Ute Frevert, historian and president of the Max Weber Stiftung since 2023, was director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin from 2008 until 2024. She is a member of prestigious academies including the Leopoldina and the British Academy. She received the Leibniz Prize of the DFG in 1998, an honorary doctorate from Tampere Universityin 2018, and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2016. Her many publications on social, cultural, and political history include her monographs The Power of Emotions (2023) and Writing the History of Emotions (2024).

Jakub Limanowski studied psychology in Heidelberg and earned his PhD in 2015 at the graduate institute School of Mind and Brain Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. He was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellow at University College London. From 2020 until 2022, he was a Freigeist Fellow of the Volkswagen Stiftung, directing a junior research group at the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop at TUD – Dresden University of Technology. Since 2022 he has been Professor of Biological Psychology at the University of Greifswald. His research focuses on the neuronal underpinnings of body and self-representation.

Leda Bourgogne (born 1989 in Vienna) studied art with Judith Hopf at Städelschule Frankfurt and won the 2017 graduation prize awarded by the Städelschule and Portikus. She received fellowships from several foundations, including the Ernst Göhner Stiftung and the Hessische Kulturstiftung. Alongside her studies of art, she attended lectures in German and film studies in Zürich and Frankfurt. In her art, Bourgogne, who lives and works in London and Berlin, processes corporeality and healing; she has exhibited at MMK Frankfurt, Helmhaus Zürich, and other places.