I am a Medical Doctor and Internal Medicine Specialist. I became a clinical flow cytometrist more than 20 years ago. I previously worked in the General Cytometry Service of the University of Salamanca and I currently work at the Flow Cytometry Laboratory within the Hematology Department of the University Hospital of Salamanca. My main professional interests include both practicing clinical flow cytometry and conducting translational research. 

I am a Full Professor of Hematology, specialized in flow cytometry, and currently serve as Deputy Chief of the Academic Medical Department of Biology-Pathology at Henri Mondor University Hospital (APHP) in France. I am actively engaged in the hematology and cytometry communities, both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Willemijn Hobo is Principle Investigator at the Radboudumc Department of Laboratory Medicine – Laboratory of Hematology. Her research focuses on deciphering mechanisms underlying immune dysfunction in cancer patients and development of novel therapeutic approaches to (re)establish immune-mediated tumor control. 

I am an Italian Ph.D Biologist  with a more than 25 years expertise in haematology, cytometry and microbiology in a large core laboratory facility in the Western Metropolitan Milan Area. My professional career has been focused on the development of multiparametric flow cytometry and cell sorting applications in diagnosis and clinical research in laboratory hematology, bone marrow morphology, immunology, blood coagulation, transfusion medicine and microbiology. I am currently a Board member of of the Italian Society of Cytometric Cell Analysis (ISCCA), and a member of the Italian Society of Hematology (SIE) and Association of Italian Clinical Microbiologists (AMCLI).

I have a degree in Medicine, a postgraduate diploma and a doctoral dissertation, all obtained in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. My specialty is Biopathology/Laboratory Medicine, which includes training in haematology, immunology, biochemistry, microbiology and internal medicine. My specialized involvement with the subjects of immunology and haematology, as well as the method of flow cytometry begins in 2007, within the framework of my doctoral dissertation.

Prof. Florian Kern, FRCP, Dr. med. habil (Charité Berlin), Chair in Immunology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
A member and supporter of ESCCA since its early days and specialist doctor/professor of clinical immunology, I have used flowcytometry in diagnostics and research since 1991. Early in my career I pioneered flow-based methods for characterising antigen-specific T-cells and have actively developed this area ever since. More recently, I have started working on extracellular vesicle (EV) detection by flow and have co-initiated pre-conference EV workshops for the 3rd consecutive year in 2025.

Enrique O’Connor is currently Full Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Valencia and director of the Laboratory of Cytomics, a joint Research Unit of the University of Valencia and the Principe Felipe Research Center.