Cecile gained her Ph.D. in Materials Sciences at Grenoble Institute of Technology (France). In her research career, she has worked on the studies of thin films and nanomaterials from the process to the characterizations especially in the microelectronics area. Indeed, during a first experience as postdoc at CEA-LETI related to the growth of silicon nanowires processes suitable for Microelectronic Applications followed by  a new lithographic exploratory way  based on block copolymer at CNRS/LTM.  In March 2019, she joined the BDO (business development Office) of the ESRF as Nanotechnology Industrial Liaison Engineer to support a part of the NFFA’s activities of the ESRF. Some of her tasks are outreaching actions for NFFA, a technical follow-up of NFFA’s Joint Research Activities and the management of the safe-by-design & NFFA project.

Luis Fonseca, physicist by training, has performed technological and scientific activities at the National Center of Microelectronics in Barcelona since 1989, when he joined as a post-graduate student. After completing his PhD on thin film gate dielectrics and serving as process engineer in CNM clean room, he joined its Microsystems group in 2001 as a researcher. He currently leads the ‘MicroEnergy Sources and Sensor Integration’ research group. He has participated in tens of national and international projects dealing with micro-nanotechnologies, contributed to near 200 conferences and published about 80 papers. He has been involved in NFFA since an early design phase study in 2011. Currently, he is part of NFFA executive committee where he serves as Integrated Activities Manager.

Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones is a Professor of Environmental Nanoscience at the University of Birmingham, where she is also Director of the Facility for Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation (FENAC) and Director of the MRes programme on Environmental and Biological Nanoscience. She has coordinated FP7 projects NanoReTox, ModNanoTox and NanoMILE and is currently coordinating H2020 project ACEnano. She is also leading the EC’s NanoSafety Cluster (www.nanosafetycluster.eu). Professor Valsami-Jones’ research focuses around the mechanisms involved in nanoscale processes in a biological and environmental context.

Dr. Sergio E. Moya studied Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. He obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Potsdam/Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany. He is presently group leader at CIC biomaGUNE, a research centre on Biomaterials located at San Sebastian, Spain. His main research interests are in nanofabrication, soft matter nanotechnology, nanomedicine, biological fate, bio non bio interactions and nanosafety.

After gaining her Masters in "Chemical and Process Engineering" at CPE Lyon and The Technical University of Hamburg, Noor joined the BDO in July 2019 to compile information on the NanoSafety practices of the NFFA partners.

Christina graduated in aerosol technology at the faculty of Engineering at Lund University. She joined afterwards the department of Design Sciences of the Lund University as scientist. Her activities concern the diffusion of the nanomaterials into environment with a strong interest for the impact of these nanomaterials in the working places. More specifically, she’s an expert into the air/liquid systems and the characterizations of nanomaterial in this kind of environment. Christina teaches in the University and in parallel, realizes her research activity in partnership with the department Nanosafety of Nanolund.

Dr Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Crete in 2001 from the Physics Department. After graduating, he joined as a visiting Researcher the IESL-FORTH working on the ultrafast laser engineering of materials and as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology. He was appointed as a visiting Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley from 2006 to 2008. In 2007 he was elected Researcher at IESL-FORTH where he is leading the “Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing” laboratory. His research interests are in the fields of ultrafast laser interactions with materials for (a) biomimetic micro- and nano- structuring (b) Advanced photonic processes for photovoltaics and energy storage, c) nanomaterials synthesis and diagnostics for optoelectronics and (c) biomaterials processing for tissue engineering.

He has delivered more than 40 invited and keynote lectures and has been organizer and chair in major international scientific conferences. He has over 200 SCI publications and coordinated many National and EU grants. Since 2015, he is the Director of the Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is a National Representative to the Horizon 2020 Program Committee and the High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of COST and participates to the Physical Sciences sectoral scientific council of the National Council for Research & Innovation of Greece. Finally he is the national Delegate of the OECD Working Party on Bio-, Nano- and Converging Technologies (BNCT).

Martin H. Magnusson received his PhD in physics from Lund University in 2001, with a thesis on aerosol-based manufacturing of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles. Following graduation, he coordinated the startup of Pronano AB, a nanotechnology research institute. He was later recruited to the spin-off company Sol Voltaics AB, to build an R&D team for a new project on nanowire-based solar cells. Here, he co-invented Aerotaxy technology, a high-throughput method for nanowire growth. He returned to Lund University as associate professor in 2013 and continues Aerotaxy research on the academic side. He is also director of studies for the five-year Engineering Physics MSc program at the Technical faculty and deputy head of the Department of Physics.

Jorge Mejia is a senior researcher and business developer for the Analysis by Nuclear Reactions Laboratory and the Synthesis, Irradiation and Analysis of Materials SIAM Platform respectively at the University of Namur. He holds a degree in Chemical engineering, Two MSc (Sanitary Engineering and Nanotechnology), and a PhD in Physics. His PhD was on the characterization and behavior of nanoparticles in biological media. His research is focused on the fate and evaluation of nanoparticles in complex media (culture media, food and environmental media). He participated (Qnano, Nanovalid, Nanoreg, Nanogeco) and participate (PATROLS) in several EU and regional funded projects concerning the characterization and fate of nanomaterials.

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Julien Colaux is a senior researcher and liaison fellow for the SIAM Platform at the University of Namur. He holds a MSc degree and a PhD in Physics (material sciences). His PhD was on the Characterisation of carbon nitride compounds synthesised by simultaneous implantation of C and N within Cu. He is an expert in ion beam analysis (IBA) for materials characterizations.During his post-doc at the Surrey Ion Beam Centre (Surrey, UK) contributed as quality manager to range of research activities as well as to the development of high accuracy RBS measurements, routinely used at the IBC for Quality Assurance purposes (accredited in 2015 ISO-17025 by UKAS). This is a world first in IBA community. Currently, one of his research interests is the characterization of nanomaterials by IBA techniques.

Ivan is Head of Nanoprocess Lab at Lund Nano Lab (LNL), and member of NFFA’s General assembly. His research concern advanced lithography and various nanopatterning methods. He coordinates also collaboration with other Swedish infrastructures, with LU characterization labs, Lund’s Synchrotron: MAX IV and other Scandinavian cleanrooms (in Denmark and Finland). He participates to the creation of the future Scandinavian Science Village (SVS) where the LNL will move in the future. Ivan is member of the TLNet in the Lund University node.

Cecile gained her Ph.D. in Materials Sciences at Grenoble Institute of Technology (France). In her research career, she has worked on the studies of thin films and nanomaterials from the process to the characterizations especially in the microelectronics area. Indeed, during a first experience as postdoc at CEA-LETI related to the growth of silicon nanowires processes suitable for Microelectronic Applications followed by a new lithographic exploratory way based on block copolymer at CNRS/LTM. In March 2019, she joined the BDO (business development Office) of the ESRF as Nanotechnology Industrial Liaison Engineer to support a part of the NFFA’s activities of the ESRF. Some of her tasks are outreaching actions for NFFA, a technical follow-up of NFFA’s Joint Research Activities and the management of the safe-by-design & NFFA project

Hiram Castillo graduated in Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (USA). After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, he joined the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in 2011 as a beamline scientist at ID21 where he is working on application and development of synchrotron µXRF/µXANES and µFTIR for the study of the distribution and biochemical modification of trace elements and nanomaterials in biological samples. In particular, he is interested in the fate and transport of nanomaterials and potentially toxic elements in plants. The chemical form of them and their specific localization at the tissue and subcellular level are the main objects of his research.

After his PhD (TU Vienna 1992) Heinz Amenitsch joined as postdoc the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems research (IBN) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences headed by Prof. Laggner. He leaded the design and construction of the Austrian Small Angle X-ray Scattering Beamline at the electron storage ring ELETTRA in Trieste. In the following he was the team leader of the IBN group at the outstation in Trieste. After the move to the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology in 2012 he is group leader of the scattering facilities including the Austrian SAXS beamline. He received his habilitation in physical chemistry (2016) and is professor at the TUG. The TUG scattering facility is a partner facility of the ERIC Central European Infrastructure Consortium. He serves as director of the facility within in CERIC-ERIC the board of directors.

His current research interests are the structural characterization of self-assembly processes in mesoporous materials, bio-mineralization, bio-membranes, as well as the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles. As a consequence of this twin role – synchrotron radiation and research activities – he also developed cutting edge techniques for in-operando and high throughput methods. He is the project leader of this activities in NFFA. Currently he is investigating the interaction of nanomaterials with biological matter and is interested in the application of high throughput methods for this purpose.

Pascal Colpo obtained his PhD in Energetic physics from the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble in France. After 6 years of experience in industry, he joined the EC Joint Research Centre as visiting scientist in 1997 and as scientific officer in 2001. He is responsible of the clean room facility of Nanobiotechnology laboratory and of the Open-Nanobiotechnology-laboratory workpackage. His research focuses on safety assessment of nanomaterials, development of bio interfaces for biomolecular detection, surface functionalisation and micro-nanofabrication for advanced in vitro assays and cell sensing. He is author and co-author of more than 130 publications, 5 book chapters and 12 patents.

Cecile gained her Ph.D. in Materials Sciences at Grenoble Institute of Technology (France). In her research career, she has worked on the studies of thin films and nanomaterials from the process to the characterizations especially in the microelectronics area. Indeed, during a first experience as postdoc at CEA-LETI related to the growth of silicon nanowires processes suitable for Microelectronic Applications followed by a new lithographic exploratory way based on block copolymer at CNRS/LTM. In March 2019, she joined the BDO (business development Office) of the ESRF as Nanotechnology Industrial Liaison Engineer to support a part of the NFFA’s activities of the ESRF. Some of her tasks are outreaching actions for NFFA, a technical follow-up of NFFA’s Joint Research Activities and the management of the safe-by-design & NFFA project

Simon CLAVAGUERA (M) graduated in 2004 in chemistry and chemical engineering (ENS Chimie Montpellier). He then received his Ph.D. in chemistry at University of Montpellier in 2007 on the development of chemical sensors for explosives detection. After working as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Yves Rubin from 2007 to 2009 at University of California Los Angeles on the chemistry of fullerenes, he joined the Atomic Energy Commission at Grenoble, France in 2009. His current research is aimed on the development of methods and devices for exposure assessment to airborne particles and indoor air purification. He is also involved in the implementation of Safer-by-Design approaches towards the responsible development of nano-enabled products. Dr. Simon Clavaguera is (co-)author of 15 patents, 22 peer reviewed publications and 7 articles and book chapters on scientific popularization.

Dr. Dmitri Petrovykh is a Corporate Expert at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), using his broad expertise in science and technology to promote interdisciplinary research and development activities as well as productive partnerships with industry. The current research activities of Dr. Petrovykh include nanocharacterization and several areas of nanobiotechnology and quantitative biology: rational design and quantitative analysis of biointerfaces, cell-nanoparticle interactions, and quantitative bioanalytics. The applied and translational projects supported by these research activities are in the areas of biosensors, nanomedicine, advanced materials for catalysis and energy applications, programmed self-assembly of nanostructures, and bioinspired materials.

Pete Kines is a senior researcher at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Denmark. He specializes in the field of accident and safety research, and is here today to tell us about results from the Calibrate nano project, and the research carried out regarding the health and safety risk perceptions of working with nanomaterials in academia and industry.