The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Administrative Committee Meeting held in Gijon, Spain, on 8 July 2024.
Representatives of the twenty-two IEEE Societies who are Council members gather annually to conduct Council business and elect officers. The positions up for election were: President-elect (2025), VP-elect for Educational Activities, VP-elect for Publications and VP-elect for Technical Activities (3 years, elect 2025; VP 2026-2027), and Member-at-Large (MAL) (up to 3) (2025-2026).
Kremena Makasheva, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratory on Plasma and Conversion of Energy (LAPLACE), Toulouse, France was elected President-elect 2025, Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece was elected VP-elect for Educational Activities, Xiaoning Jiang, North Carolina State University, was elected VP-elect for Publications and Jie Han, University of Alberta, Canada, was elected VP-elect for Technical Activities.
Rafal Sliz, University of Oulu Finland, Shanshan Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China and Antonio di Bartolomeo, University of Salerno, Italy were elected as Members-at-Large (MAL) for 2025-26.
President-elect (2025; President 2026-2027)
Kremena Makasheva, is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratory on Plasma and Conversion of Energy (LAPLACE), Toulouse, France. Dr. Makasheva earned a Ph.D. degree on Plasma Physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria, 2002, for her work on Surface Wave Sustained Discharges. After a 4 year stay in the Groupe de physique des plasmas at Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada she moved in 2007 to Toulouse, France to work in LAPLACE. Since 2009 she works on plasma deposition of nanostructures. Multifunctionality of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is in the heart of her research. In 2015 she and her colleagues proposed AgNPs-based blocking nanocomposite layer to control charge injection and transport in thin dielectrics. Her research activities are directed to study of reactive plasmas, design and study of plasma deposited nanostructured dielectric materials containing AgNPs for biomedical, optical, electrical engineering and space applications. She is the author and co-author of over 120 publications in international journals and conferences.
Her principal Nanotechnology Council activities include: Vice-President for Conferences (2023-2024), General Co-Chair of IEEE NANO 2024 and IEEE NANO 2025, Vice-President for Technical Activities (2020-2021), Program Chair of IEEE NANO 2020, General Co-Chair of IEEE NMDC 2016 and IEEE NMDC 2021. She is the founding Chair of the NTC Mentoring program: from Effectiveness to Durability (MENED 2022-2024).
VP-elect for Educational Activities (3 years, elect 2025; VP 2026-2027)
Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis is the Head (from 2020 till now) of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of DUTH (Democritus University of Thrace) in Greece, Visiting Researcher/Professor in University of West England from 2014 and co-founder and research associate of Ulysses Ltd., Kavala, Greece (1999-2002). Georgios (Google Scholar – h-index: 36, i-index: 122) has published more than 150 journal papers, more than 170 in international conference papers, 15 guest-editorials, 8 international books and 37 books chapters. He has participated as leader and principal investigator in more than 31 scientific programs and projects funded from the Greek Government, Industry, Third Parties and Countries and EU. He was and he is supervisor of 15 Ph.D. theses, 29 M.Sc. theses and 92 M.Eng. Theses. Three of his students have been awarded and one with best IEEE Greek Chapter Diploma Award. He has been involved in more than 142 Conferences (as PC member, Chair, etc.) and delivered 30 invited talks. See http://gsirak.ee.duth.gr.
VP-elect for Publications (3 years, elect 2025; VP 2026-2027)
Xiaoning Jiang is a Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Duke University. Dr. Jiang received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Shanghai Jiaotong University (1990), Tianjin University (1992) and Tsinghua University (1997), respectively. He received his Postdoctoral training from the Nanyang Technological University (1996-1997) and the Pennsylvania State University (1997-2001). He was the Chief Scientist and Vice President at TRS Technologies, Inc. prior to joining NC State in 2009. Dr. Jiang is the author and co-author of two books, 6 book chapters, 14 issued/published US Patents, 140 peer reviewed journal papers and over 120 conference papers. on M/NEMS, piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, ultrasound for medical imaging and therapy, drug delivery, nanoacoustics, ultrasound NDT/NDE, smart materials and structures. Dr. Jiang is a member of the technical program committee for a few international conferences including IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (TPC-5), SPIE Smart Structures and NDE, ASME IMECE, IEEE NANO and IEEE NMDC. He is currently the NanoAcoustics Technical Committee Chair and Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (2020 and 2021). Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of ASME and SPIE.
VP-elect for Technical Activities (3 years, elect 2025; VP 2026-2027)
Dr. Jie Han received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include nanoelectronic circuits and systems, approximate and stochastic computing, reliability and fault tolerance, novel computational models for nanoscale and biological applications. Dr. Han was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2015) and four Best Paper Nominations at international conferences including the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2022). He was nominated for the 2006 Christiaan Huygens Prize of Science by the Royal Dutch Academy of Science. His work was recognized by the 125th anniversary issue of Science, for developing a theory of fault-tolerant nanocircuits (2005).
Members-at-Large (2025-2026)
Antonio di Bartolomeo is a professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and the president of the Physics Education Committee at the University of Salerno, Italy, where he teaches semiconductor device physics and nanoelectronics. His present research interests include optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials; van der Waals heterostructures, Schottky junctions, field-effect transistors, nonvolatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, field emission devices, supercapacitors, and fuel cells. He received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Salerno in 1997, and spent several years in the industry as a semiconductor device engineer (ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technologies, and Intel Corporation). He has authored over 150 publications, two physics textbooks, and two patents. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of IOP Nano Express, the deputy editor-in-chief of IET Micro & Nano Letters, the section editor-in-chief of MDPI Nanomaterials and is an Editorial Board member of several journals.
Shanshan Liu, is a professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. She received the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2018. She was a post-doctoral researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Northeastern University, Boston, USA, from 2018 to 2021, and an assistant professor with the Klipsch School of ECE, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, from 2021 to 2023 (where she was the Co-PI for SCALE: Radiation-Hardening, supported by DoD). She teaches VLSI design and SoC design.
Her research interests include fault-tolerance design in nanocomputing systems, emerging computing, nanoscale VLSI design, and dependable machine learning. Among these topics she has more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed periodicals such as IEEE TCAS-I, TC, TETC, TNANO, INM, and conference proceedings such as ISSCC and VLSI.
Rafal Sliz is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Unit (OPEM) of the University of Oulu, Finland, with his promotion to Associate Professor expected by the end of 2024. His research expertise lies in nanotechnology, focusing on printed electronics and sustainable energy storage systems. Rafal earned his B.Sc. in Electronics from the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. He pursued his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Oulu, where he conducted pioneering research in wireless sensor networks and printed electronics at the OPEM. Throughout his academic career, Rafal has received numerous grants and awards, enabling him to conduct research visits abroad, including the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University (USA), the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (UK), and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sargent Group, University of Toronto (Canada). Rafal has been appointed as a visiting professor at ASU (USA), commencing in October 2024.