Author: Jesus Acapulco

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, DE

Keywords: early mammalian development, embryonic stem cells, implantation, self-organization of early embryos and stem cells

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Ivan Bedzhov obtained a BSc degree in Molecular biology (2004) and an MSc degree in Genetic and cell engineering (2006) from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2011 he obtained a PhD degree from the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg, Germany with a study on the role of cell adhesion and signalling during mouse pre-implantation development. For his postdoc, he moved to the CRUK/WT Gurdon institute, University of Cambridge, UK where he worked on the morphogenesis of the pluripotent lineage. In November 2015 Ivan received DFG Emmy Noether award and set up his group in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster. His lab is a part of the Cells In Motion (CiM) Excellence cluster and the NRW Stem cell network. In 2017 he was selected as a member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE).

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The research of Ivan’s group aims to understand the mechanism of fundamental developmental processes that take place during early mammalian embryogenesis. More specifically, the work in the lab is focused on the following questions: How the early lineages self-organize into a functional embryo? What is the signalling that coordinates the early cell fate decisions with the acquisition of specialized cell shape and functions? What mediates the crosstalk between the embryo and the surrounding maternal tissues and can this process be faithfully recapitulated in a synthetic environment?
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Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, DK

Keywords: Molecular electronics, Charge transport, Heat transport, Quantum interference

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Gemma C. Solomon majored in Chemical Physics at the University of Western Australia before moving to the University of Sydney where she completed her BSc(Hons) in 2003, for which she was awarded the University Medal. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sydney where she worked with Prof. Jeffrey Reimers and Prof. Noel Hush. In 2006, she moved to Northwestern University, USA where she was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Mark Ratner until moving to the University of Copenhagen in 2010 to start her independent career as an assistant professor in Chemistry. She received an ERC starting grant in 2010, was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and received the Sapere Aude grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences in 2013. In 2014, she was awarded the Torkil Holm Prize from the Danish Academy for Technical Sciences and in 2016 she was awarded a Löwdin Lectureship in recognition of her research in molecular electronics. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Affiliation: Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, DE

Keywords: Social brain, Positive and negative emotions, Emotional contagion, Empathy, Amygdala, Fear, Fear extinction, Automated behavioral tracing, Autism

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Ewelina Knapska obtained her PhD at the Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland in 2006 with a series of works on anatomical and functional heterogeneity of the amygdala. After spending two years at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA as a postdoc at Stephen Maren’s laboratory, she returned to the Nencki Institute, where she became an assistant professor and now, as an associate professor, she is the head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of Emotions. She received Polish Prime Minister Award for the PhD thesis (2007), Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers awarded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2010-2012), Burgen Scholarship (for outstanding scientific achievements) from Academia Europea (2013) and Polish Prime Minister Award for Habilitation (2014). She is currently working on the characterization of `social brain’ supported by her ERC Starting Grant.

Ewelina Knapska studies which neurons in the brain are responsible for emotions, how they are connected, how this entire network works and, in particular, is there are any differences in the working of this network for positive and negative emotions caused by social interactions. She also investigates plastic changes in this network within the amygdala – a brain region related to processing emotions – with the ultimate goal of applying knowledge gained by studying malfunctioning of the neurons in rodent models to therapies targeting autism spectrum disorders. To this end, she developed an experimental model and revealed the role of the amygdala in socially transferred emotions and identified different populations of neurons activated by high and low levels of fear thanks to a newly developed tracing technique. She also elucidated the molecular basis of `positive’ and `negative’ motivation by showing the involvement of an enzyme called matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) in the central amygdala. Last but not least, she developed new tests to study cognitive abilities and social interactions of mice in automated systems.

Affiliation: Karolinska Institutet, SE

Keywords: mammalian noncoding RNA biology, gene regulation, transcriptional control, RNA binding proteins, transcriptome evolution, disease transcriptomics, liver, epigenetics, NextGen sequencing

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Claudia Kutter received her PhD from the University of Basel, Switzerland. She worked on small RNA-mediated regulation of stem cell differentiation in the groups of Frederik Meins and Witold Filipowicz at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland). As a postdoctoral researcher Claudia then joined Duncan Odom’s laboratory at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) to study the evolution of noncoding RNAs. Claudia became a SciLifeLab fellow and assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) in March 2016. She is now leading her independent research group at the SciLifeLab in Stockholm. Her group’s research efforts are generously supported by several external funding agencies. Claudia became a member of the Young Academy of Europe in 2017.

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The Kutter lab is interested in understanding the molecular mechanism by which mammalian noncoding RNAs regulate genes and genome structure in healthy and diseased somatic tissue and in the germline. The research group interrogates the evolution and regulatory roles of long noncoding RNAs and transfer RNA at the genome- and transcriptome-wide level by using and continuously developing cutting-edge experimental and computational deep sequencing methods.

Affiliation: University of Bergen, NO

Keywords: flow in porous media; foam generation; CCS; CO2 enhanced oil recovery

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Martin Fernø obtained his PhD from the University of Bergen on flow and wettability effects in fractured carbonate reservoirs (2008), and employed as associate professor at the Dept. of Physics and Technology at University of Bergen in 2012. He was promoted to full professor in 2017, and has published more than 75 full manuscript papers and numerous conference contributions. In 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Energy Research Engineering, Stanford University, USA. In 2015 he was Invited Professor at University of Bordeaux., France. He is currently member of the editorial board of Petroleum Science (Springer); reviewer for >15 international journals and science organizations (ETH Zurich Research Commission; ACS Petroleum Research Fund); coordinator for the Petroleum Research School of Norway, and secretary of the NorTex Petroleum cluster; and co-organized 6 larger (more than 70 participants) conferences and symposiums. He received funding from science organizations and companies, and has a wide international research collaboration. Fernø has graduated four PhD students and more than 40 master students, and is currently (2017) supervisor for 6 PhD/Post docs and 15 master students. He has been member in more than 10 PhD evaluation committees, in reputational academic institutions including Imperial College and Heriot-Watt. He was awarded the Meltzer Young Scientist Excellence Award 2015 and was selected for the Young Academy of Europe (2017).

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Fernø studies capillary phenomena and flow in porous media, including foam generation, spontaneous imbibition and CO2 injection. A focus in his authorship has been the use of in situ imaging of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media by using PET/CT, MRI/NMR, NTI and CT.

Affiliation: ETH Zurich, CH

Keywords: Earth sciences, geophysics, seismology

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Andreas Fichtner received his PhD in geophysics in 2010 from LMU Munich for his work on seismic waveform modelling an inversion. From 2010 to 2012 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University. Since 2013 he is a faculty member in the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Computational Seismology Group.

He is the recipient of the Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award of the American Geophysical Union, and of the Early Career Scientist Award of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In spring 2016 he was the Blaustein Visiting Professor at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. He currently holds an ERC Starting Grant on the construction of a Collaborative Seismic Earth Model.

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Andreas Fichtner is an applied theoretical seismologist. His research focuses on the development of high-performance wave propagation tools and their use in studies of Earth structure and earthquake sources. He is the developer of the first continental-scale full-waveform inversion technology that allows us to exploit complete seismograms for the benefit of improved tomographic resolution, and he was the first to propose efficient resolution analysis methods for full-waveform inversion. Furthermore, he has made contributions in the field of theoretical seismology, where he focused on interferometric techniques, inverse theory, and novel techniques for seismic tomography. He generally applies his developments to real data, often with the intent to discover new elements of Earth structure and their relation to tectonic processes. New discoveries include the existence of a double-plume system beneath the North Atlantic and the existence of a previously unknown family of subducting lithospheric slabs beneath northern Africa.

Affiliation: University of Vienna, AT

Keywords: graphene, carbon nanotubes, heteroatom doping, single-atom manipulation, electron microscopy, core level spectroscopy, density functional theory

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Born and raised in Helsinki, Finland, Prof Toma Susi received his doctorate in nanomaterials from Aalto University in 2011. After moving to Austria for a two-year fellowship at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, Toma is now leading his own project and has fully made the city his home. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, mostly on heteroatom-doped graphene and carbon nanotubes, and has been an active participant and organizer of international conferences and an advocate for open access publishing. More recently, the research interests of Prof Susi have moved towards using the Ångström-sized electron probe of a scanning transmission electron microscope for single-atom manipulation of impurities in graphene.

Affiliation: Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, ES

Keywords: Density Functional Theory, quantum transport, magnetism, spintronics, nano electronics, Carbon nanomaterials, graphene, 2D materials, semiconductor nanowires, ferroelectrics, multiferroics

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Zeila Zanolli is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at ICN2, Barcelona (Spain), an excellence program of the Spanish Ministery for Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO). Previously (2016 – 2018), she leaded the Nanospintronics Group at the Physics Dept of RWTH Aachen University, funded by the DFG. In 2015 – 2012 she was Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany). She is a research group leader and  Steering Committee member of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF). Since 2018, Dr. Zanolli serves in the Executive Committee of the MaX (MAterials design at the eXascale) European Centre of Excellence which enables materials modelling, simulations, discovery and design at the frontiers of the current and future High Performance Computing (HPC), High Throughput Computing (HTC) and data analytics technologies. Since 2019 Dr. Zanolli serves in the Editorial College of SciPost Physics, a Free Open Access publication portal. In 2017 she has been elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE),  a pan-European network of scientists active in science policy, and since 2018 she is board member and treasurer of the YAE,

Her research focuses on first-principles (ab initio) modeling of nanoscale materials, with special focus on topological materials and applications in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. The  investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties is performed using ground state and beyond ground-state (GW approximation, Bethe-Salpeter equation) Density Functional Theory techniques. Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function is used to model time dependent phenomena, such as spin-polarized quantum  transport and time-dependent photoluminescence. The investigated systems include 2D materials, carbon-based nanostructures (carbon nanotubes, monoatomic carbon chains, graphene, …), hybrid organic-inorganic materials, III-V semiconductor nanowires,  multiferroics.

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Zeila Zanolli,
Ramon y Cajal Fellow, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
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Steering Committee, European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
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Board Member and Treasurer, Young Academy of Europe http://yacadeuro.org/
Executive Board, Materials design at the eXascale – MaX http://www.max-centre.eu/
Editorial College, SciPost Physics  https://scipost.org/

Affiliation: University of Debrecen, HU

Keywords: Functional plant ecology, Restoration of natural habitats, Soil seed banks, Dispersal, Vegetation dynamics of open habitats, Vegetation succession theory, Reproduction biology of plants

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He received his Ph.D. in seed bank ecology at the University of Debrecen, Hungary in 2008. He works since 2007 at the Department of Ecology currently as associate professor and also as a scientific advisor in the MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group. He published more than 50 ISI cited research papers in the field of plant and restoration ecology (cited >1100 times, H-index: 19). He is one of the chairs of International Association of Vegetation Science, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group and was a former board member at large in Society of Ecological Restoration Europe. He co-edited several thematic issues in grassland ecology and restoration, and was reviewer for >35 research journals. He was awarded the Best Young Ecologist Award of the Hungarian Ecological Society (2012) and received the National Excellence Award of Hungary (2015) for his scientific performance. He was selected to the Young Academy of Europe (2017).

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His research interest in the widest sense covers the ecology and dynamics of grassland habitats in the Palaearctic realm. His research focuses on applied and theoretical aspects of vegetation dynamics at multiple-scales including the relationship of biomass and species richness, seed bank composition, and vegetation succession.

Affiliation: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE

Keywords: Security, Privacy, Networking, Wireless communications

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Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos earned his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2005. He then held positions at Virginia Tech, EPFL and Politecnico of Torino. Panos is currently a tenured Associate Professor at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads the Networked Systems Security group. His research agenda includes a gamut of security and privacy problems, with emphasis on wireless networks. At KTH, he is affiliated with the ACCESS center, leading its Security, Privacy, and Trust thematic area, as well as the ICES center, leading its Industrial Competence Group on Security. Panos is a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Academy Fellow and he received a Swedish Science Foundation Young Researcher Award. He has delivered numerous invited talks, keynotes, and panel addresses, as well as tutorials in flagship conferences. Panos currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. He has served in numerous program committees, with leading roles in numerous occasions; recently, recently, in 2016, as the program co-chair for the ACM WiSec and the TRUST conferences; he will serve as the general chair of the ACM WISec (2018) and PETS (2019) conferences.