Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Bentley Allan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He conducts research on the history and theory of international order, the political economy of decarbonization, science and politics, and qualitative methods. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Ohio State University in 2012. He has research interests in the history and theory of international order, global environmental politics, the role of science and expertise in global politics, and qualitative methods. His book, Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is the winner of the American Political Science Association’s Don K. Price Award for the best book in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics. He has published articles in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and European Journal of International Relations.
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 principal architects 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.
Peter Bruza, University of Queensland, Australia
Peter Bruza’s research spans the fields of information retrieval, applied logic, and cognitive science. His current research lies within the area of Quantum Cognition, which aims to develop new understandings of human cognition by applying the conceptual framework and mathematical structures used in quantum physics. Applications of this research include how humans make judgements of trust in relation to AI systems, and promotiong effective human-machine shared decision-making (Funded by the US Airforce)
Christopher A. Fuchs, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Christopher A. Fuchs is a Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specializes in quantum information and quantum foundations. Previously, he held senior research positions at BBN Technologies, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Bell Labs. From 1996-1999 he was the Lee A. DuBridge Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He is an author or co-author of over 160 publications, with over 17,000 citations on Google Scholar. One co-authored paper with H. J. Kimble’s experimental group, “Unconditional Quantum Teleportation,” was voted a Top Ten Breakthrough of 1998 by the editors of Science. He was a winner of the 2010 International Quantum Communication Award and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. On top of physics, Prof. Fuchs’s devotion to historiography can be found in his Cambridge University Press book Coming of Age with Quantum Information.
Donald Hoffman, University of California, Irvine, USA
Donald Hoffman is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His research includes visual perception, evolutionary psychology, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.
Natasha Mauthner, Newcastle University, UK
Natasha Mauthner is a Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method at Newcastle University, where she also leads the Newcastle University Methods Hub, which she founded in 2020. She has significantly contributed to various fields including gender, work, family, technology and society, data sharing, big data, perinatal mental health, qualitative research, and research ethics through her extensive research exploring the potentials of feminist new materialist philosophies in science.
Chengxin Pan, University of Macau, China
Chengxin Pan is an Associate Professor and the Master Programme Coordinator for International Relations and Public Policy at the University of Macau. With a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from The Australian National University, Chengxin’s research interests include Critical International Relations Theory, Quantum Relational Theory and World Politics, as well as representing and theorizing China’s rise. He also focuses on the dynamics of US-China relations and Australia-China relations. Chengxin Pan has a diverse academic background, including an LL.M. in International Politics from Peking University and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Deakin University.
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.
Emmanuel Pothos, City University London, UK
Professor Emmanuel Pothos did physics followed by cognitive psychology and has been working in the latter since 1998. His research has encompassed categorization, learning, similarity, and more recently decision making. He has been one of the first researchers to consider employing quantum theory in behavior. He has around 120 journal articles in these topics.
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 theoretical physics and computational neuroscience to model collective decision-making and information processing in social systems. His current research topics include opinion formation and cognitive models of decision-making, as well as quantum-like models to describe seemingly irrational aspects in human decision making. He can be reached at michael.schnabel@vanderbilt.edu.
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.
Dominic Widdows, IonQ
Dominic Widdows is a research scientist at IonQ, with many years of contributions to mathematics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, particularly as a researcher at Oxford and Stanford and a software engineer / data scientist at Google, Microsoft, Grab, and LivePerson. In commercial language processing he’s worked on applications including search, ontology learning, information extraction, machine translation, and keyword targeting.
Dominic’s biggest research area has been in building and semantic vector models and uncovering their mathematical roots shared with quantum theory, including applying models based on quantum logic and entanglement to relation extraction and reasoning. He has helped author over 70 journal and conference papers, and the book Geometry and Meaning. His contributions to creating and supporting open source projects has included Infomap NLP, SemanticVectors, SkyMap, pilmaps, and lplangid. He loves gardening and playing music.
Alexander Wendt, The Ohio State University, USA
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).