Burkhard Duenweg has a background in theoretical physics, in particular computational statistical mechanics. He obtained his diploma in 1987, his PhD in 1991, and his "Habilitation" in 2000 (all University of Mainz, Germany, where he was appointed Adjunct Professor in 2008). Since 1996 he works as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz. External stays include his postdoc time 1991-1993, Center for Simulational Physics, Athens, Georgia, USA (funded by the Humboldt Foundation), an interim professorship in Saarbruecken, 2005, and (currently) a part-time professorship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2004 he works as an Associate Editor for Physical Review E (polymer physics, computational physics). In 2010 he was appointed director of the SMSM CECAM node. His research interests focus mainly on polymer dynamics, colloid dynamics, and electrokinetics, with emphasis on hydrodynamic interactions and simulation method development (Lattice Boltzmann, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo).

Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan has a background in chemical engineering and rheology. He obtained his BTech (1981) at IIT Madras, his MS (1984) at the University of Akron, Ohio, and his PhD (1989) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as postdoc and staff scientist at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (1990-1991), and as postdoc at University of Cambridge (1991-1993), and ETH Zurich (1993-1994), after which he became Associate Professor at IIT Madras (1994-2001) and Monash University, Melbourne (2001-now). In 1999-2000 he stayed in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as a Humboldt Fellow. From 2006-2008, he was President of the Australian Society of Rheology. Since 2008, he works as an Editor for the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal. His research focuses on molecular aspects of polymer rheology, with emphasis on Brownian Dynamics simulations.