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.