Grigoria Ioannou is a human bioarchaeologist. She holds a Bachelor degree in Archaeology from the University of Cyprus, a Master of Science in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from the University of Sheffield and a PhD in Science and Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage from the Cyprus Institute. Her doctoral research focused on health, living conditions and urbanism in Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. She was a LAAMP Awardee Visiting Scientist (2017 and 2018) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France, trained on Synchrotron Radiation enabled bioarchaeology. She has also received Erasmus+ Grant for students’ mobility and traineeship at the School of Medicine – Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, trained in Forensic Anthropology. She had participated in several seminars, workshops and conferences and she is part of several research archaeological projects. She had worked as an archaeologist and as a human bioarchaeologist for the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus in several excavations and research projects in Cyprus. Her research interested include health and living conditions in ancient Cyprus.

Thea Christoforou is a landscape archaeologist. She received her bachelor’s degree in Archaeology, from the University of Cyprus in 2012. During her undergraduate studies, she completed a semester at the Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre, as an Erasmus Student. She holds a Master’s degree in Rome and its Provinces from the University of Southampton, UK (2012-2013) and a PhD in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Cyprus. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on Landscape Archaeology on the Mathiatis area in Nicosia district. For the conduction of her Ph.D., she has received scholarship from the University of Cyprus. Between October and December 2018, she received an Erasmus+ Grant for students’ mobility and traineeship at the Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment (FORTH) of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno, Crete). She has participated in several excavations around Cyprus and at the Bay of Kiladha (Argolis, Greece). Since 2017, she has been actively involved in a local initiative at the area of Mathiatis (Nicosia, Cyprus), aiming to protect South Mathiatis Mine-Strongylos, a Candidate UNESCO Monument. She has also been a member of the Association of Cypriot Archaeologists, and part of the Council for 2018-2021.