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Nanotechnology Course Instructors
AMIJI, Mansoor
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of
Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences and Associate Director of the
Nanomedicine Consortium, Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Dr. Amiji received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from
Northeastern University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in
pharmaceutics/biomaterial science from Purdue University in 1992. His
areas of specialization include polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery
systems, and nanomedical technologies.
Dr. Amiji’s research interests include synthesis of novel polymeric
materials for medical and pharmaceutical applications; surface
modification of cationic polymers by the complexation-interpenetration
method to develop biocompatible materials; preparation and
characterization of polymeric membranes and microcapsules with
controlled permeability properties for medical and pharmaceutical
applications; target-specific drug and vaccine delivery systems for
gastrointestinal tract infections; localized delivery of cytotoxic and
antiangiogenic drugs for solid tumors in novel biodegradable polymeric
nanoparticles intracellular delivery systems for drugs and genes using
target-specific, long-circulating, biodegradable polymeric
nanoparticles; gold and iron-gold core-shell nanoparticles for
biosensing, imaging and delivery applications. His research has received
funding from the National Institutes of Health, local biotechnology and
medical device industries, and private foundations.
Dr. Amiji has extensively published research articles, book chapters,
and conference proceedings. He has also published two books - Applied
Physical Pharmacy (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Polymeric Gene Delivery
Systems: Principles and Applications (CRC Press, 2004). Dr. Amiji has
received a number of awards and accolades including the third prize of
Eurand Award for Outstanding Research in Oral Drug Delivery in 2003.
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BACSA, Wolfgang S.
Wolfgang S. Bacsa, Ph.D., Professor, CEMES (‘Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales’) CNRS, Toulouse. Dr. Wolfgang Bacsa is an expert in the field of nano-photonics and nano-materials. He has a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich in Physics and has extensive experience in condensed matter physics, photonics, microscopy and the synthesis of nano-materials. Dr. Bacsa worked at ETH Zürich, Penn State University and EPFL Lausanne. He is currently a professor at CEMES/CNRS and the University of Toulouse in southern France. His research interests are in advanced optical microscopy, carbon nanotubes and protein aggregation. He has more than 20 years of research experience and published more than 120 scientific papers. He received two Innovation prizes in 1998 and has been an invited visiting scientist at SRI Menlo Park CA, the University of Osaka, Japan and he has been a visiting research professor at the photonics centre/ Boston University, Boston MA.
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BURNHAM, Nancy
Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
MA, USA. Professor Burnham graduated from the University of Colorado at
Boulder in 1987 with a Ph.D. in Physics. Her thesis work concerned the
surface analysis of photovoltaic materials. As a National Research
Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory, she became
interested in scanning probe microscopy, in particular its application
to detecting materials properties at the nanoscale. After three years as
a von Humboldt Fellow in Germany at Forschungszentrum Juelich, she spent
another six years in Europe, principally at the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, all the while pursuing the
mechanical properties of nanostructures (nanomechanics). She became an
Associate Professor of Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the
beginning of 2000. Professor Burnham's international experience also
includes sejours at the University of Bordeaux, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Invited,
tutorial, or plenary speaker at approximately 30 conferences, author or
co-author of roughly 50 publications, she is as well active as Treasurer
of the Nanoscience and Technology Division of the AVS and program
committee member. She is the recipient of the 2001 Nanotechnology
Recognition Award from the same organization. She teaches atomic force
microscopy to undergraduates and graduate students and is writing a
textbook for her course, in part supported by the National Science
Foundation. Current research interests include metrology and
instrumentation for nanoscience in cooperation with the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, molecular mechanics, and
durability of microsensor surfaces.
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CASE, Fiona
Fiona is coordinator of soft nanotechnology programs at the NSTI, she
has more than 15 years experience in the industrial applications of
polymer and surfactant science. Her introduction to industrial polymer
science was in the late 80’s at Courtaulds Research in the UK where she
worked as part of the team developing Tencel - a new environmentally
friendly solvent spun cellulose fiber. She also investigated the effects
of polyacrylonitrile microstructure on carbon fiber performance using
early molecular and quantum mechanics computer modeling techniques.
Courtaulds' involvement as a founder member of the Biosym/Molecular
Simulations Inc. (MSI) Polymer Consortium, one of the earliest materials
simulation efforts, meant frequent trips to sunny San Diego, CA. In 1991
she moved to California to join Biosym. Fiona spent nine years at
Biosym/MSI (now Accelrys). She carried out contract research for some of
the top US and European companies. As manager of the MSI training group
she prepared and presented more than 30 workshops worldwide on polymer
science and molecular modeling. She also worked in marketing and
technical sales support. In 1999 she was hired into a central research
group at Colgate Palmolive. This presented challenges including
materials structure and property prediction for toothpaste, detergent,
hard surface care and personal care products, and packaging and
fragrance technology. She also continued to be active in professional
education as a lecturer for American Chemical Society (ACS) Short
Courses on polymer science and molecular modeling. In her spare time she
organized a symposium on Mesoscale Phenomena in Fluid Systems, which was
held during the ACS National Meeting in Boston, 2002. She is the
coeditor a book based on this symposium (ACS Symposium Series #861). In
2003 Fiona left Colgate Palmolive to move to beautiful Vermont with her
husband, Martin Case, and to found Case Scientific offering consultancy
and contract research in soft nanotechnolgy, computational chemistry,
polymer and surfactant science. She has also embarked on a ”second
career” in scientific journalism. Fiona is a Chartered Chemist and a
member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the ACS, the American Oil
Chemists Society, and the National Association of Science Writers.
Case Scientific: http://www.casescientific.com
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CHEN, Julie
Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, , Co-Director of the Advanced Composite Materials and Textiles Laboratory, at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA and Director of the Lowell Center of
Excellence in Nanomanufacturing.
Dr. Chen's research interests are in the area of mechanical behavior and deformation of fiber structures, fiber assemblies, and composite materials. Emphasis on experimental investigation and analytical modeling of processing (i.e., forming, stamping), energy absorption, fatigue, and failure behavior of composites as they relate to the fiber architecture and manufacturing defects.
Dr. Chen has taught in the mechanical engineering departments at both UML and Boston University and is considered one of the region's leading experts on nanotechnology.
Her interests are in mechanical behavior and deformation of fiber structures, fiber assemblies and composite materials. Additionally, her work focuses on experimental investigation and analytical modeling of processing such as forming, stamping, energy absorption,fatigue, and failure behavior of composites as they relate to the fiber architecture and manufacturing defects.
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CIONTU, Florin
Florin Ciontu is the President of NanoSPRINT, a leading provider of technology intelligence for nanotechnology professionals.
NanoSPRINT is a start-up of TIMA Labs, Grenoble, FRANCE (tima.imag.fr) whose founders include Florin Ciontu and Cosmin Roman of TIMA, Dr. Bernard Courtois, Director of TIMA, Joel Monnier President of Innovation Consulting and ex-Vice President of Research and Development for ST Microelectronics and the Nano Science and Technology Institute.
NanoSPRINT provides technology intelligence solutions for companies interested in understanding emergent technologies. NanoSPRINT's proprietary tools allow for an extensive analysis of specific areas in terms of technological developments, players involved in the field or funding sources. NanoSPRINT's methodology enables them to structure this data according to different perspectives: market studies, technology reports, policy guides among others.
Originating from a research lab, NanoSPRINT interacts very closely with the research community; some of the people on NanoSPRINT's team are still actively pursuing their research in Nano and Biotechnologies.
NanoSPRINT has been organizing the Workshop for Nanotechnology Transfer in Europe for the past three years.
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DOUMANIDIS, Haris
Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering, University of Cyprus. Professor Charalabos (Haris)
Doumanidis holds his Ph.D. from MIT (1988). He has been a Professor and
Director of the Hephaistos Thermal Manufacturing Laboratory at Tufts
University in Medford since 1991, Chief Scientist with Axcelis
Technologies in Beverly, MA, since 2000, the founding Director of the
Nanomanufacturing Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) since
2001, Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2002,
and a Consultant for automation, optoelectronics, biomedical imaging and
automotive industries. His research and teaching interests include
nanomanufacturing, thermal manufacturing, material deposition and
joining processes, rapid prototyping, rapid thermal processing and laser
annealing of semiconductors, distributed parameter system modeling and
control, robotics and mechatronics, and biomedical instrumentation. He
is Associate Editor of the I. J. of Modeling and Simulation, the
organizer and chair of over 25 symposia for ASME, IASTED, IEEE, NSET and
NSF, the speaker of over 60 keynote and invited lectures, and the author
of over 160 papers and several patents and book chapters. He is the
recipient of the Marie Curie Chair of Excellence (2004) by the European
Commission, the ASME Blackall Award (2002), the White House Presidential
Faculty Fellow Award (1996), the NSF Young Investigator (1994) and the
Research Initiation Award (1992).
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DURANT, Yvon
Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Materials Science at the
University of New Hampshire and Director of the Advanced Polymers
Laboratory, Durham, NH, USA. Dr. Durant earned a degree in chemistry and
chemical engineering in from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chemie de
Montpellier, received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from the Université
Claude Bernard, Lyon I in France and an MBA from the University of New
Hampshire. He has worked as both scientist and project leader in the
Polymer Laboratory within BASF AG, Germany and has been an active
industrial consultant. Dr Durant’s areas of research interests include
polymer dispersions, drug delivery, nanostructured polymers, and
polymerization kinetics.
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FERRARI, Mauro
Dr. Ferrari is a founder of the field of biomedical micro/nanotechnology, especially as it pertains to drug delivery, cell transplantation, implantable bioreactors, and other innovative therapeutic modalities. In these fields, he has published more than 100 papers and 2 books. Dr. Ferrari is the inventor of more than 15 issued patents, with about 30 more pending in the United States and internationally. His contributions have received a variety of accolades, including the National Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, a Shannon Director’s Award of the National Institutes of Health, and the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Ferrari earned his degree of Dottore in Matematica at the University of Padova, Italy (1985), and then completed M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He started his academic career at Berkeley, where he was awarded tenure as Associate Professor of Materials Science, Civil Engineering, and Bioengineering. He moved to the Ohio State University in 1999, where his current appointments include serving as Edgar Hendrickson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Internal Medicine, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science. Dr. Ferrari is also Associate Vice President, Health Science Technology and Communications, and Associate Director of the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute. He currently advises the National Cancer Institute as a Special Expert on Nanotechnology.
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HAUGSTAD, Greg
Greg Haugstad is technical staff member and director of the Characterization Facility (“CharFac”; www.charfac.umn.edu), a core facility at the University of Minnesota; he is also a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science. The CharFac is part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (nnin.org), and is also affiliated with the University’rsquo;s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME). Dr. Haugstad received his B.A. in physics from Gustavus Adolphus College and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral research examined metal-semiconductor interfaces with synchrotron radiation photoelectron spectroscopy. After postdoctoral research with DuPont in the University’rsquo;s Center for Interfacial Engineering, he joined the CharFac in 1994 focusing on atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ion beam analysis. His AFM research program has expanded to include (i) dynamics at polymeric surfaces, (ii) the structure and properties of thin films (polymer, surfactant, biological), and (iii) contrast mechanisms in AFM including special methods. He has over sixty publications and is a frequent participant in multidisciplinary symposia and workshops with the common thread of AFM methods and nanotribology. He collaborates with companies on soft technologies spanning personal care, ocular and biomedical industries; he also has academic research in biofilms and crystalline organic semiconductors. His teaching includes a graduate course in materials characterization; lab instruction for undergraduates; adjunct teaching for technical college students; training CharFac users; and short courses in CharFac techniques.
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IYER, Srinivas
Ph.D., Technical Staff Member, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, New Mexico, USA. Dr. Iyer has a Ph.D. from the University of
Houston in biochemistry, with extensive experience in nano-bio
technology development and commercialization. Previously, Dr. Iyer
worked at the UNM Medical School in Albuquerque NM and he is presently
at the Bioscience Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Los
Alamos his current focus is the blending of micro and nanotechnologies
with proteomic analysis and in the development of biologically inspired
nanoscale materials for diverse applications. He has over ten years of
research and four+ years of technical management experience and four+
years of government based commercialization experience. Through the
NSTI, he is commissioned by various US defense organizations to provide
bio-nano evaluations for funding and commercialization opportunities.
Dr. Iyer is a co-founder of the International Nanotechnology Conference
(Nanotech).
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KLIMECK, Gerhard
Ph.D., Technical Director of the Network for Computational
Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering since 2003. He leads the development and deployment
of web-based simulation tools that are hosted on http://nanohub.org a
community website that is utilized by over 3,000 users annually. He was
the Technical Group Supervisor for the Applied Cluster Computing
Technologies Group and continues to hold his appointment as a Principal
Member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a faculty part-time basis.
His research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices,
parallel cluster computing, genetic algorithms, and parallel image
processing. Gerhard has been the lead on the development of NEMO 3-D, a
tool that enables the simulation of multi-million atom quantum dot
systems, and NEMO 1-D, the first nanoelectronic CAD tool. Previously he
was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas
Instruments. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University and
his German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr-University
Bochum. Dr. Klimeck's work is documented in over 380 publications,
including over 110 peer-reviewed publications and over 170
invited/contributed conference presentations. He is a member of IEEE
(senior), APS, HKN and TBP.
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LEE, Sean
Sean Lee, Ph.D is Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences at the
the Office of Technology Transfer at Boston University.
Dr. Lee joined OTD in October of 2005. He has held various positions in
corporate research and business development within the biomaterials and
medical device field. Dr. Lee has worked at two university start-ups, as
a consultant and at Schott AG. At Schott AG he directed the company’s
overall scientific and business activities in bioactive glass. Dr. Lee
began his career at his own start-up within the University of Florida
incubator system.
Dr. Lee received his Ph.D in theoretical physics from the University of
Florida, his Diplom Physik degree from the University of Karlsruhe,
Germany and a BS in physics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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MEAD, Joey L.
Ph.D., Freudenberg-NOK Associate Professor at UMass Lowell, joined the
faculty in 1996. Joey earned her S.B. in chemistry in 1981 and a Ph.D.
in polymers in 1986, both at M.I.T., followed by a 10-year career as a
materials engineer at the U.S. Army Research Lab (Watertown MA). She is
the Deputy Director of the newly awarded NSF Nanoscale Science and
Engineering Center at UMass Lowell. Her research interests include
elastomers (their mechanical behavior and use in barrier materials),
interfacial properties of fiber reinforced composites, rubber recycling,
and nanomanufacturing of plastics.
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MEYYAPPAN, Meyya
Ph.D., Director of the Center for Nanotechnology as well as Senior Scientist at
NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. He is a founding member of the
Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology (IWGN) established by the Office of
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The IWGN is responsible for putting
together the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
Dr. Meyyappan's group, consisting of about 60 scientists, has been engaged in
various aspects of nanotechnology (see http://www.ipt.arc.nasa.gov). He has published over 160 articles
in peer-reviewed journals and has given over 100 Plenary/Keynote/Invited
Presentations in nanotechnology subjects at various national and international
technical, business and educational conferences and numerous Invited Talks at
universities, non-profit organizations and companies across the world. He has
edited and authored a text book “ Carbon Nanotubes: Science and Applications ”,
published by CRC Press in 2004.
Dr. Meyyappan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). He is Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). In
addition, he is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),
Materials Research Society (MRS), American Vacuum Society (AVS) and American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He is the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
on Nanotechnology and ASME's Distinguished Lecturer on Nanotechnology. He is
currently the President-elect of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.
For his work and leadership in nanotechnology, he has been awarded NASA's
Outstanding Leadership Medal and Arthur Flemming Award by the Arthur Flemming
Foundation and George Washington University. For his contributions to
nanotechnology education and training, he has been awarded the 2003-2004
Engineer of the Year award by the San Francisco section of the AIAA (American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). In November 2004, he has been
awarded President's Meritorious Award for his contributions to nanotechnology
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PRATSINIS, Sotiris E.
Dr. Sotiris E. Pratsinis (PhD UCLA 1985) is Professor of Process
Engineering (www.ptl.ethz.ch) at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland since 1998. His research centers
on aerosol processing of nanoparticles with applications in catalysts,
ceramics, sensors, batteries, dental and food materials. His program
has been funded by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations as
well as by DuPont, Nestle, Toyota, Ivoclar-Vivadent etc. Prior to this
he was Professor and Interim Head of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Cincinnati, Ohio (1985-98). Prof. Pratsinis has graduated
16 and currently supervises nine PhD students with whom he has published
over 200 refereed articles and book chapters on synthesis of
nano-TiO2, SiO2, ZnO, CeO2 as well
nanocomposites, lightguides and noble metal — ceramics. He has
also six patents licensed to Dow Chemical, Degussa and Hosokawa-Micron.
He has received the 1988 Kenneth T. Whitby Award of the American
Association for Aerosol Research, the 1989 Presidential Young
Investigator Award by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the 1995
Marian Smoluchowski Award by the European Aerosol Association and the
2003 Thomas Baron Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AIChE). He is European Editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research
and on the Editorial Boards of the Powder Technology, Journal of
Aerosol Science, Advanced Powder Technology, Particle and Particle
Systems Characterization and KONA Powder and Particle as well as on the
Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council Centre on Functional
Nanomaterials and on the Science Advisory Board, Harvard School of
Public Health - International Initiative for the Environment and Public
Health.
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PRATT, Michael
Michael Pratt is Director of Corporate Business Development of the Office of Technology Transfer at Boston University.
Mr. Pratt joined Boston University’s Office of Technology
Development in May 2000. He spent five years in Office of Technology
Transfer, responsible for the transfer of technologies from the fields
of physical, engineering, and computer sciences. As Director of the
Office of Corporate Business Development, Mr. Pratt is responsible for
building long term partnerships with a special focus on technology
development between Boston University/Boston Medical Center and
industry.
Prior to OTD, Mr. Pratt was the Global Support Manager at NESLAB
Instruments, Inc. of Portsmouth New Hampshire. His duties included
management of the Application Engineering and Technical Support
departments, P&L responsibility for the field service operation, and
maintaining relationships with their International Dealer network.
Mr. Pratt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Holy Cross College.
He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society and the Association
of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
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REED, Mark
Mark Reed is the Harold Hodgkinson Chair of Engineering and Applied
Science at Yale University, which he joined after co-founding the first
U.S. Nanoelectronics research program at Texas Instruments. His research
activities have included the investigation of nanoscale and mesoscopic
systems, electronic transport in heterojunction systems, artificially
structured materials and devices, MEMS and bioMEMS, nanotechnology, and
molecular electronics. Mark is the author of more than 150 professional
publications, 5 books, has given ten plenary and over 200 invited talks,
and holds 23 U.S. and foreign patents. He has been elected to the
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the
World. His awards include; Fortune Magazine “Most Promising Young
Scientist” (1990), the Kilby Young Innovator Award (1994), the DARPA
ULTRA Most Significant Acheivement Award (1997), the Harold Hodgkinson
Chair of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University (1999), the
Syracuse University Distinguished Alumni award (2000), the Forbes
magazine “E-Gang” (2001), the Fujitsu ISCS Quantum Device Award (2001),
the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award for Advancement of
Basic and Applied Science (2002), and in 2003 was elected a Fellow of
the American Physical Society.
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RESNICK, Douglas
Doug Resnick received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Ohio State University
in the field of Solid State Physics. Before joining Molecular Imprints,
Doug worked at Motorola Labs from 1990 till 2004. From 1981-1990, Doug
worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Development projects included x-ray
lithography, GaAs direct write and plasma etching of photomasks. Doug
joined Motorola in 1990 and led the development effort for x-ray mask
pattern transfer. Doug was a Section Manager in Motorola Labs, and a
member of Motorola’s Scientific Advisory Board. Doug’s previous
assignment was to provide lithographic and plasma-processing solutions
for a diverse group of programs that are developing products in the
Embedded Systems and Physical Sciences Labs. Doug was responsible for
developing Motorola’s Step and Flash Imprint Lithography research
program, and has authored or co-authored over 100 technical publications
and holds 16 U.S. patents. He has served as the conference chair for
both the EIPBN and SPIE Microlithography Symposiums.
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RESASCO, Daniel E.
Ph.D., Sam A. Wilson Professor of Chemical, Biological and Materials
Engineering; George Lynn Cross Research Professor; School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Resasco’s research interest is in the area of heterogeneous
catalysis. The goal is to understand the relationship between the
catalytic performance and the microscopic structure and composition of
the material, in addition to the links between the synthesis process and
the final catalyst. Achieving this goal requires a combination of
studies involving materials synthesis, characterization of materials
under reaction conditions, and precise measurement of the catalytic
behavior. In this interdisciplinary effort Dr. Resasco’s team employs a
variety of techniques, including surface spectroscopies (DRUV-VIS,
FTIR), x-ray bsorption (EXAFS, XANES), microcalorimetry, electron
microscopy, resonance techniques, and temperature programmed methods
(TPD, TPR, TPO), “insitu” Raman spectroscopy, together with steady-state
and transient catalytic activity measurements.
Dr. Resasco’s research group conducts their investigations on a variety
of materials- zeolites, supported metals, and strong solid acids.
Fundamental studies are designed to be applicable to industrial
processes such as isomerization and dehydrogenation of lower alkanes,
aromatization of paraffins, and nitration of aromatics. Another
important application of their studies is in the area of environmental
catalysis for the abatement of NOx in the presence of O2, H2O, and SO2.
In the last few years, they have started work on the controlled
catalytic synthesis of carbon nanotubes in processes that can be
scaled-up.
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ROSSIER, Joël S.
Joël S. Rossier studied physical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich - ETHZ, followed by a Ph.D. thesis at the Laboratory of Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry in Lausanne, under the supervision of Prof Hubert Girault. His work partly done in collaboration with Kansas University was focused on the development of µ-chips for diagnostics and electrophoresis applications and was rewarded by the BioRad's Young Scientist Electrophoresis Research Award in 1998.
In 1999, Joël S. Rossier co-founded DiagnoSwiss, a Swiss based company developing microfluidic diagnostics and proteomics systems in collaboration with multinational companies such as Biomérieux and Agilent Technologies which launched in 2006 a product (OFFGELTM-electrophoresis) based on DiagnoSwiss’ technology portfolio.
Joël S. Rossier is author of more than 40 peer-reviewed research articles and 14 patent applications. He is regularly invited as reviewer and editor for international scientific journals (Editorial Board of Electrophoresis, NanoMedicine and Expert Opinion in Medical Diagnostics), and he co-edited a book entitled Microfluidic Application in Biology (Wiley publisher 2006). Dr Rossier co-founded the Swiss Proteomics Society and, in order to keep a strong link to academic institutions, he has been appointed in 2005 as external lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
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SCHUSTER, Steve
Steve Schuster is chairman and founder of Rainier Corporation, a leading technology-marketing agency. He has more than two decades of industry experience marketing and designing high-technology products, and while at Rainier has been the creative force behind dozens of PR and advertising campaigns for a wide variety of complex innovations.
Mr. Schuster began his career designing speech recognition systems for renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, and professional audio processing equipment for Lexicon. His first marketing role as a product manager for real-time data acquisition and signal processing products at Concurrent expanded into industry marketing for measurement, control, vibration, and signal intelligence markets. Following various technology marketing management and director-level roles he served as general manager of Data Translation's digital signal processing division.
Existing PR and ad agencies, he discovered as an executive, were simply not capable of digesting and intelligently communicating technologies to technical audiences. In response, Mr. Schuster launched Rainier in early 1993 with a vision credibly providing technology companies with a professional resource for bringing “complex” technologies to market.
Mr. Schuster received a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, both from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
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TWARDOWSKI, Thomas
Thomas Twardowski, Ph.D., has been working in nanocomposites since 1997 and in composites since 1987. Dr. Twardowski is the author of the recently released Introduction to Nanocomposite Materials: Properties, Processing and Characterization published by DesTech Publications. He is author or co-author of 25 peer reviewed papers and proceedings on composites and nanocomposites. Dr. Twardowski has diverse research experience in composites, adhesives, biomaterials and science education. Sponsors for composites research have included the US Navy, National Science Foundation, NASA, Motorola, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Keystone Innovation program. Dr. Twardowski has taught courses in materials, textiles, chemical, and mechanical engineering. He is currently a visiting professor at Widener University in Chemical Engineering where he is also conducting sponsored research on the effects of reinforcement size on properties and multi-scale composites. He has designed short courses for Polymer Nanocomposites 2007 and for the US Army. He is a reviewer for various foundations and publications. Dr. Twardowski is a past president of the Philadelphia Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers, and a member of ASM International, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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SUNDBERG, Donald C.
Ph.D., Director of the Nanostructured Polymers Research Center in the
Materials Science Program at the University of New Hampshire, Durham,
NH, USA. Professor Sundberg has been working in the field of emulsion
polymers for over 37 years. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical
engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and
his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. He spent 5 years working on
impact modifiers for ABS polymers with the Monsanto Company prior to
pursuing an academic career. His research interests include
polymerization kinetics in solution, bulk and emulsion systems,
interfacial science and polymer morphology control, diffusion in
polymers, micro- and nano-encapsulation, coatings, and controlled
release technology.
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WEBSTER, Thomas J.
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Materials Engineering, Purdue University,West Lafayette, IN, USA. His
degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh
(B.S., 1995) and in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2000). Dr. Webster’s research involves
design, synthesis, and study of nanophase materials for various implant
applications. Over the past four years at Purdue, his lab has generated
over 5 million dollars in grants through various US agencies and private
industry to study biological interactions with nanophase materials. His
research on nanophase materials has received attention in numerous
recent media publications such as Men’s Health, the Economist, MSNBC
News, Chemical and Engineering News, Advances in Nanomaterial Research,
Nanoparticle News, highlighted on the cover (with lead story) of the
American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Materials Today, Materials Research
Bulletin. He has graduated over 10 MS and Ph.D. students and currently
has a research lab of 15 graduate students. He is on the editorial board
of Biomaterials, Journal of Bionanotechnology, and Expert Review of
Medical Devices. He has organized over 25 symposia highlighting the use
of nanophase materials in various biological applications. Dr. Webster
was the 2002 recipient of the Biomedical Engineering Society Rita
Schaffer Young Investigator Award, the 2004 runner- up recipient of the
Society for Biomaterials Outstanding Young Investigator Award, nominated
for the 2004 top 100 researchers under the age of 35 by TR Review, and
the 2004 recipient of the Outstand Young Investigator Award for the
Schools of Engineering at Purdue University. He also serves on several
grant review panels for the NIH and NSF in the area of nanobiotechnology.
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WINDL, Wolfgang
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
Professor Windl works in the area of Nanoscale Computational Materials
Science. His field of expertise is in the area of atomistic simulations,
especially within density-functional theory. Currently, he works on
nanostructured interfaces and molecule-surface interactions of
semiconductor device systems. Previously, he spent four years with
Motorola, first as Senior Staff Scientist in Motorola's Computational
Materials Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and later as a
Principal Staff Scientist in the Digital DNA Laboratories in Austin,
Texas, where he was working in the area of multiscale modeling of
semiconductor processing. Before that, he held postdoctoral positions at
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arizona State University. He received
his diploma and doctoral degree in physics from the University of
Regensburg, Germany. Wolfgang Windl is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Computational Electronics and the Journal of Theoretical and
Computational Nanoscience. Among others, he has been Chairman of the
International Conference on Computational Nanoscience (www.nsti.org) and
is recipient of 1998 and 1999 Patent and Licensing Awards from Los
Alamos National Laboratory for his contributions to the molecular
modeling code CLSMAN. He has given more than 30 invited talks at
international conferences and research institutions and has been awarded
twice the “Best Teacher” recognition of the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University.
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