Adam Noel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University in St. John’s, Canada. From 2018 to 2024 he was with the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Memorial University. He received the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015, both from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Digital Communication at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa (2016-2018). Adam is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2017-2021). He has received several awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also received a Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society).

Nan Yang is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2011. He joined ANU in 2014 and is currently the Head of the Emerging Communications Laboratory and the leader of the multi-scale communications research team. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014 and the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE GlobeCOM 2016 and the IEEE VTC 2013-Spring. He also received the Top Editor Award from the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and several Exemplary/Top Reviewer Awards from prestigious IEEE transactions and letters from 2012 to 2019. He is now serving in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. His research interests include molecular communications, terahertz communications, ultra-reliable low latency communications, cyber-physical security, and intelligent communications.

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Werner Haselmayr is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He received the Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees in mechatronics and communications engineering from Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, in 2013 and 2020, respectively. He has authored two book chapters and more than 80 papers, appeared in top-level international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Werner is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award presented at ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication 2022. His research interests include the design and analysis of molecular communication systems and communications and networking in droplet-based microfluidic systems.  He has given several invited talks and tutorials on various aspects of droplet-based communications and networking. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi- Scale Communications. He also serves as a Steering Committee Member of the Workshop on Molecular Communications. Since 2024 he is secretary of the Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications Technical Committee.

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Prabhat Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He received the B.Tech. degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, the M.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering and VLSI design from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the University of Delhi in 2015. Prabhat is a recipient of the Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. In 2019, He was awarded the URSI/InRaSS Young Indian Radio Scientist Award by the International Radio Science Union. He has authored over 80 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include physical layer aspects of wireless, molecular and biological, and quantum communications.

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Maximilian (Max) Schäfer studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received the degree “Doktor-Ingenieur” in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He worked with the chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Digital Communications at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research is focussed on multidimensional systems theory and the modeling of distributed parameter systems with applications in molecular communications and sound synthesis.