In 1983 JG Russo obtained a fellowship to study physics at the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, where he obtained the degree (Licenciatura) in Physics (12/1986). He was awarded a SISSA fellowship to follow the PhD programme at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, where he finished his PhD (10/1990) under the supervision of Daniele Amati on Quantum gravity and String theory. As a postdoc at Stanford University, USA, he collaborated with L. Susskind on black hole physics. He continued his research on black holes and string theory first at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and then at CERN, Geneva. In 1998 JG Russo moved to the University of Buenos Aires as a Professor and in 04/2003 joined ICREA as a Research Professor.

Prof. Josep Puigmartí-Luis is the head of the ChemInFlow group located at the University of Barcelona. He completed his PhD in supramolecular chemistry at the Institut de Ciències dels Materiales de Barcelona (2008), and right after, he received a competitive postdoctoral ETH fellowship. In 2012, he was nominated as a Ramon y Cajal researcher, but after two years, he decided to move back to Switzerland where in 2015 was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, a Chair of Excellence (France) in 2018, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Valencia in 2019.

Additionally, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis has been awarded the Premi Antoni de Martí i Franquès (2008) and he received the St. Jordi award  for his work on supramolecular functional materials (2006).

Academic Degrees: PhD in Astrophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1997 Degree in Astronomy, University of Padova, 1992 Academic Positions: ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona, March 2010 – present Associate Professor, UC San Diego, June 2007 – February 2010 Assistant Professor, UC San Diego, June 2003 – June 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, 2001 – 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1999 – 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, INOAE, Puebla, 1998 – 1999

Born in 1977. I got my PhD in Chemistry in 2003 at the Universitat de Girona (UdG) with a thesis on the analysis of chemical bonding and aromaticity of organic systems with tools based on the electron-pair density. Next I moved to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), with a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, where I carried out research on the DNA replication mechanism by means of Kohn-Sham molecular orbital theory complemented with quantitative bond energy decomposition analyses. In 2008 I was awarded with a Ramón y Cajal tenure-track position at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the UdG. Afterwards I was appointed Senior Associate Researcher at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling of the VUA. I have published 150 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, which have received more than 5.700 citations. My H-Index is 39, and I appear as “Scientist” at the Essential Science Indicators.

Konstantin Neyman is ICREA Professor at the Department de Ciència de Materials i Química Física and the Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, leading the group Reactivity of Nanostructures. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the Inst. of Inorganic Chemistry in Novosibirsk and completed Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Theoretical Chemistry at the TU München. He published a book, 9 book chapters, 193 articles in referred journals and made 350+ presentations at conferences and in universities, 137 of them as invited lectures. His publications were cited ~9000 times in WoS, H= 52 and ~11000 times in GoogleScholar, H= 58. Before joining ICREA, Dr. Neyman held senior research positions in Germany: at the TU München, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München and Fritz-Haber-Institut (Berlin). He contributed to funds attraction for 40+ research projects. Recipient of the Chalmers Jubilee Professor and Uppsala University Visiting Professor awards.