Tasrina Rabia Choudhury is a Bangladeshi chemist with a PhD (2015) and a MSc (2005) in applied chemistry and chemical engineering, both from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. From the same university she also earned a BSc with honors (2003) in applied chemistry and chemical technology. She is currently working as a principal scientific officer and technical manager in analytical chemistry laboratory (accredited on ISO/IEC 17025:2005), Chemistry Division, Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka, and is involved in the development, validation and accreditation of methods for the analysis of major, minor, trace essential and toxic elements in different environmental, food and biological samples and the impact of these elements on human health and diseases. Other interests involve non-communicable diseases and analysis of trace/heavy metals in samples for regular monitoring purposes using ICP-MS, ICP-OES, Flame-AAS, Graphite Furnace-AAS, Hydride Generation-AAS, and UV-Visible techniques. She is also a member of OWSD, INGSA-ASIA, Bangladesh Chemical Society and NITUB. Among her awards: BAS Gold Medal Award in Physical Sciences group (2018) from Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.

Sabrina Moriom Elias is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Life Sciences at the Independent University, Bangladesh. Her teaching focuses on genomics, bioinformatics, biostatistics and plant biotechnology. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She earned a PhD focusing plant genomics and quantitative genetics from the University of Dhaka. Her research interests are focused on functional genomics studies using gene editing and cloning technologies for development of climate-resilient crops. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in a continuation of the PhD project and was chosen for the Beachell Borlaug International Scholar impact award from Bayer in 2020. She worked as a researcher in National Jute genome project, Plant Biotechnology Laboratory at Australian National University, as a guest faculty in University of Dhaka, and cBLAST—an online bioinformatics course platform. She is a member of the Global Young Academy and current Secretary of the National Young Academy of Bangladesh.

Taufiqul Islam graduated in medicine from Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, University of Dhaka (2008). He earned a master in public health (2016) from the American International University-Bangladesh and a Diploma in vaccinology from the Institute Pasteur, Paris, France. In 2020, he entered a PhD program at Griffith University, South East Queensland, Australia. His research interests include vaccine studies on Japan encephalitis, flu, and oral poliovirus vaccine. He was involved in Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) studies in urban settings. Islam contributed to setting the Cholera Vaccine Investment Strategy to enhance the cholera control program in Bangladesh. He is actively involved in the safety evaluation of OCV in pregnant women. He has expanded his scientific interests, which include vaccine delivery and surveillance in the complex humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. His work aims at controlling endemic cholera in Bangladesh, to help achieve the 'Ending Cholera: A Global Roadmap to 2030' target. His scientific interest also covers the evaluation of vaccine co-administration. Islam has contributed to 30 research articles, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals.

Jigme Tenzin has been working with the Department of Forests and Park Services since 2009, starting programmes that can be considered a pioneer contribution to science in Bhutan. He holds a PhD (2016) in forest management from the University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He also has a MSc in Forest Management from the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun, India (2008) and a BSc in botany, zoology and chemistry from the Sherubtse College, Kanglung, Bhutan (2005). He has received awards and honours such as the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship (2011) and the Netherland Fellowship Program Awards (NUFFIC), in 2013. In 2014 he was promoted to senior forestry officer and in 2018 to Deputy Chief Forestry Officer with the Watershed Management Division (DoFPS). He has also trained local leaders on the concept of watershed management. Bhutan has a rich biodiversity of forests, which makes it difficult to develop management models for every tree species. Tenzin has grouped local species easing their ecological management, providing a framework that allows the assessment of the forest structure, between "natural" and "semi-disturbed" areas.

Leslie Karina Tejeda Perez earned her PhD in food engineering (2013) from the University of Lund, in Sweden. She also earned a degree in chemistry (2007) from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), in La Paz, Bolivia. During the doctoral studies, she investigated the chemical composition, the antioxidant activity of Andean grains (quinoa and cañihua) and the polyphenolic content in isolated items and processed food (lunches). She is a member of the spin-off company Swebol Biotech, dedicated to formulating functional foods based on Bolivian crops. At UMSA she coordinates the Innovation Management project, aimed at building up innovative programme management to support science, technology, and innovation based on the quadruple helix model (university, government, industry, and society). The project is receiving five-year support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. With the Math-AmSud network, she also coordinated a project aimed to establish a collaborative network among Latin-American countries and France. The research topic of the proposal is Chemical Graph Theory, an important and modern area of discrete mathematics and chemical science.

Carolina Palma Naveira Cotta has been an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering and head of the Laboratory of Nano and Microfluidics and Microsystems, at Poli & COPPE-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, since 2011. At UFRJ, she earned a Bachelor of Science (2004), Master of Science (2006) and DSc (2009) in mechanical engineering, and she currently teaches heat transfer, mathematical methods, and transport phenomena at the nano and micro-scales. Her research interests also cover heat transfer enhancement, inverse problems, hybrid methods, water desalination, and sustainable energies. She has experience in research with the industrial sector, including sponsored projects with major companies such as Petrobras, General Electric, INB, and GALP. In 2014, she became an Affiliated Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, for the term 2015–2019. In 2016, she was elected member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer. She received competitive research productivity grants from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Alexandre Reily Rocha is an assistant professor at the Insituto de Física Teórica (IFT), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil. In 2007 he obtained a PhD in physics from the Trinity College Dublin, TCD, Dublin, Ireland. At TCD he developed one of the most important computational codes for simulating electronic transport in nanoscopic systems. In 2012 he moved to UNESP, which hosts a branch of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR). Since 2014 he has been an affiliate member of ICTP-SAIFR and also a Simons Associate of ICTP-Trieste. In 2016, Reily Rocha spent one year at the Deparment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society, and of the American Physical Society. In addition, he was elected as an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), a Simons Associate of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, and an affiliate member of the Academy of Science for the State of São Paulo.

Dimobe is an Assistant Professor at the Insitute of Environmental Science and Rural Development, University of Dédougou, in Dédougou, Burkina Faso. Since January 2019, he has been working as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Dédougou. In 2020, he received the African-German Network of Excellence in Science grant for junior researchers. Dimobe earned a Master of Science in botany (2007), and in applied plant biology (2010), both from the University of Lomé, Togo, and a PhD in botany and plant ecology (2017) from the University Ouaga I Professor Joseph KI-ZERBO, in Burkina Faso, and Rostock, in Germany. From 2017–2020 Dimobe worked with the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use as a research scientist and member of the Earth Observation Applications Unit. His research interests include climate change, natural resources management, biogeography, conservation, and biomass modelling. He is involved in capacity building, especially in the use of open access earth observation data and software for addressing environmental change problems. In 2015, he spent six months at the University of Rostock, Germany, as a visiting scholar.

Tonjock Rosemary Kinge is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Bamenda, in Bamenda, Cameroon, where she teaches mycology, plant pathology and botany. She earned a Master of Science in Botany and a PhD in Botany (Mycology) from the University of Buea, in Buea, Cameroon. Her scientific interests include: mycobiome analysis, fungi diversity, mushroom domestication and conservation, plant pathogenic fungi assessment and control, ethnomycological studies and multidisciplinary research. Tonjock is a member of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists. In 2019, she was named Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2020, she became an affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. She won a TWAS-Chinese Academy of Sciences postgraduate fellowship (2008–2009), China; a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Free State, South Africa (2016–2017); and a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Florida (2017–2018), in Gainesville, Florida. Currently, she is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Dr. Kifah Gharzeddin received his PhD in Field Crops from Tishreen University, Syria in 2017. His primary research interests include studying multiple breeding methodologies applied to Chickpea and Faba bean, molecular genetics, and biometrics. Between 2008 and 2017, Kifah led the faba bean breeding program in Syria in collaboration with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), where this program resulted in the release of two superior varieties of faba bean in Syria in 2014.
Dr.Gharzeddin has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biology of Carleton University, Ontario, Canada since 2020 where he developed a chickpea breeding program in partnership with national and Internation research institutions and plant growers in Eastern Ontario.

Hanadi Ibrahim created her own business providing technical and managerial consulting. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and a master’s degree and PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Paris-Sud in France. She is a seasoned researcher with a multidisciplinary skill set and a passion for biomarkers and drug discovery. She led four collaborations at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and one at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. She has a comprehensive academic and industry experience in Nucleic Acids—RNA and DNA—methodologies, gene cloning, protein expression and purification, antibiotic resistance, lipid analysis, structure-activity relationship, bioconjugation and quality control. Ibrahim guided and mentored several undergraduate and graduate students and helped them to maintain a critical attitude towards experiments and results and to reach their potentials.

Li Wei is a professor and principal investigator at the Institute of Zoology (IZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his BSc degree from Wu Han University (2006), and his PhD degree from IZ, CAS (2012). He joined IZ, CAS, in 2013, as a professor of Star Program, and established his own research group; there he was promoted to professor in 2016 after a stringent assessment, in which he scored excellent. In 2017, Li was promoted to the vice director of the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology. His research focus is on stem cells and genetic engineering research: he aims to understand the genetic basis of certain reproduction- and regeneration-related functions/phenotypes, and to reconstitute such phenotype/function in a given cell or organism for research and therapeutic purposes. Current interests include developing cutting-edge genome engineering technologies and mammalian synthetic biology; dissection of genetic and epigenetic basis of reproduction- and regeneration-related phenotypes; clinical application of gene therapy. He is the recipient, among others, of the International Award of the Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science.