Rens Bod is Professor of History of the Humanities and Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interest focuses on global knowledge histories, and his published books include A New History of the Humanities (2013) and World of Patterns (2022).

Isak Hammar is Associate Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden, and deputy director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). His research focuses on the history of the humanities.

Jeroen van Dongen is Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co- director of the Vossius Center for History of the Humanities and Sciences in Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of physics, and general issues in historiography of knowledge.