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Christina Maria Tonauer is a PhD candidate in the research group of Thomas Loerting at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria. During her Master’s studies, she focused on synthesis, crystallization and characterization of high-density amorphous ice (HDA). Her thesis “Glassy Nuclei in Amorphous Ice – Novel Evidence for the Two-Liquids Nature of Water” was awarded by Springer and appeared in the Springer Spektrum series “BestMasters”. C.M.T. is a recipient of a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW. Her PhD project covers NIR spectroscopy and chemical reactivity in/of crystalline and amorphous high-pressure H2O-ices.

Nystha Baishya is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering at City, University of London; from where she received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2020. Prior to that, she obtained her MSc in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2015 and BE in Mechatronics from Manipal Institute of Technology, India in 2012. She specializes in Optical Spectroscopy for identification and determination of biomarkers predominantly related to cardiovascular diseases. She has used Aquaphotomics extensively in her research for both in-vitro and in-vivo detection of lactate/lactic acid in blood.

Justyna Grabska obtained her doctorate (2015) in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from University of Wroclaw, Poland. Her thesis focused on developing new methods of analysis of vibrational spectra and physical chemistry. She expanded her research field into analytical spectroscopy after joining Prof. Christian W. Huck team as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Innsbruck, Austria. She then worked in Professor Yukihiro Ozaki group (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) as a postdoctoral researcher, where she focused on computational NIR spectroscopy and its applications to biomolecules. Afterwards, Dr. Grabska rejoined Prof. Christian W. Huck laboratory, where she currently continues her work in advancing analytical NIR spectroscopy. Her primary contribution to scientific advance is the development of new methods of analysis of NIR spectra based on the methods of computational chemistry. She uses these tools for pursuing answers on the fundamental questions in NIR spectroscopy.

Dr. Offerhaus received his masters degree in 1993 from Delft University of Technology (NL) and obtained his PhD in 1997 in laser physics from the University of Twente (NL). Since then he has worked on fiber lasers, nonlinear conversion, vibrational imaging, medical/pharmaceutical analysis, plasmonics, Fourier optics, molecular spectroscopy, holography, gyroscopes, dielectric sensing, optical sensors and microfluidics. In 2002 he joined the Optical techniques group in Twente and in 2016 became the chair of the Optical Sciences group. For the last 10 years a substantial effort has been devoted to the use of integrated photonic circuits for sensing, specifically the use of the SiN platform. In Twente he teaches courses on electromagnetism, optics and general physics. He has published more than 125 papers in refereed journals, holds 4 patents and chairs the Atomic Molecular and Optical physics division of the Dutch national physics organization.