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Marco Armiero is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and at ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain. For ten years he was the director of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. He has worked on the nationalisation of nature, migrations and environment, and environmental justice. With his research, he has contributed to bridging environmental humanities and political ecology. From 2019 to 2023 he was the elected president of the European Society for Environmental History. His most recent publications include Wasteocene. Stories from the Global Dump (2021) and Mussolini’s Nature (with Roberta Biasillo and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, 2022).
Cecilia Åsberg is Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Linköping University, and founding Director of the Posthumanities Hub and of the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. Recent publications include ‘Environmental Violence and Postnatural Oceans: Low-Trophic Theory in the Registers of Feminist Posthumanities’ (with Marietta Radomska) in Violence, Gender and Affect (2021); and ‘A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities’ in Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities (2020).
Raffaella Baccolini teaches British and American Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. Her research focuses on women’s writing; feminist criticism; dystopia and science fiction; utopian studies; modernism; memory and trauma; and cinema. She is the PI for the Creative Europe projects G-BOOK and G-BOOK2 on gender-positive literature for children and teens. Among her publications are Dark Horizons (2003) and Utopia Method Value (2007), both with Tom Moylan.
Giuliana Benvenuti teaches Contemporary Italian Literature, Literature and Media, and Contemporary Literary Culture at the University of Bologna. Her main research areas are literature, visual and transmedia studies, and migration studies. She is the Director of the International Center for Humanities Studies “Umberto Eco” and Delegate for Cultural Heritage.
Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht, the Netherlands, co-coordinates the Regional Research Team Europe and is the senior scientific advisor for the WHR. She holds honorary degrees from the universities of Helsinki and Linkoping, and is a member of the European Academy and of the Australian Academy for the Humanities. She is the recipient of the 2002 Humboldt Research Award. Among her publications are Nomadic Subjects (1994 and 2011), Nomadic Theory (2011), Transpositions (2006), The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019) and Posthuman Feminism (2022).
David Bueno is a professor in the Biomedical Genetics, Evolution and Development Section at the University of Barcelona, Spain and is the Chair of UB-EDU1ST Neuroeducation. He has participated in the compilation of several encyclopaedic works and has been the director of the Ecosistemes dels Països Catalans atlas. In 2010 he won the European Award for Scientific Dissemination. In 2018 he received the Magisterium Prize for his efforts to bring neuroscience closer to education, and in 2019 the Claustre de Doctors at the University of Barcelona awarded him a distinction for his dissemination work.
Josep Casanovas is Professor in the Statistics and Operations Research Department at the UPC, specialising in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Simulation. He is Director of inLab FIB at Barcelona School of Informatics, UPC-BarcelonaTech, an innovation lab mainly focused on data science, smart mobility and cybersecurity (htttp://inLab .fib.upc.edu) and composed of more than eighty researchers and developers. He has collaborated with many research and development projects for the EU and different companies and institutions. At present, he leads the HPC Modelling and Simulation for Societal Challenges Research Group in the Computer Science Department at the BSC.
Hiltraud Casper-Hehne is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Göttingen. She initiated the project ‘Interculture’ within the framework of the EU university programme Asia-Link between Europe and China. She was Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Göttingen, a member of the Board of the HERA network and a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group. She also chaired the Council of Experts for the Development of a China Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2018, she has been a member of the EU Ad Hoc Expert Group on European Universities.
Chiara Elefante teaches Translation Studies (French-Italian) and Contemporary French Literature at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. She chairs the PhD programme in Translation, Interpretation, and Intercultural Studies. Her main research areas in translation for the publishing industry concern self-translation, poetry, theatre, and gender; while in literature she has worked on history and stories, memory and trauma, and twentieth-century poetry. She is also a translator and coordinates the MeTRa Center on translation for children.
Isabel Fletcher is Researcher in Social Science and Food Systems at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh. Isabel is a qualitative social scientist whose research focuses on policy approaches to food, diet and health, and the ways in which interdisciplinary research is used to address complex social problems. She has worked in a variety of interdisciplinary contexts on topics including public health models of obesity, food security policy and sustainable diets.
Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio heads the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University Hospital of Bonn. She has been a member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste since 2019. She was the recipient of a research award of the Humboldt-Stiftung and Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2020–2) and Guest Professor in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. She researches the intersections between medicine and philosophy, norm and deviance, concepts of health and diseases in medicine, medical fallibility, philosophical and ethical dimensions of predictive knowledge in medicine, patient narratives, ethics, cancer and hope.
Cristina Gamberi is Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Naples and previously she studied philosophy at the University of Bologna, where she also obtained the double title within the European Master Degree GEMMA in Modern, Comparative and Post-Colonial Literature and in Women’s and Gender Studies, Hull (UK). Her research interests include the intersections between feminist contemporary philosophy, feminist literary criticism and the artistic production of women, the question of women’s autobiographical writing, and children’s literature.
Marina Garcés is a philosopher and currently an Associate Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, where she manages the Masters in Philosophy for contemporary challenges. Her latest books are Un mundo común (2012), Filosofía inacabada (2015), Fuera de clase (2016), Nueva ilustración radical (2017, Ciutat de Barcelona Essay Award 2017) and Ciudad princesa (2018). Since 2002 she has also been working on the collective thinking programme titled ‘Espai en Blanc’. She believes in the statement of commitment to life as a shared problem and her philosophy involves widespread experimentation with ideas, learning and ways of intervening in our modern world. Steven Hartman is Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations programme based at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is also Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. His work addresses integration of the humanities in global change research, and collaboration among social and human scientists, artists, education specialists and civil society in efforts to meet sustainability challenges. He is co-editor-in-chief of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities and the series Global Challenges in Environmental Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic). Christina Henkel studied cultural anthropology, political sciences, economic and social history and intercultural German studies in Germany, Spain and China. She did her doctorate in the Department of Intercultural German Studies at the Georg-August University of Goettingen. Prior to this, she worked as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Nanjing in China. Her research interests include interculturality, subject-centred interaction and construction of knowledge, life-world design and educational processes in the field of tension between university, everyday life and society. Marjan Ivković, University of Begrade, Serbia, is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. He completed his undergraduate and MPhil studies in sociology at Belgrade University and obtained his PhD in sociology from Cambridge University. In his research, Marjan deals with problems of contemporary social theory and social philosophy, and his work is particularly centred around the analysis of the potential of different varieties of contemporary critical theory for conceptualising and diagnosing complex forms of societal domination in the era of neoliberal revolution. Gabi Lombardo (LSE, PhD) is the Director of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities, the largest advocacy and science policy organisation for social sciences and humanities in Europe. She also worked with the London School of Economics (LSE), the European Research Council (ERC) and Science Europe (SE). She advocates a strong evidence-based approach to policy-making, and the inclusion of researchers in science policy development for strategic and broad-based research funding. She is an expert evaluator for SSH disciplines and research ethics for the EU Commission, the World Bank, WISE and COST. In 2018 she received the Young Academy of Europe Annual Prize. Rita Monticelli teaches British and postcolonial studies, gender studies and the history of culture at the University of Bologna. Her research areas include literature and visual studies, feminist and gender criticism, science fiction and trauma studies. She coordinates the Erasmus Mundus joint Master’s Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA, at the University of Bologna) and the Centre for Utopian Research and Studies. Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design at University College London, UK. Her work integrates disciplines from social science to the sciences, arts and business innovation, and she applies these different perspectives to inform research and policy at all levels. She leads the ESRC-funded RELIEF Centre in Lebanon and the Procol Kenya collaborative research programme. She is Chair of the London Prosperity Board, and of FastForward 2030, a collaborative platform for businesses developing new business models to deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Juan M. Moreno has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London, and at the Values in Sustainability Research Group, University of Brighton, UK. He currently works at the Fondation John BOST, France, where his research is focused on mental health issues and psychosocial rehabilitation strategies. Juan Manuel has an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral background in history, shared cultural values, political science, international migration, community development, global nutrition issues and humanitarian work. His research interests bring together oral history, socio-political analysis, social justice and community resilience. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FBA, FTCD, FRHS, is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin. She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute which she directed (2015–20). She chaired the Irish Research Council (2015–21). She was the PI for ‘Shape-ID’, ‘Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe’, funded by European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and in 2023 received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books. Her next book, ‘Making Ireland: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World’, which she gave as the Ford Lectures in Oxford (2021), will appear in 2023. In 2023 she was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.
Luiz Oosterbeek is Professor of Archaeology at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and UNESCO Chair in Humanities and Cultural Integrated Landscape Management. His research focuses on the transition to food producing economies and on heritage and landscape management in Portugal and SW Europe, Africa and Southern America. Member of Academia Europaea, the Portuguese Academy of History and the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, he is the President of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences. Author of ‘Cultural Integrated Landscape Management: A Humanities Perspective’ (2017), among over 90 volumes and 300 papers. Daan F. Oostveen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at Ghent University. His PhD from the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam is on multiple religious belonging. In 2018, he stayed for a research visit at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, at the Faculty of Philosophy, where he studied Chinese religious diversity. His research interests include comparative religion, posthuman philosophy, and the new humanities. Serpil Oppermann is Professor of Environmental Humanities and the Director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University. She is co-editor-in-chief of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. Her most recent co-edited volumes are Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene (2017) and Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes (2020). Her work explores the relationships of human and more-than-human environments from the intersecting perspectives of natural sciences and environmental humanities. In 2023, she has published Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene (West Virginia University Press) and Blue Humanities: Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press). Jan Palmowski is Professor of Modern History the University of Warwick, and Adjunct Professor of Higher Education Studies at the University of Oslo. He served as Head of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London (2008–12), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Academic Vice-President at the University of Warwick (2013–18). He is currently on secondment from Warwick as Secretary-General of the Guild of European ResearchIntensive Universities. Franziska Pannach is a PhD student in computational linguistics with a specialisation in digital humanities at the Institute of Computer Science and the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities. She has previously worked in the fields of library and information sciences, and in academic publishing. Her research interests include computational folkloristics, natural language processing for under-resourced languages, and narrative pattern detection. She has a special passion for the folk tales of the amaZulu. Tanja Reiffenrath is a member in the Student and Academic Services Team at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where she coordinates the project ‘Internationalisation of the Curricula’. She holds a PhD in American Studies and has taught and published on diversity issues, transnationalism and transcultural encounters. She is particularly interested in issues revolving around learning and teaching in international and virtual classroom settings and the decolonisation of the curriculum. Currently she is the Chair of the EAIE Expert Community Internationalisation at Home.
Antonino Rotolo is professor of philosophy of law at the University of Bologna. He is an international expert in legal theory, legal logic, deontic logic, formal methods for practical reasoning, and artificial intelligence and law. In these areas Antonino Rotolo has widely published and coordinated research projects at the international, European, and national levels. His institutional leadership extends to multiple initiatives, including his present role as Deputy Head of the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (University of Bologna), and the past role of Vice Rector for Research at the University of Bologna (2015–2021). Jack Spaapen received his training in sociology and cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and at UCSD in California. Jack’s PhD is in Science and Technology Studies, focusing on methods for the evaluation of research in the context of societal and policy demands. Jack retired in 2022 as Senior Policy Advisor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is now senior partner at ScienceWorks, a consultancy firm in the Hague focussing on improving the societal impact of research. Caroline Sporleder is a Professor of Digital Humanities at the Institute of Computer Science and a co-opted professor at the Institute of Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen. She is also the Executive Director of the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities. Her research interests include statistical modelling of discourse and semantics, digital approaches to cultural heritage data, and cross-lingual, multi-lingual and cross-domain natural language processing. Arjan Stegeman is Professor of Farm Animal Health at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is a veterinarian by training and his research is focused on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, aiming to unravel the mechanisms that determine the transmission and spread of infections in animal populations and establish the effectiveness of intervention measures. In addition to research and teaching, Arjan is very active at the science-policy interface. Đurđa Trajković is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She was an external fellow and visiting assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, University of Michigan and Indiana University (USA). She has been awarded several grants, such as the Humanities Exposed (HEX) award for public engagement and Chancellor’s Fellowship for the Humanities. Her research interests include literary, feminist and postcolonial theory within Hispanic studies. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on different topics such as queer theory, translation, mourning, rhetoric of modernism, and engagement studies. Hélène Verheije is a biomedical scientist and virologist. She holds a position as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Since the start of her PhD, she has performed research on virus-host interactions, both at the fundamental level as well as applying this knowledge to develop vaccines. She has contributed to the field of One Health in various research projects, and she believes that novel perspectives are required to solve current and future health problems. Bianca Vienni-Baptista, PD PhD, is Group Leader of ‘Cultural Studies of Science and Technology’ and Lecturer at the Transdisciplinarity Lab of the Department of Environmental Systems Science (USYS TdLab), ETH Zürich (Switzerland). Bianca works in the field of anthropology of science, focusing on the study of collaborative knowledge production processes. As a result, she has centred her research on the specific conditions for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and on the production and social use of knowledge in different countries, including the role of universities and other institutions. Josep M. Vilalta is Director of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) and Executive Secretary of the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). He has promoted and participated in various projects and groups of experts of the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Spain, the European Commission, the OECD, UNESCO, and several countries in education and universities, political science and public policy management. He is a member of the group of experts of the Spanish university policy think tank Studia XXI, and a member of the Advisory Boards of Fundació iSocial and ‘El Diari de l’Educació’. Doireann Wallace is a Senior Interdisciplinary Research Funding Specialist at Trinity College Dublin and was previously Research Project Manager of the SHAPE-ID Horizon 2020 project at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Her PhD research explored how digital networks and platforms were transforming photographic culture and communication. She has previously worked as a research funding officer, an instructional designer, an art critic and a lecturer in photography and visual culture.
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