James W. M. Chon obtained his BSc (Hon) in Physics and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He joined Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2001, he then subsequently became Lecturer (2004), Senior Lecturer (2006) and Associate Professor (2013) at Swinburne. He is currently an Honours and HDR Program coordinator at Department of Physics and Astronomy and leads Optical Nanoparticle Spectroscopy (ONSPA) group, Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne. A past Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012 - 2016), his research interests are in metallic and semiconductor nanoparticle fabrication, nonlinear spectroscopy and applications.

Dr Haoran Ren is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University. His nanophotonic research aims to develop advanced optical materials and nanotechnology for both fundamental light-matter interactions and broad photonic applications. Dr Ren received a PhD in Optical Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology in 2017. He was a postdoc at RMIT University from 2017 to 2018. In October 2018, Dr Ren took a Victoria Fellowship to visit the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. In 2019, Dr Ren was awarded a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and relocated his research to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. Dr Ren started a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) at Macquarie University in 2021, through which he moved his research back to Australia. Dr Ren won a 2022 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council. Dr Ren holds a Honorary Research Fellow position at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University. He is an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS).