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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. Annette Bussmann-Holder
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
Title: From polar perovskite oxides to high temperature superconducting ceramic oxides
Annette Bussmann-Holder
PhD 1979 University of Freiburg, BW, Germany
Postdoc at the MPI for Solid State Research
Consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Visiting professor at Santa Barbara, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bayreuth, University of Florida, Tallahassee
Professor for Solid State Research at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Research Interests: Solid State Physics with emphasis on phase transitions, ferro- and antiferroelectric materials, superconductivity, high temperature superconductivity, magnetism, nonlinear phenomena, multiferroic materials, perovskite oxides, high dielectric constant materials, multi-component systems, displacive – order/disorder phenomena etc.
Multiple plenary talks worldwide, multiple times keynote lecturer, invited speaker
Conference organizer, session chair etc.
Referee for all major journals in condensed matter physics including Nature, Phys. Rev. Lett.
Editor of several books including co-editorship with Prof. Dr. mult. K. A. Müller
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. A. Castellanos-Gomez
CSIC - ICMM, 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.
Prof. Federico Rosei
National Institute of Scientific Research, Canada
Title: The Energy Challenge from a Materials Perspective
Federico Rosei O.C., C.Q. (MSc (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”) holds the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste since March 2023. Previously he was Full Professor at the Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes (QC) Canada, where he served as Director (07/2011–03/2019). He held the Canada Research Chair (Junior) in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003–2013) and the Canada Research Chair (Senior) in Nanostructured Materials (2016–2023) and the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (2013–2023).

Dr. Rosei’s research interests focus on structure/property relationships in nanomaterials and their use as building blocks in emerging technologies. His research has been supported by multiple funding sources from the Province of Quebec, the Federal Government of Canada as well as international agencies, for a total in excess of M$ 19. He has worked in partnership with over twenty Canadian R&D companies. He is co-inventor of three patents and has published over 535 articles in prestigious international journals (including Science, Nature Phot., Nature Mater., Nature Chem., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Func. Mater., Adv. En. Mat., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, etc.), which have been cited over 31,200 times (H index = 91). He has been invited to speak at over 390 international conferences (58 Keynotes, 37 Plenaries) and has given over 320 seminars and colloquia, over 850 professional development lectures and 50 public lectures in 52 countries on all inhabited continents.

He is Fellow of numerous prestigious national and international societies and academies, including: the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Science, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the World Academy of Science (TWAS), the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Foreign), Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Foreign), the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science, the World Academy of Ceramics, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, AAAS, the American Ceramic Society, Optica, SPIE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ASM International, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Australian Institute of Physics, the Chinese Chemical Society (Honorary), the Mexican Academy of Engineering (Corresponding), the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (Foreign), Senior Member of IEEE, Global Young Academy (Alumnus) and Member of the Sigma Xi Society.

He has received several awards and honours, including the FQRNT Strategic Professorship (2002–2007), the Tan Chin Tuan visiting Fellowship (NTU 2008), the Senior Gledden Visiting Fellowship (UWA 2009), UWA Professor at Large (2010–2012), a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2001), a F.W. Bessel Award (Humboldt foundation 2011), the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (Royal Society of Canada 2011), the Herzberg Medal (Canadian Association of Physics 2013), the Brian Ives Lectureship (ASM international 2013), the Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry (CSC 2014), the NSERC EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2014), the José Vasconcelos Award for Education (World Cultural Council 2014), IEEE Distinguished Lectureships (NTC 2015–2016 & 2025, Photonics Society 2020–2022 and 2026, Electron Devices Society 2022–Present), the Lash Miller Award (ECS 2015), the Chang Jiang Scholar Award (China), the Khwarizmi International Award (Iran), the Recognition for Excellence in Mentorship (American Vacuum Society 2015), the Selby Fellowship (Australian Academy of Sciences 2016), the J.C. Polanyi Award (Canadian Society for Chemistry 2016), the Outstanding Engineer Award (IEEE Canada 2017), the President’s Visiting Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists (Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017 and 2024), the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship (2018–2020), the Sichuan 1000 talent (short term) award, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award (2018), the Changbai Mountain Friendship Award (2018), the IEEE Montreal Gold Medal (2018), the APS John Wheatley Award (2019), the Blaise Pascal Medal (European Academy of Science 2019), the Guangxi Golden Silkball Friendship Award (2020), the TMS Brimacombe Medal (2021), the Wolfson Fellowship (Royal Society), the Prix Urgel Archambault (ACFAS 2021), the Prix du Quebec “Marie Victorin” (2021), the J.C. Smith Medal (Engineering Institute of Canada 2022), the Premio Nazionale “Gentile da Fabriano” (Associazione Premio Gentile, Italy 2022), the Envoy of People’s Friendship Award (Jiangsu Province, 2022), the Brockhouse Medal (Canadian Association of Physics 2022), the Canadian Light Source – TK Sham Award in Materials Chemistry (CSC 2023), the Spirit of Salam Award (ICTP 2023), a Guggenheim Fellowship in Engineering (2023), Knight of the National Order of Quebec (2023), the AVS Nanotechnology Recognition Award (2024), the Nano Energy Award (2025) and Officer of the Order of Canada (2025).