The conference organisers are happy to announce the Plenary, Invited and Keynote speakers at MIP2024.

Plenary Speaker: János Vörös

• The Plenary lecture will be delivered by János Vörös, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the University and ETH Zurich (Department for Information Technology and Electrical Engineering) heading the Laboratory for Biosensors and Bioelectronics since 2006.
  
  János Vörös studied Physics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After receiving a diploma in Physics in 1995, he was a doctoral student at the Department of Biological Physics of the Eötvös University (in collaboration with Microvacuum Ltd.) where he received his PhD in Biophysics in 2000. From 1998 he was a member of the BioInterface group in the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist, postdoc, and from 2004, group leader of the Dynamic BioInterfaces group (until 2006).
  
  Prof. Vörös is interested in research and teaching in the areas of Biosensors, Bioelectronics, and Bottom-up Neuroscience. His research group focuses on the development of novel biosensor techniques for diagnostics and drug discovery; on interacting with well-defined neural networks; as well as on stretchable bioelectronic devices.

Wulff Memorial Lecturer: Ken Shea

• Kenneth J. Shea, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
  
  Career: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology; Graduate Research, The Pennsylvania State University; Currently Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
  
  Professor Shea is a former chair and currently Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Cope Scholar, a Winston Churchill College Overseas Fellow, Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials, Science and Engineering and of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymer Chemistry. He is an Adjunct Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He has served as a member of the Physical and Life Science Directorate External Review Committee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC Science & Technology Committee.
  
  Professor Shea’s research interests are in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry and polymer and materials chemistry. He has mentored over 150 graduate and postdoctoral students at the University of California.

Mosbach Memorial Lecturer: Chris Lowe

• Professor Emeritus Christopher R. Lowe, OBE, FREng was trained as a biochemist and following postdoctoral positions in Liverpool and Lund and a lectureship at the University of Southampton, he was appointed to the University of Cambridge in 1984 to found the Institute of Biotechnology, which he ran for 23 years prior to subsequently merging it with the Department of Chemical Engineering to form the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.
  
  He is a Fellow of Trinity College, the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Life Member of the Royal Institution. He has over 420 peer-reviewed publications, 8 books and monographs, >100 patents and has supervised 99 PhD students.
  
  He has won a number of National and International prizes: Pierce Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Affinity Chromatography (1989), Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement (1996), Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education (2007), Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the UK, and an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours.
  
  He has been the driving force for the establishment of 12 spin-out companies, is involved with a number of national and international granting and governmental organisations. He established two pioneering Master’s courses: Bioscience Enterprise (MBE) (2002) and Therapeutic Sciences (MTS) (2018). After formal retirement, he was re-employed by the University to establish the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS) to promote research, translation, education and policy in therapeutic sciences.

Invited Keynote Speaker:

• Zeynep Altintas, Kiel University, Germany.

Keynote Speakers:

• Claudio Baggiani, University of Torino, Italy.
• Alessandra Maria Bossi, University of Verona, Italy.
• Mehmet Dinc, Hahn-Schickard, Ulm, Germany.
• Karsten Haupt, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France.
• Wlodzimierrz Kutner, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
• Peter Lieberzeit, University of Vienna, Austria.
• Zhen Liu, Nanjing University, China.
• Antonio Martín-Esteban, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
• Ian Nicholls, Linnaeus University, Sweden.
• Sergey Piletsky, University of Leicester, UK.
• Börje Sellergren, Malmö University, Sweden.
• Michael Whitcombe, President of the Society for Molecular Imprinting, UK.
• Huiqi Zhang, Nankai University, Tianjin, China






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