Clémence Queffélec is an associate professor at CEISAM Laboratory, Nantes University, France. She studied at the University of Lille 1, France, and obtained her PhD in organic chemistry in 2007. She did 18 months of postdoctoral work in the field of phosphorus chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA, with Prof. Jean-Luc Montchamp. She then worked on enantioselective intramolecular hydroamination catalyzed by rare-earth metal complexes at the University of Paris XI. Her current research focuses on photocatalysis and molecular plasmonics.

D. Andrew Knight retired from academia in 2003 and is currently a consultant and an author. He received his BSc degree in chemistry in 1987 from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1991 from the University of St. Andrews under the supervision of Prof. David Cole-Hamilton. After completing his postdoctoral work in enantioselective organometallic chemistry with Prof. John Gladysz at the University of Utah, USA, he joined the faculty at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, in 1996. In 2001 he moved as an associate professor to Loyola University New Orleans, USA, which was followed by an appointment in 2008 as a professor of chemistry at Florida Institute of Technology, USA. His research is focused on plasmonics and homogeneous catalysis as well as the design of small molecules as medical countermeasures.