Francesco Rovero (francesco.rovero@muse.it) is an ecologist and conservation scientist with a PhD in animal ecology. He is currently the Curator for Tropical Biodiversity at MUSE – Science Museum in Trento, Italy. He has conducted ecological research since the early 2000s on tropical rainforest mammals and made extensive use of camera trapping for his research, with focus on ecological modelling and applications of this tool to the long-term monitoring of species and communities. In 2005 he discovered, using camera traps, a new species of mammal, the grey-faced sengi or elephant shrew, in the remote forests of the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. He has also been involved in camera trapping studies on large mammals in the eastern Alps, the Amazon and Mongolia.
Fridolin Zimmermann (f.zimmermann@kora.ch) is a carnivore conservation scientist with a PhD on Eurasian lynx conservation and ecology. He is currently coordinator of the large carnivore monitoring in Switzerland at Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management (KORA). He made extensive use of camera trapping for his research, since 2002 focusing mainly on abundance and density estimations of Eurasian lynx in different reference areas across Switzerland. He provided his expertise in several Eurasian lynx camera trapping projects abroad, including the Bavarian forest, Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Carpathian Mountains, southwestern Asia and the Himalayas. He has also been involved in Eurasian lynx radiotelemetry projects in the Jura Mountains and northwestern Swiss Alps and live captures of animals for translocation programmes.