– professor emeritus, translator, founder and head (2002-2012) of the UNESCO Chair for the Study of Translation and Intercultural Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (currently the Department of Translation Studies of the Jagiellonian University). Author of over 200 scientific articles and several authored books; among others "O przykładzie, na przykładzie", Znak, 1999; "Tłumacząc się z tłumaczenia", Znak, 2009. Translator of Norman Davies' books: "God's Playground. A History of Poland”, Znak, 1996; "Europe. A History ", Znak, 1998; “The Isles. A History”, Znak, 2003; "Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw", Znak, 2004; "Europe at War 1939-1945. No Simple Victory", Znak, 2008; Translator of Irena Powell’s book “The Daughter Who Sold Her Mother. A Biographical Memoir", Austeria, 2019. The latest monograph: "Językoznawstwo zastosowane", Austeria 2019.

- honorary (adjunct) professor at Leipzig University - a comparative linguist who studies the diversity of the world's grammatical and lexical systems and tries to understand what is universal about them. Martin Haspelmath is also best known for coediting the "World atlas of language structures" (2005/2013), and as a co-founder of "Language Science Press". Selected Publications: “Explaining grammatical coding asymmetries: Form–frequency correspondences and predictability” (2021), “Human linguisticality and the building blocks of languages” (2020), “Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale” (2016).

- is a professor of Russian linguistics at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where he has taught since 1997. He is the co-founder and leader of the research group CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian), and has published widely on Russian phonology and morphosyntax from the perspective of cognitive and corpus linguistics. He also works on historical linguistics and has published the textbook “How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is” (2015).