Grzegorz J. Nalepa (GJN.re) is a full professor at the Jagiellonian University, in Krakow, Poland. In 2024 he joined the ELLIIT excellence center and Halmstad University in Sweden as professor in machine learning. He is an engineer with degrees in computer science - artificial intelligence, and philosophy. He also works as an independent expert and consultant in the area of AI (KnowAI.eu). He coordinates the GEIST.re research group in AI.

He co-authored over two hundred research papers in international conferences and journals. He has been involved in tens of projects, including R+D projects with a number of companies. He authored a book "Modeling with Rules using Semantic Knowledge Engineering" (Springer 2018). In 2020 he founded Jagiellonian Human-Centered AI Laboratory (JAHCAI), now part of the Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research.

His most recent interests include applications of AI in Industry 4.0 and business, explainable AI, affective computing, context awareness, intersection of AI with law, as well as human-centered AI.

In 2023 he was the organizing committee chair for the ECAI 2023 conference, organized for the first time ever in Poland.

Assistant Professor, Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian University Museum for Scientific and Strategic Affairs. Her work focuses on the protection of museum collections, their legal status, and the specific aspects of their management, with particular emphasis on university collections.

Her research interests include objects of high sensitivity due to their origin, creation, context, or modes of adaptation (sensitive legacy, contested heritage, human remains). For many years, she has been involved in projects and initiatives aimed at integrating the Polish community of university museums, securing and effectively utilising academic collections, as well as promoting the idea of tangible and intangible academic heritage. In this field, she also collaborates within the structures of European consortium networks, including as a member of ICOM, UMAC, the Coimbra Heritage Working Group, Universeum, and within the UNA Europa alliance.

She considers participation in the analysis and development of possible ways to utilise academic collections, along with the application of advanced technologies and IT tools, to be an important opportunity for preserving scholarly resources and benefiting from their potential.

Dr Elżbieta Sroka is a research assistant at the Department of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence of the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science, a qualified UX designer, and a senior specialist and systems analyst at the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Katowice. In 2018, she was awarded a PhD degree by the University of Silesia in Katowice on the basis of her doctoral thesis on the digitisation of social history documents in Polish digital libraries.

Dr Sroka is involved in numerous R&D and research projects. Her academic interests include research into information user behaviour, digital humanities, and user experience (UX) design, as well as the applications of artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of human–AI interaction, the impact of AI on user experience, and the use of AI in research into digital collections. Her other specialisations include the analysis of social networks and knowledge graphs. She conducts research in the fields of digital accessibility, information management, and information retrieval.

Holder of a postdoctoral degree in humanities (2017), associate professor at the JU Archive. His interests are focused on the history of diplomacy in the first half of the 20th century, history of science, biography writing, and history of the Jagiellonian University, specifically the Faculty of Law between the second half of the 19th century and 1939.

Author of numerous publications, including: Na przełomie pokoju i wojny. Francja w oczach polskiej opinii publicznej od wiosny 1938 roku do lata 1940 roku (Kraków 2012); Professorowie Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, vol. II: 1780–2012, ed. D. Malec (Kraków 2014); Wydział Prawa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie w latach 1918–1939 (Kraków 2016); co-author of five volumes of Corpus Studiosorum Universitatis Iagellonicae 1850/51–1917/18: M–N, O–Q, R, S–Ś, T–Ż, ed. K. Stopka (Kraków 2011–2015); and Kolekcja „Ex-librisów” Antoniego Ryszarda w Krakowie, ed. D. Błońska (Kraków 2015).
Editor of, among others: R. Umiastowski, Dziennik wojenny 1939–1945 (Warsaw 2009), and W. Pobóg-Malinowski, Z mojego okienka. Fakty i wrażenia z lat 1939–1945, vol. I: 1939–1940 (Łomianki 2013).
Recipient of scholarships from, among others, the Lanckoroński Foundation (2006), the Maria Zdziarska-Zaleska Foundation (2007, 2009), and the Polonia Aid Foundation Trust (2015).

Classical philologist, holder of a PhD degree in literary studies (doctoral thesis entitled Sound instrumentation in Greek individual lyric poetry of the archaic period, Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University).

Translator of academic, popular science, and literary works from Italian, English, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Russian; author of over 60 translations, one book, and several dozen articles. Publisher and translator of the writings of Blessed Paolo Giustiniani (1476–1528), reformer of the Camaldolese Order and founder of the Congregation of the Camaldolese Hermits of Góra Koronna; the collected works of Blessed Paolo Giustiniani were published by the Tyniec Benedictine Publishing House in the series "Monastic Sources" (2015–2025).

Editor of Polish and Latin manuscript texts, expert in early printed books (particularly incunabula and 16th-century Polish prints). Former Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian Library responsible for special collections. Project manager for "Provenance of Polish Materials from the 'Berlinka' Prussian State Library, held at the Jagiellonian Library" (2013–2016); member of the Research Board for the Orientalia Polonica project (2013–2017). Staff member of the Rare Books Section at the Jagiellonian Library.

Deputy Director for Development at the Jagiellonian Library. Graduate of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the Kraków University of Technology.

Employed at the Jagiellonian Library since 2005, he worked on the implementation of mass deacidification technology and the launch of the Bookkeeper installation in the Library’s Paper Clinic. From 2008 to 2013, he headed the Paper Clinic of the Jagiellonian Library; from 2013 to 2018 he led the Collection Security Department; and since 2018 he has been a Deputy Director at the Jagiellonian Library. In 2017–2019, he participated in the Patrimonium project, where he was responsible for expanding the equipment infrastructure in the digitization lab and supervising the digitization process, and in 2020–2022 in its subsequent phase, in which he coordinated and oversaw the project’s implementation from the IT side. In 2019 he took part in the implementation of the new library system Alma and the explorUJ search platform, and he currently oversees their operation and development.

In the project, he is responsible for supervising the preparation and export of metadata from the Alma system, as well as coordinating project activities within the Jagiellonian Library.

Luiz do Valle Miranda has been a PhD candidate in Technical Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University since 2023. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (2018), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Antwerp (2020), and a PhD in Philosophy from Charles University in Prague (2024).

His research focuses on the development of knowledge-based systems, particularly graph-based data representation. He is especially interested in the intersection of machine learning methods and explicitly represented foundational knowledge, with the aim of creating intelligent technologies that support human care and development.

A graduate of Cultural Heritage Protection at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków and Cultural Management at the Jagiellonian University.

She currently works as a museum assistant (adiunkt muzealny) in the Jagiellonian University Museum, in the Department of the Chief Registrar. Until now, she has been involved in activities in the area of promotion, with particular emphasis on social media, coordinating events such as art auctions and exhibitions, graphic design, and working with database systems. Her academic interests include issues related to difficult heritage, postcolonialism, and architecture.

A graduate of Cultural Heritage Protection at the Pontifical University of John Paul II, she completed part of her studies through the Erasmus program at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

She gained professional experience in cultural institutions in Poland and Portugal. Since 2017, she has been associated with the Jagiellonian University Museum, currently serving as an assistant curator in the Museum Collections Department. Her work focuses broadly on museology and exhibition management.

Graduate of the Cultural Management program at the Jagiellonian University (2007) and the Postgraduate Museology Program at the Jagiellonian University (2014), and a doctoral candidate at the Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Management and Social Communication.

Her academic interests focus on the management of museums and collections operating within the structures of public higher education institutions in Poland. She has been professionally connected with the Jagiellonian University Museum since 2008. From 2017 to 2021, she co-created the Polikultura culture and media festival at the JU Institute of Culture.