Organizing Committee
Hiroaki Suzuki
Hiroaki Suzuki is working as an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Chuo University. His research interest spans BioMEMS, Micromachine technology, Lab-on-a-Chip systems, and Membrane Biophysics. Focusing on the union of biology with micro-scale devices, his work involves using microfabricated technologies in applications for biological and medical purposes. He made groundbreaking contributions to the Lab-on-a-Chip system, where he has been able to miniaturize big biochemical processes onto platforms. This knowledge in micro-scale systems is used by the scientist to advance knowledge in bioengineering, provide quick diagnostics, and therefore increase the ability of the field to understand biological systems and improve health outcomes.
Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey is very famous for its Mühendislik Fakültesi, primarily for its Mechanical Engineering. The focus areas that define the university’s main research interests include: mechanical and energy-related fields within Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, as well as advanced Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning systems; additionally, CFD and Thermal Systems research are done with an aim to make discoveries leading to efficiency enhancements and sustainable engineering practices. The Department also contains the front edge areas, such as nanomaterials, with a focus on applications in engineering and technology. It provides an excellent ground for being the first and the best among all other technical universities in terms of both mechanical engineering research and education.
Burhan Çuhadaroğlu
Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
Maria Serena Chiriacò
university of del salento, Italy
Maria Serena Chiriacò (1984) achieved her master degree cum laude in Human Biology in 2008 and from 2009 to 2012 she attended her PhD in “Smart Systems and Technologies” course at Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy, with thesis on “Protein EIS biosensors for on-chip diagnostics”. Since 2012 she works as a postdoc researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Lecce and January 2019 she is permanent researcher at CNR Institute of Nanotechnology (CNR-Nanotec). She gained high-level expertise in the field of Lab-On-Chip for point of care diagnostics and microfabrication methods. Her skills include the design, fabrication and applications of biosensors and in particular electrochemical and SAW based-devices. In addition she also worked on the development of microfluidic tools for lab on chip such as active sorting of nano- and micro-objects. M.S.C. is co-author of 20 scientific publications with H-index of 11 and she is PI of a European Project: “SMILE – A SAW-MIP Integrated device for oraL cancer Early detection” funded among ATTRACT-EU consortium (Grant number:777222) and local coordinator for CNR NANOTEC unit of a National PRIN 2017 project: “Prostate cancer: disentangling the relationships with tumor microenvironment to better model and target tumor progression” (Prot. 20174PLLYN).