Committees

Organizing Committee

Prof. Javier LLorca

Professor & Scientific Director

IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain

Prof. Jaime Dominguez

Professor

ETSI University of Seville

Prof. Ming Dao

Principal Investigator & Director

Nanomechanics Lab, MIT, USA

Prof. Lei Lu

Professor

Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Prof. Nitin Padture

Professor

Brown University, USA

Prof. Chwee Teck

Professor

National University of Singapore

Session Organizers

Session 1. Artificial Intelligence in materials research

Prof. Markus Buehler (MIT), Prof. Vanessa Evers (University of Twente), Prof. George Karniadakis (Brown University) and Prof. Ju Li (MIT)

Session 2. Materials for a sustainable planet

Prof. Nitin Padture (Brown University), Prof. Namjoon Cho (Nanyang Technological University), and Prof. Chiara Daraio (Calltech)

Session 3. Science, Innovation and Society

TBA

Session 4. Mechanics of materials across scales

Prof. Lei Lu (Shenyang Institute of Metals Research), Prof. Jaime Domínguez (University of Seville) and Prof. Javier LLorca (IMDEA Materials Institute and Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Session 5. Mechanobiology and human diseases

Prof. C. T. Lim (National University of Singapore), Prof. M. Dao (MIT) and Prof. Pierre Buffet (Institute Pasteur)

International Advisory Board​

Co-Chairs: Prof. Ares Rosakis and Prof. G. Ravichandran, Caltech, USA

Prof. Pranesh Aswath, Provost, Texas State University, USA
Prof. Eduard Arzt, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany
Prof. Markus Buehler, MIT, USA
Dr. Dedric Carter, Vice Chancellor, Univ. North Caroline, USA
Prof. Namjoon CHO, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Insuk Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Prof. Tejal Desai, Dean of Engineering, Brown University, USA
Prof. Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Antonios Giannakopoulos, Technical University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Prof. Huajian Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Antoine Jerusalem, Oxford University, UK
Prof. J. T. M. de Hosson. University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Prof. K Jimmy Hsia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, USA
Prof. George Karniadakis, Brown University, USA
Prof Roger Kamm, MIT, USA
Prof. Ju Li, MIT, USA
Prof. Ke Lu, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China
Prof. Andreas Mortensen, EPFL, Switzerland
Mr. Krishnan Narayanan, President, Itihaasa, Bengaluru, India
Prof. Alan Needleman, Texas A & M University, USA
Prof. Takeshi Ogawa, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Prof. Anamika Prasad, Florida International University, USA
Prof. Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mr. R.C.M. Reddy, CEO, SchoolNet India Ltd., New Delhi, India
Prof. Christopher Schuh, Northwestern University, USA
Prof. Yu-Lin Shen, University of New Mexico, USA
Prof. T. A. Venkatesh, Stony Brook University, USA
Prof. Wei Yang at Zhejiang University, China