Edward H. Sargent is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (2005) has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Korean and Arabic. He is a Founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, Inc.

Gerasimos Konstantatos is an Assistant Professor at the Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO) in Barcelona. His research interests lie in the area of nanomaterials and nanostructures for optoelectronics and solar cell applications. His expertise is in the field of colloidal quantum dots and his work has been published in a series of journals and received broad media coverage.