Audrone Telesiene is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. She is member of the national team implementing the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in Lithuania. Her research interests include environmental sociology, sociology of science and technology, risk communication, social change and social analytics.

Matthias Gross is Professor of Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, in Leipzig, and the University of Jena, Germany. His recent research focuses on public perceptions of renewable energy, ignorance and security, real-world experiments, and the changing role of civil society in environmental policy.