Diletta Martinelli is an assistant professor working at the University of Amsterdam, her field of research is algebraic geometry with a special focus on higher dimensional birational geometry and the Minimal Model Program. She graduated from Imperial College London in November 2016 and she then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh, MSRI Berkeley and the University of Glasgow, before arriving in Amsterdam in October 2019. In the past years she has been involved in a variety of projects in the Global South. She taught masterclasses in several African countries and in Pakistan and has supervised several international students. She is now leading a project involving several international partners aimed at creating a new mathematics master program at the University of Rwanda in Kigali. Since November 2023 she has an official appointment for the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam to coordinate academic projects in collaboration with institutions in the Global South.

Federica Pasquotto received her PhD in 2004 from Leiden University, where she worked under the supervision of Hansjoerg Geiges. She has been working on Leiden, Cologne and Amsterdam. Her research interests lie in symplectic topology: in particular, she works on applications of symplectic and contact topology to Hamiltonian dynamics, and on symplectic topology of isolated algerbaic singularities. She is currently assistant professor and student coach at Leiden University.

Alice Pozzi is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. She is interested in algebraic number theory, with a focus on questions about special values of L-functions, the Langlands program, and explicit class field theory via p-adic methods. She earned her PhD from McGill University in 2019, with a thesis on the geometry of the eigencurve at Eisenstein weight one points, supervised by Henri Darmon and Payman Kassaei. After holding postdoctoral positions at University College London and Imperial College London, she began her current role as a lecturer at Bristol in 2023.

Jenny is the Maths Adviser within the Student Learning Development team at the University of Glasgow where her role involves supporting students from across the whole university with the mathematical elements of their studies. Prior to this, Jenny completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Michael Wemyss and has three years of postdoc experience. During this time, her research lay in representation theory and was inspired by the interplay between noncommutative algebra and birational geometry.