Alberto Diaspro, born in Genoa, Italy, on April 7, 1959, received his Laurea in Electronic Engineering in 1983, Univ.of Genoa. Dir. Nanophys at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Deputy Director of IIT, Prof. Appl. Phys. at Univ.of Genoa. President of Optics Within Life Sciences, IEEE Senior member and Editor in chief of Microscopy Research and Technique (7/2013).
> 250, H=30, cit > 4000 (Google Scholar). AD isinvolved in research development of instrumentation for applications in biophysics and biomedical engineering and in nanobiotechnological projects.

Partha Pratim Mondal is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science in the department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2005. He has been a researcher at the MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA and at the universities of Genova, Italy and also was a ICTP Fellow, Trieste, Italy. He has more than 30 journal publications to his name and 18 contributions to conference proceedings. Currently, he is Associate Editor for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing) , Academic Editor to the AIP Advances journal and an editorial board member to 'Microscopy, Research and Technique (Wiley).

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