Frank Vollmer is Professor in Biophysics at the University of Exeter, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in ‘Physics & Biology’ from the Rockefeller University in NYC, USA, in 2004. He was Rowland Fellow at Harvard University from 2004 to 2009, Scholar-in-Residence at the Wyss Institute at Harvard in 2010, Group Leader (untenured Associate Professor) at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany from 2011–2016 and Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where he directed a satellite laboratory from 2011– 2016. Since 2016 he is Professor in Biophysics at the School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK. He received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017 and in 2021 the Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (IoP). Since 2021 he is Fellow of the IoP.

Jerome Wenger is the CNRS director of research at Institut Fresnel in Marseille. After an engineering degree from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique in 2001, he obtained his PhD in quantum optics at Institut d’Optique Orsay in 2004. He then joined the CNRS and Institut Fresnel at Marseille in 2005, and obtained the habilitation (HDR) in 2012. His main research interests focus on nanophotonics and biophotonics. He has authored more than 110 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is co-inventor of 6 patents. His scientific work has been recognized by 7 scientific prizes and >40 invited talks at international conferences.