Lars Guenther is Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on crisis and risk communication in digital media environments at the Institute of Communication Studies and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He studied media studies, modern history and German literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he also completed his doctorate. He has worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Stellenbosch University in South Africa, the University of Hamburg and the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Munich Science Communication Lab. His research focuses on science communication and journalism, risk and crisis communication and trust research.

As Director, Monika Landgraf is responsible for corporate communications at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Her areas of responsibility include science policy, press and strategic communication, corporate media, brand communication, trade fairs and corporate events, communication management and the Fraunhofer Forum Berlin as well as citizen formats. The journalism graduate is the spokesperson for Fraunhofer President Prof. Holger Hanselka. Before joining Fraunhofer in May 2024, she worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and was most recently responsible for KIT's internal and external communications as Chief Communication Officer. From 1992 to 2006, she was a radio officer at the Bavarian State Agency for New Media, and before that a freelancer at Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 2014, Monika Landgraf was honored as "Research Spokesperson of the Year".

Jeanne Rubner is Vice President Global Communications and Public Engagement at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The science journalist began her career at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she was most recently a senior editor in foreign policy. From 2012, she was head of the Knowledge and Education News department at Bayerischer Rundfunk. Jeanne Rubner is a physicist and holds a doctorate in artificial intelligence from TUM, where she is also an honorary professor at the School of Social Sciences and Technology. She is the author of several books on brain research and politics and has been awarded the Universitas Prize for Science Journalism by the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Foundation and the Medal for Scientific Journalism by the German Physical Society.