Jonathan Coleman is a physicist and nanomaterials scientist known for his work on solution processing of 1D and 2D nanomaterials. He pioneered Liquid Phase Exfoliation to produce 2D materials like graphene from layered solids and expanded this technique to numerous others from MoS₂ to 2D talc. His research focuses on assembling these materials into conductive, robust networks for applications in energy storage, sensing, and printed electronics. Though an experimentalist, he also develops theoretical models to explain nanomaterial behavior. His contributions have earned him awards like the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal (2023), the Tabor Medal (2022), and the ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2018). In 2025 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS)

Prof. Feng is a full professor and the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. He has published more than 510 research articles which have attracted more than 62700 citations with H-index of 119 (Google Scholar). He has been awarded several prestigious prizes such as IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014), Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014-2019), Small Young Innovator Award (2017), Hamburg Science Award (2017), EU-40 Materials Prize (2018), ERC Consolidator Grant Award (2018). He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019) and member of the Academia Europaea (2019). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemNanoMat, Energy Storage Materials, Small Methods, Chemistry -An Asian Journal, Trends in Chemistry, etc. He is the Head of ESF Young Research Group "Graphene Center Dresden", Working Package Leader of WP Functional Foams & Coatings for European Commission’s pilot project “Graphene Flagship”, and spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center for the Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials.

Dr. Mario Lanza is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, since August 2024. He got the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he won the extraordinary PhD prize. In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. On September 2013 he joined Soochow University (in China), where he promoted until the rank of Full Professor. Between October 2020 and July 2024 he was full-time Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (in Saudi Arabia), where he became known for his work in the field of nano-electronics. He has published over 200 research articles in top journals like Nature, Science and Nature Electronics, many of them becoming highly cited. He has been plenary, keynote, tutorial and invited speaker in over 150 conferences, and he and his students have received some of the most prestigious awards in the world (like the IEEE Fellow). He has been often consulted by leading semiconductor companies and publishers. He is an active member of the board governors of the IEEE – Electron Devices Society, and has been involved in the technical and management committee of top conferences in the field of electron devices, including IEDM, IRPS and IPFA. He speaks fluently five languages: English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Catalan.

Zhongfan Liu completed his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990 and postdoctoral study from the same university and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan. His current research interests include the CVD growth, mass production and equipment manufacturing, and unique applications of graphene. He is the founding Director of Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI) and a BOYA chair professor of Peking University. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the fellow of TWAS.

I'm an experimental condensed matter physicist and the latest member of the group Phynano. I obtained my bachelor degree from the University of Carabobo in Venezuela my master's degree at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), where I was working in non-centrosymmetric superconductors at the low temperatures laboratory. After this I moved to France where I obtained my PhD in Physics from the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. Durign this time I worked at the French National High Magnetic Field Lab (LNCMI) in graphene nanoribbons under extreme conditions (high magnetic field and low temperature). My first postdoc was at the French National Metrology lab (LNE) where we demonstrated the exceptional experimental conditions at wich graphene can be use as a quantum Hall resistance standard. After this I moved to the US where I worked as a MRSEC fellow at Columbia University. My work at Columbia was directed, among others, towards the in situ band structure manipulation of van der Waals heterostructures.