Frederic Hanusch is Professor of Planetary Change and Politics and Director of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University Giessen. His books include The Politics of Deep Time and Democracy and Climate Change.

Liza B. Bauer is a cultural and literary scholar with a focus on the sociocultural and political reconfiguration of human-animal relationships. She is the author of Livestock and Literature and functions as co-head of Justus Liebig University's interdisciplinary research section on human-animal studies.

Clemens Finkelstein is a historian and theorist of built environments at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he leads the Laboratories of Dis:connectivity research program.

Claus Leggewie is former Ludwig Börne Professor at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where he also directed and cofounded the Panel on Planetary Thinking. He is the author of numerous works exploring the relationship between nature and culture, covering topics from climate politics to the Anthropocene and multispecies democracy.