Doctor Bradley P. Kirk is a post-doctoral researcher, specialising in scalable fabrication of thin film devices, as well as material characterisation of semi-conductors utilised in energy generation. He completed his PhD on thermal stability of scalable organic photovoltaics at  the Flinders Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology (Australia) under the supervision of Prof Mats Andersson, Prof Gunther Andersson and Prof David Lewis. Upon completion of his PhD, Bradley continued to developing coating techniques for upscaling of OPV device fabrication. He is currently work at the University of Adelaide (Australia), working on the material and electronic analysis of beta voltaic devices, as well as investigating degradation pathways associated with aged thin-films.

Doctor Jonas M. Bjuggren is a post-doctoral researcher working at Kardinia Energy, a company based at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He completed his PhD on novel organic-based interfacial polymers for the use in organic photovoltaics, at the Flinders Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology (Australia), under the Supervision of Prof Mats Andersson and Prof David Lewis. After completing his PhD, Jonas focused on the development of a new class of thin film coatings for volumetric displays. Currently, he is working on the optimisation and validation of organic semiconductor manufacturing at scale.

Professor Gunther G. Andersson completed his PhD in 1998, applying ion scattering spectroscopy on liquid surfaces at the University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany) under the supervision of Prof Harald Morgner. The following two and a half years he was working at the Technical University Eindhoven on a project on polymer-based light emitting diodes. In 2000, Gunther moved to Leipzig University (Germany) were he developed the method neutral impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy (NICISS) for investigation of soft matter surfaces to its current stage. In 2007, he was appointed at Flinders University (Australia). He is now leading as a full Professor and Deputy Director of the Flinders Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology, with a research group focusing on photocatalysis for water splitting, colloid surfaces and interfaces, organic photovoltaic and high temperature corrosion resistance. In his research, Gunther has developed several methods for investigating the structure of and processes at interfaces.

Professor Paul Dastoor is Professor of Physics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He received his B.A. degree in Natural Sciences and his PhD in Surface Physics from the University of Cambridge. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, at the Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK at Nanyang Technological University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is Director of the Centre for Organic Electronics, which he established in 2007. Prof Dastoor is the UON Node Director for the ANFF Materials Node, which is responsible for delivering advanced fabrication and characterisation facilities to academic and industrial researchers across Australia and overseas. He is also the Ambassador for the NSW Smart Sensing Network, which brings together smart sensing expertise in academia, industry and government to develop a strong, collaborative and innovative network that will deliver economic and social benefits for New South Wales. His research interests encompass the growth and properties of thin films, neutral atom microscopy and organic electronic devices based on semi-conducting polymers. These exciting materials offer the tantalising prospect of paints that generate electricity directly from sunlight and sensors that can be printed as flexible arrays. Prof Dastoor has a strong track record in research translation and commercialisation, with a substantial number of patents granted in the US, Europe and Australia.

Professor Mats R. Andersson is a Matthew Flinders Professor and director of Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He performed a joint PhD-study at the Departments of Organic Chemistry and Polymer Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and he received his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry 1995. He was appointed Professor in Polymer Chemistry 2004, and he held a chair in Polymer Chemistry 2007-2015 at Chalmers. In 2012 he was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. During 2013 he was awarded a South Australian Chair in Energy and in 2014 Mats moved to Adelaide, to join University of South Australia as a Research Professor. In 2017 he moved to Flinders University. His research interests are focused on structure – property relationships of different types of functional materials. Currently his research includes printed polymer solar cells, new antifouling coatings and single atom electrochemical catalysis.