Professor Tristan Barczak, LL.M., studied law at the University of Münster, earning his doctoral title (Dr. iur.) in 2011 at the Institute of Public Law and Politics located on the university's premises. After completing a master’s degree in medical and health law (LL.M.) and the mandatory practical clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, he was employed as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) from 2014 to 2017. Since 2020, he holds the Chair of Public Law, Security Law and Law of New Technologies at the University of Passau.

Professor Bernhard Bleyer has been with the Chair of Theological Ethics at the University of Passau since 2021. He heads the master's programme in Charity Studies and Values-Based Management as well as the Institute for Applied Ethics in Business and Education. After obtaining his doctorate in moral theology at the University of Regensburg in 2007 he went on to helm the Institute for Sustainability and Ethics at East Bavarian Technical University Amberg-Weiden. He then transferred to the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, joining the Professorship of Applied Ethics and Sustainable Development in Health Science. In 2019, he completed his habilitation at the Catholic Private University Linz.

Professor Suleika Bort has been holder of the Chair of International Management and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau since 2020. In addition, she is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Applied Ethics of the University of Passau and has been Vice Dean of the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems at the University of Passau since autumn 2023. Previously, Professor Bort was employed at the University of Mannheim, Chemnitz University of Technology, and the University of Sydney in Australia.

Professor Hans-Georg Dederer studied law at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Konstanz. He completed his doctorate, being conferred the title of  Doctor iuris, at the University of Bonn in 1997. In 2003, he completed his habilitation at the same university. Professor Dederer has held the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law, European and International Economic Law at the University of Passau since 2009. Furthermore, he has been acting as a member of the Permanent Senate Commission on Genetic Research of the DFG since 2018 and serving as a member of the Standing Committee "Life Sciences" of the Leopoldina since 2023.

Professor Andreas Eberth has held the Professorship for Geography with a focus on Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Passau since March 2023. After working as a research assistant at the Institute of Science Education at Leibniz University Hannover, he served as Interim Professor of Geography Education at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In his capacity as chairperson of the Academic Association for Geography Education (HGD – Hochschulverband für Geographiedidaktik) he is committed to representing the interests of geography education across Germany.

Professor Christina Hansen holds the Chair of Education (Primary) with a focus on diversity at the University of Passau. Since August 2020, she has been the Vice-President for International Affairs, Europe and Diversity.

Professor Annette Hautli-Janisz has been Assistant Professor of Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing at the University of Passau since 2022. She is also an Associate Member of the Centre for Argument Technology at the University of Dundee and heads the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Linguistic Data Analysis. Before that, she had worked as a junior research group leader at the University of Konstanz. Her research is funded by the German Research Foundation (the excellence cluster "Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz) and the Volkswagen Foundation (funding line "AI and the Future of Society").

Professor Bettina Noltenius is holder of the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Proceedings Law, Criminology and Philosophy of Law at the University of Passau. The emphasis in her research is on German and European (criminal) law, philosophy of law and German criminal law in modern times.

Professor Karoline Reinhardt is Junior Professor for Applied Ethics at the University of Passau. Before taking on her position at the University of Passau, she was a PostDoctoral fellow at the Ethics & Philosophy Lab of the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” and the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen. Previous to that, she held research and teaching positions at universities in Ankara, Graz, New Orleans, and Munich. She is a member of the Young Academy of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Sailer ist seit 2019 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Erziehungswissenschaft an der Universität Passau. Er promovierte an der Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt und habilitierte im Jahr 2009 zum Thema „Anforderungsprofile und akademischer Arbeitsmarkt – die Stellenanzeigenanalyse als Methode der Bildungs- und Qualifikationsforschung.“. Während seiner Tätigkeit als akademischer Rat am Lehrstuhl für Pädagogik Schwerpunkt Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung der Universität Augsburg übernahm er mehrere Professurvertretungen an der LMU München und der Universität Passau.