The 2nd International Online Conference on Gels

Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA;Esmaiel Jabbari is Tenured Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at University of South Carolina. Prof. Jabbari’s laboratory specializes in the creation of multi-cellular tissue models for skeletal tissue engineering and cancer drug delivery. He received Berton Rahn Award in 2012 from AO Foundation and Stephen Milam Award in 2008 from Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. He was elected to the College of Fellows of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2013. Prof. Jabbari has authored >250 articles and presented >100 invited lectures. He serves as the Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and Associate Editor of Gels.

Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;Prof. Dr. Dirk Kuckling studied chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany from 1986 to 1991 and received his doctorate there in 1994 with a thesis on preparative organic chemistry. He then moved to the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at TU Dresden, Germany. After an interim stay (2001-2002) as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, he was awarded a teaching license in macromolecular chemistry in 2004. He has been Professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at Paderborn University, Germany since March 2008. In October 2019, he was appointed (Honorary) Adjunct Professor at Jiangsu University/China. His main interest is the synthesis and characterization of polymer structures including gels with actuator and sensory properties, as support for catalysts, and for drug delivery systems.