Dr. Sourav Bhattacharjee graduated with MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) in 2004 from the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata (India) in 2004. After a brief period of Resident training in Orthopedic Surgery, he joined MSc in Biomolecular Sciences/Cell Biology in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2006). In the meanwhile, he moved to the Edinburgh (UK), where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Vicki Stone at the Napier University. Upon finishing MSc, he began his Ph.D. in the Wageningen University (Netherlands) in 2008 which he successfully defended in 2012 with a very good thesis grade and quite a few research papers. Following that, he worked for a year as a postdoc at the University of Twente (Netherlands). From March 2014 he joined Prof. David Brayden’s group in UCD as a postdoc working on the EU FP7 funded TRANS-INT consortium trying to develop nanoparticulate drug delivery platforms for oral insulin delivery. From February 2016 Sourav joined the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine as an Assistant Professor in Veterinary Anatomy while also trying to develop his own niche of research encompassing a broad range of nanobiotechnology and advanced microscopy tools for effective diagnostic and drug delivery platforms. Sourav maintains an active research group with a strong presence of enthusiastic and scientifically motivated students (PhD, Bachelors and Masters), while have already been named at the Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier/Stanford University rankings for consecutive five years (2020–2024). Sourav is also an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Anatomy and Nature Scientific Reports.

Witold Musiał is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland. He earned his PhD in the field of pharmaceutical sciences, focusing on ionic equilibria in polymeric systems proposed for topical drug delivery. Professor Musiał continued postdoctoral research in the frames of Marie Curie Fellowship at the Technical University of Maribor and at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague, where he explored synthesis and evaluation of thermosensitive microstructures and nanostructures for medical applications. His research interests include controlled drug delivery and evaluation of physical phenomena observed in acting drug dosage forms. Scientific team of professor Witold Musiał is concentrated on several topics in that field: surface and interfacial phenomena in pharmaceutical sciences, electrochemistry in pharmaceutical sciences, synthesis and application of polymers as hydrophilic matrices, nanoparticles and microparticles for controlled and targeted drug delivery, R&D of pharmaceutical and medicinal products and pharmaceutical analysis. Professor Witold Musiał is lecturer in the field o pharmaceutical sciences, including physical chemistry and biophysics for pharmacists, physics in pharmacy for Qualified Persons in pharmaceutical industry, and pharmacokinetics. Coworker of pharmaceutical industries. Visiting researcher and lecturer of universities in Europe and USA.

Maria Stepanova graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Physics) in 1984 and received a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the National Center for Surface and Vacuum Research in Moscow in 1992. This was followed by a DrSci degree in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute and the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation in 1998. Since 2005, Dr. Stepanova has been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Alberta in Canada. Her group has extensively contributed to cross-disciplinary research at the interface of engineering, physical sciences, and life sciences, with a special focus on micro- and nanoscale fabrication processes and self-assembly mechanisms for creating complex functional structures. Their work spans a broad range of topics, including ultra-high resolution fabrication of nanostructures, processes at nano-biological interfaces, and structural dynamics in biological polymers. Current research interests include investigating the complex processes involved in the excitation of plasmonic waves in conjugate nano-biological architectures and applying these phenomena for multimodal characterization and modulation of biopolymers and organic compounds. The group’s research complements their experimental efforts by placing strong emphasis on biomolecular modeling and simulations.