Graphene Week 2025 Speakers

Bio: Amalia Patanè studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where she received her MSc in Physics (1994) and PhD (1998). She then moved to the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham to research quantum semiconductor systems. She has been Professor of Physics (since 2011) and Director of Research (2019-23) at the University of Nottingham. Since 2015, Patanè is the UK Director and Council member of the European Magnetic Field Laboratory, a national facility of the EPSRC that develops and operates world class high magnetic field systems. Since 2018 she leads the EPI2SEM facility at Nottingham for development of atomically thin semiconductors. Her EPSRC Programme Grant (NEED2D 2025-30) with Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow brings together UK research institutions and industry to develop prototype low-energy-consumption electronic devices beyond traditional semiconductor systems.

Her research achievements were recognised by the Sir Charles Vernon Boys Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2007), an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2004-09), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2017-19), a Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Award (2018-19), and an honorary professorship at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, Beijing (since 2019).

Title: Lead halide 2D perovskites: 2D materials for photovoltaics and polaritonics

Bio: Emmanuelle Deleporte is a full professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, where she conducts her research activities at the LuMIn (Light, Matter and Interfaces) laboratory. In 2005, she founded a multidisciplinary research team, composed of physicists and chemists, which synthesise crystals, thin films and nanoparticles of 2D and 3D lead halide perovskites, and studies the linear and non-linear, continuous and time-resolved optical properties of these materials, both in the context of photovoltaics and light emission. The main topics addressed concern confinement effects at the nanometric scale, excitonic properties, charge carrier relaxation mechanisms, energy and/or charge transfers, and light-matter interaction in photonic cavities containing perovskites. Since 2017, Emmanuelle Deleporte is the director of the CNRS National Research Group "Halide Perovskites" (Groupement de Recherche (GDR) HPERO).

Bio: ICREA Prof. Stephan Roche is working at the Catalan Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and BIST. He leads the Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience group which focuses on physics of Dirac materials (graphene and topological insulators) and 2D materials-based van der Waals heterostructures. He pioneered the development of linear scaling quantum transport approaches enabling simulations of billion atoms-scale disordered models (www.lsquant.org). He studied Theoretical Physics at ENS and got a PhD (1996) at Grenoble University (France); worked in Japan, Spain & Germany; was appointed as assistant Prof. in 2000, CEA Researcher in 2004 and joined ICREA in 2009. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). From 2013 till 2023, he has been very active in the Graphene Flagship, as leader of the work package SPINTRONICS and as DIVISION leader. Finally, he is leader and coordinator of the “Quantum Communications” activities at ICN2.

Valentyn S. Volkov received his M.Sc. degree in physics in 2000 from Lomonosov Moscow
State University (Russia) and obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from Aalborg University (Denmark).
From 2003 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics and
Nanotechnology, Aalborg University (Denmark). Since 2008, has been an assistant professor
and associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. In 2019, Valentyn S. Volkov
became the director of the MIPT Centre for Photonicsand 2D Materials (CP2DM) at the Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia). Alongside his academic career, he is the cofounder and CTO of XPANCEO, a deep-tech company specializing in next-generation
optoelectronic devices, and the managing director of the XPANCEO Emerging Technologies
Research Center.
Valentyn S. Volkov's research interests encompass various areas such as 2D materials
and van der Waals heterostructures, quantum materials and applications, bio-sensing
technology, linear and nonlinear nanooptics, plasmonics, and scanning near-field optical
microscopy. His contributions to the field have been substantial, with over 260 published papers
and an impressive citation count exceeding 8000. These results form the backbone for the
development of XPANCEO smart lenses. His current research interests primarily focus on the
field of graphene nanophotonics, 2D materials, sensing, biosensors, and functional 2D materialsbased devices.
“At XPANCEO, our unique approach to Deep Tech startup creation involves a
dedicated team of scientists collaborating closely with product managers. This enriches our
common experience and significantly shortens the path from scientific discovery to product
implementation. By integrating scientists into our team, we bridge the gap between discovery
and product development more efficiently and effectively”