Prof. Peter Kunzmann is Professor of Philosophy and research scientist in science ethics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His work focuses on animal and nature ethics in the field of applied ethics and he is active in the ‘Dignity in Gene Technology’ research group. He is a member of the ‘Science and Values’ commission at the Sachsen Academy of Sciences and of the ‘Dignity of Animals’ working group at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office (FVO).

Prof. Nikolaus Knoepffler is Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Jena and head of the university’s Ethics Centre. He is a member of the German federal government’s Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research and of the Bavarian state government’s Bioethics Commission. He is also Vice President of the German Academy for Transplant Medicine.