Emilio Palomares (Born 1974. M. Sc. Biology. Esp. Biochemistry 1997, Ph. D. Chemistry, 2001). ICREA Senior Researcher and ERC fellow at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), where he leads since April 2006 the Group of Optoelectronic Materials and Molecular Devices. Prof. Palomares has published over 100 papers (H factor 36) in major peer-review journals as, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. and Chemistry-A Eur. J., and coordinates several national and European projects on molecular photovoltaic devices. His recent research activity is focused on light driven devices for production and storage of clean energies, in particular molecular photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured metal oxides and organic conductors. Prof. Palomares specialist in photophysical characterization of molecular materials and molecular devices. Emilio has built up a strong international reputation on the application of materials synthesis, photophysical characterization and device manufacturing. Particularly, the use development of the distance-dependence theory and the Kinetic redundancy concept in molecular photovoltaics has been widely used to understand fundamental charge recombination phenomena in molecular photovoltaic devices, such as dye sensitised solar cells. His developed methodology to achieve high device efficiencies (Al2O3 coatings etc�) is currently being applied to dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state photovoltaic devices. Prof. Palomares is the co-inventor of 4 international patents and the responsible for development of a new colorimetric chemosensor for mercury detection in the ppb range. His results have been highlighted in several international journals such as Science, Nature Materials etc�The major topics of my current activity is the research on the development of new concepts for light induced molecular devices for fuel and electricity production .

Nam-Gyu Park is professor and SKKU-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor at Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. He got Ph.D. in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1995. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2009 and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute from 2000 to 2005 before joining Sungkyunkwan University in 2009. He has been doing researches on high efficiency mesoscopic solar cells including perovskite solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell since 1997. He is pioneer in solid state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea), KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea) and Dupont Science and Technology Award (Dupont Korea), SKKU fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS, Boston) and WCPEC Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan). He published over 230 scientific papers, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy and Nature Communications, 80 patent applications and 8 book chapters. He received H-index of 67 as of May, 2017.