Anton Akhmerov is a member of Kavli Institute of Technology in Delft. His main contributions are to the theory of quantum transport in graphene and topological insulators, as well to the theory of creation and detection of Majorana bound states. He authored some of the initial proposals for Majorana-based quantum computing that underlie the modern approach. Together with colleagues he developed an open source quantum transport package Kwant and an online course on topology in condensed matter https://topocondmat.org. He is a maintainer of a volunteer organization for online conferences—Virtual Science Forum (https://virtualscienceforum.org/).

Carlo Beenakker is professor at Leiden University, working at the Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics. His research on electrical conduction in nanostructures was distinguished with the Royal/Shell prize (1993), the Spinoza prize (1999), and the AKZO-Nobel Science Award (2006). Beenakker is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of an ERC Synergy grant for the development of a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits (2012) and an ERC Advanced grant for the development of a topological quantum computer based on Majorana qubits (2019). He is on the board of the QDeltaNL Foundation, which aims to develop a quantum technology ecosystem in The Netherlands.

Dr. Vincent Cros is a CNRS senior researcher in the CNRS/Thales research laboratory (Palaiseau, France), one of the pioneer groups in the field of spintronics. Since 2000, he is leading the research activities on spin transfer effects and its related potential applications to radiofrequency spintronic devices. His current research interests include: spin transfer induced dynamics of magnetic solitons, nonlinear phenomena induced by spin torque, spin-orbitronics and more recently the physics of magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures.

Claudia Felser studied chemistry and physics at the University of Cologne, completing her doctorate in physical chemistry (1994). She joined the University of Mainz in 1996 as an assistant professor (C1) becoming a full professor there in 2003 (C4). She is currently Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. In 2001 Felser received Order of Merit (Landesverdienstorden) of the state Rheinland Pfalz for the foundation of the first NAT-LAB for school students at the University Mainz with a focus in female school students. She is fellow of the IEEE Magnetic Society, American Physical Society (APS) and Institute of Physics (IOP), London. In 2018, she became a member of the Leopoldina, and Acatech, Germany. In 2019, Claudia Felser was awarded the APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, in 2020, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and in 2021 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). In 2022 she was awarded the Max Born Prize and Medal, of the DPG and the IOP, and the Liebig Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Medal of the Saxon Academy of Science and the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Science. Her research foci are the design, synthesis, and physical characterization of new quantum materials, in particular, Heusler compounds and topological materials for energy conversion and spintronics

Charles Gould completed his undergrad at the University of Moncton (N.-B.), and received his Masters and PhD from the university of Sherbrooke (Quebec) for research work conducted at the National Research Council in Ottawa. In 2000, he moved from Canada to Germany and joined the department of physics of the University of Wuerzburg, initially as a postdoc, and now as a professor. He works on various aspects of transport physics in the solid state, including quantum transport, spintronic, topological electronics and superconductivity.

Mohammad Hafezi studied for two years at Sharif University before completing his undergraduate degree at École Polytechnique in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2009. He was a senior research associate at the Joint Quantum Institute before joining the faculty of UMD. His group aims at the theoretical and experimental investigation of quantum properties of light-matter interaction, for applications in classical and quantum information processing and sensing. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award in 2015.

Haoyu Hu obtained his PhD degree from the Rice University in 2022. He is working as a postdoc at donostia international physics center (Spain) since 2022. His current research interests include twisted bilayer graphene, Kagome metals, and flat band systems.

Tobias Kampfrath obtained his PhD degree from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in 2006 and then worked as postdoctoral fellow at AMOLF Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 2010, he became head of the Terahertz Physics Group at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin (Germany). Since 2017, he is full professor at the Department of Physics of the Freie Universität Berlin, working on terahertz dynamics of condensed matter, in particular spintronic nanostructures and magnetic and topological materials.

Professor of Physics,
California State University Northridge
Director, Center for Computational Materials Theory

Jelena Klinovaja received her Bachelor and Master degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Department of General and Applied Physics, in 2007 and 2009, resp, both with summa cum laude (5.0/5.0). Subsequently, she joined the group of Prof. Daniel Loss at the University of Basel, where she received her PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2012 with summa cum laude. In 2013, she was awarded a three-year Harvard Fellowship to perform independent research in the area of the theoretical quantum condensed matter physics. Klinovaja was appointed as a tenure track assistant professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel in 2014. In February 2019 she was tenured and promoted to associate professor. Since 2020, she is a Deputy Co-Director of the NCCR SPIN (National Centre of Competence in Research: Spin Qubits in Silicon). In her career, she was offered several prestigious fellowships (in 2013, Pappalardo Fellowship from MIT and Yale Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship) and received research prizes such as the Swiss Physical Society Prize 2013 in Condensed Matter Physics (sponsored by IBM), Prize of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Basel, for best PhD work, and Camille- und Henry Dreyfus scholarship. In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). Later, in 2022, she was awarded the Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).

Lia Krusin-Elbaum is a Professor of Physics at The City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York. After receiving her Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from New York University (1979) she continued as a scientist at the IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, leading the effort on superconducting vortices in high-Tc cuprates and inventing strong vortex pinning process via an internal nuclear fission. She joined Physics Faculty at the CCNY in 2010, where she leads the group on Topological Quantum Materials. Dr. Krusin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of ten IBM Invention Achievement Awards. In 2022 she has been elected to serve on the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC), providing independent advice on research priorities to the US Department of Energy. Currently she is a co-lead in the Columbia University NSF-MRSEC Center as well as the NSF-CREST Center at the CCNY

He was born in Buenos Aires, land of tango and asados. He obtained his PhD in physics at Instituto Balseiro (Argentina) and Université Paris VI (France) in 2009. After his postdoctoral research at the Bariloche Atomic Center, he joined Zhang’s group at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2013 he joined the Quantum Dots Group as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2015 he got a Scientistific Researcher position in the CNRS and recently he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. His research is focused on the mechanisms underlying the interaction of acoustic excitations with photons, electrons and other phonons at the nanoscale; the engineering of nanomechanical structures and the control light-matter interactions in confined systems in the classical and quantum regimes.

Professor Ramesh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. He returned to Berkeley in 2004 and is currently the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in Materials Science and Physics. From 1989-1995, at Bellcore, he initiated research in several key areas of oxide electronics, including ferroelectric nonvolatile memories. His landmark contributions in ferroelectrics came through the recognition that conducting oxide electrodes are the solution to the problem of polarization fatigue, which for 30 years, remained an enigma and unsolved problem. In 1994, in collaboration with S. Jin (Lucent Technologies), he initiated research into manganite thin films and they coined the term, Colossal Magnetoresistive (CMR) Oxides. He initiated pioneering research into multiferroic oxides at Maryland

Nicolas Reyren graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2004. Then he obtained his PhD in Prof. Triscone group, studying superconductivity at oxide interfaces and its tunability by electric field effect. In 2010, he moved to France for a post-doc with the goal of "injecting" spins into one of the oxide interfaces that he studied during the PhD. He got a CNRS researcher position in 2013 with the project of studying "spin-orbitronics", more precisely the spin-orbit torques, spin-charge conversion, and new magnetic textures stabilized by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, mostly in metallic systems, but also exploiting the surface state of 3D topological insulators. He notably contributed to the development of skyrmions in metallic multilayers.

Ewold Verhagen leads the Photonic Forces group in the Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF, and is part-time professor of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology. He studies light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, in particular the coupling between photons and phonons in nano-optomechanical systems. In his research, he seeks to understand how the behavior of light and sound in nanoscale devices is governed by fundamental principles such as spatiotemporal symmetries and quantum mechanics. His group explores how suitable system design and control over light-matter interactions can engage the conventional limits to nanophotonic and nanomechanical functionality, in application domains from sensing and metrology to communication.