Plenary Speakers
A wide range of highly regarded speakers from around the world have been invited to speak at the AMN-6 Scientific Meeting and information about them will be published on the website soon. For more information about speaker and programme updates please sign up for email updates.
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Takuzo AidaDr. Takuzo Aida was born in 1956. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Chemistry from Yokohama National University in 1979 and Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He then began his academic career at the University of Tokyo... Read More |
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Amanda BarnardDr. Amanda Barnard is an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and the leader of the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). She received her Ph.D. (Physics) in 2003, from which she went on to a 2 year position as a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). Read More |
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Paul BurnProfessor Paul Burn is a University of Queensland Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Organic Photonics & Electronics. He received his Ph.D. (Chemistry) from the University of Sydney and in 1988 moved to the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Read More |
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Tai C. ChiangTai C. Chiang has been a faculty member of the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, since 1980. He is currently serving as Scientific Director of the Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the electronic and atomic structures and growth behavior of surfaces, thin films, multiplayers, nanoscale systems, complex oxides, graphene materials, and topological insulators. Read More |
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Roy ClarkeRoy Clarke is the Marcellus L. Wiedenbeck Collegiate Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. After a stint at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Prof. Clarke accepted the James Franck Fellowship at the University of Chicago and then joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. Read More |
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Alison DownardAlison Downard is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury and a Principal Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She gained her PhD at the University of Otago and undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Southampton with Prof. Derek Pletcher and at UNC-Chapel Hill with Prof. T. J. Meyer. Read More |
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Laszlo ForroLászló Forró obtained his B.S. at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and M.S. at Université Paris XI in physics. He received his PhD at the University of Zagreb in 1985. He was visiting scientist at various places including Ruhr Universität Bochum, CEA Grenoble, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, SUNY at Stony Brook/Brookhaven. Read More |
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Hans Joachim-FreundHans‐Joachim Freund (born 1951) studied physics and chemistry at the University of Cologne and received his PhD in 1978 with a thesis on quantum chemical calculations and spectroscopic studies on transition metal carbonyl compounds in comparison with carbon monoxide adsorbates. Read More |
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Juliet GerrardProfessor Juliet Gerrard trained at Oxford University, where she completed an Honours degree in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biological Chemistry. In 1993, she was appointed as a research scientist at Crop & Food Research, where her multidisciplinary research portfolio included a substantial element of applied research in the food science area. Read More |
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Richard B. KanerRichard B. Kaner received a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 working with Prof. Alan MacDiarmid (Nobel Laureate 2000). After carrying out postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987 as an Assistant Professor. Read More |
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Bill LeeAfter graduating in Physical Metallurgy from Aston University he gained a DPhil from Oxford University on radiation damage in sapphire, was a post-doc at Oxford and Case Western Reserve Universities, Assistant Professor at Ohio State University USA, before becoming lecturer in ceramics at the University of Sheffield in 1989. Read More |
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Liberato MannaLiberato Manna received both his MSc (1996) and his PhD (2001) in Chemistry from the University of Bari, Italy. During his PhD and later as a postdoc, he worked at UC Berkeley. In 2003 he became researcher at the National Nanotechnology Lab in Lecce, Italy, and in 2009 he was appointed head of the Nanochemistry Department at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy. Read More |
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Chiara NetoDr Chiara Neto is Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at The University of Sydney. Her field of research is the nano-scale investigation of phenomena that occur at liquid/solid interfaces, such as interfacial liquid slip in confined geometries, stability and dynamics of thin liquid films, and functional patterned surfaces for biomedical and environmental applications. Read More |
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Teri OdomTeri W. Odom is the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and exploiting their size and shape-dependent properties for applications including imaging, drug delivery, and nanolasers. Read More |
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Christelle PrinzChristelle Prinz is an associate professor at the Division of Solid State Physics at Lund University, Sweden. She obtained her Ph.D. in Polymer Physics from Strasbourg University in 1999. From 2000 to 2003, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. Read More
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Adam PronAdam Pron was born (1951) and educated in Poland. After obtaining his MSc in chemistry and chemical engineering he moved to the USA where in 1980 he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (under the supervision of Alan G. MacDiarmid). In the same year he started working at the Warsaw University of Technology where he became full professor in 1993. Read More |
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Ben RuckDr Ben Ruck is a senior lecturer in physics at Victoria University of Wellington. After completing his PhD at Victoria University in 1998 he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Read More |
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Peter SchwerdtfegerProf. Peter Schwerdtfeger currently holds a chair in Theoretical Chemistry at Massey University, serves as Director of the Center of Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and the President of the New Zealand Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Read More |
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Michelle SimmonsProfessor Simmons is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Commnication Technology, a Federation Fellow and a Scientia Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales. Read more |
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Shane TelferShane Telfer is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Massey University, New Zealand. He was born in Central Otago and drifted northwards in his formative years, completing a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Canterbury in 1999. This was followed by postdoctoral stints in Geneva, Tokyo and Montreal. Read More |
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Lionel VayssieresBorn in 1968, Lionel obtained a MSc. in Physical Chemistry in 1991 and a PhD. in Inorganic Chemistry in November 1995 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France for his research work on the Interfacial & thermodynamic growth control of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions. Read More |
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Andrew WeeProfessor Andrew Wee is a Professor in the Department of Physics, and currently Dean of the Faculty of Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BA Honours and MA from the University of Cambridge, PGCE from the University of London, and DPhil from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship (1987). Read More |
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Bill WilliamsBill Williams obtained an Honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics from Leeds University, UK and then undertook a PhD in NMR relaxation behaviour at the Open University. He went on to spend a number of years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in The Chemistry Department at York University, UK, working on various aspects of biological polymers. Read More |
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Ulrich ZuelickeUlrich Zuelicke is a professor of physics at Victoria University of Wellington and a principal investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute. After obtaining his PhD from Indiana University in 1998, he undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT) in Germany and has held permanent academic positions at Massey University in New Zealand from 2003 until 2011. Read More |