Biography: Gwillem Mosedale  has degrees in physics, business administration, and the social sciences and has worked mostly in industry. Recently, however, he worked on broadening the practice of biomimetics at the Technical Unversity of Munich, forming interdisciplinary teams of engineers and biologists. As part of that mission, he helped establish ‘Learning from Nature’ as the theme of the 2022/23 JA cohort and was proud to be involved with team Membrains. Biomimetics/biomimicry is an approach that promises to reconcile CO₂ reduction and technical development with one another, which makes it irrestible in the current times, not just for its clever, refined and environmentally ‘soft‘ solutions, but also for the potential it has for science communication.

Biography: Kati Nispel had already at the age of ten built more soapboxes than she had Barbies and still thinks that a city apartment is no reason to do without a stationary drill. She studied mechanical engineering at the TUM in Munich and discovered her love of outdoor and mountain sports in the south. How the human body functions in these activities and in everyday life is the central question of her research at the School of Engineering and Design and at the Klinikum rechts der Isar. The focus is primarily on the spine as an essential element of the "human" system. Problems of her daily work are therefore e.g. the creation of 3D models from medical image data, the construction of numerical simulations with these spine models and the automation of all this with the help of Python.