Speakers
Keynote speakers
Carlos Sánchez Somolinos
Dr. Somolinos’s expertise and scientific objectives are focused on developing polymers and their processing through advanced manufacturing techniques in the search for polymeric surfaces or functional systems of interest in optics, biomedicine and soft robotics.
Timothy (Tim) White
Research of White’s group is highly interdisciplinary, bridging chemical engineering, materials science, polymer science, mechanics, optics, and applied physics. He developed a materials chemistry to prepare liquid crystal elastomers and networks with directed self-assembly properties. He is also interested in reconfigurable optical elements and is focused on realizing a new generation of optical elements.
Hong Yang
Dr. Yang’s research interests are liquid crystal materials, functional polymeric materials, polymer synthesis methodology, organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.
Invited speakers
John Biggins
Kevin Chen
Antonio De Simone
SISSA mathLab and SAMBA lab (sensing and moving bio-inspired artifacts)