Giuseppe Chirico is full professor in Applied Physics at University of Milano-Bicocca. His main research interests are fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in solution and on cells, photon correlation spectroscopy and metal nanoparticles for biomedical application.

Mykola Borzenkov received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Lviv Polytechnic National University (Lviv, Ukraine). At present time M. Borzenkov is a research assistant at Department of Physics at University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). His main research fields are synthesis and application of functional surface active monomers, polymers of biomedical applications, synthesis, functionalization and biomedical application of metal nanoparticles.

Piersandro Pallavicini is associate professor in General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Pavia. His main research interests are chemistry of nanoparticles and coordination compounds, fluorescent labeled gold nanoparticles, application of metal nanoparticles.