Prof. Neil Robertson is a Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, where he leads the Robertson Research Group. He graduated with a BSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh and carried out post-doctoral research at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Wales, Bangor. His research focuses on the synthesis, characterisation, and application of new materials for energy conversion and storage, including lithium-ion, lithium-sulphur, sodium-ion, and zinc-ion battery electrode materials, supercapacitor and pseudocapacitor electrodes, and dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells. He currently serves as Dean of International Partnerships for the College of Science & Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, and as President Elect of the Materials Chemistry Community of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has collaborated with several industrial partners on battery and solar energy technologies.

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, and elected President of the Indian National Science Academy (2023–25). He served as Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science and Technology, from 2015 to 2021, where he initiated landmark programs in quantum technologies, clean energy, innovation, and international scientific collaborations. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers with over 20,000 citations, filed 15 patents, and is the founding coordinator of the Nanosciences Centre and Advanced Imaging Centre at IIT Kanpur. His numerous honours include the Padma Shri, the inaugural Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, the TWAS Science Prize, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and the UNESCO Medal for Contribution to Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Prof. Dipankar Das Sarma (popularly known as D.D. Sarma) is an Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), IISc Bangalore, where he spent over three decades as a faculty member. He obtained his Integrated MSc in Physics from IIT Kanpur (1977) and his PhD from IISc Bangalore (1982), and is a world leader in three distinct research areas: strongly correlated electron systems, semiconductor nanoparticles, and energy materials. His honours include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1994), TWAS Prize in Physics (2007), the UNESCO Biennial Javed Husain Prize, and the Italian Government's Knight of "The Order of the Star of Italy" (2014). He has garnered over 22,900 citations with an h-index of 78, and serves as Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters. He is a Fellow of all four major Indian science academies.