Program and speakers - TNNN Conference 2025
Program and speakers at the TNNN Conference 2025
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Program
Wednesday 11th of June
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Lunch and Registration |
| 13.00 | Opening |
| 13.00 - 15.00 | Session 1: MEMS |
| 13.00 - 13.45 |  Guillermo Villanueva, Associate Professor, Advanced Nano-electromechanical Systems Laboratory, EPFL |
| 13.45 - 14.00 | Contributed presentation |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Coffee break |
| 14.15 - 14.30 | Contributed presentation |
| 14.30 - 14.45 | Contributed presentation |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Contributed presentation |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Poster pitch presentations |
| 16.30 - 18.30 | Poster session at Ølhallen |
| 18.30 - | Social event |
Thursday 12th of June
| 09.00 - 12.30 | Session 2: Photonics and Optics |
| 09.00 - 09.45 |  Katia Gallo, Professor of Applied Physics at KTH |
| 09.45 - 10.30 |  James Gates, Professor at the University of Southampton |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Contributed presentation |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Contributed presentation |
| 11.15 - 11.30 | Contributed presentation |
| 11.30 - 11.45 | Contributed presentation |
| 11.45 - 12.00 | Contributed presentation |
| 12.00 - 12.15 | Contributed presentation |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | Contributed presentation |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Session 3: Bionano and Fabrication |
| 13.30 - 14.15 |  Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Healthcare Technologies, University of Birmingham |
| 14.30 - 14.45 | Contributed presentation |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Contributed presentation |
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 - 15.30 | Contributed presentation |
| 15.30 - 16.00 |  Marc Desmulliez, Professor School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Institute of Sensors, Signals & Systems, Heriot-Watt University |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | Social program, city tour, TNNN committee meetings (for invited participants) |
| 20.00 - | Conference Dinner at Maskinverkstedet |
Friday 13th of June
| 09.00 - 12.30 | Session 4: TBA |
| 09.00 - 09.45 |  Ralph Bernstein, Senior Business Developer at SINTEF Digital and Adjunct Professor at NTNU |
| 09.45 - 10.30 |  Frank Niklaus. Professor Division of Micro and Nanosystems, KTH |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 12.15 | Session 5: INNOVATION/Research integrity |
| 12.15 - | Closing remarks and Lunch |
| 13.30 - 16.30 | (Optional) Workshop on Scientific publishing organized by Arctic Optica, the Optica Chapter in UiT |
Speakers
Prof. James C. Gates
Professor at the University of Southampton
James C. Gates is a professor of photonic engineering at the University of Southampton. He has over 25 years of experience in photonic device fabrication, optical engineering and material science and specialises in developing quantum technology and photonic systems.
James has co-authored over 100 journal publications, 350 conference submissions and three patent families. His team currently focuses on low-loss integrated photonics and ultra-precision physical machining of components for a wide range of applications, including sensing, computing, and communications.
Employee profile at the University of Southampton
Lecture: Ultra-precision Physical Machining for Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Prof. Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer
Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology at the School of Chemical Engineering and the Healthcare Technologies Institute at the University of Birmingham, England
Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer is a Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology at the School of Chemical Engineering and the Healthcare Technologies Institute. Professor Oppenheimer leads an interdisciplinary research group Advanced Nano-Materials Structures and Applications (ANMSA) at the University of Birmingham, closely working with the clinical teams at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Enterprise, the University’s technology transfer specialists. Her group's research programme is targeted at exploring the frontiers of nanoengineering while bridging the gap between nano-to-macroscopic-level understanding and implementations of novel hybrid and nanocomposite materials and submicron structures for miniaturised functional devices for advanced healthcare applications.
Professor Oppenheimer is developing cutting-edge Engineering solutions to tackle major medical problems. The importance of her developments to the engineering has been recognised by being featured as a frontispiece and highlighted in leading journals and the BBC news and radio press releases. Prof. Oppenheimer holds funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC, EU Consolidator Grant and the Wellcome Trust.
Her research in the field of novel biomedical engineering for miniaturised devices and their applied potential is internationally and nationally recognised and led to invitations to present her work at major conferences and seminars as well as an invitation to write a book reviewing her pioneering patterning technique and its applications.
Her publications include regular high-profile papers in leading journals (e.g., Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Advances, Advanced Materials) and she has been a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Carl-Zeiss Award in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, resulting in extensive media exposure with accolade for her work was its selection to illustrate the front cover of a number of important publications including the Cambridge Science Magazine and the 2012 Annual Report. I She was invited as an envoy in the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee at the ‘Voice of the Future’ with Government Ministers of State for Science, Research and Innovation, featured in the ‘Birmingham Heroes in Healthcare Technologies’ Campaign and selected to the ‘Parliamentary Engineering Group’ at the House of Lords.
Employee profile at the University of Birmingham
Lecture: Advanced Spectroscopic Portable Micronano Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Prof. Marc Desmulliez
Professor at the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Institute of Sensors, Signals & Systems at the Heriot-Watt University
Prof. Marc Desmulliez, FRSE, FInstP, FIET, is former Associate Principal for impact, founder and manager of the £6M-funded Medical Device Manufacturing Centre and Professor in Smart Systems Integration at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has held grants of compounded value of more than £52M as Lead or co-Lead, published over 521 journal papers or conference proceedings articles, and holds 10 patents and 3 Design Rights.
He span out Microstencil Ltd in 2003, a spin-out company specialized in flip-chip bonding technology using stencil printing. The technology was transferred to DEK in 2011 and now is used in all mobile phones in the world. His second company, Microsense Technologies Ltd, aims at non-destructive testing using microwave sensing. This initiative got him the shared £90K first prize in the Converge Challenge 2016, arguably the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in Scotland.
His research interests include medical devices, microwave sensing and bio-inspired manufacturing, more precisely the understanding and translation of natural processes to manufacturing principles, an arguably new topic of research in engineering.
Employee profile at the Heriot-Watt University
Lecture: Direct metallisation of conductive paths onto non-conductive contoured surfaces
Dr. Ralph W. Bernstein
Senior Business Developer at SINTEF Digital and Adjunct Professor at NTNU
Dr. Ralph W. Bernstein is Senior Business Developer at SINTEF Digital and Adjunct Professor at NTNU. He has more than twenty years of management experience within technology companies, commercialization, startups, research, and academia. He is currently coordinating CC-NorChip, a Norwegian competence centre for semiconductor and sensor technologies.
The overall goal is to secure and bolster Norway’s position in advanced technology areas, including quantum sensors. He has a special focus on awareness raising and positioning of the field of semiconductors and microsystem technology in Norway.
Highlights
- Almost 9 years as Executive Manager in the listed fingerprint technology company IDEX ASA.
- More than 15 years as Research Director and Senior Scientist at SINTEF MiNaLab.
- CEO of Kjeller Innovasjon AS, Head of Department at OsloMet, CTO of Listen AS, Special Advisor at the Research Council of Norway
- Adjunct Professor in Microsystem Technology at NTNU since 2006.
Direct metallisation of conductive paths onto non-conductive contoured surfaces
Lecture: CC-NorChip - securing and bolstering Norway’s position in semiconductors, sensors and microsystem technologies