Juan Castillo graduated from Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (1997) and received his M.S. in Public Management at the University of Potsdam (2000) and his Ph.D. in Sociology at Humboldt University (2010). He has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chile since 2019, a principal investigator at the Center for Conflict and Social Cohesion Studies (COES) since 2013, and a principal investigator at the Millennium Nucleus of Inequalities and Digital Opportunities (NUDOS). Before that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2014–2018) and coordinator of the research area of the MIDE UC Measurement Center (2010–2013). His research interests include distributive justice, citizenship education, social cohesion, and open science.
Mauricio Salgado is a researcher at Centro de Estudios Públicos and an assistant professor of sociology at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile). He was also a researcher at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He is now leading a research project on social mobility's impact on individuals' well-being, deservingness, and redistributive preferences. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Sociology from the University of Surrey and completed his Postdoc at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
