Guilherme Cavalcante Silva (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program of Science & Technology Studies at York University, Canada. He has a MA in Science and Culture Communication from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He did his undergraduate studies at Brazil Adventist University, where he graduated in Social Communication and Theology. He is currently Assistant Editor for the Global South at the Portal Backchannels, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

Emanuele Di Buccio, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Engineering. His research interests include information access and retrieval, data science, and computational social sciences. He is particularly interested in information retrieval models and architectures, modeling and experimenting with words and themes/topics, and methodologies to support expert users in multidisciplinary fields.

Camilla Fiz has an interdisciplinary background and is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Padua, Italy. She started studying Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Turin, attending in parallel the bachelor’s degree in Pianoforte at the Conservatorio G. Verdi of the same city. Later, she shifted her focus to scientific communication, enrolling in the Master’s program in Communication of Science at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.

Francesca Girmenia is a candidate for Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Honours Environment and Business at the University of Waterloo. Her previous work in sustainability includes roles such as the Sustainability Integration Co-op at Definity Financial Organization, Communications and Outreach Assistant at the University of Waterloo Sustainability Office, and Sustainability Assistant at the Toronto Zoo. Recently, Francesca was awarded the 2024 Co-op Student of the Year Honourable Mention for the Faculty of Environment.

I’m originally from Bogotá, Colombia. My story started while working both in an antitumoral immunotherapy research lab and as a volunteer in a community-based artistic organization of cancer survivors. The duality of those places helped me question cancer ontologies and tumoral enaction, which I translated to the question “what tumors do?”. The conceptual frame of science and technologies studies (STS) has helped my reflections on practices, relations and hybridisations involved in knowledge making.

Milton M. Herrera is an Associate Professor in Business Management at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Colombia, where he is also Senior Research in System Dynamics and Director of Contemporary Studies Group in Organisational Management. Professor’s Herrera is also an international researcher at SINERGIA group at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Graz University of Technology’s IAS-STS appointed him as the Research Fellow. At the University of Palermo (Italy), he earned a Ph.D.

Arian Mahzouni is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Technology and Sustainable Futures research group, Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He has obtained his BSc and MSc in Management & Organisation Studies from Stockholm University and his PhD in Urban and Regional Studies from Technical University of Dortmund. He was awarded the ‘mobility starting grants’ from the Swedish Formas to carry out his postdoctoral research project “Governance of Low Carbon Sociotechnical Transitions: Lessons from the Cities of Stockholm and Freiburg”.

Rahul Rauny has completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India specializing in the intersection of society, health, and biotechnology. With an academic background that includes an M.Phil. in Social Sciences in Health and a Master's in Biotechnology, Rahul adopts a multidisciplinary approach to his research. His current focus is on genetic modification (GM) foods and gene editing technologies, exploring their scientific potential and broader societal implications.

Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. Prior to 2006, she worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science for 16 years in the Department of Geography and Environment. She holds a BA in Land Economy from Cambridge University and a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from LSE. Yvonne is a multi-disciplinary social scientist focussing on governance for sustainability, particularly at the urban scale.

Pouya Sepehr is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the George Simmel Centre for Urban Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. He holds a PhD and MA in Science-Technology-Society (STS) from the University of Vienna and has a diverse interdisciplinary background in urban studies, environmental innovation, and the governance of technological infrastructures. His research focuses on the intersection of science, technology, and society, particularly in European urban contexts, where he explores the societal impacts of technological and environmental transformations.
 

Zhanerke Sharapkhanova is a PhD student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The topic of her dissertation research is " Assessment of the development of exogenous relief-formation processes in the Sharyn River basin." Her work involves the application of morphometric and geomorphological analysis, remote sensing methods, and geographic information systems (GIS) to identify risk zones and assess natural and anthropogenic factors influencing exomorphogenesis.

David Walwyn is Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Technology Management at the University of Pretoria. His research interests cover sustainability transitions, with a specific focus on the transformation of socio-technical systems of energy and mobility. His theoretical approach combines the three areas of techno-economics, social construction of technology and political economy to understand the critical junctures for transitions. He has active projects in renewable hydrogen and vehicle-to-grid technologies.

Ariane Wenger is a doctoral student at the Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab) at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. Previously, she graduated from ETH Zurich in environmental sciences with a focus on "Environmental Systems and Policy". As part of her master’s thesis, she analyzed the public perception and acceptance of negative emission technologies (NETs) among the Swiss public.