Advisory board

Anders Warell (PhD) holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering and Industrial Design. As Professor of Industrial Design, his research and teaching focuses on user perception and experience, sustainable design innovation and circular systems design. His UAP related work centres around questions of research methodology for UAP studies, human experience of UAP interaction, and UAP characteristics and behaviour. He has been active in UAP research as a field investigator since 1997 and is member of ECRI, the European Crash Retrieval Initiative, and Citizens for Disclosure Sweden.

Article by Anders Warell in Curie:
“Dags för akademin att fylla kunskapsluckan om ufon.”
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English version in SCU Review, Vol. 6.3.

Thore Bjørnvig (MA) is a historian of religion based in Copenhagen. His research interests focus on connections between technology, religion, and outer space. He has coined the term “outer space religion” and runs the homepage astroreligion.dk. From 2012 to 2016 he was associated member of the Emmy Noether research group “The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life” at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Currently Bjørnvig participates in academic conferences, does consultancy work, gives lectures, and appears in radio podcasts such as DR’s Flyvende tallerken.

Jacob Livingston Slosser (PhD) is an accomplished researcher, writer, and educator with a focus on law, cognition, and artificial intelligence. He is the founder and research director at the Sapien Institute. He has held appointments at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law and is affiliated with the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, the AI4People Institute, and the University of Milan’s Information Society Law Center, among others. His work examines how cognitive processes influence governance, transparency, and public perception of emerging technologies. He has advised the European Commission and Parliament on AI legislation, led interdisciplinary workshops in law and cognitive science, and published widely on algorithmic decision-making. On DNUS’s advisory board, he applies his expertise in regulatory design and human–technology interaction to advance rigorous, cross-disciplinary study of UAP.

Aaron French (PhD) earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, specializing in the Study of Religion and Science and Technology Studies (STS). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for several years in the Philosophische Fakultät at the University of Erfurt, Germany, collaborating with the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. His monograph Max Weber, Rudolf Steiner, and Modern Western Esotericism: A Transcultural Approach was published by Routledge in 2025. He now works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Study of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

His expertise in the academic study of esotericism, STS, and conspiracism led Dr. French to focus on the UAP/UFO issue, producing several co-organized conference panels on the topic, including in Vilnius at the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) and in Toronto at the Annual Meeting of the American and Canadian Anthropological Associations. He has given a number of international conference presentations, including in Amsterdam at the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). A recording of his presentation “UFOs and Modern Esotericism” from the conference A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art in Copenhagen is available on YouTube.

Currently Dr. French is editing a volume with Bloomsbury Publishing entitled Religion and the UFO Phenomenon: Methodological Challenges (forthcoming, 2026). His article “Ourselves From the Future?” exploring connections between esotericism and Ufology in the work of American astronomer J. Allen Hynek, is available online. He has been interviewed for several podcasts, including “UFOs, UAPs, and Esotericism” and Rejected Religion.

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Yoav Tirosh (PhD) is an MSCA (Marie Curie) fellow in the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy at Aarhus University. His doctoral thesis was focused on the philological debate surrounding a particular medieval Icelandic saga, but in general he has written on disability, gender, sexuality, genre, collective memory and, curiously, milk. His current project is concerned with issues of trauma in late medieval literature and history. He also makes what he defines as “the funniest comics in the world”, which can be found in most SoMe platforms under the handle @RealMundiRiki. His recent book is: How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas published by Palgrave-Macmillan’s The New Middle Ages series.

Link to most of Yoav’s academic work in final or proofreading form.

You can find his webcomic here:
Bluesky – Instagram – Threads – Facebook – Socel