Antonio Tejeda is a research professor at CNRS, working at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides located at the University of South Paris and he is also associate scientist at the SOLEIL synchrotron facility. He is the author of more than seventy articles on low-dimensional systems, some of them addressing the public at large.
Daniel Malterre is professor at the Lorraine University and performs his research at Institut Jean Lamour in the "surfaces and spectroscopies" team that he founded.
He is the author of more than one hundred and thirty publications on different disciplines, ranging from strongly correlated systems to surface physics.