Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Communication Association, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Currently, he serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Health Sciences Policy and Division on Earth and Life Studies Advisory Committee.

In the past, Scheufele has been a tenured faculty member at Cornell University, a Shorenstein fellow at Harvard University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. His consulting experience includes work for the Public Broadcasting System, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.
 

Udo Kragl, born in 1961, studied chemistry at the University of Bonn. He finished his PhD thesis in 1992 in the field of biochemical reaction engineering. After a postdoc at Ciba-Geigy International Research Laboratories in Takarazuka in Japan, he returned to the Juelich Research Center and University of Bonn for his habilitation. Having finished, he immediately gained a position as full professor for Industrial Chemistry at the University of Rostock in 1998. Since 2003 he is associated member of the Leibniz-Institute of Catalysis. He taught industrial chemistry at National University Singapore, within the scope of a visiting professorship, in 2007. He was founding Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Rostock and since 2015 he is Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer.

He is active in the German Society of Catalysis (GeCats). His research interests are in the field of biocatalysis, the application of ionic liquids and membrane processes for downstream processing, and catalyst recycling.

In 2012 he received one of two BMBF-awards Biotechnology 2020+ for his outstanding research on the application of ionic liquids in biotechnology.
 

Dr. Birte Fähnrich is a senior researcher at the Center for Political Communication at Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen, Germany). She holds a PhD in Communication Science from Leipzig University (Germany).

Birte Fähnrich is the speaker of the Science Communication Section of the German Communication Association DGPuK and a member of the committee of the international science communication association PCST. Birte was interim professor for Organizational Communication at the University of Greifswald (Germany) and visiting researcher at the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University (Canada, BC) and the Institute for Strategic Communication at Lund University (Sweden). She is co-editor of two important German edited volumes on science communication (Forschungsfeld Wissenschaftskommunikation/the Field of Science Communication) and university communication (Forschungsfeld Hochschulkommunikation/the Field of University Communication) both published at Springer and of a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication on “Communication at the Intersection of Science and Politics”. Birte’s research is dedicated to strategic communication in science and politics and communication at the intersection of both fields.  

Irene Neverla, Prof. Dr., retired Professor of Journalism and Communications at University of Hamburg. Guest professor and lecturer at Universities of Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, as well as Sydney, Thessaloniki, Lima, among others. Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence for Climate Research (CLiSAP) at University of Hamburg, therein coordinator of the Media Research Group. Main fields of research: Theories and empirical studies on Journalism, Journalism in the Process of Democratisation, Visual Communication and Press Photography, Science and Environmental Communication, Ecology of Mediated Societies.