Micol Spitale is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Polimi), as well as a Visiting Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, her research has been focused on the field of Social Robotics, exploring ways to develop robots that are socio-emotionally adaptive and provide ‘coaching’ to promote wellbeing, while being unbiased and fair. She has collaborations with prestigious international institutions such as KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Southern California. Previously, she was a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Affective Intelligence & Robotics Laboratory (AFAR Lab) of the University of Cambridge. 

Dorian is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a human-computer interaction researcher who specialises in design for digital health and wellbeing, human autonomy, learning, and translation of research to practice. She has worked in participatory digital health across age groups with communities in the UK, Australia and South America. Her current work explores how conversational AI might be leveraged to tackle health disparities in the majority world in ways that acknowledge model bias and power dynamics. Her books include Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential (MIT Press) and Interface Design for Learning (Pearson).