KONSTANTINOS I. SOUEREF is a Doctor of Philosophy at the School of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He taught as a specialist scientist at the University of Ioannina and the University of Western Macedonia, and also as a professor–consultant at the Hellenic Open University. He served as an archaeologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture since 1985, at the Ephorate of Antiquities and the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, as Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Florina and Kastoria and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina. He is Honorary Ephor of Antiquities since 2020.

  VARVARA N. PAPADOPOULOU was born in Ioannina. She graduated from the Department of Archaeology and History of Art of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She completed her Master’s degree (Interdepartmental Programme of Medieval Studies) and her Doctoral (PhD) degree at the University of Ioannina. She works as an archaeologist at the Archaeological Service. She has conducted numerous excavations and participated in many restoration and consolidation projects in the wider region of Epirus. She is the Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Arta and the Deputy Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina.

  THETIS XANTHAKI graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She pursued a Master’s degree at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a Doctoral (PhD) degree at the University of Ioannina, where she served for seven years as a researcher and a lecturer.

ELIAS KOLOVOS is Associate Professor in Ottoman History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Crete, and Director of the Joint English-language Master’s Programme in Ottoman History in the same Department. In his latest publication, he is co-editor, alongside Georgios Pallis and Panagiotis C. Poulos, of the collective volume titled Ottoman Monuments in Greece, Heritages under Negotiation, Athens (Kapon Editions and French School at Athens, 2023).

  ALEXANDER MOISSIS lives in California. After graduating from the Athens College high school, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was awarded four degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Management Science. At Silicon Valley, he contributed to the success of several well-known business software companies and also lived and worked for a time in Paris. He has written numerous papers and books about Ioannina and his ancestors there, including the book The Nissim Levis Panorama – Stereoscopic Photos and Travels of a Doctor from Ioannina, 1898-1944 (Kapon Editions) that received a prize by the Academy of Athens.

  IOULIA PAPASTAVROU was born and raised in Ioannina. She studied at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and at Cardiff University’s School of Engineering. She completed her Doctoral (PhD) degree at the University of Ioannina. In parallel with her work as an architect, she has systematically engaged in the recording and documentation of the architectural and cultural heritage of Epirus. Her studies have been published in scientific publications.