Zahra Azimi is currently a PhD candidate in the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University. She received her BSc and MSc in Materials at Sharif University of Technology. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as an R&D in a nanotechnology company with focus of self-cleaning and multi-functional coatings. Her research interests are epitaxial growth of III-V materials and characterisation and analysis of semiconductor nanostructures. Her PhD research focuses on the growth of InGaAs nanowires by selective area metal organic vapour phase epitaxy for optoelectronic applications

Jennifer Wong-Leung is currently an honorary associate professor in the department of Electronic Materials Engineering at the Australian National University. She has a B.Sc. Hons. in Physics (University of Bristol, UK) and a Ph.D. (ANU, Australia). She was awarded an ARC postdoctoral fellowship (1998–2001) and an ARC QEII fellowship (2002–2007). She has over 20 years post-Ph.D. experience and has collaborated extensively with research groups in the US, Sweden, Norway and the UK as well in Australia. Her research interests and expertise are in the electron microscopy of semiconductors, processing, III–V nanowires, organic-inorganic halide perovskites, semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures as well as electrical characterization techniques.

Trevor Stack, Ph.D. Is currently a Scientist at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. working on novel oncology drug development. He graduated with a B.A. in biomedical engineering from Tufts University in 2012 and a Ph.D in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 2021. His graduate work focused on nanoparticle platform design and ways to enhance the accumulation of nanoparticles in tissues of interest, including solid tumors. Prior to his graduate work, Trevor worked on product and process development of cell based immunotherapy platforms at various biotech companies in the Boston area.

Evan Scott, Ph.D. is the Kay Davis Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Microbiology-Immunology within the Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine. He respectively received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2002 and Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. As a Whitaker International Scholar, he completed his postdoctoral training in Switzerland at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Scott is a recipient of the 2015 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the 2014 American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant. He was selected as a 2017 BMES Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2018 Nano Research Young Innovator in Nanobiotechnology, 2018 American Society for Engineering Education PRISM 20 under 40, National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering 2018 speaker, 2019 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator, and 2019 Halo 40 under 40 Chicago Scientist.

Costanza Montis is Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, and member of the Italian Consortium for Colloid and Surface Science (CSGI). She received her PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Florence in 2013. Her main research activity focuses on the understanding of complex phenomena occurring at interfaces, from a physicochemical perspective. Her scientific interests are in Physical Chemistry of Soft Matter and include the biophysical understanding of nano-bio interfaces; the design of lipid-nanoparticles hybrid materials for biomedical applications; the engineering/characterisation of biogenic extracellular vesicles; the study of nanostructured materials for applications in restoration of works of art.

Debora is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, where she leads the BioSoftMatter group. Debora’s work focuses on Soft Matter systems, from design to applications in several areas, mainly in biologically relevant fields. Throughout her career, Debora has pioneered the application of radiation scattering methods, such as small angle scattering and reflectivity, to characterize the structural details of self-assemblies with biological relevance. Her research topics include hybrid nano and micro particle/lipid assemblies for responsive drug delivery, interaction of nanostructured assemblies with model membranes, mechanistic understanding of the nanobiointerface. Currently, she is Vice President of the University of Florence.

Yifan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Electron Microscopy for Materials Science in Dr. Sara Bal’s group (University of Antwerp, Belgium). She received her PhD from the Nanjing Normal University in Dr. Yawen Tang’s group. During her PhD candidate period, she was a visiting student at Indiana University working in the group led by Dr. Sara Skrabalak. Yifan was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Bioimaging Sciences at the National University of Singapore, Dr. Utkur Mirsaidov. She joined the Electron Microscopy for Materials Science in 2021 and her research interests are centred on direct visualization of surface ligands by transmission electron microscopy.

Dr. Sara Skrabalak received her B.A. in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 where she conducted research with Professor William E. Buhro. She then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she completed her Ph.D. in chemistry in fall of 2006 under the tutelage of Professor Kenneth S. Suslick. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington – Seattle with Professors Younan Xia and Xingde Li. She is the James H. Rudy Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University – Bloomington and a recipient of both NSF CAREER and DOE Early Career Awards. She is a 2012 Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and 2017 Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellows. In 2014, she received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry. She is Editor-in-Chief for Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters. Her research group focuses on nanomaterial design and synthesis (https://skrabalak.lab.indiana.edu/).