Sara Angela received her PhD from Università dell'Insubria (Como, Italy), under the supervision of Bert van Geemen, in 2013. She held postdoctoral positions in Toronto, Zurich, Marseille, London and Krakow. She works on problems in enumerative geometry related to mirror symmetry and in commutative algebra related to representation theory. Since 2022 she is an assistant professor at Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy).

Ailsa Keating works on problems in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Paul Seidel, in 2014. She then held postdoctoral positions at Columbia University and the Institute for Advanced Studies before joining the mathematics faculty at University of Cambridge in 2017.

Margarida obtained her undergraduate degree in category theory at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2004 and got a PhD in Algebraic Geometry at Roma Tre in 2009 under the supervision of Lucia Caporaso. She works in Moduli Spaces of curves, Jacobians and Abelian Varieties: their modular compactifications along with their tropical counterparts. She held permanent positions at the University of Coimbra and at the University of Roma Tre. Margarida has a full professor position at Roma Tre since last year.

Eugenia was born in Iași, Romania, and completed her bachelor studies at Jacobs University in Bremen, followed by a PhD in Berkeley. Since 2022 she is a (tenured) Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research is concerned with arithmetic aspects of automorphic representations and Shimura varieties, computing central values of L-functions, questions related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, modular forms and Maass forms. 

Lola Thompson is an associate professor of mathematics at Utrecht University. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago. She went on to receive a PhD in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2012. Following her PhD, she was a postdoc at the University of Georgia, and then she spent seven years in a teaching-focused position at Oberlin College, earning tenure in 2019. Her research is in analytic number theory, with connections to algorithmic number theory and spectral geometry. In her spare time, she enjoys singing, dancing, and traveling. She has written about her non-traditional path towards a mathematical career in “Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey.” 

After obtaining her master's degree at the University of Leiden, Rosa worked for two years in a government traineeship combining teaching in a high school with a leadership program and an internship in a company. She really enjoyed teaching but also missed math, so she started a PhD afterwards and obtained her doctorate in 2016 from the University of Leiden. Rosa has since held postdoc positions in Leipzig (MPI-MiS), London (KCL), and is currently a postdoc at the FernUni Schweiz in Switzerland.