Olaf Kramer is Professor of Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication at the Seminar for General Rhetoric, Director of the Research Centre for Science Communication and one of the editors of Science Notes magazine and the book series neue rhetorik / new rhetoric published by DeGruyter Verlag. Since 2021, Kramer has also been the spokesperson for the RHET AI Center for Science Communication on Artificial Intelligence. His main fields of research include science communication, communicative competence, political communication, digital rhetoric and virtuality. Kramer is the first chairman of the "Rhetorikforum. Association for the Promotion of Rhetoric in Science and Practice".

Susanne Marschall studied German, Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Cologne and Mainz and was a fellow of the German Research Foundation from 1992-1995. Monographs and numerous essays (Schüren, Fink, edition text&kritik, Königshausen&Neumann, Bertz&Fischer, Böhlau etc.), essays, film reviews as well as television and radio interviews with her as a film expert (Filmdienst, Deutsche Welle, ARTE, SRW, HR, NDR etc.) have been published on topics of film and television studies, literature and theatre studies, visual and cultural studies. She has also shared her expertise on colour in a TED Talk.

She is also active in the field of media practice and media didactics, for example designing numerous school projects and managing the Rhineland-Palatinate Young Talent Programme for Film and New Media. Her involvement in PUSH projects such as the Children's University, the Science Market and, most recently, the city of Mainz's bid for the title of City of Science aims to open up media studies and create a wide-ranging network. In 2011, Susanne Marschall curated the ‘Spektrale’ exhibition as a lighthouse project for the City of Science.

Dr Carmen Lipphardt heads the team of the Presentation Skills Research Unit at the Research Centre for Science Communication and is also part of the four-person project management team of Jugend präsentiert. She studied general rhetoric and political science and completed her doctorate with a thesis on the promotion of presentation skills. Her research interests relate both to the format of science presentations as an oral form of science communication and to the training of the associated skills of presenters. She is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary perspective, which is also reflected in her interest in empirical presentation research. Other fields of research include rhetorical aspects of online presentations, multimodal argumentation in presentations and the rhetoric of evidence. She has many years of experience with various training and coaching programmes for presentation and communication for different target groups. Her practical work also includes the training and further qualification of junior trainers as part of the Youth Presents Training Academy.

She has been an associate member of the LEAD research network at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since April 2014 and a member of TüCeDe (Tübingen Center for Digital Education) since 2023.

Dr Thomas Susanka is head of the Science Notes project. He is co-editor of the related Science Notes magazine.

Studied General Rhetoric, American Studies and Art History at the University of Tübingen and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (with a Fulbright Scholarship). 2008-2011 Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Tübingen. PhD on rhetoric and photography with Prof. Dr Joachim Knape; member of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme ‘Dimensions of Ambiguity’, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. 2011-2012 research. Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr Dietmar Till. 2012-2020 academ. Employee at ‘Jugend präsentiert’ at the Presentation Competence Research Centre (Chair Prof. Dr. Olaf Kramer). Non-university: Freelance photographer and several years of work as a concept developer (script and storyboard) for explanatory videos at simpleshow GmbH.

Markus Gottschling researches and teaches literature, rhetoric and science communication.

He is a research associate at the Seminar for General Rhetoric and is responsible for the scientific coordination of the RHET AI Center. There he also heads the ‘Communicative Competence’ working group. He regularly develops and teaches advanced training formats on science communication - for the RHET AI Center as well as in the certificate programme ‘Science Communication and Media Competence’, which he designed and (co-)directs.

One of his current research interests is the interplay of rhetoric and generative AI, especially with regard to co-creative writing. He is also interested in the potential of fictionalisation in science communication.

Michael Pelzer is responsible for ‘Knowledge Design’ at the Tübingen Research Centre for Science Communication. He creates new exchange and design spaces for visual science communication and develops interdisciplinary collaborations to strengthen the dialogue between science and society. He also researches the visual representation of artificial intelligence at the RHET AI Center.

Workshops and training formats for skills development in the field of visual science communication form an important part of his work. He supports researchers and communication officers in the conceptualisation of visual design strategies and provides feedback on existing concepts and materials.

PD Dr Lily Tonger-Erk studied German language and literature, art history and applied cultural studies in Münster, where she completed her doctorate in 2010 on the subject of "Actio. Body and gender in rhetoric". From 2010 to 2023, she was a temporary academic counsellor at the German Department at the University of Tübingen, where she completed her habilitation thesis in March 2023 entitled "Schauplätze. Mediologie, Poetik und Dramaturgie des Raums im Drama des 18. Jahrhunderts". On 20 February 2023, she habilitated and acquired the venia legendi for the subjects ‘Modern German Literature’ and ‘General Rhetoric’. From the summer semester 2020 to the summer semester 2021, she held a professorship for German Studies at the University of Trier. Since November 2023, she has been a research assistant at the Seminar for General Rhetoric (pro rata replacement for the professorship of Prof Dr Dietmar Till) and head of the rhetoric sub-project in the BMBF project "Arguing about gender and gender. Conflict and consensus as a challenge in science communication". In the summer semester 2024, she was on leave of absence and held a professorship for German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Peter Oliver Greza studied General Rhetoric in his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Tübingen and is now a research assistant at the Centre for Science Communication. In his doctoral thesis, he is focussing on the topic of online presentation, in particular the effects of a lack of spatial dimensions on digital communication.

His doctoral project consists of setting up a certificate programme at the University of Tübingen on the subject of online presentations, within which graduates and other members of the university can receive further training on all conceivable topics relating to digital presentation and communication methods.

Franziska Hammer is responsible for public relations and science communication for the Ö-Project in the CRC Different Aesthetics. The focus is on testing innovative forms of science communication and public engagement (cooperation with the knowledge magazine AVENUE, digital web portal Different Aesthetics, event series Special Lectures, events at science festivals, video productions, etc.).

Dr Franziska Hammer studied German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Rostock and at the Free University of Berlin and completed her doctorate in 2016 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on the topic: "Räume erzählen - erzählende Räume. Narrating spaces - narrative spaces: spatial representation as poetics. With an exemplary analysis of the Song of the Nibelungs". Since 2019, she has been a member of the Ö-Project of the Collaborative Research Centre Different Aesthetics.

Prof Dr Ulrike Cress has been Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen since 2017, where she also heads the Knowledge Construction working group, and Professor at the University of Tübingen in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on social and cognitive psychological processes in the construction and utilisation of knowledge. Her research focuses on mass collaboration, social software and knowledge management in digital learning environments. Prof Dr Cress is co-director of the Tübingen Graduate School of Excellence LEAD (Learning, Educational Achievement, and Life Course Development) and has been a member of the Standing Scientific Commission of the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (SWK) since its foundation in 2021.

Thomas Diez has been Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tübingen since 2009. He gained his doctorate at the University of Mannheim and worked at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and Professor in 2005. He has also taught at universities in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Munich and Victoria (British Columbia). In September 2009, he was awarded the Anna Lindh Prize for his services to the study of EU foreign policy. From 2015 to 2017, he was President of the European International Studies Association (EISA).

Ulrich Trautwein is one of the world's most productive researchers in his field. According to an analysis by Fong et al. (2022; Educational Psychology Review), he was the second most productive educational researcher worldwide in terms of the number of publications in the most renowned educational psychology journals in the period from 2015 to 2021, after ranking fourth in this criterion in the period from 2009 to 2014 (cf. Greenbaum et al., 2016) and third in the period from 2003 to 2008 (cf. Jones et al., 2010). For his scientific work, Trautwein has been honoured with the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, the CORECHED Prize for Empirical Educational Research and the Young Researcher Award of the Educational Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society, among others. The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) has awarded him honorary status as a Research Affiliate.

Trautwein is Managing Director of the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology and Co-Director of the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network. He was and is a member of several expert commissions and advisory boards in the field of educational research. In 2017, Trautwein was appointed by Minister of Education Dr Susanne Eisenmann as chair of the four-member scientific advisory board, which accompanies and supports the reorganisation of the quality development of the Baden-Württemberg school system. From 2011 to 2018, he was a member and, from 2015 to 2018, Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board for the Joint Task in accordance with Article 91b Paragraph 2 of the German Basic Law, which advises the federal and state governments on issues relating to the performance of the education system in an international comparison. From 2011 to 2019, he was spokesperson for the Educational Research Network, which was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. Trautwein is co-editor of the online magazine 'schulmanagement'.

After studying German language and literature, Patrick Klügel worked for a large foundation for many years and initiated projects at the interface between society and science. Today, as Public Engagement Manager in the research department at the University of Tübingen, he develops communication strategies. He is co-founder of the AI Makerspace at the University of Tübingen and heads the "Public Engagement/Events" research unit at the Tübingen Centre for Rhetorical Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI). He is co-editor of a handbook for universities to promote dialogue between universities and citizens from 2020 and was involved in the development of Germany's first Code of Public Engagement as a guide for practitioners. He is a member of the steering committee of the Tübingen Center for Digital Education (TüCeDe) and on the board of trustees of the SILBERSALZ Media & Science Festival.