1. Chad A. Mirkin is director of the Northwestern University International Institute for Nanotechnology and is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
2. Edward H. Sargent is director of the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University and Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
3. Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA and a professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.