Speakers

Plenary Speakers

  • Andrea Caviglia, Université de Genève, Switzerland
  • Anna Fontcuberta I Morral, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Chung-Wen Lan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Boaz Pokroy, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Peter Vekilov, University of Houston, USA

Invited Speakers

2D Materials

Invited Talks:
– Zakaria Al Balushi, University of California, Berkeley, United States
– Valentina Belova, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – ESRF, France
– Raffaella Calarco, IMM-CNR, Italy
– Alessandro Molle, CNR, Italy
– Nicholas Trainor, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
– Zhichao Weng, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Oral Talks:
– Marta Campolucci, University of Genoa, Italy
– Changsheng Chen, UZH, Switzerland
– Daya Dhungana, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
– Luciana Di Gaspare, Università Roma Tre, Italy
– Laura Fornaro, Universidad de la República/Centro Universitario Regional del Este, Uruguay
– Vincent Fournée, Institut Jean Lamour, CNRS -University of Lorraine, France
– Alessio Lamperti, CNR-IMM, Italy
– Nico Lovergine, University of Salento, Italy
– Daniel Mayoh, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
– Thomas McKnight, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
– Boris Polyakov, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia
– Miguel Sinusia Lozano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
– Catherine Witteveen, University of Geneva, Switzeland
– Ashok Kumar Yadav, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
– Hisashi Yamada, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
– Xu Yang, Nagoya University, Japan
– Shuhua Yao, Nanjing university, China
– Qinghua Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Advances in observation and characterization methods

Invited Talks:
– Stefano Toso, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
– Guangxu Ju, Peking University, China

Oral Talks:
– Joel Eymery, UGA, CEA, France
– Elena Ferrari, Università di Parma, Italy
– Shunta Harada, Nagoya University, Japan
– Giorgia Rizzi, KU Leuven, Belgium
– Vladimir N. Strocov, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
– Matias Velazquez, CNRS, France

Bulk crystal growth

Invited Talks:
– Xiuwei Fu, Shandong University, China
– Christo Guguschev, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), Germany
– Koichi Kakimoto, Tohoku University, Japan
– Kristin Kliemt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
– Xin Liu, Nagoya University, Japan
– Dorota Pawlak, ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence, Poland
– Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
– Noushine Shahidzadeh, University of Amsterdam/ Institute of Physics, The Netherlands
– Lia Šibav, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
– Jiaqiang Yan, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Oral Talks:
– Monica Ceretti, CNRS  / Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (ICGM), France
– Lu-Chung Chuang, Tohoku University, Japan
– Jeffrey Derby, University of Minnesota, USA
– Enrico Giannini, University of Geneva, Switzerland
– Anandha babu Govindan, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
– Veronika Grigorieva, Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS, Russia
– Jan Havlíček, Crytur, spol. s r.o., Czech Republic
– Peter Khalifah, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
– Robert Kral, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
– Kentaro Kutsukake, RIKEN, Japan
– Zhixin Li, Linton Technologies Group, China
– Yong Liu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
– Gleb Lukin, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB, Germany
– Melanie Maddin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
– Aswathi Mannathanath Chakkingal, INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPER- UND MATERIALPHYSIK, TU Dresden, Germany
– Daniel Alexander Mayoh, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
– Linda Pastero, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
– Alexandra Peña Revellez, Institut Néel/CNRS, France
– José Luis Plaza, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain
– Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
– Suja Elizabeth Saji, Indian Institute of Science, India
– Uthayakumar Sivaperumal, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
– Tomasz Sochacki, Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Dmitry Sokolov, Freiberger Compound Materials, Germany
– Haruki Tajika, Nagoya University, Japan
– Olesia Voloshyna, IFW Dresden, Germany
– Qian Wu, Technical Instritute of Physics and Chemistry, China
– Fan Yang, Tohoku University, Japan
– Yunzhong Zhu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
– Mariya Zhuravleva, University of Tennessee, USA

Composite and hybrid crystals

Invited Talks:
– Dritan Hasa, University of Trieste, Italy
– Linda Pastero, University of Torino, Italy

Oral Talks:
– Hamid Reza Darabian, Ensemble3, Poland
– Nerith Elejalde-Cadena, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
– Kei Kamada, Tohoku Univ., Japan
– David Kisailus, University of California at Irvine, USA
– Simon Lepinay, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– Bogdan Ranguelov, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Crystalline solids for drugs and pharmaceuticals

Invited Talks:
– Elias Vlieg, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Oral Talks:
– Peter Kaskiewicz, AstraZeneca, United Kingdom
– Mathilde Lambert, CINaM – CNRS – UMR 7325 – Aix Marseille Université, France
– Ryan Leeming, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Crystallization of organic and biological systems

Invited Talks:
– Monika Budayova – Spano, Université Grenoble Alpes/Institut de Biologie Structurale, France
– David Kisailus, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, USA
– Boris Rybtchinski, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Oral Talks:
– Natercia Barbosa, University of Geneva, Switzerland
– Silvia Fanti, University of Bologna, Italy
– Jaime Gómez Morales, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Spain
– Nilson Kunioshi, Waseda University, Japan
– Devis Montroni, University of Bologna, Italy
– Elvira Pantuso, Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane (ITM-CNR), Italy
– Iryna Polishchuk, Technion, Israel
– Carla Triunfo, University of Bologna, Italy
– Yadong Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Crystals for photovoltaics and green energy

Invited Talks:
– John Mangum, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden Colorado, USA
– Lise Watrin, L’Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France (IPVF), France

Oral Talks:
– Marion Drießen, Fraunhofer-Institut for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
– Mariko Murayama, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
– Giulia Spaggiari, University of Parma, Italy
– Katsuya Teshima, Shinshu university, Japan
– Yvonne Tomm, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
– Paul Wimmer, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB, Germany

Functional crystals

Invited Talks:
– Michele Casappa, Università degli studi di Parma, Italy
– Maria Chiara di Gregorio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
– Hiraku Ogino, AIST, Japan
– Alexandra Peña Revellez, Institut Néel/CNRS, France
– Hui Shen, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China

Oral Talks:
– Chiara Coppi, IMEM-CNR, Italy
– Simone d’Agostino, University of Bologna, Italy
– Anandha babu Govindan, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
– Ruixin Guo, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
– Naomoto Hayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
– Zhanggui Hu, Tianjin Unieversity of Technology/Guilin Bairay Photoelectric Technology Co. Ltd, China
– Takahiro Kato, Tokyo university of science, Japan
– Rukang Li, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China
– Shihui Ma, Tianjin University of Technology, China
– Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
– Sanjit Saha, ENSEMBLE3, Poland
– Ching-Hua Su, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
– Lingyan Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
– Julien Zaccaro, Institut Néel – CNRS, France
– Junjie Zhang, Shandong University, China

Fundamentals of nucleation and crystal growth

Invited Talks:
– Takuji Adachi, University of Geneva, Switzeland
– Mingwen Chen, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
– Jim De Yoreo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
– Mihoko Maruyama, Osaka University, Japan
– Masaya Sakakibara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
– Matteo Salvalaglio, University College London, United Kingdom
– Wenhao Sun, University of Michigan, USA
– Yuka Tsuri, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
– Stijn Van Cleuvenbergen, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium

Oral Talks:
– Noriko Akutsu, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
– Lynda Amirouche, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, USTHB, Algeria
– Harutoshi Asakawa, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation Yamaguchi University, Japan
– Isha Bade, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
– Aaron Finney, University College London, United Kingdom
– Laura Fornaro, Universidad de la República/Centro Universitario Regional del Este, Uruguay
Koudai Imura, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
– Franca Jones, Curtin University, Australia
– Hiroyasu Katsuno, Kanazawa University, Japan
– Uta Michibata, Osaka University, Japan
– Yuki Nakanishi, Nagoya University, Japan
– Hiromasa Niinomi, Tohoku University, Japan
– Jun Nozawa, Tohoku University, Japan
– Sergei Ponomarev, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
– Pietro Sacchi, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, United Kingdom
– Gen Sazaki, Hokkaido University, Japan
– Shota Seki, Nagoya University, Japan
– Luca Sironi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
– Tomasz Sochacki, Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Ching-Hua Su, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
– Hozumi Takahashi, Osaka University, Japan
– Vesselin Tonchev, Sofia University, Bulgaria
– Katsuo Tsukamoto, Tohoku University, Japan
– Artur Tuktamyshev, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
– Elias Vlieg, Radboud University, The Netherlands
– Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Osaka University, Japan
– Lidong Zhang, Nagoya University, Japan

Growth at the nanoscale: nanocrystals, nanowires, nanomaterials

Invited Talks:
– Victor Gomez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
– Gregor Koblmüller, Walter Schottky Institute, Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials, Germany
– Francesco Montalenti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
– Richard Nötzel, South China Normal University, China
– Paola Prete, CNR, Italy

Oral Talks:
– Monica De Seta, Università Roma Tre, Italy
– Jaime Dolado, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
– Sofiane Haffouz, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
– Hiroaki Imai, Keio University, Japan
– Jijil JJ Nivas, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
– Shunsuke Kudo, Sophia University, Japan
– Binay Kumar, University of Delhi, India
– Arnaud Magrez, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
– Irene Mediavilla, University of Valladolid, Spain
– Valerio Piazza, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland
– Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, EPFL, Switzerland
– Vincent Sallet, CNRS-UVSQ, France
– Adele Sassella, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
– Piotr Wojnar, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Yinzhou Yan, Beijing University of Technology, China

Industrial crystal growth technology and equipment

Invited Talks:
– Kader Zaidat, University of Grenoble Alpes, France

Oral Talks:
– Kaspars Dadzis, Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ), Germany
– Christiane Frank-Rotsch, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Germany
– Lars Grieger, MalvernPanalytical B.V., Netherlands

Modelling and artificial intelligence of crystal growth processes

Invited Talks:
– Shunta Harada, Nagoya University, Japan
– Stanislaw Krukowski, Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Kentaro Kutsukake, RIKEN, Japan
– Yasunori Okano, Osaka University, Japan

Oral Talks:
– Andrea Albino, HU Berlin, Germany
– Simon Brandon, Technion, Israel
– Natasha Dropka, Leibniz Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), Germany
– Akira Kusaba, Kyushu University, Japan
– Srinivasan Manikam, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
– Yuji Mukaiyama, STR Japan K.K., Japan
– Andrey Smirnov, Semiconductor Technology Research d.o.o. Beograd, Serbia
– Toru Ujihara, Nagoya University, Japan
– Daniel Vizman, West University of Timisoara, Romania
– Binjie Xu, Zhejiang University, China
– Tetsuya Yamada, Shinshu university, Japan
– Marek Żak, Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

New methods and techniques for crystal growth

Invited Talks:
– Bernd Schineller, AIXTRON SE, Germany
– Philippe Veber, CNRS / University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
– Akira Yoshikawa, Tohoku University, Japan

Oral Talks:
– Jeffrey Derby, University of Minnesota, USA
– Lorenzo Fornari, Imem-CNR, Italy
– Peng Gu, Meishan Boya Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., China
– Minhong Jiang, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
– Franca Jones, Curtin University, Australia
– Alexander Kokh, Institute of geology and mineralogy, Russia
– Rikito Murakami, Tohoku University, Japan
– Karuppasamy Pichan, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
– Takeshi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan

Optical crystals

Invited Talks:
– Raman Arun Kumar, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India
– Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
– Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa, Canada
– Fei Liang, Shandong University, China
– Piotr Piotrowski, Centre of Excellence ENSEMBLE3, Poland
– Yunfei Shang, Harbin Insitute of Technology, China
– Adolfo Speghini, University of Verona, Italy

Oral Talks:
– Denis Balitski, CRISTAL LASER SAS, France
– Mitrabhanu Behera, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, India, India
– Alin Broasca, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
– Gabriella Dravecz, Wigner RC, Hungary
– Madalin Greculeasa, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
– Hongjoo Kim, Kyungpook National University, Korea, Republic of (South)
– Shunsuke Kurosawa, Tohoku University, Japan
– Dazhi Lu, Shandong University, China
– Daisuke Matsukura, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan
– Ryoh Noguchi, Osaka University, Japan
– Rei Sasaki, Tohoku university, Japan
– Shuangshuang Shi, Beijing Sinoma Synthetic Crystals Co. Ltd, China
– Vladimir Tassev, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
– Mayrene Uy, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), School of High Energy Accelerator Science, Japan
– Vojtěch Vaněček, Institute of Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
– Charlotte Vernozy-Trouillet, ONERA, France
– Xiaoyang Wang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
– Mingjun Xia, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
– Yuui Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan
– Masashi Yoshimura, Osaka University, Japan

Semiconductors

Invited Talks:
– Mikolaj Amilusik, Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Bhavpreeta Pratap Charan, Osaka University, Japan
– Sheng-Min Hu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
– Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University, USA
– Markus Pristovsek, Nagoya University, Japan

Oral Talks:
– Jeffrey Derby, University of Minnesota, USA
– Mark Goorsky, UCLA, USA
– Kazuma Hamada, Osaka university, Japan
– Kansuke Hamasaki, Nagoya University, Japan
– Masayuki Imanishi, Osaka University, Japan
– Min Jin, Shanghai Dianji University, China
– Takeshi Mitani, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
– Wenxiang Mu, Shandong University, China
– Gilad Orr, Ariel University, Israel
– Pradeep Chandra Palleti, LEIBNIZ-INSTITUTE FOR CRYSTAL GROWTH, Berlin, Germany
– Stefano Rampino, IMEM-CNR, Italy
– Yuki Sakurai, Osaka University, Japan
– Tomasz Sochacki, Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Isao Takahashi, C & A corporation, Japan
– Dongmin Yoon, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South)

Structural defects and impurities in crystalline materials

Invited Talks:
– Juan Jimenez, University of Valladolid, Spain
– Jozef Keckes, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
– Jean-Pierre Landesman, University Rennes, France

Oral Talks:
– Thierry Duffar, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
– Mark Goorsky, UCLA, USA
– Mikolaj Grabowski, Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Kentaro Kutsukake, RIKEN, Japan
– Mike Leszczynski, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Poland
– Keito Shinohara, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
– Rong Wang, Zhejiang University, China
– Roland Weingärtner, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB, Germany
– Lingyan Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Surfaces and Interfaces

Invited Talks:
– Fabrizio Arciprete, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
– Cristiana di Valentin, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Oral Talks:
– Giovanni Carraro, CNR-IMEM Genova, Italy
– Randall Headrick, University of Vermont, USA
– Kensaku Maeda, Tohoku University, Japan
– Daniele Paoloni, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy
– Luke Rhodes, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
– Dmitry Rogilo, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Russia

Thin films and epitaxial growth

Invited Talks:
– Roberto Fornari, University of Parma, Italy
– Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota, USA
– Edmund Lienfield, University of leeds, United Kingdom
– Michael Lorenz, University Leipzig, Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Germany
– Luca Pellegrino, CNR-SPIN, Italy
– Wilfrid Prellier, CNRS/UNICAEN/ENSICAEN, France
– Hadas Shtrikman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Oral Talks:
– Abinash Adhikari, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– PeiYang Cai, Nagoya university, Japan
– Omar Concepción, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
– Gabriele De Luca, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
– Sukarno Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
– Ana Garcia-Prieto, ICMM-CSIC Materials Science Institute of Madrid and BM25-SpLine The Spanish CRG Beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Spain
– Qixin Guo, Saga University, Japan
– Simon Jöhr, University of Zurich, Switzerland
– Dong Yeong Kim, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
– Filip Krizek, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
– Yang Li, Shandong University, China
– Hideto Miyake, Mie University, Japan
– Shigeya Naritsuka, Meijo University, Japan
– Ayse Ozcan Atar, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
– Hiroyuki Sazawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
– Tobias Schwaigert, Cornell University, USA
– Eugenia Sebastiani, SpLine CRG – ESRF ICMM CSIC, Spain
– Kazuki Shimazoe, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
– Lucia Sorba, NANO-CNR, Italy
– Marek Wójcik, Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Anhua Wu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China

Topological quantum materials

Invited Talks:
– Saicharan Aswartham, IFW-Dresden, Germany
– Carmine Autieri, International Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
– Andrey Prokofiev, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria

Oral Talks:
– Kingshuk Bandopadhyay, ENSEMBLE3 CoE, Poland
– Genda Gu, Brookhaven National laboratory, USA
– Anita Guarino, CNR-SPIN Salerno, Italy
– Shu Guo, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
– Ekaterina Kochetkova, IFW Dresden, Germany
– Daniel Mayoh, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
– Sjoerd Telkamp, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
– Valentyn Volobuiev, Institute of Physics PAS, International Research Centre MagTop, Poland
– Gang Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China