Jenny Y. Yang received her B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Chemistry. After working as a postdoctoral scholar and scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and scientist at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, where she now holds the rank of Professor. Her current interests include reactions relevant to greenhouse gas remediation, carbon neutral fuel generation, bio-inspired catalysis, and electrochemical separations.

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Erwin Reisner is the Professor of Energy and Sustainability in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. He is also a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is an expert in renewable energy technologies and sustainable chemistry, in particular the sunlight-powered production of sustainable fuels and platform chemicals. His cross-disciplinary research into solar chemistry and circular chemical technologies focuses on the capture and utilisation of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as well as the valorisation of plastics and biomass waste to produce green fuels and chemicals for a net zero future.

Prof. Lloret-Fillol completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Valencia. He subsequently joined Prof. L.H. Gade's group at the University of Heidelberg as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. In 2010, he launched his independent research career, mentored by Prof. M. Costas under the Ramón y Cajal program at the University of Girona. By 2014, he was appointed Group Leader at the Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ), and in 2015, he became an ICREA Research Professor. That same year, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant. His research focuses on artificial photosynthesis and catalysis. Recently, he was awarded the Ramon Areces Grant in 2022 and the GEQO Research Excellence Award in 2023. As a result of his research at ICIQ, he co-founded two spin-offs, Treellum Technologies and JOLT Solutions.

​Kylie Vincent is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Associate Head of Department for People, with an equality, diversity and inclusion remit. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and then took up postdoctoral work with Prof. Fraser Armstrong at the University of Oxford. She held fellowships from the Royal Society and Research Councils UK before she was appointed Lecturer/Associate Professor in Oxford in 2013, and Professor in 2018. Her research interests are in the mechanism of hydrogenases and other metalloenzymes, and hydrogen-driven biotechnology for cleaner chemical manufacturing. She co-founded the University spin-out company, HydRegen, in 2021, where she serves as a Director.

Vincent Artero was born in 1973. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm; D/S 93) and of the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). He received the Ph.D. degree in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. A. Proust. His doctoral work dealt with organometallic derivatives of polyoxometalates. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Aachen (Aix la Chapelle) with Prof. U. Kölle, he joined in 2001 the group of Prof. M. Fontecave in Grenoble with a junior scientist position in the Life  Science Division of CEA. In 2016, he became Research Director at CEA. In addition to the SolHyCat group, he now leads the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals. His research interests are in bio-inspired chemistry including catalysis related to hydrogen energy and artificial photosynthesis.

Franc Meyer is Full Professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen (Germany) since 2001. His group's research focuses on coordination complexes of abundant metals (Fe, Ni, Cu) for the bioinspired activation of small molecules (O2, N2, CO2, NO), on electron and proton transfer reactivities for energy applications, and on cooperative effects in bimetallic complexes and molecular switches of 3d metals. He is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2022, he was awarded the Inorganic Chemistry Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). He has been associate editor of Inorganic Chemistry (ACS) since 2013, and of ACS Organic & Inorganic Au since 2021.