Compton was the Aldrichian Praelector and Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Oxford until 2023. He is now Emeritus Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford and Visiting Chair of Electrochemistry at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was educated at Oxford University and Imperial College London and has published in excess of 1650 papers (h = 117; with almost 62,000 citations excluding self-cites) and 7 books. He has co-written a trilogy of graduate texts (World Scientific Press): Understanding Voltammetry (with C E Banks, 4th edition to be published in 2024, Chinese translation published in 2023, Russian translation in 2015); Understanding Voltammetry: Problems and Solutions (with C Batchelor-McAuley and E J F Dickinson, 2012); Understanding Voltammetry: Simulation of Electrode Processes (with E Kaetelhoen, E Laborda and K Ward 2nd edition, 2020). He is a co-author of the scientific biography A G Stromberg – First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen. Letters from the GULAG and a History of Electroanalysis in the USSR” (WSP, 2011).
Compton holds Honorary Doctorates from the Estonian University of Life Sciences (formerly Estonian Agricultural University) and Kharkov National University of Radio-electronics (Ukraine). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of IUPAC and of the International Society of Electrochemistry and a Member of the Academy of Europe (MEA), a Lifelong Honorary Professor of Sichuan University and Honorary Professor at Xiangtan, Hunan and Central South Universities in China. He received the 2018 Robert Boyle Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 and the Grotthuss Medal of the Theodor von Grotthuss foundation in 2020. He was elected Foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Compton is the Founding Editor of the journal Electrochemistry Communications published by Elsevier and was Editor in Chief from 1999 to 2023. He is the joint Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, launched in 2017

Nuria García-Aráez received her PhD (cum laude) in Materials Sciences from the University of Alicante in 2007, under the direction of Prof. Juan M. Feliu and Prof. Víctor Climent, and in collaboration with Prof. Jacek Lipkowski (University of Guelph, Canada). She then completed a postdoctoral stay in the groups of Prof. Marc T.M. Koper and Prof. Huib Bakker at Leiden University and AMOLF (The Netherlands), and later joined the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) in Prof. Petr Novák’s group as a researcher.
In 2012, she obtained an assistant professor position at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), and was promoted to full professor in 2019, and accessed the professorship in 2023.
She has co-authored 80 research articles, with a total of 3,100 citations (h- index: 38), and is co-inventor of 3 patents. She has received a total of 9 awards, including the CIDETEC Young Researchers in Electrochemistry Award in 2013. Her research focuses on the fundamental development of batteries by combining advanced analytical techniques. She is a member of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry since 2010.

Francesco Paolucci is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna where he has been leading the Electrochemistry Group (EMFM) at the Department of Chemistry since 2001. He spent sabbatical leaves at the University of Southampton, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, University of Bordeaux and Keio University in Japan. His current research includes fundamental investigations in molecular and materials electrochemistry, electrocatalysis and the theory and applications of electrochemiluminescence.