Professor Peter Kappeler is Chair of Sociobiology & Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. After studying biology in Tübingen and earning a PhD in zoology at Duke University (USA), he habilitated in tropical ecology in Würzburg. His research deals with questions of social evolution, which he studies mainly in Malagasy primates, but also in predators, birds and reptiles. Other research topics include the relationship between the sexes and how and why human social behavior differs from that of non-human primates. He has published over 300 scientific papers on these topics, edited numerous books, and authored a textbook on behavioral biology.

Prof. Dr. habil Tatiana Zimenkova was born in 1977 in Leningrad, Russia. After graduating with a degree in sociology from St. Petersburg State University, she completed her doctorate and habilitation at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. She is a professor of sociology at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kleve, where she also holds the position of vice president for internationalization and diversity. Her work focuses on cohesion in urban spaces, participation and citizenship (also at the municipal level), political participation and civic education, sexual citizenship, diversity and norming. She is also active in many transfer projects in the field of LGBTQI*/school/police as well as NGOs and the executive, advocates for the rights of the LGBTQI* community and works as a consultant in the context of municipalities, authorities, and NGOs.