Aura Elena Schussler is a lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University's Department of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy. Since 2020, she has been in charge of organizing the Human Nature, Culture, Technology (NUCT) series of national conferences (in Romania) at Babes-Bolyai University's Faculty of History and Philosophy. At the same University, in 2018, she set up the student circle of transhumanism, posthumanism, and metahumanism. Among her primary research areas are the posthuman, technology, human enhancement, sexbots, eroticism, and pornography. She wrote several articles on topics related to trans-/posthumanism, religion, and sexuality published in well-known international journals. She is the author of two books, written in Romanian: Obscenul ca valoare postmodern? (Casa C?r?ii de ?tiin??, 2013) and Dintre ale corpului ?i min?ii: despre Seduc?ie, Erotism ?i Pornografie (Casa C?r?ii de ?tiin??, 2011).
Maurizio Balistreri is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy and Bioethics at the Department of Linguistic and Literary, Historical, Philosophical and Legal Studies (DISTU) of the University of Tuscia (Viterbo). He was Chair of the Turin Bioethics Lab and is Editor of the Icaro book series (Fandango). His main research interests include bioethics, applied ethics, robot ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence. He has published on different topics of bioethics, applied ethics, moral philosophy and space travelling. His latest books are Il Bambino migliore? Che cosa significa essere genitori responsabili al tempo del genome editing (Fandango, 2022), Superumani. Etica e potenziamento (Espress 2011; 2020); Sex robot. Love in the Age of Machines (Fandango 2018; Malpaso 2021; Trivent 2022), Il futuro della riproduzione umana (Fandango 2016), La clonazione umana prima di Dolly (Mimesis 2015). He is co-author of Biotecnologie e organismi modificati. Scienza, etica e diritto (Il Mulino 2020).
