Clemens Kaminski is Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford, UK, in 1995, held a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship and Associate-Professorship at the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden before his appointment at the University of Cambridge in 2001.  

He pioneered ultrahigh-speed imaging techniques for the study of chemistry in reactive flows and, more recently, in biological systems. Today his laboratory is exclusively focused on the development and application of optical microscopy methods to investigate molecular mechanisms of disease.   

He is recipient of the Cyril Hinshelwoold Prize 2004, Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005, SAOT Research Prize in optics, 2008, and the Morris Sugden Award in 2013. Most recently, Kaminski won the 2023 Rosalind Franklin Medal Prize for the development of optical methods to interrogate molecular mechanisms in biological systems. 

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Kaminski is co-founder and co-director of the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre (CAIC) and director of CamBridgeSens, the strategic network to unite sensor research across the University of Cambridge. He is also the director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies for a Sustainable and Healthy Future.

Mr Jeremy Ip is Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Investments at Mount Logan Capital, a private investment group.
He previously worked at TT International, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in both London and Hong Kong.

Mr Edward Ma is the Secretary-General of the Yidan Prize Foundation where he works to design and implement strategic plans that will lead the foundation to create a better world through education. He also currently serves as a Director of the Boards of Wuhan College and the Yidan University Education Foundation.