**About the Editors**

**David S ´anchez** (Senior Lecturer) gained his Ph.D. in Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2002), and his MA in Hispanic Philology at UNED (2014). He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva (2002–2004). Later he was a Ramon y Cajal fellow (2005–2008). Since 2011, he has been an associate professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, and today he is also a faculty member of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC). He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Indiana, Texas, California, Stanford and ETH Zurich, has more than a hundred published papers in scientific journals, and ¨ has spoken at more than sixty conferences. His main research areas include nanophysics, quantum thermodynamics and language variation.

**Michael Moskalets** (Leading Research Fellow) gained his Dr. of Science in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Single Crystals National Academy of Science of Ukraine (2008). He is a leading research fellow at the Department of Metal and Semiconductor Physics, at the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Kharkiv, Ukraine. He has been a visiting scholar at the Geneva University, Aalto University, ENS Lyon, IFISC (UIB-CSIC) Palma de Mallorca, RWTH Aachen University, as well as the National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan. More than 100 of his papers have been published in scientific journals. He is the author of the book "*Scattering Matrix Approach to Non-Stationary Quantum Transport*", Imperial College Press, London, 2011. His main research areas include quantum coherent single-electronics, nanophysics, quantum thermodynamics
