Francesca Girmenia is pursuing a Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Honours Environment and Business at the University of Waterloo. Her previous work in sustainability includes roles such as Sustainability Integration Co-op at Definity Financial Organization, as Communications and Outreach Assistant at the University of Waterloo Sustainability Office, and as 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.

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”.

Massilia Ourabah is a postdoctoral researcher at Gent University (Belgium). She obtained her MSc in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and has completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, UGent. She is a former fellow of the “Technology, the Environment, and the Future of Europe” programme at the Remarque Institute, NYU (New York). Her work is at the crossroads of Feminist STS and environmentalism.
 

André is an interdisciplinary biologist working as a University Lecturer in the Department of Plant Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He is specialised in global policies and legal frameworks governing biodiversity, genetic resources and sustainable agriculture. André holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Development from KU Leuven and a Master of Laws in Environmental Law and Management from Aberystwyth University.

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.

Sarthak Das successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Seeds as Power: State, Science and Agricultural Practices in Odisha,” in 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India), where he had previously obtained his MA in Development Studies. Following his PhD, he was briefly affiliated with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India) as an Associate until December 2025. His doctoral research primarily examined the political economy of seed governance, scientific knowledge, and farmers’ practices in eastern India.

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.
 

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.