Jutta Dresken-Weiland obtained her PhD in 1990 in Bonn. From 1990 to 1996, she worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and received the Institute’s travel scholarship in 1991/1992. She completed her habilitation in Göttingen in 2002 and, since 2009, has served as an adjunct professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the same university. Since 2002, she has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Antiquité tardive (Paris). In 2022, she was appointed Honorary Fellow at the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon. Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity. Her many publications focus on early Christian art in its various forms, with special attention to iconography and epigraphy.

Manuela Studer-Karlen is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) professor at the University of Bern. Her research has been supported, among others, by fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.), the SNSF, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. Her first book, published in 2012, focused on depictions of the deceased on early Christian sarcophagi. For her habilitation thesis on Christus Anapeson, published in 2022, she received the Franz Joseph II Liechtenstein Prize (University of Fribourg) in 2017. Her main research areas include the history of visual-cultural processes in Late Antiquity, the interaction between text, image and space in Byzantine churches, and medieval Georgian art. On 1 October 2025, she will take up the post of Professor of Byzantine Art at the University of Vienna.

Vasiliki Tsamakda is Professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her PhD in 2001 at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the illustrated Chronicle of John Skylitzes from the 12th century, held in Madrid. Her habilitation, published in 2012 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, focused on two Cretan painting workshops of the 14th century. Her research interests include, in addition to Byzantine manuscript illumination and monumental art, catacomb painting and Byzantine epigraphy. Vasiliki Tsamakda is a member of several international academic committees, and her research has been funded by institutions such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Leibniz Association.