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Magnus Berggren received his MSc in Physics and PhD in Applied Physics in 1991 and 1996, respectively, from Linköping University in Sweden. After that, he joined Bell Laboratories, USA, for postdoctoral studies focusing on the development of organic lasers. In 1997, he co-founded Thin Film Electronics AB and for one and a half years he served the company as its managing director with the prime mission of developing printed electronic memories. Then, he returned to Linköping University and also joined Acreo (today RISE) to establish the research in printed and paper electronics, in part supported by the paper- and packaging industry. Since 2002, he holds the professorship in, and is the director of the Laboratory of, Organic Electronics, Linköping University, today including about 140 people organized in 12 different research groups. Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers behind Paper Electronics, Organic Bioelectronics and Electronic Plants and in 2012 and 2018 he became an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), respectively. In 2014 he received the Marcus Wallenberg Price and in 2017 he received the IVA gold medal. He has co-founded more than 10 companies in the areas of Organic Energy Materials, Internet of Things and Biotechnology. Since January 2022, Magnus is the director for the Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability, which is a 300 Million USD national research program operating from 2022 through 2033 composed of research projects, strategic recruitments, guest professorships and collaboration initiatives with industry.

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Peer Fischer is a Professor of Experimental Physics (Molecular Systems Engineering) and he heads the independent Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. Peer Fischer received a BSc. degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He was a NATO (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, before joining the Rowland Institute at Harvard. At Harvard he held a Rowland Fellowship and directed an interdisciplinary research lab for five years. In 2009 he received an Attract Award from the Fraunhofer Society which led him to set up a photonics lab at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in Freiburg. From 2011-2022 he headed the MPG research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and from 2013-2022 he was a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. In 2022 he moved his labs to Heidelberg University and the MPI for medical Research. Prof. Peer Fischer won an ERC Grant in 2011 and a World Technology Award in 2016. He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018. He is a member of the Max Planck – EPFL Center for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology, and the cluster of excellence 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O). Peer Fischer is a Founding Editorial Board Member of the journal Science Robotics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Fischer has broad research interests including 3D nanofabrication & assembly, micro- and nano-robotics, active matter, interaction of optical, electric, magnetic, and acoustic fields with matter at small length scales, chirality, and molecular systems engineering.

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Sir Dave King, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Founder and Chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, CCRC; Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, CCAG: Affiliate Partner of SYSTEMIQ Limited; and Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda. He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, 2000-2007 and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change, 2013-2017. He has travelled widely to persuade all countries to act on climate change. He initiated an in-depth risk analysis approach to climate change, working with the Governments of China and India in particular, and initiated a collaborative programme, now known as Mission Innovation, to create a publicly funded £23bn pa research and development international exercise, which involves 25 countries and the EU, to deliver all technologies needed to complete the transition into a fossil-fuel-free world economy. As Govt Chief Scientific Adviser he raised the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the British £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. Sir David was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2009; and is The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022 Hamburg Awardee for Science Diplomacy.