Bernice Bovenkerk is Professor of Animal and Environmental Ethics at Wageningen University & Research. Her work focuses on the ethics of human–animal relations, especially biotechnology and digital technology. She also researches animal agency, the moral status of fish and insects, reducing animal-based food consumption, wildlife rescue ethics, and animal representation in climate justice and deliberative democracy.

She is also a member of the Council for Animal Affairs (RDA) and the board of Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT). In addition, she serves in several editorial and advisory roles and has advised governments on alternatives to meat, alternatives to animal testing, and animal welfare law. She was involved in a project funded by the Center for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo) on more-than-human communities.

Janneke Vink is a researcher and lecturer at Wageningen University & Research. Within the project The Promise and Perils of Digital Technology for Human-Animal Relationships, she researches the legal and jurisprudential aspects of the influence of digital technology on human-animal relationships.

Vink obtained her PhD on the political and legal position of animals in the democratic rule of law (Leiden University, 2019). In 2020, she published the book The Open Society and Its Animals with Palgrave Macmillan (Springer), and in 2023, the Dutch-language edition, De open samenleving en haar dieren, was published by Uitgeverij Noordboek.

Vink is also co-founder and chair of the Dutch Association for Animal Law (NVD) and a council member of the Council on Animal Affairs (RDA).

Nathalie Muffels is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research. She researches the impact of digital technology on human-animal relationships. Her research is at the intersection of human-animal studies, philosophy, animal ethics and media studies. 

Caatje Kluskens is a PhD candidate working on the project Responsible Audiovisual Media Representation of AI for Nonhuman Animal Communication. She has an interdisciplinary background in media studies, digital humanities, and human-animal studies. In addition to her doctoral research, she is one of the founders of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies in the Netherlands.