Professor Robert Crichton - Unité de biochimie, Université de Louvain (Belgium) - Iron metabolism, protein chemistry, inorganic biochemistry

Dr. Ricardo O. Louro - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras (Portugal) - High resolution and protonless NMR spectroscopy of metalloproteins functional mechanisms of metalloproteins and enzymes

Dr. Eckard Bill - MPI für Strahlenchimie, Mühlheim (Germany) - Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron Proteins

Professor Fred Hagen - Biotechnology Dept., Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) - Metalloprotein spectroscopy particularly EPR

Dr. Margarida Archer - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras (Portugal) - X-ray crystallography of metalloproteins

Professor Franck Neese - Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Bonn (Germany) - Theoretical chemistry

Dr. Christophe Léger - Institute of Structural Biology and Microbiology of Marseille (France) - Electrochemical methods for the functional analysis of metalloproteins

Professor Peep Palumaa - Tallin University of Technology (Estonia) - System biology approach in functional studies of cellular copper (I) - proteome

Professor Karl Wieghardt - MPI für Strahlenchimie, Mühlheim (Germany) - Biomimmetics

Dr. William Rutherford - CEA-Saclay (France) - Manganese proteins and spectroscopy

Professor Peter Kroneck - Dept. of Biology, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Spectroscopy and enzymology of copper proteins

Dr. Martin Feiters - Institute for Molecules and Materials, University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) - EXAFS spectroscopy

Professor Ernesto Carafoli - Biochemistry Department, University of Padua (Italy) - Calcium and metabolic regulation

Professor Rob Robson - Microbiology Department, University of Reading (United Kingdom) - Molecular biology of metalloproteins

Professor Ralf Mendel - Institut für Pflanzenbiologie Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany) - Mo enzymes

Professor Roland Sigel - Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zurich (Switzerland) - Metal-nucleic acid interactions; metallodrugs