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Professor Stanislav Sousedík (born 1931) is a Czech philosopher, historian of philosophy and Catholic intellectual who after the 1989 collapse of the communist regime in fromer Czechoslovakia was finally allowed to launch his official academic and teaching career. He played a key role in resurrecting Christian philosophy and history of scholastic philosophy in Czechoslovakia (and later Czech Republic) and pioneered both the study of the so-called Second Scholasticism (i.e., scholasticism flourishing in the Renaissance and Baroque eras) and the idea of Analytical Scholasticism (a synthesis of scholasticism and contemporary analytical philosophy). Although himself a convinced Thomist, he made significant contributions to the study of the thought of John Duns Scotus and later Scotism and wrote an important monograph on the post-medieval scholastic philosophy in the Bohemian (and Central-European) area, Philosophie der frühen Neuzeit in den böhmischen Ländern, pointing out the importance of such figures as Rodrigo de Arriaga or Juan Caramuel y Lobkowicz. He cultivated a generation of pupils who continue various aspects of his work.

In 2004, to foster his lifelong efforts, Sousedík founded the journal Studia Neoaristotelica with the help of his pupils and became its first Editor-in-Chief.

The present Editor-In-Chief of Studia Neoaristotelica is Daniel D. Novotný. As such, he interracts with the authors, oversights the peer-review process, and has the final word on the contents of each issue.

Novotný studied philosophy and Latin at Charles University in Prague and continued his education at the International Academy for Philosophy in Liechtenstein and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University at Buffalo under Jorge J. E. Gracia, Barry Smith, and John T. Kearns. Now he is assistant professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, where he teaches, among others courses, logic and epistemology.

His research focuses on applied philosophy, particularly from a neo-Aristotelian perspective, integrating intercultural and phenomenological approaches, and he has published on the metaphysics of Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suárez and other Secons Scholasticims authors. His current work addresses ethical issues related to AI, autonomous vehicles, eHealth, and the COVID-19 pandemic. He co-founded the Sníh Initiative and serves on national and university ethics committees.

Lukáš Novák serves as a sort of executive editor since the beginning of the journal. His responisibility is everything that happens between receiving the accepted and language-edited manuscripts for an issue and the final, camera-ready PDF: that means final check and editing of the manuscripts, typesetting, and often several rounds of finalizing the proofs in interaction with the authors. In most cases this also involves producing a Latin version of the abstracts. He is also author of the graphic design of the journal.

Lukáš Novák teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, and at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He is interested in metaphysics, epistemology, and medieval and early modern scholasticism, especially Duns Scotus and early modern Scotism.

The Editorial Board is the governing body of the journal. From among its members it elects its president, who also serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the journal.