Dr. Lorenzo Zamboni is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where he obtained his PhD in Archaeology with research on Spina. Since 2012 he has been co-director of the archaeological excavations at Iron Age Verucchio. His research covers a wide range of settlement, material, funerary, and theoretical aspects mainly concerning the human presence in Northern and Central Italy between the Final Bronze Age and the Roman period.
Dr. Manuel Fernández-Götz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia.
Prof. dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick is Full Professor and Chair for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the LMU Munich. She has directed several fieldwork and interdisciplinary research projects, including sites in Romania, Bavaria, Croatia, and Italy (Como). She was also co-speaker for the Munich Graduate School 'Distant Worlds', and PI of the LMU-based Research Unit 'Transalpine Mobility and Cultural Transfer'. Her research interests focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages with a wide thematic and geographical scope.