Young Professionals forum

Young Professionals Forum and Assembly of Delegates
Thursday May 29 from 14:00 to 16:00
Room Londres 1 - Ground floor

This gathering aims to bring together young scientists and professionals – the next-generation of materials research leaders – to widen the research perspective, to find new friends and collaborators, and to exchange experiences and thoughts related to successful career paths in the field.

14:00 – 14.10 Maarit Karppinen (Aalto University): Welcome

14:10 – 14:25 Cecilia Mattevi (Imperial College London)

14:25 – 14:40 Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (Tu/e)

14:40 – 15.00 Patrick Bressler (Fraunhofer)

15:00 – 15:10 Emma Xu (Elsevier)

15:10 – 16:00 Get-together & Networking (with coffee & sweets or drinks & snacks) ?

Cecilia Mattevi (Imperial College London): Invited speaker in F c.mattevi@imperial.ac.uk

-  PhD 2008; ERC CoG-2018 PE8

Cecilia Mattevi is Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Her research interests centre on science and engineering of novel 2D atomically thin materials to enable applications in energy conversion and energy storage. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/two-dimensional-materials.

Cecilia earned her PhD in Materials Science in 2008 undertaking her doctoral research at the European Synchrotron Facility Elettra, Trieste, IT. She then joined the group of Prof. Manish Chhowalla in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University, NJ, USA as a postdoctoral associate where she worked on chemically derived graphene for large area optoelectronic applications. In 2010, Cecilia joined Imperial as Junior Research Fellow, and was awarded an ERC-Consolidator Grant 2018 for her 3DAddChip project.

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (Tu/e): Invited speaker in B k.j.tielrooij@tue.nl

- PhD 2010; ERC CoG-2023 PE7

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is Associate Professor in the Applied Physics Department of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), associated with the Advanced Nanomaterials and Devices group. He is also a Senior Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Spain. Klaas-Jan leads the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group, which partially moved from Spain to the Netherlands in the summer of 2023. www.ultrafastdynamics.com. His key areas of expertise include ultrafast spectroscopy, terahertz photonics, optoelectronics, and layered quantum materials.

Klaas-Jan received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Amsterdam. He has received several prizes, including the FOM Physics Thesis Prize, and competitive grants including an ERC Starting grant (2018), an ERC Proof of Concept grant (2021), and an ERC Consolidator grant (2024). He is member of the Editorial Boards of the NPG journal Communications Materials and the Wiley journal Advanced Electronic Materials.