Samya Banerjee (MRSC) received his PhD in 2015 from the Indian Institute of Science. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA, a Royal Society-SERB Newton International Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK (with Prof. Peter J. Sadler), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India. Recently, he was awarded a 2022 Dalton Division Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry for pioneering work on “catalysis of redox reactions in cancer cells by synthetic organometallic complexes”. His research interests include the development of metal-based anticancer, antibacterial and antimalarial drugs.

Juliusz A. Wolny graduated in Chemistry at the University of Wrocław and completed his PhD thesis in inorganic chemistry. He worked in the area of synthetic chemistry and molecular spectroscopy in the groups of Professors Mikołaj F. Rudolf in Wrocław, Alex von Zelewsky in Fribourg, and Hans Toftlund in Odense. He has also worked in the area of applied quantum chemistry and synchrotron spectroscopy in the group of Professor Alfred X. Trauwein in Lübeck. Since 2006, he has been a researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern in the group of Professor Volker Schünemann. His scientific interest involves the spin-crossover effect, vibrational spectroscopy, conventional and synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy and application of quantum chemical methods to inorganic complexes.

Mohsen is a senior EM staff scientist at the electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at the Diamond Light Source. His main research is currently on the use of Scanning Electron Nanobeam Diffraction (SEND) for better statistical characterisation of engineering materials via development of automated data analysis workflows combined with script-controlled data collection on the electron microscope. He completed his PhD at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 2010, with thesis on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterisation of beam-sensitive Mg-based hydride systems.

Dr Yisong Han is currently Scientific Officer at the University of Warwick, where he provides advanced scientific and technical support for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) instruments. Before joining Warwick, he gained extensive postdoctoral research experience in characterising a variety of materials using TEM related techniques. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2007.

Dr Houari Amari is a Research Group Leader at the Leibniz institute for crystal growth (Berlin, Germany). He obtained his MSc (Hons.) from the University of Strasbourg (France) and his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom). His Ph.D. was related to investigations of novel semiconductors using advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. Dr Amari’s actual research is focused on achieving atomic-level structural and chemical characterization of a wide range of materials, including semiconductors and dielectrics, using in-situ TEM.

Prof. Beanland is academic director of Warwick’s Electron Microscopy facility and holds a personal chair in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, with interests in electron diffraction, structure solution, and atomic-scale characterisation of materials.

Volker Schünemann studied physics at the University of Hamburg and did his PhD thesis under the supervision of Alfred X. Trautwein at the University of Lübeck, where he worked on the synthesis and characterization of iron nanoparticles in zeolites. This was his first exposure to temperature- and field-dependent Mössbauer spectroscopy. Subsequently, in 1993, he did postdoctoral work on bimetallic FeRh particles in the group of W.M.H. Sachtler at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA. Here the focus was on catalytic properties in CO hydrogenation. After his return in 1994 to the group of Alfred X. Trautwein to the University of Lübeck, he started to work on biological applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy and investigated different classes of iron-containing proteins such as heme and iron-sulfur proteins. In 2004, he became a professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and established a laboratory for temperature- and field-dependent Mössbauer spectroscopy. The focus of his group is on the study of the function and electronic and dynamical properties of iron centers in nature (iron proteins) and coordination chemistry (e.g., spin-crossover compounds, molecular magnets, and biomimetic iron complexes) using conventional and synchrotron-based Mössbauer spectroscopy. Quantum chemical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are also used to better understand electronic and dynamic properties.

Peter obtained his BA, MA and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Subsequently he was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and National Institute for Medical Research. From 1973-96 he was Lecturer, Reader and Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and from 1996-2007 held the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. In 2007, he took up a Chair in Chemistry at the University of Warwick as Head of Department, where he is now a Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of London, an EPSRC RISE Fellow (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers), a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India, and the Chinese Chemical Society. He was awarded the Royal Society 2022 Davy Medal, and 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Horizon Team Prize.