Nele Wynants is research professor art and theatre studies at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts - ARIA). She coordinates the EU-funded project Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850-1914 and is editor-in-chief of FORUM+ for research and arts.

Eva Andersen is a postdoctoral researcher in the EU-funded project Science at the Fair at the University of Antwerp. Her research on "Itinerant Show Businesses Networks" examines the social and professional networks of itinerant showpeople and explores the various social and practical facets of their profession. Her areas of expertise and research interests are the history of knowledge, history of science, history of medicine and digital history.

Hannah Welslau is a doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp. She is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation titled "Staging the Supernatural: The Role of Theatre, Science and Media in the Rise and Fall of Spiritualist Performances in Belgium, 1830-1930" (FWO - project number 1150423N). Her research finds itself at the intersection of cultural history and performance studies, and aims to understand the dynamics between spiritism and popular entertainment in Belgium.

Gitte Samoy is part of the EU-funded research project Science at the Fair as a doctoral researcher. Her subproject is titled "Spectacular Bodies: Performing Anatomy, Medicine and Anthropology", in which she examines the circulation and performance of ideas of the body, gender, race and class in popular science performances at the fair.

Bart G. Moens is an art and media historian, working as a postdoctoral researcher on the "Panorama, Diorama and Cosmorama" subproject in the framework of the ERC-funded project Science at the Fair.

Tim Overkempe is a PhD researcher in the Science at the Fair project at the University of Antwerp. His research "Spectacular Science: Performing Science and Technology at the Fair in North-Western Europe (1850-1914)" focuses on science and technology at the fairground, particularly the introduction of new media spectacles.

Thibaut Rioult is a scholar in magic studies. He is an FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles and member of CiASp (centre de recherche en cinéma et arts du spectacle), where he works on “Performing wonders”. He is an associated member of the ERC SciFair team at the University of Antwerp, where he works on the project “Objets chargés : mettre en scène l’âme des choses” (Charged objects: performing the soul of things).

Anse De Weerdt's master's thesis in History at the University of Antwerp (2021) focused on Belgian solidarity with Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s. She is now a joint PhD student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen) on the B-magic project with her research “Travelling colonial pictures: circulation of colonial magic lantern images between science, politics, and religion in Belgium (1885-1950).”