Catherine Allamel-Raffin is associated professor in epistemology and history of sciences at Strasbourg University, France. She is member of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Sciences and Technology (IRIST-EA3424). Her research focuses on the nature of scientific images in natural sciences in particular in physics of materials, astrophysics, and more recently pharmacology.
Raquel Bohn Bertoldo is associated Professor in Social Psychology at Aix -Marseille University, France. Her main research interest includes science-society relations, with a focus on environmental issues, natural and industrial risks.
Marijana Dragosavac is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University and Chief Scientific Officer at Micropore Technology Ltd.
She has worked on development of challenging formulations in food, pharma and catalysis using micro-fluidics, micro-channels and membrane emulsification. Since 2012 she is active in the field of microencapsulation (lab to industry scale) and has fabricated nano and microspheres (biopolymeric, inorganic, bioadhesive, magnetic and floating) capsules. Her interest is continuous manufacturing with the focus on the process design and scale up and is actively improving the downstream processing for nano/micro encapsulation including Filtration / Lyophilisation / Spray drying.
Ljiljana Fruk is head of BioNano Engineering Group and Associate Professor of Bionanotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Philippa Fawcett Drive at Cambridge University. Ljiljana completed her studies in chemistry at the University of Zagreb and obtained PhD in SERS and biospectroscopy from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She was then awarded Humboldt Fellowship followed by Marie Curie Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research in enzyme reconstitution and nanomaterial biofunctionalisation in Prof. C. Niemeyer’s group at the University of Dortmund. After being group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for 7 years, she took on the lectureship in bionanotechnology at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Her research interest is the use of bio and nanoelements to design materials for catalysis and tissue engineering. This involves development of new types of light responsive structures, DNA modification and application beyond genetics as well as protein modification and structuring. In her spare time, she works on the issue of turning the molecules into chocolates (Molecular Chocolates) and failed experiments into artistic installations.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
Tincuta Heinzel is an artist, designer, researcher and curator with a background in visual arts, design and cultural anthropology. She completed her PhD in 2012 at Paris 1 University with a thesis on electronic and reactive textiles’ aesthetics. She initiated, curated and/or coordinated several projects, such as “Artists in Industry” (Bucharest, 2011-2013) and “Haptosonics” (Oslo, 2013) and “Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors” (Bergen, Bucharest, 2017-2018). For now, under what she labels as “aesthetics of imperceptibility” she is investigating the aesthetic issues of nano-materiality and design’s new roles as operator between scales. She was a research fellow and artist in residency at ZKM – Center for Media Arts Karlsruhe, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Berlin University of the Arts and Nottingham Trent University, as well as a Fulbright Scholar at Cornell University, USA. At present she is Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University in the UK.
Juan P. Hinestroza is Rebecca Q. Morgan’60 Professor of Fiber Science & Apparel Design and directs The Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at the College of Human Ecology of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Professor Hinestroza works on understanding fundamental phenomena at the nanoscale that are of relevance to Fiber and Polymer Science. Hinestroza has received over 7.1 MM USD in research funding (Federal and State agencies as well as Industrial Consortiums) for his pioneering work in exploring new pathways for creating multifunctional fibers via manipulation of nanoscale phenomena.
Roman Kirschner is an artist, designer, researcher, writer, teacher and sometimes curator working across disciplines. After studies of philosophy, art history and audiovisual art, he completed a PhD on „The paradigm of material activity in the plastic arts“ at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He was the project leader of the arts-based research project „Liquid Things“ at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Currently Kirschner is lecturer (Dozent) in Interaction Design at Zürich University of the Arts where he will also be responsible for „Material Futures“ at the Minor „Material“ (upcoming). His works were shown internationally in e.g. Arko Art Center Seoul (ROK), Kunsthalle and Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT), Cornerhouse Manchester (UK), Tokyo Museum of Photography (JP), Itaú Cultural (BR). His current research interests revolve around metabolism and ecologies, interactions with environmental microbiomes, transformative materials, spatial strategies, research methods and the mutual influence of material, imagination and epistemology.
Jérôme Labille has a Ph.D HDR in Environmental geosciences. He is a Research Director at French National Scientific Research Center CNRS. His researches in CEREGE lab (Aix-Marseille Université, Aix en Provence, France) focus on the physical behavior in aqueous environment of sub-micrometric particles from natural or anthropic origin. He is expert in the dynamic of aggregation, dispersion and deposition of particulate matter and associated contaminants in aqueous systems and in porous media.
Jussi Mikkonen is assistant professor at SDU, Denmark, specialising in prototyping in physical computing and smart textiles. His current research interests are within the fields of computational thinking and smart textiles. He has a background in electronics, specifically embedded processor system design, wearables, and smart textiles. He has taught prototyping from several different perspectives, having experience in engineering, industrial design, and humanities. With over 50 publications, several patents and exhibited works, his latest work focuses on making programming accessible with minimal overhead.
Dominique Peysson is a researcher and a visual artist. She had a temporary lecturer position in Art at Gustave Eiffel University and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and had previously a lecturer position in Physics at ESPCI, France. She holds a PhD in material physics and a PhD in in arts and sciences of art. To further the fertile encounter between contemporary art and the sciences, Peysson works in association with exact science laboratories. Closely combining practice and theory, Peysson regularly exhibits her visual art and is author of numerous publications. Peysson lives and works in Paris.
Lasse Scherffig an artist and scientist, with a background in cognitive science/machine learning and computer science. He is interested in the relationship of humans, machines, and society; Cybernetics and the technological infrastructures of communication and control; and the cultures and aesthetics of computation and interaction. His work oscillates between computer science and experimental artistic practices, engineering and amateur/DIY methods, science, and humanities.
Since 2018, he is a professor of Interaction Design at Köln International School of Design. Before, he served as the Department Chair of Art and Technology at San Francisco Art Institute, where I taught as assistant professor. He has been a visiting professor of Media Environments at Bauhaus-University Weimar and taught at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well as at Lab3, Laboratory for Experimental Computer Science of KHM, Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Ellan Spero draws upon a multidisciplinary background in history, science, and design, to address the ways that people envision human progress, through the institutions, objects, and narratives that they create. Dr. Spero is an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and co-founder, and Professor of the Practice at Station1, a nonprofit higher education institution focused on socially-directed science and technology. At both MIT and Station1, Spero develops and teaches integrative, interdisciplinary curriculum bringing the history of science and technology and a material culture approach to collaborate with scientists and engineers. Her current primary research project addresses the materiality infrastructure systems, and technologies of resilience. Spero holds a Ph.D. from MIT in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society, a B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University in Fiber Science and Apparel Design, and M.A from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Museum Studies and Textile Conservation.
Dr. James C. Weaver is a Senior Scientist at Harvard University‘s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he runs the Wide-Field Electron Optics Laboratory. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Aquatic Biology and Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and went on to pursue postdoctoral studies in Molecular Biology, Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Earth History. Working at the interface between zoology, materials science, biomedical engineering, and multi-material 3D printing, his main research interests focus on investigating structure function relationships in hierarchically ordered biological composites and the fabrication of their synthetic analogues. He has played critical roles in the development of new model systems for the study of a wide range of biomineralization processes, and is an internationally recognized and award-winning scanning electron microscopist. With a strong history of national and international academic and industrial collaborations, he has coauthored more than 150 journal articles in the biological, physical, and geological sciences. His work has been featured on the covers of more than 40 scientific journals and he has contributed to numerous collaborative art installations, which have been exhibited in Berlin, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New York, and Paris.