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| Keynote Speakers |
| 1. Professor Ratko Magjarevic |
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 Ratko Magjarević received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. After his appointment in industry at the Institute of Electrical Engineering “Koncar,“ he joined the Electronic Measurement and Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. He is full professor teaching several courses in Electronic Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering at undergraduate, graduate and at postgraduate studies.
His scientific and professional interest is in fields of electronic and biomedical instrumentation, in particular in cardiac potentials analysis and pacing, in research of new methods for drug delivery based on electropermeabilisation and recently in research of personalised intelligent mobile health systems. He is author or co-author of numerous journal and conference papers, several text books and book chapters. R. Magjarevic is currently the President of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).
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| 2. Dr. Robert A. Lieberman, President, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) |
 Dr. Robert A. Lieberman, President, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS), received his Ph.D. in Physics with an emphasis on solid-state physics and biophysics from the University of Michigan in 1981. Dr. Lieberman then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was a Member of the Technical Staff for ten years. Before founding IOS, he served as Vice President and General Manager for Research and Development at Physical Optics Corporation. He holds 34 U.S. patents and has chaired more than 25 conferences and symposia on fiber optic sensors and optical biosensors. He is Chairman of ASTM Subcommittee E13.09 on standards for Fiber Optic Waveguides and Optical Sensors. Dr. Lieberman is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE, has served on the editorial boards of Optical Engineering and the Journal of Measurement Science and Technology, and on the boards of directors of SPIE, IOS, OpTech Ventures, Optinetrics, Sensorware Systems, Optical Security Sensing LLC, and the South Bay Science Center. He is the 2008 winner of the SPIE President’s Award, three NASA Tech Briefs awards, and three Bell Labs Exceptional Contribution Awards. Dr. Lieberman is currently serving as the Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and will become President of the society in 2016. |
| 3. Professor Vo-Dinh Tuan |
 Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University. After completing high school in Vietnam, he pursued his education in Europe where he received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1975 from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland. Before joining Duke University in 2006, Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan was Director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics, Group Leader of Advanced Biomedical Science and Technology Group, and a Corporate Fellow, one of the highest honors for distinguished scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research has focused on the development of advanced technologies for the protection of the environment and the improvement of human health. His research activities involve nano-biophotonics, nanosensors, laser spectroscopy, molecular imaging, medical diagnostics, cancer detection, chemical sensors, biosensors, and biochips.Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan has received seven R&D 100 Awards for Most Technologically Significant Advance in Research and Development for his pioneering research and inventions of innovative technologies. He has received the Gold Medal Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1988); the Languedoc-Roussillon Award (France) (1989); the Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (1992); the Thomas Jefferson Award, Martin Marietta Corporation (1992); two Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium (1995, 1986); the Inventor of the Year Award, Tennessee Inventors Association (1996); and the Lockheed Martin Technology Commercialization Award (1998), The Distinguished Inventors Award, UT-Battelle (2003), and theDistinguished Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (2003). In 1997, Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan was presented the Exceptional Services Award for distinguished contribution to a Healthy Citizenry from the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2011 Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan received the Award for Spectrochemical Analysis from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry.Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan has authored over 350 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the author of a textbook on spectroscopy and editor of 6 books. He holds over 33 U.S. patents, five of which have been licensed to private companies for commercial development. Dr. Vo-Dinh Tuan has presented over 200 invited lectures at international meetings in universities and research institutions. He has chaired over 20 international conferences in his field of research and served on various national and international scientific committees. |
| 4. Professor Christian Griesinger |
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 Born on April 5, 1960 in Ulm. Study of chemistry and physics Frankfurt/Main (1979), diploma in chemistry (1984), PhD with Prof. Kessler, Frankfurt University (1986), postdoctoral fellow with Prof. R.R. Ernst, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1986-1989), Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt/Main (1990), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (since 1999), Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen.
Scientific Awards, Honors and Memberships
Prize of the Friends and Supports of the University of Frankfurt for the best PhD in science (1987)
Young Investigator Grant of the Fund of the Chemical Industry (1989)
Prize for Best Chemistry Book of the Fund of the Chemical Industry together with Prof. Quinkert and Prof. Egert for: "Aspects of Organic Chemistry" (1996)
Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1997)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG (1998)
Member of the German Chemical Society and Chairman of its specialist sub-group "Magnetic Resonance"
Otto Bayer Prize (2003)
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| 5. Professor Yin Xiao |
 Professor Yin Xiao is a professor in Bone and Tissue Engineering at Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is the Director of Australia-China Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and a group leader of the bone and clinical research program. He obtained his BDSc and MDSc from Wuhan University (Hubei Medical University), China, with more than 10 years clinical experience. In 2000, he graduated with a PhD from School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland, Australia, and worked as a research officer there for two years following his graduation. This was followed by an NHMRC Peter Doherty Fellowship at the School of Life Sciences at the QUT. In 2004 he was awarded an NHMRC Visiting Fellowship for 6 month at the Bone Tissue Engineering Centre at the University of Carnegie Mellon, PA, USA. During this period (2003–2007) he was also appointed an Honorary Research Advisor to the School of Dentistry, UQ. In 2012 he was appointed a Professor of Bone Biology and Tissue Engineering at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at QUT and has been appointed to a number of honorary senior positions in several Universities, including currently an adjunct professor at Griffith University and three Chinese universities: Wuhan University in Wuhan; Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and Fujian Medical University in Fuzhou. |
| 6. Professor Anja Boisen |
 Prof Dr Anja BoisenGroupleader of the Nanoprobes project and Director of VKR Centre Of Excellence ‘NAMEC’
She obtained her Baccalaureate in natural sciences, Høje Taastrup Amtsgymnasium 1986 and her M.Sc in Physics at University of Roskilde (1993). She received her Ph.D. in MicroElectroMechanicalSystems at DTU (1997). Her research is focuses on Micro and nano mechanical sensors – using cantilever and bridge structures for label free detection and Nanofabrication and new materials (photo-structurable polymers).
Prof Dr Anja Boisen received several awards and fellowships during her carrier including:
The Villum Kann Rasmussen award (Denmark’s largest research award) (2008); Direktør Ib Henriksens prize for groundbreaking sensor technology research (2007); AEG ‘Elektronikpris’ for extraordinary research in the electro technical field (2000); Strategic Program for Young Researchers, Danish Council for Strategic Research (2004). She is member of the Steering committee for the Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) conference since 2002. She is chair of the 2007 conference which had 600 participants; Organizer of the first international workshop on nano-mechanical sensors in May 2006; Member of the Danish research council on Production and Technology (FTP) (2005-2010). Since 2007 member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) and of the ATV think tank; Member of the program committee for the Norwegian research program ‘Nanomat’. Member of the steering committee for the Danish foresight on nanotechnology (2004); Member of the board of the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (2009 - 2013) and member of the Board for National Research Centre for the working environment (2007 – 2010). Since 2010 chair of the cross-institutional organisation NanoDTU. Prof Dr Anja is Co-founder of the company Cantion A/S – now owned by the company Nanonord. She is author of 6 international patent applications and 3 issued patents + 1/2 years of industrial R&D experience. She is author and co-author of 117 peer-review journal papers and a total of115 reviewed conference proceedings. Her publication is citations: approx. 2300, Hirsch h-index: 26. [ISI Web of Science, August 11, ‘11].
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| 7. Professor Fong-Chin Su |
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 Fong-Chin Su is Distinguished Professor, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and a visiting professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester (2004-05). He is actively involved in biomechanics-related activities. Dr. Su is a founding councilor of Asian-Pacific Association for Biomechanics and in organizing the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Biomechanics in 2005 in Taipei. In addition, he was the chairman of the 13th International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 2003 in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA in 1989 with major in solid mechanics and biomechanics. His doctorate dissertation placed an emphasis on the application of nonlinear large strain plate and shell theory to analyze mechanical behavior of the left ventricle and arteries. He joined the NCKU faculty of bioengineering in 1989. Meanwhile, he visited Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory in the Mayo Clinic, MN, USA as a visiting scientist between 1993-94 and was a visiting professor at the Muscle Physiology Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University of California in the summer of 1999. He has published 113 journal papers, 273 conference papers and 52 other publications and edited a conference proceedings and a book. In addition, he is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, is an editorial board member for Clinical Biomechanics, the Journal of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, andthe Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, and serves as Scientific Reviewer for several international biomechanics journals. With regard to professional activities, he is Past-President of Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics and an Executive Board member of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Taiwan and the Taiwan Industrial Technology Association. He is also a member of Scientific Peer Review Panel in Biomedical Engineering grand application, National Science Council, Taiwan.
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| 8. Professor Yukio Nagasaki |
 Yukio Nagasaki's research interest covers creation of new functionality materials via novel polymerization technique. End-functionalized poly(ethylene glycol)s as a surface modification agent and novel nanoparticles as intelligent drug vehicle are his main target for new materials design. He is also interested in creation of high performance biointerface, including non-fouling and specific bio-recognition characters. He found that poly(ethylene glycol) tethered chain surface having a mixture of long and short chain lengths reduces non-specific protein adsorption almost completely (Uchida, et al., Ana. Chem., 77(4): 1075-1080, 2005). Antibody/PEG co-immobilized surface increased reactivity of the surface antibody with the increasing PEG tethered chain density (Nagasaki, et al., J. Coll. Int. Sci., 309(2), 524-530, 2007). This immunochemical enhancing effect is promising phenomena for creation of a high functionality surface of versatile biomaterials. Recently, we started to design novel nanomedicine, which reduce oxidative stress effectively toward ischemia reperfusion injury. It is also utilized visualization of for oxidative stress in vivo. |
| Invited Speakers |
| Ali Zulf |
Teesside University's Graduate Research School UK |
| Anders Wolff |
Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU-nanotech), Denmark |
| Akihiro Kishimura |
Kyushu University, Japan |
| Asha Shekaran |
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, USA |
| Atsushi Maruyama |
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Brian Lau |
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, USA |
| Bengang Xing |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Chang Young-Tae |
National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Christian Langton |
Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Christophe Moser |
Microengineering department, EPFL, Switzerland |
| Dang Duong Bang |
Laboratory of Applied Micro and nanotechnology (LAMINATE), Diagnostics Engineering, Division of Food Microbiology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark |
| David Leavesley |
Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Dominique Pioletti |
Director of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics, EPFL, Switzerland |
| Fong-Chin Su |
Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Device Innovation Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
| Glen S.Kwon |
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| Giuseppe Legname |
Neurobiology Sector, SISSA, Trieste, Italy |
| Hoang Anh Dao |
Falculty of Odontostomatology, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam |
| Janez Plavec |
Slovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia |
| Jae-Seung Lee |
Korea University, Korea |
| Jonathan Kaufman |
CyberLogic, Inc., USA |
| Kang Lifeng |
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Kazunari Akiyoshi |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| Kazuo Nagasawa |
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan |
| Keith Blackwood |
Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Luiz E. Bertassoni |
Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, Australia |
| Lawrence Trong-Huan Le |
University of Alberta, Canada |
| Marco Santello |
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, USA |
| Maria Laura Bolognesi |
Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Italy |
| Masayuki Yamato |
Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan |
| Mia Woodruff |
Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Michael Canva |
Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique Campus Polytechnique, France |
| Michinao Hashimoto |
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore |
| Naoki Sugimoto |
Konan University, Japan |
| Nguyen Vu Hieu |
University of Paris, France |
| Nghiem Doan |
Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Nikos Stergiopulos |
Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EFPL, Switzerland |
| Anh Hoang |
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Phan Anh Tuan |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Paolo Carloni |
German Research School for Simulation Sciences GmbH and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Germany |
| Phuoc Long Truong |
Nanobiotechnology Lab Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Korea University, South Korea |
| Robert A. Lieberman |
President, Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. |
| Sara Richter |
University of Padua, Italy |
| Shawn Tan |
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore |
| Stefano Sensi |
University of California, USA |
| Takao Aoyagi |
MANA Coordinator, Nano-Bio Field, MANA, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan |
| Thanh D Nguyen |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Tram Dang |
Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, Singapore, School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore |
| Tran Quang Hung |
Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU-nanotech), Denmark |
| Uyen Minh Le |
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Sullivan University, USA |
| Vincent Pizziconi |
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, USA |
| Xu Chenjie |
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Xuewei Liu |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Yukio Nagasaki |
University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Yutaka Ikeda |
Department of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Zhang Jun |
Physics and Applied Physics Division, School of Physical and Mathematical Science, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore |
| Zhibin Du |
Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
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