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Comics Artist

Ray Whitcher is a South African-born comic maker, animator, and lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of Game Design.

Photographer and Artist

Abdelalim Amine Slimani is a Moroccan photographer, writer, and interdisciplinary artist.

Associate Professor

Robert Aman is Senior Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University, Sweden, specialising in the cultural history of comics.

Researcher

Erik Nylander is Senior Associate Professor of Education at Linköping University, combining computational methods with cultural sociology.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Giorgio Busi Rizzi is an FWO postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor at Ghent University, specialising in comics studies and graphic novels.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Claudia Cerulo is a postdoctoral researcher in Comparative Literature at Università Mercatorum, working on a project examining AI and comics.

Lecturer in Game Design

Hailey J Austin is a Lecturer in Visual Media and Culture and Programme Lead for Game Design and Production at Abertay University.

PhD Candidate

Jiahao Ji is a PhD student at Kingston University whose research focuses on visual metaphors and comics to improve mental health.

Professor of Digital Humanities

Björn-Olav Dozo is Full Professor in Digital Humanities and Video Game Cultures at the University of Liège.

Film Critic and Editor

Mathieu Li-Goyette is a film critic, editor-in-chief of Panorama-cinéma, and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

Professor of New Media

Kevin Hamilton is a media artist, scholar, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Professor of Art and Design

Simon Grennan is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Chester and an award-winning graphic novelist.

PhD Candidate

Yiqi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London researching globalised graphic storytelling through a transcultural lens.

Assistant Professor and Curator

Thomas Ballhausen is a poet, philosopher, curator, and Assistant Professor at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria.

Researcher in Immersive Media

Gaëtan Le Coarer holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, specialising in immersive experience design.

PhD Candidate

Andrea Tosti is a Digital Humanities researcher and PhD candidate at Lancaster University.

Professor of Visual Communication

Gunnar Krantz is a Professor at Malmö University's School of Art and Communication and a pioneering figure in Swedish autobiographical comics.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Céline Pieters is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna working on rhetoric and values in fiction.

PhD Candidate

Lucy Perineau is a cartoonist, illustrator, translator and PhD candidate working on a practice-based thesis about drawing the future.

Geography Researcher

Deborah Lambert is a postdoctoral researcher in geography at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Senior Researcher

Aurore Fransolet is a senior researcher in ecological economics and holds the Just Transitions Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Artist and Lecturer

Elena Peytchinska is a visual artist, performance designer, and lecturer in Stage and Film Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

AI Researcher

Ioannis Siglidis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pioneer Center for AI in Copenhagen, working on modelling digital narratives.

Artist and Researcher

Sabine Teyssonneyre holds a PhD in Comics from the University of Poitiers and is a practicing artist and co-founder of FutureOff.

New Media Artist

A.B. Fominaya is a new-media artist and PhD student at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.

PhD Candidate

Maria Ryabova is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Director, Writer, and Curator

David Mitchell is a gallery director, writer, and curator working in the contemporary art field.

Artist and Researcher

Eyal Gruss is an artist, poet, and algorithms researcher who teaches computational creativity at the Holon Institute of Technology.