Massilia Ourabah is a postdoctoral researcher at Gent University (Belgium). She obtained her MSc in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and has completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, UGent. She is a former fellow of the “Technology, the Environment, and the Future of Europe” programme at the Remarque Institute, NYU (New York). Her work is at the crossroads of Feminist STS and environmentalism.
 

Juliane Rettschlag is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Berlin Ethics Lab at the Technical University Berlin, where she works at the intersection of technology assessment, responsible research and innovation and social philosophy. The focus of her doctoral thesis is the ethics and politics of collaborative research within the context of sustainable transitions in urban mobility.

André is an interdisciplinary biologist working as a University Lecturer in the Department of Plant Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He is specialised in global policies and legal frameworks governing biodiversity, genetic resources and sustainable agriculture. André holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Development from KU Leuven and a Master of Laws in Environmental Law and Management from Aberystwyth University.

Sarthak Das successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Seeds as Power: State, Science and Agricultural Practices in Odisha,” in 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India), where he had previously obtained his MA in Development Studies. Following his PhD, he was briefly affiliated with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India) as an Associate until December 2025. His doctoral research primarily examined the political economy of seed governance, scientific knowledge, and farmers’ practices in eastern India.

Xiaojing Lin is a doctoral candidate at the Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES) at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Economics from the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China. Her research focuses on economic analysis of renewable technologies (such as PV, wind, and energy storage system), and projecting the demand patterns of critical materials (lithium, cobalt, copper, etc.) for renewable energy transition.