Prof. Andrey Miroshnichenko obtained his PhD in 2003 from the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. In 2004 he moved to Australia to join the Nonlinear Physics Centre at the Australian National University. During that time, he made fundamentally important contributions to the field of photonic crystals and bringing the concept of the Fano resonances to nanophotonics. In 2007 he was awarded by Australian Postdoctoral and in 2011 by Future Fellowships from the Australian Research Council. In 2017 he has moved to the University of New South Wales Canberra and became UNSW Scientia Fellow.  In 2019 Prof. Miroshnichenko was recognised as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science Group. The topics of his research are nonlinear nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, resonant interaction of light with nanoclusters, including optical nanoantennas and metamaterials.

Vlatko Vedral (PhD and BSc at Imperial College) is a professor of quantum information at Oxford and professor of physics at the National University of Singapore. He has published over 300 research papers on various topics in quantum physics and quantum computing and is one of the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers. He has given numerous invited plenary and public talks in the last 25 years of his career. These include a specialised talk at a Solvay meeting (2010) and a popular one at the International Safe Scientifique (2007). He was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2007, the World Scientific Medal and Prize in 2009, the Marko Jaric Award in 2010 and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2017. He has held many visiting professorships, among which are those held at the Universities of Vienna and Belo Horizonte, the Perimeter Institute in Canada and the ISI in Turin. He is consulting the World Economic Forum on the Future of Computation.

Jürgen Kurths, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Physics of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and co-chair of research domain Complexity Sciences at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, was ranked as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in his field in 2019, according to a new Web of Science ranking. His scientific publications are among the top 1% of literature cited most frequently in engineering sciences worldwide.