Atomic and Molecular Gas from IR to Radio

Alberto Bolatto is a professor at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. He is an observational astronomer, studying the cold interstellar and circumgalactic medium in galaxies to better understand how they regulate their growth through cosmic time.

Nami Sakai is a chief scientist at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Japan. She is an observational astronomer, studying how star formation affects molecular evolution and revealing chemical diversity in star-forming sites, to understand the chemistry of the environment from which the Solar System originated.

Eva Schinnerer leads a research group on extragalactic star formation at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research focuses on the physics of the cold interstellar medium and the associated star formation through cosmic time.

Yasuo Fukui is a radio astronomer and professor at Nagoya University, Japan. He leads the NANTEN2 Sub-mm Observatory located in the Atacama Plateau in Chile. His recent research focuses on the formation of high mass stars and clusters in galaxies including the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way.

Margaret Meixner is the Astrophysics Section Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, USA. Her research work focuses on infrared instrumentation (ground and space based), Magellanic Clouds, dust evolution in galaxies, circumstellar matter of dying stars, circumstellar matter of forming stars, and the interstellar medium.

Frédéric Galliano is a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of CEA Paris-Saclay, France. He focuses his research on modeling the interstellar grain properties of nearby galaxies, in order to better understand dust evolution, and its impact on galaxy evolution.

Mpati Ramatsoku is a Research Fellow at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Her interest is studying atomic hydrogen to address how and why star-forming spiral galaxies transform into passive early-type galaxies and the role played by their environment. On larger scales, she applies multi-wavelength data to study the dynamics and architecture of galaxy clusters.

Mark Krumholz is a professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is a theorist specializing in simulations and modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation.

Mónica Rubio is a professor at the Astronomy Department of the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile, and a Chilean National Science Prize recipient. Her research focuses on young stars and the molecular medium in galaxies, particularly at low metallicities and in the Magellanic Clouds system.