Committee Members

Jun Wang received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Wuhan University, China in 2000 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship from DAAD, Germany (2000-2001). Then, he pursued his postdoc research in the California State University at Los Angeles (LA) and the University of California at LA, respectively (2001-2005). He jointed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a scientist (2005-2011). After that, Dr. Wang moved to Charlotte, NC and founded a start-up company (Nanodiagnostic Technology, LLC) in 2011 and served as the president there (2011-present). Since October 2019, Dr. Wang became a Research Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Winnie Edith Svendsen completed her master degree in experimental physics with honors in 1993 from the University College Dublin, within atomic spectroscopy. She received her doctorate in atomic physics studying the properties of solid deuterium by laser ablation and sputtering in 1996 from Copenhagen University, Denmark. Thereafter she accepted a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma physics, Garching, Germany. She returned to Denmark in 1998 and was appointed Associate Professor at Copenhagen University in 1999. Since 2001 she has been involved with applied research and her current research focus is on understanding the physical properties of biological material to optimize the use of micro and nanotechnology in the biomedical field. She was also the co-founder of company XeHe Hypol (APS).

Zhang Xueji is Vice President of Shenzhen University and the national chair professor & director of Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, University of Science & Technology Beijing. He obtained his Ph.D. from Wuhan University in 1994. He was a postdoc fellow at the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, and New Mexico State University from 1995−1999. He has worked at World Precision Instruments Inc. as Sr. Scientist, head of chemistry department, and Sr. Vice President of science, respectively, since 1998. He has published more than 600 SCI papers in Chem. Rev., Science and Nature journals, JACS, etc., more than 180 patents. His research has centered on electrochemistry, bioanalysis, micro/nanosensors, and biomedical instrumentation.

Linda K. Medlin is currently a Research Fellow at the MBA and CEO Of Algae Save the World, Consulting. Worked previously as Head of Research at Microbia Environnement, France, at the Observatoire Oceanologique of UPMC, France and at the AWI, Germany. Received Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1983 in marine botany. Expert in marine phytoplankton evolution/phylogenetics. Published 287 papers, 37 books chapters, two edited books and two special issues, one manual for microarray analysis, 98 invited lectures, of which three are keynote speakers and four are plenary speakers. Awarded 52 research grants of which 19 are EU. 3X winner of the Tyge Christensen award for best paper in Phycologia and 1X winner of the Provasoli award for best paper in Journal of Phycology. Elected foreign member of Norwegian Academy of Science for her pioneering work in phytoplankton phylogenetics. Her 1988 benchmark publication for first PCR primers for 18S gene opened the door for rRNA genes as biodiversity genes. 2022 recipient of the Yasumoto Lifetime Achievement Award given by the International Society for the study of Harmful Algae for her lifetime work on developing phylochips/microarrays/biosensors for early warning systems for toxic algae and freshwater pathogens and for analyzing marine biodiversity. Inventor on three patents for the detection of toxic algae.

Stefano Cinti is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples “Federico II”. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in 2016 in the group headed by Prof. Giuseppe Palleschi at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He leads the uninanobiosensors Lab (uninanobiosensors.com) at University of Naples “Federico II”, and his research interests include the development of electrochemical sensors, portable diagnostics, paper-based devices and nanomaterials. During his research activity, he had the opportunity to spend a period abroad in Finland, U.K., U.S., Germany, and Spain. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of 35 and >5000 citations.

Camelia Bala serves as professor of Analytical Chemistry in Faculty of Chemistry where she began her academic career in 1990. She received her doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of Bucharest (1997). Since 2000, she is Director of R&D Center LaborQ and coordinates the research group working in analytical electrochemistry, nanostructured electrochemical interfaces, design and characterization of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, bioanalytical chemistry.

Dr. Rajiv Dutta earned M.Tech. in Biotechnology and Engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering of IIT, Kharagpur, Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani. He also earned PG Diploma in Educational Administration from SCDL, Symbiosis International University, Pune. Presently, he is Dean (Academic Affairs) SIET- Deemed University and Dean & Professor at School of Bioengineering and Life Sciences (SBE&LS) at Shobhit Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut (Deemed University u/s 3 of UGC Act, 1956). He was also a Research Faculty at the Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; apart of teaching he carried out advanced research in the area of Ion channels electrophysiology and Membrane Nanopore.

Cho’s main research interests have been focusing on cancer studies to discover biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, treatment prediction and prognostication. As a seasoned researcher, Dr Cho has conducted cancer research in using molecular biology, proteomics, genomics, immunology as well as bioinformatics, his current H-index is 100. Cho has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers (Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Advanced Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, Molecular Cancer, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Chemistry, Theranostics, etc.) covering cancer biomarkers, proteomics, non-coding RNA, traditional Chinese medicine, and dozens of books (including “An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research”, “MicroRNAs in Cancer Translational Research”, “Drug Repurposing in Cancer Therapy: Approaches and Applications” and “Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine”, etc).

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 322 journal papers, more than 677 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 38 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974.

He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017.

Genxi Li, received his BA in Polymer Chem., MA in Anal. Chem., and PhD also in Anal. Chem., from the Chem. Dept. at Nanjing University, China, in 1988, 1991, and 1994, respectively. Then, he was a postdoctor in the Biochem. Dept also at this University. In 1996, he was an Asso. Prof., and from 2001, he is a full professor. He worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Biology, Munich University in 1998; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University in 1999, and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacoloy, Harvard University in 2000. From 2006, he is also a Professor affiliated with the School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University. From January in 1999 to May in 2010, he was the Chair of the Biochem. Dept. at Naning University, and from November in 2008 to October in 2011, he was the Dean of the School of Life Sciences at Shanghai University. His research interests include biosensor, molecule recognition and interaction, bioelectrochemistry, nano-biotechnology, and some other related areas.