Shannon S. Stahl obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana− Champaign and a Ph.D from Caltech in 1997, supervised by Prof. John Bercaw. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Stephen Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997−1999. He began his independent career in 199 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where is currently a Steenbock Professor of Chemical Sciences. His research group specializes in catalysis, in particular the catalytic chemistry of molecular oxygen and aerobic oxidation reactions, and electrocatalytic reactions related to chemical synthesis and energy conversion.

Charlotte Willans obtained her MChem from the University of York, conducting a research project at DSM (Netherlands) with Profs Johannes de Vries and André de Vries on palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions. She completed her PhD at the University of York working with Prof. Francesca Kerton and Dr Jason Lynam on lanthanide catalysis and organophosphorus cages. She completed a postdoctoral position with Prof Jonathan Steed in Durham, working on MOFs and metal-N-heterocyclic carbenes. Charlotte began her independent research career in 2009 with a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship which she took to the University of Leeds. Current research includes electrochemical synthetic methods to metal compounds, flow technology and catalytic and biomedical applications.