Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi is an Ikerbasque Research Associate and Ramon y Cajal Fellow leading the Hybrid Biofunctional Materials group at CIC biomaGUNE. She received a joint PhD from Philipps University of Marburg and University of the Basque Country. She trained as a postdoc in the group of Prof. L. Liz-Marzán, specializing in the synthesis and functionalization of colloidal plasmonic nanoparticles. She has a broad expertise on hybrid nanostructured materials for bio-applications. Her group is focused on the development of functional hybrid inks for the biofabrication of 3D dynamic in vitro models and on the development of contrast agents and/or biosensors to understand such models and different biological processes.

Riccardo Levato is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, at the University Medical Center Utrecht, and at the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht (Netherlands). His research focuses on developing lab-made tissues and designer organoids for personalized therapies and regenerative medicine, and as advanced in vitro models for drug discovery. His team develops advanced light-based printing techniques and high-throughput volumetric printing, in combination with smart cell-instructive biomaterials. Key applications include musculoskeletal, liver, pancreas and vascular tissue engineering.

He co-authored >90 papers and several patents and supervised 25 PhD students and 11 postdocs. He received the Jean Leray and Robert Brown awards from the European Society for Biomaterials and from TERMIS, the mid-career investigator award from the International Society for Biofabrication, and the 2025 O&J Peters International prize for research in production engineering. He is a two-times ERC laureate, and he serves on the board of directors of the International Society for Biofabrication.

Christophe Moser is Full Professor of Electrical and MicroEngineering at EPFL. He obtained his master and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Caltech in 2000. He was the co-founder and CEO of Ondax from 2000-2010 before joining the Faculty at EPFL. He is known for advancing significantly the area of volume-holographic optical devices by building two successful companies: Ondax Inc., acquired by Coherent and Composyt Light labs, acquired by Intel Corporation.

His current research include 1. Volumetric Additive manufacturing (VAM) using single and two photons. 2. Using optics to do computing for AI to increase processing speed and lower power consumption. 3. wavefront shaping to turn multimode fibers into the thinnest endoscopic microscopes. He is the author and co-author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and over 60 patents.

Emily Pentzer is Senior Associate Dean for Research at the College of Arts & Sciences and professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA where she is also a Presidential Impact Fellow. Her work addresses the design, synthesis, and application of composite polymer materials for energy related applications, converging synthesis and processing. Prof. Pentzer currently serves as the inaugural Editor in Chief of RSC Applied Polymers (since 2023) and is a member of the 3rd cohort of the New Voices program at the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Haritz Sardon is an associate professor at the University of Basque Country since 2021 and a Group leader at POLYMAT. He graduated from the University of Basque Country in 2011 with honors before joining the group of Dr. Hedrick at IBM-­‐Almaden Research Center as a postdoc in 2012, where he spent 2 years. He has participated in 145 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 70 as corresponding authors. The impact of his work can be measured by increasing the number of citations near 2000 in 2023. He has been awarded several awards including the ACS Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, the Excellence of Young Researcher in Chemistry Award by the Spanish Royal Society (2021) and the Excellence of Young Researcher in Polymers Award by the Grupo Español de Polímeros (2020).

Hartiz’s overall research aims to prepare new functional polymeric materials using sustainable polymerization processes. Specifically, his investigations involve the use of green polymerization processes such as monomers from plastic recycling, reagents from renewable sources or the use of less hazardous organocatalysts.