Florin Nicolae Ardelean, post-doctoral researcher at the Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies at Babe ? -Bolyai University at Cluj-Napoca ; main research fields : late medieval and early modern social and military history. Christopher Nicholson, PhD candidate at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies ; main research fields : late medieval and early modern Central Europe, especially Bohemia ; comparative legal and institutional history.
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, researcher at the Austrian Academy, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research at Vienna ; main research fields : history of Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean, diplomacy and diplomatics, historical network analysis and complexity studies.