Nasim Hossein Hamzeh received her PhD in Meteorology at the Atmospheric Science and Research Center in Iran and her M.Sc degree in Astronomy at the University of Isfahan. Currently, she serves as a Central Asia regional representative in the Young Earth System Scientist (Yess) Community. Past projects have researched the origin of foreign dust in Iran and the identification and source characterization of mineral dust on the north shore of the Persian Gulf. 

Professor Coe gained his BSc in Physics from Newcastle University, and his PhD in Atmospheric Physics from UMIST for his work on the loss of nitrogen oxides and ozone from the atmosphere to natural vegetation.  He carried our post-doctoral research at the University of East Anglia, working with Professor John Plane on the atmospheric chemistry of nitrate and halogen radicals.  He was appointed to a lectureship in Physics at UMIST in 1997 and became Professor of Atmospheric Composition in 2007 at the University of Manchester.  He is currently a visiting Professor at

Mingjin Tang is currently a research professor Guangzhou Institute for Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received his BSs and MSc in Peking University (China), China and his PhD in Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Germany). He carried out postdoctoral research at University of Cambridge (UK) and University of Iowa (USA) before he joined Guangzhou Institute for Geochemistry.

Örjan Gustafsson is Professor at Stockholm University in the Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research. After pursuing a university degree in chemistry, he specialized in chemical oceanography and obtained a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 1997.

Lin Du is a professor of environmental sciences at Environment Research Institute in Shandong University (SDU). He studied chemistry at Ocean University of China (OUC) and received his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He got his PhD of physical chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008, and then he worked as postdoctoral fellow at University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium. In 2010, he moved to University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, and worked as postdoctoral researcher until 2013. He then took an assistant professor position at University of Copenhagen.