Carsten Schmuck is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg. He studied chemistry and obtained his PhD at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. After a postdoctorate at Columbia University in New York, he carried out his Habilitation at the University of Cologne and joined the Unviersity of Würzburg as associate professor in 2002.

Helma Wennemers is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Basel. She studied chemistry at the Johann Wolfgand Goethe-University in Frankfurt and obtained her PhD at the Columbia University in New York. After a postdoctorate at Nagoya University in Japan she joined the University of Basel as assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2003.