Daria Boscolo, PhD, is a Staff Physicist in the Biophysics department at GSI (Darmstadt), where she works as Deputy Group Leader in the Particle Therapy Physics group. She studied physics at the University of Pisa and obtained her doctorate at TU Darmstadt. Her research focuses on the interaction of charged particle radiation and its applications for space radiation protection and for the development of advanced particle therapy applications.  Recently she investigated the use of radioactive ion beams for combined cancer therapy and real-time imaging in the context of the Biomedical Application of Radioactive Ion Beams (BARB) project.

My physics education started in Italy, at the Università di Genova, and continued at the George Washington University (USA), where I obtained a PhD in Nuclear Physics. I have been staff scientist at IJCLab (a CNRS laboratory in France) for the last 20 years. My main research focus is studying the structure of the nucleon with the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab (JLab). I have constructed a neutron detector for CLAS12. I am spokesperson of various CLAS12 experiments, and analysis coordinator of two of them. I am a past Chair of the CLAS Collaboration. I am the head of the JLab group in France. I was until recently a member of the European Physical Society Nuclear Physics Division Board and of the CERN LHCC Committee. I participated in the drafting of the 2024 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics in Europe.

Nils Paar is a full professor of physics at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, working in theoretical nuclear physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from the Technical University of Munich. His research centers on the development and application of relativistic density functional theory to address open problems in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. Key interests include exotic excitations in unstable nuclei, collective excitation phenomena, nuclear structure and dynamics at finite temperature, weak interaction processes in supernova evolution, neutrino–nucleus interactions, and symmetry energy of the nuclear equation of state with implications for neutron star properties. 

I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences and the Department of Quantum Physics & Astrophysics at the University of Barcelona, with over 20 years of research experience. I spent a decade at the University of Surrey as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, holding Marie Curie and STFC Advanced Fellowships. I earned my PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2007 and completed postdoctoral work at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (USA)

My research focuses on theoretical nuclear physics, including ab initio many‑body methods, nuclear structure and reactions, and applications to astrophysical simulations. I have recently pioneered the use of machine learning tools for nuclear simulations and I am also working at the interface of quantum computing and nuclear theory. I have published 53 refereed papers, supervised 5 PhD students, and taught at all levels of bachelor's and master's degrees. I am the president of the Nuclear Physics Group at the Spanish Royal Physics Society, and serve as Associate Editor for European Journal of Physics A.

Chantal Shand is a nuclear physicist and the Applied Radiation Technology Group Leader at UKAEA. She completed her MPhys at the University of Surrey before earning a PhD in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Brighton, where she investigated spin and parity assignments for the ground and isomeric states in yttrium‑102. During her doctoral work, Chantal developed expertise in nuclear instrumentation and gamma spectroscopy, which she brought to UKAEA in her first role managing the RADLab, a specialist facility for gamma and neutron spectroscopy. Since joining UKAEA, she has delivered and led experiments ranging from shielding benchmark validation to activation assessments of coolant‑loop water for fusion applications. As group leader, Chantal now shapes the strategic direction of nuclear analysis and instrumentation to support UKAEA’s fusion mission.