Keynote

Prof. Dr. Jose Miguel Martin-Martinez is Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, and Head and founder of the Adhesion and Adhesives Laboratory of the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain). He graduated in Chemistry in 1978 at the University of Granada and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1981 at the same University. He was visiting Research in several laboratories in different countries: Centre de Microcalorimetrie (Marseille, France), Department of Chemical Engineering of Penn State University (State Park, Pennsylvania, USA), Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Department of Materials Science of Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA). Prof. Martín-Martínez has been invited as lecturer in several International Conferences and received several awards. He is a recognized expert in Adhesion Science and polymer-inorganic materials interface, polyurethane adhesives and bioadhesives for wound clousure. His professional and scientific activity comprises: handbooks/textbooks (22); book chapters and publications in journals (92); papers published in scientific journals in the ISI ranking (169); monographies (29); papers published in the proceedings of national conferences (131); papers published in the proceedings of international conferences (219); patents of invention (9); participating in different international or national research projects (22); heading of in different international or national research projects (89), projects for private national and international projects (113); direction of master degrees (40); direction of PhD (33); member and organizer of the scientific committee of different international meetings (28); invited lectures at international conferences (75).

Professor Corrado Piconi

After his studies in Roma he joined the Ceramics Technology Laboratory in the Casaccia Research Centre of the National Committee for Nuclear Energy (now ENEA), where he was involved in the characterization of the out-of-pile and in-pile behaviour of oxides used as nuclear fuels in close cooperation with the French Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) and of AGIP Nucleare SpA. In 1989, due to moratorium in nuclear reactor development in Italy, he transferred the know-how and technologies of his research group to the development of ceramics for clinical applications, with special emphasis on zirconia and on calcium phosphates. He left ENEA in 2000 and until 2005 he was R&D Project Manager in Tecnobiomedica SpA where he was involved in the development of orthopaedic prosthetic devices, on cardiovascular applications of tissue engineering and on the development of an implantable ventricular assistance device (VAD. On 1997 he was appointed as Lecturer in Biomaterials by School of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he is still teaching. He has been Scientific Coordinator of R&D Research Project funded by the European Union (Brite-Euram Programme Grants BE4635 and BE5172, as well Head of Joint Research Unit 063 in the framework of the Research Project Materials for Advanced Technologies II (MAST II) of National Research Council. He and his team are the winner with of the BIOLOX Award 2002, for research on the wear of ceramic bearings for total hip replacements. He is Scientific Consultant in GHIMAS SpA, and in the Clinical and Scientific Affairs direction of the Medical Products Division of CeramTec GmbH. He is author of about 90 papers on biomaterials published in national and international journals, congress proceedings and book chapters.

Professor Horia Orban (Romania) from University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" is one well-known orthopedic surgeon, leader of the Orthopedic Department from Elias Emergency University Hospital.

Professor Paulo Bartolo has a PhD on Mechanical Engineering from the University of Reading (UK). Currently he is Professor on Advanced Manufacturing Processes at the University of Manchester (U.K.). He was Professor on Advanced Manufacturing Processes at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL, Portugal), Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Professor of the Cátedra UNESCO of Biomaterials at the University of Habana (Cuba), Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Founder of the Portuguese-British Biomanufacturing Network, Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Biofabrication, Coordinator of the Iberoamerican Network on “Biomanufacturing: materials, processes and simulation (BIOFAB)” and Associate Member of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering). Paulo Bártolo has been the Chair of the International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2011, VRAP2009, VRAP2007, VRAP 2005 and VRAP 2003) and Co-Chair of the ECOMAS Thematic Conference on Tissue Engineering. He is Editor-in-Chief of the “Virtual & Physical Prototyping” Journal and authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed papers, 12 books, 65 book chapters and 12 patents.

Professor Iulian Antoniac is a material scientist and engineer working in the field of biomaterials and medical devices. He is the leader of Biomaterials Group from Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University Polytehnica of Bucharest, Romania and a President of the Romanian Society for Biomaterials (SRB). He has worked at the beginning on biomaterials used for different orthopedic and dental application (such as hip prosthesis, implants for trauma, dental prosthesis, etc.). After several specialization in laboratories from Switzerland, Portugal, France, USA on surface analysis, composite materials, implant design and biomaterials characterizations, his scientific interest spans from the synthesis and characterization of biomaterials and interactions with living tissues, retrieval implant analysis, to the new composite and scaffolds based on nanostructured and biologically inspired biomaterials. His professional and scientific activity comprises: handbooks/textbooks (8) including publication of a book entitled “Biologically Responsive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering” (Springer, 2012), papers published in SCI journals (50), papers published in the proceedings of international conferences (180), inventions (6), participating in different international or national research projects (76), member of the scientific committee of different meetings (30), president of international conferences (6). He is a member of the International Editorial Board and reviewer for many journals and biomaterial conferences, member of different scientific associations. He has been invited to deliver plenary or keynote lecture to many international conferences.

Professor Cristian Stan is one of the well-known specialist in Legal Medicine, Bioethics and Medical Ethics.

He is the Dean of Faculty of Medicine from Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania.

Also, he is the Senior Forensic Doctor at National Institute of Legal Medicine "Mina Minovici", Bucharest, Romania.