Conference Organizers

Prof. Roberto C. Gallo-Villanueva

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Dr. Roberto Gallo graduated with honors from the Chemical Engineering with Minor in Industrial Engineering program from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in May 2005. He then joined the Polymer Research Center (Centro de Investigación en Polímeros – CIP) of COMEX Group, as an Administrative Assistant, until December 2017. Later, he obtained his PhD. in Engineering Sciences, Specialty in Biotechnology, from Tecnologico de Monterrey in 2012, after spending a one-year research stay at the Bioelectromechanical Systems Laboratory at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in the United States of America. In 2012, Dr. Roberto Gallo joined the Nanosensors and Devices Research Group from the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, in Mexico. His research area has focused on electrokinetic forces in microfluidics for biological and biomedical applications (LOC, POC, BioMEMS devices). Using electric fields, he has been able to manipulate fluids and particles inside microchannels for different purposes. His work involves biological samples, including plasmidic DNA, microalgae, mammalian cancer cells, TIC’s, proteins, exosomes, among others. Micro and nanofabrication processes, exploring materials for sensing applications, have also been areas of interest for Dr. Roberto Gallo. His work has been published in local and international scientific journals, as well as presented in prestigious local and international conferences. He is a member of CONACYT’s National Researchers System (SNI) as Level 1 since 2014.

Prof. Marc Madou

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Distinguished Professor Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.

Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCI, Ca, USA

Before joining Tec de Monterrey, Dr. Madou was a Distinguished Professor at UCI in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEA), earlier, Dr. Madou was VP of Advanced Technology at Nanogen, in San Diego. Madou is also the founder of SRI International’s Microsensor Department, founder and President of Teknekron Sensor Development Corporation (TSDC), Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley and Endowed Chair at the Ohio State University (Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering). He specializes in the application of miniaturization technology to chemical and biological problems (BIO-MEMS). He is the author of several books in this burgeoning field he helped pioneer both in Academia and in Industry. “Fundamentals of Microfabrication,” an introduction to MEMS and NEMS, has become known as the “bible” of micromachining. He founded several micromachining companies and has been on the board of many more. Several of his students became well known in academia and through successful MEMS start-ups.

Dr. Madou has an h-index of 94 and he is considered the pioneer of two research fields that are now being pursued worldwide i.e., Carbon Micro- and Nanofabrication (C-MEMS and C-NEMS) and Compact Disc Fluidics (CD-Fluidics) for Molecular Diagnostics. These two technologies have resulted in several start-up companies worldwide. From those founded by Dr. Madou, Enevate, a lithium- ion battery company in Irvine, CA) is the largest and best known (https://www.enevate.com/).

Dr. Masoud Madadelahi

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Dr. Masoud Madadelahi has a background in design, fabrication, and testing of electrified lab-on-a-chip and lab-on-a-disk devices for different purposes like DNA amplification, cell separation, cell encapsulation, and the integration of different unit operations. During his research career, he went to the Technical University of Delft (TUD) in the Netherlands and worked on Micro and Nanofluidic systems focused on hollow Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) cantilevers. His research has been published in prestigious journals and has been awarded national and international awards and grants. He is currently a research professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico). He is also collaborating with international Startups and companies to commercialize microfluidic devices.

MsC Angel M. Villalba-Rodríguez

Congress Coordinator

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