Dr. Erin Westgate is a social psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, where she studies boredom, interest, and why some thoughts are more engaging than others. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia in 2018, and her undergraduate degree from Reed College.

Marc van Wanrooij is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biophysics, Donders Institute, Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the question of how information from our visual, auditory and vestibular senses is processed optimally by our brains.