Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University, with a track record in the history and sociology of world politics, youth research, and, more recently, Arctic studies.
Dina Brode-Roger is a Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven, where she obtained her PhD. Her current projects, all on Svalbard, include exploring an embodied understanding of place, the use of visual methods of inquiry, and work on disaster risk reduction.
Lisbeth Iversen has been working in an adjunct position at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen during 2013-2023 on Community Based Monitoring and Citizen Science in the Arctic. Her main research topics are participatory planning, co-creation, placemaking and place leadership.