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PUCP
Roberto Zariquiey holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from LaTrobe University. Currently, he is a full professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He has collaborated with and led several scientific and social projects on Amazonian languages such as Kakataibo, Iskonawa, Amahuaca, and Shipibo-Konibo.
rzariquiey@pucp.edu.peUniversität Zürich
Balthasar Bickel is a Swiss linguist, specializing in Tibeto-Burman languages and linguistic typology. Currently, he focuses on the study of linguistic diversity from a psycholinguistic perspective and works as a professor in the Department of Comparative Language Sciences at the University of Zurich.
PUCP
Academic researcher, poet, writer, audiovisual artist, and social communicator. Currently, he works as a full-time research professor in the Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Since 1998, he has been investigating the use of medicinal plants and the knowledge derived from them among different indigenous peoples of the American continent.
Chapman University
Pilar Valenzuela is a Full Professor at Chapman University. She is dedicated to the research of Amazonian languages, especially the Pano and Kawapana language families, as well as regional Spanish. Alongside indigenous organizations and collectives, she actively participates in linguistic documentation and revitalization, as well as the development of culturally relevant education.
MPI-EVA
Russell Gray is a psychologist and evolutionary biologist from New Zealand who has focused on the use of quantitative methods for studying human cultural evolution. Currently, he is the Director of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
Alonso Vásquez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His interests revolve around Amazonian languages in general, especially in the areas of interaction between phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, language contact, and linguistic typology.
alonsovasquez@ucsb.eduMariana Poblete holds a bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Education from the University of Chile and a master's degree in Linguistics from the same institution, in addition to being a graphic artist. She has worked on languages from the southern Andes, such as Millcayac and Allentiac (Huarpe) and Mapudungun, and currently focuses on the study, documentation, and promotion of languages of the Peruvian Amazon.
mariana.poblete@ug.uchile.clClever González is a member of the Shipibo-Konibo community, originally from the Santa Clara indigenous community. He is an agroforestry technician at the Swiss Institute of Pucallpa and an expert in traditional medicine. Clever is responsible for on-site care at the Chana Station from an intercultural approach, integrating his institutional training with his ancestral indigenous knowledge.
Universität Zürich
Dagmar has a background in general linguistics with an emphasis on the collection of naturalistic data in the field. Her expertise covers set-up of recording schemata, metadata collection, secure file handling, choice of appropriate transcription and annotation software, and overall establishment of a workflow in large and small teams up to the archiving process. Her experience in corpus creation goes hand-in-hand with capacity-building across local and non-local research teams across different continents. Dagmar handles the coordinations between Chana and Zürich.