Tomasz Żuradzki

Philosopher, an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; The director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University, His recent work focuses on the intersection of metaethics and practical ethics. He is the Principal Investigator of the project BIOUNCERTAINTY funded by the ERC Starting Grant.

Jarosław Górniak

Professor in the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, Head of the Department of Sociology of the Economy, Education, and Social Research Methods at the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University.

Specializing in social science with expertise in social research methods, evaluation methodology, analysis of public policies, sociology of the economy and organizations, and statistical data analysis.

Currently Vice-Rector for Development at Jagiellonian University. 

Jolanta Perek-Białas

Head of the Center for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at Jagiellonian University. Works at the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University and at the Institute of Statistics and Demography at the Warsaw School of Economics. Collaborated with various international institutions (UNECE, OECD, European Commission), national entities (Ministries, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development), regional (Voivodeship Labour Office in Krakow, Marshal's Office in Krakow, Regional Center for Social Policy), and local (Krakow City Council). Coordinates international initiatives and projects related to active aging, activation of older adults, and balancing work and care for the elderly. Serves as an evaluator for innovative projects and scientific research (including for the European Commission).

Hong, Ying-yi

Professor at the Business School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from Columbia University in the field of personality and social psychology.

Ying-yi’s research interests include culture and cognition, identity and intergroup relations. She believes in interdisciplinary research, and seeks to integrate social psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and genetics to study identity and intergroup dynamics. This integration hopefully will bring new understanding of how culture, identity, and human biology co-evolve, thereby shedding light on the development of humankind in the face of globalization and multicultural exposure.

Krys Kaniasty

Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, interested in mechanisms of social support and social processes in the context of coping with stress experienced by individuals (e.g., illness, job loss, crime victimization) as well as larger social groups (e.g., natural disasters, technological accidents, mass oppression).

Arie W. Kruglanski

Distinguished University Professor, a recipient of numerous awards, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist. His work in the domains of human judgment and belief formation, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals has been disseminated in over 300 articles, chapters, and books, and has been continuously supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, NIMH, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, the Ford Foundation and the Israeli Academy of Science. As a founding Co-PI and Co-Director of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), Kruglanski also conducts research with the support of grants from the Department for Homeland Security and from the Department of Defense on the psychological processes behind radicalization, deradicalization, and terrorism.