Sarmad is a skilled professional in the field of fibres & textiles, with a PhD that underscores a deep understanding coupled with hands-on industry experience. Through a career that bridges both academia and industrial sector, he has collaborated on cutting edge projects, bringing innovation to produce textile products with enhanced aesthetics and performance, reduced cost and with minimum negative impact on our environment. His areas of interest are textile raw materials, Industrial engineering, yarn manufacturing, fabric manufacturing, fabric processing and textile testing & characterisation.

Zaw Htoo (Ethan) Aung bring 27+ years of extensive international experience including 16+ years in the semiconductor manufacturing sector combined with 8 years in senior operational and commercial management and leadership positions across various industries and regions across Asia and Australia. During his 16+ years in the semiconductor manufacturing sector, Ethan has worked in various engineering roles in technology nodes ranging from 280nm to 45nm with Global Foundries in Singapore and Silanna Semiconductor in Australia. His comprehensive skill set in the semiconductor industry encompasses process integration, yield enhancement, new product and process development and introduction, technology transfer, process optimization, failure analysis, test and production management. Ethan experiences include leading and managing complex large-scale new process and product development projects from design layout validation to qualification, test, process fine-tuning, and yield improvement to high-volume manufacturing (HVM). Ethan has held multiple senior executive positions with multinationals and mid-large size companies in Asia.  His management expertise includes leading multi-dimensional operations, growth strategies, business development, managed P&L and corporate finance and led diverse teams. His prior roles include as a CEO, managing a company generating annual revenue of ~USD180 million and over 1,100 employees and as an Asia Geneal Manger role overseeing operations, strategic growth, business development and sales across multiple markets in Asia including Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Ethan holds MBA from University of Newcastle in Australia, MSc in Consumer Electronic from Nanyang Technological University from Singapore, Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business from Emeritus Institute of Management and Bachelor of Engineering from Yangon Technology University in Myanmar.

Associate Professor Blakey is a group leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland. He is a polymer physical chemist with over 20 years of experience leading research projects associated with lithography and nanotechnology applications, including those involving plasma etching, nanopatterning, sequential infiltration synthesis, photoresist design, nanoparticle assembly and surface characterisation/imaging. Many of these projects have been in collaboration with the semiconductor companies such as, Intel, Dow/Dupont and Tokyo Electron.

Victor is an expert in a multidisciplinary domain spanning nanotechnology, polymer manufacturing, surface engineering, micro/nano-systems development and biological systems. He is the Deputy Director and a Technology Ambassador of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (ANFF-Vic), Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University and co-founder and CSO of Proton Intelligence. He is one of the founding research leaders of the Centre to Impact Anti-Microbial Resistance, a CI in the ARC Training Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies (CTET), in the Engineering Biological Models and Systems Node and in the Monash Future Sensing Node. He has developed novel technologies and devices (such as SU-8 based Micro-optical electromechanical systems), he has helped creating novel commercial products (such as resists and polymers commercialised by micro resist technology GmbH), and he has cofounded two micro/nanotechnology-based start-ups.

Anthony is an experienced Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a solid trade background in manufacturing. He started his career as a fitter, turner and CNC machinist and when he acquired his Bachelor degree (Mechanical Engineering) moved to Flinders University working for the Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) and the Fiber Optic Sensing device group. Here he worked on a variety of projects spanning across multiple disciples as a research engineer. Anthony now is the manager of the Flinders University Engineering Services Team (EST), where he manages a group of professional staff that service the College of Sciences and Engineering on engineering research and teaching needs.

Marta has extensive hands-on experience in micro- and nano-fabrication, and research and development industries, particularly quantum technologies. She has worked in the semiconductor/quantum industry for the past 2.5 years. Previously, Marta undertook her PhD studies at UNSW, specialising in nano-electronics. She has a keen interest in project management and product development.

A/Prof Paul Shaw is Deputy Node Director for ANFF-QLD at The University of Queensland and is based within the School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences. He is a director of the Centre of Organic Photonics & Electronics, where he leads multi-disciplinary research programs on organic optoelectronics for applications including solar cells, fluorescence-based chemical sensors and organic light-emitting diodes.

Julia is an experienced marketing and communications professional having represented a variety of brands and industries locally, nationally and internationally. Her role is to share the amazing stories enabled by ANFF-SA's world-class micro and nanofabrication facility and team of experts.

Luke is responsible for purchasing goods, managing the coordination of payments and invoices, organising and overseeing event logistics, and delivering comprehensive, high-level administrative support across various functions.