Professor Dr. Noor M. Butt did his M. Sc Physics (1957) from
Government College, Punjab University, Pakistan and his
Ph.D (Nuclear/Solid State 1965) and D.Sc (Physics, 1993)
from the University of Birmingham, U.K. His classical
work (1963) with O’Connor established the confirmation of Waller’s theory (1923) of phonons at the Bragg
diffraction peaks using diffraction of Mossbauer
gamma-rays from LiF single crystals which has been
extensively cited for several decades and printed in
several books including those of Cambridge University
Press (U.K.) and North Holland Publishers.
He has published
over 160 research papers. Professor Butt is on the
Editorial Boards of several National and International
Journals (including J.Nanoparticle Research, JNR ,M/S
Springer Verlag, Germany, 2008—to date and J.Nano
Education, JNE, USA) and Member of Governing Bodies and
Technical Committees of several
organizations/Universities.
Dr. Butt is Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences
and the Islamic Academy of Sciences and has been
President of a few Professional Societies of Pakistan.
He is the First Joint Winner of International Kharazmi
Prize, Iran. He was elected Hon. Member of the World
Innovation Foundation (WIF). The WIF has world known
Scientific and Engineering Professionals as its elected
Members including about 90 Nobel Laureates.
He retired in 1996 as Chief Scientist/ Director General
of PINSTECH, Pakistan’s premier research Institute and
he was the first to be given the position of Scientist
Emeritus (Life-title) of PAEC in view of his outstanding
services to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
For over 50 years
he has contributed to the development of science(
teaching & research) in Pakistan. As Representative in
Pakistan for the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings for the
last 8 years since 2003 Dr Butt has arranged the
participation of bright young Pakistani scientists in
these one-week annual meetings where some 15-20 Nobel
Laureates interact every year with some 500 young
scientists of over 60 countries .Some 58 such future
science leaders from Pakistan have attended these
meetings.
Currently he is Professor and Chairman of the Preston
Institute of Nano Science and Technology (PINSAT) of the
Preston University, Islamabad.
Topic of Keynote: Nano
Education and its Current International Status
Seyed
Gholamreza Etemad is a professor of chemical engineering
department at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT-Iran).
He is also a co-founder and a member of Center of
Excellence of Nanotechnology in Environment at IUT (Iran).Professor
Etemad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of
Technology (Tehran Polytechnique, Iran). He obtained his
PhD from McGill University (Canada) in 1995.
He has served as the chair of the 1st
Nanotechnology and Environment Conference in 2007 and
the chair of Nanotechnology Workshops in 2009 held at
IUT. He acted as the head of the scientific committee
for the 1st International Conference on
Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications in 2010
(University of Ottawa-Canada). Currently, he is an
active member of the scientific and organizing
committees of ICNFA 2011. He teaches transport phenomena
related courses, renewable energy, and nonotechnology at
IUT and university of Ottawa.
Dr. Etemad has published about 60 refereed journal
papers and about 100 conference proceeding papers. He
received the IUT Distinguished Researcher Awards in
1999, 2002, 2006, and 2007. Professor Etemad's research
focuses on Renewable Energy and Heat Transfer
Enhancement Techniques, in particular the interaction of
nanotechnology and energy, and more specifically
Nanofluid. His research activities also include
pollution removal from the environment using
nanotechnology.
Topic of Keynote: Nanofluid: A
New Heat Transfer Media
Dr.
Marianna Foldvari is a Canada Research Chair in
Bionanotechnology and Nanomedicine and Professor of
Pharmaceutical Sciences and at the School of Pharmacy,
University of Waterloo.
Dr. Foldvari received a Pharmacy
degree and a Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences from
Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary. She
then obtained a PhD at Dalhousie University in Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Her expertise is in pharmaceutics, dosage
form and drug delivery system design and pharmaceutical
nanotechnology. She has over 20 years of experience as
an academic researcher and in research and development
in the pharmaceutical industry through technology
transfer activities. Her current research program
focuses on the development of intelligent delivery
systems for proteins, vaccines and nucleic acids with
specific emphasis on non-invasive administration
methods. Dr. Foldvari’s interdisciplinary research group
is working on non-invasive drug delivery systems design
for protein drugs, gene therapy and pharmaceutical
development of nano-enabled products. Dr. Foldvari has
authored over 100 papers and 70 conference presentations
and is the inventor on 14 patents. She serves as
Associate Editor of Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology,
Biology and Medicine and she is Founding Director of the
American Society for Nanomedicine.
Topic of Keynote: Building
Better Drug Delivery Systems using Nanoscale
Biomaterials
Dr.
Jang received his PhD in Materials Science from MIT in
1982. During the period 1982-2002, Dr. Jang served as a
faculty member in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Materials Science at Auburn University,
Alabama. He then worked as the Chairman of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics at North Dakota State University in Fargo,
North Dakota during 2002-2005. Dr. Jang moved to Dayton,
Ohio in 2005 and served as Dean of the College of
Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State
University during the period 2005-2010. He is currently
a faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Materials
Engineering at Wright State.
Dr. Jang has published 9 refereed review articles, 88
journal papers, and 80+ conference proceeding papers. He
has delivered 80+ invited seminars and conducted 14
technical workshops. He has served as the major
professor/thesis advisor for 35 MS and 23 PhD students,
plus as a member of more than 100 MS/PhD committees. He
has advised 15 post-doctoral research associates and
visiting scholars. Dr. Jang has served as a PI or Co-PI
for 50 grants with a total amount in excess of US$10
million.
In the last 6 years, nano graphene has become one of the
most significant topics in the field of nanotechnology.
Unique and interesting properties of nano graphene and
graphene nanocomposites are rapidly emerging. Dr. Jang
is a pioneer in the field of graphene science and
technology. Dr. Jang is among the first to successfully
produce nano graphene sheets, as evidenced by a patent
application submitted in October 2002 and issued in
2006. Dr. Jang’s research group has also contributed to
the field of graphene in the following aspects: (1)
development of chemical processes for mass-producing
NGPs; (2) first to report graphene applications in
hydrogen storage (2004), fuel cell bipolar plates
(2005), supercapacitors (2006), and batteries (2007);
(3) development of methods of effectively dispersing
NGPs in a broad array of solvents and matrix materials;
(4) co-inventor of “direct ultrasonication” process for
producing pristine graphene in large quantities. Dr.
Jang and his colleague, Dr. Aruna Zhamu, published the
first review article in the field of nano graphene
processing (2008). Dr. Jang is a co-inventor of 160
patents (issued or pending) among which 50 patents are
related to graphene. Dr. Jang is co-founder and CEO of
Nanotek Instruments, Inc., Angstron Materials, and
Angstron Battery Co.
Topic of Keynote: Nano
Graphene for Energy Applications
Professor
Frank K. Ko is Director of the Advanced Materials and
Process Engineering Laboratory and Canada Research Chair
Professor of Advanced Fibrous Materials in the
Department of Materials Engineering at the University of
British Columbia. He has a Ph.D. degree in Textile
Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. A
SAMPE Fellow and Fellow of Textile Institute (Hon) he is
a recipient of the American Society for Composites award
and the Fiber Society Award for Distinguished
Achievement. Professor Ko has co-authored three books
and contributed to 33 book chapters. He has presented
and published over 450 papers in the engineering design
and analysis of fibrous structures for medical,
industrial and advanced composite applications. He is
serving on the editorial board of several Journals
including the area editor of nanofibre technology for
the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics. He served
on the Roadmap team for the Aerospace Industry
Association and as a member of the advisory committee on
soldier protection for the Army Board of Sciences of the
National Research Council. He is currently a member of
the advisory committee of CANMET, NRC in Canada.
Topic of Keynote:
Multifunctional Composite Nanofibres
Dr. D.Y. Li obtained his B.Sc. in Solid Mechanics from University of Science and Technology China (1982), a M.Sc. in Solid-State Physics from Zhongshan University (1985), a PhD in Materials Physics from University of Science and Technology Beijing (1990) and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from McGill University (1995). He worked as an instructor of Physics at South China University of Technology (1985–86), a Research Associate at McGill University (1990-92) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Pennsylvania State University (1995–97). Dr. Li joined the University of Alberta in 1998 and is currently a Professor at department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and an adjunct professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Li’s research interests include surface science and engineering, tribology and tribo-materials, computational materials science, photocatalytic materials, and bacteria-metal interfaces. Dr. Li has in excess of 240 publications including more than 190 refereed journal publications; he is a co-author/contributor of the Smithells Metals Reference Book (2004, Elsevier) and Encyclopedia of Tribology (2011, Springer). Dr. Li is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nano & Biomaterials and a member of editorial board for five other journals in the areas of nanotechnology, tribology, corrosion, and materials.
Topic of Keynote: Understanding Nanostructured Materials Based on the Electron Work Function
Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an assistant professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008, received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 and an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010. Dr. Pelling completed his undergraduate studies at University of Toronto (1997-2001), his PhD under the supervision of James K. Gimzewski at the University of California, Los Angeles (2001-2005) and his post-doctoral research as a Senior Research Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London with Michael A. Horton (2005-2008). Dr. Pelling leads the Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation, which is comprised of people from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds. The lab is primarily focused on the integration of multiple optical techniques with nanomechanical probes to study how forces can be used to manipulate and control single cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms. The research in the Pelling Lab exists at the interface of several scientific disciplines (cell and molecular biology, artificial tissues, optics, physics and engineering) in order to study cell biophysics, stem cell fate, cancer cell biology and muscular diseases. Andrew's work is highly collaborative and exploratory and is always open to new directions and ideas.
Topic of Keynote: Cellular Responses to Nanoscale Forces and the Nanomechanics of the Microenvironment
Joe
Shapter obtained his Ph. D. from the University of
Toronto in 1990 working with Prof. J. C. Polanyi on the
detection of small molecules and the determination of
their energies. From 1990 to 1996, worked at the
University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario) building
a scanning tunnelling microscope and lecturing first
year chemistry. In 1996 moved to Flinders and is now
Professor of Nanotechnology.
Prof. Shapter led
the establishment of and is now course coordinator for
the Flinders Bachelor of Science Degree in
Nanotechnology (2000-2003, 2007-present). This was the
first degree of its kind in the world. He was the
founding Director of the Defence Science and Technology
Organisation (DSTO) funded Centre of Expertise in
Energetic Materials (CEEM) and is currently Director of
the South Australian node of the Australian Microscopy
and Microanalysis Facility (AMMRF).
In research, his
group is working generally in the area of Nanotechnology
using various techniques to examine material on the
micron or nanometer scale. His group builds phospholipid
bilayers on substrates such as mica and uses physical
techniques to examine properties and dynamics on the
micron scale. Work with chemical attachment of carbon
nanotubes to surfaces with both patterned and
unpatterned approaches is also an active area of
research in the group. Some of the nanotube substrates
have been used to develop novel biosensors. Very recent
work has concentrated on the use of nanotubes to build
water filtration and solar cell architectures.
Topic of Keynote: Use of
Carbon Nanotubes in Novel Solar Cells
John
T. W. Yeow received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical and
computer engineering, and M.A.Sc. and PhD. degrees in
mechanical and industrial engineering from the
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. He is
currently an Associate Professor and a Canada Research
Chair in Micro/Nanodevices in the Department of Systems
Design Engineering at University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
ON, Canada. His current research interests are in the
field of developing miniaturized sensors and biomedical
instruments. He is a recipient of the Professional
Engineering Ontario Engineering Medal, Natural Science &
Engineering Research Canada Innovation Challenge Award,
Douglas R. Colton’s Medal of Research Excellence,
Micralyne Microsystems Design Award, Ontario Ministry of
Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award, and
University of Toronto Alumni Association 7T6 Early
Career Award. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Nanotechnology Council Newsletter. He is also an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.
Topic of Keynote: Nanomaterials for Radiation
Detection
Professor Dr. Noor M. Butt did his M. Sc Physics (1957) from
Government College, Punjab University, Pakistan and his
Ph.D (Nuclear/Solid State 1965) and D.Sc (Physics, 1993)
from the University of Birmingham, U.K. His classical
work (1963) with O’Connor established the confirmation of Waller’s theory (1923) of phonons at the Bragg
diffraction peaks using diffraction of Mossbauer
gamma-rays from LiF single crystals which has been
extensively cited for several decades and printed in
several books including those of Cambridge University
Press (U.K.) and North Holland Publishers. 
Top
Seyed
Gholamreza Etemad is a professor of chemical engineering
department at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT-Iran).
He is also a co-founder and a member of Center of
Excellence of Nanotechnology in Environment at IUT (Iran).Professor
Etemad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of
Technology (Tehran Polytechnique, Iran). He obtained his
PhD from McGill University (Canada) in 1995.
Dr.
Marianna Foldvari is a Canada Research Chair in
Bionanotechnology and Nanomedicine and Professor of
Pharmaceutical Sciences and at the School of Pharmacy,
University of Waterloo.
Dr.
Jang received his PhD in Materials Science from MIT in
1982. During the period 1982-2002, Dr. Jang served as a
faculty member in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Materials Science at Auburn University,
Alabama. He then worked as the Chairman of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics at North Dakota State University in Fargo,
North Dakota during 2002-2005. Dr. Jang moved to Dayton,
Ohio in 2005 and served as Dean of the College of
Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State
University during the period 2005-2010. He is currently
a faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Materials
Engineering at Wright State.
Professor
Frank K. Ko is Director of the Advanced Materials and
Process Engineering Laboratory and Canada Research Chair
Professor of Advanced Fibrous Materials in the
Department of Materials Engineering at the University of
British Columbia. He has a Ph.D. degree in Textile
Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. A
SAMPE Fellow and Fellow of Textile Institute (Hon) he is
a recipient of the American Society for Composites award
and the Fiber Society Award for Distinguished
Achievement. Professor Ko has co-authored three books
and contributed to 33 book chapters. He has presented
and published over 450 papers in the engineering design
and analysis of fibrous structures for medical,
industrial and advanced composite applications. He is
serving on the editorial board of several Journals
including the area editor of nanofibre technology for
the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics. He served
on the Roadmap team for the Aerospace Industry
Association and as a member of the advisory committee on
soldier protection for the Army Board of Sciences of the
National Research Council. He is currently a member of
the advisory committee of CANMET, NRC in Canada.
Dr. D.Y. Li obtained his B.Sc. in Solid Mechanics from University of Science and Technology China (1982), a M.Sc. in Solid-State Physics from Zhongshan University (1985), a PhD in Materials Physics from University of Science and Technology Beijing (1990) and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from McGill University (1995). He worked as an instructor of Physics at South China University of Technology (1985–86), a Research Associate at McGill University (1990-92) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Pennsylvania State University (1995–97). Dr. Li joined the University of Alberta in 1998 and is currently a Professor at department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and an adjunct professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Li’s research interests include surface science and engineering, tribology and tribo-materials, computational materials science, photocatalytic materials, and bacteria-metal interfaces. Dr. Li has in excess of 240 publications including more than 190 refereed journal publications; he is a co-author/contributor of the Smithells Metals Reference Book (2004, Elsevier) and Encyclopedia of Tribology (2011, Springer). Dr. Li is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nano & Biomaterials and a member of editorial board for five other journals in the areas of nanotechnology, tribology, corrosion, and materials. 
Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an assistant professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008, received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 and an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010. Dr. Pelling completed his undergraduate studies at University of Toronto (1997-2001), his PhD under the supervision of James K. Gimzewski at the University of California, Los Angeles (2001-2005) and his post-doctoral research as a Senior Research Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London with Michael A. Horton (2005-2008). Dr. Pelling leads the Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation, which is comprised of people from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds. The lab is primarily focused on the integration of multiple optical techniques with nanomechanical probes to study how forces can be used to manipulate and control single cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms. The research in the Pelling Lab exists at the interface of several scientific disciplines (cell and molecular biology, artificial tissues, optics, physics and engineering) in order to study cell biophysics, stem cell fate, cancer cell biology and muscular diseases. Andrew's work is highly collaborative and exploratory and is always open to new directions and ideas.
Joe
Shapter obtained his Ph. D. from the University of
Toronto in 1990 working with Prof. J. C. Polanyi on the
detection of small molecules and the determination of
their energies. From 1990 to 1996, worked at the
University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario) building
a scanning tunnelling microscope and lecturing first
year chemistry. In 1996 moved to Flinders and is now
Professor of Nanotechnology.
John
T. W. Yeow received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical and
computer engineering, and M.A.Sc. and PhD. degrees in
mechanical and industrial engineering from the
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. He is
currently an Associate Professor and a Canada Research
Chair in Micro/Nanodevices in the Department of Systems
Design Engineering at University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
ON, Canada. His current research interests are in the
field of developing miniaturized sensors and biomedical
instruments. He is a recipient of the Professional
Engineering Ontario Engineering Medal, Natural Science &
Engineering Research Canada Innovation Challenge Award,
Douglas R. Colton’s Medal of Research Excellence,
Micralyne Microsystems Design Award, Ontario Ministry of
Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award, and
University of Toronto Alumni Association 7T6 Early
Career Award. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Nanotechnology Council Newsletter. He is also an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.