Professional title(s):

PD Dr.

Short CV:

Hartmut Hecht studied physics and philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin. He taught natural philosophy and theory of science at the University of Greifswald, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the Humboldt University. From 2001 until 2013 he was responsible for the edition of series VIII (Naturwissenschaftliche, medizinische und technische Schriften) of the Leibniz academy edition at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities.

Main research fields:

Hartmut Hecht began his academic career with studies on the philosophical significance of the theory of relativity. He then focussed on Leibniz and his influence on philosophy and science in the age of Enlightenment especially in France. His publications encompass a biography of Leibniz with an emphasis on mathematics and science, a translation of Leibniz’s Monadology, and edition volumes on Maupertuis, La Mettrie and Emilie Du Châtelet. Last year he published a book with the title: Ad fontes. Die Entstehung der Naturwissenschaften im Blick auf Leibniz.

Professional title(s):

FCIH

Short CV:

Ian Hembrow is a freelance writer and researcher based in Bristol, England. He is an Honorary Researcher at University of Bristol and a former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, University of Oxford. Ian Hembrow also works as a housing consultant/educator and Humanist funeral celebrant.

His book CELSIUS – A Life And Death By Degrees (The History Press, 2024) is a biography of the eighteenth-century Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius, who played an important part in the 1736-37 Maupertuis expedition to establish the shape of the Earth.

Main research fields:

Life writing, medicines safety, climate change, voluntary and assisted dying, affordable housing

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-hembrow-communicate

https://humanist.org.uk/ianhembrow

https://creative-bridge.com/team

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14981-8

https://view.publitas.com/uppsala-monitoring-centre/making-medicines-safer/page/1

Professional title(s):

DTech and economist

Short CV:

Jussi Lindgren currently works as special advisor on economic policy to the Finnish Minister of Finance. He has worked, among others, at the Ministry of Finance, the European Commission and the Prime Minister’s Office.

Links:

https://jussilindgren.fi

Professional title(s):

Dr. phil

Short CV:

Study of mathematics, physic, philosophy and history of science at the universities of Heidelberg and Basel.

Doctor degree (s.c.l.) of the philosophisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Basel with a thesis on the reception of Nicolaus Cusanus’ mathematics.

Teaching mathematics, physics and philosophy at a Gymnasium of the Kanton Basel-Stadt.

1988-2008 Head of the Basel Research Centre of the Bernoulli Edition.

Responsible for the edition of the correspondence of the mathematicians Bernoulli.

Creation of the electronic Basel inventory of Bernoulli correspondence.

Co-founder and editor of the Basel online edition of Bernoulli’s correspondence.

Since 2010 Member of the Board of Directors of the Bernoulli-Euler Centre at the University of Basel.

Main research fields:

Mathematics, physics and philosophy at the boundary of the 14th and 15th centuries (Nicolaus Cusanus) and at the boundary of the 17th and 18th centuries (Bernoulli circle, Jacob Hermann, Leibniz). History of scientific ideas. Network of Bernoulli correspondence. Editorial problems.

Links:

CV and List of publications: https://bez.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/bez/Nagel-2023.pdf

Professional title(s):

Doctor in French Literature

Short CV:

Alessandra Orlandini Carcreff is an associate member of the “Germanic and Northern European Worlds” laboratory (UR 1341) at the University of Strasbourg and holds a PhD in French Literature from Sorbonne University. A specialist in travel literature, she regularly participates in international symposiums and conferences and has edited some forty publications (essays and articles) on travel in Northern European countries (Lapland and Finland in particular) from the 15th to the late 19th century. Her research also focuses on traditional Finno-Ugric culture, mythology and Nordic epics.

Main research fields:

Travel literature concerning Lapland, Finland and Scandinavia in the 15th–19th centuries. Traditional Finno-Ugric culture and mythology.

Links:

Page on University of Strasbourg’s site: https://mgne.unistra.fr/membres/chercheur-e-s-associe-e-s/alessandra-orlandini-carcreff

Open access to publications on HAL: https://cv.hal.science/alessandra-orlandini-carcreff

Professional title(s):

Full Professor of 17th-century French literature, Aix-Marseille University (AmU), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Association franco-suédoise pour la Recherche (AFSR).

Short CV:

Sylvie Requemora is a professor of 17th-century French literature at Aix-Marseille University, director of the Center for Research on Travel Literature, and the 2024 recipient of a grant from the Institut Universitaire de France for her TRAVEL project (Terre en Récits, Arts de Voyager & EcoLittérature), and a Visiting Fellowship from the Franco-Swedish Research Association.

She is the author of Voguer vers la Modernité. Le voyage à travers les genres au XVIIe siècle (PUPS, 2012), the critical edition of Jean-François Regnard’s Voyages (Classiques Garnier, 2020), and numerous articles on travel literature.

Among other academic events, she organized the international conference “Traveling from Elsewhere (17th–21st Centuries)” (September 26–27, 2024), will organize the international Borders and Crossings conference titled “Cross-cultural Francophone and Anglophone Epistemological Perspectives on Travel Research” in September 2026, and is currently coordinating a European grant proposal on representations of nature in Early Modern travel writings.

Main research fields:

Travel Literature, Ecopoétics.

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvie-requemora-25b279233

Center for Research on Travel Literature: www.crlv.org

Professional title(s):

PhD

Short CV:

Daniel Schlesinger is an air quality analyst at the Environment and Health Administration of the City of Stockholm, Sweden. He studied physics at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, obtained a PhD in physics from Stockholm University (SU), and has worked as scientific researcher in atmospheric science at SU.

Main research fields:

Daniel’s research concerning the Maupertuis expedition focuses on identifying the geographic locations of the expedition’s baseline sites.

Professional title(s):

PhD, Tech. Dr.

Short CV:

Johan Stén is a Finnish historian of science (DSc in engineering, electrodynamics, 1995; PhD in mathematics, 2015). He teaches history of science and history of mathematics at the University of Helsinki. 

Professional title(s):

PhD in Literary Studies, History and Semiology of Text and Image

Short CV:

Anouchka Vasak is a lecturer in French Literature, specializing in the eighteenth century, in the University of Poitiers, France (2001-2011). She is a qualified teacher of Modern Literature and an Alumna of the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses. Anoucha Vasak is a co-director of the “Météos” collection (Hermann Publishing, Paris) and a co-manager of the network and seminar on “climate perception” in École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Main research fields:

Meteorology, history of science, climate history, climate perception, 18th-Century literature

Links:

https://ceres.ens.fr/?Seminaire-Perception-du-Climat-2025-2026

https://enccre.academie-sciences.fr/encyclopedie