CONFERENCE CHAIR
Raul Fangueiro
School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal
Prof. Raul Fangueiro is currently professor and senior researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is the Head of the Fibrous Materials Research Group of the same university with expertise in advanced materials (nano, smart, composites) and structures (3D, auxetic, multiscale) with 25 researchers. He is the mentor and the coordinator of the FIBRENAMICS International Platform including 250 partners developing promotion, dissemination, technology transfer and research activities on fiber-based advanced materials. He has more than 140 published papers in international reputed scientific journals, 400 conference publications, 36 books and 16 patents. He is the scientific coordinator of several national and international research projects on advanced fibrous and composite materials, manly for defense, building, architectural and health-care applications. He supervised various PhD and Pos-Doc scientific works and is member of the editorial board of several leading international scientific journals on composite and fibrous materials.
MEMBERS
Abdel Magid Hamouda
Qatar University
Qatar
Alan Russell
Carnegie Mellon University
USA
António Torres Marques
University of Porto
Portugal
António Ferreira
University of Porto
Portugal
Arun Sikder
High Energy Materials Research Laboratory
India
Carlo Santulli
University of Camerino
Italy
Cheryl Wilson
University of Otago
New Zealand
Claudio Scarponi
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
Conceição Paiva
University of Minho
Portugal
Daniel Coutellier
University of Valenciennes
France
Daniel Ambrosini
National University of Cuyo
Argentina
Elvira Fortunato
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portugal
Elsayed Elnashar
Kaferelsheikh University
Egypt
Fabrizio Scarpa
Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS)
UK
François Boussu
ENSAIT – GEMTEX Laboratory
France
Frederik Coghe
Royal Military Academy
Belgium
Genevieve Langdon
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Harm van der Werff
DSM Dyneema
The Netherlands
Hiroyuki Hamada
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Japan
Hong Hu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Igor L. Medintz
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
USA
José Borges
CINAMIL
Portugal
Mario Santos
Instituto Superior Técnico
Portugal
Michael May
Ernst-Mach-Institut
Germany
Michele Meo
University of Bath
UK
Ricardo Andrade
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Brazil
Risby M. Sohaimi
National Defence University of Malaysia
Malaysia
Seeram Ramakrishna
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Seshadri Ramkumar
Texas Tech University
USA
Sohel Rana
University of Minho
Portugal
Ulrich Heisserer
DSM Ahead Materials Sciences R&D
Netherlands
Venkata K. K. Upadhyayula
Umea University
Sweden
Victor Castano
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Xiaogang Chen
University of Manchester
UK
Xin-Lin Gao
Southern Methodist University
EUA