Barbora Trubenová Barbora Trubenová is a theoretical evolutionary biologist specialising in population and quantitative genetics who, as an assistant professor, leads a research group at ETH Zürich, funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Starting Grant. Her group's primary focus is modelling the evolution of drug resistance in pathogens by integrating theoretical frameworks with empirical data. After completing her PhD on the evolution of social behaviours at the University of Manchester, she held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), working on evolutionary computation, and at ETH Zürich, where she began her research on drug resistance. A strong advocate for interdisciplinary science, she consistently collaborates with empirical biologists and is incorporating machine learning into her research. Beyond academia, she is actively involved in science education and co-founded the non-governmental organisation eduB to engage high school students with contemporary biology. Kristína Hudáková Kristína Hudáková is a biology educator who leads the development of educational activities for eduB, the civil association she co-founded to transform biology education in Slovakia. A former scientist with a PhD in Zoology, her work centres on creating innovative, experience-based natural science education. She connects high school students with contemporary science and scientists to help them understand biology as a dynamic science with practical significance.

She actively collaborates with scientific institutions to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and classroom learning. Himani Sachdeva Himani Sachdeva is a theoretical geneticist at the University of Vienna. She uses mathematical models to study long-term evolutionary outcomes such as adaptation, speciation, and extinction in natural populations. After a doctorate in physics from TIFR Mumbai, she switched to theoretical evolutionary genetics for her postdoctoral work at IST Austria. She currently works in the Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna. She has a keen interest in understanding how collaboration and communication can work between disciplines, as well as between science and society.