Angelo Vermeulen

Angelo is a space systems researcher, biologist, and community artist. With his multidisciplinary background, he collaborates closely with practicing scientists, while also creating multimedia art installations, and building communities through design and co-creation. In 2013 he was crew commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars simulation in Hawaii. Currently he is doing research on interstellar travel at Delft University of Technology. He has lived in many corners of the world, is a TED Senior Fellow, and loves computer games.

Pieter Steyaert

Ann Peeters

Frederico David Alencar de Sena Pereira

Fred is by nature curious about how and why organic or mechanical things work. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and Master in Mechanical Engineering along with extensive self-thought knowledge in 3D-modeling and 3D-printing. Born in Brazil, he is working on 3D bioprinters to produce human organs . He contributed to the making of a Space 3D Bioprinter named Organaut, which was launched to the ISS in december 2018 to conduct several experiments with cells and crystals. Fred's mind lives in the non-defined borders of science, art and engineering and a good dose of philosophy,capoeira and freeride longboarding make him a happy person.

Diego Maranan

Diego is an artist, academic, and activist who works in the area of human-technology interaction. Through technology research and intermedia artistic practice, he investigates, critiques, and reimagines the relationship between humans and the world we inhabit. He holds a Marie Curie fellowship at Plymouth University; teaches at the University of the Philippines Open University; advises for WeDpro, a feminist nonprofit that empowers marginalized women and youth in the Philippines; and co-founded Curiosity, a Manila-based design strategy firm. As one of SEAD’s core members, Diego worked on an extensive range of Biomodd projects in the Philippines, New York and Europe.

Jeroen Verschuren

Jeroen is a mixed media artist, and aviator interested in humanities, art, and technology and how these themes are often intertwined.

Trained as an airline pilot, his experience varies from flight instruction to flying cargo, corporate, and for airlines in the US, Africa, and Europe. As an artist, his work embodies some of the themes he experienced during flight.

Jeroen is interested in ideas that examine and rethink our existence in the universe and more specifically, the mental, physical, and philosophical relationship between humans and the different environments we inhabit or could possibly inhabit.

His current responsibilities within SEADS are to further develop data sculptures in 'Engines of Eternity' and develop a generative model for module distribution in 'Evolving Asteroid Starships'.

Nils Faber

Nils is a creative mind who is focussed on turning ideas into reality. He gets his kicks from enabling a better future by providing people and organisations the means to communicate their vision through tangible concepts. Nils co-creates concepts for art installations, academic research and mainstream products through his multidisciplinary skill set. From making initial visualisations throughout 3D modeling and soft- and hardware prototyping to 3D printing functional models, he makes abstract ideas real and tangible. By working on a wide variety of topics, like healthcare, space ecosystems, gaming and fashion, he continually seeks to apply insights across different fields of expertise. Within the SEAD collective Nils has collaborated on Biomodd and E|A|S.

Nassim Versbraegen

Nassim Versbraegen has studied Computer Science (M.Sc.) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is currently enrolled in a PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where his research is centered around the genetic origins of rare diseases.

Victor Steemans

Victor is a graphic designer working and living in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. He has been fascinated since childhood by science fiction stories, biology, the human condition, artistic practices and all things involving future thinking. He focuses on clear communication mixed up with conceptual design.

Fattana Mirzada

Fattana Mirzada is a neuropsychologist, social psychologist, and criminologist. As a interdisciplinary researcher she has been working with former detainees, organizations preventing violent radical extremism, and children and adults with rare neurogenetic disorders. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD on the topic of acculturation, doing experimental work on the dynamics of emotions and value systems in intercultural interactions. She also has a passion for fashion design and bioart.

Ulrike Kuchner

Ulrike Kuchner is an astrophysicist, artist, curator and creative producer publishing both in astronomy and in the inter- and transdisciplinary context of ArtScience. She (simultaneously) studied Astrophysics at the University of Vienna, as well as Fine Arts/Paintings at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she was born and raised. Today, after Masters and Ph.D. degrees have taken her to Australia, Chile, the US and Germany, she is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Nottingham, UK, as well as a visual artist. In her research into Astronomy, she studies how mass is assembled in the Universe and how galaxies form and evolve over their lifetime. To do this, she bridge simulations (specifically, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations) with observations of world-class telescopes. As an artist and interdisciplinary researcher, she operate where art, culture, and science intersect, using both backgrounds to find or reject interdisciplinary answers to overarching questions. Her art often deals with the themes of humanity and imperfections in data, something we tend to strip away from science. Ulrike also joins the creative process of other art-scientists and science-artists as curator and mentor to integrate different approaches and knowledge systems, challenging the frontiers between the two cultures without imposing a hierarchy.

Karine Van Doninck

Karine Van Doninck is an Associate Professor at the University of Namur and founder of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Ecology (LEGE). Her research interests integrate molecular genetics, organism evolution, evolution of reproductive modes, comparative genomics and invasive species. She has received several prestigious grants and is considered a leading figure in her field. Karine also has a keen interest in contemporary art and founded the arts initiative DRUUM in Brussels.