Prof. Dr. Bachir Zouchoune is a Professor at the Larbi Ben M'hidi University of Oum El Bouaghi (Algeria). He is a quantum chemist whose research is devoted to the fundamental aspects of chemical bonding and structural chemistry in the field of organometallic and inorganic chemistry, with a special focus on clusters. h-index = 19, Scopus data from 28 December 2023.

Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves Saillard is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes, University of Rennes (France). He is a computational chemist interested in chemical bonding, rationalization of complex structures, structure/electron count relationships, and structure/property relationships. He has published over 350 scientific papers. h-index = 49, Scopus data from 28 December 2023.