IX Jornadas de I+D+i & 1st International Workshop on STEM y VI JORNADA del PROGRAMA de Doctorado en Instalaciones y Sistemas para la Industria

–Conferencia Inaugural (3 de octubre – 9:30 AM) Bioinspired Surfaces for Prevention of Oral and Transepithelial Implant Infections. Prof. Conrado Aparicio Badenas. Catedrático de la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña. https://www.apariciolab.com/

Short Bio

Dr. Conrado Aparicio is Professor at the Department of Odontology of UIC Barcelona – Universitat International de Catalunya, Spain. He is associated researcher at IBEC-Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia and elected fellow of the AIMBE-American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Dr. Aparicio is a materials scientist and engineer by training. After starting his academic career at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) he moved to the University of Minnesota (UMN) where he spent 12+ years in the Department of Restorative Sciences, and was the Deputy Director of the MDRCBB-Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics. Last year Professor Aparicio returned to his hometown, Barcelona, as FBA-BIST-UIC fellow.

For two decades he has carried out multidisciplinary research on bioinspired biomaterials and interfaces for directing biological responses to repair/regenerate bone and oral mucosa as well as to prevent bacterial infections for dental applications. Using inspiration from nature’s molecules and structures, his team designs and develops bioactive surfaces using supramolecular assembly and enabling spatial-temporal control of bioactive responses.

He has published 140+ research papers and has lectured around the World on bioactivation of synthetic biomaterials for reparative and regenerative dentistry and medicine. He is co-inventor of multiple patents, one of them licensed and marketed by a dental implant company. He has been awarded multiple national and international research projects from US and EC agencies, foundations and corporations, in interdisciplinary collaborations between academic and corporate engineers, biologists, and clinicians.

-Conferencia 1 invitada (4 de octubre – 9:30 AM)

Dra. Yulia Sandamirskaya. Neuromorphic computing: from theory to applications. Neuromorphic Computing Lab, Intel Labs, Intel, Alemania. www.sandamirskaya.eu

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Yulia Sandamirskaya leads the Applications Research team of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel. Her team in Munich develops spiking neuronal network-based algorithms for neuromorphic hardware to demonstrate the potential of neuromorphic computing in real-world applications. She has 15 years of research experience in the fields of neural dynamics, embodied cognition, and autonomous robotics.  She led a research group “Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots” at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the “Autonomous learning” group at the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Germany. She was chairing EUCog—the European Society for Artificial Cognitive Systems and coordinated an EU coordination and support action NEUROTECH, facilitating development of the neuromorphic computing technology community in Europe.

–Conferencia 2 invitada (4 de octubre – 10:15 AM)

Dr. Antonio Capezza. Transformación de la industria sanitaria a través del uso de técnicas de procesamiento para plásticos y materiales naturales para fabricar artículos absorbentes desechables. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU) https://www.kth.se/profile/ajcv

Short Bio

Dr. Capezza focuses on producing biodegradable absorbents using industrial agro-food waste. His research is directed towards making functional materials from waste (Waste to Products W2P), considering the circular economy and sustainability of the entire production chain (raw material, processing, end-of-life). In 2020, Capezza got his double Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Sciences, specialty in Product quality (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU) and Fiber and Polymer Technology (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). Dr. Capezza is currently an independent Postdoc Researcher at KTH (founded by Bo Rydin Foundation) and an Invited Professor at Simon Bolívar University.

Dr. Capezza has initiated a network of international academic and research institutes across Europe (Sweden, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy), Asia (Japan), and America (Venezuela), named SaniSOLE+. The SaniSOLE+ network supports producing sustainable materials using agro-food waste for safe degradable protein/cellulose material interfaces to mitigate climate change in highly polluting industrial sectors. His key research focus are: novel use of biomacromolecules, protein/cellulose interfaces, manufacturing of sustainable products, circular material development, biomass. Homepage https://www.kth.se/profile/ajcv.