Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian and curator currently lecturing at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her interdisciplinary research explores the intersection of art history and environmental humanities, focusing on the visual culture of extraction, nuclear aesthetics and the material histories of art and the environment.

Hanneke Grootenboer is Professor of Early Modern Art and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her scholarship on early modern Dutch visual and material culture takes a critical and transhistorical approach, looking at historical themes through the lens of contemporary art and theory. Her research engages topics such as intimacy, interiority, affect and miniaturization. 

Colin Sterling is Assistant Professor in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary research focuses on critical-creative approaches to heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology, examining topics such as photography, heritage, affect and the Anthropocene.