Invited Speakers & Lecturers

In the order of their program appearance:

Prof. Tiffany Abitbol

Head of the Sustainable Materials Lab & Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the EPFL in Lausanne

https://people.epfl.ch/349143?lang=en

https://www.epfl.ch/labs/sml

Prof. Dr. Andrés Díaz Lantada

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Senior Researcher at IMDEA Materials Institute
 
https://materials.imdea.org/people/andres-diaz-lantada-2/

Dr. Abril Azocar Guzman

Group Leader of the “Knowledge Engineering for Materials Science” group at the Institute for Advanced Simulations – Materials Data Science and Informatics at the Forschungszentrum Jülich

https://www.fz-juelich.de/profile/guzman_a.azocar

https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ias/ias-9/forschung/knowledge-engineering-for-materials-science

Prof. Meredith Silberstein

Director of the Engineered Living Materials Institute & Professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University

https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/people/meredith-silberstein

https://elmi.cornell.edu

Dr. Laura Sabio Rodríguez

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment (CeMi) at the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasglow

https://glasgow.thecemi.org/

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/laurasabiorodrguez/

Dr. Koray Malcı

Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Tom Ellis Group at the Imperial College London working on the EU-funded Living Materials project NextSkins

https://www.tomellislab.com

https://www.nextskins.eu

Dr. Jeong-Joo Oh

Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam Group at the Technical University Delft working on the EU-funded Living Materials project NextSkins

https://www.tudelft.nl/tnw/over-faculteit/afdelingen/bionanoscience/research/research-labs/aubin-tam-group

https://www.nextskins.eu

Dr. Daniela Pacheco from Bac3Gel

CTO and Co-Founder of Bac3Gel, a startup developing and distributing the new generation of substrates to harness the full power of microorganisms

https://www.bac3gel.com

Prof. Farren Isaacs & Prof. Michael Jewett from Pearl Bio

Dr. Farren Isaacs is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University

https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/farren-isaacs

Dr. Michael Jewett is the Professor in Bioengineering at Stanford University

https://bioengineering.stanford.edu/people/michael-jewett-0

Both are the Co-Founders and Scientific Advisors of Pearl Bio, a company which is harnessing the power of synthetic biology to build next-gen biomaterials for smart biologics

Dr. Zach Abbott from ZBiotics

CEO and Co-Founder of ZBiotics, a company that helps people live healthier, richer lives with the world’s first genetically engineered probiotics.

https://zbiotics.com

Prof. Dr. Jörg Lahann

Founding Director of the Biointerfaces Institute & Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan and Head of the Department of Advanced Polymers and Biomaterials at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

https://www.lahannlab.com/joerg-lahann

https://www.ifg.kit.edu/npb.php