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Thomas M. Brown investigated OLEDs for his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. From 2001-2005 he developed OTFTs and E-paper as Senior Engineer at Plastic Logic Ltd. In 2005 he was recipient of a “Re-entry” Fellowship awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. He is author of over 150 publications and 15 patents and Associate Editor of Solar Energy. Founder and current director of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata, where he is Associate Professor, his current research focus is in perovskite solar cells on flexible substrates and for indoor light harvesting, and in bio-hybrid devices.

Uli Lemmer received the Diploma degree in Physics from RWTH Aachen University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Marburg in 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he held a postdoctoral position with the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was heading the Organic Optoelectronics group at the University of Munich from 1996 to 2002. In 2002 he was appointed a full Professor for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Director of the Light Technology Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is the coordinator of the Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP) (founded in 2006). He is furthermore heading the device physics competence center within the InnovationLab in Heidelberg since 2011. Since 2013 he is also a co-director of the Institute of Microstructure Technology at KIT.  His research interests are in the field of optoelectronics and the technology and the applications of printable organic and inorganic semiconductors. He has published more than 400 journal papers. He has also contributed to more than 15 patents and patent applications as a co-inventor.

Eric MacDonald, Ph.D. is a professor of mechanical at the University of Texas at El Paso and engaged in the W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation.  Dr. MacDonald received his doctoral (2002) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked in industry for 12 years at IBM and Motorola and subsequently co-founded a start-up specializing in CAD software and the startup was acquired by a firm in Silicon Valley. Dr. MacDonald held faculty fellowships at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US Navy Research and was awarded a US State Department Fulbright Fellowship in South America. His research interests include 3D printed multi-functional applications and process monitoring in additive manufacturing with instrumentation and computer vision for improved quality and yield. As a co-founding editor of the Elsevier journal Additive Manufacturing, MacDonald has help direct the journal to have the highest impact factor among all academic journals worldwide in manufacturing. Recent projects include 3D printing of structures such as nano satellites with structurally-embedded electronics (one of which was launched into Low Earth Orbit in 2013 and a replica of which was on display at the London Museum of Science). He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, dozens of patents (one of which was licensed by Sony and Toshiba from IBM).  He is a member of ASME, ASEE, senior member of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer in the USA state of Texas.

Dr Abhishek S. Dahiya is a research associate at the BEST group in the School of Engineering at University of Glasgow. He has received his Ph.D. from the GREMAN laboratory, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France in 2016. He performed his postdoctoral work at the GREMAN laboratory (2016-2017), the University of Bordeaux (ICMCB/CNRS) (2018-2019), and at the IES CNRS/Université de Montpellier (2019-2020) in France. He has published 42 high-impact research articles in leading journals/conferences and 1 US patent. His research interest covers synthesis of nanomaterials, printed and flexible electronics, energy harvesting, and semiconductor device physics.