Dr Scott Martyn BSc(Hons), BE(Hons), DPhil, MIEAust, MIET completed undergraduate degrees in both pharmacology as well as electrical & electronic engineering at The University of Western Australia. This was followed by postgraduate research at the University of Oxford where he investigated the electrospray of nanoparticles and proteins for applications in biotechnology and nanotechnology.

He then spent a year developing point-of-care monitoring devices for Philips Research Laboratories in the United Kingdom before returning to Western Australia.

Scott is now studying medicine at The University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. He also provides research and development consultancy and has recently assisted the Centre for Strategic Nanofabrication at UWA to develop a technology implementation plan with an industry partner.

Matthew (PhD Deakin University, MEng (research) Deakin University, member IEEE, fellow Engineers Australia, member Mensa) began his career with Industrial Control Technology designing control systems to automate various different industrial processes.

For 5 years he designed microprocessor based control systems for companies such as Ford, Pilkington Glass, Webtek and Blue Circle Southern Cement. He then moved to Deakin University and wrote their first electronics units. Using his industrial experience he designed one of the first Australian Engineering degrees in Mechatronics that still runs at Deakin as Mechatronics and Robotics.

He currently lectures units in digital electronics, microcontrollers, robotics and artificial intelligence after 19 years at Deakin. His research in robotics is centered on the control of nano robots. Examining how nanobots will operate in swarms and how they will communicate. His interest in underwater robotics matches the view that many nanobots will operate in fluids. His general research areas of interest are; nano and swarm robotics, surface and underwater robotics, industrial control and haptics.

Tito is a multifaceted Professional Engineer with experience and qualifications in manufacturing, service and marketing industries for international and local companies. His overseas experience has been with state of the art manufacturing facilities, product engineering research projects and transferring technology for Global Automotive Companies. In Australia he was a Company Director for Eco Dry Wash Pty. Ltd. and Air 4 Life Pty. Ltd.; and currently is a Director of Bridge Engineering Holdings Pty. Ltd. and TCP Management Pty. Ltd.

Tito's key competencies are organisational improvement, project management; technology application, service operations and value added management.

Tito's professional career has been built on substantial credentials such as Master in Engineering & Technology Management and Master in Business Administration in addition to a number of international qualifications in design and technology transfer. Tito is also a Fellow Chartered Professional Engineer from the Institute of Engineers Australia (EA) and currently chairs its National Committee on Nano-Engineering National Committee and represents EA in the Australian Standards' National Committee for the creation of the ISO 21500 - Project Management Guidelines.

Prof Tan (B.E. Melb 1992, PhD ANU 1997) is a Senior Fellow at the Australian National University. His research area covers both fundamental and applied aspects of compound semiconductors, particularly in the area of the growth of nanostructures for novel device applications and ion implantation of semiconductors for optoelectronic applications.

He has published over 200 journal papers and is the joint-holder of 4 US patents.

His main current research topic is in semiconductor nanowires for applications in solar cells, sensors and novel optoelectronic devices.

Prof Tan is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Chair of the ACT Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society and Electron Devices Society.

Allira is a registered patent attorney at Shelston IP, working primarily in the area of patents and industrial designs.

She specialises in drafting patent specifications, examination and prosecution of applications, conducting technology searches and watches, providing advice on validity and infringement, and handling opposition proceedings and disputes.

Allira's areas of technical experience include a wide range of mechatronic and biomedical technologies. Prior to joining the patent profession, Allira worked as a consultant engineer for a leading building services engineering firm where she gained considerable experience in energy efficiency of buildings. In addition, Allira has had significant practical involvement in the biomedical field through her research into implantable hearing devices.

Allira holds a MBiomedE from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, a BE (Hons I) (Mechatronic) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and an MIP University of Technology, Sydney

Allira is affliated with the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust), the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA), Intellectural Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ).

Prof Yinong Liu is a Winthrop Professor of Materials Engineering and currently the Head of the School Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Australia.

He obtained his PhD from the same university in 1991 and completed France-Australia Reciprocal Postdoctoral research in Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France in 1993. He was then appointed lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor at the University of Western Australia.

During this period he has also been appointed guest professor and adjunct professor in a number of foreign universities, including Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Tsukuba, Université Joséph Fourier and Harbin Engineering University. He currently leads the Laboratory for Functional Materials at UWA. He also serves on international advisory committees for a number international conferences.

His current research activities are in the fields of shape memory alloys, SiNx thin films, nanoparticulate materials, magnetic and magnetoelastic materials, metallic nanowires, micro-nano carbon spherules and nano and mesoporous materials. These materials have wide range applications in catalysis, gas sensing, photosynthesis, for energy conversion and storage, to name a few.

Professor John Bell has an honours degree (Sydney) and PhD (1986) in theoretical physics, but since his PhD has worked for nearly 25 years on thin film materials, leading significant research on materials for energy efficiency in buildings, solar cells, sensors and hard coatings.

He joined QUT in 1994 (from UTS), and since joining he has been a Program Leader in the Australian CRC for Renewable Energy (1996-2001) and the CRC for Construction Innovation (2002-2004), focusing on the impacts of energy efficient technology in buildings.

He was NSW Branch Chairman of the Australian Institute of Physics in 1994, and has served on the Board of the Sustainable Energy Industry Association (1999-2002), including serving as the Queensland Branch Chair in 2003, and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (2003), and the IEAust Task Force on Energy in Construction. He was invited to become a fellow of Engineers Australia in 2000, and is currently a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee on Nanoengineering. He is also a Board Member for the Australian Nanotechnology Alliance.

He was a member of the Energex earthsChoice (greenpower) Advisory Panel and has significant experience working with industry.

John was awarded a Queensland Government Smart Futures Fellowship in 2009 and is currently active in two Smart Futures National and International Research Alliance Program projects; also currently holding an ARC Linkage Grant.

John has published over 94 refereed journal papers and 85 refereed conference papers across a wide range of areas, including physics, materials, chemistry, engineering and architecture. John has secured in excess of $19 million in research funding over his career, including $6.7 million in the past five years.

John has had 11 years senior management experience at QUT as an Assistant Dean and Centre Director.

A/Prof Darren Martin [BSc(hons), PhD] is a Materials Scientist and Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

He has lectured engineering students in first year engineering (physics and engineering of materials) and biomaterials subjects during the last 13 years.

He has an excellent track record of research, innovation, industry consulting and commercialisation in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) systems, biomaterials, nanomaterials, polymer nanocomposites and nanotoxicology. He has published over 70 journal papers and book chapters, over 80 conference abstracts, two patents and one provisional patent in these areas.

Darren is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, and an active member of The Centre for High Performance Polymers. Most recently, he has been appointed Chief Scientific Officer for the TensasiTech Pty Ltd startup, winning the iLab prize in the 2007 QLD Enterprise Competition and is actively involved in commercialising this technology for both medical and non-medical applications ranging from golf ball covers to mining screens and implantable medical device components.

Joe Shapter was educated in Canada and in 1996 moved to Flinders University. He is now the deputy director of the South Australian node of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility (AMMRF).

In research, his group is working generally in the area of nanotechnology using various techniques to examine material on the micron or nanometer scale.

Prof Shapter and his group builds phospholipid bilayers on substrates such as mica and uses physical techniques to examine properties and dynamics on the micron scale. Another active area of research for this dynamic group includes working with chemical attachment of carbon nanotubes to surfaces with both patterned and unpatterned approaches.

Professor Peter Gray was appointed inaugural director of the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland in August 2003.

Professor Gray was Director of the Bioengineering Centre and Professor of Biotechnology at the University of New South Wales and was Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He has held academic positions at the University College of London and at the University of California, Berkeley. He is internationally recognised for his work on the expression and production of complex proteins in mammalian cell cultures.

Professor Gray has had commercial experience in the USA working for Eli Lilly and Co and Cetus Corporation.

Professor Gray was one of the founders and a past president of the Australian Biotechnology Association (Ausbiotech) and is regularly called upon as an expert witness in biotechnology patent cases.

Professor Gray is consultant to a wide range of national and international companies and government organisations in the areas of; biotechnology; biopharmaceutical production; bioprocessing of primary and secondary metabolites; bioengineering of cell cultures, and in the technical and economic assessment of projects.

Prof Jugdutt (Jack) Singh is a Research Professor Microtechnology / Nanoelectronics) at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Professor Singh has been involved in research, education and industry development projects of national/international significance for number of years including Australian Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre projects, One-Chip Radio Project, Smart Sensor Project, Radio Telescope SKA project, Advanced Automotive Technology Cooperative Research Centre, Chipskills project, National Networked TeleTest facility, and more. His research focus is in wireless, smart sensors, RF/Analogue, embedded technologies and ICT.

Prof Singh is the Director - Centre for Technology Infusion at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. The Centre for Technology Infusion is a University-based research and product realisation centre, which facilitates the development and transfer of industrial technology, research, IP, design services and industrial products to the community, thus fostering industry development.

He is a board/committee member on number professional organisations and has established research and education collaboration/alliance with number of universities, research organisations and companies involved in micro/nanotechnologies in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.