Johanne Korsdal Sørensen is responsible for MANTRA, as well as being the project manager for most of our collaboration projects. She is an anthropologist from Aarhus University and has a PhD in sociology from the University of Copenhagen. She has been involved in project management for public and private organisations for many years, including experience of health-IT development projects (across different sectors and in close collaboration between public and private players). Johanne also has a great deal of research experience, qualifying as an associate professor in 2017 - the same year she started MANTRA together with the department of anthropology.

Adrienne Mannov came to Moesgaard's department of anthropology at Aarhus University in January 2021 as an assisant professor and she is a part of the MANTRA-team as the department's research representative. She has an PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen where she did an industrial PhD in collaboration with Sea Health & Welfare. In her PhD she examined seafarer's views upon maritime piracy. Adrienne's research areas deals more generally with security. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel, worked with job security and automation in FN and latest been at Aalborg University where she was a part of an interdisciplinary research project with engineers, mathematicians and anthropologists about AI, data security and cryptography.