Dr. Thaiane Oliveira holds a PhD in Social Communication and is Professor at Media Studies Department and Graduate Program in Communication at Federal Fluminense University. Thaiane does research in Scientific Communication and Digital and Social Media. Doing research about Scientific circulation, her interest is comprehend how spaces of scientific communication - between peers and society in general - are used as a space of construction of social capital and power disputes.

Oscar Eybers is a lecturer who facilitates academic literacy in South Africa and am also a final year PhD student in applied linguistics. He is also the course coordinator of a first-year academic literacy module for natural science and agricultural students at the University of Pretoria. His research interests include argumentation, which is the focus of his doctoral thesis, hybrid learning, ontology and epistemology. He is equally passionate about curriculum design, student and knowledge development through multimodal communication and hybrid learning.

Thomas Krippner, born 1983 in Ulm, studied at the South-Asia-Institute in Heidelberg and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris. After completing his graduation in Cultural Anthropology, modern Indology and Philosophy he worked at Christ University Bengaluru (India) as an Assistant Professor and coordinated an Indo-German student exchange in the framework of the DAAD Program Passage to India, besides his teaching position. Currently he is conducting research as a scholar in the Graduate Academy Entangled Temporalities in the Global South at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tuebingen. In his dissertation project Changing student identities in Indian higher education he investigates the neoliberal transformations in the Indian education sector in their individual, institutional and global dimensions.