Born 23.10.1965 in Berlin, Germany. Study of materials science specializing in glasses at TU Berlin under Prof. Brückner, graduating with degree Dipl.Ing. in 1992 (“Production and optimization of C-fiber reinforced glass ceramics based on cordierite and bariumosumilite”). Subsequently worked on a research project at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Division Glass, on the subject "Surface nucleation of silicate glasses of the stoichiometry of cordierite and diopside" (doctoral thesis 2001, TU Berlin). Since 1992 scientific employee at BAM.

He received his PhD from Nagaoka University of Technology in 2004. He then worked as a researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and since 2007, he has been engaged in research on glass ceramics as an assistant professor at Nagaoka University of Technology. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and to Professor in 2023. He is working on the creation of ionic conductors and all-solid-state batteries with oxide glasses and glass-ceramics.

Sodium ion conductive glass-ceramics processed by laser-based powder bed fusion technology

Thomas Höche's research interests concern nanostructuring of inorganic materials as well as their characterisation using cutting-edge techniques of microstructure diagnostics. Special emphasis is laid on the development of novel, laser-based approaches to specimen preparation, the fabrication of polymer-based microoptics, and the accelerated development of glasses and glass ceramics fostered by accompanying micro- and nanostructure characterization.

I received my PhD degree, speciality Materials Science and Engineering, from the University of Grenoble (France) in 2004. After three years of experience in different laboratories in France, I joined the CNRS at the Groupe de Physique des Matériaux (GPM) laboratory in Rouen (France) in 2007 and then the Conditions Extrêmes Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI) laboratory in Orléans (France) where I still am since 2013.

Gerwin Puppels is the founder and managing director of RiverD International (www.riverd.com), which develops instruments and diagnostic applications, based on Raman spectroscopic tissue e analysis. An example is the gen2-SCA family of in vivo skin analysis instruments.

Dr Sebastian Polak is also a Senior Scientific Advisor in Certara UK, part of an international Certara company leading the team developing non-oral in silico absorption models. Dr Polak also holds tenure position at the Faculty of Pharmacy Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland (Professor of Biopharmacy) where he leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers working on applying various modelling and simulation approaches in drug development.
Always late, lacks assertiveness, likes motorcycles theoretically and even more in real life.

Muriel Cario currently works at INSERM 1312, University of Bordeaux.  She has over 25 years' experience in the physiopathology of human skin pigmentation and tissue engineering. She is a board member of the European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR) and of the Cosm'actifs GDR.  She collaborates with academic teams and the cosmetics industry to develop new models for studying skin pathologies such as senile lentigo, melasma, vitiligo, melanoma and carcinoma, new methods for vectorizing active ingredients and to test new active molecules.

Arnaud Dubois received his Ph.D. in physics from Paris-Saclay university in 1997. Since 2006, he has been a professor of optics at Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, France. His teaching activities encompass most aspects of optics at the master’s level. His research interests lie in the field of biomedical imaging. As a pioneer in optical coherence microscopy in the early 2000s, A. Dubois has since been a major contributor to the development of this technology. He has published 175 research articles and 12 book chapters and has participated in approximately 250 conferences.