Monika completed her BSc and MSc degrees in Mechatronics Engineering (robotics) at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. During her studies, she became interested in artificial intelligence, especially in deep artificial neural networks.  She works in the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Group, led by Professor Radu Grosu, where she aims to develop interpretable and robust hierarchical artificial neural networks from brain-inspired motifs for control applications. 

Dimosthenis obtained his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Computational and Experimental Engineering and Advanced Materials from the University of Patras in Greece. In 2019, he joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty at TU Delft, where he worked on the development of energy nanogenerators that could effectively convert biomechanical energy into electricity. Specifically, his research aimed to create functional prototypes that could be integrated into on-body sensor modules, enabling them to be self-sustainable. In 2022, he joined the Biomechanics group at the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Wien. His PhD focuses on the micromechanical assessment of cell clusters and the development of an instrument to test the mechanical properties of the cells' microenvironment. His main research interests include AFM-based nano- and microindentation of soft samples and biomechanics, with a particular focus on cell clusters.

Julia Höhlschen was born in Germany, where she received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Biochemistry at the Ruhr University of Bochum. During her studies she became more and more interested in protein research and spectroscopic methodologies. Consequently, she chose to work on a Proteomic project for her master degree in which she aimed to find interaction partners of the protein REG4 in the context of colon cancer using quantitative mass spectrometry. For her PhD project she is now working on the identification of off targets of the Gliflozin drug class that inhibit the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2).