Tuomas Hytönen is Professor at the University of Helsinki. A leading expert in Harmonic Analysis with over 100 research papers, he was educated at Helsinki University of Technology and spent a postdoc year at Delft University of Technology. He received a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2011 and gave an invited address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.

Jan van Neerven is Professor of Analysis at Delft University of Technology. Author of more than 120 research papers and two monographs, he is a leading expert in Operator Theory and Stochastic Analysis. He held post-doctoral positions at Caltech and Tübingen University. He was awarded a Human Capital and Mobility fellowship, a fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and VIDI and VICI subsidies from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Mark Veraar is Professor at Delft University of Technology. Author of over 80 research papers, he is a leading researcher in the theory of evolution equations and stochastic partial differential equations. He held post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Warsaw and Karlsruhe, the latter with a Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He is the recipient of VENI, VIDI, and VICI grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Lutz Weis, a Professor Emeritus at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, is a senior researcher in operator theory and evolution equations. He has published over 90 research papers and a monograph. Since receiving his PhD from University of Bonn, he was a professor at Louisiana State University and visiting professor at TU Berlin as well as Universities of Kiel, South Carolina and Minnesota. He organized a Marie Curie training site and is currently a member of a DFG Graduiertenkolleg.