Susanne Hochreiter is a co-applicant and team member of the project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics. She studied German Studies and Philosophy, Psychology, and Pedagogy at the University of Vienna and at the FU Berlin. In 2003 she was awarded her PhD for a thesis on gender and space in Franz Kafka’s novel fragments. From 2003 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2012, she attended extra-occupational training in theater pedagogy.

Katharina Serles was a co-applicant and team member of the project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics. She studied German Philology, American Studies, and Art History at the University of Vienna. From 2009 to 2015, she was a research assistant for the FWF-funded projects Kunst im Text and Das Bildzitat: Intermedialität und Tradition and a university assistant at the Department of German Studies, University of Vienna.

Michael Litschauer has many years of experience in software engineering, developing digital products, and being an agile coach. He knows how to prepare and implement product ideas pragmatically and proficiently. His focus is on organizations' digital and agile transformation to ensure their future-proof and sustainable success. He currently supports companies’ agile transformations in German-speaking countries as an agile coach at SQUER.

Anna Haidegger has been working as a graphic designer in Vienna since 2010. She completed her studies in Video and Video Installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2016 and attended a short course in web development at the Technikum Wien in 2022.

Marlene van der Werf has been studying German Philology at the University of Vienna since October 2022 with a particular interest in Gender Studies and modern German literature, especially feminist literature and comics. Currently, she was working as a student assistant on the project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics.