Kayoko Nohara is a Professor of Translation Studies and Science Communication at the Dept. of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She holds a DPhil in Translation Studies from Queen’s College, University of Oxford. She was previously a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a Junior Lecturer at the University of Oxford, an Assistant Professor at Gakushuin University and an International Researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her publications include Translating Popular Fiction: Embracing Otherness in Japanese (2018 Peter Lang: Oxford et al.), Translation Studies in Discussions (in Japanese, 2014 Sanseido: Tokyo) and, as co-author, Introduction to Science and Technology Communication (2009). Nohara researches translation as a form of transdisciplinary communication and heads the satellite lab "STADHI (Science/Technology + Art/Design Hybrid Innovation)" in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, UAL.

She will contribute to both theoretical discussion and practical activities through exploring the semiotic and cultural translation of language and behaviors of the younger generations under science and technology-driven transformations and their impact on societies.

Email: nohara.k.aa@m.titech.ac.jp 

Chihyung Jeon is an Associate Professor and department head at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received his PhD degree in STS (Science, Technology, and Society) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.  Jeon conducts research mainly on the relationship between humans and technologies within social and cultural contexts, examining various policy issues that arise from specific human-technology-society configurations. He is interested in the feelings of control, empowerment, intimacy, anxiety, and loneliness that humans have in front of machines. Recently he is organizing “a.human (인조인간연구회),” a research network of scholars interested in atypical forms of human—artificial, augmented, almost, or alternative. He is the partner representing KAIST in the SoMat Project. 

Email: cjeon@kaist.ac.kr 

Wei Hong is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tsinghua University. Her areas of interest include STS, sociology of science, and energy transition. Her research papers on laboratory ethnography, knowledge transfer, and social networks of Chinese scientists have appeared in Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, and Science, Technology & Human Values. Since 2014, she has been engaged in building a dataset of Chinese historical inventions, introducing digital humanities into the historical, philosophical and sociological analysis of science and technology development in China. Recently, she has been engaged in studying a clean stove project in a northwestern village through a co-production framework. She is the partner representing THU in the SoMat Project.

Email: hongwei@tsinghua.edu.cn 

Dazhou is a Professor of Technology and Engineering Studies and Deputy Director of Center for Engineering Studies, School of Humanities & School of Engineering Sciences at Univer Technology from Northeastern University, China. He is Editor-in-chief, Journal of Engineering Studies, Science Press, China. He is also Vice Chairman & Secretary General, Committee for Philosophy of Engineering, China Society for Studies in Dialectics of Nature. As well as Vice Chairman, Innovation Strategy Committee, Chinese Association of  Develpment Strategy Studies. And Chairman, Committee for Sociology of Engineering & Industry, Chinese Sociological Association. He was previously a Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UCAS and a Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in Philosophy of technology and engineering; Engineering studies; Innovation studies and public policy. He is the partner representing UCAS in the SoMat Project.

Email: dzwang@ucas.ac.cn