Francesca Ferrando Ph.D. teaches Philosophy at New York University (US), NYU-Program of Liberal Studies. Dr. Ferrando is a leading voice in the field of Posthuman Studies and the author of several publications, including The Art of Being Posthuman (Polity) and Philosophical Posthumanism (Bloomsbury); their work has been translated into a dozen languages. Dr. Ferrando was awarded the philosophical prize "Sainati" by the President of Italy; named "One of the 100 Top Creatives Making Change in the World" by ‘ORIGIN’ Magazine, and defined as "the Philosopher Poet of our Times". More info: www.theposthuman.org

Debashish Banerji, Ph.D., is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. He has authored and edited several books on figures of "the Bengal Renaissance,” Critical Posthumanism, Integral Yoga Psychology and on several creative and art-related projects. He has curated exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art and has written and produced a documentary film, Darshan: The Living Art of India (2018). A monograph Time-Steps of the Cosmic Horse: The Contemplative Philosophy of the Great Forest (Brihadāraṇyaka) Upaniṣad and a co-edited volume Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography, are his latest published book projects. A monograph on a theoretical approach to Indian Art, Visual Imagination of India: History, Theory, Method is now in press.

Roberto Marchesini (Bologna, 1959) is an ethologist and philosopher known for his work in cognitive science, philosophical ethology, and zooanthropology. He is the director of the journal Animal Studies, the School of Human-Animal Interaction (Siua), and the Center for Posthumanist Philosophy Studies. Marchesini has authored over a hundred publications and lectures internationally. His key works on human-animal relations include Post Human (2002), Philosophical Ethology (2016), The Creative Animal (2022), and Posthumanist Manifesto (2023). He has contributed entries on zooanthropology and Animal Studies to UTET and Treccani encyclopedias.

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome and is director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) and Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. He studied philosophy at King's College/University of London (BA), the University of Durham (MA by thesis; examiners: David E. Cooper, Durham; David Owen, Southampton), the University of Giessen and the University of Jena (Dr. phil.; examiners: Wolfgang Welsch, Jena; Gianni Vattimo, Turin).

N. Katherine Hayles is the Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her twelve print books include Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational (Columbia, 2021), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017) and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Univ. of Chicago Press 2015), in addition to over 100 peer-reviewed articles.  Her books have won several prizes, including  The Rene Wellek Award for the Best Book in Literary Theory for How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics, and the Suzanne Langer Award for Writing Machines.  She has been recognized by many fellowships and awards, including two NEH Fellowships, a Guggenheim, a Rockefellar Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, and two University of California Presidential Research Fellowships. 

Stefano Rozzoni, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in Humanities from the University of Bergamo and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (cotutelle) from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Dr. Rozzoni’s research focuses on forms of human-nonhuman ethical relationality in Anglophone literature and culture across various periods, media, and themes (including the pastoral, rural and urban spaces and places, and pollution). Dr. Rozzoni adopts a transdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from Philosophy (Posthumanism), Economics (Civil Economy), Education Studies, and Literature (Ecocriticism, Postcoloniality) within the context of the Environmental Humanities. He is also a co-founder of the Italian Posthuman Network and a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.

Joanna Pascoe is a posthuman feminist arts-based researcher/writer/maker/philosopher and lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her research interests include posthuman pedagogy, public pedagogy, the affirmative ethics of joy, hopepunk possibilities, speculative fiction and poetic inquiry. Her doctoral thesis, The Posthuman Learner: Mothers, Monsters and Machines explores how engagement with speculative fiction texts in light of posthuman theory may open lines of flight for an affirmative ethics of joy in education. Her background is in creative writing, theatre and applied linguistics, with a focus on curiosity, creativity, and a deep love for the world. She is a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.

Dr. Qurratulaen Liaqat holds a PhD in English Literature and currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Pakistan. She is the founder of the Pakistan Posthuman Network and a leading voice in advancing critical inquiry into the posthuman condition within the context of the Global South. Through her scholarly work, she explores the social, cultural, technological, and ethical ramifications of the posthuman era, offering a distinctive perspective informed by postcolonial critique. Her research has been published in several esteemed academic journals, including The Journal of Posthuman Studies (Penn State University Press), Interventions, Textual Practice, Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis), Literature and Aesthetics (Sydney University Press), and English Studies at NBU (National Bulgarian University Press).

Rodrigo Esparza is a Civil Engineer and Philosopher of Technology. He has been professor at various campi of Tecnológico de Monterrey, such as Mexico City, Santa Fe, Puebla, Toluca, and Chihuahua, for almost 12 years. He has taught several courses, including "Science, Technology and Society", "Ethics and Society", "Ethics, Profession and Citizenship", and "Philosophy & Contemporary Thought". His research area focuses on Philosophy of Technology and Applied Ethics. He has headed a team of 44 Engineering and Architecture professors, at Tecnológico de Monterrey, on how to apply ethics and social entrepreneurship as hands-on exercises in their fields. He also launched a multidisciplinary approach for bridging Science and Humanities. Professor Esparza earned his Ph.D. in 2013 from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus.