Paul J. D’Ambrosio is the founding director of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. He serves as Dean of the Center for Intercultural Research, Fellow of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought, co-dean of the International Graduate Program, and Professor of Chinese Philosophy at East China Normal University. He specializes in Daoism and Wei-Jin Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism).

Luyao Li 李璐瑶 serves as director of Chinese communications for the 四海为学 "collaborative Learning" project. She is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Peking University. Her research interests include Pre-Qin Daoism, Pre-Qin Confucianism, and comparative studies between Western Philosophy and Eastern Philosophy.

Daniel Sarafinas serves as co-director of the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning project’s “Works in Progress” series. He is an associate researcher at East China Normal University, where he also serves as program coordinator of the International Graduate Program as well as Fellow of the Center for Intercultural Research.

Dimitra Amarantidou serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is currently Senior Instructor of Philosophy at the University of Macau. She is program coordinator of the International Graduate Program at East China Normal University (ECNU) and Fellow of the Center for Intercultural Research (also at ECNU). She mainly works on early Confucianism.

Karolina-Dzhoanna Gomes serves as a fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University. Her research interests include ethical-aesthetic discourse around art, the affective public sphere and cultural conflicts in the age of algorithm-driven social media.

Xiao Ouyang (欧阳霄) serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University. He mainly works on comparative philosophy and is interested in various topics in aesthetics, ethics, political and social philosophy. He also devotes himself to Chinese classical arts such as poetry, calligraphy, painting and literati music.

Cui Xiaojio serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She works as an assistant professor at the school of philosophy, Beijing Normal University. Her research focuses on Pre-Qin Chinese philosophy, with her main interest in various aspects of the comparison between Daoism and Legalism and the development of Daoism.

Shuran Zhu(朱舒然) serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is an Associate Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Her main interests include translation of Chinese classics, Daoist philosophy and Zhuangzi philosophy in particular. She is current working on a project investigating the reception of translations of Daoist classics.

Rory O’Neill serves as Communications Director of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. He is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Fudan University, where he focuses on Legalist thought in the Warring States. He is also an animator on the “Philosophy in Motion” YouTube series.

Lee Ting-mien 李庭綿 serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau. Her main research interest is Chinese philosophy, with a specific focus on the interaction of language, power-struggle strategies, and moral theories.

Téa Sernelj serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is Assistant professor at the Department for Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and currently occupies the position of the chair of Sinology. She mainly works in the field of Chinese aesthetics and Modern New Confucian philosophy.

Yumi Suzuki serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is a post-doctoral fellow at University of Bern, Institute of Philosophy, and has been an honorary post-doctoral researcher at East China Normal University since 2019. She specializes in early Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and is working on a project called: “Greek Antiquity: Sino-Hellenic Environmental Philosophy”

Jifen Li serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is a associate professor of philosophy at Renmin University. Her research interests include Neo-Confucianism, Chinese classical philosophy, and comparative studies between Western Philosophy and Eastern Philosophy.

Christine Tan serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Her main research areas are Chinese and Comparative Philosophy in general, and Daoist and Xuanxue philosophy in particular. She is especially interested in social epistemological themes from classical and medieval Chinese texts.

Ady Van den Stock serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. He is currently a researcher at Ghent University. His research is focused on modern Chinese philosophy, religion, and intellectual history, specifically twentieth-century and contemporary Confucianism, Sino-Islamic traditions of thought, and "ethnic minority philosophy".

Jing Hu serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is assistant professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. Her main interests are in understanding the role emotions (qing) play in moral deliberation, moral perception, and moral motivation in Chinese philosophy and moral psychology.

Jingjing Li serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She is lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University. Her main interests include theories of mind and consciousness preserved in East Asian and Continental philosophical traditions, with particular foci on Chinese Wei Shi (or "consciousness-only) philosophy and Edmund Husserl's phenomenology.

Yuan Ai 袁艾 serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. She was appointed as an assistant professor at Tsinghua University in the department of philosophy, school of humanities in 2019. Her main research interests include early Chinese intellectual history, Daoist philosophy, and comparative ethics.

Robert Carleo serves as fellow of the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project. He is program coordinator of the International Graduate Program at East China Normal University and Fellow of the Center for Intercultural Research (also at ECNU). He is currently also Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College.