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Emily Davidson is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. Her group’s research focuses on the directed assembly via 3D printing of nanostructured polymers, the assembly of liquid crystalline materials, and the development and depolymerization of sustainable polymers. Emily received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from MIT in 2010. From 2010-2012, she taught high school chemistry and physics through the Teach for America program. She then performed her graduate research at UC Berkeley (Ph.D. 2016) and UC Santa Barbara with Professor Rachel Segalman, followed by postdoctoral research (2017-2020) at Harvard University with Professor Jennifer Lewis. Emily has received several awards including the Scientista ‘Young Professional’ Award (2019), a DOE Early Career award (2022), and the Princeton School of Engineering Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award (2023).

Prof. Dr. Sandra Van Vlierberghe is a leading researcher in the Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials Group at Ghent University, Belgium. Her work centers around the development of photo-crosslinkable (bio)polymers and their processing through advanced (light-based) 3D printing techniques like DLP, VAM, and deposition-based methods. With over 290 publications and a Web of Science h-index of 51, she has supervised 40 PhD students (20 completed) and edited three books. She holds key roles in professional societies, including treasurer of the Belgian Polymer Group and council member of TERMIS-EU and ESB. Sandra is also president of the TERMIS-EU Communication and Outreach Committee and a founding board member of Ghent Advanced Therapies and Tissue Engineering. She received the prestigious Jean Leray Award from the European Society for Biomaterials in 2017.

David Mecerreyes is an Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director at POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country in Spain. His actual research interests include the design of new polymers for applications in emerging technologies in energy, environment and bioelectronics. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles. His research interests include the design and additive manufacturing of ionic and electronic conducting polymers, redox polymers and ionic soft materials such as eutectogels. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal ACS Applied Polymer Materials.

Tao Xie is Qiushi chair professor at the College of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University. He obtained Ph. D from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. He had since worked at the General Motors Global Research Lab and HRL Laboratories before returning to China in 2013. He is the inventor of over 80 patent and a recipient of Omnova Solution award (2001), R&D 100 award (2013), and Wang Baoren Award (2019, Chinese Chemical Society). He is a fellow of ACS PMSE division and an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

After completing his Diplom and PhD in physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany) in 1986 and 1987, respectively, Martin Wegener spent two years as a postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel (U.S.A.). From 1990-1995 he was professor at Universität Dortmund (Germany), since 1995 he is professor at Institute of Applied Physics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since 2001 he has a joint appointment as department head at Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of KIT, from 2016-2022 he was one of three directors at INT. From 2001-2014 he was the coordinator of the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at KIT. Since 2018 he is spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order.

His research interests comprise ultrafast optics, (extreme) nonlinear optics, optical laser lithography, photonic crystals, optical, mechanical, electronic, and thermodynamic metamaterials, as well as transformation physics.

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Dr. Christopher Williams is the L.S. Randolph Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the Director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory, which team was named the “2023 Academic Research Team of the Year” by 3D Printing Industry. The lab has published over 135 journal articles on topics spanning innovations in additive manufacturing processes and materials, Design for Additive Manufacturing methodologies, and cyber-physical security for AM. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2013) and the 2012 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award. He is a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and a B.S. with High Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida).

Xiao-Hua Qin is an Assistant Professor of Biomaterials Engineering at the Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zurich. He leads a multidisciplinary research team – Biomaterials Engineering and co-leads the Laboratory for Bone Biomechanics, where they develop miniaturized in vitro bone models for medical applications. He serves on the Editorial Board of Biomedical Materials and as a Guest Editor for Biofabrication. His research involves designing novel biomaterials for cutting-edge applications in tissue engineering and high-resolution 3D bioprinting. His contributions have been recognized with several awards, including a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. His research focuses on reconstructing tissue-mimicking 3D microenvironments in vitro to address fundamental questions in bone physiology and pathology, ultimately aiming to create miniature human organoid models for disease modeling and in vitro drug discovery, with minimal reliance on animal experiments.

Dr. Callie Higgins serves as the Material Measurement Laboratory Additive Manufacturing Program Coordinator and Co-Project Leader of the Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO. Additionally, she is an adjunct faculty member at the Colorado School of Mines. Recently, her collaborative work with Co-Project Leader Jason Killgore, investigating the fundamental properties of PAM systems, received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (SAMMIES) for Emerging Leaders, one of the Federal Government’s highest honors. She earned her PhD from CU Boulder’s Department of Electrical Engineering, specializing in optics and material science, focusing on characterizing photopatterned hydrogels for use in regenerative medicine. Outside of the lab, she loves to adventure around the mountains: skiing, hiking, and picnicking all the way up with her husband, kids, friends, and family.

Professor Cyrille Boyer, an Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales, specializes in synthesizing functional macromolecules for applications in nanomedicine, advanced materials, and energy storage. He has pioneered 3D printing methods for precise control over nano- and macro-structures. Boyer’s work has earned him prestigious awards including the 2018 IUPAC-Polymer International Young Researcher award and the 2015 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Science. Consistently recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher since 2018, he is also acknowledged as a leader in polymers and plastics in Australia by the Australian Newspaper.

Michael Gelinsky is Director of the Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany. His lab is developing new biomaterials and tissue engineering strategies, especially for musculoskeletal diseases. The team is also very active in the field of additive manufacturing and especially 3D bioprinting and introduced a number of novel bioinks, mostly for microextrusion technologies. He is interested in combining 3D printing methods and transferring biofabrication technologies to biotechnology and space applications. Currently he is the president of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) and a member of the board of directors of the International Society for Biofabrication (ISBF). In 2020, he was appointed as Fellow Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE) and in 2024 elected as a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech.

Daryl Yee is an assistant professor at EPFL where he runs the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Materials and Manufacturing. His research group focuses on integrating molecular design, materials science, and advanced manufacturing to engineer functional architected materials and devices. He is personally interested in 3D printing unusual or difficult materials. Prior to joining EPFL in 2023, he did his postdoc at MIT on the self-assembly of nanoparticles. He obtained his PhD from Caltech in 2020 on the development of functional materials for additive manufacturing.

Emily Pentzer is 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.

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.

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 >80 papers and several patents and supervised 20 PhD students and 6 postdocs. He received the Jean Leray and Robert Brown awards from the European Society for Biomaterials and from TERMIS, he is member of the Young Academy of Europe, and he serves on the board of directors of the International Society for Biofabrication.

Joanna Ortyl is a professor at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Cracow University of Technology. After her PhD, she completed an internship at the Müenster University of Applied Sciences in the Institute for Optical Technologies (Germany). She completed the Master of Business Economics (MBE) course at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). She worked as a visiting professor at the Institute de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

Her research is based on organic chemistry, photochemistry of small molecules, and photochemistry of polymerization processes, always correlated with practical applications. She is the inventor of more than 30 patents and has received more than 50 international and national awards for her research. She is a laureate of the Rector’s Award of the Cracow University of Technology for 2017.

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Moroni received his Ph.D. cum laude in 2006 at University of Twente on 3D scaffolds for osteochondral regeneration, for which he was awarded the European doctorate award in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from the European Society of Biomaterials (ESB). He works at Maastricht University since 2014. He is founding member and  director of the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine. Since 2019, he is chair of the Complex Tissue Regeneration department. He received the Merck Materials Science lecture award (2023), the mid-term career TERMIS award and Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering as well as Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2024).

He has guided more than 20 PhD, and 15 postdocs. His research group aims at developing biofabrication technologies to generate libraries of 3D biological constructs and scaffolds able to control cell fate, with applications spanning from skeletal to vascular, neural, and organ regeneration. From his research efforts, 3 products have already reached commercial translation.

Dr. Johanna Schwartz grew up in Las Vegas, NV and received her Bachelor’s in chemistry and biology from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow focusing in synthetic organic polymer chemistry, Johanna received her Master’s at University of Washington, Seattle, and her Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison in Prof. AJ Boydston’s group. She started her postdoctoral research at LLNL in Materials for Energy and Climate Security group (led by Dr. Sarah Baker) in 2019 and became a staff scientist in 2022.

She works as a chemistry and materials expert and primary investigator with highly interdisciplinary, collaborative project teams. Her projects include advancing the chemistries of volumetric AM, developing novel multi-wavelength AM methods, as well as developing novel microwave-based AM approaches. She also works with her invented automated, high-throughput materials optimization platform centered on improving polymer and composite materials for diverse energy and LLNL applications.

Dr Katharina Ehrmann leads the research team Additive Manufacturing at TU Wien. Her approach of developing and implementing new photopolymerization strategies for additive manufacturing technologies aims at making new, functional polymers accessible to this versatile manufacturing method. She is particularly interested in microstructured photopolymers, supramolecular photopolymers, multi-material printing, and sustainable material platforms for light-based additive manufacturing.

Katharina has held appointments at the Queensland University of Technology and Technische Universität Wien and is a member of IUPAC’s International Younger Chemists Network, where she served as Treasurer. She has received several prizes and fellowships such as the Christiana Hoerbiger Prize for young researcher mobility, the CAS Future Leaders fellowship, the FFG Innovator Leadership fellowship and the Dr. Ernst-Fehrer Award targeted at scientific advancements, which are particularly promising for applications.

Alshakim Nelson is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004, where he worked with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart. He was then an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology working for Professor Robert Grubbs. Dr. Nelson was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center for 10 years where he focused on the synthesis of nanomaterial building blocks that enabled large area nanomanufacturing via self-assembly. In 2015, Dr. Nelson joined the faculty at the UW, where his research group focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and processing of stimuli-responsive materials for 3D printing biohybrid and bioinspired constructs. Dr. Nelson has over 80 publications and 30 issued patents. His honors and awards include recognition as an IBM Master Inventor, Kavli Foundation Fellow, and NSF CAREER award. He is also an Associate Editor for ACS Macro Letters.

Katrien Bernaerts earned her PhD in Polymer Chemistry at Ghent University (2005, Belgium) under Prof. F. Du Prez. After seven years in industry doing R&D on coatings and fibres, she became an Associate Professor at Maastricht University in 2012, leading the Sustainable Polymer Synthesis group. Her main research focus is on the design and synthesis of sustainable polymer materials with tuneable properties for the circular economy. Sustainability entails biobased building blocks (but no biorefinery) instead of fossil raw materials, green routes for polymer synthesis/processing, as well as (chemical) recycling methods to make the end-of-life of polymers more sustainable. Structure-property relationships of the resulting polymers are evaluated in several fields of application e.g. stimuli-responsive polymers, coatings, fibres, engineering plastics and biomedical materials. Katrien has a growing focus on the use of artificial intelligence techniques to support and accelerate the experimental work, e.g. data interpretation and prediction of structure-property relationships.

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After completing his thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz-Germany 1999-2003) and a postdoctoral stay at the Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry (LCPO-Bordeaux-France 2003-2004), Juan Rodriguez Hernandez joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (2004) where he began his independent research activity, which later continued at the CSIC after his incorporation in 2008. His main research interests include the chemical modification and structuring of polymer surfaces, as well as the design, modification and synthesis of polymers for three main application areas: materials for health, sustainable materials and materials for additive manufacturing. Thus, the applications of the materials developed on their group range from the biomedical field (tissue engineering, antimicrobial materials,…) to the aeronautical sector (manufacturing of elastomeric polymers). He has been author/co-author of 140 scientific articles published in international journals, 39 book chapters and I am co-inventor of 13 granted patents (three of them licensed).

After a PhD in photochemistry in 2002 and a post-doc in Germany, Jacques Lalevée was first recruited as associated professor in 2004 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, then full Professor in 2009.
His research focuses on light and materials, in particular the study of photopolymerization processes. These range from the development of starting materials (photoinitiators, monomers, oligomers, etc.), to the study of photopolymerization reactions and associated photochemical mechanisms, right through to practical applications (coatings, inks, composites, 3D printing, etc.).
Prof. Jacques Lalevée was awarded the National Prize of Polymer in France in 2014 and the Ourisson prize in 2013, and was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Paris) from 2011 to 2016 (Distinguish scientist).
He have published 595 international publication in peer reviewed journal, citations ~21500 for a h-factor = 73.

Joshua C. Worch, PhD., joined the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech (US) as an Assistant Professor of Polymer Chemistry in December 2022. The Worch Lab focuses on sustainability in polymer science using an integrated approach, encompassing polymer synthesis & processing to end-of-life while integrating green chemistry concepts. Materials of interest include dynamic adhesive materials, high-performance composites from native biomass, sustainable resins for additive manufacturing, and recyclable soft electronic materials. Josh completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University synthesizing organic semiconductors with Prof. Kevin Noonan. He then moved to the University of Warwick (UK) where he was awarded a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate stereocontrolled polymerizations using Click chemistry alongside Prof. Andrew P. Dove. The Dove group then moved to the University of Birmingham (UK) where Josh was promoted to Group Leader before returning stateside to join Virginia Tech.

Dr Sandra Camarero-Espinosa is an Ikerbasque Fellow and PI at the POLYMAT institute where she leads the BioSmarTE group. Their research focuses on the regeneration of complex tissues through the design of smart implantable scaffolds. This encompasses the exploitation of biofabrication techniques such as 3D (bio)printing, the design of stimuli responsive systems and the understanding of stem cell processes.
She obtained her PhD in 2015 in Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering from the Adolphe Merkle Institute (Fribourg, Switzerland) and was recognized with an award for an outstanding PhD thesis. In 2015 she moved to Brisbane (Australia) to work at the AIBN Institute (University of Queensland) where she continued her research in instructive scaffolds and their interaction with stem cells. In 2017 the MERLN institute (The Netherlands) where she focused her studies on the fabrication of 3D printed scaffolds for the regeneration of complex tissues.

Virgilio Mattoli received his laurea degree in chemistry from the University of Pisa and the diploma in chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2000. In 2005 he received his PhD in bio-engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. In 2004 he was short term visiting researcher at Stanford University and in 2005 and 2008 at Waseda University. From June 2008 to October 2009 he obtained a temporary position of Assistant Professor of bioengineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA). From 2009 he works at the Center for Materials Interfaces of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, focusing his research on smart/functional materials, first as Team Leader and then as permanent Researcher Technologist.

His research includes: smart nano- and bio-inspired materials, soft electronics, sensors, micro/nano-fabrication technologies, biorobotics. He is involved in several research projects including the EU FET Project 5D NanoPrinting and the EU EIC challenge project IV-Lab, of which he is the coordinator. He is (co)author of more than 180 journal papers and 50 invited talks.

Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos, PhD in Physics from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, completed a postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) working on photopolymers for display applications. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he heads the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory. He focuses on materials developing and processing through advanced AM techniques for surfaces or functional systems in optics, biomedicine, and soft robotics.

He has developed innovative material preparation methodologies, like  the 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), a pioneering technique that introduces smart character into 3D-printed structures, programming the material’s response to external stimuli through AM. He coordinated the H2020-FET-OPEN project PRIME, and the Network of Excellence H2020-MSCA-ITN STORM-BOTS in LCE soft robotics.

Dr. Miryam Criado-Gonzalez is a Ramón y Cajal Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (CSIC), Spain. She leads the research line on smart materials based on polymers and polypeptide gels for biomedical applications. Her research interests include the synthesis of bio-based functional polymers and polypeptides, the study of their self-assembly, the formation of sustainable intelligent gels and their additive manufacturing processes through 3D/4D printing technologies for advanced applications in the biomedical field. She has published > 50 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 22. She received the Young Researcher Award from the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in 2021, the Emakiker researcher position from POLYMAT in 2022, and the Outstanding Referee recognition from Nature Communications Materials in 2024.

Yinyin Bao is a group leader and lecturer at ETH Zürich. Dr. Bao received his PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 2012. Then he completed a postdoctoral research at KU Leuven, and in 2014 became a Marie Curie IntraEurapean Fellow of CNRS at the University of Paris Sud. In 2016 he joined the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich, and was later promoted to a senior researcher position. Starting from January 2025, Dr. Bao will join University of Helsinki as an Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry, and continue the role at ETH as a guest scientist. His research interests remain light-emitting materials, polymer nanomedicine and 3D printing.

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.

Leah Appelhans is a staff scientist at Sandia National Labs where she leads a group focused on the development of new materials for additive manufacturing and other applications. She received a B.A. in Chemistry from Macalester College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University, and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Materials Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before joining Sandia. Her research interests include developing polymer and hybrid metal-organic materials for a range of applications, including additive manufacturing, polymer dielectrics and encapsulants, and polymer and metal-organic materials for use in chemical sensing devices.

Professor Andreas Heise is heading the Polymer Chemistry and Biopolymer group in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). His research interest is set around the rational design of polymers for biomedical applications. Recently this included the use of advanced 3D printing techniques for the fabrication of 3D and 4D objects from nature-inspired building blocks. One specific focus in his research group is the 3D printing of polypeptide hydrogels for tissue engineering applications. In another line of research, the Heise group is investigating the implementation of renewable feedstock as sustainable 3D printing resins. Prof. Heise currently serves as the project coordinator of a European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder project on 3D printing of polypeptides.

Marco Sangermano is a Full Professor of polymer science and technology at Politecnico di Torino, where he leads the Photopolymer lab. His research activity is focused on photopolymerization and its application on the fabrication of advanced hybrid materials, coatings, membranes, 3D printing and UV-Cured scaffold for tissue engineering. He is also working on the development of new monomers from bio renewable resources to be used in the production of more environmentally friendly materials. He currently collaborates with numerous academic and the R&D of many corporate partners worldwide. He is co-author of over 300 papers and several patents.

Matthew L. Becker is the Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering & Material Science, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University. His multidisciplinary research team is focused on developing bioactive polymers which address unmet medical needs at the interface of chemistry, materials and medicine. His team has developed a number or new resorbable resins for additive manufacturing and is demonstrating their utility in pre-clinical bone defect, vascular remodeling and women’s health applications. He is a Kavli Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering and the American Chemical Society. He is an Associate Editor for Biomacromolecules and founder of Viamer Biosciences. He is the author of over 220 publications and over 100 patents.

Dr. Antonio Domínguez-Alfaro is a Momentum Fellow at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (CSIC), Spain. He is a multidisciplinary scientist working at the interface between chemistry, engineering, manufacturing, and biology. His research interests include the synthesis and application of conducting polymers for bioelectronics. In particular, he is focused on the use of additive manufacturing, especially multi-material printing, as an alternative pathway to costly cleanroom facilities, pursuing more universal, versatile, and cost-effective devices in biomedicine. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 19.

Zachariah A. Page is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin, where his research program develops light-driven approaches to make and manipulate plastics for applications in soft robotics and wearable electronics. Dr. Page earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Juniata College, and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with Prof. Todd Emrick. Dr. Page then went on to train as a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Craig Hawker at the University of California Santa Barbara. He joined UT Austin in 2018 where he has directed a research program centered around photoredox catalysis, polymer synthesis, and additive manufacturing. Dr. Page has been recognized by several awards, including the Sloan Award (2024), Mark Young Scholar Award (2024), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2023), Cottrell Scholar Award (2022), DoD AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2021), and NSF CAREER Award (2021).

Dr. Michael J. Bortner is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering, the Director of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering (MACR) graduate program, and the Associate Director of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII) at Virginia Tech (VT). Prior to joining VT, Mike spent 10 years in industry focusing on manufacturing process development for novel polymer nanocomposites. His current research efforts at VT are focused on rheology informed methods for development of materials and process technologies, and computational methodologies, to advance the state of the art in polymer based additive manufacturing and cellulose nanomaterials: production, characterization and CNC/polymer composite materials development. He has served as an associate editor of the journal Additive Manufacturing and is the chair-elect of the Cellulose and Renewable Materials (CELL) division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).