Invited speakers

Montserrat Casas Cabanas
CIC Energi Gune, Álava, Spain

Montse Casas-Cabanas is an Ikerbasque research associate and the scientific coordinator of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Area at CIC energiGUNE. Her research interests deal with the design of battery materials and the understanding of phenomena that occur in energy storage devices through a multidisciplinary approach, with a focus in crystal chemistry and with dedicated attention on the impact of structural disorder and defects in intercalation mechanisms, for which the FAULTS software was developed.
Conference title: "Imperfect intercalation-based battery materials: the role of defects in electrochemical performance"
For more information: Montserrat Casas Cabanas website

Jorge L. Colón
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Professor at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras and PI of the NSF-Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials' Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials. His interests are in​​ layered nanomaterials for solar fuels, electrocatalysis, and anticancer drug delivery. He is an AAAS Fellow, FRSC, ACS Fellow, member of the ACS International Affairs Committee and of IUPAC Inorganic Chemistry Division. He is coeditor and coauthor of Tailored Organic-Inorganic Materials (Wiley, 2015)
Conference title: "Electrocatalysis and Drug Delivery Using Layered Zirconium Phosphate Nanomaterials"
For more information: Jorge L. Colón website

Yury Gogotsi
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

Yury Gogotsi is Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He also serves as Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. Together with his students and colleagues, he made principal contributions to development of materials for electrochemical capacitors and other energy storage devices, discovered MXenes and developed carbide-derived carbons with tunable structure and porosity.
Conference title: "Ions between the MXene Sheets – Intercalation, Actuation, Electrochemistry and More"
For more information: Yury Gogotsi website

Masayuki Kawaguchi
Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan

Professor at Osaka Electro-Communication University (OECU), and currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, OECU. He has worked in the field of syntheses and application of graphite-like layered materials composed of boron, carbon, and nitrogen for 30 years. He is currently the Advisor (in Councilors) for the Carbon Society of Japan.
Conference title: "Intercalation of group 1 and 2 metals into B/C and B/C/N materials based on the graphite network"
For more information: Masayuki Kawaguchi website

Shinichi Komaba
Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Shinichi Komaba is a professor at Tokyo University of Science. He is studying on electrochemical energy conversion materials for Li-, Na-, K--ion batteries / capacitors, biofuel cells, and electrochemical sensors. Recently, his group focuses on new carbon materials and their redox chemistry for alkali-metal insertion.
Conference title: "Electrochemical Li, Na, K, and Rb Insertion into Graphite and Hard-Carbon Electrodes"
For more information: Shinichi Komaba website

Guillaume Rogez
IPCMS, Strasbourg, France

Guillaume Rogez is a CNRS research director at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (https://www.ipcms.fr/). He is interested in the development of soft-chemistry strategies for the functionalization and the exfoliation of layered oxides and hydroxides. in addition to synthetic aspects, he investigates more particularly the magnetic and optical properties of these (multi)functional hybrid materials.
Conference title: "Luminescent layered oxides and nanosheets: synthesis and characterization"
For more information: Guillaume Rogez website

Jean-Marie Tarascon
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Jean-Marie Tarascon is a specialist of Solid-State Chemistry. He started his carrier in the U.S., first at Cornell University (1980), and subsequently at Bell Labs and Bellcore until 1994. He then became professor at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and director of the Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides (LRCS UMR CNRS 7314) in Amiens. In 2011, he founded the French Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E), a CNRS research federation grouping together industrial and academic actors in the battery and supercapacitor fields.
Conference title: "Materials-Electrolyte-sensing Innovations Towards improved and Sustainable Battery Chemistries"
For more information: Jean-Marie Tarascon website

Gareth Williams
University College London, London, England

Gareth is Professor of Pharmaceutical Materials Science and Head of Pharmaceutics in the University College London School of Pharmacy. He leads a group of around 20 researchers working on a range of topics in drug delivery and vaccine formulation. His group is particularly interested in using inorganic nanomaterials for improving the efficacy of vaccines, targeted drug delivery, and theranostics.
Conference title: "Theranostic formulations from layered inorganic materials"
For more information: Gareth Williams website