Juliane Hübert is a senior research scientist at the British Geological Survey. Her journey began at the University of Potsdam and GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany, where memorable MT field campaigns sparked her interest in geophysics. After earning a PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden, on 2D and 3D MT inversion for mineral exploration, she held postdoctoral positions at University of Alberta, Canada, applying ground and airborne MT to porphyry mineral deposits and at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, investigating the plumbing system of volcanic centers in the Main Ethiopian Rift. Today, she focuses on understanding space weather ground effects and unlocking deep geothermal reservoirs.

Xiangyun Hu received the Ph.D. degree from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China in 2000. His research interests include the fundamental theory, new algorithms, instrumentation, and applied innovations in electromagnetic methods for multi-scale Earth structural imaging. He has coauthored more than 350 articles in national and international journals. In 2025, Prof. Hu was a recipient of the Li Siguang Geological Science Prize, and the first prize of the Science and Technology Innovation Award of the Chinese Geophysical Society. He is the chair of the Hydrogeophysics Committee of the Chinese Geophysical Society, and an Associate Editor of Geological Society of America Bulletin and Geophysics.

Seogi Kang completed his PhD in Geophysics at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2018, where his thesis focused on computational electromagnetics and its applications to mining problems. He later worked as a Research Scientist at Stanford University, advancing electromagnetic geophysics for groundwater science and sustainable water management in California (USA). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba, where he leads the Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab. His research focuses on advancing electromagnetic methods for groundwater and mineral exploration applications. He is also a co-creator of the open-source geophysical software project SimPEG.

Katrin Schwalenberg is a senior researcher at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany. She earned her PhD at the Free University of Berlin in collaboration with GFZ Potsdam, where she studied tectonic processes in the South American subduction zone using magnetotellurics and 2D inversion. She then spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, contributing to the development of marine controlled-source electromagnetics for submarine gas hydrate exploration. Since returning to Germany in 2005, she has established and led the Marine Electromagnetics group at BGR, developing and applying innovative methods and instrumentation to investigate submarine energy, groundwater, and mineral resources at multiple scales. While she enjoys working at sea, she has recently taken on the leadership of the Airborne Geophysics group at BGR and is looking forward to new tasks and collaborations.

Hendrik Müller is a senior scientist for marine electromagnetics and magnetics at the Geological Survey of Germany (BGR). He received his PhD at MARUM, University of Bremen, on electromagnetic characterization of marine near-surface sediments. From 2009 to 2017, he held an academic assistant position in marine geophysics at the University of Bremen, with responsibilities in research, teaching, and supervision. In 2017, he was a guest scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and has been involved in the MARELEC (MARine ELECtromagnetic) conference committee since 2013. His work focuses on near-surface electromagnetic methods for high-resolution subsurface imaging, particularly applied to mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal mineral systems and seafloor massive sulfide deposits. Additional research interests include coastal EM studies of submarine groundwater discharge and gas seepage, EM and magnetic modeling and inversion, sensor development, and integrated marine geophysical approaches.