Sreenath K. Manikandan is a Reader at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad. Before this, he was a researcher in theoretical physics at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Stockholm, Sweden, in the group of Prof. Frank Wilczek. Sreenath received his PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester in 2021 where he worked with Prof. Andrew N. Jordan and subsequently completed three years of the Wallenberg Initiative on Networks and Quantum Information (WINQ) fellowship at Nordita. Sreenath works broadly in theoretical quantum physics, with an emphasis on quantum technologies for fundamental and applied physics. His areas of research include quantum measurements and control, quantum sensing, quantum mechanics of sources and resonant detectors for quantized radiation fields, quantum thermodynamics, nanoscale quantum devices, quantum analogies, and tabletop tests for low-energy signatures of gravity in the quantum regime.

Athulya K P is a postdoctoral fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Hyderabad. She received her PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram in 2023, where she worked with Prof. Anil Shaji. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, where she worked with Prof. Sibasish Ghosh. Athulya works broadly in quantum information theory, with research interests in open quantum systems, continuous-variable quantum information, and quantum optics. Her work focuses on understanding dissipation in open quantum systems using quantum master equations, continuous-variable quantum key distribution, and the characterization of radiation fields using resonant detectors.