Plenary Speakers

Sara Cavaliere 

University of Montpellier, Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (ICGM)

Short Bio: Sara Cavaliere is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Montpellier (France). Her research interests focus on design, synthesis and characterization of nanostructured core materials for ion exchange membrane fuel cells and electrolyzers. Her research at the Charles Gerhardt Institute for Molecular Chemistry and Materials was supported in 2013 by an ERC Starting Grant, followed by a Proof of Concept Grant in 2019, aiming to develop novel electrodes and membranes based on electrospun materials for energy applications. In 2017, she was appointed junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and awarded the CNRS Bronze medal. In 2024 Prof. Cavaliere worked for a semester at the University of Nevada, Reno (USA), supported by a Fulbright Scholar Grant. She is also member of different boards of international associations including the International Society of Electrochemistry (vice-chair of Division 3) and CERIC-ERIC (ISTAC member).

Francesco Di Natale

University of Naples “Federico II

Short Bio: Francesco Di Natale is a Chemical Engineer and a Full Professor of Unit Operation and Sustainable Process Design at the University of Naples Federico II. He has more than twenty years of experience in the development of sustainable technologies for pollution control and recovery of added-value chemicals  from waste streams.  He is specialized in modelling and designing multiphase-flows separators and in the application of electrohydrodynamics to chemical plant design and optimization.

Eyal Zussman

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Short Bio: Eyal Zussman is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the Technion in 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. Zussman’s research interests are in the nanoscale polymer fabrication and mechanics.
Prof. Zussman group is focused in research of area of molecular engineering of soft matter, in particular the development of process-structure-property relationships, through the use of simulation and experiment, and the development of functional nano-structures, such as: electrospun fibers, thin films, beads etc.