Mário Figueiredo

Mário Figueiredo has PhD and habilitation degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, where he is now an IST Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holder of the Feedzai Chair on Machine Learning. He is a senior researcher and area coordinator at Instituto de Telecomunicações. His research areas include machine learning, signal processing, and optimization. He received several honors, namely: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering and the Lisbon Academy of Science.

Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten *1982, is a writer and translator from Vienna, Austria, based in Berlin. Recent translations include books by J. Wenderoth, I. Waidner, R. Waldrop, L. Russell, A. Green, articles by K. Sasaki, M. Ishida and M. Shinohara, poetry by Hachikai Mimi, Julian Brolaski, Margaret Atwood. "Rotten Kinck Schow" with M. Rinck and Sabine Scho 2007-2014. Cotten's English language work is published by Broken Dimanche Press (I, Coleoptile, 2013; Lather In Heaven, 2016). Her most recent book in German is "Die Anleitungen der Vorfahren" (edition suhrkamp 2023). Co-editor of Triëdere, Austrian journal for theoretical literature, since 2023. She is currently working on her PhD "Aesthetics of Misuseability" at FU Berlin and involved in „Oswald Wiener Lesekreis", an artistic research group on theories of meaning and perception and their political implications.

Lee Yew Leong

Lee Yew Leong is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Asymptote, which received the 2015 London Book Fair Award for International Literary Translation Initiative. Between 2015 and 2017, he curated a weekly showcase of new translations in the Guardian. Winner of Brown University's James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction (2003), he has written for the New York Times and served as a judge for PEN International's 2016 New Voices Award.

Sool Park

Sool Park is a Junior Professor of Intercultural Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim (Germany). He is a Principal Investigator of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Philosophizing in a Globalized World." With a background in philosophy, mathematics, and comparative literature (LMU Munich), his work explores the intersections of language, translation, and poetic form, as reflected in their dissertation Paradoxes of the Limit Language and the Problem of Translation. Alongside academic research, he is an accomplished poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist, with residencies and performances across Germany and Korea, and translations ranging from Wittgenstein to Kim Hyesoon.

Zach Mainen

Zachary Mainen is a neuroscientist specializing in the brain mechanisms underlying decision-making. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy from Yale University and completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Following his doctoral studies, Mainen served as a faculty member at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. In 2007, he relocated to Lisbon, Portugal, to establish the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. A significant area of his work investigates the role of the neuromodulator serotonin in behavior and cortical function. His contributions have been recognized with two Advanced Investigator Grants from the European Research Council and his election to the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Il Memming Park

Il Memming Park is a neuroscientist specializing in statistical and machine learning methods for analyzing neural data. His research often involves explicit choice of discrete and continuous mathematical representations for neural processes and concepts. Currently, he leads the Neural Dynamics (CATNIP) lab at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, focusing on understanding neural computations as dynamical systems.

Ábel Ságodi

Ábel Ságodi is a PhD student in Il Memming Park's lab, where he conducts research in neuroscience. His recent work focuses on the brittleness of continuous representations of information in the brain, and how their approximate discrete nature emerges as imperfections.

Francesca Spedalieri

Francesca Spedalieri is a visual artist, scholar, and translator. She earned her MA and PhD in Theatre from The Ohio State University, where her dissertation focused on the gender politics and political language of Emma Dante's theatre. In 2020, she was appointed to a tenure-track position at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, holding a split position between the Department of English and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. As a director and choreographer, she has worked on various productions, including the English language premiere of Emma Dante's "Dancers (Ballarini)" in 2015. She has also translated and introduced Emma Dante's plays, including "mPalermu" and "Dancers," published by Swan Lake Press. Currently, she maintains an active practice as a visual artist. spedalieri.com.

Jayoon Choi

Jayoon Choi is a London-based artist whose practice explores the gap between inner human experience and the act of translating it into tangible form. She gravitates toward moments that resist language: experiences that are either too raw, too isolated, or reduced to clichéd expressions. Through automatic processes, she investigates the vast internal landscape buried beneath our physical forms, questioning how much our bodies truly reveal about who we are. Using drawing as a tool to actualize her investigation, she employs automatic drawing, moving image, and installation to create visual embodiments of what cannot be spoken. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts and an Associate Lecturer at the MA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. jayoonchoi.com.