Mitchell G. Ash is Professor Emeritus of Modern History and Speaker of the PhD programme ‘The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts’ at the University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is author or editor of 16 books and more than 150 articles and chapters focussing on the sciences in political, social and cultural contexts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of human–animal relations and the history of the human sciences.

Tim Benton is Professor of Art History (Emeritus) at the Open University, England. His recent books include The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as Lecturer (Basel, 2009), Lc Foto: Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer (Zürich, 2013) and a new edition of his book The Villas of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (Basel, 2007). More recently he has been working with the Association Cap Moderne on the restoration of the villa E-1027, publishing a book Le Corbusier peintre à Cap Martin (Paris 2015) which was awarded the Prix du Livre de la Méditérrannée.

Tim Boon is Head of Research and Public History for the Science Museum Group and a historian and curator of the public culture of science. He is currently (part-time) Visiting Cheney Fellow at the University of Leeds. His published research (the books Films of Fact (2008) and Material Culture and Electronic Sound (co-edited with Frode Weium, 2013) and more than 30 papers) is mainly concerned with the history of science in documentary films, television, museums and, latterly, music. He has contributed to the exhibitions Health Matters (1994), Making the Modern World (2000) and Oramics to Electronica (2011).

Kevin Brazil is a Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Art, History, and Postwar Fiction, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and the co-editor of Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (2015).

Robert Bud is Research Keeper at the Science Museum in London. He has served at the museum as Head of Research (Collections) and as Keeper of Science and Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, past winner of the Bunge Prize awarded by the German Chemical and Physical Societies, and holder of the Sarton Medal and Sarton Professorship at the University of Ghent. He has published extensively on the histories of applied science, chemistry and biotechnology, including his books The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology (1994) and Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (2007). His current research is on the history of the concept of ‘applied science’ in the public sphere, over two centuries.

Nina Engelhardt joined the English Department at the University of Cologne as lecturer in English and American Literature in 2016. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the Research Group ‘Transformations’ at the University of Cologne. She is author of the monograph Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and co-editor, together with Julia Hoydis, of the special issue ‘Doing Science’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42, no. 3 (2017).

Craig Gordon’s research and teaching focusses on the relationship between literature and science in early twentieth-century British culture. He is currently completing a monograph exploring the ways in which different forms of organicist thought constitute a crucial point of mutually determining interaction between the period’s biological science, philosophical discourse and literary culture.

Paul Greenhalgh trained originally as a painter before organically drifting into being a writer/historian. He has worked in a number of countries, and is Director and Professor of Art History of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, UK. Previous roles include Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC President of NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada; Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published many books and articles and is currently working on books about skill in the modern period, and the history of ceramics.

Michael Guida is a Research Associate and Tutor in the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His research is concerned with the place of nature, experienced and imagined, in modern British culture. He has written about early twentieth-century ideas linking birdsong and emotion in The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History (2018). He is completing a book about the cultures of listening to nature during and after the Great War.

Jeff Hughes is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. His research focusses on the history of science in twentieth-century Britain, particularly how and why science developed as it did – institutionally and intellectually – over the last hundred years. He is currently researching the history of radioactivity and nuclear physics, including the work of Ernest Rutherford at Manchester and Cambridge, and the history of the Royal Society of London in the post-war and Cold War periods. His publications include The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (2002).

Frank James is Professor of the History of Science at UCL and at the Royal Institution. He has written widely on science and technology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century and how they relate to other areas of society and culture, for example technology, art, religion and the military. He edited in six volumes The Correspondence of Michael Faraday (IET) and wrote Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) and is currently studying Humphry Davy’s practical work. He has been President of both the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology and the British Society for the History of Science and is now Chair of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written extensively on Walter Benjamin. She published Hollywood Flatlands in 2002, on the intersections of critical theory and cartooning. Extension of these ideas into questions of representation and European history and politics appeared as Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (Unkant, 2014). Latterly, interest in the proximities of poetics and science led to a study of the implications of the synthetic dye industry in Germany, Synthetic Worlds and Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (both Reaktion Books). She runs a website: www.militantesthetix.co.uk.

Judi Loach trained in Architecture at the Architectural Association, London, then worked freelance in architectural journalism, exhibitions and commercial research before undertaking a PhD in architectural history at Cambridge University with a thesis on seventeenth-century Lyons. While researching that she became involved in the campaign for Le Corbusier’s work at Firminy-Vert and worked on the Hayward Gallery exhibition Le Corbusier: architect of the century (1987) and has published widely on Le Corbusier. She has held academic posts as an architectural historian at Oxford Brookes and Cardiff Universities, and chairs in that but also in Early Modern and Modern European Cultural History at Cardiff, where she was also Director of the Research and Graduate School in Humanities.

Ruth Oldenziel (History PhD Yale 1992) is Professor of American-European history and innovation at the Technical University of Eindhoven. She has published and lectured widely in history at the intersection of American technology and gender studies. Currently, she is focussing on the history of cycling in a global context.

Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, where she researches craft, design, dress and photography across a range of periods and case studies. Her recent publications include Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (I.B. Tauris, 2015), The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (Donlon Books, 2015), the co-edited collections Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Photography Reframed: New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture (I.B. Tauris, 2018).

Lewis Pyenson is Professor of History at Western Michigan University. Before returning to the faculty, he was Graduate Dean there and at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, serving for ten years under four presidents and six provosts. He is completing a book about art and science in Modernity.

Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural History in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her publications include: Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative Collaborations in Arts and Humanities Research (2017), The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (2007), Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890–1930 (2004) and Discourse on Popular Culture: Class, Gender and History in Cultural Analysis 1730 to the Present (1989). Her current research is on language reform in the early twentieth century, immaterial labour, knowledge exchange with the creative economy and marginal modernisms.

Charlotte Sleigh is Professor of Science Humanities at the University of Kent and current editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. She has published widely on science and culture; her co-edited volume on twentieth-century science (with Don Leggett) is Scientific Governance in Britain, 1914–79 (Manchester University Press, 2016).