Dr Lydia Luncz, Oxford University, UK: Dr Luncz is a primatologist, and an expert on the development of percussive technologies of wild primates.

Dr Tomos Proffitt, UCL, UK: Dr Proffitt is an archaeologist working on what makes human technology unique.

Dr Adrián Arroyo, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Spain: Dr Arroyo is a primate archaeologist, focusing on the similarities between human and primate pounding tools in the archaeological record.

Dr R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, University of Oslo, Norway: Dr Hernandez-Aguilar is an evolutionary anthropologist, working on behavioural ecology of chimpanzees.

Dr Claudio Tennie, University of Tübingen, Germany: Dr Tennie is the PI of the ERC STONECULT project, which aims to experimentally test whether early stone tools are manifestations of cumulative culture—currently the null hypothesis in the field—or whether they are best accounted for with the latent solutions model.

Dr Elisa Bandini, University of Tübingen, Germany: Dr Bandini's work is at the interface of several fields, including archaeology, primatology, psychology and cultural evolution and focuses on the learning mechanisms behind primate tool-use.