Prof. Ana María Cetto, Research professor of the Institute of Physics and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ana María Cetto is a full-time research Professor at the Institute of Physics, and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds an M.A. in Biophysics from Harvard University and a M.S c and Ph.D in Physics from UNAM. Her main field of research is theoretical physics, with emphasis on the foundations of quantam mechanics, where she has contributed substantially to the development of stochastic electrodynamics. She is co-author of "The Quantum Dice" (Kluwer, 1996). Prof. Cetto is the former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, and former head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Institute of Physics. She chaired the project for the Museum on Light (UNAM), inaugurated in 1996. She served as consultant for the UNESCO World Conference of Science (1999). From 2003 to 2010 she served as Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Nobel Peace Prize 2005), where she headed the Department of Technical Cooperation. She is founding President of LATINDEX, online information system for Ibero-American and Caribbean scholary journals. Prof Cetto has held honorary positions in a number of international organisations, such as the Executive Boards of Interciencia Association, Third World Organisation for Women in Science (TWOWS, Co-founder) and International Council for Science (ICSU), the Board of Trustees of International Foundation for Science (IFS), the Governing Board of United Nations University (UNU), the Council of International Network of Engineers and Scientists (INES) and the Executive Committee of Pugwash Conferences (Nobel Peace Prize 1995). She was appointed Mexico's Woman of the Year in 2003.

Prizes and Awards 05/2013 Royal Society University Research Fellowship (UK), 598.062 GBP 05/2013 Notthingham Advanced Research Fellowship (UK), 217.163 GBP 05/2013 Vidi award (Netherlands), 800.000 EUR 09/2012–08/2013 SISSA Research Award for Young Scientists 2011 / 2012 ERC-2012-StG invitation to Step 2 (including interview in Brussels) 09/2011–08/2014 Marie Curie Actions — Career Integration Grant (CIG) 05/2011–10/2012 SISSA Research Award for Young Scientists 11/2010 Invitation to become an FQXi member 09/2008–09/2011 Marie Curie Actions — International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) 2006 Victoria University PhD completion scholarship 2005 New Zealand Postgraduate Study Abroad Award 10/2004–10/2005 DAAD partial stipend for overseas studies 09/2004 Hartle Prize of the International Society on GR and Gravitation for student presentation

Education and Academic Positions 1993 Graduated in Physics from The Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1993 Assistant professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica” Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1994 Degree in Physics from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1997 Titular d'Escola Universitaria associate professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica” from UAB Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1998 Marie Curie fellowship from European Community; Scientific research at the CNRS-IEMN (Lille, France) with tyhe group of professor Olivier Vanbesien Institute d'Electronique 1999 Ph.D in Electrical Enginering from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. (mark: Sobresaliente Cum Laude. phD Special award Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2000 Advanced Master in Signal and Comuinitaction Theory from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 2001 Visiting professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department at SUNY (New York, USA) with the group of professor Konstantin Likahrev New York State University at Stony brook 2003 Permanent Position as an associate professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica”

Hrvoje Nikolic, born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a theoretical physicist working at the Theoretical Physics Division of Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests cover various foundational aspects of theoretical physics, including foundations of quantum mechanics, general relativity, cosmology, particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory. Education 2001 PhD in physics (University of Zagreb) 1998 Master degree in physics (University of Zagreb) 1995 Bachelor degree in physics (University of Zagreb) Awards and Achievements - Ruđer-Bošković-Institute director award for a published paper in physics (2010) - Honorable Mention of the Gravity Research Foundation 2006 Essay Competition - Honorable Mention of the Gravity Research Foundation 2005 Essay Competition Classes Physics I, 2001-2002 (Faculty of Electric and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia) Featured Publications - H. Nikolić, Horava-Lifshitz gravity, absolute time, and objective particles in curved space, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 25, 1595 (2010). - H. Nikolić, QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 25, 1477 (2010). - H. Nikolić, Resolving the black-hole information paradox by treating time on an equal footing with space, Phys. Lett. B 678, 218 (2009). - H. Nikolić, Time in relativistic and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Int. J. Quantum Inf. 7, 595 (2009). - H. Nikolić, Unparticle as a particle with arbitrary mass, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 23, 2645 (2008). - H. Nikolić, Quantum mechanics: Myths and facts, Found. Phys. 37, 1563 (2007). - B. Guberina, R. Horvat, H. Nikolić, Dynamical dark energy with a constant vacuum energy density, Phys. Let. B 636, 80 (2006). - B. Guberina, R. Horvat, H. Nikolić, Generalized holographic dark energy and the IR cutoff problem, Phys. Rev. D 72, 125011 (2005). - H. Nikolić, Relativistic contraction and related effects in noninertial frames, Phys. Rev. A 61, 032109 (2000).

Publications 1 to 3 are from my work on Biophysics as an undergraduate research assistant at PUC-Rio. Publications 4 to 9 came from my Masters’ work on Atomic Collisions in the Van de Graff laboratory also at PUC-Rio. After my Masters I spent about a year working in the “real world”. Well, close to it — I worked for the Institute for Radioprotection at the National Nuclear Energy Commission, in Rio de Janeiro. After a while I decided to go back to the excitement of academic life but with a complete change of fields: from experimental Biophysics to Atomic Collisions to theoretical foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Publications from 10 forward refer to this current incarnation.

Herman Batelaan studies the fundamental interaction between light, electrons and atoms. His interests focus on studying the foundations of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic interactions. These studies include theoretical analysis, simulation using supercomputing (HCC and XSEDE), and a strong emphasis on experiment. (source: Department of Physics & Astronomy)