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CNRS, Aix-Marseille Univ. AMUtech, ICR, France

Didier Gigmes is a CNRS research director working at Institute of Radical Chemistry (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France). His research activity concerns the development of new methodologies for the synthesis of advanced polymers finding applications in the fields of energy, environment and health. In 1998, he received his PhD in organic chemistry at Paul Cézanne University (Marseille, France). Then he moved to Elf Atochem North-America (Pennsylvania, USA) as post-doctoral fellow to work on controlled radical polymerization. In 2001, he was recruited as CNRS researcher and promoted Research Director in 2010. In 2022, he received the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) silver medal.

Université de Bordeaux - CNRS | Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France

Serge Ravaine is a former student of the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux. He received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Bordeaux in 1996. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Florida in Professor Dan Talham’s research group, he joined the University of Bordeaux in 1997 as an assistant Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2004. He was appointed visiting Professor at the National University of the Littoral, Argentina, in 2009. Serge Ravaine specializes in physical & colloid chemistry. He prepares colloidal particles of different shapes, sizes, materials and interactions and studies their assembly. In addition, he develops fabrication routes of colloidal photonic crystals and characterizes their optical properties. He is co-author of 185 scientific publications and he has worked with 20 postdoctoral associates and 30 doctoral students.

University of Fribourg | Dept. Physics, Switzerland

Since 2018 Guillermo Pedro Acuna is a Full Professor at the Physics department of the University of Fribourg where he leads the Photonic Nanosystems group.
He has pioneered the use of the DNA origami technique for nanophotonics focusing on the fabrication of optical antennas for enhanced spectroscopies. Prof. Acuna obtained his Physics diploma at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2005) and his PhD degree at the LMU München (2010) under the supervision of Prof. Roland Kersting. He has done a Post-Doc at Prof. Hermann Gaub´s chair for Bio-physics at the LMU München (2010). From 2011 till 2017 he was group leader at Prof. Philip Tinnefeld´s chair at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 2018, Prof. Acuna obtained a Full Professor (W3) position at the University of Rostock.
His main interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, DNA nanotechnology, nanoscopy, single molecule techniques and sensing.