Abigail Marsh is a psychologist and neuroscientist at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Anna Aris is a PhD candidate in the field of public engagement with science and technology.

Chris Manias is a historian based at King’s College London in the United Kingdom, where he is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science & Technology and co-lead of the Environmental Humanities network. 

Dan Schreiber is a radio producer, writer, podcaster and comedian based in London.

Film critic and author of publications focusing on pop culture.

David Krakauer received his D.Phil. in evolutionary biology from Oxford University. He is currently President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. He is Editor in Chief of the SFI Press.

Belén Vidal  is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, UK. She writes and teaches courses on history and memory in film, and on the biopic as a screen genre.

Felipe Viveros is a Chilean born multi-media artist, independent researcher and strategist. Felipe’s work focuses on the intersection of design, political organising, storytelling and systems change.

Director and producer.

Georg Adrian Koszulinski is a multimodal filmmaker who has been creating films and videos since 1999. His work spans a wide range of forms and styles, from feature-length fiction films and social justice documentaries to short form experimental works.

A journalist, a writer, a photographer and a director of more than fifty international TV documentary films and a producer of dozens of non-fiction formats.

Jan van den Berg is an independent theatre and film documentary filmmaker who creates work in the borderland of performing arts and science.

An award-winning, Emmy-nominated filmmaker.

Natural photographer and filmmaker who wants to bring new styles and philosophies to natural history film.

Jenni Pystynen is a designer working with light in various contexts from architecture to performing arts and cinema. 

Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about science through film.

She is currently working at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago as the Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California under Dr. David Bottjer, where she studied Mesozoic birds with Dr. Luis Chiappe at the LACM.

Jonáš Gruska focuses on experimental art and music. The LOM platform he founded brings together and focuses on gathering information about funghi. Jonáš specializes in research on lichens.

Emmy-nominated creative producer and director.

A stop-motion animator and scientific documentary filmmaker with focus on experimental physics.

Director and producer of documentary films.

Director, physicist and science journalist.

Katerina Cizek is an influential figure in international media, with over 25 years of experience as a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian, author, producer, and senior leader working with collective processes and emergent technologies.

Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

Award-winning producer and director.

Moving image artist.

Mexican filmmaker and visual artist.

An experienced journalist now specialising in documentary with credits at top UK production houses including BBC Studios, October Films and ITN Productions.

Award-winning filmmaker.

Award-winning producer of feature films.

Canadian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker.

An award-winning film director and producer.

Director and cinematographer.

Multidisciplinary artist.

Peter McCoy is a renowned applied mycology researcher and educator who has endeavored to understand and share the world of fungi with others for over 20 years.

Research Video Producer responsible for producing live-action video for Oxford Sparks.

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner are artists, filmmakers and writers working collaboratively since 2018.

Sem Barendse is an enthusiastic science communicator. He’s known for his work as a presenter on Dutch TV and online, as well as organizing science events and festivals at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Silvia Dal Dosso is a creative and film director and a researcher in digital technologies and web subcultures.

Sofia Tocar, a film distributor, currently works in sales strategies and festival distribution for author-driven fiction and documentary features at Square Eyes, a Vienna-based agency specializing in showcasing daring, outstanding, non-mainstream films.

Producer of award-winning feature documentaries.

XR and VR producer and curator at Crossover Labs.

Tori Tsui is a climate justice activist and writer from Hong Kong, now residing in the UK.

PhD student in particle physics at Imperial College London.

Researcher at the department of cosmic physics ÚFA AV ČR, who, besides his scientific work focused on the research of plasma and radio waves in the solar system, is also interested in the ground support of wave analyzer on the European probes Solar Orbiter and JUICE. 

Her field is contemporary phenomenological philosophy, with an emphasis on the ontology of space and spatiality.

He is a sound artist, musician, composer, sound machine inventor and poet. 

Scientist.

Ivo Bystřičan (1980), director and dramaturg, graduate of sociology and social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences MU and documentary filmmaking at FAMU.

Producer.

Jan has a long industrial experience. He worked as a TQM manager, API Business director, and finally R&D director at Zentiva. After a short period of consulting activity, he spent 2 years developing oral insulin tablets. Jan has joint the IOCB Tech team in 2014.

Karolína Zoe Meixnerová is a Czech writer and influencer, who focuses on popularizing Czech writers.

Kristina Zindulková is AMO Research Fellow with a focus on climate change and decarbonization. In the Climate team, she deals with the question of how to decarbonise the Czech economy while avoiding negative social impacts in the coal regions.

Milan Hain – film historian and the head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc.

Documentary filmmaker, social anthropologist and development specialist.

Sociologist and publicist.

Petr Salaba is a documentarist, who is returning to AFO as a winner of the Czech and Slovak competition as well as the Spotlight award.

Tomáš Daněk is a study advisor and coordinator of the environmental branch of ESUR studies at Palacký University in Olomouc.

Tomáš Grim is a Czech ornithologist, traveller, publicist, writer and photographer.

Amateur game developer and analyst of microbial communities in soil.