Frank Kirchhoff is Professor and director of the Institute of Molecular Virology in Ulm, Germany since 2009. He studied Biology, received his PhD degree 1991 at the University of Göttingen and performed his postdoctoral training at the New England Regional Primate Research Center at Harvard Medical School. One of his main research interests is to elucidate how viruses manipulate the immune system, cross species barriers and cause disease. Dr. Kirchhoff has authored or co-authored about 300 publications and received several awards including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz award of the German Research Foundation.

Markus List obtained his PhD in 2015 at the University of Southern Denmark and worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. In 2018, he started a research group at the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich, where he was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2023.

Markus Sauer studied Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg where he received his Diploma in 1991 and his PhD in 1995 in Physical Chemistry. 1998 he has been awarded the BioFuture Prize. From 2003-2009 he was Professor and chair of Laser Physics and Laser Spectroscopy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Since 2009 he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany. His research interests are single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging with a particular focus on super-resolution fluorescence imaging by direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) and its applications in neurobiology and immunology.

Dr. Matthias Drosten studied biology at the Ruhr University Bochum and completed his doctorate in 2003 at the Institute of Molecular Biology at Essen University Hospital under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pützer. He then moved to the Spanish Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid, where he initially worked as a postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Mariano Barbacid and later as a permanent researcher. In 2021, he then moved as a research group leader at the Cancer Research Center in Salamanca, Spain. Dr. Drosten's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of RAS oncogenes in lung cancer.

Volker Siffrin is a neurologist and research group leader currently serving as a senior physician at the Department of Neurology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. He earned his PhD at the German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin and completed his medical training at the universities of Marburg, Aberdeen, and Berlin. In 2010, he obtained his board certification in neurology and achieved his habilitation in 2015. His research focuses on chronic inflammation, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative processes, utilizing advanced technologies such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy and human in vitro culture models.