Christian Baumgartner is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He is the author of more than 150 publications in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. He is a Reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals, and conference proceedings, book and grant proposals and serves as Deputy and Series Editor as well as an Editorial Board Member of several scientific journals. His main research interests include “Biomedical sensors, cellular electrophysiology and signal processing, biomedical modeling and simulation, and clinical bioinformatics”.

Michael Abend completed his Medical Doctor degree at University of Cologne, a Professorship in Radiobiology at Technical University Munich and, studied Epidemiology at Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He worked at different Institutions such as: Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda and National Cancer Institute (Radiation Epidemiology Branch), Rockville, USA. He received several scientific awards and published about 100 peer reviewed scientific papers. He is currently a Deputy Director and Leader of Genomic department at Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology.

Dawid Nidzworski is an Entrepreneur and Scientist. He completed his graduation at Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland and Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk (IFB UG-MUG). He also completed his PhD at IFB UG-MUG. He developed biosensor (FluSensDx) which will identify influenza virus in the patient's throat swab. He is also working on an edible vaccine against influenza virus for poultry (LIDER). He has received many awards and scholarships. He is Co-author of several publications, congress reports and patent applications. His start-up company SensDx will revolutionize the way of medical diagnostics in the world.

Andreas Dietzel studied Physics and completed his PhD at University of Göttingen in 1990. In the years 1990 to 2003, he worked in different organizations of IBM including the Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon. In 2004, he joined TU Eindhoven as a Full Professor of Micro and Nanoscale Engineering. In 2012, he was appointed as Professor at TU Braunschweig and Director of the Institute of Micro-technology. His research interest focuses on “The design and fabrication of microsystems and especially of microfluidic systems with applications in the life sciences”.

Xiaohao Wang completed his Bachelor’s and Doctor degrees at Tsinghua University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1998, he worked at Tsinghua University as a Faculty Member, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. From 2007 to 2008, he was at Technical University of Berlin as a Visiting Scholar. He serves as the Deputy Dean of Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, now. His research interests cover MEMS based sensors, actuators, ionizing sources and portable analytical instrument. He has published over 200 technical papers and holds tens of patents.