Tuğçe Aral is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam and a non-resident research fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, funded by the Leibniz Educational Research Network and the Jacobs Foundation. As a developmental psychologist trained in social, cultural and educational psychology, she uses an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to study youth development and socialisation in the context of inequality. In particular, she seeks to understand how children and adolescents from all backgrounds (immigrant descent, racialised, gender diverse) develop embedded in social contexts (family, school, broader society). She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Potsdam with a focus on ethnic-racial socialisation in Germany. Her dissertation has been nominated for the University of Potsdam - Better World Award 2024. In line with her international background, she does research in the context of Germany, the US and Turkey. She co-hosts the (Re)searching Diversity Podcast, which expands the stories of who can be a researcher by increasing the visibility of inspiring social scientists and research on migration-related diversity.

Dr. Sandra Klausing is a biotechnologist with a PhD and over 12 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Her expertise focuses on cell line, media, and process development for therapeutic proteins as well as cell and gene therapies. Dr. Klausing began her career at the start-up Teutocell, which later became Xell AG, where she was part of the management team and led research and development efforts. Following the acquisition of Xell by Sartorius in 2021, she took on a global role in product development at Sartorius in 2023. Dr. Klausing lives in Bielefeld and is the mother of seven-year-old twins.

Dr. Julia Gruhlich is the project leader for the EU-funded project "SMARTUP" at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute. The joint project “Smart(ening up the modern) home: Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalization” (SMARTUP) explores how digitalization impacts power dynamics within households and living spaces, focusing on Smart Homes. She studied, researched, and worked at various universities in Germany and abroad. Most recently, she was an interim professor of Work, Economy and Ecology at the Philipps University of Marburg and an interim professor of Sociology at the University of Paderborn. Since October 2024, Julia Gruhlich has been working in Gender Studies at the University of Göttingen.

After ending their own scientific career, Johanna Prien-Kaplan now works at MHH (Medizinische Hochschule Hannnover) to support third-party funded researchers from marginalized groups and provide them personally or their research alliances with individually tailored measures. Especially in Life Sciences expectations on researchers are extremely high and what is considered an ideal career path is not possible to achieve for everyone. The measures Johanna organizes thus include not only workshops for empowerment and soft skill trainings for the affected researchers, but are also aimed to raise awareness among privileged co-researchers and PIs. Johanna also performs Unconscious Bias trainings as well as Allyship workshops that can reveal a lot of knowledge and awareness gaps. Johanna studied Regional Studies and Central Asian Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and carried out field research on gender roles and religious practices in Bhutan. Additionally to their job at MHH, Johanna works as a freelancer performing workshops on anti-discrimination, Critical Whiteness and LGBTQIA+ topics.