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Rabia Jamil completed her M.Sc. at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her M.Phil. research was carried out in the same university under the supervision of Dr Muhammad Shahid Ansari, focussed on the synthesis of nanomaterials with various surface modifications for electrocatalysis and materials chemistry for renewable energy. She will soon begin her Ph.D. studies under the supervision of A/Prof. Debbie Silvester (her start has been delayed due to travel restrictions following COVID-19), focussing on the use of ionic liquids and poly(ionic liquids) for gas sensing and electrochemical applications.

Liliana C. Tomé received a M.Sc. in Materials Derived from Renewable Resources (2008) from the University of Aveiro and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Technology Sciences – Chemical Engineering (2014) from Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Portugal. After her post-doc (2015–2018) at the same institute, she moved to POLYMAT – University of the Basque Country (Spain) with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2020, she joined LAQV-REQUIMTE, NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA (Portugal), where she is an Assistant Researcher and recently received the L’Oréal Portugal Medal of Honor for Women in Science 2020. Her areas of research are centered on iongels and poly(ionic liquid)-based materials for gas separation and bioelectronics.

David Mecerreyes is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT-University of the Basque Country (Spain). He received his Ph.D. from University of Liege in 1998. After a post-doc (1998–2000) at IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he moved to Spain to work at CIDETEC. In 2010, he moved to POLYMAT where he became the leader of the Innovative Polymers Group. His area of expertise is polymer synthesis of ionic and electroactive polymers, such as poly(ionic liquid)s, polymer electrolytes, redox polymers, and PEDOT type conductive polymers. His current research interests involve the application of innovative polymers in emerging technologies such as organic batteries and bioelectronic devices.

Debbie Silvester is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She completed her M.Sci. in Chemistry at the University of Bristol and her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include electrochemistry in ionic liquids, electrochemical reaction mechanisms, gas sensing, explosives detection, electrodeposition, and formation of modified electrodes for sensing applications. She has been awarded several national and international awards for research, including the 2021 Le Fèvre medal (Australian Academy of Science) and the 2021 Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship (Royal Society of Chemistry).