Prof. Peter Nordlander (http://nordlander.rice.edu) obtained his PhD degree in Theoretical Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in Sweden in1985. After postdoctoral positions at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights (USA) and AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill (USA) and at Rutgers University, he joined the faculty at Rice University in 1989 and is currently Wiess Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Materials Science an    　　Nanoen gineering. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Paris, at the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is presently a visiting professor in the Department of Physics at Peking University and at Wuhan University. His research background is in theoretical condensed matter and nano physics. His current research is focused on the theoretical and computational modeling of Plasmonics and Nanophotonics phenomena. He is an associate editor of ACS Nano. He is a fellow of APS, AAAS, SPIE, and OSA and is the recipient of the 1999 Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Rice), the 2013 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, the 2014  Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, and the 2015 R. W. Wood Prize for Optics.  He has published more than 250 refereed articles, given more than 300 invited presentations at international conferences and workshops, has been cited more than 25000 times with a Web of Science h-index in the 80s, and is a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.

　　Otto L. Muskens is a Professor in Physics at Southampton and currently holds an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. He received his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 2004 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Bordeaux, France, at Philips Research Eindhoven, and at the AMOLF Institute Amsterdam. In 2009, Muskens started his activities in Southampton, where he set up the Integrated Nanophotonics research group which aims to develop fundamental understanding and applications of nanophotonics, integrated in diverse fields ranging from silicon photonics to cell biology. His work involves plasmonic nanoantennas, semiconductor nanowires, complex photonic media, and photonic integrated circuits. His first independent results include demonstrations of plasmonic nanoantenna optical switches, mesoscopic light transport in semiconductor nanowires, and interaction of nanoparticles and cells for diagnostics and plasmonically-targeted laser treatment.

Yung Doug Suh, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Director of Research Ctr. for Convergence Nanobiotechnology.

　　Address: Lab. for Adv. Molecular Probing (LAMP), RC2NT, Korea Research Inst. of Chem. Tech. (KRICT), P.O. Box 107, Sinseongno 19, YuSeong-Gu, DaeJeon, 305-600, Korea. Office Phone: +82-42-860-7597, E-mail: ydsuh@krict.re.kr

Academic background:

1991, B.S. Chemistry; 1993, M.S. Phys. Chemistry; 1999, Ph.D. in Nano Physics (Prof. Y. Kuk) and Phys. Chemistry (Dr. D. Kim, Prof. S.K. Kim), Seoul Nat’l Univ; 1999-2000, PostDoc in Nano Spectroscopy (Prof. R. Zenobi), ETH Zurich, Swizterland

Professional career:

2013-Present Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SungKyunKwan Univ. (SKKU),Suwon, Korea          

2008   Visiting Scholar, NSEC/Dept. of Physics, Columbia University, NY

2005-2006 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Physics, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

2003-Present (Recruited) Principal Research Scientist. Founder of LAMP & Director of RC2NT, KRICT

2002-2003  Chief Scientist/RI&P Director, Nanohybrid Ltd. Inc.

LTE Staff Member, Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lab., Environmental Molecular Science Lab (EMSL)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of DOE/Battelle, WA (PNNL)            

Assistant Professor (Res.), Dept. of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

 Representative publications: (Google Scholar citation)

1. "Observation of Fluorescence Emission from Solutions of C60 and C70 and Measurement of Their

　Excited-State Lifetimes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 4429 (1992) cited >180 times

2."Low-Lying Electronically Excited States of C60 and C70 and Measurement of Their Picosecond Transient

　Absorption in Solution", Chem. Phys. Lett. 196, 325 (1992) cited >110 times

3. "Stressed C60 Layers on Au(001)", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1948 (1993) cited >130 times

4. "Nanoscale Chemical Analysis by Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)", Chem. Phys. Lett. 318, 131

　(2000) cited > 830 times.

5. "Non-blinking and Non-bleaching Upconverting Nanoparticles as Optical Imaging Nanoprobe and T1 MRI

　Contrast Agent", Adv. Mater.21, 4467 (2009), cited >310 times.

6. "Nanogap-Engineerable, Raman-Active Nano-Dumbbells for Sing Molecule Detection", Nature Materials,

　60, 90 (2010) cited >450 times.

7. "Highly uniform and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman scattering from DNA-tailorable nanopartciels

　with 1-nm interior gap", Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 452 (2011), cited >260 times.

8. "Long-term real-time tracking of Lanthanide ion doped upconverting nanoparticles in living cells",

　Angewandte Chemi, 50, 6093 (2011), cited >80 times.Miscellaneous

　　•Int’l invited talks in U.S. (2012 MRS Spring, 2013&2015 SPIE, 2013&2016 Photonics West, IEEE Nanomed 2015, Veeco, NIST x2, 2009 MSU, NSEC of Columbia U x2, 2010 Rice U, 2011&2013 LBNL Molecular Foundry, 2014 Caltech, 2014 UC Berkeley), Germany (2004 Max Plank Goettingen, 2004 ISAS Dortmund, 2012 U of Oldenburg, 2014 SES, 2014 ICORS), Swiss (Basel, Zurich), Spain (2012 NFO-12), Japan (Osaka, Handai, 2013 JASP-OSA Joint Symp. in Kyoto, 2015 TERS-5 in Osaka), Singapore (META 2014, ICMAT 2015), and China (Yenji,Beijing,Frontiers of Plasmonics in Xian, RamanFest 2015 in Xiamen, 2015 KITPC), as well as 1 plenary talk in the Netherlands (NFO-6) and 1 keynote speech (PIERS 2014).  •ISO Expert Member (TC201-SG9 SPM Division) •Organized Int’l Symps. as a General Secretary (SPP-5 Busan, NFO-8 Seoul).

　　•Nominated at Marquis’ Who’s Who, IBC, and ABI since 2001. •Total citations: >3460, h-index: 24, i10-index: 37 by Google

　　•SPIE Meeting Program Committee of the 50th, 51st & 52nd, Plasmonics: Nanoimaging, Nanofabrication, and their Applications I, II, III, IV, V (2005-2007); 54th, 55th, 56th Nanoimaging & Nanospectroscopy I, II, III. (2013-2016)