Joss Moorkens is an Associate Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University (DCU), Science Lead at the ADAPT Centre, and member of DCU’s Institute of Ethics and Centre for Translation and Textual Studies. He has published over 60 articles, chapters and papers on the topics of translation technology interaction and evaluation, translator precarity, and translation ethics. He is General Coeditor of the journal Translation Spaces, coeditor of a number of books and journal special issues, and coauthor of the textbooks Translation Tools and Technologies (Routledge 2023) and Automating Translation (Routledge 2025).

M. Cristina Caimotto is Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Torino, department of Culture, Politics and Society. Her research interests include political discourse and environmental discourse. She is the author of Discourses of Cycling, Road Users and Sustainability: An Ecolinguistic Investigation (2020) and, together with Rachele Raus, she has published Lifestyle Politics in Translation. The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse (2023). She is involved in various projects of public engagement focusing on issues related to the climate crisis and the promotion of active mobility, including Lessico e Nuvole (2020), the Horizon Europe project JUST STREETS and the project Bici e Società (Bike and Society) of the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies - Italian National Research Council (CNR- IRPPS). She is also a cycling advocate.

Mustafa Riad is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. A seasoned translator and editor, his work has been published in Cairo, Riyadh, and Kuwait. His academic pursuits delve into comparative literature and translation studies, with a focus on biocentrism and the ethical implications of translation in the Anthropocene age. He is co-editor of Encounters in Translation/Rencontres en traduction (Prairie, Pôle éditorial, Lyon, Saint-Étienne). He has lectured extensively in Cairo, Beirut, Abha, and Delhi, sharing his expertise and insights. Most recently, he co-presented a performative lecture at COP 28 in Dubai, titled "Translating Sustainability: Advocating Eco-Friendly Creativity against the Anthropocene."

Nancy Piñeiro is a technical-scientific translator from Argentina (IESLVJRF). She has been involved in militant research and translation related to socio-environmental issues since 2016. After two years of graduate coursework in Latin American Studies at UNSAM (Argentina), she joined the Sociology doctoral program at SUNY Binghamton (USA). Part of her work looks at the role of translation in socio-environmental conflicts, with a focus on fracking in the Argentine Patagonia. She has published in academic and non-academic spaces and has translated several books. She is the cofounder of the women translators collective Territorio de Ideas, and a member of the journals New Voices in Translation Studies and Encounters in Translation.

Trained in France and across Europe, Philippe Lacour is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He teaches theoretical (Epistemology, Philosophy of Science) and general Philosophy (introduction, methodology). His research focuses in particular on the Epistemology of Social and Human sciences, including their normative aspects, philosophy of language and translation technology (TraduXio project, https://traduxio.org). He was Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, investigating the notion of “clinical knowledge.” He is also responsible for various research projects about Artificial Intelligence, its challenge, limits and criticism.