Nanomaterials Asia-Pacific Academic Forum

Prof. Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga

Ariga is the Principal Investigator of World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He received his Ph.D. Degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research field is based on supermolecular chemistry and surface science, including the boundary research areas of organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. He also appointed as a professor of Univ. Tokyo since 2017. His H-index is 106 (Web of Science, November, 2020) and he has been selected as a highly cited researcher in chemistry. Editorial activities: Editor-in-Chief of Bulletin of Chemical Society of Japan; International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry An Asian Journal, ChemNanoMat; Editorial Board Member of Advanced Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir (- 2014), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Appl. Mater. Today, Small Methods, etc. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, a Member of World Economic Forum Expert Network and Honorary Member of Materials Research Society of India.

Prof. Dr. Bin Wang

Bin Wang is a professor at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), an institute in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He received his Ph. D. at NCNST in 2014 and then moved to Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff’s group at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials in Korea and Prof. Liming Dai’s group in the University of New South Wales in Australia as a research fellow until 2019. His research interests include low-dimensional materials synthesis and the related mechanical and electrochemical studies.

Prof. Dr. Xiaoyan Li

Xiaoyan Li received his Ph.D. degree from Brown University in 2012. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. So far, he has published 62 papers in the refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Mater., Nature Nanotech., Nature Comm., Nano Lett., PNAS, Advanced Mater., PRL, Nano Energy, Science Advances etc., and 3 book chapters. He served as the editorial board members of Communications Materials, Nanomaterials, Materials, and Science China-Technological Science and Acta Mechanica Sinica. He has organized six symposia for international conferences and has served as the proposal reviewer for several funding agencies (including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Sciences, Engineering Research Council of Canada, German Research Foundation and Estonian Research Council), and the technical reviewer for more than 50 peer reviewed journals. He received the Extreme Mechanics Letters Young Investigator Award in 2018 and the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty in 2018.

Prof.Dr. Zong-Hong Lin

Zong-Hong Lin received his PhD degree in Chemistry from the National Taiwan University in 2009 and continued with his postdoctoral research at the National Taiwan University and the Georgia Institute of Technology during the years of 2010-2014. Subsequently, Dr. Lin joined the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) as Assistant Professor in August 2014 and was successfully promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure effective from August 2017. Dr. Lin’s research interests center on the development of self-powered nanosensors and systems for healthcare applications. He is a productive researcher with more than 90 SCI papers (sum of the times cited: 8865, h-index: 48), as well as a multi-award winner for his acclaimed research contributions, including Young Scholar Fellowship of Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (2020), IEEE-NANOMED New Innovator Award (2019), Distinguished Young Investigator Research Grant of Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (2019), Young Investigator Award of the National Tsing Hua University (2018), Yong Investigator Award of the Association of Chemical Sensors in Taiwan (2016) and Yong Investigator Award of the Asian Biomaterials Congress (2015). Meanwhile, Dr. Lin is devoted to turning his scientific research into industry viable solutions – with more than 20 patents and developed technologies of great commercial potential across varied healthcare market segments.

Prof. Dr. Won-Chun Oh

Won-Chun Oh is full Professor in the Department of Advanced materials and engineering at Hanseo University in Korea and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Anhui University of Science and Technology in China. And, he is guest professor in some of Universities in China, Thailand and Indonesia. He obtained the ‘Research Front’ award from Korean Carbon Society, and obtained the ‘Yangsong’ award from Korea Ceramic Society, the “Excellent Paper Award” from Korea Journal of Material Research, and the Best Paper Award” from Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for his pioneering work, and “Award of appreciation” from ICMMA2011, ICMMA2014 and ICMMA2019. He is an ICMMA committee board member and, is appointed as one of the “Conference Chairman and Vice Chairman” from 2007 to present year. He was appointed as one of the “Top 100 Scientist in the World” at IBC, UK and “Top 2% Scientists in the World” at Stanford University, USA. He is the author or a coauthor of 791 papers published in domestic and international journals and speeched on conference as Special lecture, Plenary lecture and Keynote lecture speaker. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multifunctional Materials and Photoscience, Asian Journal of Materials Chemistry and the Advisory Board Member of the Asian Journal of Chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Horacio Cabral

Horacio Cabral is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Kazunori Kataoka. Dr. Cabral was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, until 2010, when he joined the Department of Bioengineering of The University of Tokyo as a Lecturer. In 2014, he was promoted to his current position.Dr. Cabral’s major research interests relate to the development of nanomedicines for diagnosis and therapy, particularly systems directed to intractable cancers. He has made major influential achievements in the development of translatable polymeric nanocarriers Particularly, his polymeric micelles targeting anticancer drugs to tumors have proceeded into human clinical studies, improving patients’ survival and reducing side effects. Moreover, he has accomplished seminal contributions in the understanding of the effect of nanocarrier design on activity, particularly through intratumoral and intracellular navigation. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, etc., and he is inventor of more than 30 patents. Dr. Cabral has been recipient of several awards, such as the Asahi Glass Foundation and the Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research. He currently serves on the editorial board of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Nanomaterials and the advisory board of Macromolecular Bioscience.