Bachelor in Chemistry, University Salamanca, Spain, 1989
PhD Chemistry, Univeristy Salamanca, Spain, 1992
HONORARY DOCTORATE “Doctor Honoris Causa”, Université du Caen, Normandie, France, 2017

Prof Casiraghi holds a Chair in Nanoscience at the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester (UK). She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2007, she was awarded with the prestigious Kovalevskaja Award (1.5M Euro). In 2010 she joined the department of chemistry at the University of Manchester. She is recipient of several awards, including the ERC Consolidator (2015), ERC Proof of Concept (2020), ERC Advanced grants (2022), as well as the Leverhulme Award in Engineering (2016, 100K GBP), and the RSC 2020 Gibson-Fawcett Award. Her current research work focuses on the development of biocompatible 2D inks and their use in printed electronics and biomedical applications.

Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is Professor of Nanotechnology and the Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre and of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology. He is Fellow of Pembroke College, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. He was awarded the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board of the EU Graphene Flagship

Claire Mangeney is professor at LCBPT Laboratory of Université Paris Cité. Her research sits at the interface of surface chemistry, nanotechnology, and biology, where she develops original chemical strategies using aryl diazonium salts to functionalize surfaces, particularly plasmonic nanoparticles. She focuses on applications in SERS sensing, plasmonic nanosensors, SERS tags and contrast agents for bioimaging, aiming to combine chemical precision with advanced optical detection. Her work includes the design of nanoscale tools that serve as ideal interfaces to interrogate biological systems at multiple scales, as well as their integration into “all-optical” sensing devices. She has contributed to over 20 projects (ANR, LabEx, IdEx…) and coordinated 14 of them. She has co-authored more than 100 publications and holds two patents.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp studied chemistry at the Universities of Erlangen and Würzburg and received his PhD in chemistry before conducting postdoctoral research at Yale University. Since 2002, he has held the Chair of Physical Chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and since 2006 has additionally served as Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology. His research focuses on biophotonics, Raman spectroscopy, multimodal optical imaging, and AI-driven biomedical diagnostics with strong emphasis on clinical translation. He is internationally recognized as a leading expert in optical health technologies and translational photonics. Jürgen Popp has authored more than 1,170 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 92) and is inventor of 21 patents. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biophotonics and the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy and has delivered more than 200 invited lectures worldwide, including over 60 keynote and plenary talks. He won several awards among others the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, the SPIE Biophotonics Innovation Award, and the Ellis R. Lippincott Award