Hana Djouadi is a trained architect, practicing in Biskra since 2013. In 2014, she was admitted to the doctoral school entrance examination at the University of Biskra. In 2017, she was awarded a mobility grant to study in Padua, Italy, as part of the Erasmus+ program, within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the Department of Architecture at the University of Biskra and the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua. In 2018, she defended her Master's thesis on Roman archaeological sites located along the Limes. That same year, she enrolled in a doctoral program in architecture at the University of Biskra. In 2019, she completed a five-day academic training at the University of Padua, also within the same collaboration framework. This mobility contributed to the development of the collective publication LiMeS Project. Life Between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, published by the University of Padua in 2024. Her research focuses on ancient Roman buildings as a basis for the restitution of thermal and lighting ambiance, with particular attention to Roman libraries and baths in Timgad. In 2023, she passed the national higher education recruitment competition and was appointed at the University of Jijel, before obtaining a transfer that same year to the Department of Architecture at the University of Biskra, where she currently continues her teaching and research activities.

Azeddine Belakehal studied architecture in Algeria, where he graduated in 1991. He undertook postgraduate studies (Master's in architecture within hot arid regions) in 1996 and defended his Doctoral thesis on the qualitative aspects of architectural daylighting design at Biskra University in 2007. Azeddine was accredited as a research supervisor in 2009 and as a Professor in architecture in 2016.  Azeddine is working on the interdisciplinary approaches to the study of architectural objects, and recently on the special case of the urban and architectural heritage. He won two international scholarships (AIMS and CAORC) for two post-doctoral research projects, respectively, about the luminous ambience in the Maghrebian mosques and the ambience of Tunis dwellings. BELAKEHAL has also been president and/or member of the post-graduation (Magister or Doctorate) training committee as well as Doctorate thesis supervisor in Biskra University, the Ecole Polytechnique d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Algiers and the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme of Tunis (Tunisia). In 2023, Azeddine Belakehal was a member of the King Faisal Prize's Selection Committee for Islamic Studies. He has published, since 1996, a number of articles dealing with these issues in well-known research journals and presented papers in specialized scientific events. He is currently a Professor and the head of a research team at the LACOMOFA Laboratory in the Department of Architecture at Biskra University.

Graduated in Humanities (1977) and specialized in Archaeology (1985), Paola Zanovello was a researcher and, since 2002, a professor in Classical Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua. Retired for almost 2 years, she is still part of the teaching staff of the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage and of the Doctoral School in History, Criticism and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. She was responsible (2001-2021) for the project Aquae Patavinae, aimed at the study and the enhancement of the territory of Montegrotto Terme (Padua), with the purpose of creating educational tours and a new Museum of Ancient Thermalism (open from 2021). From 2017 to 2023, she coordinated two European projects for the University of Padua, within the Horizon 2020 Programme. In the same years, she was responsible for an Erasmus+ flow with the University of Biskra (Algeria). The majority of the scientific production lies within the Roman Empire, with main areas of research as architecture and landscape, aqua and aquae, Graeco-Roman Egypt and Roman Africa. In North Africa, she is working in particular on the topics related to the limes and the southern border of the empire, and especially on water supply and water management in pre-desert territories.