Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz holds a PhD in Chemistry (2006) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). His post-doctoral period (2007-2010) was granted by a Juan de la Cierva Research Fellowship at the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (Spain) in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (Spain), including a stay at the Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). He joined then Prof. Merkoçi's group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Spain) as Senior Researcher (2011 to 2017) followed by a stay at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) (2017-2018). In 2018 he returned to the University of Oviedo (Spain) as Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow.

Prof. Robert S. Marks is a Full Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, at the Department of Biotechnology Engineering, where he created the interdisciplinary Biosensors Laboratory. He was the Chair of the Department. In his PhD he worked on an oral vaccine candidate to cholera under the guidance of Prof. Michael Sela and David Mirelman. He was previously Visiting Adjunct Professor in the NTU-MSE, and a program co-founder and coordinator of the multidisciplinary Singapore NRF CREATE program “Nanomaterials for Water and Energy Management”. Robert has co-founded, and is the originator of the technologies, for several startups, including Life Matters Ltd, Polyrizon Ltd (Israel), and Biosensorix Pte Ltd (Singapore). His research includes chemiluminescent-based optical immunosensors to pathogen-elicited antibodies (Ebola virus, West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic Fever), amperometric immunosensors, Electrolateral flow immunosensor, capture flow immunoassay, stackpad immunoassay, luminescent primed neutrophil diagnostics, monitoring water pollution via fiber-optic probes glowing in the presence of toxicants through their associated luminescent bacteria (water on-line monitoring and air toxicity monitoring). His group participated in developing biochips enzyme nanolithography, nanofluidics, light-sensitive tissue sutures for surgery, and anti-biofilm materials. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a 2007 2-volume Wiley Handbook in Biosensors and Biochips, edited 5 other books, and founded the Pan Stanford book series ‘the high-tech of biotech’. His is the author of 230+ papers, not counting book chapters. He has 8 issued patents, as well as, a dozen filed. Most of his developed biosensors were published and validated with real life samples

After his Bachelor studies in Chemistry where he worked with enzymes inhibition, for his Master studies in Analytical Chemistry he worked at the development of a pH sensor in the group of Professor Di Francesco. He spent a one year fellowship improving his electrochemistry knowledge performing electrochemical investigations of surfaces. He did his PhD in the work group of Prof. Fabio Di Francesco at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa where he worked at the development of sensors array for athlete’s performances monitoring during training sessions.