Moshe Shapiro is a Canada Research Chair Professor on Quantum Control at the Department of Chemistry, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Paul Brumer is University Professor of Chemistry and holds the Roel Buck Chair in Chemical Physics at the University of Toronto. He received his BSc from Brooklyn College and his PhD from Harvard University. The authors are among the cofounders of the field of coherent control. They have published extensively on this and related subjects in chemical physics, and have received numerous awards and worldwide recognition for their research contributions.