Yossi Yovel is a Professor in the School of Zoology and the Head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience in Tel-Aviv University. He studies animal behavior with a focus on animal vocal communication, navigation and sociality.

Raja Giryes is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. His deep learning research lab focuses on various aspects of artificial intelligence including generative AI, image processing, visual language models and computational and medical imaging.

Mirjam Knörnschild is Professor of Evolutionary Ethology at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Museum of Natural History. She studies vocal communication, social behavior and cognition in wild bats using an integrative approach that combines classic field observations with acoustic, genomic and neurogenetic analyses.

Elodie’s research group focuses on the behaviour of vertebrates, and in particular mammals and birds. Her main projects combine the topics of acoustic communication, emotions, and social networks, in order to understand how emotions influence communication, how emotions are transmitted between individuals and influence social relationships, and how acoustic communication affects social interactions.

Dr. Amir Teicher is a Historian of Science and Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of "Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany" (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the co-host of the Israeli science podcast "Grasp all, lose all".

Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist and Associate Professor at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He studies vocal communication in a wide range of species, including wolves, gibbons, and dolphins, both to understand their behaviour, and to develop novel conservation tools for monitoring critically endangered species. He is the author of the popular science books, "Why Animals Talk" (Penguin, 2024) and, "The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy" (Penguin 2020).

Professor Jonathan Birch is a Professor of Philosophy at the LSE known for his work on animal sentience. In 2021, he led a "Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans" that led to invertebrate animals including octopuses, crabs and lobsters being included in the UK government's Sentience Bill. In 2024, he published The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.