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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.

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Public Meeting Presentations

MARCH 6, 2024

Branden Brough, Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO)

Quinn Spadola, Deputy Director, NNCO

JUNE 6, 2024

Marina Dobrovolskaia, Co-Director, Director of Operations, and Head of the Immunology Section, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Jim Ciston, Deputy Director, The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jeff Nelson, Director, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ilke Arslan, Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

David Gottfried, Principal Investigator, Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Judy Cha, Director, Cornell Nanoscale Facility

Vinayak Dravid, Founding Director, Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental Resource, Northwestern University

Debbie Senesky, Site Director, nano@stanford, Stanford University

Jelena Vučković, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.

Ania Bleszynski Jayich, Professor and Co-Director, National Science Foundation Quantum Foundry, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jonathan (Joff) Silberg, Professor of BioSciences, Rice University

Jason C. White, Director, Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station

Peter Vikesland, Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Virginia Tech

Tyler Myers, Product Marketing Manager, Forge Nano

Rainer Kuemmerle, Managing Director, Bruker BioSpin

JUNE 13, 2024

David Foord, Director of Strategy and Innovation for Materials Science, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Eric Goergen, Strategy and Innovation Manager for Materials Science, Thermo Fisher Scientific

JUNE 20, 2024

Victor Zhirnov, Chief Scientist, Semiconductor Research Corporation

JUNE 27, 2024

Christian Binek, Director, Nebraska Nanoscale Facility

JULY 18, 2024

Robert J. Pohorenec, President, JEOL USA

JULY 25, 2024

Trevor Thornton, Site Director, Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest, Arizona State University

Gabriel Montaño, Director, Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications, Northern Arizona University

AUGUST 1, 2024

Paul Weiss, Professor and Director, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.

AUGUST 8, 2024

Joe Baio, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Karl Bohringer, Professor and Site Director, Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure, University of Washington

AUGUST 22, 2024

Osama Awadelkarim, Professor and UNESCO Chair, Director, Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU), Pennsylvania State University

Zachary Gray, Managing Director, CNEU

Rick Vaughn, Faculty Chair-STEM, Rio Salado College

Robert Lavelle, Student, CNEU

AUGUST 29, 2024

Kevin Walsh, Overall Site Director, Kentucky Multi-Scale Manufacturing and Nano Integration Node and Deans Office (ECE), University of Louisville

Todd Hastings, UK Director and Cores Lead, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

Ana Galiano, Program Manager, University of Louisville Engineering

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Kei Koizumi, Principal Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Sherine Obare, Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, Professor, Joint School of Nanoscience and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Shyam Aravamudhan, Director, Joint School of Nanoscience and Engineering’s Institute for Research Technologies, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

Thomas Searles, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago

Paul Braun, Director, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Doug Natelson, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, and Associate Dean for Research, Rice University

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.

Franklin Hadley, Director of Outreach and Communications, Institute for Soldier Technologies (a University Affiliated Army Research Center), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Luke Baldwin, Chemist, Air Force Research Laboratory

Carrie Huguenin, Associate Group Leader, Microelectronics Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Paula Hammond, Institute Professor, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Member, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, MIT; Member, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Liesl Folks, Director for Semiconductor Strategy and Professor, University of Arizona

Wei Chen, Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design, Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

Emmanuel Akala, Professor of Pharmaceutics, Howard University

Stephan Wilhelm, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Virtual Town Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Robert Langer, Institute Professor, MIT

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Marc Segers, Head of Product Innovation, AIP Publishing

Alison Hatt, Energy Sciences Communications Lead, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Public Meeting Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29063.
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