Claudia Pasquero is an Associate Professor in Oceanography and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Milano – Bicocca, research associate at the Institute of Science of the Atmosphere and Climate of the National Research Council, vice-president of the Committee on Mathematical Geophysics of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Pasquero studies the interactions between oceans and climate and works on the interactions between ocean dynamics and marine ecosystems. Recently, her research has led to significant improvements in the understanding of the dynamics of typhoons and hurricanes. In 2020 Pasquero won a grant from the European Space Energy for the project GLAUCO to study the study of Global and Local Atmospheric response to the Underlying Coupled Ocean and since 2021 is working on the project EUREC4A-OA - Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in Climate models by innovative joint observing and modeling approaches, founded by the European Union.

Marco Liscidini is currently Associate Professor in Photonics at the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia and serves as technical advisor to Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc, Toronto, Canada. He is member of the advisory council of the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute. His research activity is focused on the theoretical study and modelling of the light‐matter interaction in micro‐ and nanostructures. He works in several areas of photonics, including quantum and classical nonlinear optics, plasmon and QW‐exciton polaritons, optical sensing, and photovoltaic effects (see also his website). He is Fellow of Optica (former Optical American Society).

Didier Queloz is a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory and professor of astronomy at ETH Zurich and director of the ETH Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life. He is one of the originators of the “exoplanet revolution” in astrophysics. In 1995, as part of his PhD, his team announced the first discovery of a giant planet orbiting another star, outside the solar system, a discovery which led him and his colleague Micheal Mayor to obtain the Nobel Prize in Physics. This seminal discovery spawned a revolution in astronomy and kickstarted the research field of exoplanet systems. Over the next 25 years, Didier Queloz’s main scientific contributions have essentially focused on expanding the detection and measurement capabilities of these systems to retrieve information on their physical structure.