Transport Phenomena in Micro- and Nanoscale Functional Materials and Devices

João Bessa Sousa is Emeritus Professor at Department of Physics & Astronomy of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. His teaching and research activities span solid sate & low temperature physics, micro & nanotechnologies, transport phenomena. Degree in Electrotechnical Engineering at Univ. Porto (1957-63) and Ph.D. at Univ. Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory (1965-68; Superconductivity). More than 260 published scientific articles. Awarded with the Order Santiago Espada, one of Portugal highest civil honours; also the Prize for Scientific Excellence by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2005). Effective Member of Portuguese Academy of Sciences. Co-founder and later President of Portuguese Physical Society. Former member of NATO Research Grants Scientific Committee, of Physical Society (London), of Condensed Matter Division of European Physical Society; of Linacre & Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. Co-founder and first President of Institute of Physics of Materials of University of Porto (IFIMUP).João Oliveira Ventura is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), a leading research unit of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal, where he works in nanoelectronics and energy harvesting materials since 2008. His research interests include spintronics and spin-dependent transport, the fundamental properties of nanostructured materials, magnetic nanostructures, nanogenerators, thin film deposition and lithography. He is the author of more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and one granted patent. He is currently the vice-president of IFIMUP and the vice-director of the Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Unit of the University of Porto (CEMUP-MNTEC).André Pereira is an Auxiliar Professor at Department of Physics & Astronomy of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. He did a PhD at University of Porto (2010) then latter was pos-doc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2010-2012) and research associate at Imperial College of London at UK (2013). Actually, his teaching and research are mainly focus in the topics related with nanotechnologies, magnetism and plastic electronics, for applied areas such as energy harvesting, storage and innovative sensors. He has published more than 120 scientific articles in specialized magazines, several chapters on that related topics of research. He is currently president of the Physics Society of the northern division.