Jacek Rodzeń received his doctoral degree (doctor of philosophy, specialty philosophy of science) from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow and his post-doctoral degree (specialty history of science) from the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He works as an associate professor at the Department of History of the Nineteenth Century (Faculty of Humanities, Institute of History) in the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland. His research focuses on the history of the relationship between science, technology and Christian religion.
Paweł Polak is professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland (Chair of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology). He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków and an M.Sc. Eng. in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology. His interests in philosophy include the relations between science and religion, the history of Polish philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science and technology. He has published on a theology of science from a methodological perspective and on interactions between science, philosophy, and theology regarding evolutionary theory, relativity theory, and entropic concepts. He also published a book on the reception of Einstein's theory of relativity in Poland: 'Byłem Pana przeciwnikiem [profesorze Einstein]...' Krakow 2012 [in Polish]. He is president of the Commission for Philosophy of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and editor-in-chief of the philosophical journal “Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce)”, founded by Michael Heller. He is a member of international societies, including the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), and the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Winner of the Jan Jędrzejewicz Prize for the History of Science (1st edition).