Federico Germani

Federico Germani

Founder and director

Federico is a bioethicist and molecular biologist at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on the influence of misinformation on public health. He explores strategies to enhance public resilience against misinformation, with a strong emphasis on risk and crisis communication, trust-building, information and media literacy. Federico is the founder and director of Culturico.

Simone Redaelli

Simone Redaelli

Vice-Director and Editor-in-Chief

Simone is a biologist and scientific copywriter. He is vice-director of Culturico, where his writings cover the intersection between philosophy, poetry, science and society. He is also the author of A Sonnet to Freud, a blog for Psychology Today to illustrate how the life of poets, novelists, and intellectuals can be an inspiration for individuals to better face their interior and social life.

Pablo Sanchez Bosch

Pablo Sanchez Bosch

CTO AND PODCAST EDITOR

Pablo is a molecular biologist with a broad interest for all aspects of biology. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich and he is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he investigates how cells organize and assemble in tissues. He is an advocate for teaching and scientific outreach. He believes that an informed society is a richer and stronger society.

Gerfried Ambrosch

Gerfried Ambrosch

POETRY AND LITERATURE EDITOR

Gerfried is a heterodox scholar, author, and musician with a PhD in English and American Studies. His research focuses on the literary and cultural meanings of song lyrics.

Robert Albro

Robert Albro

ANTHROPOLOGY AND LATIN AMERICA EDITOR

Robert lived and worked in Bolivia for several years in the late 1990s, with multiple return visits. His book, Roosters at Midnight, examines the politics of indigeneity in a small Bolivian city. As a sociocultural anthropologist who hangs his hat in American University’s Center for Latin America & Latino Studies, he continues to keep close tabs on events there. When not engaged with Bolivia, he writes about global cultural policy.

Jason C. Bivins

RELIGION EDITOR

Jason is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is a specialist in the religions of the United States, particularly the intersection of religions and politics since 1900. He is the author of: Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America’s Obsession with Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022); “Spirits Rejoice!”: Jazz and American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2015), Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), in addition to many articles on religion in America, religion and politics, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Elena Borelli

Elena Borelli

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE EDITOR

Elena teaches Italian language and culture, as well as Intercultural Studies, at King’s College London. Before joining KCL, she was Assistant Professor at the City University of New York. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the European fin-de-siècle, but she has an active interest in current narratives such as the representation of health, gender, and national stereotypes in international media.

Alexander F. Brown

Linguistic editoR

Alex is an Anglo-Italian with a profound interest in science, the humanities and how they interlink. Having completed a PhD in molecular neuroscience from UCL, he has now moved into the field of scientific writing and is based in Oxford. His articles will focus on his scientific, cultural and philosophical interests. Whether seemingly more abstract or concrete in theme, they will be linked by one thing: a desire to address what really matters in the context of a sometimes impersonal modernity.

Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown

LINGUISTIC EDITOR

Originally from Texas and now living in the mid-west of Ireland, Jessica is a novelist and poet. With a MA in English in Boston College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University, Jessica is now a PhD student at the University of Limerick, working on a fiction project that integrates her research interests in narrative studies, affect theory, and deep ecology. Along with short creative and academic publications, her poetry collection is And Say, and her children’s novel is The River Boy. She loves to hike, especially the hills of County Clare.

Dawn Chatty

Dawn Chatty

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY EDITOR

Dawn is Emeritus professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy.

Shari Eberts

Shari Eberts

ACCESSIBILITY EDITOR

Shari is a hearing health advocate, writer, and the founder of Living With Hearing Loss, a blog and online community for people living with hearing loss and tinnitus. She serves on the Board of Directors of Hearing Loss Association of America. Shari has an adult-onset genetic hearing loss and hopes that by sharing her story she will help others to live more peacefully with their own hearing issues.

Robert Ganley

Robert Ganley

Linguistic Editor

Robert is a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Zurich (UZH). He graduated with a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2016, and also received a MRes with distinction from the same university. His current research interests include neuronal circuits for pain control and transmission in the central nervous system.

Louise Godbold

TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE EDITOR

Louise is the executive director of Echo, a nonprofit providing training on trauma and resilience to survivors and service professionals. As one of the #MeToo silence breakers, Louise has given TV and press interviews internationally on the subject of trauma and sexual violence. She has written for The Smithsonian Magazine, Pacific Standard, Slate, The Wrap, and The Imprint.

Debbie Hayton Team

Debbie Hayton

GENDER AND IDENTITY EDITOR

Debbie is a high school teacher. She teaches science to 11-18-year-olds at a school in central England. As a transsexual, she has written extensively about what it means to be trans and how trans people can be included in society without compromising the rights of other vulnerable groups. Her work can be read in publications from across the political spectrum, where rational scientific debate is allowed and encouraged.

Patrick Lee Miller

Patrick Lee Miller

PHILOSOPHY EDITOR

Patrick is an associate professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Follow him on Twitter (@Plato4Now) or listen to his podcast, “Living Wisdom with Patrick Lee Miller”.

David Ludden

David Ludden

PSYCHOLOGY EDITOR

David is a professor of Psychology at Georgia Gwinnett College in Atlanta. He is the author of two books, “The Psychology of Language” and “A History of Modern Psychology”. He also maintains the blog “Talking Apes” on the Psychology Today website.

Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro

AFRICAN STUDIES EDITOR

Sandrine is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers, such as Afrofuturists, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations.

Anthony Pahnke

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EDITOR

Anthony is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University, in San Francisco, California. His research deals with social movements and protest, development, and trade policy.

Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith

PHYSICS EDITOR

Ryan is an Associate Professor of Physics at California State University – East Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan’s lab group researches nanoscale-sized semiconductor materials using short pulses (less than a billionth of a second in duration!) of laser light. Such materials may become building blocks for future computing and renewable energy applications. Ryan is also a musician, outdoors enthusiast, rock climber, and beekeeper.

Bill Spence

Bill Spence

THEORETICAL PHYSICS EDITOR

Bill is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London, and the founding director of the Centre for Research in String Theory. His recent book “Everything is Now: Revolutionary Ideas from String theory” aims to introduce the general reader to recent research in fundamental theoretical physics.

Kathryn Urban

Kathryn Urban

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR

Kathryn is a master’s candidate of international security at American University’s School of International Service. She has written and researched extensively on great power competition in emerging regions, such as East Africa and the Arctic.

Celeste Varisco

Celeste Varisco

SOCIETY & CULTURE EDITOR

Celeste is an Italian student in Communication Sciences with a big passion for books, movies and videogames. When she’s not busy nerding out, she works as a swimming instructor. She dreams to be a fiction writer and editor someday, and to help promote equal rights through her stories.

Luisa Vernizzi

Luisa Vernizzi

SCIENCE EDITOR

Luisa is originally from Milan, Italy and moved to Zurich for a PhD in molecular biology/genetics. Her interest in science, however, extends to a variety of topics, including the relationship between science and society. Besides, she is very passionate about ballet and almost every sport related to mountains, where she flees whenever she can.

Adam Wakeling

Adam Wakeling

LAW AND DEMOCRACY EDITOR

Adam is an Australian lawyer and historian, and the author of “A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves: Australia’s Journey from Penal Colony to Democracy.”

Hynden Walch

FILM AND MEDIA EDITOR

Hynden is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She’s acted in Emmy, Peabody, BAFTA, and Oscar award winning television and film. On Broadway, she won the Outer Critics Circle Award. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts for music and received a B.A. summa cum laude from UCLA in American Literature and Culture. Her writing has appeared in Culturico, Popula, and Teen Titans Go!, the animated series in which she also plays Starfire. She’s currently writing a novel.
 

Meghan Woolley

HISTORY EDITOR

Meghan is a historian of medieval culture and law, specializing in the history of emotions. She holds an M.Litt. degree from the University of St Andrews and is due to complete her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2022. Her research analyzes the role of emotions in medieval law, politics, and narrative, with a focus on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She believes in the power of doing history to question today’s power structures and to show us the richness of human potential.
 
Simon is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator creating tailored cartoons and graphics for a wide range of groups, not-for-profits and other organisations.
Knowing that cartoons have a life of roughly 3-4 seconds (from his own scientific testing with stopwatch and kids), he finds wrestling ideas into some graphic, understandable – and fun, form is always a challenge. Simon lives in South Australia.

Emeline is a Belgium based illustrator currently living and working near Brussels. She produces mainly vector artwork, creating colorful images and web content. She has worked as a special ed teacher for two years after finally deciding to take a big jump into the freelance illustration world. In her work, she likes to focus on bright colors and simple forms to create harmonious and joyful illustrations, full of all sorts of characters, animals and human beings.

Martina Di Leo

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Martina is a student at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. She studies drama, which is one of her biggest passions alongside with reading and writing.

Giulia Germani

COPY EDITOR

Giulia is an Italian Literature student at the Catholic University of Milan. Her dream is to become an actress. To achieve this goal, she is currently studying at Grock School of Theatre in Milan. Her interests space from dramaturgy to drama, from social communication to cinema. In her free time, she swims, jogs, and eats cookies.

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