Véronique Dasen is professor of Classical archaeology al the University of Fribourg (CH),and specialised in lent cultural anthropology and archaeology. She published extensively on the history of the body, childhood and gender as well as on ancient medicine, magic, and play. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project Locus Ludi. Marco Vespa is a classical philologist and member of the ERC project Locus ludi at the University of Fribourg (CH).
His research interests include the Second Sophistic, ancient Greek comic theatre, and the anthropological study of ancient Greek scientific texts. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman zoology and cultural representation of animals.