Dr Bauer is a lecturer at Maynooth University in Ireland. He specialises in Celtic studies, particularly cultural and linguistic contact between Great Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages. He is currently a member of the Chronologicon Hibernicum project, which aims to use statistical methods to improve the methods of dating early medieval Irish literary texts.

Dr Dekker is a Senior Lecturer in Old English at the University of Groningen. He is an expert in Old English encyclopaedic knowledge (including its dissemination through manuscripts, notes and glosses) and in treatments of Old English and Old Germanic texts during the early modern period.

Dr Griffin lectures on medieval and early-modern English at the University of Limerick (Ireland) where she is a member of the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies. Her research covers late medieval and early modern print and manuscript cultures, as well as instructional and scientific cultures, women’s writing and medievalisms. Her monograph, Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650: Materiality and Meaning, was published by Routledge in 2019. She is currently co-editing a collection of medieval recipes with Dr Hannah Ryley and is compiling a volume of the Index of Middle English Prose for the Wellcome Library.

Dr Conti (PhD, Central European University, 2011) is a lecturer in history at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. His research focuses on the history of magic and witchcraft from the classical to the early-modern period. Prof. Conti is currently co-editing the volume ‘There is No One Who Does Not Fear To Be Spellbound’: Magic in the Roman World (8th c. BCE – 5 th c. CE), and he has published the edited volume Civilizations of the Supernatural: Ritual, Witchcraft, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions, (Trivent, 2020), as well as the monograph Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan (Brepols, 2015).

Dr Jarray is a lecturer at the University of Tunis, a member of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Architecture of the Maghreb and President of the Tunisian Association for Shared Heritage. He is an Expert at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). His research interests include the history of science and the history of astronomy, and he has published many studies and books regarding sundials and Islamic Epigraphy. In 2015 he published his first book, The Measurement of Time in Tunisia Through History.

Dr Bisagni researches and lectures in historical linguistics at the National University of Ireland in Galway. His work focuses on the transmission and reception of early medieval Irish literature in both Old Irish and Latin, with a special emphasis on the treatment of the Classical tradition in medieval Irish sources and the exchange of computistical and exegetical works between Ireland and the Carolingian Empire.

Mark E. Bailey MBE MRIA, Emeritus Director of Armagh Observatory, served as Director of Armagh Observatory from 1995 to 2016.  His research interests range from small bodies of the solar system (comets, asteroids, interplanetary dust) to extragalactic astronomy and aspects of local history and the history of astronomy.  Bailey oversaw expansion of the Observatory through the appointment of additional research staff, inclusionof the Observatory in new international projects, and the installation of anew telescope (the Armagh Robotic Telescope) and the creation of the Human Orrery.  Minor planet (4050) was named Mebailey for his work on the originof comets. Latterly, his main areas of interest have been the history and philosophy of astronomy, meteorology and climate change, and the improvement of public understanding of science. Along with Victor Clube and Bill Napier, he is co-author of The Origin of Comets (1990).

Dr Polloni is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven and was previously a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Oct-Dec 2019). His research interests are premodern philosophy, especially the ontological constitution of non-living substances, as it was discussed by the natural philosophers of the medieval period.

Prof. Liuzza is Associate Head Professor of English at the University of Tennessee (USA) specialising in Old English language and literature. He has a special interest in textual criticism and in Anglo-Saxon science and medicine. His current work is on the Anglo-Saxon sense of time in scientific, historical, and literary works. He is a former editor of the Old English Newsletter and of the Dictionary of Old English, published by the University of Toronto.

Tom McLeish is is inaugural Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at the University of York and is also affiliated to the University’s Centre for Medieval Studies and Humanities Research Centre. He is a theoretical physicist of soft and biological matter, academic interdisciplinary leader, and writer. His interdisciplinary academic interests include the framing of science, theology, society and history, and the theory of creativity in art and science, leading to the recent books Faith and Wisdom in Science, The Poetry and Music of Science and Soft-Matter (part of OUP's Very Short Introduction series). He co-leads the interdisciplinary Ordered Universe project on the medieval science of Robert Grosseteste. He currently sits on the Council of the Royal Society.

Prof. Langermann is Professor Emeritus in Arabic Studies at Bar Ilan University. His main interests are on Medieval Science and Philosophy (Jewish and Islamic), Jewish Manuscript Studies, Hebrew and Arabic medicine and the study of scientific manuscripts.

Dr Griffin works on late medieval visual culture, particularly that related to time, technology, and diagrams. After studying her BA at the University of Cambridge and MA at the Courtauld Institute, Sarah wrote a DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford on the diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296­–c. 1352). She has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Collaboration with museums is essential to her research; she has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Winchester College, and with multiple collections as a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Sarah is currently a Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow at The Warburg Institute.

Dr Shazia Jagot is Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature at the University of York. She is currently writing her first monograph on Chaucer's use of Arabic Learning and Medieval Science.

Nedim Rabić is a historian specialized on medieval Bosnian history and the political, cultural and religious interconnections between medieval southeastern and western Europe. He works as an Assistant Research Professor at the Institute for History at the University of Sarajevo and lectures South-East European medieval history and Paleography at University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Recently, he co-edited a book titled “Bosnia and its neighbors in the Middle Ages: Approaches and Perspectives” (Institute for History – University of Sarajevo: 2020).

Dr Teresi is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Palermo, Italy. Her work centers on Early Medieval English language, literature and culture, digital philology, and medieval mappaemundi and scientific diagrams.

Giles Gasper is Professor of High-Medieval History at Durham University (UK) where he is also a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. A specialist in the history of science and medieval thought, he is the director of the interdisciplinary Ordered Universe project. His work is often interdisciplinary in nature and he has worked with both scientists and artists, as well as other academics in the humanities.

Dr Fleming is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Linguistics at Purdue University, Fort Wayne (USA), where he lectures in both Classics and medieval English. His current work is on the reception of Hebrew in early-medieval England.

Prof. Ó Cróinín is retired from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he lectured until 2019. He is a historian of Early Medieval Ireland and is the author of the standard textbook on the subject (Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 [London 1995; rev. ed. 2017]). His research focuses on early medieval Hiberno-Latin texts and is perhaps best known for the 1985 rediscovery of a supposedly lost Irish Easter table (Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS. I. 27). In 2017 he was awarded the Parnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at Cambridge University. He is the author of a number of studies about computus, early Irish manuscripts, and medieval Irish political history.

Corinne Saunders is Professor of English at Durham University (UK) and Fellow of University College. Prof. Saunders specialises in medieval romances, medieval medicine and the history of ideas. Her current research is on mind, body and affect in medieval literature and thought. She is a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome-Trust-funded project Hearing the Voice and Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust project Life of Breath. She is Co-Director of the Durham University's Centre for Medical Humanities.

Dr Lee is Associate Professor in Viking Studies at the School of English, University of Nottingham (UK). Although she specialises in Anglo-Saxon attitudes to health and illness, her research interests also include Anglo-Saxon funerary rituals and establishing the potential efficacy of early medieval medical remedies. In addition to Crossing Frontiers, she is a member of the medieval medicine cross-disciplinary working group AncientBiotics, she is on the editorial board of the series Knowledge, Scholarship and Science in the Middle Ages, published by Brepols, and is one of the general editors of the AUP series on medieval disabilities.

Concetta Giliberto is an Associate Professor in Philology and Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy. Her research focuses on Germanic languages and literature, runic language, Old English lapidaries as well as Old Frisian and Old English Doomsday texts.

Piero Sicoli has been one of the founders in 1987 of the Sormano Astronomical Observatory (Italy) where he discovered about fifty new asteroids and recorded thousands of astrometric observations, in particular of Near Earth Objects. In 2001, year of the bicentennial of the discovery of (1) Ceres, the first minor planet, he was among the authors of the book "L'astronomo Valtellinese Giuseppe Piazzi e la scoperta di Ceres" then the following year, again as co-author, he wrote "Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Ceres" published in ASTEROIDS III for the University of Arizona Press. In 1999 the asteroid (7866) Sicoli, discovered at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, was named after him.

Dr Ludlow is Assistant Professor of Medieval Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. His research is focussed on climate history – in reconstructing and modelling past weather events and climatic changes using both written sources and experimental evidence.

Dr Jones is a (mostly) independent medical historian and (sometimes) sessional instructor at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (Canada). Her expertise lies in medieval and early modern plague writing and imagery. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750 (McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2022), editor of Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor (with Nühket Varlık) of Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (York Medieval Press, 2022). Her current research examines early modern medical manuscripts containing revised and updated medieval treatises.

Dr Nothaft is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and £50-fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Most of his research revolves around the history of astronomy, chronology, and time-reckoning in medieval Europe, with a focus on unpublished sources in medieval Latin manuscripts.

Richard Raiswell is Associate Professor in History at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada), Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at Victoria University and a member of the Executive of Scientiae. His research investigates the cultural dialogues underlying specific constructions of demonism and geography in the late medieval and early modern periods, focussing on the resilience of particular discursive frames in the light of the broader developments in natural philosophy in this period.

Dr Kupreeva is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her primary area of expertise is in ancient Greek philosophy (particularly Platonism, Aristotelianism and Stoicism) and its transmission in medieval Byzantine and Arabic sources. Prior to becoming a member of the University of Edinburgh Dr Kupreeva held research fellowships at King’s College London and St. Hilda’s College Oxford; she also published a Russian translation of the works of Anselm of Canterbury.

Dr Falk is a Research Fellow in History of Science at Girton College. He specialises in the history of astronomy, navigation and mathematics - theories and technologies - from their ancient origins to modern developments. His research focuses on the instruments and methods of astronomy used by monks and the relationship between science and religion in the Middle Ages. His research is also centred on late medieval mathematical sciences. The main areas of interest are the relationship between astronomical theory and practice, techniques of calculation and instrument-making, the relationship between religion and science (especially in monasteries), and the depiction of sciences in Latin and vernacular literature. He is a BBC New Generation Thinker and has made radio programmes and short films on medieval science and literature for the BBC. He is the author of a book about medieval science, The Light Ages.

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Christopher Cullen is Director of the Needham Research Institute (a centre for the study of East Asian medicine, science and technology), a Fellow of Darwin College and an Honorary Professor of the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Cambridge. He has published a number of monographs on ancient Chinese science including Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: the Zhou bi suan jing (1996). He is also the General Editor of the Science and Civilisation in China series (Cambridge University Press).

Elizabeth Burrell is a PhD candidate in Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on the intersection of spiritual healing and Galenic humoral theory in late-medieval Europe. She investigates how domestic healers combined contemporary scientific knowledge with Christian devotion in their prophylactic and curative use of verbal charms. Elizabeth also works as a teaching associate in the Medieval History and Religious Studies programs at Monash and is a research assistant through the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 

Andreas Lammer is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His primary research interests are in Greek, Arabic, and Latin natural philosophy in both the Aristotelian and the Avicennian tradition, and more broadly in the transmission of philosophical and scientific literature from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin. Before his appointment in Nijmegen, he worked as a research associate at the LMU and the Thomas Institute of the University of Cologne, and was Junior Professor of Arabic Philosophy, Culture, and History at Trier University. He published various papers on the notions of time, creation, and nature in Ancient, Late Ancient, and Islamic philosophy, and is the author of The Elements of Avicenna’s Physics: Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations (De Gruyter 2018).

Dr Porck is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society where he teaches Old English, Middle English, Tolkien and Medieval Studies. He is a cultural historian of early medieval England, with a background in medieval history as well as English language and literature. The common strand in his research is gaining an understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture and of how modern generations have interacted with this early medieval heritage, in both scholarship and popular culture. He has published on Beowulf, Old English textual criticism, Tolkien studies and the history of Anglo-Saxon studies. His latest monograph, Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History (2019), is the first book-length study of the cultural conceptualisation of growing old in Anglo-Saxon England. For a complete list of his works, see his personal blog https://thijsporck.com/.

Professor Lorenzo Magnani is a philosopher and cognitive scientist at the University of Pavia, Italy, and is the director of the Computational Philosophy Laboratory. His areas of specialization are Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and his areas of competence are Epistemology; Ethics and Science, and Human Values; Abductive Reasoning; Critical Thinking; Non-standard Logics; Philosophy of Medicine; History and Philosophy of Geometry; Violence, Morality and Religion.

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Dr Warntjes is Assistant Professor in Early-Medieval Irish History at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). His research focuses on the Irish intellectual culture in the seventh and eighth centuries, the relationship between Latin and Arabic science in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, as well as early-medieval computus and Irish historiography. He is the author of The Munich Computus: Text & Translation. Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times.

Meg Leja specializes in the political and cultural history of late antique and medieval Europe. Her research interests range widely across gender history, religious studies, reception and manuscript studies, and the history of science. Her first book, Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe, explores changing perceptions of the body and the value of medical knowledge in the early medieval period. Her current research projects deal with visionary literature in the Carolingian realm, the scope of Latin medical material before the twelfth century, and legal conceptions of necessity and exemption in the early Middle Ages. Leja has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center, Binghamton’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion. She is affiliated with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence in Material and Visual Worlds.