Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1982, the MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1983, and the PhD in Applied Electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. His research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in optical communications and information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of over 700 international refereed papers, conference presentations, and book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Optical Fiber Technology, a Fellow member of the Optical Society of America, and senior member of IEEE-Photonics Society.

Alba María Paniagua Díaz (Huercal-Overa, Almería, 1990) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Optics Laboratory of the University of Murcia. She graduated in Physics from the University of Salamanca, and after finishing her PhD at the University of Exeter (UK) with a thesis on the fundamental correlations that hold when light comes into contact with scattering media, she started a postdoctoral stage at the University of Murcia. Subsequently, she worked as an optical engineer in the company Voptica S.L. In 2021 she obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Optics Laboratory of the University of Murcia.

Assistant professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Université du Québec, Varennes, Canada and director of the Laboratory of Applied Computational Imaging (LACI).

Liang received his B.E. degree in optoelectronic engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2007 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 2009 and 2012. His research focuses primarily on implementing optical-modulation techniques to develop new computational optical instruments for applications in physics, materials science and biomedicine.

Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch GenT researcher at Universitat de València since 2024, in the Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Laser Physics Group (QOVAL).

His research lies at the intersection of theoretical quantum mechanics and modern technological applications, within the field known as Quantum Optics, encompassing systems understandable through quantum electrodynamics at low energies, particularly focused on open and critical quantum optical systems in the many-body regime.

Dr. Carlos Doñate Buendia (1992) received his B.S. (2014) and M.S. (2015) degrees in physics from the University of Valencia. He obtained his PhD (Dec. 2019) from the university Jaume I for his work upscaling nanoparticle production by laser ablation in liquids. His postdoctoral stay at University of Duisburg-Essen (2020-2021) producing nanoadditivated metal and polymer materials with enhanced optical, magnetic, and/or bactericidal functionalities allowed him to become the “Particles and Additive Manufacturing of Polymers” group leader within Prof. Gökce's chair at the University of Wuppertal (2021-2023). In 2023 was awarded a competitive junior professorship position within the GenT programme of the Valencian Community. Dr. Doñate Buendia develops since January 2024 his research lines at University Jaume I focusing on laser- based nanoparticle synthesis, laser material processing, and fabrication of nanoadditivated functional polymers by additive manufacturing. The work developed during his career has led to 35 peer reviewed publications, 45 contributions to international conferences including 7 as invited speaker and 1 as scientific committee member, and the production of 1 patent.