Álvaro Corral coordinates the Complex Systems Group of the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona. The research of the group is addressed to understand complex systems. The approach for that has been diverse: theoretical, computational, experimental, and analysis of observational data. Main systems of interest are natural hazards (earthquakes, hurricanes, rain…), communication systems (human language, music…), and, more recently, social phenomena (cities, epidemics) paying special attention to the necessary statistical tools. Statistical physical-like laws in several of these systems have been found by the group. The results of the research have been communicated to society through newspapers, radio, TV, and now, Twitter.

Christine Cuskley is a Reader in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University in the UK, where she is a founding member of the Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development Group, and Co-Director of the cross-faculty Centre for Behaviour and Evolution. Her research interests lie broadly in the evolution of social systems and cognition, with a particular focus on language. She has collaborated with linguists, psychologists, and complex systems scientists to study issues surrounding the emergence, evolution, and dynamics of human language.

Conor Houghton is a computational cognitive scientist with a particular interest in linguistics, neurolinguistics and artificial intelligence; he is a member of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in Bristol University and has recently become interested in simple agent models of language change.

Adam Lipowski is Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Physics of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. His main interests are in statistical mechanics models that are relevant in the context of complex systems. He has studied the modeling of linguistic processes such the emergence of language as a result of communication attempts in a population of individuals, language competition in the presence of mobility, the evolution of synonyms and homonyms.

Maxi San Miguel is the Founding Director of IFISC, the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (2007-2021); Emeritus Professor since October 2022; Medal of the Spanish Physical Society-Fundación BBVA 2010; and Senior Scientific Award 2015 of the Complex Systems Society. His interests are in Statistical Physics, Stochastic processes, Nonequilibirum phenomena, Nonlinear phenomena, Spatiotemporal complexity, Complex Networks, Computational Social Sciences; as well as in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Photonics and Semiconductor lasers.

Tsuyoshi Mizuguchi is associate professor at the Department of Physics at Osaka Metropolitan University. His current interest in this field is statistical properties of systems composed of a large number of types of elements, such as human names, place names and words of texts.