Peter Bakker works as associate professor in linguistics at Aarhus University and is PI of the research project “Digital Demography, Creole Creation, Light on Letters”. He is a specialist in contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages, and the world’s linguistic diversity.

Mikael Parkvall has been active in general linguistics, but with a particular fondness for pidgins and creoles all over the world. Other linguistic interests include typology and historical linguistics. He is based in Stockholm.

Aymeric Daval-Markussen is a postdoc at Aarhus University. His main research interests lie in the realm of linguistic typology, historical linguistics and language contact studies, with a particular focus on high-contact varieties such as creoles. He has specialized in the application of phylogenetic tools and quantitative analysis of linguistic data and has published extensively on the subject.

Joost Robbe is a researcher in linguistics at Aarhus University and a member of the project “Digital Demography, Creole Creation, Light on Letters”. Trained as a philologist, his expertise lies in the historical development of the Dutch language, its literature, and cultural context. Robbe has published extensively in the fields of linguistic reconstruction, graphemics, and language contact. Within the project, his research centers on the emergence of written Creole and its phonological structure.

Elena Miu is a postdoc at Aarhus University. She is an evolutionary biologist and anthropologist interested in cultural adaptation, cultural change, and innovation across domains like technology, norms, language, and music. In this project she is using agent-based modelling to understand the emergence of creole languages.

Arnault-Quentin Vermillet is currently a Research Assistant and Instructor at Aarhus University. He has a background in Cognitive Science and Computational Modelling. He specialises in modelling cognitive processes and behaviour in social and dynamic contexts. He's working on subjects as varied as the development of sleep-wake cycles in early childhood, the factors influencing the organisation of care work in new parents, the analysis of semiotic systems in paleolithic rock art, or the interplay between language learning and language evolution. In this project he is using agent-based modelling to understand the emergence of creole languages, in collaboration with Elena Miu.

Peter Stein is emeritus professor in Romance linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He has worked extensively on historical materials in Carriols and has discovered a range of documents in this language in the archives in Herrnhut, Germany.

Kristoffer Friis Bøegh is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, his current research focuses on the history of Carriols, the Dutch-based creole language once spoken in the Caribbean Virgin Islands. He has published on the diachrony and typology of Caribbean Dutch- and English-lexifier creoles and on Danish language history. He is an external collaborator on the Creole Creation project and is also affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.