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Lars Samuelson is since 1988 Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInst) of the UK, Fellow of the American Physical Society, APS (Materials Physics), and Int. Fellow of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, JSAP. In 2022 he was given the top award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the "Great Gold Medal".  His research is focused on nanoscale materials physics, with a special focus on epitaxial growth, optical properties and on potential applications in optoelectronics. Beside the academic research he also has strong engagements as Chief Scientists in high-tech companies such as Glo AB and Hexagem AB. Samuelson  has given >300 plenary/invited talks at international conferences and workshops.

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Javier García de Abajo received his PhD from the University of the Basque Country (1993) and then visited Berkeley National Lab for three years. He was a Research Professor at the Spanish CSIC and in 2013 moved to ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (Barcelona) as an ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. García de Abajo has co-authored 400+ articles cited 57,000+ times with an h index of 115 (May 2023 google scholar data), including contributions on different aspects of surface science, nanophotonics, and electron microscope spectroscopies.

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Yuri Kivshar received PhD degree in 1984 in Kharkov (Ukraine). After taking some positions in the US and Europe, he moved to Australia where he established Nonlinear Physics Center at the Australian National University. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 2002, and also Fellow of Optica (former OSA), APS, SPIE, and IOP. He received many recognitions for his research including more recently 2022 Max Born Award (Optica).

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C.T. Chan received his PhD degree from the UC Berkeley in 1985. He is currently serving as the Associate Vice-President for Research & Development at HKUST. He is also concurrently the Daniel C K Yu Professor of Science, Chair Professor of Physics, and the Director of Research Office of HKUST. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Physical Society of Hong Kong and a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.