4^th International Conference on Crystallography & Novel Materials November 19-20, 2018 Bucharest, Romania

Lavinia BALAN obtained the PhD degree from the University Henry Poincaré in Nancy, France, in 2005. Her PhD was devoted to the elaboration of an original material for the anode of Li-ion batteries. After a post doctorate in Orleans and then in Mulhouse, she joined the Department of Photochemistry of Mulhouse in 2006 as a CNRS Senior Researcher. She opened a new field of research in this laboratory, viz. the photo-assisted synthesis of metal nanoparticles and metal-polymer nanocomposite. Since December 2009, L. Balan joined the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse (IS2M)-CNRS. She has published more than 100 scientific publications, 4 book chapters and 5 patents. Dr. L. Balan has been serving as an editorial board member for many scientific journals.

L. Balan research are concerned with photochemical synthesis of metal/polymer nanocomposites and photo-design of metal nanoparticles and nanocrystals (quantum dots) suited for advanced applications in the fields of optic, photonics, plasmonics, imaging or biology.

Oara Neumann has completed her PhD and Postdoctoral study in Applied Physics at Rice University and MS from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Bucharest University, Romania. She is a research scientist in Naomi Halas group at Rice University. She holds 12 patents and she has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals.

Applied physics and nano structures

Takashiro AKITSU, PhD is a full Professor for the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division II at Tokyo University of Science. He completed his under graduate school training (chemistry) from Osaka University, Japan and his graduate school training (physical & inorganic chemistry, especially coordination, crystal and bioinorganic chemistry) from Osaka University, Japan. Dr. Akitsu has published up to about 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has had posters presented at international level. He has been a peer reviewer of many journals and acted an organizing committee of several international conferences.

Absorption of light by metal complexes and their hybrid materials

Lucian Baia earned his Ph.D. degree in 2003 at the University of Würzburg, Germany. In 2003, he also began his academic career as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Physics of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2008, he is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Advanced Technologies at the Faculty of Physics, and starting with 2012, he is additionally Senior Researcher at the Centre of Nanostructured Materials and Bio-Nano-Interfaces, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca. His current research focuses on the obtaining and characterization of nanoarchitectures and materials with controllable morphology and structure for environmental (photocatalytic) and biomedical (tissue engineering) applications. He is author or co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, three books, five book chapters, 4 patent applications, has an h-index of 23, and is serving as editorial board member for several scientific journals.

characterization of nanoarchitectures, materials with controllable morphology, structure for environmental (photocatalytic), biomedical (tissue engineering) applications

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey in Solid State Physics. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He shifted to Firat University in 1980, and became professor in 1996, and He has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last three years (2014 - 2016) over 20 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), web: http://saise.org/, Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), web: http://www.sciei.org, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, web: http://www.iacsit.org/, The Academic World Education and Research Center (AWER-Center), web: http://www.awer-center.org/, and other institutes and companies. He joined as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair at 10 conferences held in 2017. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography, differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

Benny Danilo Belviso is an enthusiastic research fellow with a background in crystallography, structural biology, and chemistry. He completed Ph.D. in Applied Chemical and Enzymatic Synthesis at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy) and has been research postdoc fellow at Centre for Biomolecular Sciences (Nottingham University) and Institute of Crystallography (CNR) where he currently works. He is expert of protein-ligand interactions, X-ray based analitical techniques and is involved in many interantional collaborations and projects related to drug design and biopharma industrial purification processes. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed scientific journals.

Protein Crystallography, drug design, material science

Ramin Zibaseresht is a Professor in Chemistry at Maritime University of Imam Khomeini in Noshahr and Adjunct Professor at Aja University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shiraz University, his M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry from Pune University, and his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Canterbury. He is currently the Head of Biomaterials and Medicinal Chemistry Research Centre in Tehran. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and some international conferences and more than 10 books in the area of Chemistry. Prof Ramin Zibaseresht has been serving as an editorial board member of some peer-reviewd journals, academic book publishers, member of more than 10 academic committees, organizing committees and academic boards of international conferences.

Organic Synthesis, Inorganic Metal Complexes, Inorganic Synthesis, Bioinorganic Chemistry, X-ray Crystallography, Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Extraction and Characterization of Marine Natural Products, Biomaterials, Medicinal Chemistry, NMR Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry.

Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta Dean, Faculty of Science Parishkar College of Global of Excellence Jaipur in the Department of physics, With over 15 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience, he has held various administrative positions as the Head of Department in various degree colleges and engineering colleges and has a vast experience of teaching in IIT-JEE Institute. Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta had been associated with Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur for last 8 years as Associate Professor. Prior to that, he was associated with Agarwal PG College, Subodh PG College, Global Institute of Technology, Joythi Vidhyapeeth University Jaipur, as faculty positions for 7 years. In his 15 years teaching, administrative and research duration, he has published 23 research papers in highly reputed UGC Approved International Journals. He has been appointed as The International Editorial Board member in 45 UGC approved Peer Reviewed, Scopus, Thomsons Reuters International Journals .He guided 12 M.sc (physics) Projects, 3 MPhil (Physics) thesis, 10 MTECH Projects and 4 students on going Ph.D. under his Supervision. 120 students have published international paper in UGC approved Peer Reviewed, Thomsons Reuters under his supervision.

Physics Specialization in Micro wave Electronics

Zakaria Boumerzoug is a professor of metallic materials at Biskra University. He joined Biskra University in 1992. He obtained his PhD from Constantine University in 1998. He published fifty articles and he participated to more than thirty international conferences as speaker and invited speaker. He was as a member and also as a guest editor in some international conferences. He has supervised 17 PhD students. He has reviewed many articles of some scientific journals. He is a chief of an international project between Biskra University and UMONS University in Belgium. He has a short international teaching experience at Cadiz University, Spain, May 2017( ERASMUS Program). He has organised more than 10 scientific meeting in Algeria.

metallic materials

Ullrich Pietsch was born in 1952 in Leipzig. received his Diploma as Crystallographer in 1978 at Humboldt University in Berlin.Supervised by Prof. Konrad Unger he received hid Ph.D at university of Leipzig in 1981. His habilitation was completed in 1988.During his Humboldt fellowship in the group of Prof. Peisl at MLU Münich in 1991/92 he became familiar with the use of synchrotron radiation. As Professor of Structure Analysis at University of Postdam in 1995 and later as Professor of Solid State Physics at Siegen university ( since 2005 ) he is using synchrotron radiation for structure analysis of crystals under external perturbation and for the analysis of structure to property relations of nanomaterials.

structure analysis of crystals

Ajay Kumar Mishra is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa and also a “Fellow” member at “Royal Society of Chemistry” UK. He received his B. Sc, M. Sc., degrees in 1997 and 2001 respectively from Purvanchal University Jaunpur, India and M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from The University of Delhi, India. From March 2006 to September 2009, he was postdoctoral fellows at various South African Institutes/Universities. In addition, he was appointed as “Senior Lecturer” in October 2009 at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa where he was promoted to “Associate Professor” in November 2011 until December 2014. Recently, he was appointed by University of South Africa as “Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research. He has authored over 100 scientific papers. He has hosted several visiting researchers/scientists/postdocs in his group. He has also developed a number of collaborations worldwide. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of international awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers and also reviewer of many international journals. He is serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops.

synthesis of multifunctional nano-materials, nano-composites, biopolymer and/or petrochemical based biodegradable polymers, polymers based materials/composites, smart materials, CNT and graphene based composite materials and water research.

Jordi Sort leads The ‘Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism’ (comprising around 20 researchers) as an ICREA Research Professor at UAB. After finishing his PhD in 2002 in the field of “magnetic interfacial effects” (Extraordinary Award), Prof. Sort performed two postdoctoral stays, at SPINTEC (Grenoble) and at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on a wide variety of materials (thin films, lithographed structures, porous materials and nanocomposites) with emphasis on their magnetic and mechanical performance. He received awards from the Catalan and Spanish Physical Societies as well as the Federation of European Materials Societies. At present, Prof. Sort has supervised 10 PhD Theses, has published around 265 articles (more than 6000 citations in ISI, h = 37), has issued 5 patents and has managed 26 national/international research projects, being Coordinator of an European Training Network (ITN) and a Consolidator Grant from the ERC.

variety of materials (thin films, lithographed structures, porous materials and nanocomposites) with emphasis on their magnetic and mechanical performance

Dr. (Ms) T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology; has 14 years of teaching experience; published many research articles/ books and h-index 10; life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials; serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK); achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and 2015 Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered lectures (more than 105) in International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews.

nanomaterials / nanotechnology

Dr. M Enamul Hoque is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also had been an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at King Faisal University (KFU), Saudi Arabia from September 2015 – September 2017. During his time at KFU he also served as a Chairman in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at KFU for the period of January 2016 – December 2016. Prior to joining KFU he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering and Founding Head of the Bioengineering Research at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) from August 2007 to August 2015. He received his PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore in 2007. He also obtained his PGCHE (Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education) from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2015. He is a Chartered Engineer (C Eng) certified by the Engineering Council, UK and Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. Besides, He is a member of several professional scientific bodies that include Institute of Mechanical Engineer (IMechE), UK; Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), UK; Institute of Materials Malaysia (IMM), Malaysia; Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), USA; and Tissue Engineering Society Malaysia (TESMA), Malaysia. So far, he has authored 3 books, edited 3 books and co-authored 19 book chapters. He has also published around 160 technical papers in referred journals and international conference proceedings. His publications have attracted around 769 citations. His research interests include the areas of Biomaterials, Biocomposites, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells, Rapid Prototyping Technology, Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Bioenergy & Food Technology. He has collaborated multidisciplinary research projects with vibrant research teams around the world that include Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, France, India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE, UK, USA and so on.

Biomaterials, Biocomposites, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells, Rapid Prototyping Technology, Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Bioenergy & Food Technology

Di Zhang has received his PhD from Osaka University, Japan. He is now a Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China , the director of State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites at SJTU, and the Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program. Prof. Zhang has published more than 200 peer reviewed academic articles, 1 English academic book on morphology-genetic materials, and attended international conferences as invited speakers for 47 times. His works on bioinspired functional materials has been widely reported by many famous scientific media (e.g., “Discovery Channel News”) in the world.

Materials Science and Engineering, bioinspired functional materials

Daniel Chateigner is a specialist in Combined Analysis using X-rays, electron and neutron diffraction. His main activities are two folded: i) push forward the development of Combined measurement and Analysis: texture, structure, crystallite sizes, reflectivity, residual stresses, phase analyses, fluorescence, Raman ..., in a single approach called "Combined Analysis" (ISTE-Wiley 2010). This methodology has been employed in many science fields, from high-tech materials to biomineralisation. ii) developments of Open Databases around crystallography, the largest worldwide Crystallography Open Database (COD www.crystallography.net), the Materials Properties Open Database (MPOD http://mpod.cimav.edu.mx), more recently the Raman Open Database (ROD http://solsa.crystallography.net/rod/) and Theoretical CODs, TCOD (http://www.crystallography.net/tcod/) and PCOD (http://www.crystallography.net/pcod/). In 1996 he worked as research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (Earth and Planetary Science department, USA) then became Maître de Conférences at Université du Maine (Le Mans, France) where he received his Habilitation diploma. Since 2001 he is Professor at Normandie Université. He gained a PhD in Physics and Crystallography from Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble) in 1994.

X-ray diffraction,Combined Analysis,Neutron diffraction, EBSD, Synchrotron, Anisotropic properties, Materials Science, Texture analysis, Softwares/Databases, Reflectivity Anisotropic spectroscopies Biomineralisation/Molluscs/Fossils, Atomic Force Microscopy,Anisotropic elaboration techniques,Tomography