Public transportation in Oslo is readily available. Routes can be chosen and tickets purchased using the Ruter app (https://ruter.no/reise/ruter-appen/). If travelling to the conference from outside the Oslo area, we encourage our members to take the train whenever feasible. We will have a prize drawing during the conference open to those who utilize the train for at least one way of their travel.

Paul May, University of Bristol

Title: Grow your own diamonds (or: An introduction to the deposition of thin diamond films)

Paul May received his PhD in 1991 at the University of Bristol in the area of plasma etching of semiconductors.  He then co-founded the CVD diamond group there with Prof Mike Ashfold FRS. He later received a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship, followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, which allowed him to expand the Bristol diamond activities into a self-contained research group within the department. Paul became a full-time lecturer in 1997, and a Professor in Aug 2009. The Bristol CVD diamond group is now one of the largest university diamond research groups in the UK. Paul’s research focuses upon CVD diamond, but nevertheless remains very diverse, being partway between chemistry, physics, materials and engineering plus some biology and medical applications. Over the years, he has studied the fundamental chemistry of diamond growth via experiment and computer modelling, doping of diamond, X-ray lenses, bioimplants, antimicrobial coatings, microplasma generation, large-surface-area BDD electrochemical electrodes, and most recently, metal adsorption onto diamond for NEA and thermionic emission applications. He has published nearly 250 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, along with several book chapters. He is also noted for his use of the web, particularly websites such as the ‘Molecule of the Month’ and the (infamous) ‘Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names’, both of which are also available in book form.

Mathias Busek, University of Oslo

Title: Organ-on-chip meets sensor technology - applications and use-cases for (bio) sensors in preclinical testing

Mathias Busek is a postdoctoral researcher with a strong focus on microfabrication and design of Organ-/Lab-on-a-Chip systems and 12-years experience in research and development. Mathias received his Master's and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University (TU) Dresden in 2009 and 2018. During his first scientific appointment at the TU Berlin, he pioneered a micro-pneumatic organ-on-a-chip platform that is now commercially used for drug testing by TissUse GmbH. Later, he was project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute of Material Science and Beam Technology (IWS) in Dresden and lab manager for polymer microfabrication at the chair of Microsystems at the TU Dresden. In 2020, he was awarded a Scientia/Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship at the Hybrid Technology Hub – Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo. He is currently developing a pump-free organ-on-a-chip platform.

Andreas Hierlemann, ETH Zürich

Title: Microtechnology and microelectronics to characterize neurons and networks at subcellular resolution

Andreas Hierlemann got his college education in chemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany and a Ph.D. degree in 1996. He held Postdoc positions 1997 at Texas A & M University, College Station, TX and 1998 at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA. He joined the Department of Physics of ETH Zurich 1999, where he was appointed Associate Professor 2004. In 2008, he became Full Professor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zurich in Basel. His research interests include the development and application of microsensor, microfluidic, and microelectronic technologies to address questions in biology and medicine with applications in the fields of systems biology, drug testing, personalized medicine, and neuroscience. For details, see https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/bel/.
 

Jill Miwa, Aarhus University

Title: Exploring quantum materials with microARPES at ASTRID2

Prof. Jill Miwa leads the experimental condensed matter physics group based at the ASTRID2 synchrotron at Aarhus University exploring the vibrant area of quantum materials research to uncover new physics. The group grow these materials and investigate their remarkable electronic and structural properties using a powerhouse combination of innovative surface scientific techniques, specifically, ultra-high vacuum variable-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (UHV VT-STM) and synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with nanoscale spatial resolution (nanoARPES).

Gemma C. Solomon, University of Copenhagen

Kristin Bergum, University of Oslo

Nina Arnfinnsdottir, Forskningsrådet

This year's conference is made possible by the hard work of the local organizing committee at the University of Oslo. This year's committee consists of Justin Wells, Håkon Røst, Simon Cooil, Elif Tezel and Alv Skarpeid.