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Plenary Speakers 2024

  • Prof. DAVIDE FABIANI

    Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Plenary Lecture:


Davide Fabiani –

 

  • Prof. HORIA IOVU

    National University of Science and Technology, Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania

    Plenary Lecture:


Horia Iovu –

 

  • Prof. CRISTIAN MAHULEA

    Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

    Plenary Lecture:

    Current challenges in planning for teams of robots with high-level missions

Cristian Mahulea is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, since July 2020. He obtained his Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza in 2007. His research traverses discrete event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics, and healthcare systems. Mahulea co-authored pivotal texts on Petri Nets and their applications in discrete event systems and cooperative mobile robots’ path planning. Additionally, he developed significant MATLAB toolboxes for Petri nets and mobile robots’ motion control. His editorial contributions span several prestigious journals, underscoring his authority in automation and control disciplines.

Mahulea’s global academic engagements include visiting positions in Italy, the U.K., the U.S.A., and France, enriching his research and teaching perspectives.

  • Prof. SORIN MUSUROI

    University Politehnica Timișoara, Romania

    Plenary Lecture:

    PhD in Engineering, where to? A Vision of UPT!

Sorin Musuroi –

  • Prof. VINCENT NIERSTASZ

    University of Borås, Sweden

    Plenary Lecture:

    Resource effective textile processes for functional and smart textiles

Vincent Nierstrasz is a professor in Textile Materials Technology at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås since November 2011.

Prof. dr. ir. Nierstrasz was previously appointed at Ghent University in Belgium as senior researcher and Marie Curie fellow and at the University of Twente in The Netherlands as assistant professor. He holds a PhD degree from Delft University of Technology, and a MSc degree from Wageningen Agricultural University.

His research focuses on in surface modification and surface functionalization of textile materials for production functional and smart textiles (via e.g. catalysis, biocatalysis, coating, printing, 3D printing, inkjet), textile and polymer biotechnology. An important research domain of the research group Textile Materials Technology is resource effective processing. An example is the Erasmus Mundus program SMDTex (Sustainable Management and Design for Textiles), which has a focus on resource effective production of smart and functional textiles and the Crosstexnet project DigiFun.

He was involved in several European (Crosstexnet, FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020), nationally and industrially funded projects.

Assignments: Vice President for AUTEX, Association of Universities for Textiles.

Honorary assignments: Foreign member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW).

  • Prof. MARIA VAMVAKAKI

    Technical University of Crete, Greece

    Plenary Lecture:

    Photodegradable polymers and polymer networks

Maria Vamvakaki is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete and an affiliated Faculty Member at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas. Prof. Vamvakaki holds a doctoral degree in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Sussex, UK. Next, she became a post-doctoral associate at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science at the University of Sussex, and then a Visiting Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the Department of Physical Sciences of the University of Cyprus. She was also a visiting Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, of the University of Crete and a visiting scientist at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science at the University of Sussex. Prof. Vamvakaki is leading the Materials Synthesis Group at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete and her expertise focuses on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric and organic/inorganic hybrid materials, polyelectrolytes/polyampholytes and microgels/hydrogels. Her current research interests include the synthesis of functional and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials and the self-assembly of macromolecules in aqueous media in solution and at a surface.