Mikhail Shneider is a senior scientist in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Princeton University. His research interests include the theoretical study of gas discharge physics, physical gas dynamics, biophysics, atmospheric electrical phenomena and non-linear optics.

Mikhail Pekker was a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at George Washington University from 2015-2017. At present he is retired and is working as a consultant for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Princeton University. His research interests are the theoretical study of gas discharge physics, physics of plasmas and biophysics.