Jonathan Jeschke was born in 1973 in Munich, where he studied biology at the University of Munich (LMU) and earned his doctorate in ecology in 2002. From 2003 until 2005, he was a postdoc at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY (USA) where he began to study invasive, non-native species. From 2005 until 2006, he studied the mating behavior of birds at the University of Helsinki in Finland. After his habilitation in 2011, he has researched and taught as Professor for Ecological Novelty at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2014.

Martin Seel is Professor of Philosophy at Goethe-University Frankfurt. His book publications include Eine Ästhetik der Natur (1991); Versuch über die Form des Glücks (1995); Ästhetik des Erscheinens (2000); Adornos Philosophie der Kontemplation (2002); Die Macht des Erscheinens (2007); Theorien (2009); 111 Tugenden, 111 Laster: Eine philosophische Revue (2011); Die Künste des Kinos (2013); Aktive Passivität: Über den Spielraum des Denkens, Handelns und anderer Künste (2014); Nichtrechthabenwollen: Gedankenspiele (2018).