Prof. Anagnostis Agelarakis is Professor of Physical anthropology and Director of Environmental Studies at Adelphi University, USA. His research and teaching interest are in physical anthropology, anthropological archaeology, and environmental studies. His main palaeo/archaeo-anthropological work focuses on the Aegean Archipelago but also on Asia, Middle East and America. He is a Member of several Editorial Boards, and Fellow/Member of scientific societies. More than 120 papers published include Abstracts, Archival documents, Chapters, Monographed volumes and documentary film.(agelarak[at]adelphi.edu).
http://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0032

Dr. Ann Brysbaert (anb11[at]le.ac.uk) is lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, U.K. She teaches conservation and archaeology and archaeometry in museum contexts. Her main research area is the prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean and, more recently also Archaic Greece. Her specific interests are concerned with material culture, material science, archaeometry, cross-craft interaction issues, ancient technologies and social agency, relationships models, and the use of (non-destructive) analysis of archaeological remains during which she frequently employs XRD, SEM-EDAX, LIBS, Micro-Raman spectroscopy, and a wide range of microscopy techniques. Her upcoming monograph - The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster – will be published in the Series of Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology in 2008.

For more information, please click http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/contactus/annbrysbaert.html

Dr. Yiannis Papadatos (ypapadatos[at]yahoo.gr) is Lecturer of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology. His focal area of research is the Early Bronze Age Aegean, with specific interests in funerary archaeology, ceramic typology, interregional interaction and exchange.

Prof. Marco Martini (m.martini[at]unimib.it) is full professor of Applied Physics and Director of the University Centre for Dating Techniques, University of Milano-Bicocca.
His scientific activity (more than 150 papers in international journals) mainly deals with development and applications of techniques for Luminescence Dating, optical and electrical properties of defects in crystals and in amorphous materials.
Responsible for international projects with France, Czech Republic, Vietnam.
He is Managing Editor of the journal “Archaeometry” and Topical Editor of the journal “Nuovo Cimento C”. Director of a Course on Physical Metodologies in Archaeometry of the Italian Physics Society (SIF) at the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi.

Metaxia Papageorgiou is currently involved in  PhD research at the University of Athens in collaboration with N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” and with the Laboratory of Archaeometry at the University of Peloponnese. She received her BA in Archaeology and History of Art from University of Athens and her MA in Archaeology and MSc in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials from University College London. She specializes in the integration of scientific, archaeological and documentary approaches to Roman vitreous materials.
(metaxia_papageorgiou[at]yahoo.gr)

Theologos Tsigaros holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Crete and a Master's degree in System Analysis and Design from City University, UK. He is working as system administrator at University of the Aegean.