Louis M. Pitet is currently an associate professor at Hasselt University, working in the Institute for Materials Research (imo-imomec), located in Hasselt, Belgium. Louis’ research interests are broadly concerned with understanding processing–structure–property relationships in complex functional polymer constructs. The group has a keen interest in applying the fundamental relationships that are uncovered to global challenges in polymer science, including reutilizing plastic waste streams, creating smart scaffolds for tissue engineering, and improving processing–manufacturing efficiency with advanced reactors. Louis obtained his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines working with Prof. Daniel Knauss. He went on to obtain a PhD in 2011 in the Chemistry department at the University of Minnesota under the
supervision of Prof. Marc Hillmyer, exploring the utility of ring-opening metathesis polymerization in creating functional materials. Louis moved to the Netherlands for a post-doctoral fellowship in the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology, working with Prof. Bert Meijer. In Eindhoven, Louis helped build a program applying dynamic bonding strategies for the construction of well-defined block polymers. Since 2018, Louis has been leading his research group in Hasselt working with a diverse team currently consisting of 9 PhD students, 2 post-doctoral researchers, and 2 master's students.

Anton Ginzburg holds MSc in Chemistry from Moscow State University and PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry from the Technical University of Darmstadt. After his doctoral studies, he joined the petrochemical industry, where he helped establish a high-throughput experimentation laboratory integrating polyolefin catalysis with material development to serve various businesses. He later returned to academia and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at KU Leuven, where he researches new polymeric materials using accessible building blocks, versatile synthetic tools, and complex analytical methods.

Dr. Subin Damodaran received his doctorate in chemistry from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany in 2016. During his PhD he was actively characterising various finished and semi-finished polymer products using spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. Since 2016, he joined as Product specialist and an integral part of the GPC team of Tosoh Bioscience. He is currently working as Product Manager for GPC/SEC instruments, columns and detectors produced by Tosoh.

Frank Vanderstraeten graduated as an Industrial Engineer in Chemistry with an option in Biochemistry in '91 at KIH Oostende. After selling bulkchemicals and ingredients for food he sold spectroscopy instrumentation (UV-Vis, IR, AAS, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, HR-ICP-MS, and NMR) for Varian, then Thermo Fischer Scientific and Agilent. 8 Years ago he joined SerCoLab, specialised in custom made HPLC-solutions from Knauer and GPC- instrumentation from Tosoh Bioscience.