Thomas received his Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux in 2007. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Oliver Wright at Hokkaido University (Japan). He joined the Mechanical Institute of Engineering (I2M) at the University of Bordeaux as a CNRS research scientist in 2009. Since 2015, he works in the Biophysics team, at the Institute of Light and Matter at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. His current work focuses on the development of opto-acoustic techniques to study the mechanics and tribology of biological matter.  

Maroun received his Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Nicholas Boechler at the University of California San Diego. In 2021, he joined the Biophysics team at Institute of Light and Matter - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - as a CNRS research scientist. His current work focuses on the design of functional bio-based phononic materials using micro/nano-structured biological matter. 

Pierre received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical engineering and his second M.Sc. in Nanomedicine and Structural Biology from Grenoble INP – Phelma. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at the CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) in Grenoble with Dr. Jean-Charles Baritaux. His work focuses on developing Brillouin micro-spectroscopy setups dedicated to the study of the mechanical properties of large multicellular assemblies such as organoids and spheroids. His goal is to ultimately link these properties to biologically and/or physiologically relevant characteristics of these assemblies.

Lucie received her Master's degree in Acoustics from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is pursuing her Ph.D. at Institut Lumière Matière in the Bio-Optical Acoustic team. Her work focuses on understanding and characterizing molecular crowding in cells using Brillouin Light Scattering. This project is in collaboration with Darryl Overby at Imperial College of London.