Richard A. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in materials chemistry at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. He gained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica in 2009. His research focuses on optoelectronic materials for use in electronic devices, including solar cells, metal-organic liquid crystals, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films and luminescent metal-organic frameworks.

Karthik Ramasamy is a Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, US. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK in 2010. His main research interests are development and studies of materials and material composites for energy and catalytic applications.