Nicola Armaroli is a senior researcher at the Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His scientific activity is concerned with the photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds, carbon nanostructures and supramolecular materials, with focus on luminescence and photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer. He was awarded the 2001 Grammaticakis-Neumann International Prize in Photochemistry and the Premio Letterario Galileo 2009 for science divulgation. || www ||
	José Manuel Gaspar Martinho is Full Professor at Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He is the author of more than 100 publications in international journals. In 2003 he has been awarded with the Solvay Ideas Challenge Prize. His main research interests include chemical kinetics, energy transfer, dynamics of polymer chains and colloids. || www ||
	José Miguel Doña Rodríguez is Full Professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His main research interests include physical-chemistry, electrochemistry, semiconductors, chemistry of the solid state, photocatalysis, wastewater treatment and environment. He is author of several publications in prestigious international journals. || www ||
	Luís Arnaut is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra. His main research interests include the study of chemical reactivity, medicinal chemistry and chemical technology. He was awarded with the Gulbenkian Prize for Science in 1994, the BES Grand Prize in Innovation in 2008 and the AVCRI ("Agencia de Valorización y Comercialización de los Resultados de la Investigación") award in 2010. || www ||
	Luís Carlos is Professor Catedrático in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro. His current scientific activities include (i) Light emission of organic-inorganic hybrids, silicates, nanocrystals and metal organic frameworks; (ii) Self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids; (iii) Applications of organic-inorganic hybrids in solid-state lighting and integrated optics; (iv) Crystal-field, local coordination and energy transfer in lanthanide-based compounds; (v) luminescent, magnetic and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging. || www ||
	Uwe Pischel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Huelva, Spain. His current research interests include molecular logic devices and the application of fluorescent probes for sensing and the development of molecular switches. In 2002 he was awarded the Prize of the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences of the University of Basel and in 2003 the Albert-Weller-Prize of the Photochemistry Group of the German Chemical Society. || www ||
	Carlos Baleizão is an Assistant Researcher of IST at Centro de Química-Física Molecular and member of the Associated Laboratory IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His current research interests include optical fluorescence sensors and nanostructured hybrid materials for energy and photodynamic therapy. || www ||
	César Laia is an Assistant Researcher at REQUIMTE/CQFB (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). His main research interests are photochemistry in colloidal systems, luminescence in non-crystalline solids and chromogenic materials (photochromism, thermochromism and electrochromism). He is author of several publications in prestigious international journals. || www ||
	Moisés Canle López is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of A Coruña. He is currently coordinator of the Masters Degree in Environmental & Fundamental Chemistry, and Vice-Dean of Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences. His main research interests focus on the mechanisms of degradation of water pollutants and on the development of new clean and sustainable technologies for the degradation of persistent organic pollutants, with a special focus on photoreactivity. He has also made contributions to the understanding of the chemistry lying behind the oxidative cell-damage induced by radicals, halogen-based oxidants and reactive oxygen species. In addition, he is interested in scientific communication, with special emphasis on the divulgation and socialization of Chemistry. || www ||
	Verónica de Zea Bermudez is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Chemistry Department of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). Her scientific activity has evolved through the synthesis and characterization of sol-gel derived organic/inorganic hybrids with applications in the domains of solid state electrochemistry (batteries, electrochromic devices and fuel cells), optics and magnetism. In recent years particular emphasis has been given to the development of complex hierarchically structured ordered hybrid materials derived from silsesquioxanes and organosilanes prepared through the combination of sol-gel chemistry and self-assembly routes. Current interests are directed to the bio-inspired deposition of biominerals on biopolymers and biohybrids for biomedical applications. || www ||