Niko Hildebrandt is head of the NanoBioPhotonics group (www.nanofret.com) at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) in Orsay, France.

Marcelina Cardoso Dos Santos is postdoctoral researcher in the NanoBioPhotonics group (www.nanofret.com) at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) in Orsay, France.

Alexandra Petreto is graduate student in the NanoBioPhotonics group (www.nanofret.com) at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) in Orsay, France.

Dr. Francesco De Angelis is the director of the Plasmon Technology Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. He got the master degree in Physics in 2000 (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), then he spent a period (PhD) at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies in Rome (IFN-Cnr).

Denis Garoli, born in Padova in the 1979, get a master Degree in Physics in the 2003 at Padova  University. In the 2008 awarded the PhD in Space Science and Technology at University of Padova with a thesis on the development of innovative technologies for the environmental conservation. In 2011 he get a Master Degree in Biotechnology at Padova University. Now is co-PI of the Horizon FET - ProseqO project in IIT.

Professor Hans Lehrach is director (em.) of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. He has held positions at Harvard University (USA), EMBL (Germany) and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK. 

Dino Paladin, PhD, is the founder and Research and Development Director of AB Analitica, an Italian innovation-driven small-medium enterprise focusing on the design, development, production and trade of in vitro medical-diagnostic devices (IVD).

Head of sequencing at Alacris Theranostics since 2012.

Paolo Ponzellini was born in Varese on 1984. He attended his studies in Physics at the University of Milan, graduating in 2014.

Walter Rocchia graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering on July 1996, with a thesis on Quantum Computing. In February 2000, he got a PhD in Electronic Devices at the University of Trento. He then was a Research Scholar at the Biochemistry Department of the Columbia University, developing models to calculate the electrostatic field generated by biological macromolecules in solution.

Isabel Pastor del Campo is postdoctoral researcher in the Small Biosystems Lab (http://ffn.ub.es/ritort/) at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She graduated in Chemistry from the University of Alcala in 1998 and got her PhD degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Miguel Hernandez University in 2007.

Matteo Adini received his master degree at University of Rome "Sapienza" in Genetic and Molecular Biology (2009).

Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto earned his PhD at Macquarie University in 2014. Now, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Plasmon Nanotechnologies unit of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova.

Marc Rico Pastó graduated in Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB, 2013). During his studies he has been Research Assistant in the Small Biosystems Lab, in the Condensed Matter Department at UB working on the synthesis and study of DNA hairpins.

Carmina Verdiá, is postdoctoral in the Small Biosystems Laboratory, at University of Barcelona.   She graduates in Chemistry and holds a Master Degree in Applied Chemistry and Pharmacology.

Carla Verrière Costa student of Applied Physics at the University of Barcelona joined Small Biosystems Lab in March 2017 to perform her Final Degree Project.    

Dr. Felix Ritort carried out his PhD during the years 1989-1991 in theoretical physics in the area of statistical physics. During the years 1992-2002 he made several contributions to the field of disordered systems and nonequilibrium physics. Since 2002 he worked in single-molecule biophysics by manipulating individual nucleic acids and proteins to investigate energy processes in the molecular world.

Teo Puig Walz graduated in Physics at the University of Barcelona with mention in Applied Physics.

Andrea Spitaleri, M.Sc., Ph.D. is a Computational scientist working at the intersection of basic and applied research, with extensive experience in computational chemistry in academia and industry. He has routinely combined computational simulations with experimental observations coming from X-ray and NMR. Degree in Chemistry in 1999 at the University of Pisa.