Professor Herbert Jäckle has served as the Director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen since 1991. Professor Jäckle is also the head of a research group at Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen; Chairman at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at Ludwig Maxmilian University in Munich, and also a member of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in...

Sebastian Veg is the director of the CEFC (French Institute for Research on Contemporary China). He also serves as a Research Professor (directeur d'études) at the EHESS, Paris and Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of the journal China Perspectives. His research deals with literature and politics in 20th century China, in particular the connection between literature, the public sphere and...