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University of Florida, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Peng Jiang is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from Rice University in 2001. Following his doctoral studies, he joined Corning Incorporated as a Senior Research Scientist. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. He subsequently held a position as a Materials Scientist at GE Global Research Center. In 2006, Dr. Jiang began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and to Full Professor in 2014. His current research focuses on smart shape memory materials, integrated nano-optical devices, stimuli-responsive functional coatings, scalable nanomanufacturing, and biomimetic materials.
The University of Lancashire, UK
Plenary Speaker
Dr Tapas Sen works in the area of nano and nano-biomaterials chemistry, with more than 30 years of research experience from laboratory scale development to a commercial product. Currently, he is working as a Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry and leading the Nano-biomaterial Research Group (https://senlabs.org) at the University of Lancashire, UK. He is also the Director and CEO of a spin-off company Nanosen.co.uk; empowering education and research via nanotechnology. Currently, he is running several international projects under the British Council Going Global programme with China and India on Nanotechnology in environmental sustainability, including one funded by the Research Council UK (EPSRC & NERC). He is also leading one project with East Lancashire Teaching Hospital in collaboration with Bruker GmbH, Germany, on SEPSIS. He has successfully completed several projects in the area of Nanomedicine in cancer Theranostics with Royal Blackburn Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK; The Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. He is also a member of the Intergovernmental Policy Panel of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-3) for the United Nations for environmental sustainability, a Global committee formed by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK He is a recipient of Hind Rattan (Indian Jewel) award, presented at Bangkok in 2018 followed Nav Rattan (9 jewels: link "Nav Rattan Award-2023" presented to Dr Tapas Sen from UK by NRI Welfare Society - YouTube) on the occasion of 74th Republic Day, New Delhi, India due to his outstanding contribution of uplifting young researchers through capacity building. One of his British Council Going Global Projects with East China University of Science & Technology (ECUST), China, has recently received the top award for research impact by the Global committee out of 105 projects worldwide and was awarded in front of Ministers in Queen Elizabeth Convention Centre, London, on 28th October 2025. He completed his PhD in Materials Chemistry from the National Chemical Laboratory, India, as one of the premier research institutions in 1997, and worked two years at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1997-1999), before he moved to the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (2000-2003), Greenwich University (2003-2005), and Kent University (2005-2008) as a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) and Research Fellow. He joined the University of Central Lancashire (Current name: University of Lancashire since 1st Sept’ 25) in 2008 as a lecturer and was promoted to Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry in 2015. He is one of the pioneering researchers who developed magnetic nanomaterials with core-shell structure and magnetic porous nanocomposites for the application in MRI contrasting, bio-sensing, cancer Theranostics, pharmaceutical products via chiral catalysis, and separation & identification of toxic chemicals and microbials from water. He has successfully received over £2M in research funding and published more than 80 high-quality original research articles, 4 review articles, 3 book chapters, and a number of conference proceedings. He has developed a commercial product for nucleic acid separation using surface-engineered magnetic nanoparticles in collaboration with Q-bioanalytic GmbH, Germany, and an educational kit for year 10 to 12 students under Nanosen.co.uk. He sits in the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals and has commissioned several special issues as a guest editor. He is a keen educator who loves to work at the grassroots level with primary & secondary school children to enlighten their scientific minds and extend his outreach to the general public for science education. He has been actively collaborating with the Lancashire Science Festival (News – Nano-biomaterials Research Group (senlabs.org)) from its inception and closely working with the Royal Institution Young Scientist Centre at the University.