Dr. Jinn P. Chu, Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)

Dr. Jinn P. Chu is the Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech). He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. Since 2009, he has served in various administrative positions at Taiwan Tech, including Vice Dean of Engineering, Dean of R&D, and as the University’s Vice President. He is a Fellow of MRS-Taiwan (MRS-T) and served as the elected President of the Taiwan Association for Coatings and Thin Films Technology (TACT) from 2012-2014. Currently, he is Vice President of MRS-T and past Chair of the AVS Taiwan Chapter. He has published over 210 articles and holds 46 patents. In recognition of his research, he has received Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Outstanding Research Award in 2021, the Taiwan National Innovation Awards in 2017 and 2019, and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award at Japan nano tech 2018. He is also listed in Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) (1960-2021) and Top 2% Scientists 2021 by Stanford University. His research interests are focused on the physics and physical properties of thin-film metallic glasses grown by magnetron sputter deposition. He also applies ACS award-winning metallic nanotube arrays for a wide range of MEMS and NEMS application such as biosensors, optical grating and nanogenerators.

Erwin Kessels, Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e

Erwin Kessels is a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e (The Netherlands). He is also the scientific director of the NanoLab@TU/e facilities, which provides open-access clean room infrastructure for R&D in nanotechnology. Dr. Erwin received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree (with highest honors) in applied physics from the TU/e in 1996 and 2000, respectively. His doctoral thesis work was partly carried out at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and as a postdoc he was affiliated to the Colorado State University and Philipps University in Marburg (Germany). In 2007, the American Vacuum Society awarded him the Peter Mark Memorial Award for "pioneering work in the application and development of in situ plasma and surface diagnostics to achieve a molecular understanding of thin film growth." In 2010, he received a grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research to set up a large research program on nanomanufacturing in order to bridge the gap between nanoscience/nanotechnology and industrial application. His research interests cover the field of synthesis of ultrathin films and nanostructures using methods such as (plasma-enhanced) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) for a wide variety of applications, mostly within nanoelectronics and photovoltaics. Within the field of ALD, he has contributed to the field most prominently by his work on plasma-assisted ALD and his research related to ALD for photovoltaics. Dr. Erwin chaired the International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition in 2008. He has published over 200 papers and holds two patents.

Stephanie Law, Pennsylvania State University

Stephanie Law is the Virginia S. and Philip L. Walker, Jr. Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University as well as an affiliated professor in the Penn State Department of Physics. Previously, she was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware as well as co-director of the UD Materials Growth Facility. She received her B.S. degree in Physics in 2006 from Iowa State University and her Ph.D. in Physics in 2012 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor at UD in 2020 and moved to Penn State in January 2023. She has received the International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator Award (2020), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2019), the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award (2019), the Department of Energy Early Career award (2017), and the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator award (2016). Her research interests include molecular beam epitaxy growth of semiconductors and van der Waals materials and heterostructures for optical applications in the infrared and terahertz spectral ranges.

R. Mohan Sankaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

R. Mohan Sankaran is currently the Donald Biggar Willet Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He began his independent academic career in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor in 2005, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, then promoted to Professor in 2014. In 2020, he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include atmospheric-pressure plasmas, plasma synthesis of nanomaterials, aerosol synthesis and characterization, plasma-liquid interactions, and plasma conversion for chemical synthesis. He has been recognized for his research achievements by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award.

Amy V. Walker, University of Texas

Amy V. Walker is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in the Erik Jonsson School of Computer Science and Engineering, and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Amy received her BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences (Experimental and Theoretical Physics) in 1995 and her PhD in Chemistry in 1998 from the University of Cambridge. She then moved to the USA to become a postdoctoral scholar in the Chemistry department of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2000 she moved as a postdoctoral scholar to Pennsylvania State University. Subsequently in 2002 she joined the Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor and inaugural member of the Center for Materials Innovation. In 2009 she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 2015. The ultimate goal of Amy Walker’s research is the development of simple, robust methods for constructing complex two- and three-dimensional nanostructures by manipulating interfacial chemistry. Our current efforts focus on the formation and patterning of molecular thin films, the in situ synthesis and placement of nano-objects, and the reactions of patterned films with metals, semiconductors and biomolecules, as well as the development of analytical techniques for probing the structures produced. For this work she has been awarded a 2003 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, a DuPont Young Professor Grant (2006-2009), a 2008 ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship and a Fellow of the AVS (2015). In 2020 Amy served as the AVS President. She has also held a number of other positions in the AVS including the Chair of the AVS Trustees (AVS Awards Committee) (2018), an AVS Trustee (2016-2018), the Program Chair of the AVS International Symposium and Exhibition (2017; Vice Program Chair in 2016), and director of the AVS (2013-2014).

Joshua Zide, University of Delaware

Dr. Joshua M. O. Zide is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. He received his BS with Distinction in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University and completed his Ph.D. in Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007. Zide has received the International Thermoelectric Society Goldsmid Award (2007), a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (2009), the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator (2011), a Department of Energy Early Career Award (2012), and the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award (2014). His research interests include the molecular beam epitaxy growth of novel semiconductors and composite electronic materials for energy conversion and optoelectronic devices.