Lars Guenther is a professor of communication science specializing in crisis and risk communication in digital media environments at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He studied media science, modern history, and German literature at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he also earned his doctorate. He has worked as a research assistant at Friedrich Schiller University in 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.

Monika Landgraf is Director of Corporate Communications at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Her responsibilities include science policy, Press strategic communications, corporate media, brand communications, trade fairs and corporate Events, communications management, the Fraunhofer Forum Berlin, and public engagement formats. A graduate journalist, she is the spokesperson for Fraunhofer President Prof. Holger Hanselka. Before joining Fraunhofer in May 2024, she worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where she was most recently Chief Communication Officer responsible for internal and external communications. From 1992 to 2006, she was a radio consultant at the Bavarian State Office for New Media, and before that she was a freelancer at Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 2014, Monika Landgraf was named "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.