Tutorial Session 1:

Materials Chemistry for 1D Semiconductor Nanostructures

Lionel VAYSSIERES
Editor-in-chief
International Journal of Nanotechnology

Born in 1968, he obtained a MSc. in Physical Chemistry in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in November 1995 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France for his research work on the Interfacial and thermodynamic growth control of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions. Thereafter, he joined Uppsala University, Sweden as a postdoctoral researcher for the Swedish Materials Consortium on Clusters and Ultrafine Particles to extend his concepts and develop purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials for photoelectrochemical applications as well as to characterize their electronic structure by x-ray spectroscopies at synchrotron radiation facilities.:He has been invited as a visiting scientist: at the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA on nanocomposite metallic oxides for biosensors, at the UNESCO Centre for Macromolecules & Materials and at the department of Biochemistry, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa on bio-nanocomposite materials, at the Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Chemical Sciences Division, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA on actinide nanomaterials, at the Texas Materials Institute on metal oxide-based nanomaterials for optical, magnetic, and energy storage and conversion devices, and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland on metal oxide oriented arrays for photocatalytic devices, at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and at iThemba laboratories in Cape Town, South Africa.

He has (co-)authored about 50 refereed publications, 3 ISI highly cited papers (first author) for the last 10 years, single author 2003 paper #1 in the Top 10 hot papers published in the last 2 years in Chemistry (Jul-Aug 05), #2 in the Top 3 hot papers published in the last 2 years in Materials Science (Sep-Dec 05) and #3 (May-June 05) in major international journals, refereed proceedings and book series, which have generated over 1400 citations. He has been interviewed by ISI as well as by ScienceWatch in 2006 for a single authored 2003 paper cited over 300 times. Two other first and corresponding author 2001 papers have already been cited over 200 times. He has presented over 135 lectures at universities, research institutes and international conferences as well as acting as chairman, program committee and advisory member at major international conferences and projects worldwide.

He is currently a senior researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan; a R&D consultant; a guest scientist at the Chemical Sciences Division and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a new ISI journal dedicated to reviews in nanotechnology and related fields, the International Journal of Nanotechnology published by Inderscience Ltd and a referee for over 45 international journals.

Tutorial Session 2:

Scanning Probe Microscopy: Fundamentals and Applications

Federico ROSEI
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials
INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada

Federico Rosei received a Laurea degree (1996) and a PhD (2001) in Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, working on the growth and characterization of semiconductor nanostructures. He then worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Marie Curie Fellow at the Center for Atomic Scale Materials Physics in Aarhus (Denmark) from the end of 2000 to April 2002, investigating the adsorption properties of complex organic molecules at metal surfaces. He then joined the faculty at INRS- Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications, Universite du Quebec as Assistant Professor in May 2002. Two years later, he was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure. He is recipient of a Strategic FQRNT Fellowship for New Professors from the Province of Quebec and holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials since October 2003. Dr. Rosei's research interests focus on the properties of nanostructured materials, and how to control their size, shape, composition, stability and positioning when grown on suitable substrates. He has extensive experience in fabricating, processing and characterizing inorganic, organic and biocompatible nanomaterials. He has co-authored 50 articles in prestigious international journals, has given over 60 Invited, Keynote and Plenary Lectures at international conferences and over 80 colloquia and seminars at Universities, Government Laboratories and Industrial Laboratories. Presently he leads a group of about 12 young scientists, composed of 8 graduate students and 4 post-doctoral fellows. He is a referee for the US NSF and DOE, the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, FQRNT and NSERC in Canada, A-STAR in Singapore and over 25 international journals (including Science, Nature Materials, Angew Chemie, Phys Rev Lett, J Am Chem Soc, Appl Phys Lett, etc.). He devotes a significant portion of his time to mentoring young scientists, and has co-authored the book 'Survival Skills for Scientists' published in July 2006 by World Scientific. More information is available on his website, www.nanofemtolab.qc.ca.

Tutorial Session 3:

Electronic Transport in Low Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures

Harry E RUDA
Energenius Professor of Advanced Nanotechnology
University of Toronto, Canada

Harry Ruda received the B.Sc. degree in materials physics with honors from Imperial College, London University, England, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree from Massachusets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusets, USA, in 1982, for work on growth and characterization of HgCdTe for infrared detectors. Following these studies, he accepted an IBM postdoctoral fellowship to work on defect calculations in GaAs and transport in low dimensional GaAlAs-based quantum heterostructures. In 1984 he joined 3M where his work focused on theoretical optical and transport properties of wide bandgap II-VI semiconductors, principally ZnSe-based. In 1989, Dr. Ruda joined the University of Toronto and now holds the position of Full Professor. He currently is also the Energenius Advanced Nanotechnology chair holder, and director of the Energenius Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology.