Professor Hesheng Chen is a particle physicist and Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently the Head of Command and Engineering Manager of China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). He was the Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, President of the High Energy Physics Association of China, and Vice President of the Chinese Physical Society.

Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang is currently the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering & Distinguished Professor, University of California, USA. Previously, he was the President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan (2015-2019).

Professor Freddy Boey Yin Chiang is President and Distinguished University Professor of City University of Hong Kong. He was previously Deputy President (I&E) at the National University of Singapore from January 2018 to December 2022, Provost (January 2011 – December 2017) and Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering (January 2004 – December 2010) at the Nanyang Technological University.

John Ball is Professor of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. From 1996-2018 he was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, He is an Emeritus Professor in Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College. Before this he was Professor of Applied Analysis at Heriot-Watt University from 1982-1996. He took an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Cambridge, and obtained a D.Phil. in 1972 at the University of Sussex under the direction of David Edmunds.

Professor Serge Haroche was born in 1944 in Casablanca. He graduated from École normale supérieure (ENS), receiving his doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971 (thesis advisor: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji). After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University in the laboratory of Arthur Schawlow (1972-73), he became full professor at Paris VI University in 1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at Collège de France (Holder of the chair in quantum physics and Director of Collège de France from 2012 to 2015).