Anna Klinkova is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, based at the University of Waterloo, Canada. After completing degrees at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, and Bowling Green State University, USA, she went on to obtain her doctorate at the University of Toronto. Professor Klinkova has been with the University of Waterloo since 2017, where her research concentrates on the synthesis and self-assembly of inorganic and soft-matter nanomaterials, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry and plasmonics. She teaches various courses in the undergraduate Nanotechnology Engineering program and in the interdisciplinary graduate Nanotechnology program.Héloïse Thérien-Aubin is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. After completing her doctoral degree at the Université de Montréal she was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and the University of Toronto and a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. In 2021 she joined Memorial, where her research focuses on the design of polymers and polymer nanomaterials and the study of interactions in nanoconfined systems.