Laura Moss is an AICP-award winning filmmaker from New York City. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, as well as an IFP Emerging Storyteller.

Her most recent project, the pilot of the sci-fi/comedy series, 'neurotica' (starring Karen Gillan and Jon Bass), premiered this April at the Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Director for a Comedy Pilot at Seriesfest.

Her short, 'Allen Anders – Live at the Comedy Castle (circa 1987) premiered at SXSW 2018. Her previous short, 'Fry Day', screened at SXSW and Tribeca in 2017. 'Fry Day' has since screened at over 50 international festivals and won 19 awards, including the top shorts prizes at Melbourne, Miami, New Hampshire and Hollyshorts. It is currently available on the Criterion Channel.

Emilia Tikka is a designer, artist, filmmaker and PhD Candidate at Aalto University, The School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki. Her work explores philosophical dimensions and cultural implications of novel biotechnologies such as genome editing technology CRISPR. She is a former artist in residence at Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine and State Festival, the first European artistic residency on CRISPR. Her design works – ranging from objects, scenarios, films – has been awarded and exhibited in several international design exhibitions and art museums including Ars Electronica in Austria, STATE Studio in Germany, New York University Arts Centre in United Arabic Emirates, Västerås Art Museum in Sweden, EMMA Museum of Modern Art in Finland, Contemporary Art Museum CoCA in Poland and Helsinki Technical Museum to mention few. Her work has been featured in publications such as Nature, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt and PLASMA magazine.

Mark Slutsky is an award-winning writer and director based in Montreal. His short films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and been featured as Vimeo Staff Picks three times, twice on Short of the Week. He also co-wrote the feature comedy Peepers and the feature documentary The Fruit Hunters. He currently teaches film and emerging media to game design students at Champlain College of Vermont, Montreal Campus, is a video game writer for Compulsion Games (We Happy Few) and writes for the acclaimed Dell Technologies Trailblazers podcast.

Jin Angdoo is a Paris-based Korean-born American filmmaker / artist who works across TV commercial, experimental film, visual art and mural painting.

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Marleine van der Werf (1985, CH/NL) is a filmmaker/visual artist with a documentary practice based in the Netherlands. In her artistic research she explores how to experience the reality of someone else. Through cinema, virtual reality and multi-sensory technology Van der Werf creates haptic experiences to challenge the understanding of the other and the self. Recurrent themes are embodiment, empathy, consciousness and our subjective perception of reality. She collaborates with renowned experts in the field of science, art and humanities. Her award winning projects have been broadcasted at television and shown at international art- and filmfestivals like IDFA (NL), Human Rights filmfestival Seoul (KR), Future of storytelling New York (USA) and Art Basel (CH).

Anna Lindemann calls herself an Evo Devo artist. Her work combines animation, music, video, and performance to explore the emerging field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo Devo). She recently premiered THE COLONY, an art-science performance about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: ants and humans. She graduated from Yale with a BS in Biology before receiving an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Digital Media & Design Department at the University of Connecticut where she has pioneered courses integrating art and science.

Alex Georgescu is a theoretical and computational physicist who likes to solve problems related to materials and the quantum mechanical rules that govern them. One of the prominent topics in his research is what happens when one makes 'sandwiches' out of different materials, as the result is often more interesting than the components. He is currently a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Quantum Mechanics at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute in NYC. Knowing from personal experience the incredibly important role of a mentor, he is passionate about scientific outreach and education and believes that scientific literacy is an important part of the well-being of society. During his Ph.D his dedication and commitment to teaching and outreach in the community were recognized with the D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship. A Bucharest, Romania native, he holds a Ph.D from Yale University and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Sofia Landi is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at The Rockefeller University, where she completed her PhD. She studies how we recognize well-known faces - or how this process differs from the way we perceive unfamiliar ones. When she is not in the lab, you will probably find her at a contemporary dance class, running, doing yoga, or climbing. Sports have always been a major component of her life, and as an undergrad she studied how learning such motor skills impact brain plasticity. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sofia embraces every opportunity to explore how animal brains create complex behaviors, and she wonders if artificial intelligence will ever match such capabilities.

Taylor Hart is a PhD candidate at the Rockefeller University, where they study the social systems within ant colonies. They focus on exploring the sensory neurobiology that ants use to perceive pheromones, the chemicals that they use to communicate and coordinate their societies. Outside the lab, Taylor is a visual artist. They gravitate toward the intersection of arts and science, and their overall work aims to explore, represent, and engage with the aesthetics of the natural world.

Albana Kodra is a PhD candidate in Genetics at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. She studies how cells acquire their identity and in particular how the architecture of chromatin influences gene choice. She uses a combination of genetics and biochemical techniques/instruments that allow me to visualize DNA structures at the nano scale levels. She moved to NYC four years ago after graduating from the University of Milan where she was involved in public events, TV shows and blogs to promote science outreach.

Julia Van Etten is a PhD student in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University. She studies coral genomics as well as algae that live in extreme environments and how they have incorporated genes from other microbes into their genomes to help them survive a variety of harsh conditions. Every living thing has its own genome and understanding these mechanisms can help us learn more about how and why they change and get a glimpse into processes likely present when life was first evolving on Earth. Outside of the lab, Julia has a lot of art-related hobbies and started "Couch Microscopy", a multimedia project on Instagram, documenting the biodiversity of microorganisms, especially protists, that live all around us but are rarely seen. Her work has been featured on NBC, PBS, and other media outlets.

Dan Munro is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University. He studies how DNA mutations lead to changes in proteins, and how these disruptions can lead to disease. In doing so he aims to better understand how proteins interact and how cancer can be treated on an individual basis. He received his PhD from Princeton University, where he also began using algorithms from science to generate biologically inspired graphics.