<div><strong>Silvina Cerveny</strong> obtained her PhD in Physics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001. Since then, she has spent significant periods in Gothenburg (Sweden) and San Sebastián (Spain), and shorter research stays in Grenoble, Israel, Germany, Argentina, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Since 2008, she has been a Research Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and since March 2024, she has served as Deputy Director of the Centro de Física de Materiales — Material Physics Center (CFM, CSIC-UPV/EHU). Her research lies at the interface of soft matter physics and materials science, with a particular focus on complex polymeric systems and their interactions with water. She has made contributions to understanding supercooled and confined water and to the dynamics and properties of polymers, biopolymers, and glasses under hydration. More recently, she has expanded her research to include water remediation technologies for removing emerging contaminants from contaminated water.</div>
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<div><strong>Jan Swenson</strong> earned his PhD in Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 1996. He was thereafter a postdoctoral fellow at University College London, UK, before returning to Chalmers for an assistant professorship and employment with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was appointed a full professor at NTNU, Norway, and has been a professor of physics at Chalmers since 2006. His current research interests include supercooled and confined water, the role of water in biological materials, and how proteins can be stabilized and cryopreserved by disaccharides, particularly trehalose. He is also working to optimize the properties of ion-conducting electrolytes for both solid-state batteries and structural batteries.</div>
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