"OpenReadings 2017" which took place from 14 to 17 March 2017 in Vilnius is an international academic platform for students and young researchers from all over the world to present their on-going research results and practices in the fields of Physics and Natural Sciences.

Conference participants

Among the invited scientists was Bernard Lucas “Ben” Feringa – laureate of 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – synthetic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. Ben Feringa holds over 30 patents and has published over 750 peer reviewed research papers to date, cited more than 40 000 times and has an h-index in excess of 101. He has guided over 100 PhD-students over his career.

In addition, there were such well-known scientists as Jonathan Richard Ellis (Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London, working at CERN), Philip Russell (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Light Science), Michael Grätzel (Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology), Robin Lovell-Badge is the head of the stem cell biology laboratory and the developing genetics of the Francis Crick Institute of the United Kingdom, Naomi J. Halas is an innovator of nanotechnology at the University of Rice USA, Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang is an internationally recognized scientist and leader in THz science and technology.

Lecture of the Nobel Prize laureate Ben Fering

The post-graduate student of the Department of Applied Ecology, Technology of Polymers and Chemical Fibers Maksym Koliada took part in the conference presenting the poster entitled "Starch-based biodegradable films by affected by collagen derivatives incorporation".

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