is Principal Investigator of the Armenise-Laboratory of Heart Engineering & Developmental Genomics at the Molecular Biotechnology Center “Guido Tarone” at the University of Turin, where he is Associate Professor of Applied Biology. He focuses on comprehending the molecular mechanisms underlying muscle differentiation to apply this knowledge to regenerative medicine and cellular agriculture.

is Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences at the University of Turin. A moral philosopher, he focuses on bioethics and the ethical issues concerning Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he is focusing on environmental ethics, specifically on agricultural issues and the interactions between the environment, food production and consumers.

is Associate Professor in Psychometrics at the Department of Psychology of the University of Turin. She leads the Laboratory of Psychometrics and teaches Data Analysis and Consumer Psychology. Her latest research concerns food choice and the psychology of health. Among her recent publications: Loera, B., Murphy, B., Fedi, A., Martini, M., Tecco, N., & Dean, M. (2022). Understanding the purchase intentions for organic vegetables across EU: A proposal to extend the TPB model. British Food Journal, 124(12), 4736-4754.

is an Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at the University of Turin. His research interests span from the ethics of new technologies to environmental ethics and bioethics. Among his recent publications: Cambia la tua vita o affronta l’estinzione. Introduzione a un’etica per la fine del mondo, tabedizioni, Roma 2022, pp. 308.

is a Researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at the University of Turin and has a degree in Zootechnical Sciences and Technologies. Her research regards the agricultural economy. Specifically, her more recent studies concern consumer analysis and food marketing, exploring the production chain and the evolution of the market of animal production.

is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Turin. She teaches Social and Group Psychology in the degree course in Education Sciences. She is a member of various research groups on consumer trust, animal wellness, and novel food acceptability (such as “Increasing consumer trust and support for the food supply chain and for food companies”, EIT Food; “Animal sustainability and wellness in zootechnical farms: Delphi investigation and consumer trust”, AOP Italia Zootecnica)

is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Turin and the Vice-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication. Her research focuses on the semiotics of food, corporeality and communication studies. In 2018 she was awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for a research project (COMFECTION, 2019-2021) on the analysis of digital communication concerning specific food trends and “myths”.

is a Full Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sassari. His publications focus on the philosophy of the mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of the science, nano-ethics, bioethics, rational argumentation in ethics and semiotics. His research interests currently centre on the metaphysics of mankind, architecture and food.

Pursued a PhD in food and communication at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He worked at the universities of Stirling, Bournemouth, IULM Milan, IUAV Venice and Udine and was awarded the Santander Research Grant Fund for a study on meat and propaganda. Francesco has been studying the communication of cultured meat for over a decade and is currently a researcher at FEAT (FuturEATing). He teaches media studies at the Catholic University of Milan. Insegna media studies all’Università Cattolica di Milano.

Tiziana Cannizzo is an Associate Professor of General Pathology and Veterinary Physiopathology at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin. The main research topics concern the study of morphological, functional, and molecular changes in the tissues of productive animals following the administration of xenobiotic substances (e.g. hormones, and drugs).

Valeria Giosafatto is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University Federico II. She teaches Chemistry and Biochemistry of Food in the degree course in Biomolecular and Industrial Biotechnologies; and Bioplastics in the advanced degree course in Biomolecular and Industrial Biotechnologies. She focuses on the use of protein and carbohydrates extracted from various kinds of waste to produce bioplastics to be applied in the food and agriculture sector, in order to convey bioactive molecules coming from various by-products.

Dario Martinelli is a Full Professor of History and Theory of the Arts at the Kaunas University of Technology and is also affiliated with the University of Helsinki as an Adjunct Professor in semiotics and musicology and at the University of Lapland as an Adjunct in Methodologies of Semiotics and Communication Studies. He is mainly interested in zosemiotics, animal studies, music and audiovisual arts.

Diana Massai is associate professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, where she leads the Bioreactors Unit of the Biomechanics Group and teaches “Bioreactors”. Since 2010, her research activity is focused on the design of bioreactors for the development of engineered biological tissues and for stem cell expansion in the field of regenerative medicine, and more recently, for the production of cultured meat in the field of cellular agriculture. She is a member of the Scientific-Teaching Council of the Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research (Centro 3R) and of Cellular Agriculture Italy.

Cristina Poncibò teaches Comparative Private Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Turin. She is a Faculty Member of the Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Law and TTLF Fellow (Stanford Law School). She teaches comparative law, comparative regulation of new technologies, contracts and EU competition law; she is also the coordinator of the Master in Organized International Trade Law, with ITC-ILO, Uncitral and Unidroit.

Zoë Robaey is Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at the Philosophy Group of Wageningen University. Her work investigates moral responsibility under conditions of uncertainty in the field of biotechnology.

Marco Tamborini teaches History and Philosophy of Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is a member of Junge Akademie (Mainz), the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) and a Fellow of Johanna Quandt Young Academy. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of biology, the bio-inspired disciplines and engineering (e.g. bionics, biorobotics, synthetic biology, AI, biofabrication, biomaterials, bio-inspired architecture), and the philosophy of technology and the techno-science from the nineteenth century to the present.

Mariana Hase Ueta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. developing interdisciplinary work at the intersection of food sociology, sustainable diets, and emerging technologies and seeking to further a relational understanding of how these are co-constituted. Her research focuses on cellular agriculture from a sociological perspective, and she is currently part of the Animal-free Milk Consortium. Mariana is currently part of the Animal-free Milk Consortium.

Steven Umbrello is currently the Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a research fellow at the University of Turin. He is also an associate researcher at the Collège des Bernardins, where he works on digital humanism. He was previously a research fellow at the Delft University of Technology. His work focuses on the ethics and design of emerging and transformative technologies. He is the editor of several international academic journals, such as the International Journal of Technoethics, the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was formerly a Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellow at Eurac Research, where he worked on the philosophy, religion, and society program, and a researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, where he worked on the ethics of generative AI. He is the author of several books, including Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots (2022), and dozens of academic articles across a broad range of techno-ethical domains.