Agneta Richter-Dahlfors is a professor in Cellular Microbiology and director of the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center located at Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Department of Microbiology at Uppsala University in 1994. She moved to the Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, for a post-doctoral training period during 1995–1997. During this time, she initiated her studies on bacterial pathogenesis in animal models in the laboratory of Professor Brett Finlay. She pursued this line of research after returning to Sweden in 1998, when she joined Karolinska Institutet Department of Microbiology, Tumor, and Cell Biology. Her major field in infection biology involves real-time analysis of the progression of bacterial infections within the organ of live animal using intravital multiphoton microscopy. Richter-Dahlfors became tenured in 2001 and served as vice-chairman of the department during 2003–2006. Since 2006, Richter-Dahlfors acts as director of the “Strategic Research Centre in Organic Bioelectronics” at Karolinska Institutet. This is a joint research center comprising research groups with complementary expertise is medicine and organic electronics. Research in the center aims to develop new communication interfaces between manmade electronics and cell/tissues. The Richter-Dahlfors laboratory is primarily focusing on devices to be applied in neuroscience as well as infection biology. In 2008, Richter-Dahlfors moved her laboratory to the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, where she is chairing the interdisciplinary research center, the “Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center.” In 2010, Richter-Dahlfors was appointed Scientific Coordinator for Karolinska Institutet's mutual research activities with Japan.

  Peter Kjäll received his M.Sc in Biomedicine in 2002 and continued as a graduate student in Prof. Agneta Richter-Dahlfors laboratory studying cell signaling and bacteria host interactions. Early on he became interested in incorporation of novel technologies in biomedical research with a focus on organic bioelectronics, resulting in a true interdisciplinary thesis at the completion of his PhD in 2007. As a post-doctoral fellow at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, he developed neuroscience applications of organic bioelectronics in the laboratory of Prof. Katsuhiko Mikoshiba. Since 2009 Peter Kjäll is appointed project coordinator at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institutet, working closely with medical research groups to promote integration of nanotechnology and organic bioelectronics in life science applications.