7th International Caparica Symposium on Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials & Applications 2026

25th – 29th January 2026 | Caparica | Portugal

Plenary / Keynote Speakers

Luis Liz Marzan, PhD

Ikerbasque Professor at CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Professor at Cinbio, Universidade de Vigo (Spain)

Tailoring Chirality in Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Elvira Fortunato, PhD

Department of Material Science, CENIMAT, NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)

Salvador Pané Vidal, PhD

Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

Microrobots: Towards Clinical Applications

Alberto Escarpa, PhD

Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)

Micromotors for smart analytical biosensing

Ramon Martinez Mañez, PhD

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia (Spain)

New insights into the use of nanoparticles in biomedical applications

José Paulo Barbosa Mota, PhD

NOVA FCT – REQUIMTE LAQV- NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)

Snag Hoon Joo, PhD

Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Designing Nanocatalysts that Can Break the Scaling Relationship

Hoi Ri Moon, PhD

Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Designing Confined Nanospaces for Advancing Carbon Neutrality

Sergio Gómez, PhD

CINBIO, University of Vigo, Faculty of Chemistry (Spain)

Chiral Gold Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Refractive Index Sensing

Marcela Segundo, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, University of Porto, Faculty of Pharmacy (Portugal)

João A. V. Prior, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, University of Porto, Faculty of Pharmacy (Portugal)

Sara Pellegrino, PhD

Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Italy)

Zhifeng Huang, PhD

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Silvia Marquesan, PhD

Università degli Studi di Trieste | University of Trieste (Italy)

New opportunities at the nanoscale from nanocontainers and short peptides

Masazumi Fujiwara, PhD

Okayama University (Japan)

Periklis Pantazis, PhD

Imperial College London, London (UK)

Mohd Zaidi, PhD

University of Pantnagar Uttarakhand, (India)

Mahesh Kumar, PhD

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (India)

Philiswa Nonmgongo, PhD

Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, (South Africa)

Sebastian Tanco, PhD

University Autonomous of Barcelona, IBB (Spain)

Ying-Jan Wang, PhD

National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)