Roger Arditi is a distinguished professor at AgroParisTech in Paris, France. He works for INRA, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, in the research unit of Ecology and Evolution at University Pierre et Marie Curie. His theoretical and experimental work is focused to basic questions of predation dynamics and applied work addresses agroecological problems.
Lev R. Ginzburg has been a professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University since 1977. He has published widely on theoretical and applied ecology, population genetics, and risk analysis. Ginzburg is co-author, with Mark Colyvan, of the popular title Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow, published by Oxford University Press in 2004.