Pier Mello is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He took his B.S. degree in Physics at UNAM in 1962, and his PhD there in 1965. he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1965-67, and has been Full Professor of Physics at the Instituto de Física, UNAM, Mexico, since 1974. He was a member of the Wissenschaftkolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin, Germany, 1992-93 and became Distinguished Professor at UNAM, Mexico in 1994. He was a Lecturer at the
Les Houches International School on Mesoscopic Quantum Physics in 1994.
Narendra Kumar is Director at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. He has been recognised with several awards, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Physics in 1985 by CSIR, India; the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize for Physics (1992), the C.V. Raman Birth Centenary award (1999-2000), and the Meghnad Saha Medal (2000). He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1987), Fellow of the American Physical Society (1994), Fellow of TWAS (1995), Fellow of INSA (1987), and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (1994).