and supply chain areas and are well known for consistently delivering results and implementing innovative solutions.
Gregory Nelson(Research Area)
Polymer Chemistry
Ashley Hanlon
Product development Engineer
Formosa Plastics Corporation
USA
Ashley Hanlon(Biography)
Experienced Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the plastics industry. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Organic Chemistry from the University of New Hampshire.
Ashley Hanlon(Research Area)
Publications Single-chain Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, Simulations, and Applications Single-chain nanoparticles containing sequence-defined segments: using primary control to promote secondary and tertiary structures in synthetic protein mimics Exploring structural effects in single-chain “folding†mediated by intramolecular thermal Diels–Alder chemistry Scalable Synthesis of Single-Chain Nanoparticles under Mild Conditions Electrochemical performance of electroactive poly(amic acid)-Cu2+ composites Protein-like structure and activity in synthetic polymers Porphyrin-Cored Polymer Nanoparticles: Macromolecular Models for Heme Iron Coordination What Is Next in Single-Chain Nanoparticles? A brief user's guide to single-chain nanoparticles
Student Ambassador
Hajar ATMANI
Student
University Sultan Moulay
Slimane
Hajar ATMANI(Biography)
Hajar Atmani is a PhD student at the Sustainable Development Laboratory-University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco. In addition, she had a master's degree in the engineering of inorganic materials.
Hajar ATMANI(Research Area)
Her research focuses experimental and theoretical study of photovoltaic molecules using Gaussian software.