Κostas Kasvikis is an Assistant Professor of Didactics in the History of Culture at the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education of Florina, University of Western Macedonia. His research, teaching and writing work concerns the teaching of history, museum pedagogy, archaeological education, research in school textbooks, public archaeology and the policies of the past. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki and was retrained at the Faculty of Thessaloniki "Dim. Glinos". He then graduated from the Department of History-Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, completed his postgraduate studies in the same department and prepared a doctoral dissertation on Archaeological Narratives and Education: Content Analysis and Illustration in Primary School Textbooks. He has worked as a researcher in Greek and European research programs and has designed and implemented educational programs in archaeological sites and museums (Prehistoric Thessaloniki Toumba, Paliambela Kolindrou, Telloglio Foundation, Museum of Water Supply of Thessaloniki). He has participated in presentations in Greek and international scientific conferences. His research and writing work focus on issues of history teaching, museum education and archaeology.

Evangelia Kiriatzi is an archaeologist (BA and PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) with training in archaeological science, and more specifically in ceramic analysis. She has held a number of long- and short-term posts in institutions mainly in Europe (UCL, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield) but also North America (University of Cincinnati) and the Middle East (UCL-Qatar). Since 2001, Evangelia has been the Director of the Fitch Laboratory, of the British School at Athens, where she has developed new methodological approaches with increased emphasis on the landscape perspective and the multiscale investigation of technological processes through time to explore mainly human mobility and technological transfer. She is also the President of the Society of Archaeological Sciences (SAS). She has coordinated more than 10 interdisciplinary projects, and produced over 70 publications, including monographs and articles in major peer-reviewed journals, having raised, both individually and in collaboration, more than 2m euros. Her research expands from Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, to Roman Italy, Punic Spain, early Medieval Britain and early Modern Aegean. Since 2010, Evangelia (together with Ruth Siddall, UCL) runs annually a very popular course on ceramic petrology that attracts postgraduates and senior researchers from institutions all over the world. She acts as reviewer regularly for a number of journals and funding bodies and has advised in setting up and equipping archaeological science laboratories in institutions in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Eleni Manakidou is a Professor of Classical Archaeology and the Head of the School of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is also the Director of the Casts Museum of the School of History and Archaeology while she is directing the university excavation of Karabournaki at Thessaloniki. Her research interests include the study of ancient Greek pottery (organization, functionality and production of ceramic workshops, trade and distribution of ceramic vessels), iconography and iconology (mythology, scenes of religious and daily life), the status and role of women in ancient Greek society through the representations of monuments (esp. vase-painting), ancient Greek religion and religious practices (cults of gods and heroes, sanctuaries and sacred places, panhellenic and local festivals, votive offerings), settlements and cemeteries of historical times in Macedonia.

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos is an Aegean Bronze Age archaeologist and Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently the Director of the interdisciplinary research program on Minoan Koumasa, Crete. He studied Classical Archaeology, History, Prehistory and Art History at the University of Athens, where he finished his diploma in 1989. In 1996 he received his doctor's degree at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, with the title Das Tholosgrab E in der Nekropole von Phourni (Archanes). Studien zu einem nördlichen Außenposten der Mesara-Bestattungskultur. Seven years later he promoted to Professor for Classical Archaeology with Untersuchungen zur mykenischen Siegelpraxis at the Philosophical Institute at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Since 2003, he is a steady member of the Archaeology of Heidelberg as a full professor of Classical Archaeology and since 2011, he has been a leading member of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (RA A; RA D). Currently he is the Director of the CMS (Corpus of the Minoan and Mycenean seals) based in the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include the social structures of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations (social hierarchy, political organization, economy and religion), landscape archaeology, sealing practices, visual language and the interconnections between the Aegean and the Near East in the second millennium BC.

Christophe Snoeck is a Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the head of the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab (BB-LAB). In his research, he combines his multi-disciplinary expertise in archaeology and isotope geochemistry to answer key archaeological questions. Following a MSc in chemical engineering (ULB, 2010), he obtained a second MSc (2011) and a PhD (2015) in archaeological science from the University of Oxford (UK) with the support of the Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach Foundation. He then came back to Belgium as a post-doctoral researcher at the VUB. In 2017 he obtained a post-doctoral fellowship from both the FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen) and the FNRS (Fond de Recherche Scientifique de la Belgique) to expand his research on the isotopic study of burnt human remains. Since January 2018, he is also the Scientific Coordinator of the CRUMBEL project - Cremation, Urns and Mobility: population dynamics in BELgium - funded by the Belgian Excellence of Science program (EoS). Bringing together researchers from three Belgium universities (VUB, ULB and UGent), this project studies the collections of Belgian cremated bone dating from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages to provide insights on funerary practices, migration and mobility patterns of past Belgian populations. On 1st February 2021, with the start of the ERC Starting Grant LUMIERE , he also started his tenure track as a Research Professor at the VUB. The LUMIERE projects aims to develop new proxies for the study of charred and calcined bone to answer questions of mobility and landscape use at the European Level. Through a wide range of national and international collaborations, and in association with the IsoArcH online and open access database, he is also developing a map of the biologically available strontium for Europe based mostly on modern plant samples.

Tim Thompson is Dean of the School of Health & Life Sciences and Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology at Teeside University. Previously he was Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) for three years in the School of Science, Engineering & Design and Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Health & Life Sciences. In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for excellence in teaching and support for learning in higher education and in 2021 his contribution was recognized through conferment as Principal Fellow. He studied for his PhD at the University of Sheffield (Faculty of Medicine) and was a Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, chapters and books and is a renowned expert on the post-mortem changes to the skeleton, and what this can tell us about life and death. The majority of his research has sought to understand what happens to bone after death, particular as a result of burning, and how we can use this understanding of these changes to interpret the context of death. More recently he has been developing and applying methods of visualising forensic and archaeological artefacts for conservation and analysis. Finally, he has a long-standing interest in the practice of forensic anthropology, the frameworks in which practitioners work, and the way it is taught.