Deniz Cicek is working on the fabrication of the terahertz Gunn source. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering and information technology with a focus on communications engineering at the TU Darmstadt in 2012. From 2012 to 2017, he worked as a research assistant partially on the fabrication of GaN-Gunn diodes with photolithographic techniques and their electrical characterization at the High Frequency Electronics department. From 2017 to 2021, he worked at the Japanese company HORIBA EU GmbH as a project engineer. And from February 2021 to January 2023, he was working on data analysis and machine learning.

Sajed Rezaei is working on the characterization of terahertz Gunn sources. In January 2024, he received his bachelor's degree in Mechatronics. Since April 2024, he is a master‘s student and working at TU Darmstadt and Hochschule Darmstadt as a HiWi as well as he was involved in several projects include the design and implementation in automatic control, academic research, computer-aided design, programming, simulations, and R&D.

Prof. Dr. Claus von Campenhausen is a financial expert with distinguished positions in corporate finance (Siemens, New York) and banking (Crédit Agricole Investment Bank, Frankfurt/Paris) and is now at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. He studied at the University of Bonn, the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Magister), and the London School of Economics (MSc in Accounting and Finance). He earned his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen with a dissertation entitled “Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility: Theory and Empirical Evidence.” Afterwards, Campenhausen initially worked for a strategy consultancy in Western Europe, then for Siemens in New York, and subsequently moved to the French major bank Crédit Agricole Investment Bank in Frankfurt. In parallel, Prof. von Campenhausen taught finance-related subjects at various universities. He is currently Professor of Business Administration and Management at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences and, among other roles, serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of an asset management company and is involved in various startup initiatives.

Prof. Dr. Sascha Preu is one of the two mentors of THzNanoVision. He received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2004 to 2010, he was with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen. From 2010 to 2011, he was with the Department of Materials and Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as the Chair of applied physics with Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2017, he received the ERC Starting Grant for developing ultra-broadband and photonic terahertz signal analyzers. In 2022, he received an ERC Proof of Concept grant focusing on pre-commercial prototypes of photonic spectrum analyzers. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, leading the Terahertz Devices and Systems Laboratory.

Prof. Dr. Franko Küppers received the Ph.D. degree in optical communications engineering from TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2002. He was with Siemens (Erlangen, Germany) and with Deutsche Telekom's R&D Center, Darmstadt, Germany, where he directed the Optical Networks Research Group and the Photonic Systems Department. In 2003, he joined the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, where he was a tenured Associate Professor, built and ran the Photonic Telecommunication Systems Research Group, and was the Testbed Lead for the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for Integrated Access Networks (NSF ERC CIAN) with which he is still associated as an Adjunct Professor. From 2011 to 2018, he directed the Institute for Microwave Engineering and Photonics, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, where he also held the Chair of Photonics and Optical Communications. In 2019, he was appointed a Full Professor and the Director of the Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, the affiliation ended March 2022. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific articles and was the Guest Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology Special Issue on 40 Gb/s Lightwave Systems in 2002. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Science Foundation Arizona Competitive Advantage Award, and the College Award of Distinction for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching. He is a Fellow of SPIE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics and Communications Section.