Татьяна Владимировна Черниговская - Член-корреспондент РАО. Заслуженный деятель Высшего образования и Заслуженный деятель науки РФ, профессор, заведующая лабораторией когнитивных исследований и кафедрой проблем конвергенции естественных и гуманитарных наук СПбГУ. Член Совета при Президенте РФ по науке и образованию. Член межведомственной рабочей группы «Приоритетные и междисциплинарные научные исследования» Совета при Президенте Российской Федерации по науке и образованию. Член Академии наук Норвегии и почётный член Семиотического общества Финляндии. Сферы научных интересов – когнитивная наука, психо- и нейролингвистика, психология, нейронауки, происхождение языка, теория эволюции, искусственный интеллект, аналитическая философия. Более 350 научных трудов. Популяризатор науки в печатных и электронных СМИ (почётный дипломом Президиума РАН 2008г). Участник и ведущая многочисленных научно-популярных телепередач и фильмов. http://www.genlingnw.ru/person/Chernigovskaya.htm ___________________________ Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya Member of National Education Academy (2016). PhD in Physiology in 1977 and Doctor of Science in Physiology and in Linguistics in 1994 at I. Sechenov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1972 was working for I.Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1995 - Department of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Chair of the Division of Convergent Studies in Natural Sciences and Humanities, Head of Laboratory for Cognitive Studies at St.Petersburg State University. A member of the Council for Science and Education of the President of Russian Federation. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Honorary member of the Semiotic Society of Finland. President of Russian Association for Cognitive Studies (2008-2010). Honorary Scientist of Russian Federation. Honorary Scholar of Higher Education of Russia. A grantee of J.William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (1998) and of Russian State Scholarship for Outstanding Scientists (1998-2001). Invited lecturer in many leading European and North American Universities. Academy of Sciences Award for popularizing scientific knowledge (2008). Gold medal of Academy of Sciences for popularizing scientific knowledge (2017) Major research interests: cerebral basis for linguistic and cognitive functions; artificial intelligence; language evolution, acquisition and pathology; analytical philosophy. Over 350 publications. Multiple participation in pop-science TV and radio programs, public lectures and movies http://artesliberales.spbu.ru/contacts-ru/chernigovskaya http://cognauka.spbu.ru

Natalia Slioussar works at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, where she is an assistant professor at the School of Linguistics and a senior research fellow at the Laboratory of Formal Methods in Linguistics, and at Saint-Petersburg State University, where she is an assistant professor at the Department of Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities and a senior research fellow at the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies. Natalia works in the fields of theoretical and experimental linguistics. In the former, she specializes in generative syntax (focusing on information structure and word order), in the latter, she uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study various linguistic phenomena, primarily in the domain of syntax and morphology. It is fascinating to see the wildest theoretical ideas gaining experimental support and experimental results rewriting linguistic theories. Natalia holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht Institute of Linguistics and Saint-Petersburg State University and a D.Sc. from the Higher School of Economics.