Giacomo Parrinello is associate professor of environmental history at the Centre d’Histoire of Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on coastal environmental history, with particular attention to the interactions between geomorphological change, environmental governance, and human intervention. He has led several international research projects, including Shifting Shores (2019–2023), which examine the environmental history of Mediterranean coasts and river deltas through an interdisciplinary approach combining environmental history, geomorphology, and the history of science and technology. Before joining the Center for History of Sciences Po, he held fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center, Louisiana State University, and the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, and was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the University of Bologna, and UC Berkeley.
Constantin Ardeleanu is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy and a researcher at the New Europe College (NEC). His research focuses on the socio-economic history of Southeastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the Danube and Black Sea regions. His monographs examine topics such as the integration of Southeastern Europe into the global economy, the modernization of Danubian and Black Sea ports, the development of regional transport infrastructure, and international organizations and relations in the modern and contemporary periods. His most recent books include The European Commission of the Danube, 1856–1948: An Experiment in International Administration (Brill, 2020) and A Cruise from Vienna to Constantinople: Travellers, Spaces, Images, 1830–1860 (Humanitas, 2021; English edition, CEU Press, 2024).
Sara Lorenzini is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the School of International Studies and at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento (Italy). She teaches courses on the History of the Cold War, on Decolonization, on Development and Security, and, as a Jean Monnet Professor, on the History of the EU. A Cold War historian by training, specialising in East Germany, she now works on the history of development and Europe’s global role. She has published extensively on the Cold War and North-South relations. She is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Women Leaders and Sustainable Development: An Intellectual History. Her latest monograph is Global Development: A Cold War History (Princeton University Press, series “America in the World”, 2019) https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13512.html
Martin Schmid is Associate Professor at the Center for Environmental History (ZUG), Institute of Social Ecology, Department for Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). Trained in history and archaeology at the University of Vienna (Mag. phil. 2002, Dr. phil. 2007), 2014 venia legendi in Environmental History at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU and Deutsches Museum in Munich in 2011. Deputy director of the Institute of Social Ecology 2016-17, founding member (2003) and director of ZUG in 2010. His research explored extensively the environmental and infrastructural history of the Danube, with a specific focus on the upper and Austrian section of the river.