Frank Huygen is working as an anesthesiologist pain specialist in the University Hospital Erasmusmc in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is head of the center of pain medicine, a multidisciplinary pain clinic specialized in acute, chronic benign and oncologic pain and palliative care. In 2009 he is appointed as full Professor in Anesthesiology especially Pain Medicine. In 2020, he is also part-time appointed as full Professor in Pain Medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is principal investigator in several research lines especially focusing on CRPS and neuromodulation. He is member of the Board of Directors of the International Research Consortium for CRPS (40 collaborating research sites worldwide). Since 2004 he supervised and finished successfully 5 PhD co-promotor ships and 18 promotor ships. He authored over more than 200 peer reviewed articles, chapters in books and journals In 2011 he received the IASP research international collaboration grant. In January 2016 he received an honorary fellowship in the faculty of pain medicine in the college of anesthetists of Ireland.

Špela Levičnik-Höfferle graduated from Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Study of Microbiology and continued her education with Postgraduate Study of Biological and Biotechnical Sciences at Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished her PhD in Biotechnology in 2012. Since 2013 she has been working for Fotona d.o.o., medical laser manufacturer and is involved in application development, scientific collaborations as well as lecturing and training medical doctors and dentists on the use of laser systems in aestetics, gynecology and dentistry. Since 2017 she is the manager of global educational program of Laser and Health Academy - LA&HA Master`s program in Laser Dentistry.