Iris Wenderholm is professor of European Art History of the Early Modern Period at Universität Hamburg’s Department of Art History.

As a result of stations at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, a research stay at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and scientific collaborations in Frankfurt and Berlin, as well as the management of the DFG project natura – materia – artificio from 2013 to 2017, Iris Wenderholm developed a special focus that spans the field of early modern visual art, art theory, and nature. In addition to her involvement in teaching and research formats with international partners (Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Sorbonne, Shanghai, Tongji University, Bloomington, Indiana University), Iris Wenderholm took on chairmanships and memberships ranging from the scientific advisory board of the Aby Warburg Foundation and the jury of the ARTEFACTA Festival Düsseldorf for “Digital Media” to the Association of German Art Historians.

A particular interest in cooperations with cultural institutions in the Hamburg metropolitan region resulted in numerous exhibitions that were co-curated by Iris Wenderholm.

Lorraine Daston has been a member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science since 1995 and served as its director until 2019. She is a regular visiting professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and honorary professor of the History of Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Lorraine Daston received her PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 1979 and has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, and Göttingen University, among others.

Marcelo Knobel was the 12th Rector of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Brazil, where he is a Full Professor of Physics. He held other leadership roles, including: Executive Director of the Unicamp Exploratory Science Museum, Vice-Rector for Undergraduate Programs, Vice-President of the Brazilian Physics Society and Executive Director of the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano). Knobel is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier). Knobel is an Eisenhower Fellow (2007), Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009) and Lemann Fellow (2015). He is Member (elect) of the Governing Council of the Magna Charta Observatory.

Thomas Risse is Senior Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS). Until early 2022, he was Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1997 to 2001, he was Professor of International Relations at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). Earlier teaching and research activities included the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Universities of Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, the University of Wyoming (USA) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation. In 2021, he was awarded the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association.