Valentine I. Vullev received the B.S. degree in chemistry and physics from Keene State College, St. Keene, NH, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, where his research was in the area of photochemistry and biophysics. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, his research expanded into the areas of surface chemistry and microfluidics. He is currently an Associate Professor in bioengineering, chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. His current areas of research encompass photoinduced charge transfer in engineered bioinspired electrets, optomicrofluidics, photoactive and bioactive interfaces, and photophysics of organic agents for imaging and other biomedical applications.

Ognjen Š. Miljanić was born in 1978 in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia. He studied Chemistry at the University of Belgrade, before moving to California in 2000, where he completed his PhD in 2005 at UC Berkeley with Prof. Peter Vollhardt. Between 2005 and 2008, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Sir Fraser Stoddart (2016 Nobel Laureate) at UCLA. Since 2008, he has been a faculty at the University of Houston, where he is currently a Moores Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean for Research. His research team studies porous molecular crystals, complex chemical mixtures, and environmental chemistry. He has been honored with a number of awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers, and a CAREER award of the US National Science Foundation. He has delivered more than 150 invited lectures on his research at universities and conferences in over 30 countries and published more than 100 articles in international literature. His first book, titled Introduction to Energy and Sustainability, was published by Wiley in 2021.

Born in Iași, Romania in 1971, he graduated from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in 1994. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the École polytechnique, obtaining his Master's degree in organic and organometallic chemistry in 1995 and PhD in Chemistry in 1998. He researches on molecular materials, coordination chemistry, and chirality, including tetrathiafulvalene derivatives, metal dithiolene complexes, functional helicenes, and coordination polymers. Silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad, Halle (1989) Award of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (2007) Gheorghe Spacu medal of the Romanian Chemical Society (2007)

Bartolo received the degree in Chemistry (with honors) in 1990 from the University of Calabria (Italy), where he completed his PhD in 1994. In 1991, he joined the Professor Chiusoli's group at the University of Parma (Italy) for 7 months, working on the development of new catalytic systems for carbonylation reactions. In 1995, he became a Researcher in the field of Organic Chemistry at the University of Calabria. In 1997, he joined Professor Ronald Breslow's group at Columbia University (New York, USA) for 1 year as a NATO-CNR fellow; during this period, he worked on the development of new artificial enzymes. In 1998, he went back to the University of Calabria, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and to Full Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2006. Since 2006 to 2012, he was the Coordinator of the PhD course "Methodologies for the Development of Molecules of Pharmacological Interest" - University of Calabria. Professor Gabriele has been invited speaker in the framework of the Erasmus Project, in PhD Schools, and in National and International Conferences. He is an international referee and editor in the field of Organic, Multidisciplinary and Materials Chemistry. His current scientific production includes 276 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 21 chapters in international books, 20 industrial patents, and more than 350 communications in national or international conferences. (H-index: 59, total citations: 10975; Scopus, 19.10.2026). Prof. Gabriele received the “Research Award” in 2013 from the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society in the field "Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Methodologies and Products)" and the “Senior Award” in the field of Organometallic Chemistry in 2024 from the Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society. From 2019 to date, he has been consistently included in the Stanford-Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientist list.

Prof. Konstantin Volcho is a distinguished academic researcher with a strong focus on medicinal chemistry and natural products. The main scientific results are related to the development of new physiologically active compounds based on natural substances and their analogues. Particular attention is also paid to the development of approaches for targeted selective catalytic transformations of natural compounds and their derivatives into new chiral substances, promising for the study of their biological activity. His work has been recognized by prestigious institutions such as the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University, where he has been involved in groundbreaking research and innovation. Scientific achievements: Unique synthetic approaches have been developed that allow catalytic transformation of monoterpenoids and available natural substances to obtain a variety of compounds that are promising for the study of their biological activity. As a result of the studies carried out, a compound with outstanding antiparkinsonian activity, Prottremine®, which is the first in its class to successfully pass the first phase of clinical trials, and analgetic drug "Metomenol® has been recently approved as a veterinary drug. Moreover, substances with high neuroprotective, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, analgesic, antitumor and antiviral properties, were found. More than 300 articles have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, more than 60 patents have been obtained, mainly protecting new physiologically active compounds. List of awards: Medal of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation "For Impeccable Work and Distinction" III degree. Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Academy of Sciences".

Vera Vil’s fundamental research focuses on the creation of new bonds using peroxides, the study of the mechanisms of these reactions and their control, as well as the formation of new chemical bonds using another “ideal oxidant” — electric current. Vera Vil’s work has already found applications in several areas of chemical technology. The reactions she discovered are used to create and produce new materials based on cross-linked polyethylene macromolecules (for example, for the cable industry), as well as plant protection products. The VYZOV Prize is awarded for developing methods of chemical bond construction using electric current and organic peroxides. Vera A. Vil’ was born in 1990 in Angarsk. In 2007, she enrolled at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies and Biomedical Products. Since 2012, Vera Vil’ has been working at the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS. She defended her PhD in 2017 and her Doctor of Chemistry degree in October 2025. She currently leads the Laboratory of Industrially Useful Products Chemistry at Zelinsky Institute. In 2024, Vera Vil’ won a competition to establish youth laboratories in the field of “Low-tonnage Chemistry”.