**Meet the editors**

Dr. Giorgos Fagas received his PhD degree in Physics from Lancaster University (UK) in 2000 and completed his MBA degree at University College Cork in 2012. He is currently the EU Programme Coordinator at Tyndall National Institute, Ireland. As senior researcher at Tyndall, he has coordinated activities in nanoelectronics and energy-efficient electronics. From 2000 to 2003, Giorgos

was research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut-PKS in Dresden and Humboldt Fellow at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His work has been published in over 50 peer-reviewed articles spanning: atomic scale sub-10 nm transistor designs and electronic device evaluation, implementations of first-principles electronic structure methods to electron transport, device physics and fundamental mesoscopic phenomena. Giorgos has also edited a reference book on molecular electronics.

Dr. Luca Gammaitoni, is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Perugia, in Italy and the director of the Noise in Physical Systems (NiPS) Laboratory. He is also the founder of Wisepower srl a university spinoff company. He obtained the PhD in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1990. Since then he has developed a wide international experience with collaborations both in

Europe, Japan and the USA. His scientific interests span from noise phenomena in physical systems to non equilibrium thermodynamics and energy transformations at micro and nanoscale. He authored over 200 papers on top-level scientific journals and few books. He is also the author of 10 patents. His papers have been cited more than 10.000 times. H factor=43.

Dr. Douglas Paul has degrees in physics from the University of Cambridge and spent 15 years as a researcher there before moving to the University of Glasgow, U.K.. He is Professor of Semiconductor Devices and Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at Glasgow and presently sits on a number of U.K. Government Scientific Advisory Committees. His research includes

nanoelectronics, quantum devices, Si photonics and energy harvesting including thermoelectrics. He has published over 250 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Gabriel Abadal received his degree in physics in 1991 and his PhD in electrical engineering in 1997 from the UAB. Since 2002 he is an Associate Professor in the Electronics Engineering Department of the UAB, where he currently leads the NANERG LAB group (http:// grupsderecerca.uab.cat/nanerglab/). During the last 20 years he has participated in more than 30 national and

European research projects, he has contributed to more than 160 conferences and he has published more than 75 papers in journals (H-index: 15). Since 2006, he focused his activity in the application of MOEMS and NOEMS to harvest energy from ambient vibrations and electromagnetic radiation sources at the nanoscale. His actual interest is oriented towards the study of graphene and other 2D materials as basic components of the future nanoenergy harvesting strategies.
