Bob Iannucci , Senior Vice President, head of Nokia Research Center
Dr. Bob Iannucci is Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center, Nokia’s corporate research unit. Interacting closely with all Nokia business groups, Nokia Research Center is responsible for the strategic and long-term research in Nokia. Operating in six countries, the center employs about 1000 researchers. Bob joined Nokia in 2004 as Head of Nokia Research Center's Computing Architectures Laboratory. He holds B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, New York, USA; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Bob has extensive experience in running both research and development activities in the fields of computing architectures, human-computer interaction, Internet, handheld computing, wireless technology strategy and networking systems.  Previously, he held positions of Senior Vice President of Engineering at Cosine Communications, Vice President of Research at Compaq Computer Corporation, Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder of Exa Corporation, as well as various research and development roles at IBM Corporation.  Bob is the author and co-author of two books and several academic papers. He has five patents.

Nicholas Hartley, Head of the Unit, Strategy and Policy, European Commission
Nick Hartley is a materials science graduate of the University of Sussex, UK . After completing post-doctoral work on high dose ion implantation, he joined UKAEA Harwell in the early 1970's. In 1986 he transferred to the European Commission's Research Directorate-General to join a small team building an "industrial research" initiative under the second Framework Programme (1983 - 1987). He now heads a strategic unit within FP 6's Thematic Priority covering the broad areas of nanosciences, materials and production. This unit looks after policy co-ordination, programme evaluation and monitoring, as well as information and communication. From a relatively modest budget in the early 1980’s, the “Industrial and Materials Research “ part of the Commission’s Framework Programmes has grown steadily and currently  accounts for about 10% of the Commission’s  FP spending in this area.

Livio Baldi , Director, STMicroelectronics, ENIAC support group
Livio Baldi is now in charge of Cooperative Research Projects for STMicroelectronics Italy, and company representative in the Steering Group Technology of MEDEA+, and in the Support Group of ENIAC. He received a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1973 at the University of Pavia, and in 1974 he joined SGS-ATES (now STMicroelectronics), in the Central R&D of Agrate Brianza. His experience has been mainly in the field of process development for multifunction processes and embedded Non Volatile Memories. From 1999 to 2001 he has lead the CAD development group of Central R&D, with the mission to support the design of Non Volatile Memories. He has been actively involved in the preparation of the JESSI Programme and in several ESPRIT, JESSI and MEDEA projects. He is author of 30 US patents, and more than 45 papers and presentation at conferences.

Annick Loiseau, Onera, France
Annick Loiseau is director of research at the Laboratoire d'Etudes des Microstructures, joint Laboratory CNRS -ONERA in France. She is a physicist of the condensed matter and specialist of transmission electron microscopy. She develops researches on synthesis, growth and structure of nanotubes since 1994. She coordinates since 1998 a group of research on nanotubes created by the CNRS.  This group was national until 2003 and is now european - entitled GDRE NanoE- and gathers about 70 laboratories from different countries.

Christofer Hierold , ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christofer Hierold is Professor for Micro- and Nanosystems at ETH Zurich since April 2002. Before, he was eleven years with Siemens AG, Corporate Research, and Infineon Technologies AG in Munich, Germany, working mainly on CMOS compatible microsystems. His major research at ETH Zurich is now focused on the field of nanotransducers, new materials for MEMS and advanced microsystems. Christofer Hierold has been serving in program committees of the major scientific conferences in his field; he is member of the international steering committees for the European Conference on Solid-State Transducers (Eurosensors), the International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers) and the International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). He is member of the editorial boards of IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro Electromechanical Systems and of IoP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, and he is joint editor of Wiley-VCH’s new book series on “Advanced Micro and Nanosystems”.

Juha Rantala , Silecs

Klaus Ludwig, PolyIC
Klaus Ludwig studied electronics at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. In 1997, he joined Siemens Corporate Technology and was responsible for research and development of applications for magnetic sensor systems, such as eddy-current and GMR-sensors. In March 2004, he joined PolyIC as project manager for smart objects and display technologies in the Department of Applications.

Raimo Korhonen, Avantone
Dr. Raimo Korhonen is currently CTO in Avantone Oy.  Years 2000-2004 Korhonen led Printed electronics project in Metso Corporation.  Based on this project Avantone Oy was established in August 2004. Korhonen has been a member of the supervisory boards in several national research projects related to the fields of printed electronics and optics.

Chairman:

Markus Pessa, Professor, Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Anatoli Grudynin, Fianium

Niels Asger Mortensen, Professor, Technical University of Denmark & Crystal Fibre

Chairman:
Paul Collander, President, IMAPS Europe

Rolf Aschenbrenner, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
From 1991 to 1992 he has worked at the University of Gießen in the
area of new materials and was engaged in a project for the German
Space Lab Mission D2. In 1993, he joined the Research Center for
Microperipheric Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin,
working in the area of electroless metal deposition.
Since March 1994 he has been employed at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Reliability and Microintegration Berlin (IZM) where he is presently head
of the department Chip Interconnection Technologies. From 2000 until
2006 he was Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute IZM.
As a member of the IEEE CPMT Society Board of Governors Rolf
Aschenbrenner has worked as a European representative on the
Conference Advisory Board Committee, and has played an active role in
the globalization of IEEE CPMT in terms of membership and chapter
development. He currently serves as Vice President Conferences and
has recently become a Senior Member of IEEE.
He is a member of the board of IMAPS Germany.

Dana Hammer-Fritzinger , Nanodynamics Inc.
Before joining NanoDynamics as a Product Manager, Ms. Hammer-Fritzinger has had a broad background in industry including a stint in the Finnish pulp and paper industry as well as several years with ATOFINA’s Global Organic Peroxides R&D where she was nominated for an Elf Aquitaine Innovators Award for her work in process NIR.  More recently, Dana spent eight years with DuPont as the Manager of Analytical Technology and Competitive Testing for the Surfaces business, providing technical support to sales, product development and acquisition teams, and ultimately establishing a technical marketing and services function. 

Ms. Hammer-Fritzinger holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo, her Master’s Degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Helsinki and an M.B.A. from Canisius College in Buffalo NY.

Mikko Ritala , University of Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Ritala received his MSc degree in 1991 from University of Turku, and his PhD degree in 1994 from University of Helsinki, both in inorganic chemistry. During 1995 - 2003 he worked at University of Helsinki, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as an academy research fellow, both posts granted by Academy of Finland. In 2003 he was nominated as a professor of inorganic materials chemistry at University of Helsinki. His research activities are in the area of thin film growth by Atomic Layer Deposition and electrodeposition for microelectronics and other application areas. Real time reaction mechanism studies form an important part of the research. Nanostructured material, in particular nanofibres made by electrospinning form the newest activity area. He has published 200 papers and holds several patents.

Chairman:
Esko Kauppinen, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Dr. Esko I. Kauppinen is the Professor of Physics at Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland since 2004.  He also holds the VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) Research Professor position in the field of Nanotechnology since 2000. He worked at VTT at several positions since 1983.  He worked as a visiting scientist at University of Florida 1987-1998 in Gainesville, FL, USA and at Finnish Army Research Center 1986-1987, Helsinki, Finland.  He has been the Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 2001; the JITA/AIST/MITI Invitation Program Fellow for Foreign Researchers for October 2000 at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of MITI, Tsukuba, Japan; the ESF Nano Program Fellow for Short Visit at EMAT, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium,  June - July 1999; the STA (Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Senior Scientist Fellow for November - December 1999 at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of MITI, Tsukuba, Japan.

Marc Beck , Obducat
Marc Beck received his M.Sc. degree in chemistry 1997 from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. The master thesis focussed on development of electrochemical sensors for quality control of engine oil in automotive systems. In 2003 he received a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Lund University, Sweden, with the main focus on application of nanoimprint lithography for fabrication of electrochemical transducers to
be used in biosensors.
Since july 2003 he is employed at Obducat AB in Malmö, Sweden, the leading manufactuer of nanoimprint lithography equipment and electron beam recorders, where he is responsible for customer applications of nanoimprint lithography. Marc Beck is author/co-author of more than a dozen scientific papers as well as a similar number of patents.

Mark Rutland, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mark Rutland is a Swedish Research Council Fellow and Professor at KTH.   He obtained his PhD from the Australian National University in 1992, where he worked amongst other things on the interactions of surfaces measured by AFM.  Since then he has postdoced in both Sweden and the USA and lectured at the University of Sydney (Chemistry) for 4 years before returning to Sweden permanently in 1998. His current research focus interests are Nanotribology, Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy of monolayers and the characterisation of cellulosic surfaces.

Erika Györvary, CSEM, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
Degrees: M. Sc. (Åbo Akademi University, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Turku, Finland, 1991), Lic. Tech.  (ÅA, Department of Physical Chemistry, 1996), Dr. (ÅA, Department of Physical Chemistry, 1999).
During her doctoral thesis she moved to Vienna, Austria to Center for Ultrastructure Research, University of Agricultural Sciences, where she also worked as postdoc developing functional coatings (S-layer proteins, nanoparticles) for nanotechnological applications. During her stay in Vienna she collaborated closely together with Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz, Germany and Tyndall, Cork, Ireland.
After this academic period she changed to IMA - Integrated Microsystems Austria, Wiener Neustadt, Austria where she worked as senior scientist. IMA is a development- and prototyping-center for MEMS-components and MEMS-based products. At present she functions as a nanotechnology expert at CSEM - the Centre Suisse d’Electronique de Microtechnique SA, a privately held innovation center providing high-tech solutions based on its own applied research and development work. She is responsible for European project acquisition and customer relations for CSEM's acitivities in the field of nanotechnology, including nanostructuring, nanoparticles, nano-bio, plasmonics and NEMS/MEMS.

Chairman:
Kai Savolainen, Professor, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Professor Kai Savolainen is the manager of the New Technologies and Risks team of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) as of January 1, 2006. He joined FIOH in 1998 when he was appointed Director of the Department of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology of FIOH. Before his tenure at FIOH he served as Professor of Toxicology and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Kuopio. Professor Savolainen has coordinated and coordinates a number of EU project funded by the research framework programs, the most recent coordinatior funded by the EU being "NANOSH", "Inflammatory and genotoxic effects of nanoparticles". His current research interests include health effects of fungal spores, wood dust and nanoparticles. He has been invited to be actively involved as a senior expert in a number of EU activities including scientific panels of European Food Safety Authority.

Harri Vainio, Director General, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Andrew Jamison, Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Andrew Jamison is professor of technology and society at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. His academic training is in the history and theory of science. He has taught for many years in transdisciplinary programs of science, technology and society in both Sweden and Denmark, and he has written on science and technology policy, environmental movements, and the relations between technology and culture. He is the author of The Making of Green Knowledge. Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and most recently, the co-author with Mikael Hård at the Technology University Darmstadt, of an historical survey, Hubris and Hybrids. A Cultural History of Technology and Science, published by Routledge in New York. 

Chairman:
Pekka Koponen, Managing Director, Spinverse Consulting, Finland
Founder and Managing Director of Spinverse Consulting, Pekka has strong international experience in emerging technologies and markets. He currently consults several leading technology enterprises in mobile software and nanotechnology sectors.

Kjetil Storvik, Managing Director, Nordic Innovation Centre, Norway

Nils Nordell , Electrum Laboratory, KTH, Sweden
Nils Nordell received his Ph.D. in 1995 from KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has made scientific contributions to the fields of epitaxial growth and characterization of materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices, including both SiC and III-V materials. He has also experience from other major technologies for semiconductor processing, and from design and construction of clean room laboratories for semiconductor processing.
Nils Nordell is from 2001 director of the Electrum Laboratory at KTH, with responsibility for public relations, customer support, user co-ordination, lab facilities, and safety. The lab has a 1300 m2 clean room area and offers process lines for Si IC and MEMS, SiC, and III-V optoelectronic devices. The lab has six employees and more than 120 individual users from a dozen research groups and companies.