Prof. Dr. Helena Bilandzic holds the Chair of Communication Science with a focus on reception and impact at the University of Augsburg, within the Institute for Media, Knowledge and Communication. She has extensive experience in research on media effects, especially on emotional aspects of media influences. Professor Bilandzic’s work includes both qualitative and quantitative content analyses, and she has led several DFG-funded projects looking at the practices of evidence in science journalism and the representation of evidence in the media during crises.

Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken is Professor of Communication Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, at the Institute of Communication Science. Her research focuses mainly on science communication from the audience’s perspective, especially in modern communication environments. Her studies deal with public participation and the relationship of trust between science and digitised publics, with current collaborative projects dealing with public participation in science in the era of AI.

Prof. Dr. Björn W. Schuller holds dual professorships as Professor of Health Informatics at the TUM School of Medicine and Health and at the TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology. He is a leading figure in the field of affective informatics, with research that includes audio-based, textual, and multimodal affect analyses. Professor Schuller was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing from 2015 to 2018 and is CSO at audEERINGGmbH, which he co-founded.

Dr. Daniel Silva Luna is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg. His work focuses mainly on science communication, investigating the role of emotions in the communication of scientific messages, the media representation of climate change and factors influencing public trust in scientific discourse. His research contributes to a deeper understanding of how emotions are used in scientific discourse and what impact they have on public participation.

Dr. Irene Broer is a research associate at the Institute of Communication Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Her research is dedicated to the digital transformation of science communication, interfaces between science, media and politics, artificial intelligence, (applied) ethnography and design thinking, as well as organisational sociology and anthropology.

Dr. Esther Greussing conducts research at the interface of science communication and digital communication, with a particular focus on the role of non-human actors in the communication process at the Institute of Communication Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In terms of methodology, she primarily pursues quantitative approaches, supplemented by interview studies and eye-tracking.

Evelyn Jonas is currently a research assistant at the Chair of Communication Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Martin Bürger is currently a PhD student at the Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Healthcare and Wellbeing.