Maria Giannnoulaki, post-doctoral researcher, has an interdisciplinary academic background, with two bachelor’s degrees in Archeology and History of Art and Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. In 2002, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of Specialization, Protection of Monuments, Direction B: Materials and Conservation Interventions. In 2014, she completed her doctoral research at the University of Thessaly, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of History, Archeology & Social Anthropology. Since 2004, she has worked as a research associate in many national (ARCHIMEDES II & III, THALES) and European research programs (CULTURE, 6th Framework Program for Research and Technology) in the field of diagnostic examination, documentation and conservation of metal artefacts and monuments. Since 2002, she has been employed as a professional conservator for many years in the Ministry of Culture and in private projects, obtaining significant experience in archaeological conservation and conservation of historic/ethnographic collections, as well as in outdoor bronze monuments and traditional (neoclassical) monuments. Since 2003, she has been teaching conservation of metal artefacts, mosaics, excavation findings and ethnographic collections in the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, University of West Attica.

Vasilike Argyropoulos is a Professor of Conservation of Metals Cultural Heritage, the Director of the Laboratory for the Study & Conservation of Ancient and Modern Cultural Properties—CULTLAB, as well as the Director of the Master's in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at her department. She carried out post-doc research in conservation at Parks Canada and the Canadian Conservation Institute (1993–1997), on in situ conservation of shipwrecks, and corrosion of iron, including the use of corrosion inhibitors for its treatment. She has coordinated many European projects, notably, PROMET, EC 6th FP project No. 509126, entitled "Developing New Analytical Techniques and Material for Monitoring and Protecting Metal Artefacts from the Mediterranean Region", with 21 partners (2004-2008), and the culture program, with a project entitled "Education for Cultural Heritage Professionals and the Public on Illicit Trafficking of Antiquities" (2010-2012). She was the Convenor of the European standards’ technical committee for the conservation of cultural property, CEN/TC 346 WG2, Materials constituting cultural property (2012-2016), and has been a board member for ENCoRE (European Network for Conservation-Restoration Education) since 2003.