Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Chalmers University of Technology

Professor Kasper Moth-Poulsen leads a research group of approximately 10 PhD students and post docs and a number of bachelors, masters and visiting students.  Their main focus is on using synthetic chemistry to address challenges in energy storage, solar energy, sensors and molecular electronics

Moth-Poulsen is active in several start-ups and spin-out companies including Con-Science AB, Solartes AB and NanoScientifica Scandinavica AB.

Peter Bøggild, DTU

Professor Peter Bøggild works at the Department of Physics of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in the NANOMADE -Nanoscale Materials and Devices section. His main research interests are related to graphene synthesis, characterisation and applications, quantum transport, optoelectronics, and surface properties. In particular, he is interested in the vast range of possibilities offered by combining 2D materials into heterostructures.

Catharina de Lange Davies, NTNU

Catharina de Lange Davies has held a position as a professor at the Department of Physics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1991. Her fields of specialty are biophysics, bio-nanotechnology, delivery of nano-particles to tissue, and advanced light microscopy.

Currently her research group is studying how to improve chemotherapy for cancer patients using drug-loaded nanoparticles in combination with ultrasound focused toward the tumour. Through studies on mice, she has shown that ultrasound and microbubbles  improve the delivery of nanoparticles to tumours and thereby therapeutic response.  

Jan Willem Foppen, TU Delft

Jan Willem Foppen received his M.Sc. degree in Hydrogeology from the VU University in Amsterdam in 1990. He has worked since 1998 for IHE Delft and since the beginning of 2021 at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

Intrigued by poor groundwater health conditions in various developing countries, Foppen focused on the transport of the fecal indicator organism Escherichia coli in saturated porous media, whereby the aim was to extend the colloid filtration theory. Over the years, his interest focused more on the transport of colloids in groundwater and surface waters.

Since 2016, he has worked on using silica DNA tracers to identify hydrologic processes. In addition, his research interests include water and sanitation in slums in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sulalit Bandyopadhyay, NTNU

Currently employed as an Associate Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU and a Researcher at the Department of Water Management, TU Delft, Netherlands -  his research interests include synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanoparticles, drug delivery, diagnostics, biosensing, modelling of nanosystems, development of nanoparticle based hydrological tracers and recycling of Lithium-ion batteries.

Among several noteworthy awards, he has received NTNU Employee Award Innovation and Collaboration with Working Life for 2018 – 2021, Research Council of Norway's Innovation Award for 2021 for his work with magnetic nanoparticles and COVID-19 test kits that were instrumental in re-opening Norwegian society in 2020. He is currently the Centre Manager for the recently established Particle Engineering Research Centre at NTNU.

Mihaela Roxana Cimpan, UiB

Mihaela Roxana Cimpan is the head of the Biomaterials Cluster and of the Nanotoxicity & Nanobio group at the Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen (UiB). Professor Cimpan’s research activity in recent years encompasses nanosafety, nanotoxicity, and nanomedicine, as well as the biocompatibility of biomaterials used in medicine and dentistry. She established Nanotoxicology as a research field at UiB. Cimpan was a Member of the National Reference group for Nano- and Advanced materials, a founding member of the SafeNano Norway network and a member of the Bergen Nanoscience Network “nanoBergen”. Cimpan has participated as coordinator, WP leader, and PI in several projects funded by NANO2021, HORIZON2020, EU-FP7, EuroNanoMed and EEA.

Kay Gastinger 

Gastinger works currently as a Senior Project Leader in Inventas AS. Inventas is a technical consultancy company with expertise in product development and design, providing holistic solutions to start-up companies as well as to SME´s and large companies.

Kay has a MSc. within Electrical Engineering at TU Ilmenau (Germany) and PhD in Physics (Optics) from the University Oldenburg (Germany), supplemented by an executive education in Leadership Development at IESE Business School in Barcelona (Spain).

Kay has experiences from research and management in both industry and academia. Before starting in Inventas he had positions as COO and CTO in Picterus, a local MedTech start-up company. Kay was heading the Kavli Institute of System Neuroscience as Manging Director and was for 8 years Director of Nano@NTNU (now NTNU Nano), the strategic initiative for nanotechnology, nanoscience and functional materials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. He has also 14 years research experience as Senior Scientist in SINTEF in the field of optical metrology.