Prof. Gion Calzaferri

Switzerland

Current: Emeritus Professor for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland

Research interests:

Supramolecular organized molecules, clusters and complexes in zeolite cavities.

Artificial antenna systems for light harvesting, transport and trapping.

Photochemical transformation and storage of solar energy.

Chemical thermodynamics.

Research stays:

NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), with Arthur Nozik, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1984.

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, with Roald Hoffmann, 1990 and 2000.

Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, 2000 and 2010.

Visiting Professor at the University of Münster,/Wesfahlen, Germany, with Luisa De Cola, 2007/2008.

Sergey V. Prikhodko

USA

Sergey V. Prikhodko is Assosiate Adjunct Professor at Materials Science and Engineering Department at UCLA. He servise as a Director of Electron Microscopy core facility at MSE. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his contributions and achievements in materials science, characterization of materials, nanotechnology and product development. His current research interest is in light structural materials, compounds and hybrid structures, He is the author of more than 110 scientific publications.

Dr. V.K.Bupesh Raja

India

Dr.V.K.Bupesh Raja is Professor and Head at Department of Automobile Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India. He completed his Overseas Research Fellowship (ORF) from Materials Division, Department of Mechanical engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. His current area of research includes advanced Welding Techniques, Super Alloys, Light Metals, Material Characterization, Material Technology, Laser Material Processing and Surface Modification, Bioimplants, Composites, Geopolymer, Corrosion and Wear. He has published more than 120 papers in International/National journals, and participated and presented more than 130 research papers in International/National conferences. He has successfully coordinated and completed several funded research projects.

Dr. D.Nagasamy Venkatesh

India

Dr. D.Nagasamy Venkatesh is working as Associate Professor at Department of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, Udhagamandalam. India.  Dr. D.Nagasamy Venkatesh is interested in developing certain nanobased drug delivery systems for antiviral and anticancer drugs. His research is also extended in developing oral sustained/controlled drug delivery systems for certain drugs of therapeutic interest and analytical and bio-analytical method development for such drugs. He serves as a reviewer of more than 25 peer reviewed journals including AAPS, Carbohydrate polymer, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has received three best awards for his presentations/publications in national and international level conferences.

Research Interest:

Nano based drug delivery systems for antiviral and anticancer drugs, developing sustained/controlled drug delivery systems for certain drugs and dissolution enhancement of certain drugs by solid dispersion techniques.

Personal Details:

Name: Dr.D.Nagasamy Venkatesh.

Qualification: M.Pharm., Ph.D.
Designation: Associate Professor
Institution: JSS College of Pharmacy, Udhagamandalam - 643 001. Tamil Nadu. India.
email id: nagasamyvenkatesh@rediffmail.com
Paper Publications:
Research Papers - 65.
Review Papers - 35.

Book Chapters – 04.
Patent Filed: 01.
No of conferences attended: 30

No of guest lecture’s delivered: 20
Life Member of IPA, APTI and SPER.

Conference Chair: 2 National and 2 International.

Paper/abstract evaluator – 6 International Conferences

Organizing committee member – 20 International Conferences.

National Advisory Board Member – 3 National Conferences.

Rob Krams

United Kingdom

Professor Krams was trained at the Free University Amsterdam, where he did his PhD. After two years in the USA, he joined the Bioengineering team of the Thorax centre in Rotterdam. He was a recipient of an Established Investigator (2003-2008). He joined Imperial College London in 2007, where he was a full professor in Bioengineering

Maria Ramos Payán

Spain

Maria Ramos Payán is Doctor in Chemistry (Ph.D) and she is Associate Professor at University of Seville (Spain) - Department of Analytical Chemistry. She has also developed her research at the University of Lund (Sweden), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Chapel Hill (North Carolina, USA) and National Microelectronics Center (Barcelona). Her research interests focus on the development of new microextraction techniques and microfluidic chip devices for applications in biological and environmental samples.

Dennis G. Drescher

United States

Dennis G. Drescher is Professor and Director of Molecular Research in the Department of Otolaryngology and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He obtained his Ph.D., M.M. and B.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and pursued postgraduate studies in biochemistry at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has served as Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland and Research Associate at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His interests include interactions of ferlin proteins of the inner ear and muscle as analyzed by surface plasmon resonance.