Christian Bentz is currently an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a. P.) at the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics, University of Passau. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen. He received a PhD in Computation, Cognition, and Language from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the application of information theory to natural languages, language evolution, and quantitative linguistic typology.
Ewa Dutkiewicz holds a PhD in Paleolithic Archaeology from the University of Tübingen. One of her research topics is the emergence and evolution of symbolic communication, with a focus on abstract motifs from the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura. Currently she is the curator of the Stone Age Department of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, and an external member of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" at the University of Tübingen.
Marieluise Hahn is a research assistant at the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. She completed her Bachelor and Master of Arts at the University of Tübingen at the Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology and specialised in the field of Palaeolithic art, especially human representations and gender. She is particularly interested in how pictorial remains are treated in archaeology and science, and how they can be analysed as material manifestations of signs and thus as a special category of archaeological finds.
Saetbyul Lee was formerly a student in computational linguistics and a student assistant at DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" at the University of Tübingen. She is currently junior software developer at WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, Karlsruhe, Germany.