Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), head of the EcoAcoustic Research Hub / Laboratory of Bioacoustics and of the Ecology Graduate School. Renata supervises undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs in the Psychobiology and Ecology Programs focusing in behavioral ecology, animal communication, wildlife conservation, human impacts, bioacoustics, and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

Eva Ringler is a professor at the University of Bern, where she heads the Department of Behavioral Ecology at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Biology in 2011 from the University of Vienna, and conducted her post-doctoral research at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA, USA). She was appointed as professor to the University of Bern in August 2020.

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi is a conservation scientist and ecologist, best known for his work on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. As the Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust and a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), his work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and traditional livestock herding and farming communities.

Originally from the UK, Felicity Muth is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Her lab group are broadly interested in animal behavior and cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world. They largely study this in captive and wild bumblebees, currently funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation.

Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history, Daniela Rößler’s academic career began with the study of visual signals and anti-predator adaptations in amphibians before shifting to arachnids—focusing on the remarkable cognitive abilities of jumping spiders.

Leigh Simmons is Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1986 and held a series of research fellowships at the University of Liverpool before moving to Australia in 1995. His research is focused on pre and postmating sexual selection acting on the reproductive strategies of males and females, and on the behavioral and morphological traits that contribute to fitness, from the whole organism to its gametes.