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Franco Nori is a RIKEN Chief Scientist, leading the “Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory” at RIKEN (the Japanese National Laboratory). He is also a Team Leader of the “Quantum Information Theory Research Team”, in the RIKEN Quantum Computing Center. He is also a Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research group has done pioneering interdisciplinary studies at the interface between nanoscience, dissipative quantum open systems, quantum information processing, superconducting quantum circuitry for quantum computing, photonics, quantum optics, atomic physics, nano-mechanics, computational physics, and condensed matter physics. His research group has produced numerous highly cited papers (i.e., top 1% most cited publications among all papers in all areas of Physics) according to the Web of Science. Also, more than 143 publications in Physical Review Letters, over 76 in Science and Nature journals, as well as numerous ones in other top journals. According to the Web of Science: >70K citations and h-index > 122 (Google Scholar: >102,000 citations and h-index > 142). He has been listed by the Web of Science as a "Highly Cited Researcher” in Physics (covering all areas of Physics) for the past eight consecutive years: from 2017 to 2024 (Less than 0.1% of physicists are selected). He is an Elected Fellow of the: American Physics Society (APS), Institute of Physics (IoP), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Optical Society of America (OSA) [this last one “for fundamental contributions to quantum information science and optics, including circuit quantum electrodynamics, and the interface between quantum optics and quantum circuits”]. He received the 2014 Prize for Research in Physics, from the Matsuo Foundation, Japan; and the 2013 Prize for Science, by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Also, an "Excellence in Research Award" and an "Excellence in Education Award" from the University of Michigan. He is an Elected Member of the Academia Europaea, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Swedish Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, in Gothenburg, Sweden. He won the 2023 W.E. Lamb Medal, and the 2024 Charles H. Townes Medal (from Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America); both for fundamental contributions to research on Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, and Quantum Information. In 2024, he received a Research Doctorate Honoris Causa (i.e., an Honorary Doctorate) in Physics, from the University of Messina, Italy, founded in 1548.

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Prof. Min Qiu is the Guoqiang Chair Professor of Optical Engineering and Vice President at Westlake University, where he also serves as the Dean of School of Engineering and the Director of Westlake Institute for Optoelectronics. He is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is also a Fellow of several prestigious professional societies, including:IEEE Fellow (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)，Optica Fellow(formerly OSA, The Optical Society of America)，SPIE Fellow (International Society for Optical Engineering)，COS Fellow(Chinese Optical Society)，CSOE Fellow (Chinese Society of Optical Engineering) and CIE Fellow(Chinese Institute of Electronics). Prof. Qiu actively contributes to the academic community through leadership roles, serving as a Standing Council Member of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering (CSOE), Deputy Director of both the Micro- and Nano-Optics Committees of CSOE and the Chinese Optical Society (COS), as well as Vice President of the Zhejiang Optical Society and the Zhejiang Institute of Electronics. He received his Bachelor of Science and his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Zhejiang University in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He then earned a Ph.D. in Electromagnetic Theory from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden in 2001. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at KTH in the same year, promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and became a full professor in photonics in 2009. His research has been supported by prestigious grants, including the "Future Research Leader" program from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the Senior Researcher Specialized Grant from the Swedish Research Council. In 2010, he joined the College of Optical Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, where he also served as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation. In 2018, he joined Westlake University.

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Keisuke Goda is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA and the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University. He earned a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2007. While at MIT, he contributed to the development of quantum-enhancement techniques in the LIGO group, which received the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for the detection of gravitational waves. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher and program manager, where he focused on laser-based ultrafast optical imaging and spectroscopy, as well as microfluidic biotechnology. In 2012, Goda joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo as a professor. His research group is currently dedicated to developing "serendipity-enabling technologies" through extreme engineering. He has authored nearly 300 journal papers, filed over 30 patents, and launched four startups: CYBO, Cupido, LucasLand, and FlyWorks. Goda has received more than 30 awards and honors, including the Japan Academy Medal, JSPS Prize, SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, and Philipp Franz von Siebold Award.