Harald Atmanspacher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Harald Atmanspacher is an emeritus member of the Turing Center at ETH Zurich. As a theoretical physicist with more than three decades of experience in interdisciplinary research, he is known for his work on complex dynamical systems, non-reductive approaches in the philosophy of science, foundational questions of quantum theory, and non-commutative structures in physics and cognition. He is one of the principalarchitects of a systematic and coherent account of mind-matter relations called dual-aspect monism. He is an elected honorary member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology, President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research and editor of its journal Mind and Matter.
Andrei Khrennikov, Linnaeus University, Sweden 
Research Interests: Quantum-like models in cognition, decision making, psychology, economics and finance, social and political science, Social laser theory, Quantum-like modelling of stability in complex biological and social systems – Social Fröhlich condensate, Quantum foundations, Quantum information and probability, P-adic and ultrametric analysis and its applications to quantum physics, theory of complex disordered systems and spin glasses, cognition and psychology
Andrei Khrennikov is professor of Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, and the director of the International Centre for Mathematical modelling in Physics and cognitive science. He received a MD, a PhD in mathematics at Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and a “Habilitation” in mathematical physics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow. His research is characterized by multi-disciplinarity. He contributed in a few areas of mathematical research, p-adic and ultrametric analysis, superananalysis, infinite-dimensional analysis, theory of pseudo-differential equations, foundations of probability theory. In physics, he worked in theory of complex disordered systems, p-adic theoretical physics, he works actively in quantum foundations, probability, and information. He is the organizer of the annual (since 2000) conference on quantum foundations in Växjö. He was one of the pioneers in applications the quantum formalism outside of physics, in cognition, decision making, psychology, economics and finance, social and political science. The recent years he worked actively on theory of Social Laser and generally the problems of generation stability and destabilization in modern society.
Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK
Research Interests: International Relations and political science, Philosophy of science, relational theories, relational cosmology, (post/critical)humanism
Milja Kurki is E.H. Carr Chair in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom. She is interested in the conceptual and philosophical assumptions through which we structure political interactions on the planet and in how these assumptions are tied up with history/philosophy of sciences and also political structures and ideas. Her latest book International Relations in A Relational Universe (Oxford University Press, 2020) sought to explore cross-disciplinary avenues around new forms of relational theorising for rethinking the ‘problem field’ of international politics. She is currently working on a book on multi-species politics as a way of tackling planetary challenges.
Ran Kuttner, University of Haifa, Israel
Ran is Head of the International Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies at the University of Haifa. He teaches courses on dialogue, group facilitation, leadership and conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding strategies. He is also a mediator and mediation teacher in Israel and consults to organizations and community mediation and dialogue centers that work towards a more dialogic Israeli society. Prior to his return to Israel, he was an Associate Professor of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the Werner Institute, Creighton University (USA) and preceding his arrival at Creighton, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School for three years, where among other projects he helped redesign and teach Harvard Law School’s Mediation Course. His research focuses on relational approaches to dialogue and conflict resolution and on integrating Buddhist philosophy, psychology and interpersonal practices for the cultivation of a more dialogic mindset.
Karl Manheim, Loyola Law School, USA
Karl Manheim is Emeritus Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where he taught Constitutional Law, Technology & Privacy, Innovation Law, and Artificial Intelligence & Law. He has lectured and taught law in China, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan, as well as at UCLA and USC. He also served as special counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. He has a Masters of Law degree from Harvard Law School and has litigated cases at every level of California and Federal Courts.
Manheim’s background in Physics lead to his co-directing the Program in Law & Technology at Caltech and Loyola, as well as his current interest in Quantum Mechanics. He is one of the co-organizers of the Quantum Law Project at Lund University, Sweden. His most recent articles are in Quantum Constitutionalism (Lund, 2022) and Artificial Intelligence: Risks to Privacy and Democracy (Yale J. Law & Tech., 2019). His works in progress include Quantum Originalism and Mathematics Challenges Originalism.
Karen O’Brien, University of Oslo, Norway
Karen O’Brien is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also co-founder of cCHANGE, an organization that supports public engagement with transformations to sustainability. Karen’s research emphasizes the social and human dimensions of climate change and implications for human security. Her current research focuses on climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability, with an emphasis on integrative approaches that explore how beliefs, values, worldviews, and paradigms influence systems change and social change. In particular, she is interested in how quantum social science can inform understandings of social change. Her recent books include You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World and Climate and Society: Transforming the Future (with Robin Leichenko). Karen has been named by Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. In 2021 she was co-recipient of the BBVA Foundations Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Climate Change. Karen is currently co-chair of the International Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment.
Kathryn Schaffer, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Kathryn Schaffer is a mostly-on-leave professor of Physics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she formerly oversaw a science curriculum for artists and designers and led interdisciplinary projects. Her experimental physics background includes research in neutrino physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology. A collaboration with quantum physicist Gabriela Barreto Lemos beginning in 2016 involved Dr. Schaffer in the growing interdisciplinary discourse around quantum concepts. In the years since she has pursued questions at the overlap of quantum physics and music as well as the philosophy of quantum physics and posthumanism. Given that the years post-2016 have been a time of failed government and institutional leadership on the imminent climate and mass extinction crises, Dr. Schaffer has shifted from spending time on traditional academics to doing hands-on environmental work and food production, teaching and working from an Illinois farm. Her current work on quantum entanglement as an Anthropocene ethic is thus forthcoming in the non-traditional and not-real journals Bur Oak Undersoil Communications and Interspecies Farm Design Quarterly.
Michael Schnabel, Vanderbilt University, USA
Michael Schnabel is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He applies methods and ideas from statistical physics and neuroscience to model collective decision-making and information processing in social systems. His current research topics include opinion formation, deliberative democracy, and cognitive models of decision-making.
Charles E. Smith, Jr., University of Mississippi, USA
Charles E. Smith, Jr. is Emeritus faculty at the University of Mississippi, where he served as founding co-director of the University’s Social Science Research Laboratory, a member of the Sally McDonald-Barksdale Honors Faculty, and as faculty member in the University’s Graduate Minor in Applied Statistics.
Jakub Tesař, Charles University, Prague
Jakub Tesař is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University in Prague. In his PhD project, he connected two areas of his expertise (Physics and International Relations, both studied at the graduate level) when he examined possible applications of the quantum theory in the social sciences, namely quantum game theory. He continues his research on quantum models of decision-making and on global flows of political information (GLOWIN research project). In his courses, he focuses on IR theory and methodology, global politics of the environment, and applied game theory. His research has appeared, among others, in Decision (2020), Foundation of Science (2020), Human Affairs (2015), and Technology in Society (2020).
Joyce Wang, The Ohio State University, USA
Zheng Joyce Wang (Ph.D. in Communications & Cognitive Science, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2007) is a Professor in the School of Communication, Translational Data Analytics Institute, and Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Ohio State University. One of her research foci is to study how people process and use media. Another research focus is to understand contextual influences on decision, cognition, and communication by building new probabilistic and dynamic systems based upon quantum rather than classical probability theory. She is Associate Editor for Journal of Communication and for Computers in Human Behavior. Her research has been continuously supported by U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense in the past decade. She is named a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2021. Read more here.
Alexander Wendt, The Ohio State University, USA
Research Interests: International relations theory, philosophy of social science, and quantum consciousness.
Alexander Wendt is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and taught at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago before moving to OSU in 2004. His research focuses on philosophical aspects of world politics, and he is well known in his field of international relations for several important articles and his 1999 book, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge UP), which won the International Studies Association’s award for “Best Book of the Decade” in 2006. Wendt’s interests have since pivoted to the possibility of quantum consciousness and its implications for social science, on which he has published several papers as well as a 2015 book, Quantum Mind and Social Science (Cambridge). Read more.
Laura Zanotti, Virginia Tech, USA
Laura Zanotti is a Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance. Professor Zanotti’s most recent book, entitled Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations – Exploring the Crossroads (Routledge Interventions, 2019) addresses the implications of embracing quantum physics’ entangled ontology for International Relations conceptualizations of agency and ethics. The book argues that an entangled ontological imaginary opens the way for re- imagining how as humans we inhabit the world. It nurtures an ethos of responsibility and it raises the bar for adjudicating the ethical validity of political initiatives beyond abstract principles.
In her previous monography, entitled Governing Disorder: United Nations Peace Operations, International Security, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era, (Penn State University Press, 2011), Zanotti uses Foucauldian theoretical tools to address the political imaginary and unintended consequences of peacekeeping in Haiti and in Croatia. Her work has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals. She is also the co-author and the co-editor of two books.
Since 2013, Zanotti has been serving on the Board of Directors of the University of Fondwa, USA, Inc. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Zanotti was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy and a Visiting Professor at the School of International Relations, Trento University, Italy. Before becoming an academic, Zanotti worked at the United Nations, both in administration and as a political officer for Peacekeeping Operations. She spent several years in the field, in Haiti and in Croatia, where she performed the functions of the Deputy to the Head of the United Nations Liaison Office in Zagreb.
Chris Zorn, Penn State, USA
Christopher Zorn is the Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Penn State, where he also holds affiliate positions in the School of Law and in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. He teaches and conducts research on legal and judicial systems, and on visualization, applied statistics, and machine learning for the social and behavioral sciences. Prior to coming to Penn State, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina (2005-2007), a Visiting Scientist and Program Director for the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation (2003-2005), and the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Emory University, where he taught from 1996 to 2003. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University in 1997.