Discover the speakers for this year's RAMS event. Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Professor Matthew Rosseinsky OBE FRS obtained a degree and a D. Phil in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1990. He was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories then in 1992 was appointed University Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In 1999 he moved to the University of Liverpool as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008. He has received many international awards, most recently the Basolo Medal of the American Chemical Society Chicago Section in 2022 and the 2024 George B. Kistiakowsky Prize Lecture at Harvard University. He was awarded the OBE in 2024 for services to materials chemistry research and innovation.He received the 2023 Eni Energy Frontiers Award for the digital design and discovery of next generation energy materials from the President of Italy. In 2025, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society by the King for “pioneering contributions to the design and discovery of materials, changing our understanding of synthesis to create function with digital tools”. Professor Michael Xianfeng Chen Professor Chen’s research focuses on biomaterials, biomedical engineering, biophysics, and the application of nanomaterials in biology and medicine. His work develops physical and chemical approaches for drug delivery, biosensing and biomedical microdevices, including microneedle and nanoneedle arrays, functional nanomaterials, and microfluidic platforms for healthcare applications. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Chemical Society Reviews. His publications have received more than 10,000 citations and an h-index of 62. He has also contributed three book chapters, holds 12 granted patents, and has 15 patent applications in drug delivery technologies, mainly in the USA and Europe. Professor Chen’s research has been supported by major funders including the MRC, EPSRC, Cancer Research UK, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, ESRC, and industrial partners. His work has contributed to several important technologies, including microneedle-based transdermal delivery systems for skin vaccination, diamond nanoneedle arrays for high-throughput intracellular delivery, and programmable optical window bonding for high-resolution 3D-printed microfluidic devices. He also contributed widely to the scientific community as a reviewer for leading journals and funding bodies. He serves as an Associate Editor of IET Nanobiotechnology and as an editorial board member of Sensors, Bioengineering, and the Journal of Functional Biomaterials.For more information, visit https://eng.ed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-michael-xianfeng-chen Professor Neil Robertson Professor of Molecular Materials, University of Edinburgh Professor Rahul Raveendran Nair Professor of Materials Physics, The University of Manchester This article was published on 2026-06-01
