Conference
Invited Speakers
Prof. dr hab. Mirosław Chorążewski
University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Chemistry, POLAND
Prof. Mirosław Chorążewski (https://www.thermodynamics.us.edu.pl/) is a professor at University of Silesia in Katowice, and Deputy Dean for research and international cooperation at the Faculty of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Silesia and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Universite Blaise Pascal (France), and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Chorążewski’s research group Thermodynamics in Action works on understanding the behavior of materials under high-pressure conditions.
Privately, he is the president of the Reksio Foundation (http://fundacjareksio.org/), which takes care of the image of the most famous Polish fairy tale.
Research focus: high-pressure calorimetry, PVT techniques, thermodynamics of compressed liquids and solid-liquid interfaces, equations of state.
https://www.thermodynamics.us.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-8912-9024
Email: miroslaw.chorazewski[at]us.edu.pl
Dr. Nava SHAKED
School of Multidisciplinary Studies, Holon Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
Dr. Nava Shaked is the head of The School Multidisciplinary Studies in - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel and an Adjunct professor at the PhD program at CUNY GC, Computational Linguistics She holds a Ph.D. from CUNY GC. Shaked is an expert in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language processing, Human-Machine interaction, with 20 years' experience in both technology research as well as leading major projects in Israel, Europe and the US Hi-tech Industry. Shaked was acting as an advisor for major enterprises, leading customer strategy, designing system architecture, providing Professional Service and heading AI projects. In addition, she is a member of GPAI - The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, an international initiative established to guide the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence for large cooperations and governments to ensure Responsible AI.
More industry and academic info about projects and publications can be found in:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-4663
Prof. Giuseppe SPANO
University of Foggia, ITALY
Prof. Giuseppe Spano is Full Professor of Industrial Microbiology at the University of Foggia (Foggia, Italy). He holds two PhD degrees: one in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK) and another in Food Microbiology from the University of Foggia.
Throughout his career, Prof. Spano has been invited to several international conferences and held visiting research positions at several international institutions, including the University of Bordeaux (France), the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), ENSBANA-DIJON (France) and the University of Turku (Finland).
He has supervised numerous PhD students and served on many international PhD steering committees. Additionally, he has acted as an evaluator of research projects for several national and international funding agencies.
Prof. Giuseppe Spano has coordinated more than 40 scientific research projects and authored over 400 scientific publications, including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and patents. His work has received more than 11,000 citations, and he has an H-index of 63 (Scopus bank).
He is a member of the Italian Society of Environmental and Food Microbiology, and past member of the English Society of Applied Microbiology (SfAM) and American Society of Microbiology.
Prof. Giuseppe Spano serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Food Bioscience (Elsevier, Q1) and he is part of the editorial board of several scientific journals. He is also co-founder and scientific consultant of the spin-off company Promis Biotech srl.
His research focuses on biotechnology innovations involving lactic acid bacteria, particularly in the areas of vitamins production, fruits/vegetables by-products fermentation and antifungal and antibacterial activities.
Floriana TUNA
University of Manchester, UK
Floriana Tuna is a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester (UK), where she leads a research group focused on studies of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for NO2 and CO2 capture, and of magnetic materials for quantum information technologies. She is also Manager of EPSRC UK National Research Facility for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and the Academic Lead of Photon Science Institute Advanced Instrument Development Theme, Manchester.
Floriana holds BSc and MSc degrees in chemistry from the University of Bucharest, and PhD degree in magnetism and coordination chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Institute of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest (1997). She did postdoctoral training at the University of Heidelberg (Germany, 2000), the Institute for Solid State Chemistry Bordeaux (ICMCB,-CNRS France, 2000-2001), University of Warwick (UK, 2001-2003) and University of Manchester (UK, 2003-2006). She has been awarded a Romania Academy ‘Ilie Murgulescu’ Prize for seminal research, two Royal Society Horizon prizes (2021, 2024), a Royal Society Dalton Division Prize (2010), and several other awards including Leverhulme fellowship, and Marie Curie and DAAD fellowships. Her main research is centred on d/f-block organometallic and metal organic molecular materials (including MOFs) for applications that concern quantum information storage and processing, selective gas capture, catalysis and nuclear science. Here she uses EPR and magnetometry to probe electronic structures, spin dynamics, and reaction mechanisms, amongst other interests.
She has published over 370 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 28 articles in Nature Publ. journals and Science, 3 book chapters and 11 conference proceedings (H-index: 78; > 20764 citations) and has supervised 22 PhD theses to date.