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Pawel Tacikowski is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on how the brain constructs the sense of self—that is, our experience of who we are as a person. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Coimbra. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work combines methods from cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology, with the long-term goal of translating insights from basic research into improved therapies for neurological and psychiatric conditions.

Gonçalo Marcelo holds a PhD in Moral and Political Philosophy from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. He was a visiting researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain (2009–2010), Fonds Ricoeur (2010) and Columbia University (2011 and 2016). He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the University of Coimbra and a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. His main research and publication interests lie in the areas of Hermeneutics (especially the thought of Paul Ricoeur), Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Theory and History of Philosophy. He is Director of the Ricoeuriana Series and Deputy Director of the Ideia Series, both published by the University of Coimbra Press. He is also a translator of philosophy and a columnist for Jornal Económico, and is the author of around a hundred scientific publications.