Bio: Sun Chengsheng is Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Tsinghua University. His research concerns the history of scientific exchanges between China and the West from the 17th to the 20th centuries, with particular focus on the dissemination of Western natural philosophy, scientific instruments, and geology in China. His publications include The Intercultural Weaving of Ideas: the Transmission and Transformation of Western Natural Philosophy in Late Ming and Early Qing China (2018), and Amadeus W. Grabau and Paleontology in China (2024). He was awarded the “Zhu Kezhen Junior Award” by the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM) in 2011.

Bio: Originally from Canada, Jenny Pellettier is an assistant professor of philosophy at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Her area of expertise lies in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, and increasingly political and social philosophy in the thought of William of Ockham and the Franciscan tradition (13th-14th centuries).

Bio: Fabrizio Amerini is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Parma. His research focuses on medieval logic and metaphysics, with particular attention to fourteenth-century debates on universals, mereology, and intentionality, as well as to the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis. His recent publications include Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis: On Concepts and Intentional Objects (2026) and the edited volume Thinking and Calculating (2022).

Bio: Based at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Lydia Deni Gamboa’s research focuses on medieval philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, with particular attention to William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, and medieval theories of self-knowledge. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the Université du Québec à Montréal with a dissertation on self-knowledge in Ockham and Chatton. Her publications include work on reflexive cognition and on the reception of scholastic debates in New Spain.

Bio: Daniel Heider is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. His research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern scholastic philosophy, with particular attention to Francisco Suárez, as well as on medieval philosophy and the philosophy of mind. He is the author of three monographs on Suárez’s thought, dealing with being and transcendental unity, universals, and perception.

Bio: Marco Ambrosi is an FSR Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut supérieur de philosophie at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). His research focuses on second scholasticism, history and philosophy of science, and Jesuit studies. His current project examines the encounter between second scholasticism and early modern philosophy, with particular attention to Jesuit scholars from colonial Quito.

Bio: José Luis Egío García is professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research focuses on late-medieval and Renaissance scholasticism, the School of Salamanca, natural law, and theological, juridical, and philosophical thought in colonial America. His publications include monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, book chapters, and bibliographical work on the School of Salamanca, early modern scholasticism, natural law, political theology, and the circulation of normative knowledge between Europe and colonial America.

Bio: Ryuta Ishida is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Tsukuba in 2018 and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Keio University. His research focuses on medieval philosophy, particularly metaphysics, hylomorphism, individuation, and angelology, with special attention to Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and John Duns Scotus. He is the author of The Philosophy of Angels: Introductory Lectures on Medieval Philosophy [天使の哲学：中世哲学入門講義] (Keio University Press, 2025) and has published several studies on medieval theories of matter, individuality, and immaterial substances. He is currently a visiting researcher at Charles University in Prague (2026–2027).

Bio: Yu Wang is a doctoral researcher at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, under the supervision of Christof Rapp. He received his BA in Philosophy from Zhejiang University (2021) and his MA in Philosophy from Renmin University of China (2024). His doctoral research examines early Stoic theories of action, with particular attention to the role of hormē (impulse) in the initiation of action. His broader research interests include ancient ethics and moral psychology, Aristotelian philosophy, metaethics, and the reception of Western philosophical traditions in China during the late Ming and early Qing periods. His interests also extend to medieval philosophy and the transmission and transformation of philosophical ideas across different intellectual traditions.