Invited Speakers
 | Robert Hill Queen Mary, University of London London, United Kingdom |
| Professor Robert Hill is Chair of Dental Physical Sciences at the Dental Institute Queen Mary University of London. He is also the Founder and Chief Scientist of BioMin Technologies Ltd. BioMin Technologies produces BioMinF and BioMinC toothpastes based on halogen containing bioactive glasses. He is a Materials Engineer and was formerly Professor of Biomaterials at Imperial College. Professor Hill has published over 280 papers and 18 patents. He is the winner of numerous awards including the Varshneya Prize of the American Ceramic Society, the Armourers and Brasiers Venture Prize and the Alan Wilson Memorial Prize. | |
 | Klaus D. Jandt Friedrich Schiller University Jena Jena, Germany |
| Professor Klaus D. Jandt is the incumbent Chair of Materials Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and a senior scientist. His research areas include Materials Science, Biomaterials, Antimicrobial Materials, Protein Adsorption, Functional Polymers and Nanomaterials. Dr. Jandt studied physics at Hamburg University and subsequently joined PHILIPS Components in Hamburg where we worked as product developing engineer in semiconductor development. He then moved to Hamburg University of Technology where he earned his PhD in Materials Science-Physics in 1993, spent two years as a Feodor Lynen research fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ivy-League Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, and five years as a faculty member at the University of Bristol, UK before accepting a Chair and full professorship at Jena, Germany in 2001. In 2008 he was bestowed the title Fellow of the Academy of Dental Materials, USA (FADM). He is member of several Q1 Journal editorial boards including Dental Materials. | |
 | Jacques Lalevée Université de Haute-Alsace Mullhouse, France |
| Jacques Lalevée, PhD, is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse (France) and Distinguished scientist, member of the Institut Universitaire de France IUF - (Paris). His research interests are focused on the design of efficient systems for photopolymerization processes. He has co-authored about 417 international peer-reviewed publications, (co)authored three books (e.g. Fouassier, J.P.; Lalevée, J.; Photoinitiators for Polymer Synthesis: Scope, Reactivity and Efficiency, Wiley-VCH., Weinheim, 2012), 21 patents (15 of them for dental materials) and 12 book chapters. He got different prizes: • Prix Adrerus (2003) – Prize for PHD in the University of Strasbourg & Mulhouse. • First prize for the presentation in the SFC conference in Mulhouse – 2002. • Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2011-) • French Prize from the polymer society (2014) • Guy Ourisson Prize (2013) • Selected by Macromolecules as a highly prolific authors (only 7 nominates in the world): http://journalstars.acs.org/materials-science-engineering/journal/macromolecules | |
 | Daniel Wolf Dewar Sloan Traverse City, MI, United States |
| Daniel Wolf leads the Healthcare Practice of Dewar Sloan, a strategy research and planning firm based in the United States. Throughout his corporate and consulting experience in the Dental Sector, Mr. Wolf has focused on the different vectors of innovation that shape market demand and supply. His teams have contributed to the analysis of global market trends, social and personal determinants of dental health status, product and service development programs, dental informatics, provider/practice management systems and a range of policy matters. Mr. Wolf has a keen interest in the forces of change that shape and reshape markets for specific product and service models. He is the author of two books that examine the strategic leadership of innovation, along with numerous articles and papers on Healthcare Innovation and Strategic Governance. Mr. Wolf holds degrees from Michigan State University. He is a frequent contributor to executive education in Healthcare and Business Administration. | |
| Paffenbarger Award Research Update | |
 | Kangmin Kim University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, United States |
| Kangmin Kim recently received his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder in the summer of 2020. During his graduate research, he used theoretical and experimental techniques to understand polymerization mechanisms and to design new molecules, leading to the development of novel polymerization methods. His most notable invention is visible light dark-curing photoinitiator. At ADM, he will be discussing this invention in more details. Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Living Ink Technologies where he is developing the next-generation of inks and coatings with algae-based sustainable pigments. | |
| Marshall Award Research Update | |
 | Andrei Cristian Ionescu University of Milan Milan, Italy |
| Andrei Cristian Ionescu graduated with top marks in Dentistry at the University of Milan, Italy, in 2008 and he obtained his Ph.D. in Nanotechnologies at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2015. He is a Post-doc at the University of Milan, since 2016, and Adjunct professor of Restorative Dentistry since 2019. From 2005 he is working at the Oral Microbiology Laboratory, University of Milan, where he is research coordinator starting from 2013. His main research interests are focused on the mutual interactions between oral biofilms and dental materials. He received the Marshall Award and the Paffenbarger Award of the ADM, and he won the Robert Frank Award and the Travel Award of the Continental European Division of the IADR. He is Guest member of the CED-IADR board, having initiated and lead the Young-CED-IADR group since 2017. He has published 42 papers, one book and a patent. |
