Dr Sivasambu Bohm received his first degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by an MSc at Hahn Meitner Institute (Max Planck Institute) in Berlin. After gaining his PhD at the University of Bath in Chemistry, he worked at different academic institutions, University of Swansea, TU Delft, The University of Birmingham and India Institute of Technology, Bombay, University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. Siva has 20 years of industrial experience (TATA, Talga, CAMI, VEMS, Ceylon Graphite and AM) in various research fields; metallurgy, protective coatings, energy storage in the automotive industry, smart coatings and nanotechnology, synthesis, and applications of graphene. Dr Bohm has published 40 patents and 98 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Technical Surface Coatings. Dr Bohm has been awarded the Royal Society Industry Fellowship initial at University of Cambridge, Cambridge Graphene Centre from 2017 and till 2021 fellowship at Imperial College London and AM Commercial UK Ltd, also Chief Scientific Officer of Ceylon Graphite Corp. Dr Bohm was Director of R&D in Zhejiang Hanano R&D and creating Industrialisation in Middle east and Europe customers.

Mandar has been a researcher at TIFR for 20 years, and his current interests are in studying the physics of Josephson junctions and the topological properties of van der Waals materials.

Professor Falko is one of the UK's leading condensed matter theorists. He has made substantial contributions towards the understanding of the electronic and optical properties of graphene, including the discovery of bilayer graphene. He has played a pivotal role in shaping the European graphene and other two-dimensional material research community, establishing the 'Graphene Week' conference series and leading the European Graphene Flagship work package: 'Fundamental Science of Graphene and 2D Materials Beyond Graphene'. He is also Co-Director of the Graphene NOWNANO Centre for Doctoral Training programme, based at The University of Manchester.

Costas Galiotis is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced – Tailoring Graphene project. He is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) and former Director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) which is one of the 7 academic research institutions of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH). In its over 26 years of operation FORTH/ ICE-HT has developed into a world-leading centre for the advancement of high quality scientific knowledge in the fields of material science and in the computer aided design and simulation of new materials and processes. It comprises of approximately 150 personnel and has a running yearly budget of 5 M€. Prof. Galiotis is also a member of the Board of Directors of FORTH (since July 2007). FORTH has been ranked as the first Research Centre in the field domain in Greece in 3 successive evaluations. Prof. Galiotis had an auspicious term of office as Director of the Institute in the years 2009-2014. Being also the coordinator of the Hellenic participation and national representative of “Graphene” he contributed in establishing the Graphene Center by joining the research forces of three FORTH institutes, ICE-HT, IESL and ICAM. Despite the Country's intense economic situation he expanded the Institute by literally setting the foundations to the Institute's new modern building that will house research laboratories.

Arindam Ghosh is JRD Tata Chair Professor of Physics and the Convenor of the Quantum Technology initiative at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge and has been a Visiting Research Fellow in Nanotechnology at the T J Watson Research Centre of IBM. Arindam is among the first few to engage in graphene research in India, contributing heavily in understanding noise, optoelectronics and several other phenomena in 2D over 20 years. Arindam is also the co-founder and CEO of Quan2D Tech. Pvt Ltd – a deeptech startup developing commercializable manufacturing protocols of 2D materials, and building functions sensing devices.

Dr Titash Mondal is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur. Before joining academia, he worked at Momentive Performance Materials (formerly GE Silicones) on silicone rubber composites. His research focuses on elastomer composite-based flexible/wearable sensors, as well as triboelectric nanogenerators. With over a decade of work on graphene–polymer systems, he has authored numerous high-impact papers, holds international patents, and edited a book. Dr Mondal has received several awards, including the 2025 SPARKS-THOMAS Award from the American Chemical Society (USA) and the Faculty Excellence Award 2024.