Mihaela Roxana Cimpan, PhD, Professor, is the head of the Biomaterials Cluster and of the NanoSafety & NanoMedicine group at the Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen (UiB). Professor Cimpan’s research activity encompasses nanosafety, nanotoxicity, nanomedicine, and biocompatibility testing of biomaterials used in medicine and dentistry with a special focus on the development of New Approach Methodologies for hazard and risk assessment of nanomaterials and advanced (bio)materials. The final aim is to contribute to the development of Safe(r) and Sustainable nano- and advanced (bio)materials. Prof. Cimpan has established Nanotoxicology & NanoSafety as a research field at UiB. Cimpan was a member of the…

Ivan Rios Mondragon holds a degree in Biotechnology Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and a MSc. in Molecular Bioengineering from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, focusing on intercellular communication in healthy and diseased tissues, utilizing micro- and nanotechnology. His work involves organ-on-a-chip models and electrochemical methods to assess the therapeutic and toxic potential of nanomaterials. Recently, he has been exploring the application of nanodiamond films for both therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

Oliver Štrbák is a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava. After completing his studies, he worked at several research institutions in both the academic and private sectors, both in Slovakia and abroad. In the past, he received a Marie Curie fellowship, and currently, he leads the Metabolomics Laboratory at the Martin Centre for Biomedicine as part of the Fellowship for Excellent Researchers, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan of Slovakia. In 2016, he was awarded the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) Prize for research in the field of magnetic resonance, along with his colleagues. His long-term scientific interests also include magnetic nanoparticles and their use in …