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Edwin C. Constable is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel. He has been involved in supramolecular chemistry since its inception and has published over 600 research papers and many books. He has held positions of Research Dean of the Science Faculty and Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Basel. His scientific interests and expertise lie in metallosupramolecular and materials chemistry, especially in the use of metal ions for the assembly of novel architectures incorporating specific electronic or photophysical properties. He is a highly cited researcher and is actively involved in industrial collaborations, national and EU funded programs relating to interfacial and heterogeneous chemistry and their application to nanoscale electronic, catalytic, and electrocatalytic devices. His research interest centres on the development of new dyes for the dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cell and new materials for OLEDs and related lighting technologies. He runs the research group jointly with his wife, Professor Catherine Housecroft.

Catherine E. Housecroft is Titular Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel. She is co-director of a highly active research group with her husband, Professor Edwin C. Constable, and has a broad range of interests spanning structural, organometallic, coordination, and materials chemistries. Her current research focuses on the application of coordination chemistry to sustainable energy and functional coordination polymers; she is actively involved in the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the National Centre for Competence in Research for Molecular Systems Engineering. She has published over 550 research papers and review articles and is also an internationally recognized author of chemistry textbooks: Chemistry (coauthored with Edwin Constable) and Inorganic Chemistry (originally with the late Alan Sharpe) are currently in their fourth and fifth editions, respectively, and Inorganic Chemistry has been translated into seven languages.