Muriel Cario currently works at INSERM 1312, University of Bordeaux.  She has over 25 years' experience in the physiopathology of human skin pigmentation and tissue engineering. She is a board member of the European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR) and of the Cosm'actifs GDR.  She collaborates with academic teams and the cosmetics industry to develop new models for studying skin pathologies such as senile lentigo, melasma, vitiligo, melanoma and carcinoma, new methods for vectorizing active ingredients and to test new active molecules.

Arnaud Dubois received his Ph.D. in physics from Paris-Saclay university in 1997. Since 2006, he has been a professor of optics at Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, France. His teaching activities encompass most aspects of optics at the master’s level. His research interests lie in the field of biomedical imaging. As a pioneer in optical coherence microscopy in the early 2000s, A. Dubois has since been a major contributor to the development of this technology. He has published 175 research articles and 12 book chapters and has participated in approximately 250 conferences.