**About the Editors**

#### **Bassano Vacchini**

Bassano Vacchini obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Milan in 1998 and later moved to the University of Marburg as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Since 2015, he has served as Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Milan. His research activity has been focused on the theoretical study of open quantum systems. Within this field, he has devoted his activity to the microscopic derivation and mathematical characterization of master equations for describing the reduced dynamics of open systems. More recently, he has devoted his activity to exploring the memory properties, namely the so-called Markovianity, of such dynamical evolutions.

#### **Andrea Smirne**

Andrea Smirne is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Milan. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Milan in 2012 and then served as a Postdoc at the University of Trieste, from 2013 to 2014, and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Ulm, from 2015 to 2019, before returning to the University of Milan as a Researcher. His research interests are focused on the theoretical investigation of open quantum systems, ranging from foundational questions such as the identification of inherently nonclassical features in multi-time statistics and the characterization of non-Markovianity in the quantum realm to the development of optimal quantum estimation strategies when there is a realistic description of the noise effects.

#### **Nina Megier**

Nina Megier did her PhD in theoretical physics at TU Dresden. In her PhD and during the two subsequent research stays at the University of Milan and the ICTQT in Gdansk, she worked on the ´ theory of open quantum systems, focusing on quantum non-Markovianity. Currently, she develops ion traps at Infineon Austria.
