Giovanni De Grandis is the coordinator of the AFINO research network and the leader of AFINO pilots project, which are experiments in new ways of generating and sharing knowledge and foresight through transdisciplinary collaborations. A philosopher by training, Giovanni first specialised in Political Philosophy and Ethics. Since 2010 he has worked in applied, inter- and trans-disciplinary research and activities. His research has spanned across diverse topics like digital publishing and digital repositories, to public health, urban planning, personalised medicine and pharmaceutical regulations. Giovanni received his PhD from the University of Torino.

Anne Blanchard is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen. Her background is in Science and Technology Studies, and her overall research interest is about how knowledge is used, and shaped, to inform social and political decision-making processes around complex and uncertain issues. More specifically, in the last few years, she has been looking at what responsible research might mean in practice, by mobilising and teaching, in a critical way, Responsible Research and Innovation and the challenges of its implementation, method and evaluation, and its links to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Anne received her PhD from the University of Bergen.