Speaker biographies: L-Z

		Antti Lääperi Technology Strategy Consultant, Nokia Antti Lääperi has been working in Nokia R&D for 19 years in different managerial and VP positions. For the last six years he has been managing Nokia's display and camera module development activities. During this time displays have changed from B&W to rich colour QVGA displays and camera modules from VGA to 5 Mpix autofocus modules. Since August 2006 he has concentrated on OLED display technologies and is making PhD work from new technology commercialization issues using OLED as a case study.
		Adam Laubach CTO and General Manager of Functional Printing Division, GSI Technologies Adam Laubach has 15 years' experience in material science based product development, commercialisation and B2B business management. He joined GSI Technologies in 2006 where he is chief technology officer and the general manager of the Functional Printing Division. Laubach is a recognised leader in the field of 'printed electronics', and was co-founder and CTO of the Dow Chemical spin-off, Aveso Displays. Prior to leaving Dow, Adam served as the Commercial Development Manager for a NIST funded JV with Motorola and Xerox focused on polymer semiconductor materials and devices. Laubach has a BS in Polymer Chemistry from Texas State and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin.
		I-Chun Lin Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University I-Chun Lin received her BSc in Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University. She started her PhD degree at Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University two years ago with the topic 'Micro-Discontinuous Coating' under the supervision of Prof. An-Bang Wang.
		Dr Frank Louwet R&D Manager, ORGACON Electronic Materials, Agfa-Gevaert After his PhD in chemistry on precursor-routes for conjugated PPV at the University Hasselt (Belgium), Dr Frank Louwet joined the R&D of Agfa Gevaert in 1994. His field of research is polymer synthesis with focus on dispersions (lattices, beads, PEDOT) and living radical polymerization. He holds numerous patents and publications. From 2003-2005 he was responsible dry medical film development and since Jan 2006 he is responsible for R&D on PEDOT/PSS in the Orgacon Electronic Materials business unit of Agfa Materials
		Dr Michael McCreary VP of Research and Advanced Development, E Ink Corporation Michael McCreary is the Vice President of Research and Advanced Development of E Ink Corporation. Included in his responsibilities is the creation of a new generation of flexible, paper-like displays utilizing novel electrophoretic inks. Dr McCreary is a 34-year veteran of the imaging industry. Previous leadership positions included General Manager of Kodak's Microelectronics Technology Division that developed high performance solid-state image sensors. Dr McCreary serves as the Chairman of the US Display Consortium Board of Directors and a Board Member elect of the Arizona State University led Flexible Display Center. He earned a BS with Honors from Principia College, and a PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Dr Iain McCulloch Senior Project Manager - Organic Semiconductors, Merck KGaA Iain McCulloch is a Senior Project Manager at Merck KGaA responsible for novel organic semiconducting polymers and liquid crystals for application in organic electronics. He is a recent recipient of the 2006 Organic Semiconductor Industry Award (OSIA) for best R&D achievements, has a PhD in Polymer Chemistry, has edited one book, is co-inventor on over 50 patents and co-author of over 70 papers.
		Dr Bill MacDonald Business Research Associate, DuPont Teijin Films After graduating BSc and PhD in chemistry from the University of St Andrew, 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 1990s. 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 about 40 papers, several book chapters and regularly presents at flexible electronic conferences.
		Dr Hiroki Maeda Dai Nippon Printing Dr Hiroki Maeda is a graduate of Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he received his Doctor of Engineering in Self Organizing Molecular Semiconductors under the supervision of Prof. Jun-ichi Hanna. Prior to his graduate work, Hiroki joined Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) in 1991 as a researcher in R&D Center. He started to study on organic semiconductors from 1998. He is in charge of R&D on plastic electronics, especially, device physics of OLED and OTFT.
		Dr David Margolese VP Technology Development, ORFID Corp Dr David Margolese is the VP of Technology Development for ORFID Corp working on processes and devices for display and RFID applications. He has more than 20 years experience developing new technologies and materials and has contributed in both technology and business development in the areas of organic electronics, semiconductor etch processes, filtration, and energy storage.
		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.
		Allan Marshall Joint Principal, iMedia Advisory Services Ltd Allan Marshall is a principal in iMEDIA Advisory Services Ltd, an independent consulting service formed in October 2006, to which he brings 35 years experience in newspaper publishing. The Ifra-affiliated company offers publishers guidance in dealing with strategic and business issues affecting them: reorganisation, continuous improvement, technology and product development, corporate structuring, investing, and mergers and acquisitions. Marshall began his career in newspaper publishing in 1971 at a regional newspaper in Australia. In 1987 he joined the Evening Standard in London - a division of Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - as the company's systems manager. He was made an ANL director in 1990 and appointed to the board of ANL, as Group Pre-Press director, in 1994. He was later appointed Chief Operations and Technology director for ANL.
		Franck Medlege Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Franck Medlege graduated from the French Engineering School of Papermaking and Printing. He is currently a PhD student in the Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2) at the CEA (the french atomic energy commission) in Grenoble, France. The topic of his thesis is "The elaboration of lithium ion batteries by flexographic technique".
		Dr Timo Meyer-Friedrichsen H C Starck Timo Meyer-Friedrichsen recieved a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of Hamburg, Germany, working on materials for nonlinear optics. He attended a postdoc at the University of Arizona at the group of Prof Seth Marder working on two-photon absorption materials and metal nanoparticles. In 2001 he joined the Central Research Department of Bayer where he worked on organic materials for optical data storage systems. Timo switched to H C Starck in 2006 where he is currently responsible for the development of organic semiconductor materials. He has co-authored 17 papers and is co-inventor of over 15 patent applications.
		Wolfgang Mildner Chairman, OE-A and Managing Director, PolyIC Since 2004 Wolfgang Mildner is Managing Director of the newly founded PolyIC GmbH&Co.KG. PolyIC is a Joint Venture between SIEMENS AG and Leonhard Kurz GmbH. PolyIC develops new technologies, which will provide electronics from a printing machine. Additionally he is acting as Chairman of the Organic Electronic Association/VDMA. Before joining PolyIC, he worked in several business positions for Siemens AG since 1986. He was responsible for a number of projects turning promising technologies to business. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Erlangen.
		Dr Robert Nitsche Managing Director, sim4tec GmbH Dr Robert Nitsche recieved his Diploma and PhD degrees in physics in 2001 and 2005, respectively, both at the Technical University Dresden under the supervision of Prof. Karl Leo. During his PhD thesis he worked on the optical characterization of organic thin films and developed a numerical algorithm for calculating the optical constants of organic films. After a two year engagement at Infineon Technologies he went back to the field of organic semiconductors to found its own company sim4tec.
		Dr Raymond Oliver Director of Science & Innovation, Centre for Emerging Nano, Micro & Photonic Systems (CENAMPS) Raymond Oliver graduated in Chemical Engineering in Edinburgh where he completed his PhD. He has over 25 years' experience in senior posts in chemical, process and materials industries, with 10 years as Senior Research Fellow within ICI plc where he was responsible for the development of the company's nanoscience and technologies platform. Raymond is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a member of the Royal Society working party on Nanoscience and Nanotechnnologies. He is also a member of the European Union Framework 7 steering group for Sustainable Chemistry which includes nanoscience, nanotechnologies, materials processing and reaction engineering. He is currently developing the overall science and technology strategy and roadmap for the Science City initiative with Newcastle/Durham Universities and the PETeC organic electronics national facility. In particular the development of materials and technologies for OPV, SSL and sensors.
		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.
		Susann Reuter Consultant, IDTechEx Susann Reuter graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur for Electronic Devices from Chemnitz University of Technologies, worked in microelectronics and microsystem technologies for nearly 10 years prior to starting a second career in printing. Involved in development and manufacturing of printed electronics for RFID tags, Smart Labels, Smart Packaging and Smart Textiles since early 2004 with a broad background in materials and technologies, including quality management aspects of mass production. She works as a consultant for IDTechEx.
		Emily Selene de Rotstein Vice President, Marketing, Aveso Inc An original founder of the business, de Rotstein led the new business growth effort at The Dow Chemical Company responsible for developing and commercializing Aveso's electrochromic display technology. As general manager of the business, she led the venture capital fundraising efforts that resulted in the spin out of the business from Dow in 2004. Prior to Dow, de Rotstein held executive positions in the consumer publishing sector, including Director of Marketing for The Chicago Sun-Times and Vice President North America for The Jerusalem Post.
		Dr Günter Schmid Senior Research Scientist, Siemens AG Dr Günter Schmid is a Senior Research Scientist at Siemens AG in the Corporate Technology Materials & Microsystems department. His current focus is the development of OLEDs for lighting applications. He earned his PhD from the University of Ulm (Germany) in 1993 and then joined 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. From 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.
		Martin Schoeppler Vice President, Marketing and Sales, FUJIFILM Dimatix Martin Schoeppler joined Spectra (now known as FUJIFILM Dimatix) in 2004 to develop new business areas that could benefit from the digital application of various materials, including new fluids that enable electronics fabrication. Schoeppler is a seasoned international executive with extensive electronics market experience and more than 25 years of senior management responsibilities in high technology marketing, sales and business development at Hewlett-Packard Co., Lumileds Lighting, and Agilent Technologies, Inc. Schoeppler holds a BSEE degree from the University of Applied Science in Esslingen, Germany and received his marketing and business education from Insead France and IMD Switzerland.
		Dr Mario Schrödner Work group leader, TITK Mario Schrödner studied Physics at the Leipzig University. 1989 he received his PhD also from the Leipzig University and joined then the Technical University of Leipzig where he worked in a microsystem technology project. In 1995 he went to the Thuringian Institute of Textile and Plastics Research (TITK) in Rudolstadt (Germany) where he worked as project manager and later as work group leader in the fields of polymer electronics, photovoltaics, actuators and laser micro machining of polymers.
		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.
		Dr Barbara Stadlober Senior Scientist, Joanneum Research Barbara Stadlober studied experimental physics at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. In 1991 she wrote her diploma thesis on "Physical Properties of the Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System". From 1992-1996 she was a member of the scientific staff of the Walther-Meissner Institute for Low Temperature Physics in Garching, Germany and wrote her PhD thesis about "Electronic Raman-Scattering on High-Temperature-Superconductors". After having received her PhD at the Technical University of Munich she was a member of the R&D-Staff of Siemens Halbleiter AG /Infineon Technologies AG in Villach. Since March 2002 she is working as a senior scientist at the Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, and manages the research division "Synthesis of Nanostructured Organic Systems".
		Dr Juergen Steiger Project Manager, Creavis Technologies & Innovation, 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 Nick Stone MD, Novalia Dr Stone completed a PhD at the Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory in association with Hitachi Europe Ltd. As one of the first engineers at Plastic Logic he worked there for over 3 years developing printing processes and applications for organic electronics. He then left and founded Novalia Ltd in 2004 to develop conventional printing and packaging processes for printed electronics. Novalia successfully completed a round of venture capital finance earlier this year.
		Vivek Subramanian Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Vivek Subramanian received his PhD from Stanford University in 1998, and co-founded Matrix Semiconductor, Inc., in the same year. Since 2000, he has been at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is an Associate Professor in the EECS Department. He has co-authored more than 100 publications and patents. In 2002, he was named one of Technology Review's top 100 young innovators, and received the Rappaport Award for the best paper in an IEEE EDS Journal. In 2003, he was received a NSF Young Investigator Award. He received the best paper award at the IEEE Device Research Conference in 2004, and the distinguished teaching award from the EECS department at UC Berkeley in 2005. He is a founding technical advisor of Kovio, Inc.
		Cristina Tanase Research Scientist, Philips Research Cristina Tanase received a PhD in Organic Electronics from Groningen University in 2005. She joined Philips Research Eindhoven in 2005 where she is working as research scientist in organic light emitting diodes. She is involved in device characterization, thin film encapsulation, flexible OLED characterization. Her research interests have been in the organic semiconductors and their thin films for electronics applications.
		Dr Ching Ting Deputy Director, Organic Opto-Electronic Materials and Applications Division, ITRI I got my PhD Degree in Chemistry from the University of Iowa in 1989. After being post-doctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in The University of Iowa, I joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) since 1994. My research interests include nano-structured polymers and inorganic hybrid materials design and synthesis for optoelectronic applications. I am currently the deputy director of Organic Opto-Electronic Materials and Applications Division in ITRI and am in charge of Polymer Photovoltaic Program.
		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).
		Peter Visser Program Manager, OLLA Peter Visser (MSc) joined Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 1998 as project coordinator. He was involved setting up and running the project offices for several successful large European projects. Since Summer 2003 he has been involved with OLEDs and in 2004 he was assigned at Philips Lighting in Aachen, Germany, as project manager responsible for the OLLA project.
		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.
		Dr Veit Wagner Professor, Jacobs University Bremen Veit Wagner studied physics at the RWTH-Aachen. For his doctoral degree he was engaged in semiconductor interface research at the TU-Berlin and the RWTH-Aachen. After a stay as Postdoctoral fellow abroad he habilitated at the University of Würzburg on interface science on organic and inorganic semiconductors. Since 2002 he has been Professor at the Jacobs University Bremen working in the field of molecular and organic electronics with special focus on organic field-effect transistor devices.
		Thomas Walther Head of New Technology Department, MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG Thomas Walther joined MAN Roland Druckmaschinen as a test engineer in 1990. From 2003 he has headed the Department of New Technology which deals with new applications of printing technology. As well as applications in the classical printing area, this also includes applications in the areas of printed electronics, anti-counterfeiting and nanotechnology. Five publicly promoted projects with a project volume of several million euros are in progress. In three large-scale projects MAN Roland is the leading company. Thomas Walther is the inventor or co-inventor of over 50 patents or patent disclosures. His main area of interest is 'value added printing'.
		Wei-Ben Wang National Tsing Hua University Wei-Ben Wang received the BS degree in Department of Mechanical Engineering from the National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 2003 and the MS degree from the Graduate Institute of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, in 2005. Now he is a PhD Candidate in Department of Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University. Since 2001, his research interest focuses on the fabrication study of organic light emitting diode, including device physics, organic material science and patterning investigation into contact printing.
		Dr Makoto Watanabe Senior Scientist, Yokkaichi Research Laboratory, Tosoh Corporation Makoto Watanabe received his PhD in Chemistry from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1991. At Tosoh Corporation, he is responsible for organic synthesis. Since 1991 he has been engaging in syntheses of pharmaceutical intermediates and organic electronic materials for organic EL and FET.
		Philipp Weissel General Manager, plastic electronic GmbH born in 1964 in Frankfurt/Main business economist has worked since 1989 as an entrepreneur and consultant became managing partner of CONTEC Elektronik GmbH, Linz/Austria in 1995 founded plastic electronic GmbH together with Serdar Sarficiftci and other partners in 2006
		Dr Martin Weiter Associate Professor, Brno University of Technology Martin Weiter is the group leader and associated professor of physical chemistry of Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic. He received his PhD in 2002 and subsequently he attended a postdoc at the Phillips University Marburg in Germany at the group of Prof. Bäßler working on characterization of photogeneration and charge transport in organic thin films. His current research interests include also large-area sensors and photodetectors. He is an author and coauthor about 30 peer review articles.
		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.
		Barry Young Senior Vice President, DisplaySearch Before joining DisplaySearch, Barry Young was CEO and President of OWL Displays where he co-developed innovative driver technology. He was awarded a key patent on an innovative architecture for driving low temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs. Prior to OWL, he was Vice President and General Manager for Tandem's Integrity System's Division. He has more than 30 years of senior management and marketing experience in high technology with extensive interaction in Japan. Barry is one of the industry's leading authorities on OLEDs, has authored all of DisplaySearch's OLED reports and has visited all OLED manufacturers worldwide.
		Jingyi Zhang State University of New York at Binghamton Jingyi Zhang received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2004, the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, US, in 2006, and is currently working toward the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, US. From May 2006 to Jan. 2007, she was with the enterprise network group in Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA. She is currently working on design techniques for flexible electronics, low-power bus encoding techniques and System on Chip design for cognitive computing.
		Alexei Zherebov Senior research scientist, Institute of Physics of Molecules and Crystals of Ufa Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Zherebov received his PhD in Electrophysics from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He is working as a senior research scientist in the Polymer Physics Laboratory of the Institute of Physics of Molecules and Crystals of Russian Academy of Sciences in Ufa. The main field of interest includes electronic instabilities in thin films of functional conductive polymers and their applications, particularly in various kinds of switches and sensors.
		Rosalie Zobel Director of 'Components and Systems', Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission Rosalie Zobel received a bachelor's degree in physics from Nottingham University, UK, and a PhD in radiation physics from London University. She started her career in the IT industry with ICL in 1967, and later held positions in CERN, Switzerland, the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, UK, and the Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany. In 1981 she joined AT&T in the USA where she held positions as senior marketing manager for open systems software both for the USA and international markets, and was responsible from 1983-1986 for the international UNIX business. In 1986 she became senior marketing manager for information technology products in AT&T Japan. In 1988 she was appointed Deputy Head of Unit of the European Community's ESPRIT Business Systems unit. In 1991 she launched the initiative in Open Microprocessor systems. From 1995 she was the Head of unit 'Business systems, multimedia and microprocessor applications', and EU-coordinator of the G7 Pilot Project 'Global Marketplace for SMEs'. From 1999-2002 she was Director of 'New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce'. Since 2003 she has been Director of 'Components and Systems' in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission.
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