Christoph Michels is currently Heisenberg fellow at the University of Münster. He received his doctorate from the Universities of Innsbruck and Frankfurt and habilitated in Aachen. His research focuses on the history of ancient monarchies (mainly Hellenistic kingship and Roman principate), political communication and cultural history.
Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster and Adjunct Professor in Classical Studies at McGill University Montreal. His research focuses on the local horizon of ancient Greece and its interplay with the grand currents of cultural patterns and practices. He has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Prize of the Humboldt Foundation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Achim Lichtenberger is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Münster. He works on the Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean and is co-director of ongoing excavations in Nysa-Skythopolis (Israel) and Artaxata (Armenia). His research interests range from iconographic questions of ruler representation to archaeometric investigations of archaeological settlement findings.