Alessandro Iop is a PhD student at the department of Media and Information Technology in Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden. His area of research is the application of Extended Reality (XR) technologies to fine skill retention in surgical training, focusing on neurosurgery. More specifically, Alessandro's work focuses on assessing the impact of multimodal XR applications on the acquisition and transfer of procedural knowledge in neurosurgical educational practices. Alessandro graduated in 2022 from KTH Royal Institute of Technology with a MSc Degree in Interactive Media Technology.

Renan Guarese is a Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH, specifically working with data visualization in AR/VR for a pharmaceutical manufacturing scenario, partnered with AstraZeneca. Obtained his PhD program in Computer Science at RMIT - Australia, and his MSc. and Bsc. degrees in Computer Science at UFRGS - Brazil, researching Human-Computer interaction. Taught courses in HCI, AI, Mixed Reality, and game and web development. Worked in several HCI-related projects in AR/VR, including audio interfaces for visually impaired people, at RMIT, situated visualization of electromagnetic fields at Halmstad University - Sweden, and an AR-based platform for the teaching of physics, at UFRGS.

Lonni Besancon is an assistant professor at Linkoping University, Sweden. He was a co-chair of the IEEE VIS Open Practices. He has contributed several workshops and meet-ups at both IEEE VIS and ACM CHI (e.g., Fail Fest, alt.VIS 2021, alt.VIS 2022, alt.VIS 2023, the JoVI meetup).

Mario Romero is a Senior Associate Professor in Visualization and the Head of Unit at Immersive Visualization, part of the Media and Information Technology Department at Linköping University. He is the national technical manager of the Swedish Research Council's (Vetenskapsrådet) national research infrastructure for data analysis and visualization, InfraVis. Mario is also the Scientific Advisor of Visual Sweden. He is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador and a postdoc at Uppsala University, a doctoral graduate of Georgia Tech (PhD Computer Science, 2009), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MSc Computer Science, 2001), and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (BSc Industrial Engineering and BS Construction Engineering , 1996). He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. Dr. Romero's research centers in Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization, and Ubiquitous and Accessible Computing.

Andrii Matviienko is an assistant professor in computer science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on Extended Reality (XR) and interaction with and within immersive spaces. He leads an Immersive technologies lab, where they explore ways of improving users’ XR experiences via novel input techniques, haptic feedback, locomotion, taste, simulations, and exertion games.

Dr Fabio Zambetta is a Professor in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne (Australia), where he is also the Deputy Dean of Engagement. His research interests focus on AI and machine learning in computer games, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, robotics, and real-time simulation. He has published in several areas of computer science including in top AI, HCI and robotics conferences and journals e.g., IJCAI, AAAI, AAAMAS, CHI, ACM TOCHI, IEEE TOG, Journal of Neural Engineering. He has been awarded funding from several funding bodies, including the ARC, and from a variety of industry partners, such as Rheinmetall Defence Australia, Microsoft, Village Roadshow, ANZ, and ACER (Australian Computer Education Research). He has been the only academic to have ever been a Visiting Scholar at Microsoft Garage, during his research leave at Microsoft's headquarter in Redmond, in 2019. In 2019, he was also awarded a Cloud Software Research Fellowship from Microsoft Asia, for the project started at Microsoft Garage.  

Anderson Maciel is an associate professor with habilitation at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He is also an integrated member of INESC-ID and co-founder of the startup MetaHealth. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UFRGS (Brazil), a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality from EPFL (Switzerland), and a D. Sc. Habilitation from the IST/Ulisboa. He has conducted research and innovation projects in visual computing applied to medicine, mainly on virtual reality training simulators, physics-based soft-tissue simulation, 3D human-computer interaction, haptic interaction, and image analysis. He is the author of more than a hundred papers in indexed journals and peer-reviewed conferences. As an associate editor of the Computers & Graphics journal, he co-edits a special section on XR Technologies for Healthcare and Wellbeing.