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Recognition of Leonardo’s Outstanding Peer Reviewers

By Nick Cronbach

We extend our gratitude and congratulations to the following for their reviews of recent papers under consideration for publication.

Agronomist (ENSA Montpellier, 1986) and sociologist (Ph.D. Paris X Nanterre, 1991) Thierry Bardini is professor in the department of communication at the university of Montréal, where he has been teaching since 1993. His research interests concern the contemporary cyberculture, from the production and uses of information and communication technologies to molecular biology. He is the author of Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution and the Genesis of Personal Computing (Stanford University Press, 2000), Junkware  (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Journey to the End of the Species (in collaboration with Dominique Lestel, Éditions Dis Voir, Paris, 2011). He now practices research-creation with the Critical gardening Collective, in a project entitled “Towards a Fourth Nature”, aiming at creating an Anthropocene Garden at the Montreal botanical garden by 2026.

Ljiljana Fruk is Associate Professor of Bionanoengineering at University of Cambridge. She studied chemistry at University of Zagreb, compled her PhD in biospectroscopy at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and spent 12 years in Dormtund and Karlsruhe learning more about nanotechnology and starting her independent research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In Karlsruhe she met Peter Weibel with whom she collaborated on various projects including the book on Molecular Aesthetics, and several exhbitions including ExoEvolution, an international art-science exhibition shown in Centre for Art and Mediatechnology in 2015. Her work is focused on developement of functional bio-nano hybrid materials for application in photocatalysis and medicine, in particular development of smart drug delivery systmes for solid tumours and senescent cells. She is the author of the textbook on Bionanotechnology published in 2021. 

More on her work and popular science activities can be found on fruk-lab.com

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Jaroslav Kapucsinski is a pianist and composer known for his work in intermedia. He completed his graduate studies at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (1987, 1991) and the University of California, San Diego (1997).
His creative work is characterized by computer-enabled integration of live musical instruments and video imagery, resulting in closely woven intermedia experiences. His creative projects have earned him grants and commissions from numerous institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Governor-General of Canada, and Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) in France. His work has received awards at festivals in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United States.
His compositions were shown at venues in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Pompidou, ZKM, Spoleto USA, EMPAC NY, Logan Center in Chicago, Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, National Art Centre in Ottawa, Tokyo Wonder Site, Creative Media Center, Hong Kong, and Benz Arena Shanghai.
Kapuściński has contributed to scholarship with websites dedicated to Japanese Gagaku music (gagaku.stanford.edu) and Noh Theater (noh.stanford.edu). He has served as Chair of the Department of Music at Stanford University where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Music Composition. 

See his website