Eva Barlösius holds a professorship for sociology at the Leibniz University of Hannover. Her research interests include sociology of culture, sociology of social inequality, theoretical and general sociology, sociology of knowledge and science, agrarian sociology.

Dr. Holger Braun-Thürmann is at the Hamburg University, DFG-Exzellenzcluster Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP). He is also associated research fellow in the project "Evaluation of the universities’ entrepreneurial culture” funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Knie and Dr. Dagmar Simon.

Prof. Dr. Martin Lengwiler is Professor for Modern History at the University of Basle. His fields of interests are history of knowledge, modern european history, welfare history and historical methodology.

Dr. Jörg Potthast is researcher at the TU Berlin. From 2006-2009 he was a research fellow at the WZB. His research t opics are political sociology of science, social studies of technology and risk, sociology of critique, economic sociology/ family capitalism and research methodology/ ethnography.

Dr. Ulrich Schreiterer is researcher at the project group of the president at the WZB. 

PD Dr. Bernhard Truffer did his habilitation (venia docendi) at the University of Berne  (2006) and his Ph. D. at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in Economic Geography (1996). He is head of the department Cirus at EAWAG. His research interests include innovationsystem analysis, foresight and strategic planning, sustainable transformation of infrastructure sectors, science and technology studies (STS), new modes of knowledge production, inter- and transdisciplinary research andregional innovation systems.