Keynote Speakers

Robert H. Grubbs, Nobel Laureate 2005, California Institute of Technology, USA

Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Laureate 2000, U. California at Santa Barbara, USA

Junji Kido, Yamagata University, Japan

Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate 1987, U. Louis Pasteur, France

George M. Whitesides, Harvard University, USA

 

Special Contributions on the "Globalization of Research"

 

Philippe Busquin, former EU Commissioner for Research, Member of the European Parliament, Belgium

Jean-Lou Chameau, President, California Institute of Technology, USA

Léopold Demiddeleer, Director of New Business Development, Solvay, Belgium

Gary Schuster, Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Invited Speakers

Harry Anderson, Oxford University, UK
Fabio Biscarini, CNR Bologna, Italy
Thomas Bjornholm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Graciela Blanchet, DuPont, USA
Paul Blom, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, France
Michael Cölle, Merck, UK
Eugenio Coronado, University of Valencia, Spain
Xavier Crispin, Linköping University, Sweden
Luisa De Cola, University of Münster, Germany
James Durrant, Imperial College, UK
Georges Hadziioannou, University Louis Pasteur – Strasbourg, France
René Janssen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Antoine Kahn, Princeton University, USA

Darin Laird, Plextronics, USA
Roberto Lazzaroni, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Christian Lennartz, BASF, Germany
Karl Leo, Novaled & Dresden Technical University, Germany
Emil List, Technical University of Graz, Austria

Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Marta Mas-Torrent, Barcelona Institute of Science, Spain
Elena Mena-Osteritz, University of Ulm, Germany
Jean-Louis Mergny, INSERM, France
Alberto Morpurgo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Klaus Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Paulette Prins, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Heike Riel, IBM, Switzerland

Gary Schuster, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Henning Sirringhaus, Plastic Logic & University of Cambridge, UK
Kurt Stokbro, Atomistix, USA

Carlo Taliani, CNR Bologna, Italy
Daoben Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China