Mónica Lira-Cantú is a Full Professor and Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests are the synthesis and application of nanostructured materials for emerging solar cells like dye-sensitized, hybrid, organic and perovskite solar cells and the integration of different types of energy technologies for self-power electronics and the production of green energy. She has more than 125 publications, including 110 published articles in scientific journals, one book, 10 book chapters, and nine patents. She is a reviewer for more than 30 scientific organizations and more than 50 scientific journals. She worked as a staff chemist for ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (USA), a visiting professor at EPFL (Switzerland) and a visiting scientist at the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation (Japan), Oslo University (Norway), and the Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (Denmark). She is also a panel member of the ERC Advanced Grant PE11 since 2021 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Cannon Foundation in Europe.

Ahmad Kirmani is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA, where he leads a diverse research group dedicated to advancing printable semiconductors for extreme environments, including outer space. He joined RIT in 2023 after completing postdoctoral research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with a PhD from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Dr. Kirmani has published over 60 research articles, authored over 10 popular science articles for the Materials Research Society, and delivered over 10 invited talks. While at NREL, he carried out foundational research on radiation effects in metal-halide perovskite semiconductors. His notable contributions include leading a consensus article on radiation testing protocols for perovskite solar cells, developing ultralight barrier layers for space photovoltaics, and demonstrating perovskites' potential to self-heal and recover following radiation exposure. He has also organized symposia on extreme-tolerant energy and electronics materials at Materials Research Society meetings. Dr. Kirmani serves as the technical lead for RIT at the Advanced Space Power Materials and Architectures (ASTROMAT) center—a $10 million initiative funded by the United States Space Force to advance next-generation space power technologies.

Prof. Liuyang Zhang earned her B.S. in materials science and engineering in 2012 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She completed her Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2016, followed by a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at NUS. In 2021, she joined China University of Geosciences as a Full Professor. Before her current position, she was an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing at Wuhan University of Technology for five years. She has published over 100 papers with over 11000 citations (H-index 69) and is among the Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (2022). She is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2023). Her research interests are primarily centered around material design for solar fuel generation and electrochemical energy storage.

Valeria Nicolosi holds the position of Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy at the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin. She is a distinguished nanotechnologist whose expertise lies in the realm of low-dimensional nanostructures and high-end electron microscopy. In 2001, she earned her BSc in Chemistry from the University of Catania, followed by a PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 2006. She moved to the University of Oxford in February 2008 as a Marie Curie Fellow. In April 2008 she was awarded with a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Fellowship. In 2012 she returned to TCD as Research Professor. In 2016 she was promoted to Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy. She is the first woman to have reached the position of Chair in the School of Chemistry since the foundation of TCD in 1592. She is a Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland funded research centres AMBER (The National Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) and IForm (The National Centre for additive manufacturing). In 2019, Prof. Nicolosi was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy, further solidifying her standing in the academic community. Prof. Nicolosi's research encompasses the synthesis, exfoliation, and characterization of two-dimensional materials, with a specific emphasis on applications in energy storage. She actively employs advanced electron microscopy techniques, including aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), to investigate material properties, and correlate these to devices performance.

Xingbin Yan is a Professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University in China. He gained his B.S. and Ph.D. in Department of Chemistry, Shan Dong University and Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively. After post-doctoral work at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and University of Lyon 1 (France), he joined LICP at 2009 and became the director of the Laboratory of Clean Energy Chemistry and Materials at 2012. In 2021, he joined School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University as a full professor. His main research interests focus on the novel electrode materials and electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage devices, especially supercapacitors and new metal-ion batteries. Up to now, he has published more than 270 SCI papers, and these papers have been totally cited over 15000 times with an H-index of 69. He has received the First Prize of Gansu Natural Science Award (2019), the Second Prize of National Technological Invention Award (2016), the First Prize of Gansu Technological Invention Award (2015), the Youth Day Award of Gansu Province (2015) and the Outstanding Tutor Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020).