Vijayan was NASI Platinum Jubilee Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. PhD from IISc and postdoctoral work at Oxford. Since 1971, worked in different capacities at IISc. Honours include: SS Bhatnagar Prize; GN Ramachandran Medal, JL Nehru Centen. vis. fellow, KS Krishnan Memorial Lecture, all of Indian National Science Academy (INSA); Alumni Award Excell. Res., IISc; FICCI Award; Ranbaxy Res. Award; Om Prakash Bhasin Award; JL Nehru Birth Centen. Award, Indian Science Congress Assoc.; Padma Shri; Distinguished Biotechnologist, DBT; DAE Homi Bhabha Professor; INSA Albert Einstein Professor; Goyal Prize; first CSIR/Science Congress GN Ramachandran Medal; Distinguished Alumni Award, IISc.; Singhania IIM National Leadership Award; Sarvadhikari Medal, Calcutta Univ.; Champion of CSIR and Kerala Science Award. Fellow of 3 science academies of India; President, Asian Crystallographic Asso., 2004-2007; Co-editor, Acta Crystallographica, 1993-2002; President, INSA, 2008-10.

Gadagkar is Prof. & National Science Chair at Centre for Ecol. Scs., Ind. Inst. of Sc.(IISc), Hon. Prof., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv. Sci. Res., Bangalore and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, and Senior Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany. He has published over 400 research papers, articles & four books. His awards include TWAS award in Biology, SS Bhatnagar Prize, B.M. Birla Science Prize, Homi Bhabha Fellowship, B.P. Pal Natl. Envirmnt. Fellowship on Biodiversity, H. K. Firodia award, DSc (hc) of the University of Burdwan, West Bengal and Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Animal Behaviour by the Animal Behaviour Society, USA (2021). He is a fellow of IAS, INSA, Natl. Acad. of Scs, India, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World(TWAS), Intl. Member, Natl. Acad. of Scs., USA, the German Natl. Science Academy Leopoldina, the American Acad. of Arts and Scs., Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Past(Founder)President, Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists(ISEB), Secretary General, Intl.

Dattagupta, a condensed matter theorist, specializes in nonequilibrium phenomena and quantum dissipative systems. He has written 250+ papers in international journals and authored 4 books: (i) Relaxation Phenomena in Condensed Matter, Academic Press, 1987; (ii) Dissipative Effects in Condensed Matter (coauthor: Sanjay Puri), Springer-Verlag, 2004; (iii) A Paradigm Called Magnetism, World Scientific Press, 2008 and (iv) Diffusion–Formalism and Application, Taylor & Francis, 2013. He is a Fellow of all three science academies of India: Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Science and National Academy of Science. He has served as Dean, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Director, S. N. Bose National Center of Basic Sciences; Founding Director, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata; and Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Among his major recognitions are Young Scientist and C. V. Raman Medals (Indian National Science Academy), J. C. Bose Fellowship (Government of India), Associateship and Senior Associateship of ICTP, Trieste, Alexander Humboldt Fellowship and Visiting Associateship of Cambridge University.

Swaminathan is a renowned agriculture scientist. Considered the scientific leader of the Green Revolution, his approach is at the heart of sustainable agriculture. His awards include: World Food Prize; A. Einstein World Science Award; Honda Award; Ramon Magsaysay Award; Tyler Prize; Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award; UNESCO Gandhi Prize; Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. He chaired the Intl. Comm. on Peace and Food; is UNESCO chair in ecotechnology; was pres., Pugwash Conf. on Science and World Affairs, chairman, Natl. Comm. on Farmers of India. He is currently Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha); chairman, MS Swaminathan Research Foundn., Chennai, India; and hon. chair for sustainable development, Indira Gandhi Natl. Open U., New Delhi. He is Fellow, Indian Natl. Science Acad.; Royal Soc. of London; US Natl. Acad. of Sciences; Russian Acad. of Sciences.

Chakravorty was educated in Kolkata at Mitra Inst., Scottish Church College, U. College of Sc. (PhD 1961), and at MIT and Harvard. He is emeritus prof. of IACS, Dept. of Inorganic Chem., Indian Ass. for the Cultivation of Sc., Kolkata, where he also served as prof. and head. He was also prof. and head, Dept. of Chem., Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur. His awards and honours include: SS Bhatnagar Prize; TWAS Award in Chem.; DSc (h.c.); TR Seshadri, Acharya JC Ghosh, RC Mehrotra, CRSI Gold and ICS Gold Medals; INSA Golden Jubilee Research Professorship; JNCASR Hidustan Lever Research Professorship, Tata Chemicals Platinum Jubilee Distinguished Emeritus Professorship; fellowships of Indian Acad. of Scs. and INSA. He has been on the editorial boards of major journals and publications including Inorg. Chem., Dalton Trans., Inorg. Chim. Acta and Comprehensive Coord Chem (2nd edition).

Bhattacharyya was a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Bhopal. He obtained his PhD in 1984 at Calcutta University. After postdoctoral work at Columbia and Notre Dame, he joined the faculty of IACS in 1987. His main interest was in femtosecond dynamics in nano-confined systems which include biological assemblies. His most important discovery is the ultraslow nature of biological water. He was a fellow of all of the national science academies of India, and is a senior editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. He received the Bhatnagar Prize (CSIR, India) in 1997 and the TWAS Prize in 2007.

​​National Science Chair, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi; Invited Professor, IIT Delhi; Distinguished Professor, Sharda University, Greater Noida; ​Robert Koch Fellow (Berlin); Formerly: Vice-Chancellor, Univ of Hyderabad; Hon. Prof., JNCASR, Bangalore; first Director, CDFD, Hyderabad. Hasnain received PhD from JNU (1980), DSc (h.c.Multiple), DMedSc (h.c.); postdoc. training in Canada/USA, and was Staff Scientist, National Inst. of Immunology, New Delhi. Awards include: Germany's Das​Verdienstkreuz, 1. Klasse Award (2014) from German President; Humboldt Res. Prize, Germany; SS Bhatnagar Prize; Ranbaxy Res. Award; GD Birla Award; JC Bose Natl. Fellow, ​B.R. Ambedkar Award of the ICMR, Padma Shri (Civilian Award). Frmr Member, Sci. Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (2004-2014); Frmr President, All India Cell Biology Soc.; Elected Fellow of German National Acad. of Sciences, Leopoldina; American Acad. of Microbiology, USA; National Science Academies of India (INSA, IASc, NASI, etc.). He is Editor/Member editorial ​boards of natl./intl. journals and Biotech Advisory Council of various states and has authored +350 publications/patents.

Ajayaghosh is the Director of the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India and Professor of Academy of Scientific Innovative Research, CSIR, India. He obtained his Ph.D in Chemistry in 1989 at University of Calicut, India. He has made significant contributions in molecular assemblies, fluorescent materials, organogels, molecular probes and photoresponsive materials. His awards includes INSA medal for young scientists, S S Bhatnagar prize, Khwarizmi International Award, Infosys prize, TWAS prize, CRSI Silver Medal and J.C.Bose National Fellowship. His membership includes: Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the TWAS fellowship.