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.

Paolo Milani is Full Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Milano. He graduated in Physics from the University of Pavia (Italy) and he received his Docteur es Sciences (PhD) in 1991 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH). He is the founder of the Molecular Beams and Nanocrystalline Materials Laboratory at the University of Milano. His research focuses on cluster-assembled nanostructured materials for neuromorphic systems, stretchable electronics, biomedicine, soft robotics. He has published more than 300 papers on refereed journals, several review papers and a monograph on supersonic cluster beam deposition for the synthesis of nanostructured thin films. Milani is the recipient of the U. Campisano Award from the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter in 2000 for his contributions to the field of the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials. In 2006 he received the L. Tartufari Prize awarded by the Lincei National Academy. Currently, Milani serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces of the University of Milano. He holds more than thirty patents in the field of nanotechnology and he is co-founder of four companies: TETHIS active in the field of nanostructured devices for early cancer diagnostics, WISE producing implantable electrodes for neuromodulation, EOS producing optical diagnostic systems for nanoparticles in complex biological fluids, HUVANT active in the field of 3D printing of haptic phantoms for surgical training.

Stefano Forte is full professor of theoretical physics at Milan University. He was educated at Turin and MIT and held postdoc positions in Saclay and CERN and staff positions in Turin and Rome. He has mostly worked on various topics related to the structure of the proton. As leader of the NNPDF collaboration he has pioneered the use of machine learning techniques in particle physics. He is an advanced ERC grant recipient and five of his former students have been awarded starting ERC grants.

Federico Faggin is an Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur. Born in Vicenza, Italy in 1941, he has resided in the United States since 1968. He was the project leader and designer of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor, and the developer of silicon-gate MOS technology, which enabled the fabrication of the first microprocessors, dynamic EPROM and RAM memories, and CCD sensors, the essentials for digitizing information. In 1974 he founded Zilog, with which he created the famous Z80 microprocessor, still in production today. In 1986 he co-founded Synaptics, a firm with which he developed the first Touchpads and Touchscreens. On October 19, 2010, he received the National Medal for Technology and Innovation from President Obama, for the invention of the microprocessor. In 2019 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere di gran Croce dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana by President Mattarella. In 2011 he founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the scientific study of consciousness, through which he sponsors theoretical and experimental research programs at U.S. and Italian universities and research institutions.

Dr. Alessandro Curioni is an IBM Fellow, Vice President of IBM Europe and Africa and Director of the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland. He is responsible for IBM corporate research in Europe and leads global research in Accelerated Discovery and Security. Dr. Curioni is an internationally recognized leader in the area of high-performance computing and computational science, where his innovative thinking and seminal contributions have helped solve some of the most complex scientific and technological problems in healthcare, aerospace, consumer goods and electronics. He was a member of the winning team recognized with the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2013 and 2015. Currently, his research interests include accelerating the rate of discovery with AI and Quantum, as well as Big Data and novel compute paradigms - including neuromorphic computing. Dr. Curioni received his undergraduate degree in Theoretical Chemistry and his PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. He started at IBM Research – Zurich as a PhD student in 1993 before officially joining as a research staff member in 1998. Since then, he has had several research and manager roles, including as the founding manager of the Cognitive Computing and Computational Sciences department. He is a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences.

Dr. Tiziano Camporesi graduated from the University of Bologna in 1981 with a thesis based on the NA4 muon scattering experiment done at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. He was a Postdoc at SLAC, Stanford University from 1984 to 1986 working on the MAC experiment at the PEP electron positron collider. He came back to Europe as CERN fellow in 1986 and remained at CERN as Staff member to this day. At CERN he was first a member of the DELPHI experiment at the LEP electron positron collider: in DELPHI he eventually became the Spokesperson in the year 1999. In 2002 he joined the CMS Experiment which started taking data at the Large Hadron Collider in 2009. In CMS he was responsible of two projects ( Forward Hadron Calorimeter and Electromagnetic Calorimeter) and became responsible of the overall Commissioning and running of the Experiment between 2007 and 2010. In 2011 he became deputy Spokesperson and was part of the CMS management team which discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012. Between 2014 and 2016 he was elected Spokesperson of the Experiment. From 2017 to 2022 he was the team leader of the CERN team involved in CMS. Since 2018 he is also Adjunct Professor at Boston University and since 2021 he is honorary professor at the Georgian Technical University.