Dr Gabriela Daniels has over 20 years of experience as an educator and researcher in cosmetics. She is the Director of Science Programmes at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, home to one of the world’s longest-established degree programmes dedicated to cosmetics. Her research focuses on integrating scientific studies of hair‑fibre and hair‑assembly properties with related work on human perception and behaviour. She has published and presented extensively in these areas. Gabriela is particularly committed to advancing research in underrepresented domains, including textured hair and the greying of hair. She also chairs the Scientific Programme Committee of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists in the UK. Gabriela has been awarded the 2025 Martha Schwarzkopf Award for Lifetime Contribution to hair science teaching and research, in recognition of her outstanding impact and innovation in the field.

In 2024, David was appointed to the Chair in Formulation Science in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh where he works closely with the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership and their industrial partners and collaborators. In addition, David co-supervises several PhD students working on topical formulations and skin barrier science in collaboration with colleagues in Physics, Engineering, and Dermatology, as well as industrial sponsors. David has been involved in biophysical studies of skin, membranes, hair, and mineralised tissue, as well as cosmetic and pharmaceutical topical formulation development for 25 years. He has worked in the US and UK for GSK, Unilever, International Specialty Products (now Ashland), TRI-Princeton, and Tioga Research. In addition to his industrial roles, David has held visiting academic positions at Rutgers University, Princeton University, and University College London, he is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and an adjunct fellow of TRI-Princeton. David has served as an industrial advisor and sponsor to doctoral students at Stanford, Princeton, Vanderbilt, and Rutgers in the US and UCL, Imperial College, and the universities of Newcastle, Durham, Leeds, and Edinburgh in the UK. An inventor on several patents and the co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers, review articles and book chapters, David is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was co-chair of the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on The Barrier Function of Mammalian Skin.

Samiul Amin, is currently Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering Department.  He is also the Director of the MS Program in Product Design and Undergraduate Program Director in Chemical Engineering. In January 2024 he Co-Founded Fastformulator Inc which is a company focused on accelerating R&D of formulated products through AI and Machine Learning. Prior to University of Miami, he was Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College. At Manhattan College Chemical Engineering Department, Prof. Amin developed and led the Cosmetic and Biopharmaceutical Engineering Concentration area. Prof. Amin has worked in industry and academia for the past 25 years working across Engineering, R&D, Innovation Management and M&A. He has worked globally in  multinationals such as ExxonMobil, Unilever, L’Oreal and MalvernPanalytical. Prof. Amin’s expertise is in formulation design of cosmetic/consumer, personal care, homecare and biopharmaceutical products, colloids & complex fluids (Surfactants, Polymers and Emulsions), AI/ML, rheology, tribology, advanced characterization. Prof. Amin’s research at University of Miami is focused on formulation design of smart gels and hydrogels and performance optimization of consumer, cosmetic and homecare products based on novel sustainable materials and novel polymer chemistries including stimuli responsive or smart polymers Prof. Amin received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University, his MS in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and his BS in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. Prof. Amin also carried out a postdoctoral fellowship in the Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Timo joined Unilever in 2008 and has worked at Unilever’s European R&D centres in Vlaardingen (NL) and Port Sunlight (UK) on innovation projects spanning many product categories and geographies. Timo has a 15-year track record of implementing cutting-edge consumer research to shape innovations and scientifically robust new claims for major Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care brands. In his work, he employs a wide array of measures and paradigms such as neuroimaging, psychophysiological measures, and behavioural tasks in collaboration with leading academics around the world. Timo has published more than 120 scientific papers and book chapters, and his Hirsch Index is 43.

Jennifer Marsh has been working with Procter & Gamble for 30 years.  Her early career was spent working as a technologist in hair color and developed new color and damage technologies for the Clairol Nice N Easy Brand.  She moved to work on hair care technologies including new actives for Pantene and our other hair care brands.  Currently she is in the Materials group developing fundamental models and identifying materials for our hair care business. She has published ~ 50 papers in the area of hair structure science and hair color and holds over 30 patents.