Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka is Scientific Director of the ISÖ - Institute for Social Ecology in Siegburg and Professor of Social Policy at the Ernst-Abbe-University of Jena. From 2012 to 2016 he also headed the IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin. 2015 Guest Professor for Social Sustainability at the University of Leipzig. Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley (1990-1, 2005-6). Doctorate (HU Berlin 1996) and Habilitation (Univ. Hamburg 2008) in Sociology.

My name is Amirreza Asnafi. I have a doctorate in librarianship from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in Iran. My field of specialization and study is scientometrics, archival studies, social media. I was the director of public relations for three years, and the head of the library department at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran for six years. For seven months now, I have been a research associate dean at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.

Carlos Godoy earned his JD from UC Berkeley in 1998 and his PhD from USC Annenberg in 2007. He has served as a public policy consultant for the Institute of Medicine assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy examined the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; the opportunities that new technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, especially hard to reach groups. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Victor Tan Chen is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies economic inequality, labor markets, and participatory organizations. He is the author or coauthor of Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy (2021), Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy (2015), and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007). He has received the Joyce Rothschild Book Prize from Rutgers University and the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from LERA.