Program Committee

PROGRAM CHAIR

Ana Cecilia Roque
UCIBIO, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portugal
https://sites.fct.unl.pt/biomolecular_eng/

Brief Bio
Ana Roque is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the Chemistry Department, School of Science & Technology at NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal). Cecilia is a principal researcher at UCIBIO-NOVA and leads the Biomolecular Engineering Lab. She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (Major in Biotechnology) & a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico, and has an Habilitation in Bioengineering from NOVA University of Lisbon. Cecilia has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and at the Catholic University of America, a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Cambridge) and at INESC-MN (Lisbon, Portugal), and a visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (2006, 2011), University of São Paulo (2015-2018), University of Nantes (2011) and City University of New York (2018). Her research focus on bioengineering, namely on the development of advanced functional materials that combineaffinity receptors with bio-based and sustainable materials for bioseparation, sensing and biomedical applications. Cecilia has been the recipient of several national and international awards, namely a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (2014). She has training from biotech entrepreneurial programs (Cambridge Entrepreneurship Center, University of Cambridge and COTEC, PT). Cecilia has published 91 papers in top journals in bioengineering, multidisciplinary and materials sciences (e.g. Adv. Funct. Materials, Scientific Reports, TIBTECH) with over 2400 citations. She edited 2 books and contributed with 9 book chapters. Her research work has also resulted in 3 international patents. Cecilia has wide experience in supervision with completed 9 postdoctoral fellows, 11 PhD students and 36 Master students. She is a member of several international societies and currently serves as a Board member (2014-2019) and Co-Chair (2019-) to the Bioengineering and Bioprocessing Division of the European Federation of Biotechnology and vice-president (2019-) of the International Society for Molecular Recognition. Cecilia has been part of organising and steering committees of several international conferences and training schools. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Andreas Bahr, University of Kiel, Germany
Mohammed Bakr, CCIT-AASTMT, Egypt
Steve Beeby, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Jan Cabri, LIROMS - Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science, Luxembourg
Carlo Capelli, University of Milan, Italy
Vítor Carvalho, 2Ai-EST-IPCA & Algoritmi Research Centre, UM, Portugal
Hamid Charkhkar, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Youngjae Chun, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Alberto Cliquet Jr, University of São Paulo & University of Campinas, Brazil
Pedro Estrela, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Maria Evelina Fantacci, University of Pisa and INFN, Italy
Mireya Fernández Chimeno, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Paddy French, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anselmo Frizera, UFES, Brazil
Bruno Gago, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Juan Carlos Garcia, University of Alcala, Spain
Miguel A. García Gonzalez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Javier Garcia-Casado, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Ahmed H. Madian, Nile University, Egypt
Klas Hjort, Uppsala University, Sweden
Leonid Hrebien, Drexel University, United States
Ernesto Iadanza, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Emmanuelle Jacquet, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-comté, FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Vladimir Kublanov, Ural Federal University, Russian Federation
Jung C. Lee, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Rui Lima, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Anita Lloyd Spetz, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Carlos Maciel, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jordi Madrenas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jarmo Malinen, Aalto University, Finland
Dan Mandru, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Saibal Mitra, Missouri State University, United States
Joseph Mizrahi, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Ana Moita, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Raimes Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Robert W. Newcomb, University of Maryland, United States
Mónica Oliveira, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Abraham Otero, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain
Gonzalo Pajares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Lionel Pazart, Tech4Health/ F-CRIN, Inserm, CHU Besançon, France
Saydulla Persheyev, St Andrews University, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dmitry Rogatkin, Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute "MONIKI", Russian Federation
Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
Wim C. Rutten, University of Twente, Netherlands
Seonghan Ryu, Hannam University, Korea, Republic of
Chutham Sawigun, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Thailand
Michael J. Schöning, FH Aachen, Germany
Mauro Serpelloni, University of Brescia, Italy
Dong Ik Shin, Asan Medical Center, Korea, Republic of
Filomena Soares, Algoritmi Research Centre, UM, Portugal
Akihiro Takeuchi, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan
John Tudor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Renato Varoto, Independent Researcher, Brazil
Pedro Vieira, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Bruno Wacogne, FEMTO-ST, UMR CNRS 6174, France
Richard C. Willson, University of Houston, United States
Hakan Yavuz, Cukurova University, Turkey
Alberto Yufera, Instituto de MIcroelectronica de Sevilla / Universidad de Sevilla, Spain