Keynote Speakers
- Lecture: Smart piezoelectric scaffolds
- Pawel lukasz Sajkiewicz is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, leader of the Laboratory of Polymers and Biomaterials, at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN). Expert in the field of synthetic and natural polymers, their structure, with recent emphasis on electrospun micro/nanofibers, both from fundamental and applied perspective as biodegradable scaffolds for tissue regeneration. Graduated from Faculty of Materials Science at Warsaw Technical University, PhD and habilitation at IPPT; postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Tennessee, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- email: psajk@ippt.pan.pl
- phone: +48 795 360 832
- website: http://polybiolab.ippt.pan.pl/
- Lecture: Helically coiled structures via wet electrospinning
- Eyal Zussman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion - Israel institute of Technology. He holds a DSc degree from the Technion in mechanical engineering. He held postdoctoral appointment at Technical University in Berlin, Germany. Since joining the faculty at the Technion, he has served as Director of the NanoEngineering Group. His group research is in the area of molecular engineering of soft matter, in particular the development of process-structure-property relationships, through the use of simulations and experiments, and the development of functional electrospun fibers. He was Visiting Professor at the Northwestern University (2003), and at the National University of Singapore (2010-2015). He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles.
- email: meeyal@technion.ac.il
- phone: +972-77-8872836
- website: http://hitech.technion.ac.il/~eyal/
- Lecture: Transport properties of electrospun hydrogel nanofilaments: perspective use for drug delivery and tissue repair (in cooperation with S. Pawlowska, F. Pierini)
- Tomasz Kowalewski is a professor of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering at IPPT PAN (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences). His present work spans fundamental and applied research areas in micro and nanoscale transport effects in fluids, biological and medical applications of nanomaterials, nanofibrous materials, microfluidics, microPIV, and thermochromic liquid crystals. He has deep experience in flow visualization, experimental and numerical modelling, including natural convection, solidification, free surface and atmospheric flows.
- email: tkowale@ippt.pan.pl
- phone: +48 602 193 472
- website: http://bluebox.ippt.pan.pl/~tkowale/
- Lecture: Surface potential controlled electrospun fibers for tissue engineering
- Urszula Stachewicz is an associate professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. She graduated from Delft University of Technology with PhD in electrohydrodynamic of liquids to use electrospray as on demand deposition method, with research performed at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She conducted postgraduate study at Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and work at spin-out company Nanoforce Technology Ltd. In the research she is developing advance 3D tomography protocols using focus ion beam and scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) for nanofibrous biomaterials and membranes. Her group core themes are on electrospun polymer nanofibers and their interactions with cells for tissue engineering, and liquids to collect water; in situ mechanical testing of synthetic and naturally structured materials.
- email:ustachew@agh.edu.pl
- phone:+48 12 617 5230
- website: http://www.tem.agh.edu.pl/main_new/index.php/en/41-pracownicy/38-dr-eng-urszula-stachewicz
