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Aleš is a researcher and group leader at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His work focuses on the development of social and political attitudes and the behavior of youth. He is also the leader of a work package on Social Conflict: Political Polarization and Legitimacy Crisis within the OP JAK CoRE project. His ongoing Junior STAR project, funded by the Czech Science Foundation, investigates the dynamics of adolescents’ attitudes toward outgroups. Previously, he was a researcher at Umeå University and a visiting researcher at Tallinn University, the University of Haifa, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Tereza is an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. She co-leads a research group that studies various aspects of fungal genetics, ranging from the investigation of unknown genes in yeast mutant models to the analysis of gene expression in fungal mycelia. Tereza is also one of the key figures behind UNIQORN, a university club that connects and supports PhD students and postdoctoral researchers while broadening their knowledge across diverse human and scientific fields.

Adam is a staff researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he is part of a team developing tools for computer-aided drug design. He is an expert in quantum chemical scoring and the molecular modeling of protein–ligand interactions. Previously, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology. In 2025, he co-organized the Gordon Research Seminar (Portland, USA) and the CECAM Flagship Workshop (Prague, Czechia), two respected events in the field of computational drug discovery.