Evgeny Katz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983. He was a senior researcher in the Institute of Photosynthesis (Pushchino), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983-1991. In 1992-1993 he performed research at München Technische Universität (Germany) as a Humboldt fellow. Later, in 1993-2006, Dr. Katz was a Research Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 he is Milton Kerker Chaired Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, NY (USA). He has (co)authored over 470 papers in peer-reviewed journals/books with the total citation more than 35,000 (Hirsch-index 88) and holds more than 20 international patents. He edited five books on different topics, including bioelectronics, molecular and biomolecular computing, implantable bioelectronics and forensic science. Two books fully written by him on switchable electrochemical systems and enzyme-based computing were published recently. He was an Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Sensors Journal (2009-2012) and he is a member of editorial boards of many other journals. His scientific interests are in the broad areas of bioelectronics, biosensors, biofuel cells and biomolecular information processing (biocomputing). In 2019 he received international Katsumi Niki Prize for his contribution to bioelectrochemistry.

Silvana Andreescu is the Egon Matijević Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry at Clarkson. She received a PhD in Chemistry, from the University of Perpignan, France, and the University of Bucharest, Romania in 2002, and has been a member of the Clarkson faculty since 2005. Between 2003 and 2005 she was a NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the recipient of a French Government Graduate Fellowship, a NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, the NSF-CAREER Award, the John W. Graham Faculty Research Award, the Research Excellence Award and a Member of the Million Dollar Club at Clarkson University, reflecting funds received for sponsored research. In her research lab she has worked with and mentored over 15 graduate students, 4 post-doctoral fellows, 10 international visiting researchers, including a Fulbright Fellow, 3 high school teachers and over 50 undergraduates. She is committed to the success of her students and fellow researchers, many of whom are continuing their education at top graduate institutions or have secured rewarding positions in industry or academia.

Professor Podlaha received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, NY, NY, in chemical engineering and was formerly employed at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA as a tenured assistant/associate professor in chemical engineering (1998-2007), and at Northeastern University, Boston, MA as a tenured associate/full professor (2007-2017). She is the current Chair of the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Clarkson University. As part of NSF, DOE, NIH and DARPA funded projects, Podlaha has directed 25 graduate students (19 PhD and 6 MS) and over 25 undergraduate students in electrochemical research in the lab. She has authored or co-authored 80 peer reviewed journal publications, 24 proceedings papers, 1 book chapter, 4 patents and has an h-index of 30 with over 3,000 citations. She was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and her research interests include novel electrodeposited composites, alloys and nanostructured materials. She was the past Chair of the Electrodeposition Division of The Electrochemical Society (2015-2017) and is a co-editor for the electrochemistry section of the Frontiers in Chemistry Journal.

Dr. Sitaraman Krishnan is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clarkson University. His research interests include electrochemical properties of conducting polymers and ionic liquids at electrode-electrolyte interfaces. He also investigates the rates of ion-transport through materials (using experiments and molecular simulations), studies electrokinetic behaviors of colloids and surfaces in chemical mechanical planarization, and designs new polymeric materials for energy conversion and storage devices. After graduating from Lehigh University with a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering, Krishnan was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. He joined Clarkson in 2007.

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Taeyoung Kim is an assistant professor at Clarkson University with a joint appointment to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Institute for a Sustainable Environment (ISE). Dr. Kim received a doctorate in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University in 2015, and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kim concentrates his research on the application of electrochemical principles and technologies to address environmental and sustainability challenges in water and energy systems. Specific research topics include water desalination, wastewater treatment, and electrical power production from renewable and alternative energy sources such as salinity gradients, waste heat, and CO2. He has published more than 20 papers in some of the best journals in the field, including Energy & Environmental Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

Paolo Bollella is a Research Assistant Professor at Clarkson University in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science since September 2019. He received his MSc in Analytical Chemistry in 2014 at the Faculty of Science of Sapienza University of Rome. He started his PhD studies in Pharmaceutical Science with speciality in Electroanalytical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Riccarda Antiochia at the Department of Chemistry and Drug Technologies. During this period, he moved for at least two years to the Division of Biochemistry and Structural Biology – Department of Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden. In this department, he joined to the bioelectrochemistry laboratory led by Prof. Lo Gorton, working on the development of new nanostructuration approaches to study the electron transfer between redox enzymes and solid electrodes for applications into carbohydrate amperometric biosensors and enzymatic fuel cells. After his PhD, he was involved in a collaboration with Prof. Anthony E.G. Cass (Imperial College) about the modification of microneedle electrode array for non-invasive detection of different biomarkers (e.g., glucose, lactate etc.). In August 2018, he joined the Department of Analytical Chemistry at Åbo Akademi in Turku (Finland) with a Johan Gadolin PostDoc fellowship awarded from the board of Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Center. In October 2018, he joined the group of “Bioelectronics & Bionanotechnology” led by Prof. Evgeny Katz. In March 2019, he was awarded with the Minerva Prize for the Scientific Research – Merit Mention for the achievements obtained during his doctoral thesis based on the study of “Mediated/Direct Electron Transfer of Redox Protein for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells Applications. He is author of 44 papers on peer-reviewed international journals, 3 book chapters, 1 student book, 2 proceedings and almost 60 oral or poster contributions to national and international conferences.