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Profiles by region:
UK:
Camille Petit, Imperial College London
Junwang Tang, University College London
Fang Xie, Imperial College London
Rachel Oliver, University of Cambridge
Phillip Withers, University of Manchester
Alexander Bismarck, PaCE, Imperial College London, London.
Eleanor Schofield, The Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth, UK.
Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge, UK.
Angus I. Kirkland, Electron Image Analysis Group, Oxford, UK.
John Kilner, Electroceramic Materials, Imperial College London.
Prof Kostas Kostarelos, University of Manchester, UK.
Ben Britton, Experimental Micromechanics Group
Kate Black, University of Liverpool
Paula E. Colavita, Trinity College Dublin
USA:
Igor Linkov, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Yugang Sun, Temple University
Prof Shelley D. Minteer, University of Utah
Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston
David L. McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gleb Yushin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Linda Gaines, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.
Professor Brian Maple, University of California, San Diego.
Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), California.
Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois
Kristin Persson, LBNL/UC Berkeley
Ricardo H. R. Castro, University of California-Davis
Liwei Lin, University of California at Berkeley
Olivia A. Graeve, University of California, San Diego
Michelle L. Oyen, East Carolina University
Richard Kaner, UCLA
Zhong Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
The W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation.
Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University
China:
Yanlin Song, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhixiang Wei, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Yong Yang, City University of Hong Kong
Wallace C. H. Choy, The University of Hong Kong
Hui-Ming Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xian-Zheng Zhang, Wuhan University
Chun-Sing Lee, City University of Hong Kong
Chengtie Wu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS
Ke Lu, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, Shenyang, China.
Stephen Z. D. Cheng, AISMST
Min Qiu, Zhejiang University
Australia:
Julie Cairney, ACMM, University of Sydney
Thomas Nann, University of Newcastle, Australia
David Simpson, University of Melbourne
Yusuke Yamauchi, AIBN/University of Queensland
Aibing Yu, SIMPAS, Monash University
France:
Marc Monthioux, CEMES, France.
Alberto Bianco, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS.
Ireland:
Abhay Pandit, Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), National University of Ireland.
Jonathan Coleman, Chemical Physics of Low-Dimensional Nanostructures, Dublin, Ireland.
Korea:
Soo Young Kim, Korea University
Germany:
Rudy Konings, Joint Research Centre EC
Sweden:
Energy Materials Group, Linköping University.
Denmark:
Section for Solar Energy, DTU.
New Zealand:
Dr Natalie Plank, Victoria University of Wellington
Netherlands:
Elvin Karana, Materials Experience Lab
South Africa:
Bert Klumperman, Stellenbosch University
Singapore:
Jackie Y. Ying, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore.
Czech Republic:
Martin Pumera, UTC Prague
Belgium:
Richard Hoogenboom, Ghent University
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