Professor Bazan obtained his B.Sc. (Honors) from the University of Ottawa and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the advisement of Professor Richard R. Schrock. After working at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow with advisor Professor John E. Bercaw, he started his academic career at the University of Rochester in 1992. In 1998, Gui became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A year later he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials (Engineering) and in June 2000, he became the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids. In 2020, he joined the National University of Singapore as the Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He also holds appointments at the Department of Pharmacology in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), and the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM). In 2024 he became the Director of the Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS) based at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Beatriz Noheda is Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where she chairs the Solid State Materials for Electronics (SSME) group. In 2017, she led the start of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron), of which she has been director until 2025.Her team develops materials for future electronics, with focus on ferroelectric, piezoelectric, multiferroic and memristive oxides. The aim is to achieve atomic control of the materials in order to create new functionalities at the nanoscale, as the basis for novel memory and logic devices. This includes new hardware for ultra-efficient, brain-inspired, computer architectures (goal of the research center CogniGron).Noheda received her PhD in Physics in 1996 from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid (UAM), where she also worked aspart-time lecturer. She performed postdoctoral stays in the labs of Prof. Mike Glazer (Clarendon Lab, Oxford) and Drs. Gen Shirane and Dave Cox (Brookhaven National Lab, BNL, NY). In 1999, she earned a tenure-track Assistant Physicist position at BNL (1999-2002). After a short but inspiring period at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (2002-2003), Noheda was awarded a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship to start her own research line as assistant professor at the University of Groningen, where she is now full professor.Noheda is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the prestigious IEEE- Robert E. Newnham Ferroelectrics Award. She has served as member of numerous national and international committees and several editorial boards (including the BORE of Science magazine). She has been responsible (as first, last or corresponding author) of several high-impact papers and her work has been cited over 15 thousand times.

Dr. Bipasa Kar is a postdoctoral researcher and biologist at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (JMU), specifically in the Department of Bioinformatics at the Biocenter. She holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology and focuses her research on host-pathogen interactions, antimicrobial inhibitors, and cell biology

John Warner is a chemist, inventor, educator, and entrepreneur widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of green chemistry. With Paul Anastas, he coauthored the 1998 book Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, which defined the field and introduced the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. Warner earned his B.Sc. from the University of Massachusetts Boston and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University.As an industrial chemist and inventor, Warner holds more than 350 patents and has collaborated with hundreds of companies worldwide to develop safer and more sustainable technologies. His inventions have led to the founding of multiple companies in areas including photovoltaics, neurochemistry, construction materials, water harvesting, and cosmetics.In academia, Warner served as a tenured full professor of chemistry and plastics engineering at the University of Massachusetts, where he founded the world’s first Ph.D. program in Green Chemistry in 2001. He has authored more than 120 scientific publications spanning synthetic methodologies, polymer photochemistry, noncovalent derivatization, and metal oxide semiconductors.Warner cofounded the nonprofit Beyond Benign with Amy Cannon to advance green chemistry education globally and currently serves as CEO and CTO of Technology Greenhouse, supporting innovation in sustainable technologies.

Professor Aaron Marshall is an electrochemist in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury, specialising in industrial electrochemistry, energy technologies, and hydrogen systems. 

Catherine is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Massey University. She is a physical chemist with expertise in colloid and surface chemistry. Catherine uses nanomaterials to modify the chemistry of drop and bubble surfaces. This strategy enables her to control the structure, stability and flow of soft materials.

Dr. Sofiane Guessasma is a Senior Research Scientist at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), France, and a By-Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on advancing engineering processes through the integration of materials science, mechanics, and computational modelling. His work aims to understand and predict the behaviour of materials and structures across multiple scales, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between microstructure, processing, and performance.