Francesca Apollonio (M’06) received the PhD from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy in 1998. She is Full Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome where she is affiliated since 2003. Presently she is Chair of the URSI main Commission K “Electromagnetics in Biology and medicine”, she is part of the Board of Directors of BioEM Society and member of the IEEE MTT-S TC-28. Since 2020 she is member of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) Scientific Expert Group. From 2016 to 2020 she has been National Representative for the Action COST CA15211. From 2015 to 2016 she has been Technical Program Committee Chair for the Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA), BioEM2016. From 2012 to 2015, she served on the Board of Directors of the Bioelectromagnetic Society. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications on peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and chapter books. Her research interests include main aspects related to the interaction between electromagnetic fields and biological systems with reference to electroporation, smart drug delivery, molecular simulations of complex systems and exposure systems dosimetry and design.

Luigi Aurisicchio

Ferdinando Bersani got his degree in Physics at the University of Bologna in 1967. From 1968 to 1974 specialized in Microbiology and worked at the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, University of Bologna. He is currently retired professor of Physics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bologna. He carried out his scientific research in Biophysics and Medical Physics at the Department of Physics of the same University. His present research is mainly focused on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. He is one of leading researchers in this field in Italy, and his work is largely recognized worldwide. He published about one hundred of research papers and more than sixty in Bioelectromagnetics, on peer-review journals, with special attention to the cellular effects of ELF and RF fields, and to their possible relevance concerning the health risk on one side and the biomedical applications on the other side. Moreover, since 1996 he is also working on theoretical-biophysical models of biological systems with particular respect to the immune system and nervous system. He was vice-president of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA) and member of the American Bioelectromagnetic Society (BEMS). He was Associated Editor of the Bioelectromagnetics Journal and currently belongs to its Editorial Board. He is also the co-director of the International School of Biolectromagnetism “A. Chiabrera” at the Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture E. Majorana (Erice, Sicily).

Giulia Bertino was born in Palmanova (UD) in January 3^rd, 1968. Graduated cum laude at the University of Udine, Faculty of Medicine (1994). Specialization in Otolaryngology at the University of Udine (1999). Full time ENT surgeon of the Department of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery of the IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo Foundation of Pavia since 2000. Winner of the “Bilancioni, Ferreri, Gradenigo” research award of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery in 1996, 2003, 2006, 2009. Subject Expert in the School of Specialization in Otolaryngology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pavia and Professor at the Degree Course in Speech and Language Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pavia. President of the INSPECT (International Network for Sharing practices in ECT) group since 2023. Invited speaker at many National and International ENT Congresses presenting topics related to ENT oncologic treatments. Teacher at many national and international courses on ENT oncologic and reconstructive surgery, phonosurgery and rehabilitation of swallowing and speech disorders, Electrochemotherapy and Electrosclerotherapy. Author or co-author of more 90 journal articles (20 papers focused on Electrochemotherapy) and of book chapters.

Fernando Burdio

Maja Cemazar obtained her PhD in basic medical sciences from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine in 1998. She was a post-doctoral fellow and a researcher at the Gray Cancer Institute from 1999-2001. In 2004 she was working at the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology as an associate researcher. Currently, she is the Head of Research and Education at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana and also works as a researcher at the Department of Experimental Oncology. In addition, she is a lecturer in under and post-graduate courses of Cell and Tumor biology, partly employed at the University of Primorska. Her main research interest is in the field of gene electrotransfer – gene therapy. She is developing different treatment approaches by utilizing therapeutic genes targeting either tumor angiogenesis or stimulating immune response. Her main objective is also to combine immunomodulatory gene therapy with local ablative therapies, such as radiotherapy or electrochemotherapy. She is a member of different national and international societies and a president of the National Ethical Committee for Animal Experimentation, a vice-president of National scientific committee for deliberate release of the GMO Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning and a President of Slovenian Genetic Society. Her work is also closely related to the involvement of patients into the research and clinical studies by being the elected member of the “Organisation of European Cancer Institutes” OECI board from 2021, and Member of the Sub-group on Cancer under the steering Group on Health Promotion Disease Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Disease EU DG Sante and EU DG RTD and member of the Working Group under the Strategic Configuration of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee, EU Mission on Cancer. In addition, she serves as a member of Editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals and is a Deputy Editor of the journal Radiology and Oncology. In 2006 she received the Award of the Republic of Slovenia for important achievements in the scientific research and development in the field of experimental oncology and in 2018 Frank Reidy Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioelectrics. She was a supervisor of 16 PhD students, and more than 30 BSc theses. She is the author of more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her H index is 48.

Roberta Fusco

Julie Gehl

Richard Heller

Antoni Ivorra obtained PhD in electronic engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. Currently, he is a Full Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, where he leads the Biomedical Electronics Research Group and coordinates the Bachelors’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2010, from 2005 to 2009, he enjoyed a four-year postdoctoral stay at the University of California at Berkeley followed by an eight-month postdoctoral position at the CNRS- Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. His research is focused on bioelectrical phenomena and, in particular, on exploring the use of these phenomena for implementing new methods and devices for biomedical applications. Specifically, his main research topics are electroporation, particularly for tissue ablation, electrical bioimpedance for diagnostic purposes, and injectable electronics. He is author or coauthor of 73 publications in peer-reviewed journals and he has been inventor or co-inventor of 13 families of patent applications. In 2016 he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on microstimulators for neuroprosthetics.

Edward Jacobs

Micaela Liberti, (Senior Member, IEEE), received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome. Her scientific research interests include theoretical modeling in bioelectromagnetics, biomedical applications of EMF, microdosimetry, and exposure systems, as well as applicators dosimetry and design. From 2012 to 2015, she was the national supplement representative of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) TD1104: European network for the development of electroporation-based technologies and treatments. In 2019, she co-chaired BIOEM2019, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) and the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA), held from June 23, 2019 to June 28, 2019 in Montpellier, France. In 2020 and 2021, she was the President of the European Bioelectromagnetic Association (EBEA), and till March 2022, she was the President ad interim of BioEM. Since 2021, Dr.Liberti has been a member of the Scientific Expert Group for the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Technical Advisory Committee of the International Union of Radioscience (URSI) Commission K. Since 2022, she has been a member of TC28 of the IEEE MTT Society

Luis Mir

Clair Poignard

Lea Rems

Stefania Romeo received the Master degree (summa cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the Second University of Naples in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Since 2012 she has been with CNR – IREA (Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment) first as research fellow (2012-2016), then as Research Scientist (2016-2022), and since January 1^st, 2023 she is Senior Researcher with the same institution. From September 2010 to March 2011 she was visiting student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics, University of Southern California. In May 2014 she was visiting scientist at th University of Copenhagen at Herlev Hospital for a short-term scientific mission in the framework of the COST Action TD1104 (“European Network for the Development of Electroporation-based Technologies and Treatments”). In 2015 she received the Young Researcher Award at the “1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Environmental Technologies”. Dr Romeo was Ambassador for the 2019 “Electroporation-based Technologies and Treatments School”. The research activity of Dr Romeo is in the framework of bioelectromagnetics and deals with the design and realization of high voltage, ns pulse generators for in vitro biological applications, the study of biological effects of pulsed electric fields on mammalian cells with experimental and modeling approaches, and the employment of numerical and experimental dosimetry techniques for in vitro exposures to RF electromagnetic fields. Stefania Romeo is the PI of the project DEEPEST (Digging into rEversible and irreversible ElectroPoration: in vitro and in silico multiphysical analyses on cEll models for cancer Treatment), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the European Union – NextGenerationEU (PRIN2022 call, 2023-2025).

Gregor Sersa (born 1956, H-index: 59) is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Ljubljana and a researcher at the Department of Experimental Oncology, Oncology Institute Ljubljana. In 2003 he became Professor of Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana, and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biotechnology and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. In 1986-1987 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Tumour Biology and Radiobiology at the M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, USA. In 2005, he founded the Department of Experimental Oncology at the Oncology Institute of Ljubljana, where he was the head until 2023. He is involved in translational research in oncology. He has been most involved in the development of electrochemotherapy, where he has helped to bring it into clinical practice in the treatment of various tumours. Most recently, he led the SmartGene.si project, which developed a gene therapy using a plasmid with a transcript for interleukin 12. The project culminated in a successful Phase I clinical study in patients with basal cell carcinoma.  In 1987, he received the Prešeren Student Prize of the University of Ljubljana, in 1995 he received the Prize of the Republic of Slovenia for Outstanding Scientific Achievements, and in 2012 he received the Rector’s Award for the Best Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2024 he received the Frank Reidy Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioelectrics He was elected an Associate Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 18 June 2015 and a Full Member in 2021 and served as Secretary of the Class of Medical Sciences from 2017 to 2023.

Maria Rosaria Scarfì until April 2024 was Research Director and head of the Bioelectromagnetics Unit at the CNR, Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Naples, Italy. Currently she is Associate Senior Researcher at CNR-IREA. Her main research activities are in the evaluation of in vitro biological effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields, from static fields to THz. She is also involved in the evaluation of biological effects induced in cell cultures exposed to high voltage, micro- and nano-second electric pulses. She has been responsible for the IREA group in the framework of the International Bioelectric Consortium. She authored or co-authored more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has been external expert of the Working Group on Electromagnetic Fields for the “Opinion on the potential health effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields”, EU Commission – SCENIHR; she is a member of the core group for the preparation of the World Health Organization monograph on risk assessment for RF fields and member of the Scientific Committee of the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority – Electromagnetic Fields. She was a board-member of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA) and of the Bioelectromagnetic Society (BEMS). She served as Associated Editor for several peer-reviewed journals (Bioelectromagnetics, PlosOne, Scientific report). Since 2017 she is the co-Director of the International School of Biolectromagnetism “A. Chiabrera” at the Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture E. Majorana (Erice, Sicily).

Emanuela Signori

Qui Shao