Roula M. Abdel-Massih is a Community Educator at Central Michigan University (2022 to present) and former Director of Product Development at GBAC/ISSA (2023 to 2024), where she led programs in hygiene, biosafety and public health. From 2003 to 2021 she was faculty at the University of Balamand, became Full Professor in 2017 and Biology Department chair (2008 to 2011). She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow (2001). Her research focuses on natural bioactive compounds (antibacterial and antiproliferative) and the genotoxic effects of environmental pollutants. She has over 50 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and over 50 international talks. Roles include TWAS Young Affiliate (2011 to 2015), Co chair of the TYAN Executive Committee (2021 to present), STS Forum Future Leader (2015) and US National Academies Education Fellow (2015 to 2016). She completed Harvard APLD (2016) and Harvard Global Public Health Leadership Program (2025), holds IFBA Biorisk certification (2019) and ISO 35001 training (2025), received the TCGA grant (Emory, 2019), is an ISC Fellow (2023) and serves on the TWAS Ethics Committee (2025).

Eduardo Teixeira is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. His research interests include free boundary problems and regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations. Before joining UCF, Teixeira was a Professor of Mathematics at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in his hometown Fortaleza, Brazil. During nearly ten years that Teixeira was associated with UFC in Brazil he founded and directed one of the major research groups in nonlinear PDEs in Latin America. Teixeira was awarded the 2013 Mathematical Congress of the Americas Prize and the 2017 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize. He was elected permanent fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Fernando Coda Marques is Full Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2014, after being a Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 11 years. He obtained his BS in mathematics at the Federal University of Alagoas, MS in mathematics at IMPA, and PhD in mathematics at Cornell University, USA. He is mainly interested in the interplay between differential geometry and nonlinear analysis. He is known for work on the Yamabe Problem, counterexamples for the Min-Oo's Conjecture of 1995, the solution of the Willmore Conjecture of 1965, and the proof of Yau's Conjecture about minimal surfaces (of 1982) for generic metrics. For his achievements, he has received several honours including the UMALCA Prize (2012), the Ramanujan Prize (2012) of ICTP, the TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2012) and the Veblen Prize (2016) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2014 and a Fellow of the AMS since 2018. In 2010 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Hyderabad, India and a plenary speaker of the ICM in 2014, in Seou