Hendrik (Henk) Bolink is full professor at the Inorganic Chemistry Department and group leader at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular of the Universidad de Valencia. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager in the central research and new business development department, respectively. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips´s PolyLED project.
He has worked on organic semiconductor opto-electronic devices since 1993. From 2013 he started working on perovskite based LEDs and solar cells. Focusing mainly on dry processing routes, such as thermal sublimation to prepare the perovskite semiconductor films and subsequent devices. He directed 29 PhD thesis and has been PI of ca. 20 industry funded research projects and of 19 European funded projects. In 2019 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

Jing Kong received her B.S degree in Chemistry from Peking University, Beijing, China in 1997 and PhD degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in the United States, 2002. In 2004, she joined the faculty at MIT, where she is currently Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. She has worked in the field of carbon nanotubes since 1997 and has published numerous papers on this subject. In MIT, this research has led to the synthesis of related nanostructures such as graphene and later graphene-like two dimensional materials. The current research activity in her group involves CVD synthesis, characterization of these low dimensional materials, investigation of their electronic and optical properties and developing their applications.

Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and a PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1997 and served as Director of the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department from 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, finally as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In the Fall of 2016, he joined the faculty at Northwestern University where he is Director of the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has published ~1000 papers and he is co-inventor on ~100 patents, >70 of which are licensed and in active use. More than 160 former members of his group are now in faculty positions at universities around the world. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the James Prize (2022), the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award (2024) and the Bakerian Medal of the Royal Society (2025). He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, of Sciences, of Medicine and of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society.

Feng Wang received a BS degree in Physics in 1999 from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He received his PhD from Columbia working with Prof. Tony Heinz in 2004. Afterwards he was a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley, and then joined the Physics Faculty at Berkeley in 2008. His current research interest focuses on exploring emerging quantum phenomena in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. Feng Wang made pioneering contributions in the understanding of photophysics in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide and novel electronic and optical behavior of two-dimensional moire heterostructures. He has received the Alfred Sloan research fellowship, the Packard fellowship, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was elected as an APS fellow in 2016. He received  APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids in 2024.

Amir Yacoby is a Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. He received his bachelor’s degree in the field of Aerospace engineering and then transitioned into Physics. Following a Master’s degree in theoretical Physics, Yacoby received his PhD in experimental condensed matter physics in 1994 from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Professor Yacoby is a member of the National Academy of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the American Academy for Advancement of Science and an external member of the Max Planck Society.

Professor Yacoby works to develop new experimental techniques to explore quantum matter and uses these techniques to obtain new insights into their underlying quantum mechanical properties.

Dr. J. Joshua Yang is the Arthur B. Freeman Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Southeast University in 1997 and his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2007. His research focuses on post-CMOS hardware for neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, spanning materials, devices, and computing architectures. Dr. Yang has made pioneering contributions in these areas and is an inventor on over 120 U.S. patents. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances for neuromorphic computing and the Founding Chair of the IEEE Neuromorphic Computing Technical Committee. He also serves as Director of the Air Force–funded Center of Excellence on Neuromorphic Computing at USC. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of the IEEE (2022) and the National Academy of Inventors (2023) for contributions to resistive switching materials and devices for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing.