Mark H. Rümmeli earned his PhD from London Metropolitan University. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at the Institute of Space Sensor technology and Planetary Exploration. He then headed the Molecular Nanostructures group at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden. Currently he is a full professor at the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He is also head of the Structural Analysis Group at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), an Institute of Basic Sciences (IBS) in South Korea. His research interests include understanding nanostructure growth, advanced techniques for their functionalization and the development of in situ characterization to better understand their structure-property relationships. Dr Alicja Bachmatiuk studied Chemical Technology at Szczecin University of Technology in Poland, where she continued studies for her PhD.

She then joined the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany as a Marie Curie Fellow and then as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Currently she is a research professor in the Structural Analysis Group at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), an Institute of Basic Sciences (IBS) in South Korea. In addition, she heads the graphene group at the Laboratory of Carbon and Polymer-Carbon Materials at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Zabrze, Poland. Her scientific interests include the synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanomaterials and their application potential. She is also developing in situ Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy to better understand the synthesis of nanomaterials.