Antoine Goujon received his PhD in organic chemistry in 2016 from the University of Strasbourg (France) under the supervision of Prof. Nicolas Giuseppone. His thesis was focussed on the macroscopic amplification of collective motions of nanoscopic molecular machines. In 2017 he joined the group of Prof. Stefan Matile in Geneva (Switzerland) where he worked on the development of mechanosensitive fluorescent probes for cell membrane tension sensing and imaging. This work has led to the co-invention of three organelle-selective probes now commercially available. He was appointed Maître de Conferences (Associate Professor) in 2019 at the University of Angers in the MOLTECH-Anjou laboratory (PulSAr Team) to develop new n-type organic semiconductors. He was distinguished as “Rising Star” by the Région Pays-de-la-Loire in 2021 and was awarded an ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) JCJC funding the same year. He was awarded the Marc Julia “Emergent Scientist” 2023 price from the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society. Antoine now develops dynamic light-driven synthetic methodologies to control the growth of semiconducting conjugated polymers and n-type nanographenes and nanoribbons.

Elarbi was born and raised in Ait Melloul, Morocco. In 2016, he earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Ibn Zohr University in Agadir (Morocco). He later moved to Grenoble, where he obtained another bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2017 and a master's degree in Organic Synthesis for Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industries in 2019 from Grenoble Alpes University.  In October 2019, he start his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Saioa Cobo at the University of Grenoble Alpes. His research focuses on the development and study of photo and electro-switchable molecular materials based on dithienylethene derivatives. Elarbi is currently a postdoctoral researcher in PulSAr group and works on the visible light driven synthesis of semiconducting polymers with Antoine Goujon (ANR PhotoSynth).

Tapasi was born in West Bengal, India and received her B.Sc. degree from the Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University in 2015. In 2017, she received her M.Sc. degree from Visva-Bharati University. In 2023, she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India under the guidance of Prof. Manmohan Kapur. Her Ph.D. research focused on transition metal-catalyzed site-selective C-H bond functionalization of perylene imides and 1,8-naphthalimides. Tapasi is currently a postdoctoral researcher working on the light frozen dynamic covalent synthesis of electron-deficient conjugated materials with Dr. Antoine Goujon.

Maxime ROGER earned his Bachelor's degree in chemistry and his Master's degree in chemistry and life science from the University of Lille (France). In 2018, he relocated to Montpellier (France) at the Charles Gerhardt Institute (ICGM) to pursue his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Gerbier and Prof. Sébastien Clément. His research focused on the development of π-conjugated systems with Aggregations Induced Emission (AIE) properties. He explored various structures based on siloles, diphenylbutadiene (DPB), tetraphenylbutadiene (TPE), and quinoline malononitrile (QM) for potential applications in health, such as photodynamic or photothermal therapy (PDT, PTT) and as stimuli-responsive materials. Upon completing his Ph.D., Maxime moved to the University of Angers (France) to work on synthesizing π-conjugated polymers starting from nitro-perylene diimide (PDI) through Suzuki-Miyaura coupling and phosphinimine derivatives with Prof. Piétrick HUDHOMME. Currently still in Angers, he works with Dr. Antoine Goujon as a temporary Assistant Professor. His research focuses on the light-frozen dynamic covalent synthesis of electron-deficient conjugated materials. In addition, he actively teaches first and second-year bachelor's degree students.