CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia Technology Park, Spain, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain;
Jesús Jiménez-Barbero is Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director of CIC bioGUNE since 2014. He received his PhD in 1987. He later spent pre- and post-doc stages (1988-1992) at CERMAV-CNRS; Univ Zurich; National Institute for Medical Research, and Carnegie Mellon. Before moving to CIC bioGUNE where he has led its recognition as Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence in 2017 and 2022, he was CSIC Research Professor at CIB-CSIC (2002-14). Previously, he was CSIC tenured (1992-96) and senior scientist (1996-2002), and Visiting Professor at École Normale Supérieure (2004), Sorbonne (2009), Milano Bicocca (2009-12). Now at the University Basque Country since 2016.

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Director. Department of Biomolecular Systems, Free University Berlin, Professor. Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry;
Peter H. Seeberger, a chemist, was a tenured professor at MIT and ETH Zurich before becoming director at the Max-Planck Institute in Potsdam in 2009. Since 2021, he is a Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and since 2023 the Founding Director of the Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC) that received initial funding of €1.25 billion. His research spanning topics from engineering to immunology has been documented in >670 journal articles and >60 patents was recognized with >40 international awards. Peter Seeberger supports open access publishing as the Editor-in-Chief of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is a co-founder of the Tesfa-Ilg Foundation that works in Ethiopia and nine successful companies.

Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Biobased Systems, Graz University of Technology, Austria;
Tanja M. Wrodnigg received her Ph.D. in 1999 at Graz University of Technology in Austria in the field of Glycochemistry supervised by Arnold E. Stütz. From 2001 – 2003 she joined Prof. Stephen Withers at UBS in Vancouver University of British Columbis where she worked on the synthesis for glycosynthases and their biological investigation. Back in Austria she started her independent career at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and in 2008 she received her Habilitation in Organic Chemistry, Glycochemistry. In 2020 Tanja was appointed as full professor for Glycochemistry at Graz University of Technology and established the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Biobased Systems at TU Graz. Research interest is the design of efficient and concise synthetic approach of biological active glycomimetics, carbohydrate processing enzyme inhibitors, probes for activity based protein profiling, lectin ligands, biological active materials, method development for polysaccharides modification.