Invited lecturers
Boris Galabov, Professor, PhD, DSc, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
e-mail: galabov@chem.uni-sofia.bg
Application of spectroscopic and theoretical methods in elucidating reaction mechanisms

Ivan Panaiotov, Professor, PhD, DSc, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia e-mail: ipanaiotov@chem.uni-sofia.bg
Behaviour of nanozised drug carriers at model interfaces

Klaus Friedrich, Professor, Dr., Institute for Composite Materials (IVW), Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
e-mail: friedrich@ivw.uni-kl.de
From solid-state postcondensation of neat polymers to mutifunctional nanofibrillar polymer composites: a tribute to Professor Stoyko Fakirov on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Manfred Stamm, Professor, Dr. rer. nat., Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e.V., and Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
e-mail: stamm@ipfdd.de
Polymers for high-energy-density batteries

Stergios Pispas, Professor, Dr., Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, Athens,Greece
e-mail: pispas@eie.gr
Chimeric nanostructures from amphiphilic block copolymers via co-assembly

Tony Spassov, Professor, PhD, DSc, Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
e-mail: tspassov@chem.uni-sofia.bg
Micro- and nanoporous metals by dealloying of glasses

Vassya Bankova, Professor, PhD, DSc, Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences
e-mail: bankova@orgchm.bas.bg
Propolis chemistry: a look inside the beehive and beyond

Vera I. Slaveykova, Professor, PhD, Institute F.A. Forel, University of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland
e-mail: vera.slaveykova@unige.ch
Small particles – large implications?: what aquatic microorganisms tell us about environmental impact of engineered nanomaterials

Yoshihito Osada, Professor, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan
e-mail: osadayoshi@riken.jp

Intelligent gels: approaches to artificial soft tissue

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