Montserrat Cabré i Paire is a professor of History of Science at the University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain). She received her PhD in medieval history from the University of Barcelona, where she also completed a Masters in the history of women. She held a PostDoc at the Institució Milà i Fontanals at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Barcelona, at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and others. Prof. Cabré has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Harvard and Toronto, as well as MIT and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Her research focuses on a variety of subjects related to medieval medicine including the history of the body and gender in medicine and natural philosophy in the medieval and early modern period; the role of women in health and healthcare; networks of knowledge among women, especially in regards to the querelle des femmes; medieval female monasticism; and feminist perspectives in STEM.

Fernando Salmón Muños began his teaching and research career in 1987. He has held a range of positions from, becario Programa Formación Personal de Investigación (PhD researcher), a postdoctoral position, research associate, lecturer and finally professor, at institutions such as the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cantabria (Spain), the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and the the Institució Milà i Fontanals at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Barcelona. Prof. Salmón has held fellowships at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and at the Centre de Recherches Historiques at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He was also a member of the scientific committee for the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health from 2005 to 2015, including being president from 2009 to 2013.

Prof. Salmón has two intersecting research interests: the histories of modern medicine, particularly twentieth hospitals, and medieval medicine. His work reflects the hybrid nature and new methodologies in the field of history of medieval medicine.

Paloma Moral de Calatrava is a lecturer of History of Nursing at the University of Murcia. While her undergraduate work focused on Medieval History, she turned her focus to studying nursing for her doctoral thesis. In 2008, she shifted her research to the relationship between health and sex in medieval medicine. Since then she has published on the discrepancies between medical theory and practice in midwifery, the theological and medical contradictions surrounding the benefits of female sexual pleasure, male impotence, and sexual identity.

For this project, she will explore the the medieval medical and theological ideologies regarding bodies with differing genitalia, individual, institutional, and scientific strategies in relation to the (re)assignment of gender and the assigned behaviour of those whose place in the male/female spectrum was fluid.

Anna M. Peterson is an independent researcher. In 2017, she was awarded her PhD in medieval history from the University of St Andrews. Her thesis, 'A Comparative Study of the Hospitals and Leprosaria in Narbonne, France and Siena, Italy (1080-1348),' analysed the development of assistive institutions in these cities, focusing on their relationship with religious and secular bodies as well as responses to corruption. She was awarded a Mellon Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto) from 2018-2019. She is also the co-founder of 'Leprosy and the 'Leper' Reconsidered.'

Dr. Peterson's research focuses on corruption and accountability in hospitals and leprosaria, especially in southwestern Europe, and the healthscaping policies of religious and secular authorities. Additionally, she also studies on the social and cultural perceptions of leprosy and its sufferers in the Middle Ages.

Mercedes Martínez González earned a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Cantabria (Spain). She specialised in family medicine at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla in Santander, Spain. Dr. Martínez tutored young doctors in rural areas in the field of family medicine, in an effort to uplift medical care in remote parts of Spain. She is a founding member of the Grupo de Medicina Rural de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria (SEMFYC). Since 2013, she has been part of the research group, Determinantes de Salud en Atención Primaria, which focuses on chronic illnesses and cardiovascular risk in partnership with the Observatorio de Salud Pública de Cantabria (OSPC).

Her research centres predominately on rural populations, exploring their cardiovascular risks, with an emphasis on diabetes, public health concerns regarding dietary regimes, and teaching doctors. She is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Cantabria, where her thesis, El pelo en la tradición médica latina medieval, uses her clinical training to explore the role of hair in medieval medicine.