Wan F.A. Jusoh is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity and Conservation at School of Science, Monash University Malaysia. Wan has been studying fireflies since 2006 and now a co-chair for IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group. In the steering committee of Fireflyers International Network (FIN), she serves as a representative for Australia and the Pacific islands. Her teaching and research interests are biodiversity conservation, taxonomy and systematics of fireflies in SE Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands and history of natural history collections. Prior to joining Monash University, Wan worked as Research Fellow at NUS for 5 years. 

Anthony D. Medrano is the National University of Singapore (NUS) Presidential Young Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College and a member of NUS' Department of History. He's also a Research Affiliate at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, a Research Associate at the Asia Research Institute, and PI of the MoE-funded (SSRTG) project titled "Linking the Digital Humanities to Biodiversity History in Singapore and Southeast Asia." His teaching and scholarship focus on the histories and intersections of economic life and biodiversity change in Singapore and Southeast Asia.