INVITED SPEAKERS

Angiolina Comotti

  • Position/Affiliation:
    Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, University of Milano Bicocca
  • Research Interests:
    Supramolecular Chemistry, Porous Materials, Molecular Rotors, In situ Polymerization, Solid State NMR
  • URL:
    http://www2.mater.unimib.it/utenti/sozzani/

Daniel M. Zuckerman

  • Position/Affiliation:
    Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Research Interests:
    ‘Rare events’ in molecular simulation, Physical systems biology of molecular machines, Statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes, Adaptive and mixed-resolution modeling for drug design
    and biophysics, Sampling assessment and other statistical mechanics-based methods
  • URL:
    http://www.ohsu.edu/zuckerman

Jesse L. Silverberg

  • Position/Affiliation:
    – PhD fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
    – PhD fellow, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
  • Research Interests:
    Multiscale biophysics and systems biomechanics, Extreme collective behavior, Maker-style instrumentation and quantitative image analysis
  • URL:
    https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/postdoctoral-fellow/jesse-silverberg/

Hirokazu Kobayashi

  • Position/Affiliation:
    – Cooperative Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
    – JST PRESTO Researcher
  • Research Interests:
    Development of novel nanostructured materials and hybrids for applications in catalysis and energy generation/storage.
  • URL:
    http://www.kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/organization/member/hkobayashi_e.html

Kensaku Chida

  • Position/Affiliation:
    Researcher, Nanodevices Research Group, Physical Science Laboratory, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation
  • Research Interests:
    Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Electron counting statistics, Physics in nanodevices
  • URL:
    http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/chida.kensaku/index-en.html

Roland Wester

  • Position/Affiliation:
    Professor, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
  • Research Interests:
    Reaction dynamics, Ion-molecule reactions, Cold molecular ions, Quantum-state selection, Laser-control of chemical reactions, Microsolvation effects, Astrochemistry
  • URL:
    https://www.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/molsyst/

Shiki Yagai

  • Position/Affiliation:
    Professor, Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University
  • Research Interests:
    Self-assembly, Supramolecular polymers, Photoresponsive systems, Mechanochromic materials, Organic solar cells
  • URL:
    http://chem.tf.chiba-u.jp/yagai/index-e.html

Yoshihiko Takano

  • Position/Affiliation:
    – MANA-PI Principal Investigator, NIMS
    – Group Leader in NIMS
  • Research Interests:
    “My major is Functional materials. I have published over 400 refereed papers to international journals. Please take a look at following web sites for my publication list.”
  • URL:
    http://samurai.nims.go.jp/TAKANO_Yoshihiko-e.html