Dr. Margaret Boone Rappaport has increasingly specialized in the field of space neuroscience, with major publications as lead author in Acta Astronautica ("Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Human Enhancements in Space') and in a special collection in the journal NeuroSci, on "Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space"). She is a cultural anthropologist and biologist by training, who has owned two of her own companies, The Human Sentience Project, LLC (2013-present) and Policy Research Methods, Incorporated (1987-2006), where she provided contract research services to Federal government agencies, institutions of higher education, and associations, in the Washington, DC area. She testified before Congress twice, and recently provided expert recommendations on Cislunar Space programming and policy to the executive branch. She received the doctorate in 1977 from the Ohio State University, and went on to lecture at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, remaining in academia for a total of 15 years. She is the author of 6 books, three under "Boone" and 3 under "Rappaport".
Konrad Szocik received his PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów and visiting fellow at the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center at Yale University. His research areas include cognitive and evolutionary study of religion, evolution of cooperation, and the idea of the manned mission to Mars and Mars colonization. Dr. Konrad Szocik has taken his background in Philosophy to use it in the applied field of space studies. Not only is he Editor of a book on Mars, and a book on Human Enhancements, both published by Springer, he has also maintained an active publication record in respected journals, such as Space Policy, Futures, and Acta Astronautica. He also serves as editor of the “Studia Humana” journal.