M. R. Quick is a Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and has co-organised three Groups St Andrews conferences. He is currently Editor of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and he has authored more than twenty research papers.

E. F. Robertson is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. He has published over 120 research papers and written more than twenty books. During his career Professor Robertson has co-organised ten major international Group Theory conferences and received fourteen major research grants totalling over one million pounds. He also served as Chairman of the British Mathematical Colloquium Scientific Committee from 2005 to 2008.

C. M. Roney-Dougal is Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. She has produced over thirty academic publications and has jointly organised seven international workshops and conferences. Professor Roney-Dougal serves as an editorial advisor for the London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics. She also makes regular appearances on 'In Our Time' with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4).