First International STIMULUS Conference
28-29 September 2023, Darmstadt (Germany)

Welcome
to the First International STIMULUS Conference on
Smart antimicrobial & Sensing materials
The conference will host international speakers in both academia and industry, discussing current research trends in functional soft matter, antimicrobials & drug delivery, sensing & analytics, clinical studies for wound care and related topics.
The STIMULUS project works in a multidisciplinary team connecting research, medicine and industry towards new wound care concepts.
Guest speakers
Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil
Director of Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Germany)
Dr. Chinga-Carrasco
Senior Scientist of Biopolymers & Biocomposites at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE PFI)
Dr. Abid Ali Khan
Flow Cytometry Application Specialist at Sysmex Partec GmbH (Germany)
Dr. Roberto
de la Rica Quesada
Multidisciplinary Sepsis Group - Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa)
Dr. Andrey Klymchenko
Head of Research - Nanochemistry & Bioimaging, Laboratory of Biophotonics & Pharmacology (Strasbourg, France)
Karine Roget
Chief Scientific Officer, Nexbiome Therapeutics (France)
Prof. Jan van Hest
Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Prof. Suresh C Pillai
Director, Health and Biomedical Research Centre & Head of Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group, Atlantic Technological University, ATU Sligo, Ireland Executive Editor, the Chemical Engineering Journal, Ireland
Dr. Kai Hilpert
Associate Professor of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London. Dr. Hilpert is specialized in biologically active peptides, especially antimicrobial and anticancer peptides. He is also a founder and director of TiKa Diagnostics Ltd, a spin-out company from SGUL, that focuses on diagnostics of Mycobacteria in humans and animals
Prof. Jeremy Webb
Professor of Microbiology within Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Prof. Gil Garnier
Director of BioPRIA within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University.