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University of Victoria, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Chithrani did her bachelor of science at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She did a physics major and received a first class honors along with many other awards which includes the gold medal for faculty of science and gold medal for physics. She also received a probationary lecturer position based on her academic excellence. Recognizing her achievements, University of Toronto awarded her a scholarship to do her doctoral studies. During her doctoral studies at the department of Materials science and Engineering, she won many prestigious awards including NSERC, OGS, OGGST, and university of Toronto open scholarship. She also received an NSERC-PDF to carry on her postdoctoral work at institute of Biomedical engineering, University of Toronto. Currently, she is the director of the Nanoscience and Technology Development Laboratory at the department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Chithrani leverages nanotechnology to create innovations that advance the care of cancer patients. She is using gold nanoparticles as a radiation dose enhancer in cancer therapy. This work is featured on the cover of radiation research journal. This paper won the highest impact paper award in 2018 by COMP (Canadian association of Medical physicist). She has also developed three dimensional tumor models to optimize bio-nano interface in cancer therapy. This work is featured on the cover of Nano-Micro Letters. Dr. Chithrani is considered as one of the leaders in the field of nanotechnology and her publications have received over 7500 citations in few years. Dr. Chithrani has earned a strong international reputation for her innovative research through her many review articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. She is an associate editor of many nanotechnology based journals. Her passion is to develop smart nanomaterials to improve exiting cancer therapeutics. She believes that many side effects due to chemotherapy can be reduced by controlled delivery of anticancer drugs using smart nanomaterials.
Flinders University, Australia
Plenary Speaker
A/Prof. Vi-Khanh Truong is an ARC Future Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Associate Professor in Biomedical Nanotechnology at Flinders University, where he leads the Biomedical Nanoengineering Laboratory. He received his PhD in Nanobiotechnology from Swinburne University of Technology in 2012 and has since built an international reputation in biointerface engineering, nanomaterials, and plasma-enabled surface technologies. His career bridges academia and industry, with early recognition including the International Titanium Association’s award for innovation in implant surfaces, research fellowships at Hannover Laser Zentrum (Germany) and CNRS (France), and industrial appointments at BASF and BlueScope focused on antimicrobial coatings and agricultural nanotechnologies. As a Fulbright Fellow, he expanded global collaborations to accelerate the translation of nano-enabled innovations into biomedical and environmental applications. His research integrates antimicrobial biomaterials, liquid metal bioelectronics, plasma surface engineering, and functional food nanotechnology, targeting challenges in infection control, sustainability, and health. He has published over 180 papers in high-impact journals (e.g., Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, PNAS), holds multiple PCT-stage patents, and is actively commercializing technologies in medical devices, wound care, sutures, and sustainable materials. Dr. Truong’s vision is to engineer smart, sustainable materials that improve human health while addressing global ecological challenges.
Concordia University, Canada
Keynote Speaker
Zhibin Ye is a Professor at Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Zhejiang University (China) in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and his PhD degree from McMaster University in 2004, with all in chemical engineering. He started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor at Laurentian University in 2004, and was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2009 and 2012, respectively, at Laurentian. He moved to Concordia University in 2017. Zhibin has research interest in organic electrode materials for rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, carbon nanomaterials, 2D materials, polymers, advanced polymerization techniques, catalysis, nanocomposites, etc. Zhibin is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering and Royal Society of Chemistry.