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George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a PhD from the University of Groningen and did a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Before joining Cambridge, he was a faculty member at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne and at Cornell University, and served as the Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility. His research has been recognized with awards from the European Academy of Sciences (Blaise Pascal Medal), the Materials Research Society (Mid-Career Researcher Award), the New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists), the US National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development Award), and DuPont (Young Professor Award). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping (Sweden), elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the European Academy of Sciences. Email: gm603@cam.ac.uk • Tel:+44 1223 748312 • @georgemalliaras |
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Damiano G. Barone is a surgeon-scientist with an interest in tackling basic and translational challenges for the development of the next generation of neural bioelectronics. He received his medical degree from the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Italy), PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) and FRCS (Neurosurgery) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has been training as a specialist neurosurgeon between Liverpool and Cambridge, with a subspecialist interest in peripheral and functional neurosurgery. He has been awarded funding from Wellcome Trust, NIHR, MRC, AMS and other major funding bodies. Damiano works on tackling basic and translational challenges for the development of the next generation of neural bioelectronics. Email: dgb36@cam.ac.uk • Tel: +44 1223 762412 • @baronedg |
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Alejandro Carnicer Lombarte is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Engineering. He received his BA in Biological Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2013 and an MSc in Neuroscience from University College London in 2014. Through the MRC/Sackler Doctoral Training Programme, Alejandro studied the link between mechanics and implant rejection, and developed chronically-stable soft neural implants as part of his PhD. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Bioelectronics Laboratory, Alejandro develops implantable devices to interface with the nervous system for therapeutic and research applications as a Wellcome Trust Junior Interdisciplinary Fellow and a Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellow.. Email: ac723@cam.ac.uk • @AlejCarnicer |
