Rickard Lundin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Umeå, Sweden, and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. He started his career as an experimentalist in space plasma physics, eventually becoming involved in the design and development of space plasma instrumentation on rockets, and satellites. He served as Principal Investigator of plasma energy-mass analyzers on nine space missions, orbiting the Earth, Mars, Venus and a comet. His main scientific interest is the solar wind-induced acceleration and escape of plasma from planets in the solar system. He is the author and co-author of over 400 scientific papers in planetary magnetospheric plasma physics.

Hans Lidgren holds a MSc in Civil Engineering and is a Cofounder of the oil company Rex International Holding Ltd. During his time within the Rex group Lidgren has developed a proprietary liquid hydrocarbon indicator ‘Rex Virtual Drilling’ – a multi-attribute seismic analytical tool which studies dispersion events in the seismic data to provide information about potential presence of liquid hydro-carbons (oil) in reservoir rocks. He has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry, including work with multiple types of satellite data and wave ponderomotive force.