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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 28, 2026

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Yutaka Moritomo
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Title: To be confirmed.
Yutaka Moritomo has completed his PhD in physics from University of Tokyo and postdoctoral studies from University of Tokyo. Now, he is the director of division of materials for energy storage and conversion, Tsukuba Research center of Energy Material Science (TREMS), University of Tsukuba. His research topic was exploration of transition metal oxides. At present, his research topic becomes comprehension and development of thermal energy harvester including thermorechargeable battery and liquid-type thermoelectric conversion. He has published more than 200 papers (total citation is 29,6000, h =74, i10 = 296.).
Prof. Eui-Hyeok Yang
Stevens Institute of Technnology, USA
Title: Ferromagnetism in Substitutionally Doped TMDs: Toward Spintronics and Bioelectronics
Dr. E. H. Yang is a Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He worked as a Senior Member of the Engineering Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Yang led several projects funded by NASA, DARPA, and NRO before joining Stevens in 2006. He secured over forty federal grants and contracts, including funding from the NSF, AFOSR, and the US Army. Among other honors, he was awarded the Lew Allen Award for Excellence at NASA/JPL in 2003, the Award for Research Excellence at Stevens in 2019 and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (Advanced Career) from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2020. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council as well as the Sensors Council. Dr. Yang is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Reviews and Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council North Jersey Chapter. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2023, he was awarded the Master of Engineering, Honoris Causa, from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Prof. Costas Galiotis
Greece
Title: To be confirmed.
Will update soon.
Prof. Annie K. Powell
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Title: Magnetism and spintronics
Will Update
Prof. Guy Le Lay
Aix-Marseille University, France
Title: From 2D silicon, coined Silicene, to Xenes and Noble Metallenes
Guy Le Lay, Emeritus Professor at Aix-Marseille University, a renowned specialist in Surface/Nano-Science, graduated as an engineer at the School of Mines in Nancy, France (1968). He became Full Professor in Physics at the University of Provence, (1982), working on the formation of metal/semiconcductor interfaces. By reversing the systems in the 2000s, he pioneered the realization of silicene and germanene in Marseille, which triggered a gold rush for the synthesis of all other two-dimensional artificial single-element materials called Xenes. For these breakthroughs he was the winner of the Prestigious 2025 Prize for Science, awarded every three years by the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technology and Applications, after being the recipient of the International 2021 Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize awarded by the Institute Of Physics and the Société Française de Physique.
Prof. Andres Castellanos-Gomez
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Title: Strain as a Universal Control Knob in 2D Materials: From Excitons to Correlated Phases
Andres Castellanos-Gomez is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), where he leads the Castellanos Lab of the 2D Foundry. His research focuses on the optoelectronic and mechanical properties of two-dimensional materials, with particular emphasis on strain engineering and the development of flexible and conformable devices. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2D-TOPSENSE), an ERC Proof-of-Concept (StEnSo), and an ERC Synergy Grant (SKIN2DTRONICS) to develop ultra-conformable 2D-material-based electronics. Castellanos-Gomez has authored over 180 scientific articles and is consistently recognized among the world’s Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate. He has received numerous awards, including the Felisa Martín-Bravo Spanish National Research Award (2022) and the Miguel Catalán Research Award of the Madrid region (2022), the Young Researcher Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (2016) and is a full member of the Spanish Young Academy. Throughout his career, he has actively developed experimental techniques and setups designed to be easily adopted and reproduced by others, and he is deeply committed to supporting the research community by openly sharing technical knowledge and providing guidance.
Prof. Wolfgang Kautek
University of Vienna, Austria
Title: Pulsed Laser-induced Physicochemical Processes in Condensed Matter
Wolfgang Kautek holds academic degrees from the Technische Universität Wien, Vienna,, Austria, and from the Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He served as a research scientist at the University of Kentucky, USA, at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, California, and the Siemens Research Center, Erlangen, Germany, from 1976 to 1987. 1988 he became head of the Laboratory for Thin Film Technology of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, and Adjunct Professor at the Free University Berlin. 2004 he was appointed full-professor for physical chemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria, and served as Russell Severance Springer Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, in 2017. He conducts research in nanotechnology and laser processing of interfaces, also in the area of cultural heritage science. More than 230 scientific publications and 4 patents were authored by him.
Prof. Hai-Hu Wen
Nanjing University, China
Title: Commonalities and perspectives of unconventional high temperature superconductors
Hai-Hu Wen, a senior professor of physics in Nanjing University, China, American Physical Society Fellow (2012), Winner of Alexander von Humboldt Research award (2025). He has made several important contributions in the field of superconductivity, published more than 520 scientific papers in internationally recognized journals, received high citations, h-index 65.