Dr. Chris Mark Harrison is a Reader in Astrophysics and currently holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at Newcastle University, working in the Astrophysics and Observational Cosmology group. He completed his Ph.D. at Durham University in 2014 and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy from 2014 to 2016. He then worked as a research fellow and NUAcT fellow at the European Southern Observatory and Newcastle University, respectively. His research interests mainly include galaxy evolution, active galactic nuclei, gas outflows, galaxy dynamics, and data sonification. Dr. Chris Mark Harrison is also a member of the European Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, and International Astronomical Union.

Dr. Cristina Ramos Almeida is a staff scientist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). She studied Physics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and then completed her Ph.D. at the IAC/ULL. In 2009, she moved to the United Kingdom for two years to work as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield. She came back to the IAC in 2011 as a research fellow, and then she was awarded the Marie Curie intra-European and Ramón y Cajal fellowships. She is the principal investigator of the IAC research group "Nuclear activiy in galaxies", and she was representative of the IAC research line "Galaxy Formation and Evolution" from 2017 to 2023. Her research is mainly about supermassive black holes at the centers of massive galaxies. In particular, she investigates how these SMBHs influence the evolution of the galaxies they inhabit.