Prof. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann is a dermatologist, allergist and one of the leading international environmental medicine experts. She researches the consequences of climate change on the environment and human health. She leads the Chair of Environmental Medicine at TU Munich in 2013, she is now a physician-scientist and heads the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University Hospital of Augsburg and at Helmholtz Zentrum München. She is a board member of numerous academies and societies and is involved in climate and health protection, among other things, as part of the initiative Climate Change and Health, KLUG e.V..

Katja Trippel studied geography and attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism. After more than ten years as GEO editor, she now writes as a freelance science journalist for the GEO family, SZ and riffreporter.de, among others. A report on overfishing in the world's oceans, which she co-authored, was awarded the Henri Nannen Prize in 2008. In 2013, her book "Stadtlust. Vom Glück in der Großstadt zu leben" (with B. Schaefer). She curates the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival and lives in Berlin.

Prof. Harald Lesch is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at LMU in Munich and one of the best-known natural scientists in Germany. For many years he has been imparting exciting popular scientific knowledge to a broad public. He hosts "Leschs Kosmos" on ZDF and has published a number of successful books, including the 2018 book "Die Menschheit schafft sich ab - die Erde im Griff des Anthropozän" (Mankind is abolishing itself - the Earth in the grip of the Anthropocene).

Dr Jane Goodall has been a UN Messenger of Peace since 2002 and helps the United Nations to draw attention to environmental issues. The "Queen of Conservation", age 87, is still active 24/7. With her podcasts, online talks, audio books and interviews, her message reaches more people than ever; she gives hope and inspires: "... to use the gift of our lives to make the world a little better...".

In parallel to her rise as the world's leading primatologist, Jane Goodall has also almost incidentally redefined conventional conservation and environmental protection. 30 Jane Goodall Institutes around the world are committed to comprehensive nature and species conservation, education in sustainable development and global development cooperation. In 1991, she founded the children's and youth program "Roots & Shoots" in Tanzania, in which more than 150,000 children and young people in almost 100 countries are positively changing their everyday environment and actively shaping the future.

Dr Auguste von Bayern studied biology in Munich and holds a degree in zoology from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. After completing her PhD in social intelligence of jackdaws at the University of Cambridge, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Behavioural Ecology Research Group in the Zoology Department at the University of Oxford. Since 2014, she has been leading a research group in comparative cognitive biology at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, as well as a research station on Tenerife studying the cognitive abilities of parrots.  Auguste is involved as chair of the board of BIOTOPIA e.V., an association she founded to give the innovative BIOTOPIA museum the necessary political and public impetus.

Dr Nikolas Fricke studied agriculture and sustainable resource management at the Technical University of Munich and earned his doctorate in economic geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His research trips to all climate zones of this Earth have given the systems ecologist far-reaching insights into the complex interplay between humans and nature.

Currently, Nikolas works as a senior sustainability manager in the Munich urban development project Werksviertel-Mitte (www.werksviertel-mitte.de). To make this area sustainable, Nikolas initiated the Werksviertel-Mitte climate protection alliance and co-founded the innovation and research program.

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman is the founding director of BlOTOPIA and head of the chair "Life Sciences in Society" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at Oxford, received his PhD in the history of science from Florence, and has held positions at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Stanford. Before taking up his post in Munich, he was the founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Mann is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries. He has written several books, including „Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change“, „The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines“, „The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy“, and the children’s book „The Tantrum that Saved the World“. In his most recent book, „The New Climate War – The Fight to Take Back Our Planet” he shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility for climate change onto the individual, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.

Luisa Neubauer, born 1996 in Hamburg, is one of the co-organizers of Fridays for Future and the one of the most prominent representatives of the German movement in the media. In 2018, she met the Swedish student Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Change Conference and then started the movement in Germany together with other activists. Since then, Luisa Neubauer has met various heads of state and government, participated in the World Climate Conference in Madrid and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Luisa Neubauer graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in geography. She is currently studying resource analysis and management in the master's program at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. She co-authored the German book „Vom Ende der Klimakrise: Eine Geschichte unserer Zukunft” ("From the End of the Climate Crisis - A History of Our Future") in 2019 with Alexander Repenning. Luisa currently lives in Berlin, hosts the Spotify Original Podcast "1.5 degrees" and writes a column at Stern magazine.

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman is the founding director of BlOTOPIA and head of the chair "Life Sciences in Society" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at Oxford, received his PhD in the history of science from Florence, and has held positions at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Stanford. Before taking up his post in Munich, he was the founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

Matthias Tschöp is Managing Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair of Metabolic Diseases at Technische Universität München and works as Adjunct Professor at Yale University.

Fabian Theis is director of the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Zentrum München, scientific director of the Helmholtz Cooperation Unit Artificial Intelligence (Helmholtz AI) and full professor at Technische Universität München with the chair "Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems". He is co-chair of the Bavarian AI Council of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art.

Julia A. Schnabel is Professor of Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at Technische Universität München, Director of a new Institute for Machine Learning in Biomedical Imaging at Helmholtz Zentrum München (Helmholtz Distinguished Professorship), with a second appointment to a Chair in Computational Imaging at King's College London. Julia Schnabel's research focuses on applications in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and maternal/perinatal health.

Eleftheria Zeggini is the founding director of the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Zentrum München and has held the TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professorship at Technische Universität München School of Medicine since May 2020. Her research leverages big biomedical data and aims to translate insights from genomics into mechanisms of disease development and progression, shorten the path to translation, and strengthen precision medicine.

Ali Ertürk is director of the Institute of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM) at Helmholtz Zentrum München and leads the NOMIS Human Heart Atlas project. His research aims to develop novel technologies based on tissue cleanup and AI to image and analyze intact rodent bodies, human organs, artificial tissues and organoids at cellular resolution.

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a musician and keen fermenter.

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman is the founding director of BlOTOPIA and head of the chair "Life Sciences in Society" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at Oxford, received his PhD in the history of science from Florence, and has held positions at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Stanford. Before taking up his post in Munich, he was the founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

Vera Meyer is Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the TU Berlin and an artist herself under the pseudonym V.meer. Her recently completed project "Mind the Fungi" expanded scientific research with artistic and design-based approaches around the future potential of fungi as building materials, packaging materials, or even leather.

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman is the founding director of BlOTOPIA and head of the chair "Life Sciences in Society" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at Oxford, received his PhD in the history of science from Florence, and has held positions at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Stanford. Before taking up his post in Munich, he was the founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

After pioneering the Moog synthesizer with major artists such as The Doors, The Weavers, George Harrison and other music legends, legendary sound artist and bioacoustician Bernie Krause turned his attention to the sounds of nature. To date, he has recorded more than 15,000 species on over 5,000 hours of tape, culminating in his Great Animal Orchestra.

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman is the founding director of BlOTOPIA and head of the chair "Life Sciences in Society" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at Oxford, received his PhD in the history of science from Florence, and has held positions at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Stanford. Before taking up his post in Munich, he was the founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.

Seit 2016 betreibt der Landshuter Ornithologe Philipp Herrmann (Vogelphilipp) eine Vogelstimmenhotline. Auf diese Weise hilft er Ratsuchenden, den Gesang der Vögel zu bestimmen.

Dr. Tina Roeske works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, where her research includes animal communication, sound learning, rhythm and melody of music and birdsong, as well as their aesthetics and social and neural aspects.