Speakers at OSC-08

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Speaker biographies

		Joerg Amelung Business Unit Manager Organic Materials and Systems, Fraunhofer Institute Photonic Microsystems Joerg Amelung received his diploma in physics from the University of Duisburg, Germany, in 1993. In the year 1999 he founded the OLED activities at the Fraunhofer Institute in Dresden and is responsible for the business unit organic materials and systems. Additionally, he is one of the founders of the Spin-Off Novaled AG. Mr. Amelung is responsible for the investments for the Center for Organic Materials and Systems (COMEDD) founded by the Fraunhofer Society.


		Shinji Aramaki Senior Researcher, Mitsubishi Chemical Group After graduating from the Master's cource in chemistry of the University of Tokyo in 1982, Aramaki joined Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. He has been conducting research in the field of organic optical and/or electrical materials and devices, such as, organic photoconductors for electrophotography, organic nonlinear optical devices, and organic electronic devices. He worked at the University of Arizona as an visiting scholar from 1988 to 1990.


		Norman Bardsley President, Bardsley Consulting Norman Bardsley's career began with 20 years in university physics departments, teaching and pursuing research in atomic and plasma physics. He then spent 15 years conducting and managing research at laboratories of the US Department of Energy, before entering the flat panel display field with the US Display Consortium and DisplaySearch. He is now a consultant to the flat panel and lighting industries, concentrating on organic electronics and printing processes.


		Dr Rainer Beccard Director of Marketing, AIXTRON Dr Rainer Beccard received his PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Aachen in 1993. He joined AIXTRON in 1994 as a member of the process development group, followd by various management positions in technology, sales and marketing. In his current position as Director of Marketing he is responsible for strategic and operational marketing of AIXTRON products, such as MOCVD, HVPE, plasma enhanced CVD and OVPD equipment for manufacturing of compound semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, organic semiconductors and other materials.


		Dr Graciela Blanchet Research Fellow, DuPont Graciela Blanchet received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and a PhD in Physics from Brown University working under Prof Phil Stiles supervision. She post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California at Santa Barbara with Professor Alan Heeger working in the area of conducting polymers. Join DuPont in 1984 becoming a Research Fellow in 2000. At DuPont she pioneered work on laser imaging of organic material, which led to two commercial products; digital color proofing and digital Color Filter. She initiated printable electronics program in 2002. She has authored about 100 peer review articles and holds about 80 US patents.


		Dr Karlheinz Bock Head of department of Polytronic Systems and Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) Dr Karlheinz Bock, deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, IZM Munich branch, and head of the department of Polytronic Systems, is concerned with the development of polytronics, components and hetero-integration technologies for cost-efficient production of flexible systems, ranging from low-cost electronic disposables to applications for most complex communication electronics as well as chemical and biological sensors and bio-analytical systems. In March 2008 he was appointed Professor of Polytronic Microsystems at the University of Berlin (TU Berlin).


		Dr Christoph Brabec CTO, Konarka Technologies Christoph Brabec is the CTO of Konarka technologies Inc. Before he and his team joined Konarka in 2004, he was project leader at Siemens Corporate Technology with strong dedication to organic semiconductor devices. During his PhD (1995) he investigated the rheology of polymer melts with respect to molar mass correlations. In 1996 he joined the group of Prof Alan Heeger at the University of Santa Barbara for a sabbatical, and continued to work on the opto-electronic properties of organic semiconductors later on as assistant professor at the university of Linz (Prof. Sariciftci). In 1998 he became senior scientist of a Christian Doppler Laboratory on organic solar cells which he left in 2001 to join SIEMENS research labs. He is author and co-author of more than 100 papers and filed over 30 patents. He finished his habilitation in physical chemistry at the Johannes Kepler university Linz in 2003.


		Dr Scott Brown VP R&D, Commercial and IP, Sumation Scott joined Cambridge Display Technology in 2002 as Vice President of Research and Technology. He has led material development activities and was for a time responsible for CDT's manufacturing pilot plant at Godmanchester, which was established to develop and demonstrate P-OLED fabrication processes, including ink jet printing. Scott was part of the management team that took CDT to IPO on the NASDAQ exchange and later positioned the company for acquisition by Sumitomo Chemical. Scott moved to Tokyo to set up Sumation, the CDT and Sumitomo joint venture responsible for the manufacture, sale and distribution of LEP materials. More recently, he has taken on the management of CDT's commercial and Intellectual Property Functions.


		Jeremy Burroughes CTO, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd As Chief Technology Officer, Jeremy is responsible for running the advance research in CDT. Currently his team's activities are on new organic electronic and opto-electronic applications using the CDT P-OLED technology as the base for these developments and system driving architectures; which has resulted in the new passive matrix driving technology for OLED called Total Matrix Addressing. Jeremy undertook a PhD with Professor Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory titled 'The Physical Processes in Organic Semiconductor Polymer Devices'. In 1989, he discovered that conjugated polymers could electro-luminesce which led to the formation of Cambridge Display Technology.


		Dr Kevin Cammack Director, Technical Marketing and Industry Development, USDC / FlexTech Alliance Dr J Kevin Cammack is the Director of Technical Marketing and Corporate Development for the FlexTech Alliance for Displays and Flexible, Printed Electronics, where he is responsible for outreach to the financial and entrepreneurial communities and for roadmapping and reporting on emerging developments in flexible and printed electronics. Dr Cammack has a long history as an innovator in the flexible electronics and related display field, starting with work on polymer electrooptics at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences center, and more recently at Nitto Denko, where he was the principle driver behind the creation of their refreshable holographic display program. He is also an active consultant to entrepreneurs in this space, and has helped his clients collectively raise more than $20M in venture financing.


		Tobias Canzler Project manager, Novaled Tobias W. Canzler studied physics in Dresden and Oxford. At the University of Technology Dresden, he also received his PhD in the group of Karl Leo in 2002. Afterwards, he was postdoc at Yamagata University in the group of Junji Kido. In 2004 he joined Novaled currently being responsible for the application of Novaled PIN OLED™ technology to other fields of organic electronics.


		Denis Cattelan Deputy director Thin Film Division, Horiba Jobin Yvon Denis Cattelan is the deputy director and the head of R&D in Thin Film Division of Horiba Jobin Yvon specialising in the optical characterisation of thin films. He received his optical engineering diploma from the Ecole Supérieure d'Optique of Orsay in 2001. His expertise covers spectroscopic ellipsometry and polarised light aim at optical characterization of thin film, and controlling growth and etching processes at sub-nanometer scale. He has filed four European Patents since 2001 dedicated to Ellipsometry and process control field.


		Ronald S Cok FPG US Display OLED MOD Technology, Eastman Kodak After attending Calvin College and receiving a BA in Mathematics and in Physics, Ronald Cok studied Electrical and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Following graduation, he began working for Eastman Kodak Company in various digital imaging areas including high-performance computing, digital cinema, and photographic kiosks. Ron taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Engineering graduate school from 1992 to 1994. After the completion of a three-year assignment in Europe, Ron conducted research and managed projects for Kodak in the OLED field. He has written over 50 papers, contributed to several books, received an IR&D 100 award for Innovation and Excellence, has been granted over 150 patents, and was recognized as the USA Top Inventor 2003-2005 in organic electronics by the Organic Semiconductor Analyst Direct. An avid runner, Ron completed the 2008 Boston Marathon.


		Craig Cruickshank CEO, cintelliq Craig founded cintelliq, the organic semiconductor industry specialists, in 2002 and has spent much of his career identifying, selecting, acquiring and exploiting new technologies. He gained first-hand industry knowledge and experience in commercialising organic light emitting polymers whilst working for Cambridge Display Technology. Craig also worked for Cambridge Consultants (Arthur D Little) where he was directly involved in providing strategic and operational advice to clients dealing with the commercialisation and impact of emerging technologies. Prior to working in consulting Craig spent two years at the Manufacturing Engineering Group (University of Cambridge) where he focused on developing tools and techniques for auditing technology management processes. Craig holds a BSc in Physics, MSc Digital Systems and an MBA from Manchester Business School.


		Jurgen Daniel Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Jurgen Daniel is a Research Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center where his research includes micro-electro-mechanical systems, displays, photovoltaics and printed electronics. Previously, he has held positions at Oxford Instruments and at FEI Europe and in 1998 he was visiting scientist at the Matsushita Research Institute, Tokyo. He holds a Dipl. Phys. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.


		Dr Thomas Däubler Head of Measurement Division, Botest Systems GmbH Dr Thomas Däubler studied physics and graduated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research with a PhD on photophysical properties of semiconducting polymers. Dr Däubler worked for IBM on OLEDs for flat-panel displays and lighting applications. He joined SCHOTT in 2001 to start a project on OLEDs for lighting and signage applications. After additional studies in economy he worked in product management and business development of OLEDs for lighting, especially for automotive applications. Dr Däubler has been Head of the Measurement Division of Botest Systems GmbH since 2005. He is responsible for the development, manufacturing and marketing of advanced testing solutions for organic semiconductor devices.


		Peter Diepens COO, PixDro and OTB-Engineering Peter Diepens is the COO of PixDro and OTB-Engineering. He joined the OTB-group in 2001 as Technical Manager of OTB-Molding, responsible for the development of an electrical injection molding machine for nano replication. Since 2004 he is involved in the inkjet projects of OTB, which led up to the startup of PixDro as part of OTB-group. Diepens has over 20 years experience in developing ideas from initial stage through application and process development into high tech production equipment. He has held a variety of engineering and operational management positions within high-tech companies in the Netherlands and Israel. Diepens holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.


		Dr Paul Drzaic CTO, Unidym Inc Paul Drzaic is currently Chief Technology Officer of Unidym, Inc, focused on the commercialization of carbon nanotube technologies. Prior to Unidym, he was Vice President of Advanced Development for Alien Technology Corporation (RFID technology), and before then led the initial technology development of electronic paper at E Ink Corporation. He is currently President of the Society for Information Display, as well as Chair of the Editorial Board of the MRS Bulletin. He has 55 issues US patents, 19 journal articles, and a book to his name. Drzaic holds a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University, and a BS in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame.


		Professor Bill Eccleston Robert Rankin Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Liverpool Bill Eccleston is the Robert Rankin Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. He leads the Organic Electronics Group, which is concerned with the operation of circuits made form conjugated polymers. He formerly worked in silicon devices and he has published more than 200 papers or patents on various semiconductor devices, and he is the Technology Manager of a new spin-off company 'Eurecco' based in Liverpool and concerned with the exploitation of advanced circuit configurations using polymeric semiconductors. Professor Eccleston chaired the Solid State Devices Subcommittee of IEDM, the equivalent programme committees of ESSDERC and INFOS and, more recently, the International Conference on Organic Electronics held at Philips Research Laboratory, Eindhoven.


		Dr Peter Eckerle Senior Project Manager, BASF Future Business Dr Peter Eckerle joined BASF Future Business in August 2005 to lead its printed electronics activities from development to commercialisation. Recently he has been working to build a network of cooperations with leading companies to develop and market materials for CMOS circuitry. Before joining BASF Future Business Dr Eckerle held various leading positions in BASF AG. Prior to joining BASF he spent three years with McKinsey & Co focussing on consulting the chemical industry in strategy and operations. Dr Eckerle holds a PhD in chemistry from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Muelheim/Ruhr and an engineering degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt.


		Dr Antonio Facchetti Polyera Corp Antonio Facchetti obtained his Laurea degree in Chemistry cum laude and a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Milan under the supervision of Prof Giorgio Pagani. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley with Prof Andrew Streitwieser and at Northwestern University with Prof Tobin Marks. In 2002 he joined Northwestern University where he is currently a Research Associate Professor. He is a co-founder of Polyera Corporation. Dr Facchetti has published about 110 research articles and holds 23 patents.


		Prof. Norbert Fruehauf Chair of Display Technology, University of Stuttgart Prof. Norbert Fruehauf received his PhD (Dr-Ing) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and has more than 17 years of experience in designing and characterising liquid crystal light modulators and displays. From 1998 to 2001 he worked for Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, California, USA, where he developed tunable micro-optic components, various display systems and integrated optical components. In 2001 he was appointed full professor heading the Chair of Display Technology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he specializes in large area microelectronics for applications in flexible displays, AMOLEDs, AMLCDs and sensor arrays.


		Lawrence Gasman Co-Founder and Principal Analyst, NanoMarkets Lawrence Gasman is the Principal Analyst and Co-founder of NanoMarkets LC. Recent publications authored by Mr. Gasman have included reports on ITO and its replacements, conductive silver inks and thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing trends. Mr. Gasman also manages the NanoMarkets analyst team and is the author of numerous articles on technology and business topics, along with several books, including one on the commercialization of nanotechnology. Mr. Gasman has carried out many custom consulting assignments for large electronics and materials firms and holds degrees from the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics and London Business School.


		Dr Jan Genoe Group Leader, PME, IMEC Jan Genoe received his PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1994. He then joined the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory as a Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) Fellow of the European Community. From 1997, he was first lecturer and subsequently full-professor at the KHLim in Diepenbeek. Since 2003, he has also been leader of the Polymer & Molecular Electronics (PME) group of IMEC. He coordinates the work of three sections at IMEC: organic solar cells; organic memory; and organic transistors and circuits. The organic transistors and circuits section focuses on rectifiers for RFID tags at high frequencies, logic for RFID tags and logic for sensor read-out.


		Mark Gostick CEO, Liquavista Gostick is a serial entrepreneur with significant experience working in Venture Capital backed technology companies. In the 90's he was the first employee of Cambridge Display Technology Ltd and worked with the company through several funding rounds, and a successful exit for the founders. He now heads up Liquavista, a company pioneering Electrowetting based displays which offer a radical, yet simple way of producing high value displays for mobile device display screens.


		Sarah Han Research Analyst, DisplayBank Sarah Han is an analyst of Displaybank. She has been working for 6 years of display industry experience at Samsung Electronics and Displaybank. Sarah has taken a lot of display marketing and survey activities with a variety of display companies in Displaybank. Especially, her research and studies are focused on the flexible display market.


		Dr Song Han Research Scientist, Universal Display Corp Dr Han studied high performance nanoscale electronic and integrated circuits and received his PhD at Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics department of University of Southern California in 2005. From 2006 to 2007, He worked as research scientist in the center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA) in UCLA. Dr Han joined Universal Display Corp in January 2008. Currently he is leading the research on flexible AMOLED built on metal foil.


		Dr Jukka Hast Senior Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre Dr Jukka Hast received the MSc (Tech.) and DSc (Tech.) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is a Team Leader of Mass production technologies and materials team in the Printed Electronics and Optics Centre and the Technology Platform Coordinator of multitechnological smart products in VTT's strategic program 'Printed Intelligence'.


		Oliver Hayden Project Manager, Siemens AG Oliver Hayden (1972) studied biochemistry and received his PhD with Franz Dickert on molecular imprinting at Vienna University in 1999. From 2002 to 2004 he was a post-doc with Charles Lieber on semiconducting nanowires at Harvard University. On 2005 he qualified as University Lecturer (venia docendi) at Vienna University and moved on as visiting scientist on post-CMOS technology to IBM Research Rüschlikon. Since 2007 he is with Corporate Technology of Siemens AG, where he is Project Manager working on organic electronics and novel microsystems. In 2007 he declined nomination to the Chair for Micro and Nano Systems at University of Edinburgh.


		Dr Edzer Huitema CTO, Polymer Vision Edzer Huitema has been working for 6 years with Philips Research and Polymer Vision on the research, development and application of organic electronics to rollable displays. In his most recent previous position, Edzer was Program Manager for Polymer Vision, covering all aspects of technology and product from R&D to technology preparation for manufacturing. He has published over 30 scientific papers and holds more than 40 patent applications. As Chief Technology Officer, Edzer is responsible for the R&D organisation, the technology and product roadmap and the IP strategy of Polymer Vision. Edzer has a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.


		Dr Eifion Jewell Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating / UK Display and Lighting Network Dr Eifion Jewell obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at University of Wales Swansea before studying for a PhD in the field of CFD and laser based flow measurement. He then undertook a position in the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC) focusing on improving productivity and quality in screen printing. He has been at WCPC for 14 years he has taught at Bachelors and Masters level He has been the senior research officer responsible for research into areas of printing for electronic mirco fabrication. More recently he has taken a position with UKDL based in the WCPC to foster plastic electronics within the academic and industrial community.


		Nicklas Johansson Senior Scientist, Material Physics and Chemistry, Thin Film Electronics AB Nicklas Johansson is a senior scientist at Thin Film Electronics AB and has worked there since 1998. The work at Thin Film Electronics has mainly been aimed at developing so called hybrid polymer memories but since a few years the work is focused on printed memories. He received his PhD in Surface Physics and Chemistry at Link�ping University in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. William Salaneck.


		Dr Toshihide Kamata Leader of Organic Semiconductor Devices Research Group, AIST Toshihide Kamata received a PhD in Chemistry from Kyoto University in 1991. He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 1992. He had been a Humboldt research fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research from 1995 to 1996. His research interests have been in the organic semiconductors and their thin films for photonics and electronics. He is currently a leader of organic semiconductor research group of AIST, and managing a research program concerning the development of printed organic devices for displays and sensors.


		Dr Jiro Kasahara General Manager, Fusion Domain Laboratory, Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation Jiro Kasahara received the Dr.Eng. in Electronics Engineering, from Waseda University, Tokyo in 1983. In 1974, he joined Sony and worked on GaAs epitaxy. From 1976 to 1977, he was at Stanford University as a Research Associate. Since coming back, he worked on GaAs and invented capless annealing for applications to GaAs IC's which were brought into business for the mobile phone. From 1995 to 1999, he was responsible for the Design Center in Basingstoke, UK followed by the head of system LSI business unit in Tokyo. Recently, he has established Sony Fusion Domain Laboratory where the development of molecular electronics including organic semiconductors is underway.


		Prof P Kathirgamanathan Founder and CTO, OLED-T Ltd PhD (Exeter) C. Chem. FRSC. C. Phys. F. Inst. P. C. Sci. 1980: PhD, Exeter University, UK (Sir Arthur Reed Scholar) 1980-1982: Research Associate, Exeter University 1982-1985: Senior Demonstrator, Newcastle University 1986-1992: Principal Scientist/Group Leader, Cookson Group plc, UK 1993- to-date: Professor of Electronic Materials Engineering, London South Bank University 1999- to-date: Founder and CTO, OLED-T (formerly, ELAM-T), UK Miscellaneous: 1992: Sir Monty Finniston Award Winner for work on Conducting Polymers 1999-2001: Chairman, Materials Chemistry Group, Society of Chemical Industries, London 1993- to-date: Executive Committee Member, Materials Chemistry, SCI, London.


		Dr Michael Kiy Project Manager, Printed Electronics, Alcan Technology & Management Ltd Dr Michael Kiy has been working in the field of organic electronics for 10 years. He graduated in Physics at TU Braunschweig and received his PhD in fundamental studies of transport and injection in organic small molecule semiconductors from ETH Zurich. In 2002 he joined the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and worked as senior R&D engineer and project leader on the material characterization of new polymer LED materials for industrial partners. He introduced high-throughput methods in the material screening process. Since 2007 he has been working as project manager for 'Printed Electronics' in the Value Innovation center of Alcan Packaging in Neuhausen (Switzerland).


		Hagen Klauk Independent Junior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Hagen Klauk studied Electrical Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) and at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur degree in 1995 with a thesis on Si/SiGe heterostructures and his PhD degree in 1999 with a thesis on organic transistors and circuits. He then joined the Polymer Electronics group at Infineon Technologies in Erlangen (Germany). In 2005 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) to lead an Independent Junior Research Group in organic electronics.


		Prof. Dr Meinhard Knoll Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Münster Meinhard Knoll received his diploma in electrical engineering in 1979 and his Dr-Ing degree in 1983 from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Between 1980 and 1985 he worked at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, in the field of radiation effects in semiconductor devices. From 1985 to 1997 he has been professor at the Fachhochschule Münster. Since 1997 he is a full professor at the University of Münster, where he works in the field of microsensors and organic electronics.


		Thomas Kolbusch Managing Director, Solarcoating Machinery University of Mönchengladbach, Diplom Betriebswirt in 1998 Sales Representative for 3M Germany Sales Manager for Alpi GmbH Since 1999 working for Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, current position is managing director of Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, also managing partner of Coma Beteiligungsgesellschaft and Managing Director of Solarcoating Machinery GmbH


		Antti Lääperi Technology Strategy Consultant, Nokia Antti Lääperi has been working in Nokia R&D for 20 years in different managerial and VP positions. During that time the R&D organization grew from some hundreds of people to thousands of engineers and development procedures were changing from very hardware oriented to handle also big software content. For the last 6 years he has been managing company's display and camera module development activities. The first Nokia product using AM OLED as main display was launched 2007. During 2006 Nokia launched a product using PM OLED as sub-display. Since August 2006 he has concentrated to OLED display technologies and is making PhD work from new technology commercialization issues as a part of open innovation paradigm. During that time he has a role of technology strategy consult in Nokia.


		Dr Pavel Lazarev Founders and CEO, Cryscade Solar Ltd and Carben Semicon Ltd Dr Pavel Lazarev, founder and CEO of Cryscade Solar Ltd and Carben Semicon Ltd, founder and Director of Crysoptix Ltd. Founder of Optiva Inc., CA (1998-2004). President of Molecular Devices and Tech. Corp. in Moscow (1988-1991). Coordinating Editor of Molecular Engineering. Co-founded Journal of Molecular Engineering. PhD and Doctorate of Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1967-88. Author more than 150 papers in scientific journals, over 100 patents and patent applications.


		Dr Daniel LeCloux Research Manager, OLED Materials, Dupont Reasearch Daniel LeCloux is manager of DuPont OLEDs materials development program located in Wilmington, Delaware, a position he has held since 2004. Dr. LeCloux joined DuPont in 1998 as a research scientist in Central Research & Development. His research program has primarily focused on the development of organic electronic materials for solar and light emitting diode applications. Dr. LeCloux holds over 15 patents concerning OLED materials. Prior to joining DuPont, Dr. LeCloux carried out postdoctoral studies as an NIH Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Dr LeCloux received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and PhD in Chemistry from MIT, both in the area of synthetic organometallic chemistry.


		Prof. Kwanghee Lee Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Professor Kwanghee Lee is Director of the GIST-UCSB Global Research Lab and Vice-Head of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials. He received a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1995 on the subject of 'Infrared Reflectance Studies of Conducting Polymers'. He also has an MSc in Physics and a BSC in Nuclear Engineering. His current main areas of research are: optical properties of metallic and semiconducting polymers; development of polymer electronic devices: polymer LEDs, solar cells, and FETs; and physical properties and device applications of organic/inorganic hybrid composites.


		Dr Michael Lögdlund Manager Printed Electronics, Acreo Dr Michael Lögdlund has a background as a researcher within experimental and theoretical studies of the electronic and chemical structure of conjugated polymers; their surfaces and interface formations with metals as well as 'doping' induced effects. Since 1999 he has been manager at the Printed Electronics group at Acreo AB. As a manager at Printed Electronics, his main activities have been R&D in the area for organic electronics with focus towards new applications and production processes for high volume applications.


		Dr Bill MacDonald Business Research Associate, DuPont Teijin Films After graduating with a BSc and PhD in chemistry from the University of St Andrews, Bill Macdonald joined ICI Plastics Division in 1980. He was initially involved in research into advanced materials, primarily liquid crystal polymers, and moved into the Polyester Films Business in the early 1990's. The Films Business was sold to DuPont and Bill MacDonald is currently a Business Research Associate in DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a 50:50 joint venture between DuPont and Teijin. He is currently actively involved in developing substrates for flexible electronic applications and in understanding the material requirements required for this emerging industry. He has coauthored ca 40 papers, several book chapters and regularly presents on the flexible electronic conference circuit.


		Dr Devin MacKenzie Chief Technical Officer, Add-Vision Dr J Devin MacKenzie is the Chief Technical Officer of Add-Vision and oversees all R&D and technical partnerships. He has over 10 years' experience in organic and printed electronics. Previously a research staff member and visiting scientist at Cambridge University, after working in photovoltaics OLEDs and transistors under Richard Friend, Devin spun out Plastic Logic as a co-founder. He has served as strategic consultant, advisor and/or staff contributor to Konarka, Kovio, CDT, Carbon Valley Technologies and others. He is author of over 125 technical publications, patents and funded grant proposals.


		Dr Bastian Marheineke Director of Sales, AIXTRON AG Bastian Marheineke graduated in Physics at RWTH Aachen and received his PhD from University of Ulm, working on MOCVD and PVD technologies for deposition of compound semiconductors. Having joined the Sales team of AIXTRON AG, Aachen, Germany, in 1998 he relocated to Cambridge, UK, in 2000, accepting the position of Sales Director of the newly acquired Thomas Swan Scientific Equipment, Ltd. subsidiary. Upon his return to Aachen mid 2002 Bastian was in charge of AIXTRON's Asia/Pacific sales. From 2003 to 2006 he was responsible for the business development of the OVPD® technology for organic materials. Since August 2006 Bastian has been in charge of world wide Sales for AIXTRON's compound and organic semiconductor technologies.


		Prof Iain McCulloch Professor of Polymer Materials, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London Iain McCulloch is Professor of Polymer Materials in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. His research interests are in the design, synthesis and application of conjugated materials for optical and electronic applications. Iain obtained a PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, UK, then spent 10 years at Hoechst Celanese, in the US, engaged in the research of novel functional polymers for nonlinear optics, lithography and drug delivery. Before joining Imperial, he was a Research Manager at Merck Chemicals, UK, responsible for novel solution processable organic semiconductor materials for application in organic field effect transistors and photovoltaic devices.


		Dr Michael Niggemann Head of Group Dye- and Organic Solar Cells, Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE Dr Michael Niggemann studied applied physics in Münster, Germany and wrote his PhD thesis at the Fraunhofer-Institute for solar energy systems (ISE) Freiburg on 'Device Architectures for Organic Photovoltaic cells'. From 2005 Michael Niggemann has coordinated research projects with the scope of developing of low cost organic photovoltaic solar cell architectures, longterm stability and device characterization. From 2008 he has been head of the group 'Dye and organic Solar cells' at Fraunhofer ISE.


		Dr Hash Pakbaz Vice President, Business Development, Cambrios Technologies Corp. Dr Hash Pakbaz received his PhD from UC, Santa Barbara in physics under the direction of Prof AJ Heeger. His research was focused on the study of properties of organics semiconductors with an emphasis on organic light emitting diodes (OLED). He later joined Siemens Microelectronics where as a founder of the new OLED Display business unit, he played a key role commercializing PLED displays for mobile applications. In the middle of 2003 he joined Symmoprhix, a venture backed spin-out from Applied Materials with the goal of supplying production equipment to the display market. Following the successful sale of Symmorphix to a private group, he joined the Cambrios Technologies Corporation.


		Franz Padinger CTO, Nanoident Technologies AG Franz Padinger is Co-Founder & CTO of Nanoident Technologies AG. Franz Padinger studied at the Johannes Kepler University Linz Technical Chemistry and Industrial Engineering where he created the world's first large area solar cells based on printed semiconductors. Based on this work, the company Quantum Solar Energy Linz (QSEL) was founded, where he headed the R&D and project activities from 1998 until 2003. Under his guidance QSEL became the world leader for plastic solar cells. QSEL was sold to Konarka Technologies Inc. (Boston, US) at the end of 2002 and renamed Konarka Austria. After one more year as CTO of Konarka Austria Franz Padinger left to co-found Nanoident.


		Martin Pfeiffer CTO, Heliatek Martin Pfeiffer studied physics in T�bingen, Lancaster and Dresden. In 2000, he obtained the PhD degree from the TU Dresden for a thesis on 'Doping of organic semiconductors for use in organic LED and organic solar cells', supervised by Prof. Karl Leo. From 2000 to 2005, he has been leader of the Organic Optoelectronics Group of the Institut f�r Angewandte Photophysik, TU Dresden. In 2002, he spent four months at Princeton University in the group of Prof Stephen Forrest. He is cofounder of Novaled AG, Dresden and Heliatek GmbH and since 2006 CTO of Heliatek.


		Dr Catherine Ramsdale Research Manager, Plastic Logic Catherine Ramsdale has a degree in Physics from Imperial College, London and a PhD in Organic Electronics from the University of Cambridge. After completing her PhD in 2002, she joined Plastic Logic as an engineer in the Semiconductor Group. She is now Plastic Logic's Research Manager, overseeing projects targeting future generations of Plastic Logic's 'take anywhere, read anywhere' technology.


		Dr Daniele Rezzonico Manager, FLUXiM At FLUXiM since March 2008, Daniele Rezzonico is responsible for the management of the business activities of the company, including marketing and sales, consulting and customer support. He is in charge of the commercialization of optical and electrical simulation software for the modelling of OLEDs and solar cells, therefore also collaborating with external distribution partners. Dr Rezzonico studied Physics at ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 2002. He gained his PhD at ETH in 2007 with a thesis on micro-ring modulators in electro-optic polymers


		Sir Robin Saxby Director, Arolla Partners Sir Robin Saxby is a Director of Arolla Partners Ltd, a media and entertainment company which he founded in April 2008. He was the founding CEO and Chairman of ARM Holdings plc, the world's leading Semiconductor Intellectual Property Company, which he led from start up at the end of 1990 to flotation on NASDAQ and the LSE in 1998. He retired from ARM at the end of September 2007. He served as President of The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), the largest professional engineering institution headquartered in Europe from 2006 to 2007, where he is still an active Fellow and Council Member. He currently advises interested parties in areas of wealth creation, technology and globalisation and is committed to inspiring the young to be passionate about Science, Engineering and Technology.



		Dr Günter Schmid Senior Research Scientist Innovative Electronics, Siemens AG Dr Günter Schmid is a Senior Research Scientist at Siemens AG in the department Corporate Technology Materials & Microsystems (CT MM 1). His current focus is the development of organic light emitting diodes for lighting applications. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Ulm (Germany) in 1993 and joined 1994 the Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding at the Texas A&M University for a postdoctoral position. From 1996 to 1999 he developed organic dielectrics for the application in silicon based semiconductors. Since 1999 organic electronics became his main field of interest, first as project manager for ultra low cost electronics at Infineon Technologies AG until 2005 and second at his current position.


		Maren Siegert product management, printed systems Maren Siegert is a product manager at printed systems GmbH. She is in charge of developing the market fields of paper electronic products. At the interface to the customer she is coordinating customer requests and job orders. Maren Siegert studied business studies and engineering, specialisation print media and marketing at Chemnitz University of Technology. In 2006 she did the diploma at S�chsische Druck- und Verlagshaus AG in Dresden, managing a test-mailing to optimise data-driven direct marketing campaigns.


		Dr Vishal Shrotiya Technology Researcher, Solarmer Energy Dr Vishal Shrotiya is a Technology Researcher at Solarmer Energy and is leading the product development efforts at the company. Dr. Shrotriya received MS and PhD from University of California Los Angeles in Materials Science, and BS from IIT Bombay, India. He has been active in the field of organic electronic materials and devices for the last 7 years. His research focus has been on organic materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications including devices such as LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and thin film transistors. He has co-authored more than 20 publications and patents related to polymer solar cells and presented at several international conferences.


		Takao Someya Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, University of Tokyo Takao Someya received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1997. He joined the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, as a Research Associate and was appointed as a Lecturer at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) in 1998, and was made Associate Professor of RCAST 2002. From 2001 to 2003, he worked for the Nanocenter (NSEC) of Columbia University and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, as a Visiting Scholar. Since 2003, he has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Physics and Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, the University of Tokyo. His current research interests include organic transistors, flexible electronics, plastic integrated circuits, large-area sensors, and plastic actuators.


		Gildas Sorin CEO, Novaled Gildas Sorin, CEO at Novaled AG since August 2003, maintains overall responsibility for leading the company and its business growth worldwide. Previously he was with Philips Electronics for five years as vice president of the Display Division and, in parallel, general manager of the Philips Plasma Displays group. Prior to that, he served at Thomson Multimedia for 20 years in various executive and management roles, including president of Thomson Plasma and Thomson LCD, director of the joint venture Thomson / ST Microelectronics and general manager of Thomson strategic sourcing, and deputy general manager of the worldwide Thomson R&D organization. He moved to Germany in 1981 to head Thomson's European sourcing activities. Mr. Sorin attended Thomson University and holds a degree in senior management.


		Dr Juergen Steiger Senior Project Manager, Creavis Technologies & Innovation, Evonik Degussa Dr Steiger studied physics and material science. He received his PhD in 2001 for his work on charge transport in organic semiconductors. In the same year he joined Covion Organic Semiconductors GmbH (now part of Merck KGaA) in Frankfurt, where he worked on various aspects of organic light emitting materials. In 2004 Dr Steiger joined the printable electronics group of Creavis, Degussa GmbH, in Marl.


		Dr Steve Tierney Project Leader - Organic Semiconductors, Merck Chemicals Ltd Steve Tierney is a graduate of the University of Sheffield and studied his PhD in Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge. Since joining Merck's Organic Electronics (OE) group, his focus has been on the development of stable, solution-processable, high performance organic semiconductors for transistor and photovoltaic applications. He is currently the Project Leader for Organic Semiconductors group at Merck, and is co-inventor on more than 25 patent applications and co-author on 20 scientific publications.


		Prof Ian Underwood Chief Technology Officer, MicroEmissive Displays Ian Underwood is co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays and co-inventor of its P-OLED microdisplay technology. Previously a pioneer of LCOS technology at the University of Edinburgh, he is a Fulbright Fellow (1991), Ben Sturgeon Award winner (2000), Entrepreneur of the Year (2003), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2004), and winner of the Gannochy Prize for Innovation (2004).


		Dr Ton van Mol Program Manager Printed Organic Lighting and Signage, and Electrodes and Barriers, Holst Centre After being awarded his MSc (with honors) at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Dr van Mol worked for four years at TNO Materials for which he received his PhD on the chemical vapour deposition of tin oxide thin films. In 2002 he spent 6 months at Sandia National Laboratories to further explore the chemical mechanism of tin oxide CVD. After Sandia he returned to TNO to lead the Helianthos project, which was a collaboration with Akzo-Nobel on the development of a roll-to-roll pilot line for the production of flexible solar cells. In 2006 he became a program manager at the newly-found Holst Centre where he is responsible for the straegic program on OLED Lighting and Signage.



		Elizabeth von Hauff Energy and Semiconductor Research Laboratory (EHF), Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Elizabeth von Hauff completed a BSc Honours in Physics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 2000. From 2000-2001 she did an MSc in Renewable Energies with a specialisation in photovoltaics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Elizabeth did her PhD in Oldenburg in the field of organic photovoltaics in the Energy and Semiconductor Research Laboratory (EHF) from 2002-2005. Since then she has been working as a post doc in the EHF in the area of organic electronics.



		Dr Robert Jan Visser CTO, Vitex Systems Robert Jan Visser received his PhD in Theoretical and Physical Chemistry at University of Leiden, The Netherlands in 1984. He joined the Philips Research Laboratories in 1984, worked on high resolution photolithography and plasma etching. In 1990 he became department head of the group 'Polymers and Organic Chemistry'. Headed Polymer LED activities from 1991. The success of this work led in 1998 to the creation of a new business with a manufacturing line: Philips Components, PolyLED. After a half a year as general manager he continued his work as innovation manager and CTO for Emerging Displays. Joined Vitex in San Jose as Chief Technology Officer in 2002.


		Scott White Chief Executive Officer, Nano ePrint Scott White is an experienced serial entrepreneur, with leadership roles in three venture-funded technology companies prior to Nano ePrint. Most recently, he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Azea Networks, a provider of optical communication solutions to the international telecoms market. During Scott's tenure, Azea's business grew from concept to eight figure sales levels before being acquired. Scott has also been an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Atlas Venture, an international venture fund managing over $2 billion in capital. Scott has lived and worked across the globe including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US and the UK.


		Chris Williams Director, UK Displays & Lighting Knowledge Transfer Network (UKDL KTN) Chris has worked in the UK Displays Industry for more than 30 years. As well as heading the UKDL KTN, he is a founding Director of Logystyx UK, a specialist consultancy company in the FPD and Lighting Industry, and he is a Director of Ceravision Ltd, a company that has developed a microwave powered electrodeless HID lamp system. Chris is a member of the UK's Photonics Leadership Group, and is the Chair of the Industrial Advisory Group of the Cambridge University Integrated Knowledge Centre.


		Dr Geoff Williams OLED Group Leader, Lighting Technology Centre, Thorn Lighting Having completed his PhD in Adaptive Optics from the University of Durham in 1991 he spent several years conducting research in the field of molecular electronics. Thereafter time was spent with Philips Display working in the field of electron-optics before moving to new product development with Thorn Lighting. The past two years have been spent developing and securing UK government funding for Thorn's pled white light project, which he also manages. He sits on various influential UK organic electronic committees including UKDN KTN and the Industrial advisory team for the Plastic Electronic Technology Centre in North East England.


		Dr Kiyoshi Yase Deputy Director, Photonics Research Institute, AIST Dr Yase graduated Faculty of Science, Osaka University and finished the Doctor Course of Kyoto University in 1986. He worked for seven years in Hiroshima University, then moved to National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research. Now he is devoting himself to organic electronics and photonics in the Photonics Research Institute, AIST.


		Barry Young Managing Director, OLED Association Barry Young is Managing Director of OLED-A, a worldwide industry association representing members of the OLED industry. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to DisplaySearch. As one of the industry's leading authorities on OLEDs and flexible displays, Young has authored all of DisplaySearch's OLED and Flexible Display reports and has visited and consulted with most of the OLED manufacturers worldwide. Young has been published in multiple technical display journals and has spoken across the globe on the display industry.

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