| Opening Lecture |
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Carlos Jaime
Vicerector of Strategical Projects and Planning at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
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Andreu Mas-Colell
Secretary General, European Research Council, Spain |
| Opening Ceremony |
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Pal Schmitt
Vice President European Parliament, Hungary |
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Pascal Couchepin
former President of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland |
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Helmut Dosch
Director General DESY & GENNESYS Chair, Germany |
| Welcome Addresses |
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Ana Ripoll
Rector of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
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Felipe Pétriz
Secretary of State for Research, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain |
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Joan Roca
General Director for Research, Catalonia, Spain |
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Jordi Hereu
Mayor of Barcelona, Spain (tbc) |
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Rafael Rodrigo Montero
President of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain |
| Chairpersons |
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Carles Miravitlles
Former Director of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB of CSIC), Spain |
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Carlo Rizutto
Chair of ESFRI and Chairman of ELETTRA, Italy |
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Christos Tokamanis
Head of Unit - Operational Unit Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, DG Research, European Commission |
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Felipe Pétriz
Secretary of State for Research, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain |
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Francesco Fedi
President of the EU-COST Committee of Senior Officials |
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Hervé Pero
Director (Acting) of Directorate B - European Research Area: research programmes and capacity, European Commission |
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Jean Etourneau
University of Bordeaux, France |
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Jose M.F. Labastida
General Director of "Plan Nacional I+D+i", Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain |
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José Rivas
Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal |
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Leopold Demiddeleer
Chair of the European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA), Belgium |
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Manuel Serrano
Head of Returns of Scientific Programmes and Large Facilities in CDTI, Spain |
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Pal Schmitt
Vice President European Parliament, Hungary |
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Ramon Pascual
Chairman of the Executive Commission of ALBA Synchrotron, Spain |
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Yvan Bruynseraede
K.U. Leuven, Belgium |
| Keynote Speakers |
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Cora Marrett
Deputy Director National Science Foundation, USA |
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Helmut Dosch
Director General DESY & GENNESYS Chair, Germany |
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Joël Chevrier
Vice-President Research of the Grenoble Universities Consortium, France |
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Michel van der Rest
Chair of ERF and Director General SOLEIL, France |
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Mihail Roco
Science Advisor to National Science Foundation, USA |
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Pascal Couchepin
former President of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland |
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Philip Withers
Material Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK |
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Walter Riess
IBM Research Lab Zurich, Switzerland |
| Panel Speakers |
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Alain Pompidou
President of the Academy of Technologies and UNESCO NanoEthics Expert committee |
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Anna García Hom
Governance of Risk Research Center, UAB, Spain |
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Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph (tbc)
Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany |
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Carlo Rizzuto
Chair ESFRI and Chairman ELETTRA, Italy |
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Christian Vettier
European Spallation Source (ESS-S), Sweden |
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Christos Tokamanis
Head of Unit - Operational Unit Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Directorate General Research, European Commission |
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Eric Isaacs
Director of Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
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Farid Ouabdessalam
President of Grenoble University Consortium, France |
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Gérard Rivière
Former President of CEN-STAR, Belgium |
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Guy Brasseur
Director of Climate Research Centre, Germany |
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Hervé Pero
Director (Acting) of Directorate B - European Research Area: research programmes and capacity, European Commission |
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Hideo Ohno
SPring-8/JASRI, Japan |
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Horst Hahn
Director Institute for Nanotechnology, KIT, Germany |
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Iain Mattaj
Chair of EIROforum and Director General EMBL, Germany |
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J. Murray Gibson
Director Advanced Photon Source (APS), USA |
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Jean-Philippe Bourgoin
Director NanoTechnology Centre CEA, France |
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Jens Gobrecht
Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland |
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José Luis Martínez Peña
Director Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France |
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Josep Samitier
Professor of the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
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Juergen Becker
Head of Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Germany |
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Kenneth Dawson
Director of the Centre for BioNano-Interactions, University College Dublin, Ireland |
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Kostas Kostarelos
FRS & FIoN, Chair of Nanomedicine at the School of Pharmacy, London University, UK |
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Lars Montelius
Director Øresund University & NanoConnect Scandinavia, President NanoScale Science Division of IUVSTA |
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Lars Valdemar Kolte
Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark |
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Laurent Malier
Director of LETI Institute Grenoble, France |
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Leopold Demiddeleer
Chair of EIRMA, Belgium |
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Marc Van Rossum
IMEC Research Centre, Belgium |
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Massimo Altarelli
Managing Director, European XFEL, Germany |
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Mikhail Popov
Head of Agency for Coordination of National Nanotechnology Network, Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Russia |
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Nieves Casañ
Director of the Department of Chemistry of Solids at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB of CSIC), Spain |
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Pablo Ordejón
Research Professor at the Centre d’Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (CIN2 of CSIC and Institut Català de Nanotecnologia -ICN-), Spain |
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Paul Rübig
Chairman of EP-ITRE-STOA, Austria (video message) |
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Pedro Montano
Director Scientific User Facilities Division, DoE, USA |
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Peter Fratzl
Director Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany |
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Pietro Perlo
Research Director, Fiat, Italy |
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Ramon Bacardit
Corporate Senior Vice President - Henkel AG & Co. KgaA, Germany |
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Robin Batterham
Chair IEA Expert Group on Science for Energy, President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering |
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Rudolf Strohmeier
Deputy Director General for Research, European Commission |
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Ruediger Iden
Senior Vice President BASF SE, Germany |
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Shigeru Kimura
JASRI, Japan |
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Stephen J. Fonash
US/NSF Director, Centre for Nanotechnology Education - Penn State, USA |
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Teruo Kishi
Advisor to NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), JST, CSTP, Japan |
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Vlastimil Ruzicka
Vice-Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic |
| Concluding Remarks |
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Montserrat Torné
General Director for International Cooperation and Institutional Relations, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain |
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Jordi Marquet
Director of UAB Research Park, Spain |
