Invited Lecturers

Plenary Lecturer

Prof. Clément Sanchez

Collège de France, Paris Sorbonne, Strasbourg University, French Academy Science

PLENARY LECTURE: "Integrative chemistry of functional nanostructured and hierarchically-structured inorganic and hybrid materials"

Short Bio. Clément Sanchez is Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France chair of "Chemistry of Hybrid Materials" and Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Strasbourg. He was Director of the "Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris" (UMR 7574, University of Pierre and Marie Curie-Collège de France-CNRS) (1999-2013). He did a large part of his carrer at the CNRS were he was Director of Research and he was also Professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique. He received an engineer degree from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1978 and a "thèse d'état" (PhD) in physical chemistry from the University of Paris VI in 1981. He did a post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently performing research at UMR7574 in Paris and at USIAS in Strasbourg.

He is specialized in the field of nanochemistry of nanostructured porous and non-porous transition metal oxide based gels and porous and non-porous hybrid organic inorganic materials shaped as monoliths, microspheres and films. He has created a new school of thought in materials chemistry and opened a new disciplinary field with both fundamental and technological impact. He has pioneered the development of functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials, synthesized via ”chimie douce” coupled with green processing methods. He was able to implement many of his fundamental concepts into technologies for hybrid materials, applied nowadays in adsorption, catalysis, protection, waste recycling and optics… He also organized many scientifically national and international meetings associated to the field of soft-chemistry, hybrid materials and related bio-aspects. He received many national and international awards among them: the CNRS Silver Medal, the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award, the P. Süe Award of the French Chemical Society, the Institut Français du Petrole Award of the French Academy of Sciences, the François Sommer Award "Man and Nature", the Eni Award "Protection of the Environment", the Chemistry Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences.

He is member of several Academies, among them: the French academy of sciences, The European academy of sciences, The French academy of technologies and the World academy of ceramics.

Invited lecturers

Prof. Rute A. S. Ferreira

Aveiro University

" Luminescent full-colour windows for light harvesting and on-site energy generation in IoT scenarios "

Short Bio. Prof. Rute A. S. Ferreira (PhD in Physics 2002), is Associated Professor in the department of physics at UA. She is vice-director of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials and a member of the general board of UA. Her current scientific interests are focused on the optoelectronic studies of organic/inorganic hybrids foreseeing applications in the fields of optoelectronics and green photonics (solid-state lighting, and integrated optics), luminescence magnetic materials (single ion/molecule magnets) and photovoltaics (luminescent solar concentrators and down-shifting layers). Recently, she expanded her interests to luminescence thermometry focused on primary thermometers and to the application of luminescent materials for the internet of Things (IoT) featuring optical smart tags for traceability and sensing .

Prof. Markus Niederberger

ETH Zurich

"Nanoparticle-based aerogels as 3-dimensional photocatalysts for hydrogen production "

Short Bio. Markus Niederberger studied chemistry at ETH Zurich, where he also received his doctorate with a thesis on nanostructured metal oxides. After a postdoc at the University of California in Santa Barbara, he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam. In 2007, he became an assistant professor of multifunctional materials at ETH Zurich. He is now a full professor there and works on the synthesis and processing of a wide range of functional materials for corrosion protection, photocatalysis and various battery types.

Prof. Aline Rougier

ICMCB - University of Bordeaux

"Physical deposition of chromogenic thin films through materials perspective"

Short Bio. Prof. Aline Rougier works at the Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, ICMCB. After her PhD in Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science, and two post-doctoral stays, she joined the ICMCB. Her research has been focused on the development of new materials for energy efficiency, including batteries, solid oxide fuel cells, electrochromics, thermochromics and photochromics. Recently, her main research topic concerns the study and optimization of electrochromic materials in the form of powders or thin films by physical deposition techniques, from a deep investigation of their optical and electrochemical properties to their integration in devices for applications in the visible and the infrared regions. She serves as editor of the journal Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells.

Prof. José Paulo Farinha

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

"Smart hybrid silica nanocarriers "

Short Bio. Prof. Jose Paulo Farinha is Full Professor of Physical-Chemistry, Materials and Nanosciences at the Chemical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon. His scientific interests are focused on the intersection of functional nanomaterials and polymers, and their interaction with light. He has been working on nanostructured materials (metallic, semiconductor, silica and hybrids), smart polymers and colloids (emulsion and controlled radical polymerization). He is expert on static and dynamic fluorescence, static and dynamic light scattering, and laser scanning microscopy. He has also developed light emitting materials for imaging and diagnostics, multifunctional nanosystems for controlled delivery/capture, optical sensors, high performance polymer coatings and structural color materials.

Prof. Fátima Montemor

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

"Smarter sol gel coatings for corrosion management of metallic assets "

Short Bio. F. Montemor is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Department of Chemical Engineering and Dr. Honoris Causa by the University of Mons. Her scientific activity focusses the development of new functional and self-healing coatings for surface protection, and novel metal compound redox conductive coatings (including self-healing composites) for electrochemical energy storage. She was responsible for the coordination of a significant number of research projects, and industrial agreements at IST. Presently, she is Vice president for Research and International Affairs at IST and member of the executive Board of the school.

Dr. Luisa Durães

Coimbra University

"Rethinking the production of aerogels with recycled materials "

Short Bio. Luisa Durães is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of Coimbra and full member of the Chemical Process Engineering and Forest Products Research Centre. Currently she is the Head of this Department. She concluded her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2008, specializing in the energetic materials area and, more recently, in the synthesis of nanostructured materials such as aerogels, core-shell, porous nanoparticles and films by sol-gel technology and other soft solution approaches for multiple applications. She is/was involved in projects in the area of nanotechnology, most of them aimed the development of surface-modified and reinforced silica nanostructured materials for thermal insulation and water cleaning.

Dr. Sofia Masi

INAM - Jaume I University

"Targeted approaches to stabilize the perovskite material through the use of organic additives in solution"

Short Bio. Dr. Sofia Masi, (1987, M. Sc. in Chemistry 2011, PhD in Bio-Molecular Nanotechnologies-Physics 2016) is a postdoc researcher at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló (Spain). Dr. Masi was granted a Juan de La Cierva Incorporación fellow and she has built a solid experience on perovskite solar cells and light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on perovskite/organic additives and perovskite/inorganic quantum dots systems. Her current research activity is focused on the thermodynamic stabilization of unstable photoactive perovskite crystal phases, by chemi-structural interaction with inorganic quantum dots. Dr. Masi is also featured along with other outstanding women at the forefront of energy research in the related last published issue of ACS Energy Letters (ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 58−68; doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02398).

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