Webinar on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Ravi Shankar Kumar is a PhD Scholar at Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Laboratory (Department of Petroleum engineering and Geological Sciences) at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India (Institute of National Importance) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Govt. of India. He is working under Dr. Tushar Sharma on Chemical based EOR techniques, Nanofluid Design, CO₂ stabilized foam flooding, Carbon Capturing (Trapping), Rheology of polymer-based nano-fluids, CO₂ trapping, Nano- assisted EOR, etc

Vision: His vision is to explore new areas of science and technology in the field of Oil and Gas recovery process to further diversify global energy basket to meet the current and future challenges of Oil and Gas development.

Dr. Rupesh Kumar Mishra is currently working as an Associate Professor and Ramalingaswami fellow at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Biosensor development from BITS, Pilani, India. Dr. Mishra has served to various Universities which includes University of California, San Diego, USA, Aix Marseille University, France and University of Perpignan, France. He received prestigious awards from French Embassy as a sandwich Ph.D. fellow in 2011 and Ramalingaswami fellowship award from Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India in 2019. He authored 49 research articles and 2 international patents. He is currently working and developing wearable sensors for biomedical, security, and environmental application using electrochemical techniques.

Nihal Farid Younes graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo university with honors. Combining academic and professional experience, Nihal worked as a teaching assistant in Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo university as well as community pharmacist for two years in retail pharmacies while completing her post graduate studies in (Nano-systems as potential carriers for enhancing drug delivery). After acquiring her PhD, she opted for more academic depth, so she held a full-time position as a Lecturer in

Mahalaxmi Nagasubramanian is a research scholar at school of environmental sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, with a fellowship from department of science and technology India (DST- Inspire fellow). She holds a Master degree (M Tech) in the subject Biotechnology. She is passionate about drug delivery and Nanoparticles.

Dr Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He has studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and studied on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University, Elazig, Turkey in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has already been working as professor. He published over 60 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc- theses. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University, in 1999-2004. He received a certificate awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Nguyen Duc Hung was born in 1946 in Binh Dinh, Vietnam and is a professor of electrochemistry (from 1991) and is currently researching at the Institute of Environmental Technology. He earned his bachelor's degree at Hanoi University (1964-1968), his doctorate (1972-1975) and his doctorate of science (1982-1985) at TU Dresden. He practiced science at ETH Zürich 1978-1979. He participated in research and postgraduatetraining in the field of electrochemistry and metal corrosion protection and received the state science and technology awards in 1991, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2009 for his research and application in this field. For more than 10 years, he has focused his research on electrochemical reactions with high-voltage DC currents in the water to prepare silver nanoparticles and other metals for antibacterial and environmental pollution treatment.

Mohamed Y. Zaky, assistant lecturer, faculty of Science, Beni- Suef University, Egypt. Currently, I am enrolled in a PhD program at institute of cancer stem cell, Dalian Medical University, China under the major of Molecular Biology.

Ekta Rani is currently working as a researcher in NANOMO, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, Finland with research interests including soft lithography, spectroscopy, and microscopy for nanofabrication and associated applications. She completed her BSc and MSc degrees at Panjab University, India in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Subsequently, she joined the Raja Ramanna Centre, India for Advanced technology to carry out studies on semiconductor nanocomposites for her PhD with Prof. Alka A. Ingale. In 2016 she joined the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), University of Manchester, UK as a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Lu Shin Wong and Prof. Royston Goodacre, researching the development of scanning probe lithography-based bio–sensors. In 2019, she joined the Department of Physics, Central University of Punjab, India as an assistant professor.

Prof./Dr. Jean-Paul Lellouche (1981- PhD degree/education in Organic Chemistry field, University La Doua, Lyon - France) moved in October 2000 to the Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel) - Department of Chemistry & Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (BINA) as a Full Professor in synthetic Organic Chemistry/Nano(bio)technology (July 2008) & recently Dpt of Chemistry Head (recent Oct 2017-July 2018 period). His main current R&D activities concern nanomaterials engineering science (magnetic/non-magnetic drug/siRNA & microRNA delivery systems, theranostic nanoparticles for human therapy in phothermal/photodynamic/antibacterial & anti-parasitic fields) together with innovative biocompatible inorganic functional dichalcogenide nanostructures. He authored 169 peer-reviewed scientific papers (2,756 citations), 16 patents, and 6 book chapters together with a recent start-up creation activity (November 2019 – NANO-DROPs Goodbye Eyeglasses project).

Sara Mashkouri, PhD in organic chemistry, had 9 papers published in ISI journals with 256 citations and more than 15 paper presented and posters in conference’s forced to designs green and scalable methods that can be scalable in industrial. She’s now working as an adviser in Technology incubators, Iran university of science and technology, and research in biotechnology and Nanocarrier. PhD passed in Tabriz university under supervisor Dr.Arsalani. The PhD thesis title is“ Green synthesis of two-dimensional carbon compounds and Feasibility study application in electronic” she synthesized graphene at green condition using citric acid as green row material to active the surface of graphene by the mechanochemical method. Beside of synthesized graphene and exfoliated graphite applied varistor compound. These studies showed that exfoliated graphite effect on properties of varistor and modification of these compounds. She hoped to design more nanocomposite under the green and cheap method that can be applied in industrials.

Ahmed Abdel Wahab Salem is an Assist Prof Dr. in EPRI (Egyptian petroleum Research Institute) in Cairo. A member of the central laboratories in EPRI. The Safty head manager of the EPRI.

Khoder Rakan Bachour is an electronic engineer, he is employed in Al-baath university in Syria since 2005 . He holds a BSc in electronics engineering from Al-baath university in 2004, and holds a Master degree in electronics from Aleppo university in Syria in 2016. Now he is a doctoral Student in faculty of Mechanical and electrical Engineering, Department of electronics , Albaath University-Homs-Syria. The doctoral thesis title is ((improve of the performance of field effect transistor by using carbon nanotubes for various applications)). He is very interesting in nanotechnology and it’s applications and he aims to introduce new researches in this field.

Dr. V. Vasanthi, have graduated her M.Sc., degree in Physics from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore in 2011. She has completed her doctoral degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, in 2019. I have started my research work in the field of magnetic and dielectric properties of ferrite system and later she has carried out the research for the doctoral degree in the field of optical properties of defect related metal oxide nanoparticles for phosphor-converted white LED (pc-WLED) application. She has also worked as a senior research fellow in Madurai Kamaraj University and carried out the research work in Raman spectroscopic study of liquid phase exfoliated graphene. Her current research focuses on the development of a new method for the synthesis of metal oxide/Graphene nanocomposite and highly efficient materials for the photocatalytic degradation of industrial dyes.

Mina Hoorfar received She received her PhD and MASc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Toronto in 2005 and 2001, respectively, and her BSc from University of Tehran, Iran, in 1998. She is currently Director of the School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada. She held an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Case Western Research University, where she was with one of the earliest centers of fuel cell research. Her current research focuses on the development of portable devices for biomedical applications ranging from DNA purification from saliva, acetone detection from the exhale breath of a diabetes patient, circulating tumor cells detection from the blood of a metastatic patient, and cell patterning on the digital microfluidic platforms for tissue engineering. Another aspect of Dr. Hoorfar’s research endeavors involves the design and fabrication of biosensors and nano-biosensors to achieve low detection limits required for environmental and agricultural applications.