Anuj Dawar is Professor of Logic and Algorithms at Cambridge, where he has been on the faculty since 1999. He obtained degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and the University of Delaware before studying for his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and a lecturer at Swansea University before moving to Cambridge. Much of his research has revolved around descriptive complexity and its connections to broader questions in logic and theoretical computer science.

Gregory Wilsenach, known to his friends as Greg, studied mathematics and engineering at the University of Cape Town in South Africa before moving to Cambridge in England to undertake a Master's degree in mathematics. He stayed on in Cambridge to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science under the supervision of Anuj Dawar. After completing his Ph.D. in 2019, he was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in the same department until the end of 2021. He now works at Catapult.