Georg Kresse's main scientific focus lies in the fields of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Surface Sciences and Computational Materials Physics.

Sir Richard Catlow has been a leader at University College London, the University of Keele, the University of Cardiff, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Professor Olson is the Thermo-Calc Professor of the Practice at MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. An MIT alumnus, he earned his BS in 1970 and his PhD in 1974 under Professor Morris Cohen. His career included research roles before he became a tenured professor at Northwestern University in 1988, where he was later honored with the Walter P. Murphy Chair. In 1997, he founded Questek Innovations, leading advances in computational steel design.

Céline Chizallet graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) in 2002 and earned her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Paris VI University in 2006. She obtained her HDR from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2017. She is currently a Project Leader at IFP Energies nouvelles in Solaize, France, where she integrates quantum chemistry into applied research on computational heterogeneous catalysis.