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 New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Email: gm603@cam.ac.uk • Tel:+44 1223 748312 • @georgemalliaras

Damiano G. Barone is Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. He graduated in medicine from the University of Naples and is now training as a neurosurgeon with specialist interest in peripheral nerve and skull base surgery. He was awarded a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, supported by a Wellcome Trust Translational Medicine and Therapeutics PhD Fellowship, and completed a post-doc in Prof. Malliaras’ lab. Damiano works together with Professors Manohar Bance and George Malliaras on the development and clinical application of biohybrid neural implants, combining stem-cell derived cells and neural interfaces to restore loss of neurological function.

Email: dgb36@cam.ac.uk • Tel: +44 1223 762412 • @baronedg